The woman's smile gradually disappeared, and she frowned.
"You are now deeply pierced by my spider silk into your flesh, internal organs, and bones."
"Before the external spider silk is even exposed, your internal organs should have completely dissolved."
"Why can you still speak with such vigor?"
"You should... not even be able to groan right now."
Idle Transfiguration activated silently.
The spider silk indeed dissolved Mahito's internal organs, but as it dissolved, Idle Transfiguration began stitching them back together simultaneously.
Mahito had another advantage over Jujutsu Sorcerers:
he was a half-Cursed Spirit.
While being human, he was also a Cursed Spirit.
If a human's internal organs dissolved, even if healed, it would leave huge hidden dangers, but he wouldn't suffer that problem.
Humans couldn't dissolve and heal at the same time.
He could.
"You shouldn't have withdrawn the darkness now, nor should you have triumphantly declared victory just because you saw the spider silk completely entangle me."
Mahito said calmly.
"If you want to kill me, you should at least wait until the spider silk has completely dissolved me, leaving not a single trace, before making such an announcement."
The woman's expression changed drastically.
"No, your internal organs haven't dissolved at all—!"
"Too late to realize."
Mahito smiled.
—Soul Creation:
Kirara Hoshi.
Cursed Technique Release:
Interstellar Flight.
Shadow Crocodile, Heavy Pressure, Ama no Habakiri, Cicada Shell Warp, Life-Entangling Shura Silk.
Exactly five.
And these attacks had all been fully absorbed by Mahito.
All the Cursed Energy had been recorded, and then—
—Cursed Technique Release!
The spider silk wrapped around Mahito suddenly burst, all the silk rushing outward from within Mahito's body.
These spider silks, containing the woman's Cursed Energy, disappeared into Mahito's body in an instant.
All the spider silk had a unified target:
the caster herself.
But the woman was not flustered.
She said coldly,
"It's useless."
The spider silk quietly disappeared in the air.
If she didn't know, that would be one thing, but since she already knew Mahito had the ability to reflect direct offensive Cursed Energy, the woman had naturally prepared.
At this moment, her preparation played its role:
before the reflection, she first controlled the spider silk to self-dissolve, something only she could do.
Mahito suddenly recalled the end of Ama no Habakiri.
That rapidly moving, massive compressed wind blade didn't seem to maintain its original state until the very end; it exploded at the last moment.
This indicated that the Jujutsu Sorcerers had already prepared for Ama no Habakiri to self-detonate when releasing it.
If Mahito had indeed directly used Interstellar Flight to reflect Ama no Habakiri at that time, he would probably have been hit by the sorcerers' timed detonation of the Cursed Technique, suffering explosion damage at close range.
These people really had been observing and studying him well.
"You can't use other abilities while using Reverse Cursed Technique, right?"
Suddenly, a squad member said coldly.
"Is that ability of yours, which nullified Jinichi-sama's punches, also unusable?"
"We already know all your information!"
"Cursed Spirit, you have nowhere to run now!"
A crisp stomping sound appeared beside Mahito.
It was the Utsusemi user.
This time, he didn't use his fist.
He pulled a ninja short sword from his kimono sleeve, and as he appeared, the short sword had already thrust out.
Mahito turned sharply, Kirigiri already swinging before he completed the turn, but there was no one in front of him.
Cicada Shell Warp.
Before Mahito could turn fully, this elusive Jujutsu Sorcerer had already disappeared.
A ninja short sword suddenly pierced Mahito's spine.
"Indeed, you can only use one Cursed Technique at a time."
The Utsusemi sorcerer loudly revealed his analysis.
"If you could still use Tsukumogami Manipulation, this attack would have been blocked by the tsukumogami in your hand."
"If you still had the defensive Cursed Technique that defended against Jinichi-sama, this attack wouldn't have pierced your body."
"But now you must maintain Reverse Cursed Technique to prevent Life-Entangling Shura Silk from tangling you again."
The next moment, the Utsusemi sorcerer disappeared from behind Mahito, reappearing directly in front of him.
He looked up at Mahito, his face bearing the arrogance of a god looking down upon a mortal.
"Victory is decided."
He coldly declared the outcome of the battle.
The remaining squad members of the Zen'in Family looked at Mahito with cold eyes, simultaneously forming hand signs, ready to attack at any moment.
Mahito took a deep breath. As he breathed, the wound on his spine, which had been pierced through, healed completely at a visible speed.
He slowly lowered his body, drawing all his perception back to himself.
