But Mahito did not take the opportunity to attack.
He looked down at Hakari and asked calmly, "Have you had enough, Hakari?"
Kinji Hakari stood up and adjusted his breathing rhythm.
As he rose, he moved his neck, and the vertebrae made a series of crisp cracking sounds.
Although suppressed, Hakari's expression showed no unease.
All those with immortality have the same set of bad habits: they are used to taking the enemy's first attack with their own bodies.
Precisely because they are immortal, they don't care about the outcome of the first move.
Only after that does the counterattack begin.
Hakari was the same, and now, he was going to strike back.
He had grown accustomed to Mahito's myriad transformations.
Next would be the real showdown!
"My Cursed Technique is Probability Alteration," Hakari said.
"Domain Expansion!"
"As long as probability is involved, I can record the number of failures."
"No matter what kind of gambling act it is, I can make it succeed within 30 attempts," Hakari explained.
"Not only that, my Cursed Technique is linked to my condition."
"If I'm in top form—"
"—I can use luck to grasp strength!"
Domain Expansion: Idle Death Gamble!
The entire rooftop was enveloped by a train station.
The animated performance of Idle Death Gamble began again!
Hakari grinned, smiling like a demon:
"Unfortunately, I'm in top form right now. I predict the chance of a jackpot is... 10,000%!!"
The indicator board showed the first spin: Female Character No. 3!
The second spin: Female Character No. 3!
—Riichi!
The illusory male protagonist arrived at the platform, panting.
The final spin—
A female character suddenly ran out from the door on the other side.
It was... Female Character No. 2!
Character No. 3, Character No. 3, Character No. 2.
No jackpot?
Hakari's pupils contracted.
He could clearly feel he was in top form, yet it wasn't a jackpot??
"Reverse Cursed Technique Application," Mahito sighed softly, "Soul Creation."
This was the Reverse Cursed Technique Application newly learned by Mahito as a "Half-Cursed Spirit."
Just as his theory predicted, since his Cursed Technique as a Cursed Spirit was for Soul modification, the effect of reversing that technique would be—
Creating Souls—that is, Soul Creation!
The diamond-shaped patterns on his cheeks gradually vanished, as if they were being peeled away by an eraser.
This was the Innate Technique unique to Haruta Shigemo: Miracles!
Haruta Shigemo could collect unremarkable daily luck and consume these tiny bits of luck when danger arrived to obtain maximum survivability.
The diamond patterns on Mahito's face were the collected luck, and now, to prevent Kinji Hakari from being in peak condition, he consumed them all at once.
In fact, the thing that truly shocked Mahito was that even after all the luck was consumed, Hakari could still achieve a Riichi.
He had conducted experiments showing that when he maintained Miracles at its maximum, he could remain unharmed even if Jogo's Maximum: Meteor crashed down on him.
Just how good was Kinji Hakari's current state that he could still hit a Riichi despite such luck?
Mahito's Reverse Cursed Technique Application, Soul Creation, could infinitely record the Souls he observed.
If these Souls possessed an Innate Technique, they would be recorded as well.
As long as Mahito wished, he could extract and use them.
Although it had the flaw of only being able to use one Innate Technique per activation, it was already enough.
Victory or defeat is often decided in this single instant!
As expected, Kinji Hakari was caught off guard and fell into the trap.
"The nesting doll of Domain Expansions has ended, Hakari," Mahito said with a grin.
"I win."