Click.
Levi stepped over the glass shards scattered across the floor, walking up to Uraume and rubbing his chin as he examined the other’s injuries.
“Hmm, Reverse Cursed Technique.
I’m really envious.
Once I have cursed energy, I’ll definitely have to learn that.”
Although he possessed the Dog Talisman, his counterparts in other worlds did not.
Such a rapid healing speed would be formidable in any world; he couldn’t let his other selves miss out on this.
As he spoke, a dense burst of white light suddenly exploded behind Levi, accompanied by the rapid-fire shutter sounds of cameras like falling rain.
The Curtain that blocked ordinary people from entering and exiting had already been destroyed by Levi.
At this moment, the long street was crowded with Tokyo reporters; if not for the efforts of the Japanese police to hold them back, they would have rushed in long ago.
Even from a great distance, the reporters were still giving it their all, excitedly setting up their telephoto lenses and professional equipment to endlessly film the two figures inside the mall.
The injuries on Uraume’s body had completely recovered, though bloodstains still remained on his face.
After a slight wipe, he looked up.
He saw the camera flashes behind Levi outlining his silhouette, such that Uraume could only see the other’s backlit shadow.
“Surrounded by maggots…
are you feeling proud of yourself?”
Uraume said coldly.
Levi spread his arms slightly and chuckled.
“You see this composure as showing off because, in your eyes, I am already standing in the position of the victor.”
Uraume’s voice caught.
He didn’t have Sukuna’s talent for trash talk and didn’t know how to retort, which only served to make him more furious.
“Then die surrounded by these maggots.
It is a death befitting an ant.”
Uraume’s cursed energy surged throughout his body, and the floor of the entire mall was instantly coated in a layer of white frost.
He stared at Levi, gritting his teeth.
“I was merely careless just now.”
“I thought my ice blade would split your head vertically, so I neglected to protect my body with cursed energy.”
“From now on, your attacks will no longer work on me.”
In the next moment, Uraume shattered the ground and lunged forward instantly, his hands tracing frost-white arcs through the air.
Since ice blades couldn’t cut the enemy, he would freeze every single cell in his brain into solid ice!
Snap!
Levi didn’t dodge or evade; Uraume successfully placed both hands on his cheeks.
“Got you!”
Uraume’s face showed a hint of joy.
He didn’t care why the other didn’t dodge, and it didn’t matter anymore.
With a distorted expression, he roared, “Ice Formation: Frigid Coffin!”
Ice crystals exploded out from all directions, and clear ice crystals grew and interlaced wildly.
In almost the span of a single breath, all the shelves, counters, and aisles were completely swallowed by these frigid crystals.
They bit into each other and locked tight, transforming the entire first floor of the mall into a giant, airtight coffin of ice crystals in the blink of an eye.
And then.
A pair of warm hands also tightly clamped onto Uraume’s waist.
Levi gave a gentle smile.
“No, I’m the one who got you.”
Uraume’s pupils trembled violently.
“How is this possible?
Why can you still move?!”
“I clearly didn’t feel any cursed energy protection on you!
My cursed energy entered your body and should have frozen every single one of your cells!”
“Why is your body completely unaffected?!”
As he screamed, he continued to desperately drive his technique, pouring it through his hands into the body of the man before him.
Unfortunately, all the cursed energy spilled harmlessly out around Levi.
The overflow was so great that it was no longer confined to a single floor; the entire department store was shrouded in constantly growing, thorn-filled ice crystals.
In the distance, Yuji Itadori, who was heading toward the Shibuya subway station to rescue Gojo-sensei, saw this scene and paused for a moment, hesitating.
He didn’t know if he should go take a look.
At that moment, one of Sukuna’s eyes appeared beneath Yuji Itadori’s eye, staring intently at that building.
This technique…
Without a doubt, it was Uraume.
Sukuna knew without looking further; that was definitely no modern-day sorcerer, but his follower who had incarnated from the Heian Era.
