Chapter 33 : The Cursed Spirits Gathering

At 19:37 on the 24th, the legendary King of Demons, "Shuten-doji," appeared in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and returned to the world in the form of a flesh-and-blood body.

"Nana"... or Shuten-doujin; after making the announcement, she seemed to notice the blade piercing her chest. The flesh under her ribs began to wriggle, then broke open, and two arms stretched out from it.

Then, they reached behind her back at a strange angle and grasped the blade of Dojigiri.

Then she pulled it out as if nothing happened. Shuten-doji held the sword that had once killed it in her hand and looked at it carefully. The wounds on her chest and abdomen had healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. She wiped the blood on the wounds with her fingers and put it into her mouth.

Five strange eyes revealed a meaning that could perhaps be called nostalgia: "Descendants of the Minamoto family." Then those creepy pupils suddenly looked at the curse master who resurrected her next to her: "Human, as a reward for awakening me, tell me what you want!"

The curse user's body was stiff. The other party looked at him not like a man of integrity but more like a gourmet who saw delicious food. The curse master said with a stiff face, "I don't have any demands. We are recreating the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. You just need to enjoy yourself."

Then, amidst the rising wanton laughter, the cursed spirit presented the other two cursed swords.

"I say, have you thought about how you want to die?" Genichi smiled and then walked to the side of the cursed spirit.

Shuten-doji's eyes suddenly looked in different directions, and then, without her taking the initiative, scarlet flames suddenly rose from her body.

This was as if a signal. When this terrifying flame burned, Shuten-doji suddenly saw the scene around her change drastically in an instant.

One of the two familiar knives that the ant presented had disappeared, and the ant was still kneeling, but the head on his neck was nowhere to be seen.

The smile on her face disappeared, and her pupils swirled rapidly, quickly locking onto the young man holding the Onikirimaru.

"Is it simply the speed? No... it's the effect of his technique. I didn't even have time to react just now, and my defense has already been triggered..."

Shuten-doji held the blade with both hands and put her other two hands together in front of her chest to make a seal: "Sure enough, you sorcerers are still as annoying as ever!"

"[Gathering of Hundred Demons!]"

Genichi held the stolen Onikirimaru in his hand and thought about what had just happened. When he activated the technique and wanted to test the attack on Shuten Douji, he was forced back by the blood flames that automatically rose from her body.

Although it looks like fire, that thing is actually a special means of attack and defense. It has a particularly efficient way of destroying cursed energy and even flesh and blood.

After realizing that he might not be able to cause much effective damage to the curse spirits, Genichi changed his target and seized a weapon instead. He then used the Onikirimaru to kill the cursed spirit.

Seeing that Shuten-doji had used an unknown technique, Genichi immediately turned around and shouted to the nearby sorcerers, "Get away from here!"

Seeing the huge amount of black gas surging from Shuten-doji, the nearby sorcerers knew that this was far beyond what they could deal with, and they all evacuated to a distant place.

"Haha! Come on, give me everything you have, and the ghost realm of Mount Oe will descend once again!"

An astonishing scene then occurred. The cursed spirits that were slightly closer to here suddenly stopped fighting with the sorcerers and instead rushed towards Shuten-doji.

Before they could get close to Shuten-doji, these cursed spirits, which were mostly small fry, twisted and shattered into smoke in mid-air, and then all sank into Shuten-doji's open arms.

In the midst of the black mist disorder around Shuten-doji caused by the large number of cursed spirits at the location, all the cursed spirits tried to gather at one point around her. They converge according to the technique performed by Shuten-doji.

After all the cursed spirits merged into the Shuten-doji in the form of black mist, several figures emerged from the haze. The most striking one was a beautiful woman with her sleeves covering the lower half of her face. The half of his face, which seemed to be full of smiles, moved closer and closer to the inhuman.

Then, a thick, sharp spear pierced through the black mist and went through the ground. After that, several sharp sounds broke through the air, and several black and grey "spears" erected a thorny cage on the ground.

