Kinji Hakari frowned, thinking,
Is the bluff not working?
Or does this King of Curses in front of me really have the confidence to defeat me?
Or perhaps he doesn't understand my ability?
But that doesn't make sense either.
Although the number of times I've personally dueled is small, and I'm confident I've traumatized my opponents every time I fought, those Jujutsu Sorcerers eager for evolution wouldn't keep my ability a secret.
Mahito crossed his fingers, resting his arms on the table, and propped up his chin with the backs of his hands.
"Kinji Hakari. Unknown Cursed Technique, suspected to be related to luck or gambling."
"Compared to your never-before-disclosed Cursed Technique, your Domain Expansion is more widely known."
"Domain Expansion: Idle Death Gamble."
"Modeled after the legal gambling game pachinko, as long as you get three matching symbols, you hit the jackpot."
"After hitting the jackpot, you can obtain a certain extra reward."
Kinji Hakari kept his cool and didn't make a sound.
Mahito continued with great interest:
"The rules themselves are simple, but what's not simple is the reward obtained."
"Since it's a gambling game based on pachinko, the gambling odds should also be the same as pachinko, but you can rely on an unknown Cursed Technique to change those odds, resulting in you being able to obtain the extra reward one hundred percent of the time."
"That jackpot is—"
Mahito paused and said word by word,
"—infinite Cursed Energy."
Jogo and Hanami, standing behind Mahito, let out low exclamations simultaneously.
Mahito wasn't finished.
"For 4 minutes and 11 seconds starting from the moment you hit the jackpot, you will obtain infinite Cursed Energy."
"At the same time, if you are injured during this period, you will automatically activate Reverse Cursed Technique to repair your body."
"In other words, within the 4 minutes and 11 seconds after hitting the jackpot, you are effectively invincible."
"After the 4 minutes and 11 seconds end, the Domain stops, but since you had infinite Cursed Energy during that time, you retain enough power to expand the Domain again after it ends, allowing you to expand it once more."
"A nesting-doll-style Domain Expansion."
"This is something even Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna cannot do."
"But Kinji Hakari can."
Jogo and Hanami were completely speechless.
Jogo even felt a wave of lingering fear.
No wonder this man hadn't spared him a single glance from beginning to end.
He thought it was the man's arrogance, but it wasn't arrogance—
it was confidence.
He was confident that a Special Grade Cursed Spirit like Jogo was no different from a pebble on the road or an ant by the lake to him.
A truly different dimension.
Isn't this—literally—invincibility?
How do you fight such an enemy?
Kinji Hakari leaned back on the sofa again, a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.
"It seems you are very clear about my Cursed Technique; that saves me some breath."
"King of Curses, you are still in my fight club. I will abide by the rules I set myself. Since you haven't affected me or my fight club, I will also ensure you won't be harmed here."
He crossed his arms and spoke calmly.
"But I won't fail to react to your offense because of that."
"I'll give you a chance."
"Use your ability to fulfill Kirara's wish, and I'll grant you a way out, letting you leave from here."
Jogo wanted to angrily question his arrogance again, but this time, without Mahito's intervention, Hanami quickly pulled him back.
Before this, Jogo and Hanami really hadn't looked into the owner of this fight club.
In fact, they didn't believe a lone human could pose a threat to them at all, so they followed Mahito here without knowing anything.
Just like how they knew nothing and were coaxed by Kenjaku into dealing with Gojo Satoru.
If Mahito hadn't appeared out of nowhere, they would still be foolishly following behind Kenjaku.
Now with Mahito, they had even less need to think about these trivial matters.
But now, a "trivial matter" had turned into a potentially fatal major issue, which could only be decided by Mahito at this time.
Mahito suddenly asked,
"Want to give it a try?"
Kinji Hakari was stunned.
Mahito slowly reached out his hand, palm up, and placed it on the table.
He said,
"Try and see if my ability works on you?"
Mahito looked up, his heterochromatic eyes—one gold and one blue—seeming to illuminate one's heart.
"Idle Transfiguration: Heterochromatic Projection: Emotion Ignition!"
Kinji Hakari's heart was fiercely stirred.
His eyebrows shot up like two swords piercing the heart.
He looked directly into Mahito's eyes, his hands twitching.
He was tempted.
Not tempted by Mahito's "evolution" ability—
in fact, he didn't believe in evolution at all.
Jujutsu Sorcerers who could reach his current strength had infinite confidence in their own potential.
Even if there were an "evolution," Kinji Hakari was confident he could reach it on his own without relying on Mahito.
What tempted him was understanding the essence of the King of Curses' ability.
This was a good opportunity.
But his extraordinary self-confidence didn't make him light-headed.
Before Mahito came to him, he already knew the fate of Awasaka Jiro.
He knew Awasaka Jiro was still lying in the infirmary.
Clearly, there was nothing wrong with his external or internal injuries, yet he just wouldn't wake up.
This must be Mahito's Cursed Technique.
With such a bizarre Cursed Technique, he didn't want to make contact mindlessly.
"What's wrong?"
"Worried my Cursed Technique will affect you?"
A faint light appeared in Mahito's heterochromatic eyes, like starlight in the night sky.
The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said composedly,
"Then I'll take another step back..."
"I'll allow you to use Domain Expansion."
"If you can touch me even once, I'll agree to your request."
—Silence.
Jogo and Hanami simultaneously broke into a cold sweat.
Kirara handed the wine glass to Kinji Hakari.
He took a deep breath, took the glass, and downed the wine in one gulp.
This is a provocation, Kinji Hakari thought.
I can't fall for it.
I need to stay calm, calm, calm—
Screw it!
"I'm going to pull your tongue out, King of Curses!"
He formed hand signs and shouted in rage,
"As you wish!"
"This is the Domain Expansion you've been waiting for—"
"Idle Death Gamble!!"
War on Two Fronts
A train abruptly appeared before everyone.
The group, who should have been in the cramped monitoring room, was swallowed into an unknown space.
"Domain Expansion: Idle Death Gamble!"
This was a train station.
A phantom man stood anxiously at the entrance, looking inside the station.
Under the influence of the sure-hit effect, the rules of Kinji Hakari's Domain and Cursed Technique were directly disclosed in Mahito's mind—
"Private Pure Love Train."
The indicator board would randomly display a total of seven types of characters:
female lead 1 to female lead 3, male lead 4, female lead 5 and female lead 6, and finally, protagonist 7.
When the animation begins, it will start randomizing from No. 1 to No. 7.
If two random results are the same character, it is called a riichi.
The rules are exactly the same as Japan's national pastime, pachinko.
Mahito glanced at the indicator board.
Female lead 1.
Female lead 1.
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