I spun and compressed the blood outside my body, creating a massive ring of gore. This is not a technique for binding. It is for slicing. How will you move? How will you react? Surely you won't be exorcised just yet?!
"Kehi!"
It struck down the approaching blade of blood with that bizarre weapon. Ah, good. Good! More! Entertain me more! What power does that weapon hold? It can't be as simple as it looks. A Special Grade's tool... it must have a trick.
My skin is crawling. My heart is racing so fast I can barely stand it.
I... I love to fight. I love the act of cursing. I love it so much I can hardly bear it.
That is why I exorcise Curses. That is why I fight Sorcerers. I have fought curse-users, and even non-sorcerers in my time.
My soul... it is parched.
I am never satisfied. Never quenched.
For the last fifteen years, life as a sorcerer has been nothing but sheer boredom. Crushing weaklings wasn't fun at all.
So... at least you... you must be different!
Finally, someone to entertain me!
"Uwaaaaaah!"
Tch. So noisy. I'm trying to enjoy myself. Don't interfere. ...Or so I'd like to say, but it seems the ones up top are about to be overwhelmed. You're being crushed by mere Akutamushi? Use your Quirks and deal with it. Pathetic. And you call yourselves Hero fledglings?
Ah, enough! I wanted to play more! I wanted to curse and be cursed! Why must everyone get in my way?!
"...Aaaargh! You lot are truly a hopeless bunch!"
We've only just begun. The best is yet to come. Why can we not take our time? I am not satisfied yet. I want to bathe in this pleasure longer. But... but...!
Watching children die is against my principles!
"Damn it! Boring, boring, boring!"
I formed the hand seal. I didn't want to use this. If I use this, it will all end in an instant. And after I finally found a Special Grade! Someone I could truly curse to death!
But if I don't exorcise Kurourushi quickly, someone will die. That is unacceptable. Damn it. Handle those cockroaches yourselves, you useless brats! Pathetic!
"Domain Expansion."
I am dissatisfied. Truly dissatisfied. I wanted to take my time, but I cannot.
Kurourushi. At least struggle a little. Even when invited into my Domain, do not let yourself be exorcised immediately. You are a Special Grade, after all. You should have one too. You should be able to use it.
Please. I am still so... so hungry!
"Hougei Aka-fujou (Welcome to the Crimson Impurity)."
This is my world.
The inside of my heart.
The heart of my technique.
Hougei Aka-fujou. That is the name of my Domain.
This closed space is filled with blood. From the void behind me, a torrential flood of gore pours down. This dark-red space is thick with the scent of iron.
The ground beneath us is literally a sea of blood. Every drop of this sea is under the control of Blood Manipulation. In other words, this entire space is my own internal organ.
Well, Kurourushi. You understand, don't you? My technique manipulates blood. Therefore, you can imagine the fate of those invited into this crimson ocean.
"...Convergence."
From the sea of blood, countless orbs of gore rose into the air. Each one was compressed to the limit. Every single one was a Piercing Blood. A sure-hit spray of blood, attacking from every conceivable angle.
Boring. Trite. Piercing Blood, which is lethal even on its own, becomes a guaranteed hit within a Domain. If you cannot dodge, at least try to block. Though even that is futile.
"Piercing Blood."
Scores of blood-beams transfixed Kurourushi. Seconds after the Domain opened, its body was riddled with holes.
...It's weakening. I see. You don't have a Domain of your own. Then it is over. Even if you tried to open one now, it is far too late.
Within this space, the range of my technique expands. Anyone who has even a single drop of my blood enter their system finds their entire circulatory system under my command. And in Blood Manipulation, blood is defined as an internal organ.
Therefore...
"It is the end, Kurourushi."
I dragged its entire internal structure out through its skin. The Special Grade I had finally met was exorcised just like that—its insides turned out, scattered across the floor.
"How dull..."
I really shouldn't use Domain Expansion. Of course, it's fine at the end of a long struggle. But if I use it immediately, the fun ends too soon.
...Kurourushi is gone. All that remains are the cockroach swarms and the two who brought the Curse here. I have questions for them. But first, I must help the children. It doesn't matter if my technique is burnt out after this.
"Hah. And here I thought I'd finally found a decent Special Grade..."
I wonder when I'll meet another one. I hope it's soon.
"...Sigh."
(Note: Madoka's costume is now a Miko outfit—shrine maiden robes. You can imagine it as a traditional set or a more stylized version. Regarding the Domain name: "Aka-fujou" [Red Impurity] is a term for menstrual blood, a clever and dark bit of foreshadowing from previous chapters. Anyone trapped in the Domain is basically killed by the "impurity" of the blood. Since Blood Manipulation treats blood as an organ, the "Sure-Hit" effect allows Madoka to manipulate the enemy's insides directly if even a drop of her blood touches them. A truly broken "guaranteed-win" move that Madoka finds boring because it ends the fight too quickly.)
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