Then, a huge figure emerged from it. A huge face with a strange smile pushed away the surrounding black air and looked down at everyone. Then, its ferocious fangs and eight eyes on both sides appeared. It was a terrifying curse spirit in the shape of a strange spider.

Nanami took off his tie and wrapped it around his hands, staring at Shuten-doji with a face as cold as an iceberg. Genichi called out to him, "Nanami-senpai, Nana is still alive for now because of the special nature of her technique. What we have to do next is to exorcise this cursed spirit. Leave it to me. As for the big guy, I'll trouble Nanami-senpai..."

Nanami's expression relaxed a little after hearing this. He looked at the other cursed spirits still rushing towards this side and said in a deep voice, "We have to deal with it quickly. It seems that it can absorb those cursed spirits and transform them into more powerful curses".

"Well, let's take action..."

Before he finished his words, Genichi's figure appeared in front of Shuten-doji with a sharp explosion. The blood flames burning on the latter's body had been torn into several pieces by something.

The right hand of Genichi, who appeared, was already charred black while holding the knife. The severe pain made his arm twitch involuntarily. He had just forcibly broken through Shuten-doji's layer of fire defense, and at the same time, the backlash attack attached to his hand.

Then, Genichi activated the reversal technique and restored his right hand to its original state. Shuten-doji's eyes moved, and then he looked down at the several wounds on his body.

It was already a rare achievement for this little ghost to break through his defense and leave a wound on the "Ghost King's Body," and coupled with that, Onikirimaru... If I remember correctly, that knife seemed to have a targeted destructive effect on "flesh and blood."

And what was the way the other party recovered just now? Was it a reversal technique? No, it doesn't seem like it. These sorcerers... were the same in the past and are the same now! There are always those characters who are as difficult as stones, and there is also the movement over there...

Shuten-doji also noticed the huge movement in another place on the battlefield. A huge cursed spirit was killed on the spot by an attack in just a moment. The aftermath even shattered the glass of the surrounding buildings, and a "rain" fell from the sky.

"We need a quick victory!"

This sentence flashed through the minds of Shuten-doji and Genichi at the same time. If the other party didn't know, how could Genichi not know? It was obviously Gojo-sensei who had just done it.

Thinking back to how he had just hurriedly called out to himself, Panda, and the others and how he had quickly sent them away, the only possibility now was that something had gone wrong at the jujutsu high school.

Could it be that... Geto Suguru's target is Rika? Is the information about his technique wrong? It's very possible. Didn't I make the technique public? It's reasonable for Geto Suguru to keep it a secret. In other words, he can absorb the cursed spirits that have been bound by the contract...

Moreover, the Shuten-doji in front of him seemed to have a similar effect to the [Curse Spirit Manipulation] technique. Not only could she transform the absorbed curse spirits into more powerful curses, but she could also use them to strengthen herself!

Shuten-doji stared at Genichi with her mouth almost stretched to her ears. She then pointed at a car on the side of the road. The bloody cursed energy spread from her arms all the way into the air, and then she climbed up the entire car.

The entire steel frame of the car melted instantly, and all the other debris, such as plastic and rubber, was burned to ashes.

In the blink of an eye, an iron handle emerged from the molten iron that was bubbling in the blood flames under his control.

Shuten-doji held it, and the high temperature seemed to be non-existent, only burning the surrounding air and distorting it.

Shuten-doji exerted force on her hands and then pulled out an extremely ferocious "beast" from it. The cylindrical stick was covered with fang-like spikes scattered all over it in a disorderly manner. Looking at it, it seemed as if it would jump up and bite you in the next moment.

Shuten-doji held a knife in one hand, and a stick in the other, and the other hand was ready to grab Genichi and tear him open to squeeze out his blood.

"First, try it out with a covering attack..."

Shuten-doji swung the mace in her hand and smashed it hard on the ground. Even if the ground was a thick steel plate, it would have been shattered to pieces by this blow.

Genichi once again entered the [Infinity] state, ready to try to damage Shuten-doji again or snatch the sword from him. The sword's powerful defense-breaking ability might effectively break through Shuten-doji's defense.

