Ding, ding, ding!
Three nails were fired by Kugisaki, striking the concrete in front of the Cursed Spirit.
“Hehehe.”
The Cursed Spirit laughed wantonly, as if mocking the precision of Kugisaki’s strike.
“Resonance!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Kugisaki snapped her fingers, and three bursts of Cursed Energy erupted, shattering the concrete beneath the Cursed Spirit’s feet.
The Special Grade Cursed Spirit was caught off guard, its body sinking along with the collapsing concrete blocks.
But it immediately reacted, stomping its right leg heavily to propel itself back onto the surface above.
“Opportunity!”
Longyi’s Cursed Energy surged throughout his body, Magicians Red manifested within him, and his speed was pushed to the limit.
Swish—
A figure wrapped in crimson red flashed past and arrived in front of the Cursed Spirit.
At the same time, the Shikigami Nue, just summoned by Fushiguro, arrived even faster, wreathed in lightning, and charged toward the Cursed Spirit.
The Cursed Spirit’s small head thought for a second, ultimately deciding to attack the larger Nue first.
Boom!!
A heavy, powerful punch was thrown, and the dark red, human-faced giant bird, standing as tall as two people, was sent flying into the wall by this blow, dissolving into shadows and sinking into the ground.
One punch, and one Shikigami was defeated!
“But… your opening has been exposed!”
Longyi grinned viciously, and shigurekiri slashed horizontally toward the Cursed Spirit’s neck.
The Cursed Spirit hadn’t steadied itself yet, and being in the post-attack recovery lag, it could only raise its arm to take the hit.
Swish— shigurekiri sliced through flesh, and a spray of purple-black blood flew high into the air!
With the enhancement of Magicians Red and the attachment of top-level Lord Flame energy, this strike severed both of the Special Grade Cursed Spirit’s wrists!
“We did it!” The eyes of the three people in the distance lit up.
“Could it be… do we really have a chance?!”
Although a Special Grade Cursed Spirit is much tougher than an ordinary human, without Cursed Energy reinforcement, its body was as fragile as rotten wood under Longyi’s full-force blow.
“Roar!!!”
The Cursed Spirit was enraged, like a child who had been bitten while teasing an ant with a twig.
It no longer held a playful mindset and wanted to immediately raise its large foot to crush these ants hiding in their nest.
Squelch.
The teeth-gritting sound of flesh squeezing together rang out, and the Cursed Spirit’s two hands twisted and regenerated within a mere second.
This is the characteristic of a Cursed Spirit; it can regenerate limbs by consuming Cursed Energy.
Boom!
Its fist slammed heavily into the blade of shigurekiri, sending Longyi flying once again.
“Cough!”
Longyi hit the wall and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“So strong… but there’s a chance!”
Boom—
Flames ignited again, forming a cross-shaped fiery whirlwind in the shape of the character “morning” (Morning), obscuring the Cursed Spirit’s vision.
“Fushiguro! Kugisaki! Use Great Serpent and Resonance!” Longyi roared.
“I’m going to bring out my trump card!”
“Understood!” The two of them looked solemn as they each employed their combat techniques.
Ding, ding, ding!
Three nails were hammered out again, landing on the concrete in front of the Cursed Spirit.
“Hmph!”
The Cursed Spirit broke through the flames, extended its right hand, and released a dense, golden Cursed Energy, blasting the three nails away.
But immediately, another large fireball flew toward its face.
The Cursed Spirit seemed to have no intention of dodging; it stomped forward, surrounded by Cursed Energy, and once again broke through the blockade of the fireball.
No, that’s not right!
At this moment, even with its limited intelligence, it could realize that the fireball just now was somewhat too weak.
It was practically like a firecracker meant to deceive, with little Cursed Energy attached to it.
But before it could think of a conclusion, a white Great Serpent as thick as a wellhead drilled out from the ground and clamped it in its jaws.
“Roar!!”
The bound Cursed Spirit felt extremely uncomfortable all over.