Sukuna’s mouth appeared on Yuji Itadori’s cheek.
“Brat, go take a look at that ice-covered building.”
Itadori immediately covered his face, blocking Sukuna’s mouth, and said rudely, “I don’t want to.
Why should I listen to you?”
Sukuna’s mouth appeared again on the back of Itadori’s hand, clicking his tongue in annoyance.
Fortunately, Sukuna was skilled at using any information to achieve his goals.
“The Curtain blocking ordinary people has been destroyed.
That area is the edge of where the Curtain used to be.”
“None of the people from Jujutsu High have an ice-based technique, right?
That building being frozen means the curse user who planned this attack has the upper hand.”
“What do you think that curse user will do to those humans outside once he wins?”
Sukuna calmly stated the stakes to Itadori, without even telling a single lie.
But even so, he achieved his goal of persuasion.
Itadori frowned deeply, clenched his fists, and then released them.
Then, gritting his teeth, he ran toward the frozen department store building.
When Itadori was only a few dozen meters away, the color of the previously dead-silent frozen building suddenly began to shift from its center toward warm, orange-yellow tones.
Boom—!!
A pillar of fire soared into the sky!
It crushed the ice, tore through the concrete, and melted through the rebar, almost without any pause.
The orange-red flames, carrying a brilliant white core, erupted like a volcano from the frozen mouth of the crater, shooting straight into the sky and painting half the night sky a dark crimson.
Itadori watched this scene with his mouth agape, suddenly remembering something.
With a grim expression, he said, “Did that volcano cursed spirit come too?”
Inside the frozen department store, Levi was tightly holding a charred, pitch-black body.
That charred body was still desperately using the ‘Reverse Cursed Technique’ to recover from its injuries.
Levi didn’t stop him, instead gently letting the other drive his cursed energy.
After all, exhausting Uraume’s cursed energy was Levi’s true goal.
The reason he didn’t kill Uraume directly was that Levi had no way to kill him while keeping his brain completely intact.
Again, the reinforcement of the body by cursed energy was very significant.
Levi’s only means of attack was the Dragon Talisman, but the Dragon Talisman’s attacks were simply too brutal.
In a situation where he could break through the opponent’s cursed energy defense, it was difficult to accurately leave the other’s brain behind.
With one slip-up, the person might end up without a trace of a corpse remaining.
That would be working for nothing.
So he had to exhaust the cursed energy first.
Once the opponent was powerless to use cursed energy to protect their body, that would be the time to harvest the brain.
Just then, Uraume’s charred body suddenly spoke raspily.
“You are…
a ‘Heavenly Restriction’ user.”
His breath was weak, but his tone was certain.
This was the only way to explain why the other had no cursed energy but could still manifest a technique, and why his body was so incredibly tough.
“But your ‘Heavenly Restriction’…
what exactly is it?”
There isn’t only one kind of Heavenly Restriction in this world.
Though they were both Heavenly Restrictions, the prices and rewards varied—Toji Fushiguro lost cursed energy and techniques to gain an unparalleled physical body; Mechamaru sacrificed his body in exchange for an ultra-long-range control over cursed energy.
It was just that, for some reason, the Heavenly Restriction of the man before him seemed almost contradictory.
He had no cursed energy yet could use a technique, and could use a technique yet possessed a powerful physical body.
Isn’t that losing nothing at all?!
This question was both an expression of confusion and a way to stall for time.
Though he didn’t understand why this man didn’t take the opportunity to kill him directly, Uraume still struggled with all his might.
How could he die before Lord Sukuna was fully resurrected?
Being unable to serve Lord Sukuna was the greatest agony in this world.
Levi thought for a moment and whispered into Uraume’s ear.
“My Heavenly Restriction is the curse of ‘Eternal Immortality’ in exchange for the ‘Dragon’s’ flame.”
Uraume, who had barely managed to restore his face using the Reverse Cursed Technique, widened his eyes upon hearing this.
What is this guy talking about?