He placed Kirigiri at his waist, one hand loosely gripping the blade as if Kirigiri's edge were covered by a sheath, while the other hand gently rested on the hilt.
Because his grip was so loose, Kirigiri's tip had to touch the ground to support its weight.
Mahito did not use Tsukumogami Manipulation; he presented an iaijutsu stance entirely based on his own understanding.
As the Utsusemi sorcerer had said, he now had to use Soul Creation to perform other Cursed Techniques.
Although the switching between these Cursed Techniques had become more proficient in this battle, no matter how proficient he became, the rule of only being able to use one Cursed Technique at a time still existed.
He had not yet been able to break through this boundary.
They had already seen through this point.
They pressed on, step by step.
Although they had sacrificed the entire Kukuru Unit, along with two Special Grade 1 Sorcerers and one Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, ordinary soldiers would have long since collapsed.
But they did not.
Anger quietly burned in their hearts, yet they were not blinded by it.
They advanced over the bones of their comrades, without fear in their hearts.
It's time to retreat.
Any rational person should have had such a thought.
But Mahito did not think so.
At this moment, he was fully immersed in this jujutsu kaisen.
His blood was boiling, but his heart was calm, like magma buried beneath the sea.
Of course, he still had a chance to win.
He hadn't explained the true purpose of Interstellar Flight to anyone.
In everyone's eyes, Interstellar Flight's purpose was simply to reflect direct offensive Cursed Techniques.
This was intentional on his part.
There were five types of Interstellar Flight markers, and now that he had physically absorbed the attacks of all the other Jujutsu Sorcerers, he had naturally marked everyone else.
This meant that these people could no longer cooperate.
The reason he didn't mark himself was simple—
from now on, he could engage in one-on-one duels with any of them.
Was this a 1v5?
No.
These were five separate 1v1s.
Mahito suddenly remembered how he felt when he had first transmigrated into Mahito.
When he opened his eyes, he was in a sewer.
Sewage flowed beneath his feet, and all he could smell was the stench of filth.
He turned to observe his surroundings; black grime ran down the sewer walls.
A rat crawled out from the depths of the darkness, and unknown mosquitoes flew endlessly above the sewage, emitting an irritating buzzing sound.
He was born from absolute filth.
And now, he was finally going to break out of that sewer.
Come on, Zen'in Family.
Use your blood to tell the whole world—
—I am not filth to be manipulated by you.
—I am human!
Mahito slowly closed his eyes.
The sound of the heavy rain grew weaker and weaker, finally disappearing into the end of time.
He fell into absolute darkness.
A ghostly blue core suddenly floated in his mind.
Jujutsu Sorcerers indeed had something like a Cursed Energy core, an organ-like entity.
Generally, this thing grew in the core area of the human body.
All Jujutsu Sorcerers extracted Cursed Energy through the Cursed Energy core.
Only when the Cursed Energy core resonated with the sorcerer's spiritual world could a Jujutsu Sorcerer use the legendary Black Flash.
And now, Mahito, as a "half-Cursed Spirit," finally got to see this legendary Cursed Energy core.
It floated in Mahito's dark spiritual world, emitting a faint light.
Mahito began to adjust his breathing.
Every time the Cursed Energy core pulsed, he would breathe once.
At first, Mahito was forcefully making his breathing match the Cursed Energy core's pulse, but imperceptibly, the Cursed Energy core's pulse began to coordinate with Mahito's breathing.
The moment his breathing and the Cursed Energy core's pulse completely synchronized—
Mahito drew his sword.
Mirokuji Kirigiri always made a crisp sound when swung.
She was usually quiet like a maiden, but when using Kirigiri Senra, she was always like a tiger roaring in the mountains.
Yet at this very moment, she made no sound at all.
A faint, almost imperceptible silver light appeared in the curtain of rain.
A person suddenly appeared before that faint silver light.
The ninja short sword the Utsusemi sorcerer had been preparing to ambush with was still hidden in his sleeve.
His body silently split into two halves, the cut extending from his left shoulder to his right waist.
"Falling Blossom Emotion?"
The Utsusemi sorcerer said in stunned disbelief, his final words lingering in the world.
His upper half fell onto the rain-soaked ground, while his lower half remained kneeling for a moment before finally collapsing.
"How is that possible!?"
The Ama no Habakiri sorcerer was stunned, shouting in disbelief.
"That's Master Ogi's automatic counter-iaijutsu slash!"
"Just by seeing it once, this Cursed Spirit can learn it!?"
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