What do you mean, trading the curse of ‘Eternal Life’ for the flames of a ‘Dragon’?
Is that even humanly possible?
Uraume almost forgot how to use the Reverse Cursed Technique.
Levi, on the other hand, was quite satisfied with his own explanation.
He could never tell anyone about the fact that he possessed the Dog Talisman and the Dragon Talisman.
But his peculiarities were just too striking; they couldn’t possibly go unnoticed.
To prevent others from trying every possible way to uncover his secrets, it was better to simply pin it on a Heavenly Restriction.
Anyway, no one really understood how that thing worked.
Judging by the original story, no one even researched Heavenly Restrictions, so it should satisfy most people’s curiosity and stop them from digging into the source of his power.
As expected, Uraume was also left speechless.
Although he didn’t care about anyone other than Sukuna, Uraume remembered that the spy Kenjaku had planted at Jujutsu High—the one named Mechamaru, he thought—was also a victim of a Heavenly Restriction.
Simply for a wider range of cursed energy manipulation, his skin became so fragile that even moonlight could burn it, leaving him a cripple for life.
Fortunately, he was already dead; otherwise, hearing Levi’s words, he probably would have broken down on the spot.
“Then what about cursed energy?
Why don’t you have any cursed energy?”
Actually, Uraume no longer cared about the answer; he was just stalling for time, continuing to circulate the Reverse Cursed Technique to heal his injuries.
“Oh, because I never awakened any cursed energy.
Aside from having a Heavenly Restriction, I’m just an ordinary person.”
Uraume finally restored his skin, no longer looking like a charred corpse.
Hearing this, he just sneered, appearing completely unconvinced.
But in his heart, Uraume was starting to have some genuine doubts.
If the other’s Heavenly Restriction was ‘immortality’ and that’s why his body couldn’t be destroyed, and the flames were the power traded for that immortality…
then perhaps he really…
was an ordinary person who hadn’t awakened cursed energy?
Being beaten to the brink of death by an ordinary person…
Uraume’s head felt a bit dizzy.
He was only grateful for one thing.
And that was that Lord Sukuna hadn’t fully awakened yet and couldn’t see his current state of pathetic disgrace.
To be beaten to such a state by a maggot with no cursed energy—if Lord Sukuna saw this, Uraume would probably have to kill himself in shame to apologize.
Levi, meanwhile, looked down at Uraume, whose skin was gradually returning to its fair complexion, and looked a bit surprised.
“Huh?
You’re actually a girl?
I always thought you were just a little femboy.”
Uraume said calmly, “Gender is not important.
It’s just that this incarnated body is a woman.
When I followed Lord Sukuna a thousand years ago, I was male.”
Then, Uraume took a deep breath, looked at Levi, and narrowed his eyes.
“So…
if you really don’t have cursed energy…”
Uraume reached out and gripped Levi’s hands, which were clutching his waist and abdomen, and slowly pulled them away.
Levi only felt that the opponent’s strength was as irresistible as a hydraulic press, making it impossible to hold on.
Uraume easily pried Levi’s arms open just like that.
The scene fell into silence.
Levi gave a wink: “Heh-heh~”
Veins bulged from Uraume’s forehead.
He had been tricked.
He had been completely deceived by the other party’s performance.
First, he was fooled by the lack of cursed energy, thinking he could kill him instantly with an ice blade.
Because of that, he hadn’t protected his body with cursed energy and was sent flying by the impact.
Then, because the ice blade couldn’t break through the defense, he thought about freezing the enemy and used his technique at close range.
As it turned out, the guy was…
truly just physically invincible because of ‘immortality’.
But since he didn’t have cursed energy reinforcement, his physical strength was pathetically weak?!
Now, Uraume truly believed it.
He truly believed that the guy’s Heavenly Restriction was gaining ‘Dragon’ flames at the cost of ‘immortality’.
Only this made everything reasonable.
