Kenjaku took a step back, thinking, 'How is he using the Limitless Technique?'
Yuta stepped out of the shade and through the bushes, wearing Cursed Tool Gauntlets as his bangs swayed out of the way to reveal blue eyes as Kenjaku's eyes widened, thinking, 'Did they perform a Corneal Implant to transfer the Six Eyes to him?!'
"Technique Amplification: Blue."
Yuta chanted this as a blue orb raced towards Kenjaku, who chanted, "Miss", as the orb flew completely off course, as the Cursed Seals of the Inumaki Clan appeared on Kenjaku's face and then disappeared.
Kenjaku smiled and said, "How incredible! I've tried transplanting the Six Eyes before. The system is so complex that it shouldn't be possible, yet Kiyotaka managed to do it, didn't he?"
Yuta looked to Kenjaku and said, "He had to practice for an entire two months to make sure he'd be able to do it when the time came."
Kenjaku smiled, saying, "And he still had the energy and time to help Satoru Gojo and Haijme Kashimo, along with training himself? How incredible."
"Why can't you show that kind of pride and amazement for everyone else in the world?"
Yuta asked this as Kenjaku smiled and said, "Because the rest of the world is too boring in comparison."
Yuta drew his sword and said, "I'll end you. Here and now."
Kenjaku looked to Yuta, thinking, '5 minutes. That's how long he can use Limitless. I'll have to hold on until then.'
"Don't Move."
Yuta chanted this as he rushed forward as a Cursed Spirit burst up from the ground, swallowing Kenjaku as he moved away, and Yuta slashed through it as it died, and Kenjaku walked out of the corpse, saying, "You didn't really think it would be that easy, right? I've set up many countermeasures for Cursed Speech. Trying to root them out is pointless."
Yuta rushed in as Kenjaku began dodging slashes of Yuta's blade when he felt himself get drawn in, making him think, 'He's applying Blue to his blade?!'
Yuta slashed Kenjaku across the chest as blood burst out, and Kenjaku chanted, "Propel", and his body was sent flying back by his command, allowing him to create distance and regain his bearings.
Kenjaku then healed himself thinking, 'How dangerous.'
Kenjaku smiled and asked, "Aren't you going to call The Queen Of Curses? What is she even doing right now while being fully manifested?"
Kenjaku looked to Yuta, thinking, 'Is she dealing with something else right now? But what would require her full attention? No. She's not. What's going on right now is that she's waiting to ambush me.'
Kenjaku looked at Yuta and asked, "Have you ever asked that member of the Inumaki Clan who's your friend about the Maximum Technique of Cursed Speech? It allows the user to imbue their words with Cursed Energy in a way that interacts with any object."
The Cursed Seals formed on Kenjaku's mouth as he made hand signs and chanted, "Compress", as Yuta's eyes shifted.
Yuta looked at himself, thinking, 'What the?!'
Yuta felt as if the air itself was forming a vice grip around him, preventing escape, as Kenjaku rushed in and slammed his fist into Yuta, who thought, 'He's... using Full Body Domain Amplification?!'
Kenjaku then thought, 'Maybe I don't need to survive the full 5 minutes.'
Kenjaku swung his fist at Yuta again, only for him to disappear, making Kenjaku turn and think, 'He compressed the space between himself and that place. Just like Satoru Gojo. He's far too proficient. They've likely found a way to optimise their training. But how?'
Kenjaku was not aware that Ui Ui's technique could be used to perform Soul Swap training.
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[Yuta] stood above [Gojo] with a serious expression, saying, "You're too sloppy, Yuta. When you compress space to teleport, it should be an instant. Don't drag it out. As for your efficiency, even if you end up having the six eyes, that's no reason to slack off in that regard."
[Gojo] nodded, saying, "Alright, Gojo-Sensei. I'll work at it more."
[Yuta] smiled and said, "There's not much I can teach you in a single session, but let's try to get as much through your head as possible."
[Gojo] sat there and said, "I'm not really sure about this Gojo-Sensei. There's such an influx of information."
[Yuta] nodded and said, "That's how it is for me all the time. If you guys are really planning to transplant my eyes if I lose then you'll have to live like this for the rest of your life."
[Gojo] looked to [Yuta] and said, "You've been living with this your entire life?"
