“Go!”
Naobito Zenin made a split-second decision and immediately activated his Projection Sorcery, turning Haruta Shigemo into a weightless photograph before high-tailing it out of there with Maki Zenin and Kento Nanami.
While Projection Sorcery’s attack power was basically just ‘scraping’ damage, it was certainly a top-tier technique when it came to running for your life.
Levi also immediately blew up the road beneath his feet, hoping to use the massive cloud of dust and flying asphalt to block Sukuna’s aim.
Almost at the same time, the sound of an explosion echoed from the sky.
Levi’s current neural reaction speed was four times that of a normal person.
He looked up instantly, and the moment he glimpsed the scene in the sky, he already identified the two figures.
One was a pale giant with a Dharma wheel above its head and wings growing from its eyes—naturally, it was Mahoraga, currently pressing the attack with the Sword of Extermination in its hand.
The other was a cursed spirit whose head looked like a volcano.
He was doing his best to force Mahoraga back with the impact of his flames, desperately dodging as he tried to retreat the Sword of Extermination.
Fortunately, Levi had gotten Maki’s spare glasses; otherwise, he wouldn’t even have been able to see Jogo.
At the same time, a sense of admiration for Jogo rose in his heart.
He truly lived up to his reputation as a special grade cursed spirit who only fought in high-level matches.
He was actually going toe-to-toe with Mahoraga, an opponent he had never even faced in the original story.
As they fought, the two crashed heavily onto the ground between Levi and Sukuna.
Sukuna’s Dismantle happened to hit Jogo’s arm, slicing off his right hand.
Because of his severed arm, Jogo failed to release his flames again to repel Mahoraga and was struck directly in the shoulder by the Sword of Extermination.
“Eaaaaagh!!!”
Jogo let out a pathetic, piercing shriek.
His cursed spirit body instantly began to vaporize, with black smoke constantly billowing out.
It was just like the low-level cursed spirits that Maki and the others had hacked to death earlier.
As the most powerful special grade cursed spirit, Jogo was crushed by ‘Mahoraga’ in a single exchange, just like an ordinary curse being exorcised.
Mahoraga’s Sword of Extermination was flooded with positive energy, much like a Reverse Cursed Technique.
Upon contact, the negative energy that constituted the cursed spirit’s existence was like snow doused in boiling water—the cursed spirit was annihilated on the spot!
In his final moments, Jogo’s single eye caught sight of the expressionless Sukuna.
Trembling, he reached into his robes with his left hand and pulled out a package, throwing it toward Sukuna.
“Sukuna…”
“Kill…
all humans…”
“I’m…
counting on you…”
Those were Jogo’s final words.
After those final words, even his head melted away in mid-air, leaving behind not a single trace of debris.
Sukuna calmly caught the package and opened it to find his own fingers inside.
Ten of them in total.
If he hadn’t sensed his own fingers, Sukuna would never have bothered to catch something thrown by a cursed spirit.
It wasn’t out of fear of danger, but simply a lack of interest.
He forgot the other party’s last words in exactly 0.2 seconds.
Whatever he decided to do was always because he wanted to do it, not because he was forced by any person, word, or rule.
The occasional obstacle was just part of the fun of life.
Though the obstacle he had encountered today was indeed quite an obstacle.
Sukuna glanced at Levi across from him and smiled.
“Didn’t you say that human pig’s ability was luck?
From where I’m standing, it doesn’t seem to have brought you much good fortune at all.”
“Instead, it brought the good luck to me…
It’s just as well.
This way, I can kill you, which I suppose counts as luck for that brat, haha.”
With that, Sukuna began to eat the fingers one by one.
With every finger he consumed, the cursed energy in his body surged violently!
Though since Levi had no cursed energy, he couldn’t feel it.
Having successfully killed Jogo, steam hissed from Mahoraga’s mouth.
Without even glancing at Sukuna or Levi, it turned and began walking slowly in the direction it had come from.
Levi knew that Mahoraga was clearly heading toward its ‘master,’ Megumi Fushiguro.
