The dragon rolled over; he shifted his steps, changing his footwork the moment it turned. The dragon bristled its scales; he leaped, crossing over from above the scales.
The dragon curled its body like a snake, and he continued to run along its coiled form.
Finally, the dragon's head appeared before his eyes.
Those heterochromatic eyes were like two massive searchlights. Zen'in Naobito was stared down, feeling like a fugitive caught firmly in the searchlights on a prison wall.
A massive sense of crisis spread frantically from the depths of his heart; his spine chilled, his heart nearly leaped out of his chest, and his mouth went dry, making even the act of swallowing feel arduous.
Countless instincts screamed warnings simultaneously, telling him to run, run, run.
But he didn't run; he flashed a smile.
He leaped high according to his preset movements.
The potential of this body was fully tapped, yet Cursed Energy continued to replenish incessantly, as if all the Cursed Energy in the world were converging upon him.
He was growing stronger every second.
He surpassed his own limits and ascended to a new level.
Now, he was going to slay a god.
The dragon's heterochromatic eyes suddenly vanished, and a maw capable of devouring all of creation appeared before Zen'in Naobito.
Deep within the throat of that maw, a high-concentration Cursed Energy shell—the dragon's breath—was swirling, ready to be unleashed.
Ah, the dragon's head really was a trap, Zen'in Naobito thought to himself.
Then, he thought again—just as I expected.
Cursed Energy that surpassed everything was grasped in Zen'in Naobito's hands. He kept only a basic layer of Cursed Energy protection to prevent dying instantly at high altitude; all the remaining Cursed Energy was being concentrated and charged.
His entire skeleton was creaking, for the rapid flow of Cursed Energy had begun to damage his body.
A trace of blood sprayed from the corner of his eye, drawing a crimson streak in the air.
Using all his Cursed Energy, he threw this punch.
Black—!
Flash—!
Use Black Flash to push the dragon's breath back.
Was it possible?
It was possible the dragon's breath would explode before being pushed back, resulting in mutual destruction.
It was also possible there was no dragon's breath at all, and the dragon would choose to ram him directly with its horns.
Even if he broke the horns and heavily injured the dragon's head, it would be meaningless, as the dragon's regenerative power could heal those wounds in an instant.
Even worse, what if the dragon suddenly slowed down and dove from the sky to the ground?
With just one wrong step, the preset Projection Sorcery would send Zen'in Naobito to hell.
But, once again, he won.
He had banked on the dragon's pride.
Just as the dragon disdained using the elderly and weak to bind his hands and feet, he firmly believed the dragon craved a final one-on-one.
When he took the initiative to head into the sky, the dragon would surely settle the score with him there.
Before he reached the dragon's head, the dragon would surely use its maximum dragon's breath against him, just as he believed the dragon had judged that he would surely use Black Flash to counter-kill it.
When two samurai crouch simultaneously in an open field, placing their hands lightly on their hilts, is there any other possibility besides both using an iaijutsu slash at the same time?
No, there isn't.
There are no other possibilities.
This is a man's romance.
So, it's now—right this moment.
The.
Final.
Strike.
Zen'in Naobito's Black Flash and the dragon's breath were released at the same time.
Zen'in Naobito was stunned, because the high-concentration Cursed Energy shell deep in the dragon's throat wasn't its usual color.
The color of the breath—
suddenly ignited with black sparks.
Normally, Zen'in Naobito wouldn't have understood this phenomenon, but now he immediately knew why the high-concentration Cursed Energy shell was ignited by black sparks:
The phenomenon of Black Flash is caused by both physical force and Cursed Energy.
In other words, to use Black Flash, both physical force and Cursed Energy must exist simultaneously.
This is why Black Flash can be used while holding a weapon, but typical pure Cursed Energy attacks cannot.
Pure Cursed Energy attacks cannot trigger a Black Flash, so from the start, Zen'in Naobito hadn't considered the possibility of the dragon's breath producing a Black Flash.
But what if this wasn't a pure high-concentration Cursed Energy shell?
What if there was also air inside?
The principle of Black Flash is the spatial distortion created when the gap between a physical hit and a Cursed Energy impact is within 0.000001 seconds.
In other words, as long as this premise is met, anything can potentially give birth to a Black Flash.
Using a special organ to spit out a physical "air cannon," and concentrating a high-density mass of Cursed Energy within that air cannon—this perfectly satisfies the premise of a physical hit and a Cursed Energy hit.
The rest is simple.
It's the same principle as Nanami Kento using a blunt blade to trigger Black Flash in the original work, or Kugisaki Nobara using Black Flash with her hammer and nails.
Before the air cannon was spat out, a Black Flash that distorted space converged directly at the dragon's mouth.
Then, it was spat out all at once along with the resulting spatial distortion.
Out it went—
this was the first ever in the history of the jujutsu world:
Black.
Flash.
Breath.
A pillar of absolute darkness spread from the dragon's breath into the sky.
The dark clouds of the pouring rain were swept away by the breath, as if a pitch-black blade had been spat from the dragon's mouth.
This blade shot straight into the sky, slicing through the clouds; the rain vanished, the lightning vanished, and it continued to surge upward, extending infinitely, spreading infinitely, until finally—
—the black sword sliced through the silver moon, splitting the moonlight in two.
The wind, rain, and thunder ended there.
(T/N: Absolute Cinema!!! ☆:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:☆ Sorry I'll shut up now)
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