The evening breeze blew through the secluded alley with a chill, but it could not disperse the smell of blood and despair lingering in the air.
Miko slumped on the ground, feeling an icy sensation beneath her, but colder still was the dread that pierced her bones and the exhaustion of surviving a catastrophe. She desperately covered her face with both hands, especially over her eyes, her body still trembling uncontrollably.
Did that hollow feeling of having her eyeballs gouged out, and the subsequent darkness, finally disappear?
Trembling, she very slowly, inch by inch, moved her hands away from her eyes. Then, she saw the world clearly again, even better than before.
It was as if the piercing pain and instantaneous darkness from moments ago had only been a brief, extremely realistic nightmare.
The phantom pain faintly throbbing in her eyes reminded Miko that this was no dream, her eyes had truly been gouged out once.
"They... grew back?" Miko muttered dazedly while collapsed on the ground, the massive cognitive shock nearly halting her brain's functions.
This exceeded the scope of her understanding of 'reality'.
Simultaneously, Utaha, having regained control of the body, was also riding a tempest of inner turmoil. The nausea hadn't fully subsided, but a stronger emotion was unbelievable shock. She too, through the shared senses, had 'seen' the entire process of Miko's eyes recovering.
"They... grew back?" Utaha asked Sukuna in her mind in disbelief, her voice still hoarse from the near-retching.
Limb regeneration? This was something straight out of a myth.
"Hmph, ignorant little girl." Sukuna's languid voice sounded, carrying a hint of satisfaction from just completing a small experiment and disdain for 'common sense.'
"It's just Reverse Cursed Technique, it's hardly some world-shattering power."
He was unusually 'interested' in explaining in detail, as if instructing a dull student, "Cursed Energy originates from negative emotions. Its essence is negative energy, used for destruction, erosion, and cursing, but it can also strengthen the physical body."
"Reverse Cursed Technique, however, transforms this negative energy into positive energy through the law of 'negative times negative equals positive,' thereby stimulating the vitality of living matter, promoting rapid cell division and regeneration to achieve a healing effect."
"As long as the brain isn't destroyed or you don't encounter a lethal attack that suppresses regeneration, as long as there's still a breath left, they can be saved."
"Is that true? Can fingers regrow, organs regenerate, can even being cut in half be healed?"
Sukuna's tone carried a condescending critique. "The principle sounds simple, but among Jujutsu Sorcerers, only one in ten thousand can actually achieve it."
Utaha felt a chill creep into her heart. Sukuna described a miraculous technique capable of bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh and bone with such a casual tone. This raised her perception of the danger and capabilities of the 'Jujutsu Sorcerer' collective to a new, awe-inspiring height.
Sukuna's tone suddenly carried an almost imperceptible strangeness, as if savoring some novel flavor. "Of course, this small test has yielded more than just that..."
Before his words faded, Sukuna sensed that his vision had undergone an inexplicable change. The scene before him remained the same, but on his perceptual level, a new, extremely subtle 'information stream' seemed to have been overlaid.
[Confirmation successful: Special visual talent carrier 'Spiritual Eyes' collected.]
[Reward issued: Special Visual Skill - Kamiutsushi.]
A torrent of complex information regarding Kamiutsushi flooded into Sukuna's cognition like a sudden enlightenment.
Kamiutsushi is a unique ability of Adam, the progenitor of humanity in 'Record of Ragnarok.' Because Adam was created in God's image, similar to a divine replica, he possessed this ocular technique. effects but also had clear usage limitations.
Kamiutsushi, an ultimate visual ability originating from an ancient bloodline. Its core is not simply seeing through or X-ray vision, but rather a near-rule-level perfect replication and reflection.
Ultimate Observation and Analysis: When Kamiutsushi is activated, the user's eyes enter a state of ultra-high-speed, ultra-high-precision information collection and processing. It can instantly capture and analyze all energy flows, material compositions, movement trajectories, and even the subtle mysteries of technique construction within the line of sight.
Perfect Replication: This is the core effect of Kamiutsushi. As long as it is a move Adam has seen, he can copy it, not only replicating the movements perfectly but also restoring the power by one hundred percent.
For example, when the Serpent attempted to harm Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Adam used this ability to copy the Serpent's moves, even transforming his own hand into claws and slicing the Serpent into several pieces.
When fighting Zeus, he successively copied Zeus's various heavy punches and even the moves of Zeus's final form, Adamas, fighting him to a standstill.
Its most terrifying aspect is that, as long as the user's body and energy system can withstand and drive it, Kamiutsushi can perfectly imitate and replicate the vast majority of techniques, Cursed Techniques, and martial arts observed and analyzed, in an extremely short time, provided they are not bound by bloodline. It is like the most precise photocopier, instantly turning the opponent's skill into one's own use.
Even more frighteningly, the replicated techniques, after instantaneous optimization and adaptation via Kamiutsushi, might even surpass the original, or be executed in a more energy-efficient or unexpected manner, achieving the effect of reflection and transcendence.
Simply put, this is an enhanced version of Sharingan, focusing on the copying and optimization of techniques.
"Oh? Kamiutsushi?" Sukuna murmured, savoring the name of this ability.
For the first time, his scarlet pupils flashed with a pure, blazing interest, like a child who had found a novel toy.
"Analysis, replication, reflection... Interesting."
This ability was practically tailor-made for someone like him. He possessed millennia of combat experience, a vast ocean of Cursed Energy, and a profound understanding of the essence of energy. The only thing he might lack was a 'rapid learning' pathway for the various strange new techniques and abilities derived in this new era. Kamiutsushi perfectly filled this gap.
This meant that any interesting opponent he encountered in the future, their signature moves, their trump cards, could potentially become toys he could use at will.
Combat would become far more unpredictable and enjoyable.
Sukuna chuckled in satisfaction.
Originally intending to collect Miko's 'Spiritual Eyes' on a whim, he had unexpectedly obtained such a practical ability, far exceeding his expectations.