Chapter 39: Black Flash
Boom!
A massive force struck, Toho Hiroshi's knees buckled, and the wooden floor beneath his feet collapsed with a crash, sending him plummeting downwards.
Fushiguro Toji followed like a shadow, chasing him down.
As he fell, Toho Hiroshi's Sharingan suddenly caught a subtle movement from Ushi at Fushiguro Toji's waist; it was about to spit out a new Cursed Tool.
Now!
Toho Hiroshi's left Mangekyo pattern suddenly focused, but his target was not Fushiguro Toji himself, but the Cursed Spirit Ushi at his waist.
"Kamui"
Space distortion instantly acted upon Ushi.
"Guwa?!"
Ushi let out a sharp, painful shriek, its action of spitting out a Cursed Tool was interrupted, and a part of its body seemed to be torn and swallowed by the distorted space!
Fushiguro Toji's expression changed slightly, and his offensive paused for a moment!
He instinctively diverted his attention to resist the spatial power acting on Ushi.
And this instant, for Toho Hiroshi, was already enough!
"Hmph!"
A brilliant red light erupted in Toho Hiroshi's eyes, and he forcefully twisted his body mid-fall, injecting Cursed Energy without reservation into the scarlet blade!
"Boom—"
An eerie red glow shot skyward, instantly engulfing everything around it!
The blade seemed to transform into flowing blood, emanating a terrifying might that made souls tremble!
Toho Hiroshi's voice was bone-chillingly cold, imbued with the resolve to sever all.
"Black Flash"
The scarlet blade in his hand was suddenly unleashed.
This time, the slash was not merely a physical blade aura, but a spatial slash infused with Kamui's power and entwined with materialized scarlet Cursed Energy.
Wherever the blade passed, space itself seemed to be cut open, leaving behind a twisted rift shimmering with ominous red light.
Fushiguro Toji's battle intuition screamed an unprecedentedly sharp warning.
His pupils suddenly contracted as he felt a fatal threat.
In the nick of time, he roared, crossing the Inverted Spear of Heaven and the Inverted Spear of Heaven in front of him.
The scarlet spatial slash collided fiercely with Fushiguro Toji's crossed dual blades.
A terrifying storm instantly erupted!
The eerie scarlet blade light, like a bloodline splitting heaven and earth, completely tore through the gloom of the Tomb Chamber's main hall.
The humming of spatial distortion and the furious roar of raging Cursed Energy intertwined into a chaotic storm, finally subsiding abruptly with a deafening clang of metal shattering.
Smoke and dust filled the air, and shattered wood rained down.
Toho Hiroshi stood with his blade, scarlet Cursed Energy swirling around him like steaming blood-red flames.
The light in his Mangekyo Sharingan, however, was as sharp as an ancient cold star, locked firmly on what lay ahead.
Ahead, Fushiguro Toji knelt on the ground, a huge crater beneath him.
Clear nicks appeared on the inverted spear of heaven and the inverted spear of heaven he had crossed to block, especially the inverted spear of heaven, which was almost a third severed, its spiritual light dim.
A grotesque wound stretched from his left shoulder to his right abdomen, deep enough to expose bone, and blood gushed like a spring, rapidly staining the ground beneath him red.
"Cough..."
Fushiguro Toji coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organ fragments, but the wild grin on his face had not disappeared; instead, it was a twisted blend of intense pain and extreme excitement.
He looked up, his face filled with exhilarated satisfaction, "To be able to land a Black Flash in that state... what a monster..."
He felt his vitality rapidly draining away and the strange spatial tearing sensation lingering on the wound, constantly hindering his Heavenly Restriction's physical self-healing, realizing that he had lost.
Completely and utterly defeated.
Not defeated by carelessness, not by insufficient information, but purely in a direct, head-on battle, where the opponent seized that fleeting opening and delivered a super-limit strike that utterly crushed him.
Toho Hiroshi did not pursue.
The moment he unleashed that Black Flash: Blood Slash, infused with Kamui's power, his mind, Cursed Energy, and body seemed to achieve perfect harmony and unity, entering a profound and mysterious state of "no-self."
Everything around him became incredibly clear: the flow of Cursed Energy, the ripples in space, even the speed at which Fushiguro Toji's vitality faded, all were understood.
He could feel that his understanding of Cursed Techniques and his control over Cursed Energy had ascended to a completely new level.
This state was rare and hard to come by.
He slowly exhaled a turbid breath, the steaming scarlet Cursed Energy around him gradually receded, and the Mangekyo in his eyes stopped its violent rotation, but the coldness that saw through everything remained.
He stepped forward, walking to Fushiguro Toji.
His soles crunched softly on shattered rocks and wood chips.
Fushiguro Toji looked up, sweat and blood dripping from his jaw, and he grinned, revealing teeth stained red with blood: "What? Does a Special Grade Sorcerer need to give a victory speech?"
His tone still carried a mocking indifference, as if it wasn't he who was about to die.
Toho Hiroshi looked down at him, his gaze sweeping over the inverted spear of heaven that was almost severed, then he suddenly spoke, his voice calm and unruffled: "Fushiguro Megumi."
These three words, like a precise spell, instantly struck Fushiguro Toji.
The cynical, death-defying grin on his face abruptly froze.
His pupils contracted imperceptibly for an instant.
Although extremely brief, almost immediately masked by him as he reverted to his indifferent expression, that moment of stagnation did not escape Toho Hiroshi's Sharingan.
"Who?"
Fushiguro Toji scoffed, trying to bluff his way through, "Do I have to listen to some inexplicable names before I die?"
"Your son."
Toho Hiroshi's tone carried no question, merely a plain statement, "The son who inherited the Zenin Family's ancestral Cursed Technique."
Fushiguro Toji's breathing hitched for a moment.
He was silent for a few seconds, the facade on his face slowly fading, replaced by a complex, almost numb expression.
He tugged at the corner of his mouth, as if trying to smile, but couldn't.
"Is that so... that kid actually inherited the Ten Shadows Technique."
He muttered softly, sounding surprised, yet also as if he had expected it, finally concluding with a phrase of unclear meaning, "In a place like the Zenin Family, can he truly have a good future?"
"He is currently under my care."
Toho Hiroshi continued.
Fushiguro Toji suddenly looked up, staring intently at Toho Hiroshi, his beast-like eyes swirling with unidentifiable emotions—surprise, scrutiny—but ultimately settling into a dead calm.
"Whatever."
He scoffed, lowering his head again to look at his constantly bleeding wound, his tone becoming extremely weary and indifferent, "That kind of thing, it doesn't matter anymore."
He seemed to have completely lost all strength and interest, no longer caring about victory or defeat, life or death, or even the name he had abandoned in a corner of his memory.
The loser's fate is only death.
This was the law he had lived by his entire life.
He closed his eyes, awaiting the final end.
However, the anticipated fatal blow did not arrive.
Instead, he felt the surrounding space begin to violently twist and shift.
Fushiguro Toji opened his eyes in astonishment, only to see Toho Hiroshi's left Mangekyo pointed directly at him, emitting strange spatial ripples.
"You?"
Before he could utter a question, a powerful, irresistible suction suddenly came.
Fushiguro Toji's heavily injured body could not resist at all, and he was instantly pulled into a twisted vortex, disappearing from sight.
In the main hall of the Tomb Chamber, only Toho Hiroshi remained, along with the mess and the smell of blood everywhere.
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