03x11 - Tokyo Colony No. 1, Part 5

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Domain Expansion.

Chimera Shadow Garden.

Esoteric Technique. Hollow Wicker Basket.

Hollow Wicker Basket.

The prototype
of New Shadow Style's Simple Domain.

It neutralizes a domain

and cancels out its sure-hit effect.

Too bad for you…

What Jogo and Hanami used in Shibuya,
Domain Amplification,

creates a domain large enough
to carry a sure-hit, sure-k*ll effect…

Why is it still hitting me?

By deliberately not imbuing the domain
with a technique,

it leaves space,

allowing Gojo's technique to flow into it,

thereby neutralizing the Limitless.

Hollow Wicker Basket and Simple Domain

cannot neutralize the technique itself.

They neutralize the barrier
imbued with a technique,

thereby nullifying the sure-hit effect
of the imbued technique.

Fushiguro's domain is incomplete.

Your smirk is gone now.

You little brat.

By repurposing the gym itself

as his domain space,

the forcibly closed barrier

wasn't imbued with a sure-hit technique.

Why are you acting like you've won--

I see.

Here, he used Chimera Shadow Garden

to expand the Ten Shadows Technique

and draw out 120% of its potential.

But that half-baked state
caught Reggie Star off guard.

This clone and those shikigami
had physical form before it touched me.

Meaning this barrier isn't imbued
with a sure-hit technique.

The technique boost
inside this domain is insane.

It's way harder to deal with
than a normal sure-hit domain.

If he brings out Max Elephant here
and presses me with a water attack,

my options get cut in half,
and I'm basically done for!

But of course,

that isn't how it goes for me, right?

Nue!

Too slow!

I knew it.

My footing has been weird for a while now.

If it's not reinforced with cursed energy,
I feel like I am going to get sucked in.

Everything underneath this domain
is all your shadow, right?

You can store and pull out objects,
and even move yourself in and out.

Handy, isn't it?

But one thing had been bothering me.

Your stockpile of weapons is pretty small.

I've only seen
one cheap cursed tool so far.

Either your capacity is tiny,

and you always need to keep
enough room for yourself,

or you're the one

who has to bear the weight
of whatever is stored there.

And bingo, it was the latter.

I turned your domain's own setup
against you.

Three passenger cars' worth.

Right now, you weigh about 2.4 tons.

Your clone couldn't take it,

but can you still bring out
your shikigami, I wonder?

Either way, I'll just watch my footing
and keep piling on the weight

until you crush yourself

under your own load.

Aren't you forgetting something?

What?

Even unfinished, a domain is a domain.

Above us is a shadow too!

Let's see who breaks first!

Reggie!

It's said that a human being
loses consciousness

at around five to six Gs.



Assuming Fushiguro weighs 60 kilograms,

his body was now under a 40 G load.

To prevent G-forces from making blood pool
in his lower body

and starving his brain of blood,

Fushiguro lowered his stance

and reinforced
his whole body with cursed energy,

focusing especially on his lower half.

An adult African elephant
weighs three to six tons.

Due to the increased precision
inside the domain,

Max Elephant was reproducing
that weight realistically.

As for Reggie Star, who took it head-on,

his right fibula
and calcaneus were cracked.

Both of them were in a situation
where, one second later,

it wouldn't have been strange
if they had both been crushed to death.

I screwed up.

If I had saved the truck,
this fight would've been over.

What do I do?

He splashed me with some water,
but my trump card is still safe!!

I'll dive into the shadows,
then recreate my trump card from inside

and crush him for good.

No!

The fact that he isn't releasing
the domain means

that anything already swallowed up

stays trapped inside
even after the domain ends!

And if I get stuck in there forever

after he dies…

What even is it like in there?

It's like liquid, but can you breathe?

No, diving into the shadows
is way too risky.

I'll do it right here, in this state!

I'll bring out my trump card
and activate it!

Contractual Re-Creation!

PLOP

Too late.

And just as I thought,
there's no oxygen inside the shadows!

No buoyancy. No drag.

You just…

sink…

My consciousness…

is…

Not yet. Hang in there.

I'll release the domain
only after he definitely dies!

Then I can eject
everything inside the shadows!

The things I recreate disappear

as soon as they carry out
the order I give them.

I didn't give the submerged cars
any order.

Couldn't have them disappearing,
after all.

Which means there was still room
to give one a command.

Bring me up with you.

One car's worth of weight vanished,
but thanks to that, I made it out alive.

I'll give it to you.

You're strong.

But I'm…

stronger.

Contractual Re-Creation!

A two-story wooden house

with a footprint of 40 tsubo!

Just the frame alone
has to weigh at least 30 tons!

Get crushed already!

What happened?

Did I fall into the shadows again?

No. This is real water. Why?

