"Let... go!"
Jogo let out a heart-wrenching roar as Sukuna pinned him into the burning rubble with a single hand.
Humiliation, rage, and a profound sense of helplessness completely incinerated what little reason remained within the Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
*Rumble!*
Along with his frantic howl, the earth began to shake violently!
Jogo funneled every last drop of his cursed energy into the ground below.
Since single-target attacks were useless and his group techniques had been dismantled in an instant...
...he would turn the entire environment into a battlefield of his own making!
"Melt everything!"
*Sizzle—Boom!*
The already ruined asphalt shattered like a brittle cracker!
Then...
Countless streaks of blinding crimson light erupted from the depths!
It was horrifying magma, thousands of degrees hot—enough to liquefy any metal!
Within mere seconds...
...the entirety of Shibuya's central district was transformed into a boiling, churning lake of molten rock!
The skyscraper foundations still barely standing groaned as the lava eroded them, the metal screeching as it twisted.
*Rumble!*
One after another, the foundations dissolved, and the massive structures collapsed like dominoes into the roiling fire, sending waves of magma dozens of meters into the air!
Heat waves rippled as thick smoke blotted out the sun.
This was the earth's fury; this was the full might of the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Jogo!
He intended to use this indiscriminate area attack to entomb Sukuna within this molten hell!
As for his Domain Expansion?
A flicker of deep-seated dread crossed Jogo's single eye.
He remembered all too well the humiliation of having his proud domain instantly crushed by Satoru Gojo.
And the Sukuna standing before him was even more suffocating, radiating a raw destructive power and pressure that surpassed even Gojo's!
He didn't doubt for a second that if he dared to deploy his Domain Expansion now, he would only end up embarrassing himself and meeting an even swifter end!
"Burn to ash in my domain!"
Jogo commanded the churning magma like a king of the earth.
*Whoosh!*
Countless massive streams of lava erupted from every direction, weaving a web of fire that turned Shibuya into a hellish landscape with no escape!
These molten torrents were as fast as they were hot, sealing off every possible path of retreat.
And yet...
Facing this hopeless molten hell, Sukuna merely let out a mocking sneer.
"Is that all there is to your little tricks?"
*Flash!*
Sukuna's figure vanished from where he stood.
A heartbeat later...
...he was actually hopping across the surface of the boiling lava lake like a phantom!
With each step, he landed on fragments of buildings that had yet to liquefy.
The magma, hot enough to vaporize steel, couldn't even singe the soles of his feet!
"Too slow!"
Sukuna performed an elegant spin in mid-air.
*Boom!*
Like a soccer player, he wound up and kicked a massive wave of lava hurtling toward him, sending it screaming back the way it came!
"What?!"
Jogo's eye bulged in sheer disbelief.
'He's tanking lava with his bare body?!'
'And he can counter-attack?!'
'What kind of monster is he?!'
*Boom!*
The lava wave Sukuna sent back slammed into Jogo with even greater velocity.
Though Jogo was the incarnation of fire and immune to the heat, the sheer force of the impact sent him tumbling backward.
"Stop scurrying around in the shadows like a rat."
Sukuna's mocking voice echoed throughout the sea of flames.
Jogo gnashed his teeth, darting through the lava while using the remaining ruins as cover.
He fired lethal pillars of fire from Sukuna's blind spots, desperately searching for an opening.
But Sukuna moved as if he were taking a casual stroll through a garden, weaving through the inescapable web of death with ease.
*Smash!*
Sukuna punched through a massive piece of debris with a casual swing!
Rubble and lava sprayed in every direction.
As the structure crumbled, Sukuna appeared above Jogo as if he had simply teleported there!
"Caught you, small fry."
A cruel glint flashed in Sukuna's eyes.
*Boom!*
He descended like a meteor, his heavy axe kick smashing into Jogo's chin!
*Crunch!*
The sickening sound of shattering bone echoed through the air!
Jogo's hardened jaw shattered like cheap porcelain under the force of the blow!
"Aaaaagh!"
Jogo let out a wretched scream as he plummeted like a meteorite, tumbling through the boiling lava in a pathetic display of agony.
*Sizzle...*
Jogo's potent regenerative abilities kicked in, his shattered jaw beginning to knit back together with a wet squelch.
But the despair in his heart only burned hotter, mirroring the magma that surrounded them.
'I can't touch him!'
'I can't even touch him!'
Even after turning all of Shibuya into his playground, even after unleashing every ounce of his power...
...he still couldn't so much as graze the hem of the man's clothes!
"What's wrong? Is that the extent of your power?"
Sukuna's voice drifted down from above once more.
Jogo looked up with great effort.
He saw Sukuna perched atop a massive piece of falling debris, looking down at him with cold indifference.
It was the gaze of a man watching an insect's final, pathetic death throes.
"I lift my head to behold the bright moon..."
Sukuna crossed his arms, a derisive smirk playing on his lips.
"...but when I look down, there is only Jogo, clutching his shattered jaw."
"Hahahahahaha!"
Sukuna's unrestrained laughter pierced what was left of Jogo's pride like a serrated blade.
"Why...?"
"Why can't I even touch him?!"
Jogo lurched out of the lava, his single eye instantly becoming bloodshot!
*Drip.*
Two streaks of bloody tears, saturated with cursed energy, flowed from his eye, vaporizing before they could even hit the ground.
Humiliation! Despair! Rage!
Every negative emotion he possessed reached its breaking point!
Since normal attacks were useless, and since his home-field advantage meant nothing...
...he would settle this with the purest, most absolute force of destruction he could muster!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Jogo threw his head back and unleashed a roar that transcended humanity!
He channeled every remaining scrap of cursed energy—even pushing past his life's limits—into the volcano atop his head!
*Rumble, rumble, rumble!*
The boiling lake of lava began to spiral violently, every bit of heat and flame converging on the crown of Jogo's head!
A blinding, massive sphere of fire, radiating cataclysmic heat, began to form above him!
It grew larger and brighter!
Within seconds, the fireball had swelled to the size of a skyscraper!
Molten rock rippled across its surface, making it look like a genuine asteroid plummeting from the depths of space!
"Die, Sukuna!"
Jogo threw his entire being into the massive, asteroid-sized meteorite!
With a roar that tore through the atmosphere and the force of an apocalypse, it hurtled toward Sukuna!
This was the strongest attack of his life—a blow capable of leveling half of Shibuya in an instant!
Could Jogo's ultimate strike, a gamble of his very existence, finally reach Sukuna?
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