The domain opened like it should have been, obliterating everything in a two hundred meter radius.
Except that monster who was slowly advancing toward the core of the domain, Dabura.
All those teleporting slashes that tore through Gojo's flesh couldn't even scratch against Hojo's Eternif barrier.
He remained calm and kept moving toward Dabura while everything around him was being cleaved into uncountable pieces.
Buildings, rocks, pillars— everything.
This sent a shiver running down Dabura's spine. With every step Hojo took forward, Dabura felt his death turning more inevitable.
The moment realisation struck him, he immediately stepped backward. His domain caused zero damage to Hojo.
Just as the Dabura was trying to run away, something blurry appeared before his eyes, blackening his vision and consciousness.
For a brief moment, no sound, pain and vision reached him.
When his consciousness suddenly returned to him, he could feel the air currents screaming into his ears as his body tore through it.
Like a meteorite, he crashed into the ground, far from Hojo who sent him flying.
Soon, the pain also started to tear into his body, shouting violently about his injured condition in his mind.
"SO—Fast—"
His voice disappeared into the strong flow of air as he again rocketed toward buildings only to crash into them.
But Hojo snatched even that comfort from him as he began preparing his another attack.
Hojo raised his two fingers high into the air and formed the hand sign required to materialize both technique red and blue at the same time.
Space warped around them and blinding purple light seized the vision when both of them collided into a single purple orb.
The intensity of light being emitted from purple orb dimmed the sunlight for a second before it disappeared forever.
Someone had completely neutralized the hollow purple. Or rather something had.
With an indifferent face, Hojo looked below him.
Dabura stood there, space still distorted around his hand signs. With an exhausted expression on face, he gazed above.
Hojo showed no reaction of hollow purple that Dabura just used to block another hollow purple.
Perhaps he already had familiarised himself with this ability of Dabura to copy other's techniques.
He knew that the powers of both Sukuna and Gojo in a single body can be far more devastating than anything he had ever thought of.
But at the same time, he also knew that his new abilities he got from Yahaech were way more devastating and capable.
Therefore, he was fearless of the existence that stood before him.
Still, he maintained a solemn and serious expression unlike Gojo who directly asked Dabura for a fight.
At the same time, Michizane and Izuki appeared beside Hojo who was watching Gojo silently.
Dabura stared at Gojo for some time with a weird expression on his face before giving them an unexpected reply.
"Let me give you a piece of advice. The longer you delay my death, the slimmer your chances of beating me become."
Everyone listened to Dabura's words carefully except Gojo who couldn't stop himself from laughing at Dabura.
"Seems like you've lost your mind. You think you and your those alien horns are enough to defeat us all?"
He continued laughing at him when suddenly blood came out from the corner of his lips.
He stopped laughing and looked at Dabura with widened eyes.
Dabura's hand was extended toward him. As Dabura slowly clenched his fist, more blood started gushing out of Gojo's mouth.
When he completely clenched his fist, Gojo felt like his heart was just crushed inside and he fainted immediately.
The same happened with Michizane and Izumi. Their heart was crushed from an unknown external force as they died without any visible damage except the blood leaking out of their mouth.
"As I said."
Dabura turned toward Hojo, heaving a sigh of relief. They were now alone. He was about to say something to Hojo when a punch suddenly slammed into his back, sending him flying.
Blue cursed energy flowed out of Gojo's hands as he looked at Dabura who just stood from the ground.
"I am shocked how you pulled that previous trick. But unfortunately, that won't work on me as I'm already dead."
He informed Dabura before preparing another attack. Black sparks of lightning flashed in his fist as he struck Dabura with black flash this time.
It immediately forced Dabura to spat out a mouthful of blood, his internals crushed by the sheer force.
Unlike previous attacks, this one really proved lethal to Dabura that he couldn't block.
"It's strange that sometimes you become so weak and sometimes you begin launching hollow purple at us. Anyways, your death is approaching faster than expected."
For the next three minutes, Gojo continued to damage him by his physical superiority and in the last second, Dabura's whole body was dyed in blood.
"So weak—I wouldn't even consider him a threat."
Gojo said to Hojo, showing him how weak Dabura was.
Hojo simply said nothing in reply.
Suddenly a crimson line appeared on Gojo's torso, bisecting his body into two halves.
Again, Gojo was shocked as he remembered the same happening to him many years ago.
"World Cutting Slash"
Later, Dabura's voice followed. His powers had returned to him after a short period of time.
Dabura looked at the sliced back of Gojo. Gojo turned toward him and out of his expectation, he saw him smiling.
The flesh began stitching together and the dead cells grew back as all damage disappeared.
"You forgot I'm already dead, didn't you?"