Chapter 136 – Simultaneous Domain Expansion
After clashing once with Sukuna, Kashimo flickered backward, widening the distance.
Instead of pressing the attack, he stared at Sukuna and suddenly asked a question that seemed completely out of place:
"Sukuna… did you become the strongest later?
Or were you born that way?"
Sukuna opened his mouth to answer.
"Who knows—"
He didn't even get to finish—
BOOM!
A massive fifty-size boot smashed into his face, sending him flying like a kicked doll.
Shinsuke lowered his leg and glanced at Kashimo.
"You've got time to ask stupid questions, but no time to kick him twice?"
Before he even finished speaking—
Gojo fired a Reversal: Red, blasting straight toward the direction Sukuna had flown.
Clearly, he had no intention of maintaining "honorable combat."
Mob tactics might be shameful—
But damn, they were effective.
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"Damn it! Sukuna must die by MY hands!"
Yorozu couldn't bear it anymore.
Watching everyone gang up on Sukuna drove her mad.
Explosive cursed energy erupted around her.
An insect-like armor formed over her body, wings snapping open—
She shot toward Sukuna.
SHRRAK!
A colossal slash shot out of the ruins.
It tore through Yorozu's armor instantly, carving a deep gash across her body.
She crashed into the ground hard.
From within the debris, Sukuna walked out—
A large footprint stamped across his face.
He was furious.
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"You really think numbers will let you defeat me?"
"Don't make me laugh."
"Your fate will be no different from the sorcerers who challenged me a thousand years ago."
"No—yours will be MUCH worse."
A murderous gleam erupted in his eyes.
Sukuna vanished.
A heartbeat later, he was already upon them.
At close range, the others couldn't use large-scale techniques recklessly—
But he could.
His cursed energy reinforced every inch of his body.
His physical stats skyrocketed to absurd levels—
His speed was nearly equal to Shinsuke's Seven Gates state.
Four arms.
Monster-level physique.
Spellcasting while fist-fighting.
Sukuna unleashed a flurry of slashes mid-combat, turning every exchange into a death trap.
Seven afterimages collided in a blur of violence.
The shockwaves blasted the area, turning hundreds of meters into a vacuum-like wasteland.
Only Gojo and Shinsuke still looked relaxed.
Everyone else—
Even Yuta and Kashimo—
Felt the danger of exchanging blows with Sukuna.
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Far away, inside a private viewing room—
Mei Mei controlled a flock of crows, streaming the entire battle live.
On screens across Japan, viewers clenched their fists, breath held tight as they watched the titanic clash unfold.
Watching the battle unfold, the lower-level sorcerers finally realized just how delusional they'd been.
Earlier they thought they might be able to help.
Now they understood:
They weren't even close to special-grade.
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Toji stared at the screen, eyes narrowing.
Shinsuke's entire body glowed crimson.
Toji recognized the technique instantly.
That taijutsu… isn't it only supposed to open five gates?
He himself had already opened four.
Shinsuke should be at five now.
But even if he reached five—
Would he be that strong?
Was the gap between four and five gates really that massive?
Thinking about it carefully…
Yeah, it probably was.
The technique became exponentially harder to master the further it progressed.
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Meanwhile, the Zen'in clan elders—Zen'in Ogi and Zen'in Jinichi—were stunned speechless.
No cursed energy.
Yet fighting at special-grade level?
Impossible.
Absurd.
It was the greatest slap in the face to their entire clan heritage.
The nobody they had looked down on since childhood…
Was now fighting shoulder to shoulder with the strongest sorcerers alive.
Only Naoya watched with unrestrained excitement.
From the beginning, he had always compared Shinsuke to Gojo Satoru.
To him, Shinsuke being absurdly strong was perfectly natural.
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"Lord Sukuna…"
High above the battlefield, Uraume stood on a floating shard of ice, watching with worry.
She wanted to help.
Desperately.
But with a battlefield this chaotic, and opponents this overwhelming—
She'd only get in the way.
Still, deep inside—
She believed Sukuna would not lose.
He couldn't lose.
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CRASH!!
Shinsuke suddenly clamped down on Sukuna's forearms, bulging veins exploding across his muscles as he forcibly pinned Sukuna in place.
"Caught you."
In the same instant—
Everyone else closed in, unleashing a storm of attacks.
Kashimo's thunder staff hammered down at Sukuna's skull—
only for his third arm to grab it mid-swing.
Yorozu's claw strike was intercepted by his fourth arm.
"Even four hands aren't enough against six of us."
Yuta's katana pierced straight through Sukuna's heart.
Yuki's mass-enhanced punch detonated against Sukuna's torso, blowing half of his body apart.
Gojo pressed one finger to Sukuna's forehead, red energy condensing dangerously.
"You can go to hell now."
"Reversal: RED."
BOOM!
The blast struck Sukuna's skull directly—but it didn't penetrate.
The cursed king's head resisted even that devastating output.
Sukuna grinned hideously.
"If this were me a thousand years ago… you might have won."
"But now?"
"You'll never defeat me."
He exerted a burst of strength, flinging Kashimo and Yorozu away.
Both freed hands blurred into a rapid sequence of hand signs—
A tidal surge of cursed energy erupted, swallowing hundreds of meters.
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"Domain Expansion — Malevolent Shrine!"
Sukuna finally lost patience.
He opened his domain instantly.
But this was not the domain from Shibuya.
This new shrine was three times larger—
and infinitely more sinister.
The sky dimmed, bleeding into a deep, sickening crimson.
Inside the domain, sparks of light flickered everywhere—
Manifested slashes.
Buildings evaporated into dust in an instant.
Every slash was packed with monstrous cursed energy.
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The moment the first cut appeared on his skin—
Shinsuke disappeared from sight, stepping hundreds of meters away.
He wasn't affected by domains.
He didn't need to tank anything.
But the others—
had no choice.
They had to answer domain with domain.
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"Domain Expansion—"
Five voices echoed as one.
And then—
A pitch-black barrier snapped into existence.
A colossal circular dome, hundreds of meters across, slammed down over all six domains at once.
It trembled violently—
Something inside was tearing reality apart.
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"He merged Tengen's barrier techniques into his own domain?"
Shinsuke murmured, fascinated.
He was the only one excluded from the dome.
He stood outside, watching eagerly.
Six domains colliding at once—
It was beyond absurd.
It was unprecedented.