Sukuna had previously used his Domain Expansion to kill Mahoraga with slashes at full power.
This triggered Cursed Technique Burnout, leaving him temporarily unable to use his techniques.
He didn’t even waste time talking trash; without hesitation, he followed his own orders, turned, and ran.
During the chase, the Cursed Technique Burnout ended.
Sukuna turned around in mid-air and sent a Dismantle flying straight at Levi’s head.
Levi felt as if he could see the trajectory of the cursed energy and felt like he could dodge it.
Although he had the Dog Talisman and theoretically didn’t need to dodge, Levi didn’t want to develop bad habits like Superman.
Secondly, Levi was currently learning to use cursed energy.
Jujutsu Kaisen was also known as Elbow Kaisen; aside from using techniques, the reinforcement of the physical body with cursed energy was top-tier.
If he didn’t learn it himself, was he supposed to wait for his other counterparts to learn with their measly 2 points of cursed energy?
But unfortunately, Levi still failed to dodge in the end.
With a tilt of his head, the slash struck his neck.
“It doesn’t hurt.”
It actually hurt a bit.
This meant that Sukuna’s Dismantle could no longer achieve an instant kill against him.
Sukuna seemed to realize something.
After landing on top of a building, he suddenly lunged in front of Levi, who was in mid-air.
“Cleave!”
Two clean little hands pressed against Levi’s chest as Sukuna let out a low shout, exerting his power.
However, nothing happened.
“Tch.”
When that slash hit just now, Levi had actually thought about dodging.
Sukuna wondered if the opponent’s ‘invincibility time’ had expired.
Since he was about to be caught anyway, he decided to give it a try.
As it turned out, even the Cleave with maximum output was like a stone dropped into the ocean; Levi didn’t react at all.
Sukuna cursed him as a beast in his heart.
Just as he was about to pull his hands back, his wrists were grabbed by Levi.
“That strike just now…
if I didn’t have the curse of immortality, it probably would have killed me.”
Levi smiled.
After all, it really didn’t hurt this time.
But this conversely meant that without the Dog Talisman, Sukuna was capable of killing the Levi, whose raw cursed-energy reserves were superior in that split second.
This was the crushing superiority of technique performance.
Battles in Jujutsu Kaisen were different from those in Bleach.
Aizen once said that a battle between Shinigami is ultimately a battle of Spiritual Pressure; the final winner is usually the one with the stronger Spiritual Pressure.
But in Jujutsu Kaisen, the cursed energy of Satoru Gojo—the strongest of the modern era—was actually only at an average level; it couldn’t compare to Yuta Okkotsu’s, much less Sukuna’s.
However, the performance of Gojo’s technique was overwhelmingly powerful.
If Sukuna hadn’t had Mahoraga adapt to [Limitless] at the time, even with all 20 fingers, he still wouldn’t have been Gojo’s match.
The two crashed violently to the ground, drawing screams from the people around them.
When the dust settled, both were standing on the cracked ground, locked in a struggle of strength.
Passersby looked over in surprise and instinctively raised their phones to start taking pictures.
Levi noticed that they were in an open-air plaza of some commercial street in Tokyo.
During the chase just now, he and Sukuna had already moved far away from Shibuya.
Although the evacuation in Shibuya had been completed, only five or six hours had passed since the Curtain appeared; the moon hadn’t even set yet.
Even though the appearance of Jujutsu Sorcerers in the eyes of human society was a massive event—far bigger than news of the US going to war with some small country—
Information simply hadn’t had time to spread in just a few hours.
A large number of people were still in a state of total ignorance.
It wasn’t that the internet wasn’t developed enough; on the contrary, it was too developed.
Everyone assumed it was just some viral stunt or AI…
“A bunch of idiots, run already!”
Levi shouted at the surrounding crowd.
Indeed, a portion of the people immediately realized that what they saw online was real, turned tail, and started running for their lives.
But there were others who had lived in a peaceful modern society for too long and had a subconscious belief that they would always be protected.
They were only focused on taking out their phones to livestream with excitement.
Some people even started cheerfully cheering for Sukuna.
After all, Sukuna was currently a white-haired girl in a kimono, looking like the protagonist of a magical-girl manga.
And since a harmless beautiful girl was fighting a man who was yelling at them to run, it meant at least someone would protect them, right?
Just like the default plot points in TV dramas, tokusatsu shows, and movies.
At this moment, Sukuna was still struggling to break free from Levi’s hands.
That beautiful face was now incredibly distorted, with veins popping on his forehead.
But both wrists were held tightly by Levi, making it impossible to break free.
Levi was trying to learn how to manipulate cursed energy, so he didn’t use the flames of the Dragon Talisman.
However, the Dog Talisman kept his body in its peak state at all times, allowing him to exert four times his base physical stats at the limit.
The Dragon Talisman was also enhancing his cursed energy; both talismans were constantly active.
Leaving techniques aside, a Jujutsu Sorcerer’s hand-to-hand combat ability is the product of their base physical strength and cursed energy output.
Levi’s physical body was far stronger than the female vessel Sukuna was currently inhabiting.
Although his cursed energy control efficiency was far inferior, he relied on brute force; even at its worst, his constantly applied unstable cursed energy was much stronger than Sukuna’s.
Sukuna only felt the pain in his wrists intensifying.
“Crack!”
With the sound of bones snapping, Sukuna retreated violently.
Levi froze, looking down at his hands.
He realized he was still clutching two slender hands that were rapidly losing blood, turning from purple to a pale white.
Good grief.
He had snapped them right off.
This scene caused the surrounding onlookers to gasp again, with phone camera flashes clicking and flashing.
Some people who had originally planned to run saw that the other onlookers hadn’t been harmed, so they grew bold and stayed behind.
Among them, some even began to loudly condemn Levi’s brutal act of crushing a woman’s wrists.
Anyway, their voices were mixed into the crowd, and he couldn’t hear them.
Sukuna took a deep breath.
When he raised his arms, flesh was already rapidly budding from his wrists, restoring them to their original state.
The healing capabilities of the Reverse Cursed Technique were once again on display; even severed limbs were treated like mere scrapes.
In the original work, those who couldn’t use the Reverse Cursed Technique would end up with genuine lifelong disabilities if they sustained injuries in battle, which further highlighted its value.
Sukuna looked coldly at the noisy insects around them.
“Noisy.”
Invisible slashes were instantly released in all directions.
Except for those who had run at the very beginning, the remaining crowd of onlookers had their skulls sliced open in that single instant.
They couldn’t even let out a piercing scream.
With rustling sounds, they fell to the ground one after another.
After the bodies fell, their skullcaps spun and rolled across the ground.
In an instant, blood flowed like a river.
In just a few seconds, the area went from noisy to silent.
Sukuna looked at Levi playfully, anticipating his reaction.
Levi tossed Sukuna’s hands aside and asked with great interest, “I’ve wanted to learn the Reverse Cursed Technique from the start.
The idea of multiplying negative energy by negative energy to get positive energy is too abstract—what’s the actual principle behind it?”
Sukuna’s expression stiffened slightly before he put on a complaining look.
“Hey, hey, you bastard…
do you even have any humanity left?”
“So many innocent bystanders just died.
Don’t you have any reaction at all?”
Levi looked bewildered.
“Huh?
What does that have to do with me?
I’m not the one who killed them.”
“I told them to run at the very beginning.
I couldn’t stop your subsequent slashes, so what could I have done?”
[ Author’s Note :