I feel heavy. Is that brat
the one holding me down?

What ridiculous strength…

No, wait…

Is it because of the extra weight
from the two cars I added?

This is bad…

This time, I really will sink.

I need to cancel Contractual Re-Creation.

I get it…

This is the gymnasium.

And below it, in the lower basement,
there's a heated swimming pool!

So he escaped into the shadows,
then released the domain,

then had me break the floor
and drop us into the pool?

Now that you're that soaked,
those receipts are useless.

You didn't follow up right away.
You waited.

You restored your technique
after exhausting it in the domain.

So then, what about you?

You can't summon
any shikigami now, can you?

Yes. You know it too.

From here on out…

Whatever you summon,
it's not going to be the dog.

And none of the others
has the finishing power.

Go ahead and use one.

The moment you do, I'll catch you slipping
and k*ll you with a counter!

Divine Dog is not so weak
that it would be out of action

from just that.

Sorcerers live and die by lying…

That domain and the drowning plan.

And hiding the dog card
while making me think you had lost it.

So, you didn't run into the gymnasium.

You lured me there.

Didn't expect to get outplayed

by a modern sorcerer,
and a brat like you at that.

Even if I wanted to run,
Nue can't carry a person for long.

I learned that the hard way before.

You… What's your connection to Tengen?

Tengen?

Oh, right. So she's still alive, huh?

That shut-in?

I see. That's enough.

Reggie called Tengen's explanation
of the Culling Game's purpose a bluff.

I should consider the chance
that Tengen and Kenjaku

are working together,
and fed us a fake objective…

But from his reaction, probably not…

Kogane.

Give this guy all my points.

Forty-one points have been transferred
from Reggie Star.

What are you playing at?

That's a hell of a way to ask.

I'm doing one good deed at the very end.

I'm just a bystander.

It's not like Kenjaku and I
are best friends.

I've just got a feeling
this will make things more interesting…

Just a hunch.

Do me a favor.
You were the one who k*lled me.

So let fate toy with you,

and let you die a clown.

Five points have been added.

Did you get him?

No, don't let your guard down.

He's persistent.
- What the hell?

Why are you covered in lotion?

It could be thick sauce.

Shut up and die!

Wait, it really is thick sauce?

What the hell is with this guy?

I've blasted him over and over.

That should've k*lled him five times over!

How has he only taken this much damage?

ONLY THIS MUCH

You hate thick sauce?

And those first wounds
he had are gone too.

But it doesn't feel like
he used reverse cursed technique like me.

None of this makes any sense.

Hazenoki.

What?

Reggie Star has passed away.

What's wrong?

I'm leaving. Screw this.

I see.

Take a bath and brush your teeth.

How about 100 points, Kanchi?

Stop following me.

Come on,
just like ordering soba on New Year's.

Drop dead.

Takaba's technique, Comedian,

makes anything he's certain
is funny become reality.

It's a technique that could even rival
Satoru Gojo's.

Takaba knows absolutely nothing

about his own technique.

I don't know!

Once you grow up, there are many things
you just don't understand!

I've heard men are wolves,

but it's always the wolves
who sort out things I don't understand!

The wolves always do everything,

so I don't have to think
about anything at all.

That's because I'm cute, right?

Wolves always… always…

That's not okay, Megumi.

Are you sure?

Shut up.

Damn sis…

Things moved quickly in the Sendai Colony.

MIYAGI PREFECTURE, SENDAI CITY
NOVEMBER 12TH, 11:28

The fight there far surpassed

the Tokyo Colonies in terms of ferocity.

Dhruv Lakdawalla.

Currently holding 91 points.

His second incarnation.

An elder who single-handedly

subjugated the archipelago
during the Wa Civil w*r.

He uses two autonomous shikigami

and treats their trajectories
as his domain.

Ryu Ishigori.

Currently holding 77 points.

A cannon with the highest
cursed energy output among the players.

Takako Uro. Currently holds 70 points.

Former captain
of the Fujiwara assassination unit,

the Sun, Moon, and Stars Squad.

She has a technique
that manipulates the sky.

Kurourushi. Currently holds 54 points.

A c*ck curse Kenjaku released

from Curse Manipulation control.

Special Grade, registered.

Dormant until its release
conditions are met.

No alliances.

A four-way deadlock
built on equal strength

and tangled compatibilities.

But one corner of that balance…

has fallen.

Yuta Okkotsu.

Currently holds 35 points.

Three months after the Night Parade
of a Hundred Demons,

he regained his place as a Special Grade.
Second only to Satoru Gojo.

A true prodigy.

I'll get the 400 points

on my own.
- Yuta, which one do you want?

Yeah, that's Kurourushi.
- All of it.

Give Yuta back!

I won't have Sensei
k*ll his best friend twice.

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