An energy ball containing surging Cursed Energy was subconsciously spat out from its mouth.
Boom!
The Great Serpent was easily pierced by this strike, splitting into two segments, but the snake’s head still did not let go.
Boom!!
The Cursed Spirit increased its Cursed Energy output again, and the massive light overflowed, scorching the Great Serpent into powder.
The Great Serpent, one of the Ten Shadows, was completely destroyed.
Ding, ding, ding!
Three crisp sounds came again, and the Cursed Spirit reflexively spat a Cursed Energy ball toward the source of the sound.
But on that side, a toad’s tongue curled over, dragging Kugisaki, who had launched the attack, out of the Cursed Spirit’s attack range.
“Roar—”
Fushiguro’s last Black Divine Dog attacked, and facing its sharp claws, the Cursed Spirit actually retreated like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow.
And at this moment, the surging energy from one direction could no longer be ignored.
“Lord… Flame!”
The chanting of the obscure dragon language reached its end; the heat dissipated during the battle, or rather, the fire elements, had gathered and compressed into a single point.
Longyi now knew why Lord Flame was considered an A-rank ability.
It is a subordinate branch of the world-destroying Spirit “Candle Dragon” and a symbol of dragon fire.
If released by a pure-blooded dragon, the blazing flames could sweep through an entire building.
Although Longyi’s body and Cursed Energy were not enough to exert even one-tenth of its power, it was enough to destroy the Special Grade Cursed Spirit before him.
Boom!!!
Within the singularity of the flames, flowing blackness spread.
Amidst the phantom roar of a dragon, a violent explosion occurred, and sparks filled the air and splattered everywhere!
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The scorching wind swept through, and the trio ten meters away had to close their eyes to avoid the brunt of it.
Hiss…
The smoke and dust dissipated, and in the molten, charred reinforced concrete pit stood a charred corpse that was less than half remaining.
Swish—
A breeze blew, and the corpse turned into powder and drifted away, leaving a withered, evil finger lying in the center.
[Cooperative elimination of Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Points +160]
And the perpetrator, Longyi, stood in place, maintaining the posture of holding his hands in a void grip.
The explosion of Lord Flame did not distinguish between friend and foe; he was only at the edge of the domain, yet a small portion of his tissues had been steamed dry.
Coupled with forcibly using an A-rank ability with a body and Cursed Energy that had just reached Grade 2.
All over Longyi’s body, countless tiny blood vessels burst, his school uniform behind him had long been soaked in blood, and he didn’t know how many internal injuries he had.
From a distance, he looked like a mix of charred coal and a bloody corpse.
“So treacherous…”
“This ability amplification card…”
In the moment before passing out, Longyi finally relaxed, muttering inwardly.
“Tokiwa!”
“Hey! Don’t scare us!”
“Longyi!!”
“…”
The anxious and panicked voices of the three were stretched out as if by a zoom lens, seeming to come from an infinite distance away.
But Longyi could no longer see their faces.
In his last bit of consciousness, a monstrous shadow rose.
…
…
Longyi opened his eyes.
“An unfamiliar ceiling.”
Pale lights, air filled with the smell of disinfectant, and the hard, cold touch from beneath him.
“A hospital, or… a morgue?” Longyi asked with difficulty.
“It’s a morgue, but it’s a pity, you didn’t die.”
Beside Longyi, a faint, raspy female voice that carried a feeling of “everything doesn’t matter anymore” came.
“Where is this? Who are you…”
Longyi sat up.
Although his whole body hurt, it was just that feeling of “intense exercise yesterday, waking up today with sore muscles all over.”
He glanced at his body.
His hands were wrinkled, as if lacking moisture.
His back was covered in a layer of blood scabs, looking like the product of having just been fished out of a pool of blood and air-dried for a day.
“This is the morgue at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Welcome back, Longyi.”
The white-haired, blindfolded man on the side interrupted.
“Ah…”
Longyi lay back down.
“Great, now I’m the one who’s dead.”