A bizarre, high-pitched hum, sharp enough to pierce eardrums, exploded within the restricted area of the mountains behind Tokyo Jujutsu High!
The once-tranquil space now looked like a rag being violently crumpled, showing visible and severe distortions.
Even the surrounding trees and rocks suffered abnormal misalignments and folds, defying the laws of physics under the influence of these eerie fluctuations!
"Instructor Yoru! Watch your right!"
Yu Haibara, covered in blood, shouted at the top of his lungs while death-gripping a cursed tool that had been snapped in half.
Beside him, Kento Nanami's usually immaculate suit was in tatters, his blonde hair soaked with sweat and blood.
He adjusted his glasses, one lens already shattered, as his hand gripping the blunt blade shook uncontrollably. His eyes were filled with unmistakable horror.
'What on earth is this monster?!'
Floating directly in front of them was a Special Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit with a form so distorted it defied description!
It lacked a fixed shape, its entire body appearing like a collage of countless overlapping gears, shattered clock faces, and blurred phantoms.
Every time it writhed, it triggered small-scale spatial collapses in its vicinity!
This creature was not a natural birth.
Instead, it existed because Yoru, an outsider, had forcibly saved Riko Amanai in this era, prevented Suguru Geto's descent into darkness, and even changed Yu Haibara's fated death.
This series of butterfly effects had triggered a terrifying rejection response from the established timeline!
To erase the anomaly that was Yoru for disrupting causality, the Will of the World had forcibly manifested this extremely rare space-time type Special Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit!
"Get back, Nanami, Haibara."
Yoru stood before them, wielding Shiranui.
His deep red eyes remained locked on the hovering monster, his voice still as calm and rippleless as ever.
"This thing isn't something you can handle right now."
The moment he finished speaking...
"Whoosh!"
The space-time cursed spirit vanished instantly!
Leaving no trail or residual cursed energy, it folded space to appear directly behind Yoru!
Countless sharp tentacles made of spatial fragments lunged like a reaper's scythe, aiming to crush Yoru's skull!
"Instructor Yoru!"
Nanami and Haibara cried out in unison.
However, just as the lethal tentacles were about to reach him...
"Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash!"
Boom!
A blinding golden thunderbolt exploded beneath Yoru's feet!
Faster than even the folding space, Yoru's figure transformed into a jagged streak of golden lightning, vanishing in the blink of an eye!
"Roar?!"
The space-time curse let out an eerie howl, seemingly unable to comprehend how its prey escaped its absolute lock-on.
"Where are you looking?"
Yoru's cold voice descended from above like a death sentence.
Suspended in mid-air, the light of the Transparent World whirled wildly within his dark red eyes.
Under his gaze, the spirit's body of spatial fragments was instantly deconstructed into its rawest energy nodes!
Not only that...
Flame-like Slayer Marks surfaced on Yoru's pale cheeks, forcibly elevating his physical capabilities to a terrifying, inhuman level!
"Breathing Styles aren't bound by any jujutsu rules."
Yoru gripped the hilt with both hands as the power surging through him like a raging river reached a boiling point!
[SYSTEM: DING! DETECTED HOST ACHIEVING SELF-TRANSCENDENCE UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE WILL OF THE WORLD. SYNCHRONIZATION RATE HAS SUCCESSFULLY BROKE THROUGH 50%!]
[UNLOCKED ADVANCED ABILITY: BRIGHT RED NICHIRIN SWORD (CAUSES IRREVERSIBLE BURNING DAMAGE TO THE SOULS OF CURSED SPIRITS AND COMPLETELY OBSTRUCTS REGENERATION)!]
Bright Red Nichirin Sword, activate!
The once-black Shiranui turned glowing red from the immense heat, radiating an intensity capable of incinerating a soul to its core!
"Sun Breathing, Twelfth Form..."
Executing a perfect mid-air rotation, Yoru combined the terrifying acceleration of Thunder Breathing with the world-shattering destructive power of Sun Breathing!
"Flame Dance!"
Boom!!!
Two intersecting giant arcs of fire, like a pair of falling suns, slammed into the core energy node of the space-time curse, carrying the force of a physical Black Flash—the Crimson Flash!
"Gaaaaaah!!!"
A soul-piercing shriek tore through the air.
That space-time type Special Grade cursed spirit, which even Satoru Gojo's Blue might struggle to lock onto...
...was cleaved in two by Yoru's strike that surpassed human limits!
The extreme heat and the impact of the Crimson Flash instantly annihilated its remaining body and core into drifting ash!
"We... we won?!"
Yu Haibara slumped on the ground, staring up at Yoru bathed in the firelight like a deity. His eyes were filled with unspeakable fervor and worship.
Kento Nanami breathed a long sigh of relief, his tense nerves finally relaxing.
However, just as Yoru sheathed his blade and prepared to land...
A sudden change occurred!
In the final moment of its dissipation, the slain space-time curse erupted with a temporal turbulence powerful enough to tear through anything!
This turbulence did not target Nanami or Haibara.
Instead, as if finding a fatal set of coordinates, it surged wildly toward Yoru's body!
"Thump!!!"
Yoru's heart spasmed violently.
The residual power of the Special Grade Cursed Tool, the [SANDS OF TIME], which Kenjaku had used to banish him during the Shibuya Incident, was still lurking within him.
Triggered by this resonant temporal turbulence, it exploded instantly!
"Ugh!"
Yoru let out a muffled groan, crashing to the ground like a kite with its string cut and dropping to one knee.
"Instructor Yoru!"
Nanami and Haibara turned pale and rushed forward recklessly.
But before they could get close, they were violently repelled by a ring of blinding golden light erupting from Yoru's body!
"Stay back!"
Yoru gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead as he braced himself against the ground with Shiranui.
The golden light inside him resonated terrifyingly with the external temporal turbulence.
With him at the center, space within a hundred-meter radius began to distort severely.
Trees withered and regrew in an instant; rocks weathered into dust only to be restored.
Within this small zone, time had completely lost its order!
"Dammit... Why now of all times..."
Yoru gritted his teeth, a trickle of blood escaping the corner of his mouth.
Under the tugging of this violent temporal torrent, his body began to turn translucent, as if he might vanish from this world at any moment!
"Yoru!"
At that critical moment...
A white figure appeared at the edge of the restricted area as if teleporting.
Satoru Gojo!
He had been on a mission overseas, but the terrifying perception of the Six Eyes allowed him to sense the abnormal spatial fluctuations from halfway across the globe.
He had even risked forced consecutive teleports to rush back at maximum speed!
"Satoru..."
Yoru looked up.
Seeing the frantic Satoru Gojo, a weak, weary smile appeared on Yoru's usually composed face.
"It looks like... my time is up."
"Bullshit! I'm the strongest! If I don't let you go, no one can take you away!"
Gojo roared, charging without hesitation into the temporal turbulence that could shred even a Special Grade cursed spirit!
Where would the out-of-control Sands of Time take Yoru?
Could the once-invincible strongest sorcerer hold onto his most precious person within this history-altering torrent of time?
At this moment, the wheel of fate let out a piercing, screeching crack!
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