Tendou saw Hira, but he didn't recognize him at first.
However, after Hira Zenin used his cursed technique, Tendou—who had been casually playing with the Zenins and was planning to ask for Shoko as ransom—suddenly felt the same emotion he once felt toward those researchers.
Utter disgust and hatred.
Tendou:
My mY we have a celebrity amongst us
here? Silently creating a black hole, or preparing to use a maximum output? Gathering all that energy…"
Naoya Zenin, who was feeling weaker and weaker as his cursed energy was being drained and absorbed, shouted:
Naoya:
"You didn't speak with me! I am the future head of the—"
Tendou:
"Shut the f*** up, brat."
Then he turned toward Hira Zenin.
Hira was clearly scared.
Now that Tendou thought about it, there had been quite a few contracts and papers at the base of Q, signed by both the Zenin and Kamo clans.
(The Kamo and Zenin clans had been worried about the recent rise of the Gojo clan. They wanted to use Suguru Geto as a potential son-in-law and secure a future special-grade inherited technique for their bloodline. So they had reached an agreement: if the plan succeeded, Geto would marry a bride from the Zenin clan, and the Kamo clan would be compensated generously—or vice versa. Because of this arrangement, they had secretly sent operatives to assist.)
Suddenly, Tendou grabbed Hira Zenin by the head.
Hira:
"AAAHHHHH!"
Tendou didn't even bother with proper information extraction.
Tendou:
"Who was the one who ordered you to attack me one month ago?"
Hira:
"I don't even know who you are!"
At that moment—
Gojo:
(CURSED TECHNIQUE — MAXIMUM OUTPUT: BLUE)
Tendou:
(CURSED TECHNIQUE — MAXIMUM OUTPUT: BLACK HOLE)
At the same time, Tendou jumped away from the Zenins and threw Hira directly toward the center of the two attacks.
Both Black Hole and Blue collided, creating a massive explosion of cursed energy.
Even Satoru Gojo was slightly taken aback that someone had countered his Blue point blank.
Gojo:
Gojo had just arrived, and with the help of his Six Eyes, he quickly saw through everything.
Gojo:
"Your petty tricks won't work against me, chuunibyou."
He could see every wire and trap hidden throughout the forest, even within the thick cloud of white mist.
The traps were the modified fire extinguishers that had not been destroyed earlier.
Gojo used Blue again, pulling the hidden traps into the sky and destroying most of them so that Suguru Geto and the other students could escape.
The Zenins, however, were still caught.
Tendou didn't even reply.
He was too angry.
He simply raised his hand and fired a light beam toward the group of fire extinguishers that Gojo's Blue had gathered in the air.
In reality, they were not normal extinguishers.
They were oxygen cylinders.
Tendou had replaced the CO₂ inside them with pure oxygen and ozone.
BOOOOOOOOM!
A massive explosion erupted.
When the dust settled, pre-awakened Gojo simply walked out of the explosion almost unharmed
Tendou immediately engaged Gojo in combat.
Meanwhile, Suguru Geto was helping the other students escape.
The higher-ups were holding back other sorcerers, mistakenly believing that Gojo was only defending the students to gain favor.
Nearby, Masamichi Yaga looked around in frustration.
Yaga:
"Where the hell is Yuki Tsukumo?"
He checked the position where she was supposed to be monitoring the situation.
She was gone.
Probably gambling… or doing her research somewhere.
Gojo suddenly used Red as a distraction.
But Tendou knew Gojo couldn't actually use Red yet, thanks to the information provided by his cursed eyes.
Tendou responded with a point-blank Black Hole.
But it did nothing.
Infinity was simply too strong.
Gojo followed up by using Blue again.
Tendou used the gravitational attraction of his Black Hole to cancel the pull of Blue.
At the same time, he made a binding vow.
He pulled out his Black Rope.
The binding vow was outrageous.
For fights against special grades, he could imbue his darkness and light techniques with the effects of the Black Rope.
In exchange:
He would lose his Weapon of the Month binding vow for seven months.
He could never use the Black Rope again during that time.
The technique would only work against Special Grades.
It could neutralize only one cursed technique.
Against semi-grade or lower opponents, it would become essentially useless.
Because of the binding vow and Nidhogg's influence, the cursed tool mutated.
The rope of darkness twisted and transformed into the shape of a dragon made of darkness and light.
Tendou swung the dragon-like rope toward
Gojo.:
" Haven't you learned your lesson yet"
Gojo didn't even bother to dodge.
He assumed the attack wasn't worth avoiding.
But the dragon rope bypassed Infinity and bit directly into Gojo's shoulder.
Gojo was shocked—just like the first time he had faced Toji Fushiguro.
At that exact moment, Tendou grabbed the rope and pulled it with full force gojo was sent of balance and then used his black hole's attraction to make gojo come his way and then
sent flying towards him while Tendou came and threw a point blank
appeared in front of him and threw a punch.
BLACK FLASH!!!
The impact landed directly on Gojo.
While GOJO Retaliated with point blank blue
And the strike landed in GoJo's stomach for first time in his life he was punched by someone without him giving the chance and he was knocked out
Before he even had the chance to say the final word before the attack