All the previous contradictions were explained, including why he could hit the Curtain that only ordinary people could touch.
But Uraume also felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly.
“What kind of fucking Restriction is this!”
Uraume was so angry he even blurted out the modern swear words he had learned from this body.
You’re having your cake and eating it too!
Uraume was a follower of Sukuna, the king of Binding Vows; his understanding of vows far exceeded that of many modern sorcerers.
Yet the more he understood vows, the harder it was to accept Levi’s Heavenly Restriction.
It was practically equivalent to: ‘I trade my next attack being a guaranteed instant kill for doubling my own cursed energy.’
It’d be a miracle if that were even possible!
Levi said with a serious face, “Don’t underestimate the curse of ‘immortality.’ Living forever is very painful…
pfft.”
You’re fucking laughing as you say it!
Uraume’s face was cold as he raised his fist, condensed cursed energy, and aimed it at Levi’s face.
Bang!!
Levi was hit squarely in the face and sent flying backward heavily, smashing through the ice layer that had already melted and thinned, and was thrown out of the department store.
His trajectory was exactly the same as the one Uraume took when he was knocked into the building.
Just as Uraume had thought.
As expected, Levi had no cursed energy to protect his body or reinforce his physical form.
Uraume had been pitting his own weakness against Levi’s strength.
Against a man who could use fire techniques but no cursed energy, the right strategy was to reinforce Uraume’s body and use his superior speed to keep Levi pinned down in close combat!
Uraume walked angrily to the window, stepped on a block of ice, clenched his fist, and roared at Levi: “I don’t believe you’re really immortal!”
“The power of the attack just wasn’t enough!”
“If it were Lord Sukuna, he could cut your head off in one strike!”
Right then, Uraume suddenly saw a familiar figure standing under a streetlamp.
Uraume was stunned.
And on Yuji Itadori’s face, who was also frozen in place and somewhat at a loss, an extra eye and mouth belonging to Sukuna appeared.
“Uraume, it really is you.”
It was like a bolt from the blue.
Uraume immediately used his Ice Formation technique to condense layers of thin frost mesh on himself.
These layers stacked together to form a slightly translucent kimono.
Then Uraume flashed in front of Yuji, knelt on one knee, and bowed his head to Sukuna: “Lord Sukuna!”
After that, he couldn’t say another word.
Uraume felt he was too disgraceful, so much so that he couldn’t say anything worth remembering for this touching reunion.
“Idiot, get out of the way!”
Sukuna’s angry voice had just reached his ears when Uraume froze, and then felt a sudden, sharp pain in his abdomen.
Blood leaked from the corner of his mouth as he slowly lowered his head, seeing a palm surrounded by flames piercing through his stomach.
Levi’s face appeared from behind Uraume with a smile.
“Your energy was already spent, yet you still used your cursed energy to create a garment just to keep up appearances in front of Lord Sukuna.
How touching.”
“Attacking me with maximum cursed energy output, then using the Reverse Cursed Technique to heal nearly 90% of your body tissue, and still managing to land that punch just now—it’s truly admirable.”
“But I didn’t expect Lord Sukuna would be the one to help me drain your very last drop of cursed energy.”
“Now then, I’ll be taking your head.”
Uraume’s eyes had already become hollow, and he could no longer hear any sound.
For an ancient sorcerer who had been resurrected through incarnation, destroying the core of their cursed energy was more effective than destroying the brain.
An ordinary person might survive an abdominal piercing for quite a while, but for an incarnated one, the technique would be instantly severed, leading to death.
Yuji Itadori stood there, somewhat bewildered and lost.
He didn’t know either of the two people in front of him, nor did he know who was good or bad.
But looking at this white-haired girl, she seemed to know Sukuna, so she must be a bad person, right?
Yet, watching her die like that with her stomach pierced seemed a bit too tragic, so much so that Yuji didn’t know if he should have stepped in to stop it.
The next moment.
“Enchain!”
The King of Curses was furious!