[Yuta] nodded, saying, "Yeah. I have. But honestly. After the Soul Swap Training with Kiyotaka, my efficiency is even higher. His brain's like a supercomputer, you know."
[Gojo]'s eyes widened as he asked, "That good?"
[Yuta] nodded and said, "Yeah. When disregarding me, there's no one who has better efficiency. Not even Sukuna."
[Gojo] stood up and said, "Let's go another round, Gojo-Sensei."
[Yuta] smiled and said, "Don't worry too much about it. I'm gonna win after all. But if you do end up inheriting my eyes for whatever reason, I have some advice."
[Gojo] nodded, listening intently as [Yuta] said, "Invest in some blacked-out sunglasses. They'll reduce the visual information going into your eyes a lot. Plus, a blindfold wouldn't suit you."
[Gojo] laughed, saying, "Got it."
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Yuta remembered that swap training and thought, 'I can see everything. So much information. When I was training in your body, I noticed that your limbs were way too long. How much did you have to train before being able to say that?'
[Gojo smiled and said, "I'm the strongest"]
Yuta gripped the handle of his sword and looked to Kenjaku, thinking, 'It doesn't matter if you have Domain Amplification or an Open Domain. I'll end your life today!'
Kenjaku looked to Yuta, thinking, 'It's been 2 minutes, so... 3 more minutes. Where is his Shikigami? Where is the Queen of Curses? Hold on... something is off. His Cursed Energy is too low. If Rika Orimoto, the Queen Of Curses, were fully manifested, it should seem bottomless. That must be the effect of the Six Eyes.'
"Technique Reversal: Red!"
Yuta chanted this as he slashed his blade as a red wave rushed towards Kenjaku, who dodged using chantless Cursed speech to imbue his commands into his body and looked back to see multiple trees cleaved through and now burning.
Kenjaku looked to Yuta, thinking, 'So that's the result of imbuing Red into a blade. How interesting. You're more fun than I thought, Okkotsu Yuta.'
Yuta rushed in towards Kenjaku, slashing away at him as Kenjaku maintained a distance thinking, 'The sword will pull me in if I get too close.'
"You've tightened the faucet, haven't you?" remarked Kenjaku, his eyes narrowing.
Kenjaku laughed and said, "The Six eyes in your sockets truly are the real deal, aren't they? Haha. Reducing your waste to this degree to the point where it seems like you don't even have the Queen Of Curses manifested."
Yuta looked to Kenjaku and rushed forward, and Kenjaku thought, 'One minute left until that full manifestation of Rika Orimoto ends.'
Yuta teleported behind Kenjaku and swung his sword as Kenjaku's eyes widened, and he dodged beneath the blade and slammed his fist into Yuta, sending him back.
Yuta looked to Kenjaku, thinking, '40 seconds left.'
Kenjaku looked around, thinking, 'Where is she? Aren't they planning an ambush? Leaving it to the last few seconds, huh? Are you trying to get me to hesitate? No. It's a bluff. You're trying to mess with me, aren't you? By holding her back and fighting me by yourself. How sneaky. Feels more like a tactic Kiyotaka would come up with.'
Yuta began slashing at Kenjaku, sending out Reds in wave form as Kenjaku began dodging and using his Cursed Spirits to increase his mobility, thinking, '10 seconds left.'
Yuta teleported above Kenjaku and swung his blade down as Kenjaku fell off his Cursed Spirit on purpose as a wave of red approached him, and he chanted, "Miss", as the red swerved around him, hitting the ground below, but it didn't detonate, forming a red sphere.
Kenjaku smirked, thinking, 'Trying to make me fall into it? Not a bad plan, but your time is up. 0 seconds.'
However, the red didn't deactivate, making Kenjaku's eyes widen as he thought, 'Wait what?! This bastard! He didn't have Rika Orimoto eat a part of Satoru Gojo. He ate it himself so that limitless wouldn't be limited to her 5-minute manifestation timer!!'
The Blue he had diverted before plunged down from the sky on Yuta's command as Kenjaku thought, 'He's going to set off a Hollow Purple by sandwiching me between a Red and Blue!!'
Kenjaku desperately performed a series of hand signs, his fingers moving in a blur, and chanted, "Cursed Spirit Manipulation: Multi-Layered Cocoon!"
