“What was that just now?
It felt so amazing!”
Yuji asked, his eyes sparkling.
Everyone else was breaking out in a cold sweat, but Yuji didn’t feel the pressure at all.
His animal-like instincts and clear-cut sense of right and wrong made him feel that Levi was just an awesome guy on their side, unlike the others whose hearts filled with fear because of Levi’s power.
While sensing the feeling of controlling cursed energy, Levi smiled and said, “That’s the boost from the dragon’s power to my cursed energy.”
“Though my own cursed energy limit is only about that of an ordinary person, after the amplification from the Dragon Fire, it’s increased by several times.”
Sukuna’s eye emerged on Yuji’s face again, glaring at Levi.
Several times?
Was “several times” even the right term to describe this?
Sukuna felt like it was closer to a damn hundred-thousand-fold increase!
No joke—it wasn’t some hundredfold or thousandfold increase; it was a hundred-thousandfold increase.
A hundred thousand times!
Fortunately, the upper limit for cursed energy was set in stone; in over a thousand years, no one had ever found a way to increase innate cursed energy.
Even the predecessors who created advanced techniques like Domain Expansion, Reverse Cursed Technique, Cursed Technique Reversal, and Domain Amplification had never made a breakthrough in researching cursed energy storage.
This was knowledge Yuji had learned from his Jujutsu High textbooks; he’d only skimmed it and hadn’t paid much attention, but Sukuna had already grasped the general information of this millennium.
“Hey, brat, what cursed technique did you awaken?”
Sukuna asked.
Levi tested it for a moment, snapping his fingers; flames still appeared out of thin air at his fingertips.
He gave a disappointed sigh.
“It seems I haven’t…
As expected, cursed techniques are innate.
They can’t be replicated like cursed energy circuits?”
Those around him didn’t react much.
Mainly because Levi’s flames could already be seen as a powerful cursed technique in their own right; no one could understand what the difference was.
Except for Sukuna.
“The dragon’s flames, huh…”
“At any rate, it’s good as long as he hasn’t awakened a new cursed technique…”
Sukuna took one last deep look at Levi before closing his eyes and disappearing from Yuji’s face.
No one knew what he was thinking.
Nearby, Maki Zenin took quite a while to recover, standing up with her hands on her knees, looking at Levi with an incredibly complex expression.
She had actually been skeptical about Levi’s “Heavenly Restriction” all along.
Trading an “Undying Curse” for “Dragon’s Flame” or whatever was just too…
Absurd.
Maki Zenin really didn’t know how to describe it, eventually settling on “absurd” to summarize her complicated feelings.
If this information hadn’t come from Sukuna, she wouldn’t have bothered to remember it at all, dismissing it as some delirious nonsense.
Judging by common sense, Maki still felt that Levi must have traded cursed energy for physical enhancement and the zero-cost release of techniques.
Although her Heavenly Restriction and Mechamaru’s seemed totally cooked in comparison, maybe the guy’s innate cursed energy was just that insane?
What if his innate technique was worth that much of a trade?
It was like if Yuta Okkotsu had a Heavenly Restriction—Maki felt he wouldn’t necessarily be weaker than Levi.
But now, all those seemingly reasonable theories crumbled before Levi “awakening cursed energy.”
His cursed energy clearly wasn’t the part sacrificed for the Heavenly Restriction.
So what exactly did he sacrifice?
Was it really just an “Undying Curse”?
Maki Zenin could only let out a dry, “Haha…”
Aside from Yuji and Megumi Fushiguro, who hadn’t heard about the Heavenly Restriction details, everyone else felt much the same.
Kento Nanami looked at his fist.
He had landed a Black Flash for the first time in a while.
But how exactly did he force out the other guy’s cursed energy?
Does Black Flash even have that function?
Black Flash could increase the power of an attack by a factor of 2.5, and it could restore one’s cursed energy and stamina.
It was a power-up and a recovery tool all in one; aside from the outrageously low probability of landing it, it had almost no drawbacks.
But Kento Nanami was hearing for the first time that cursed energy could be awakened through a Black Flash.
Even if they chalked it all up to Haruta Shigemo’s [Luck], it was still way too ridiculous.
While everyone was immersed in their own unspeakable emotions, Levi suddenly looked up at the roof of a nearby residential building.
“Yo, Sukuna, did you kill Mahoraga?”
Everyone’s hearts skipped a beat as they looked up, and sure enough, they saw the figure of the white-haired Sukuna.
However, the white-haired Sukuna’s expression was currently extremely ugly.
Levi let out an exclamation of wonder: “Oh wow, looking at you again after awakening cursed energy…
as expected of Ryomen Sukuna, your cursed energy really is immense.”
He meant it sincerely, but it sounded a bit too much like mockery to the others, making them quite nervous.
“You say you’ve awakened cursed energy?”
The white-haired Sukuna asked with a frown.
She had her guesses…
but it was unbelievable.
Just now, she had been using the fire properties of [Furnace: Open] to attack Mahoraga, trying to see if there was any similarity between Mahoraga’s defense after adapting to fire and Levi’s [Undying Curse], hoping to find an answer to breaking Levi’s defense.
However, as soon as she sensed the powerful cursed energy suddenly surging near Megumi Fushiguro, Sukuna immediately opened her domain and used a maximum-output [Cleave], instantly shredding Mahoraga, which hadn’t yet adapted to slashing attacks, into pieces.
Then Sukuna rushed here, but she didn’t see any strange powerhouse.
There were only a few maggots and Levi here.
Before Levi could answer, Sukuna’s mouth appeared on Yuji’s face again.
He said impatiently, “What he says is true.
After being hit by a Black Flash, he suddenly awakened cursed energy.”
“You can feel it, can’t you?
That sky-piercing cursed energy from just now belonged to him.”
“Run.
Until we obtain a power that can specifically target his ‘immortality,’ we have no chance of winning for now.”
Everyone was shaken by these words, including Yuji.
Yuji was especially surprised, as he was the one who understood Sukuna’s personality best.
To him, how could such an arrogant guy like Sukuna say the word “run”?
Everyone present had been somewhat numbed by Levi’s various miraculous displays earlier.
So much so that when Sukuna appeared just now, they only felt a reflexive tension.
It wasn’t like before, where they would immediately try every possible way to flee for their lives the moment they saw Sukuna in a free state.
This wasn’t even because Levi’s performance made them feel safe being around him.
It was purely mental numbness leading to a dullness toward danger.
Even so, hearing the Sukuna inside Yuji actually tell the other, completely free Sukuna to run for his life left them unable to hide their shock.
That was Sukuna.
A monster who recognized no rules, treated the entire world as a playground, and took pleasure in slaughter and desecration.
Even a Sukuna like that, after realizing the cursed energy Levi had awakened, was thinking of running away!
Everyone present had enough self-awareness to know their own strength was mediocre and that they couldn’t accurately judge the difference between powerhouses.
In any case, they were no match for Special Grade Cursed Spirits, and those spirits were no match for Satoru Gojo and Sukuna.
The gap between them was already an abyss, not something for pawns like them to fathom.
But now, Sukuna himself had confirmed it—without even needing to try, he openly admitted he was no match for Levi.
Keep in mind, even facing the strongest of the modern era, Satoru Gojo, Sukuna had never chickened out!
Just how powerful Levi had become was now beyond their imagination.
Even Satoru Gojo, who had been their internal benchmark for “the strongest,” was starting to become a blur.