Chapter 32: Chapter 31: Showtime
Boom!
A beam of water shot through the head of a finger bearer. Megumi's chest heaved up and down in exhaustion as he looked around him with tired eyes.
The finger bearer slowly fell to the ground and then turned to ashes. Megumi limped towards the finger on the ground. His body was battered and bloody.
However, this time, Megumi succeeded in killing the finger bearer without using his domain expansion. This improvement was immediately visible, causing Megumi to smile.
Itadori and Nobara were in the distance, fighting a grade 1 curse. Those curses were spawning so quickly that it was difficult to count them.
"Divine dogs!" A shadow resembling the shape of a wolf charged towards the Grade 1 curse. The curse let out a shriek as the divine dogs fused into a single body and bit his arm off.
"Nice!" Itadori grinned as he drove a fist wrapped in cursed energy into the chest of the curse, creating a small shockwave from the punch that demonstrated Itadori's superhuman power.
The curse let out a shriek of refusal as a dent appeared in its chest. Its rage-filled voice at Nobara, the weakest. It charged forward and shot a punch into her guts.
"Argh.... You bastard." Nobara managed to say as her eyes rolled up. She went limp, and the curse made a run for it. But it was too much to think he could run.
Caw!
Megumi dashed towards the curse at a speed surpassing most grade 1s. In his hand was purple lightning, releasing a shriek akin to a thousand birds. The lightning currents flowed into his muscles.
The lightning increased Megumi's cell activity and thus increased his speed. The ground blurred as Megumi caught up with the curse in a breath.
"Chidori!" Megumi cried out the name of the technique that Kizaru trained him in. His palm cut through the head of the curse like butter, frying its bran and turning it to charcoal.
The curse slumped to the ground before turning into ashes that the wind blew away. Itadori let out a relieved sigh before checking on Nobara. Itadori felt relief as she passed out.
"What the hell, Megumi! That was frickin awesome!" Itadori said with awe as he looked at Megumi. Itadori could not help but think of asking for training from Kizaru.
"Oh, it was nothing." Megumi's lips curled up, and his face showed the smallest of a smug smile. Something he learned from Kizaru after his ass got beaten so many times.
[Kyoto.]
Clap!
Todo appeared behind a curse, and his fist cut through it like a knife. Disappointed, Todo looked around for other curses and saw that the others had dealt with every curse.
But something interesting caught Todo's eye among those dead curses. In the distance, Mai was fighting a grade 1 curse. But the most interesting thing was that he was keeping up.
"Has Mai always been this strong?" Todo asked while holding his chin. Mai created a sword and slashed through the arm of the curse she was fighting with.
Ratatatatatatata!
A machine gun emerged at her side, unleashing bullets like lightning. The air screamed as holes punctured the curse. Those bullets, enhanced by her cursed energy, tore through the curse.
Mai's cursed technique could not reach its potential because she was born on the same day as Maki, which caused her cursed energy to be affected by Maki's heavenly restriction.
Now that those limitations were gone, Mai could utilise her cursed technique to its full potential, similar to Yorozu in the Heian period. She could possess each special grade status.
"Easy~" Mai mocked with a smirk as she felt her cursed energy reserve was still full.
[Tokyo.]
Swoosh!
Maki sprinted past a group of curses ranked from grade 4 to grade 1. Her playful cloud smacked each curse into a cloud of scarlet blood floating in the sky.
Her strength was no joke anymore. She was a certified special grade immediately after awakening her heavenly restriction. Maki was a master at fighting before, and now she had more power.
Nothing changed except for her gaining better senses and her body gaining strength like never before. Maki was even stronger than Toji due to the techniques that Kizaru had given her.
"Tch! These bastards keep spawning like maggots. What is that Idiot going to do about it?" Maki thought as she remembered what Kizaru told her.
[Last night.]
Kizaru smiled as Maki rested her head on his chest. It has been an exhausting day of killing curses around Japan. Kizaru expected more, but he was genuinely surprised.
The curses did not increase by 10 times as he expected the bigger number. Instead, the curses increased in their strength. What used to be a grade 3 is now a grade 2.
However, the special-grade curses that spawned were also higher in number. But their strength was not as overwhelming as the likes of Jogo. The only curse stronger than Jogo is the angel curse he encountered.
The rest were around a finger bearer's strength, if not less. Even the likes of Megumi can beat them without much trouble.
"Tomorrow, I am going to do something amazing," Kizaru said as he opened an eye. Maki looked at him and sighed before closing her eyes. She was tired of fighting for over 5 hours with curses ranging from grade 4 to special grade.
"Whatever, just let me sleep. I am tired." Maki said as she drifted to sleep. Kizaru shrugged before closing his eyes.
[Present.]
Above the clouds of Japan.
Kizaru was flying with his eyes closed. His cloak rustled behind him from the chilly wind, and Kizaru sighed as he opened his eyes. His golden pupils turned black as black smoke drifted from his body.
"Black Hole." His cold voice sounded as he raised his hand. The space started twisting as a black hole the size of a closed fist appeared above Kizaru's palm.
The black hole was not tearing apart the planet because Kizaru did not put enough cursed energy and stamina into it. He put just enough to start pulling light into it.
The clouds flowed toward Kizaru and entered the black hole. Light from tens of kilometres away began to gather in the sky, and it looked as if someone had turned off the stars.
Maki on the ground looked up and instinctively knew this was Kizaru's doing. Gojo looked up and flew towards the direction of the light.
Appearing in front of Kizaru, Gojo looked at the black hole in Kizaru's palm, and his face could not help but contort into an uncontrollable smirk. His blue eyes flashed as he noticed Kizaru's state.
"Wow! Looks like I need to do some training after this." Gojo said with a sigh, and Kizaru smirked. He did not pay attention as he continued to shine the light into the black hole.
"Ugh..." Kizaru groaned as he felt the mass of the black hole increasing. Not wanting to take any risks, Kizaru suddenly reversed the black hole in his palm into light.
Boom!
A shockwave passed above Japan, and the cloud over the entire country dispersed. A massive ripple of light spread out from Kizaru's body in an enormous circle.
The collected light from the black hole spread above Japan, covering every inch with light.
"Show time~"
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