Thousands of low-level spirits erupted from his sleeves, weaving together to form a dense, rotating sphere of cursed flesh around him. Red hit bottom as Blue hit the top, and Kenjaku gritted his teeth in strain until the two attacks fizzled out.
Kenjaku climbed out of his cocoon and smirked, saying, "For Hollow Purple to form, it requires Red and Blue to meet. I had to use up a lot of my stock, but I managed to protect myself."
Yuta stared and said, "I thought you'd dodge. I hadn't thought that you would sacrifice so many Cursed Spirits just to stop it."
Kenjaku smiled and said, "Still, that was incredible. Tricking me like that and almost taking my life. Forgive me, Okkotsu Yuta. You're far more interesting than I had presumed."
Kenjaku smiled and said, "Personally ingesting Gojo's body part likely wasn't your plan, but against your better nature, you actually went along with it. I'll praise you for that. I wonder how much of his corpse you con-"
"Shut up."
Yuta chanted this with Cursed Speech as Kenjaku was forced to stop talking for a second.
Kenjaku got free of the hold of the Cursed Speech and sighed, saying, "That was quite rude. Well, I wonder what else you have in store for me."
Kenjaku then dusted off his robes and said, "Well, since there's no timer for the Limitless, I suppose I should stop considering this as a marathon and consider it to be more like a sprint."
Kenjaku got into a stance, preparing to go on the offensive as Yuta took out a ring and put it on his ring finger, saying, "Rika. Give me everything."
Rika manifested as she asked, "Do you want a Cursed Tool, Yuta?"
Yuta shook his head with a smile, saying, "It's alright for now, Rika."
"Ugh. Get a room."
Kenjaku said this as Yuta and Rika rushed towards him. Kenjaku summoned a Cursed Spirit that spat out a staff as he began blocking attacks from both Yuta and Rika, thinking, 'They're working together to overwhelm me.'
The forest floor disintegrated under the sheer force of the three combatants. Rika's claws carved deep furrows in the earth, while Yuta's blade, reinforced by Blue, whistled through the air.
Kenjaku spun his staff, parrying a downward strike from Yuta while simultaneously kicking off Rika's chest to create distance, thinking, 'He's using those Blue-enhanced swings again to accelerate his sword's swing speed beyond my reaction speed.'
Kenjaku analysed, his eyes darting between the two, as he looked to Rika, thinking, 'And then Rika Orimoto is covering his blind spots perfectly. If I focus on one, the other will take my head.'
Yuta swung his blade as Kenjaku ducked, and a wave of red sliced through the air above him, and he summoned a centipede Curse to detonate the Red. He backflipped back as Yuta readjusted to a stance, thinking, 'He's using the Reversal of Cursed Speech to increase his reaction time. Doesn't he have a plan to deal with this situation?'
Kenjaku sighed, thinking, 'I suppose I can rest for a few days before killing the rest of the players. Though it would be bad if Kiyotaka managed to recover while I rest. Well. Not much coisce left.'
Kenjaku made some hand signs and chanted, "Domain Expansion: Absolute Decree Of My Facination."
Yuta then took a stance as a white film of energy formed around him, and Kenajku thought, 'A Full Body Domain Amplification? It didn't take very long for it to go from a newly invented skill to a common one among Sorcerers on our tier. Though breaking down how it worked from seeing it used in the fight Sukuan had with Satoru Gojo wasn't difficult.'
A domain blanketed the environment as a totem pole, with mouth upon mouth appearing in the centre of the domain.
Yuta looked at it, thinking, 'This is exactly how Tsukumo-San described it. That Totem pole is the central structure. If I break it, the domain will collapse.'
The mouths chanted, "Faster" as Kenjaku raced towards Yuta, whose eyes widened, thinking, 'He's fast' as he threw up his arms and blocked a punch as he was sent flying.
Rika's eyes boiled with rage as she shouted, "Don't hurt Yuta!" and slammed her arms down on Kenjaku, who blocked with his arms.
The totem then chanted, "Stronger", as Kenjaku threw off Rika with a smile and jumped back.
Yuta got up and thought, 'He's using the chants from the Totem to increase his physical abilities. So this is the full potential of Cursed Speech's Reversal.'