Megumi must have run into Jogo, couldn’t take the pressure, and immediately summoned Mahoraga.
As the final shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique, Mahoraga would strive to kill both the summoner and the ritual target during the subjugation ritual.
Now that the target was dead, Mahoraga’s next target was Megumi Fushiguro.
When Mahoraga dropped from the sky just now, Levi was already thinking how useful Haruta Shigemo’s cursed technique really was.
When he had tossed Haruta to Naobito Zenin earlier, he had already noticed a cursed sigil reappearing on Haruta’s face.
He hadn’t expected it to accumulate so quickly.
That made sense; otherwise, the guy wouldn’t have mistakenly believed his technique was pure luck.
It meant the cooldown periods weren’t long.
As it turned out, the current situation was the exact opposite of the original plot.
In the original story, Megumi was forced to summon Mahoraga by Haruta and was subsequently saved by Ryomen Sukuna.
Now, Ryomen Sukuna was about to kill Haruta as a side note, only for Haruta to be saved by the sudden appearance of Mahoraga.
One had to admit that Haruta Shigemo’s ability was just too convenient.
It wasn’t until Sukuna finished the last finger that Levi spoke up leisurely.
“Mahoraga is going to kill Megumi Fushiguro, you know.
Aren’t you going to help?”
Sukuna’s expression shifted, and he immediately looked toward Mahoraga.
He was right.
This Mahoraga’s aura contained the same special cursed energy he had sensed within Megumi Fushiguro!
It wasn’t that Sukuna was forgetful; it was just that he had been busy envisioning a truly miserable fate for Levi just now.
His attention had been entirely focused on how to use the power of fourteen fingers to torture Levi, so for a moment, he really hadn’t noticed the familiar scent of cursed energy on Mahoraga.
Even though Sukuna definitely wanted to kill Levi more than he wanted to deal with Mahoraga right now…
The problem was, he couldn’t kill him yet, could he?
So, for the time being, preventing Mahoraga from taking out Megumi Fushiguro was more critical.
Just as Sukuna attempted to use Dismantle on Mahoraga’s back, Levi suddenly shouted, “Sukuna!
Don’t use slashes on Mahoraga!”
“Mahoraga’s ability is to adapt to all attacks!”
“Jogo already made Mahoraga adapt to fire!
If you use those half-baked slashes of yours and let him adapt, you’ll never be able to kill Mahoraga!”
Upon hearing this, Sukuna forcefully held back the slash he was about to release on Mahoraga.
The effort made his cursed energy recoil.
How was it another one of these ‘immortal’ abilities!
Sukuna ground his teeth in hatred, but he truly didn’t dare use slashes on Mahoraga now.
There was no helping it; Levi’s intelligence-gathering ability was just too broken.
Even Sukuna had to admit that this Levi was so knowledgeable it was unnerving.
The more he wanted to kill Levi a million times over in his heart, the more weight Levi’s words carried.
However, Sukuna’s eyes flickered slightly.
He narrowed his eyes, looked at Levi, and broke into a grin.
“Aha.”
Using a tone that said ‘Gotcha,’ Sukuna’s previously indifferent expression became increasingly twisted and hideous.
“You just said Mahoraga adapts to my attacks, right?”
“And what happens after he adapts?”
“Will it be…
just like when I attacked you before?!”
Sukuna trembled with excitement.
The pretty face of this body finally took on the terrifying visage of the King of Curses.
“Megumi Fushiguro…
as expected, it truly has to be Megumi Fushiguro.”
“Levi!
I’ll allow you to live for two more hours!”
Sukuna’s voice shook with agitation; he even reached up to cup his own face with both hands, trying to calm himself down.
“Hehehe…
Hahahaha!”
“Finally, I’ve finally found a way to kill you!”
“I promise you, Levi!”
“I won’t let you see the sun rise over this city…”
“I’ll make sure you die in the most miserable way possible before the moon sets!”
[ Author’s Note :