Kenjaku smiled and said, "Of course, as long as you have Full Body Domain Amplification applied, I can't influence you, and since Rika Orimoto is shielding her ears with Cursed Energy, giving her commands won't be realistic either, but in my Domain, I don't think any of that will matter."
Yuta rushed into an exchange with Kenjaku, shouting, "Destroy the Totem Rika!"
"Kay!"
Rika said this, rushing towards the totem, but it then chanted, "Launch", as wind bullets launched towards Rika, piercing her as Yuta's eyes widened in anger, before he got punched in the face and swung his blade, to which Kenjaku dodged with a smile.
Then suddenly Kenjaku felt something burst through his chest as he coughed up blood, thinking, 'What?!'
The object piercing him was Dragon Bone.
He looked behind to see Maki Zenin and thought, 'What? No! Rule 17 shouldn't allow for it. Wait... no Cursed Energy? How is that possible?'
Kenjaku felt himself bisected at the navel as Yuta was the one cutting through him as the Domain shattered.
Kenjaku looked to them and asked, "How? I understand that having no cursed Energy would void you from Rule 17. After all, the Barrier would just treat you the same as the Building. In fact, your status as a player would be outright revoked, but how did you get rid of it?"
Maki then said, "Binding Vows can't be made to completely get rid of Cursed Energy, but a certain person's Technique allowed for it."
Yuta then chanted, "Abacus", as Atsuomi Ayonokoji's snake-like Abacus Shikigami appeared.
Yuta then said, "And since Nanase-San provided an entire corpse, Rika was able to consume it in its entirety, and I was able to perfectly copy his Cursed Technique without restriction. The tag of Cursed Energy for the Technique doesn't fade even if the Sorcerer dies, so all I had to do was tag Maki-San with it, and when she felt it activate and take away her Cursed Energy, that's when she would know to rush in and finish the job."
Maki looked down at Kenajku, who was lying on the floor and said, "That was the 2 months of Preparation Kiyotaka prepared. So much for 100 years of planning. Kiyotaka sent it all to shit."
Kenjaku rasped, saying, "To think..."
A twisted smile formed on his lips as Kenjaku said, "I spent a thousand years waiting for a miracle... and it was delivered by a boy who only needed two months of preparation. How... amusing. Kiyotaka truly is a form of chaos I was unable to control. To come up with a plan like that and use it against me. This feeling in my chest. How do I explain this feeling welling in my chest? Ah... I see now. Pride. Pride in creating something as interesting as him. Kiyotaka. You really are my favourite child."
Yuta raised his sword, the edge shimmering with a final blue glow. "Kiyotaka told me to make sure your brain was destroyed and to burn the body too."
Yuta plunged the blade directly through the centre of Kenjaku's forehead, twisting it.
And that was the end. The end of the Worst Sorcerer in History, Kenjaku. Unable to even pass on his will for the merger.
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The battlefield was a distorted mirror of their first encounter. But this time, there was no surprise trap, and no downed power lines. There was only the raw mastery of their opposing natures.
Uraume unleashed "Dead Calm," but the ice didn't even reach Yuki. It turned into water five feet away from her.
Yuki looked to her and said, "I remember what you said. That [Being a friend was worthless], but in the end, your relationship with Sukuna must be more than that. Considering that he must have healed you, you two must be like family. Besides, I don't think someone like Sukuna can make friends with people."
Uraume's eyes widened. They tried to generate an ice shield, but Yuki was already there.
"Hollow Technique: Freezing Flame."
Yuki chanted this as she slammed her fists into the ice, breaking through it as the dual effect of the technique hit Uraume. The intense heat charred the external tissue while the simultaneous heat drain caused Uraume's internal organs to undergo a flash-freeze. It was a total thermal collapse.
Uraume fell, their body unable to regulate its own existence.
Yuki didn't let herself overheat this time.
Sakurako Yuki hadn't even been forced to use her Maximum Technique. This sheer gap between her and Uraume had been present from the beginning. The issue that had caused her to struggle in their past confrontation was a lack of experience in using her technique. That issue had been resolved in just 2 months.
She stood over the fallen monk, looking composed compared to their first fight, saying, "At ANHS Colony, even though we were on opposite sides, I could feel how hard you were fighting. I just thought... that it was amazing."
Uraume sighed as she turned to face Yuki and said, "I hold the same respect for you", as she smiled and faded away.
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To Be Continued
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