However, when he got closer, Genichi discovered that Shuten-doji's previous technique essentially enveloped the cursed energy around herself, which meant that once Genichi approached, it would trigger the blood-red flame again.

It doesn't mean that Genichi will be burned by the blood flame when her technique is activated. Still, as soon as he gets close to Shuten-doji, he will inevitably be contaminated by this special cursed energy. Once he exits his [Infinity] state, the cursed energy that contaminates him will continue to a burning state.

"We need to change the target for the time being. It seems Nanami-senpai needs help right there."

So Genichi changed his target and looked at Nanami's two opponents, the strangely beautiful woman and the big spider.

At this time, the enchanting beauty of the beautiful woman had disappeared because her left hand, hidden in her sleeve, was now fully exposed, and it turned out to be a dark blue, hideous ghost hand.

It formed a sharp contrast with her beautiful face. However, as the battle progressed, her right hand that was covering her face fell down, and the revealed face further tore her beautiful face apart.

The lower half of her face was as ferocious as a demon in a storybook, and her beast-like sharp teeth made people feel cold when they saw it.

The cooperation between the cursed spirit that looked like a female ghost and the giant spider overwhelmed Nanami for a while. Genichi decided to deal with one first and then find a way to deal with Shuten-doji.

He easily cut off her head with Onikirimaru, then Genichi cut off her limbs with his knife and then pierced her heart.

Nanami saw that the cursed spirit in front of him suddenly tilted its head and fell off in his astonishment, and the whole cursed spirit lost connection with her limbs like a building block, and a flower of blood spurted out from her chest.

Then he moved his body and chopped off the strange head, flying in the air with a knife and slashing her to exorcise the cursed spirit. After that, he rushed straight towards the big spider.

[Ratio Technique]!

In Nanami's eyes, the spider spirit's hard limbs used as weapons were accurately divided into ten parts.

His technique allows him to cause "critical" damage when attacking the point where the target's length is seven to three, and it can also be stacked with [Black Flash]... Coincidentally, Nanami also has experience with [Black Flash].

When the black light shining from Nanami hit the spider spirit's limbs, those limbs that were harder than steel became as brittle as sugarcane and were split in half.

Taking advantage of the opponent's loss of balance, Nanami swung his sword again and again. Two consecutive flashes of black light cut off most of the spider spirit's legs.

Three consecutive [Black Flashes]!

Then Nanami jumped up on its collapsed body, splitting its head into ten parts from left to right. Then, a knife as powerful as thunder fell from the sky, and the fierce black flash tore everything along the way. As the splattering blood spurted out from the neat wounds, the spider curse spirit also fell with its huge body.

Four consecutive [Black Flashes]!

Nanami turned his head to look at Genichi, but he only saw Shuten-douji surrounded by blood-red flames, while Genichi's figure kept flashing around Shuten-douji like a skipping picture.

Every time she appeared, a large amount of blood flames would explode in the air. Relying on the strength of her body, Shuten-doji would laugh wildly as she took the blows that were so fast that they were beyond her reaction speed, and then she would swing the iron rod in her hand to unleash a violent flow of wind.

From time to time, the Onikirimaru and Hizamaru in his hands alternately splashed sword light in the air like flowing water. Still, most of the time, they were empty, and more often, they were trying to use it to limit Genichi's offensive.

"This level of recovery is abnormal!"

Shuten-doji was thinking quickly in his mind. Every time this little ghost recovered from his injuries, his cursed energy and other conditions would also recover. Those attacks that consumed a lot of cursed energy had been going on for a long time, not to mention the consumption of her own ghost flame.

The battle on the other side is almost over. The terrifying sorcerer may attack at any time. We can't delay any longer!

Then Shuten-doji inserted the ferocious mace in his hand into the ground, and a wave of fire rose from the ground and rolled in all directions. After forcing Genichi and Nanami back, many cursed spirits plunged into the wave of fire like moths to a flame, causing a few ripples.

Shuten-doji held a cursed sword in each hand and then clasped his other two hands together, with his thumbs and little fingers connected by sharp nails, and a huge amount of cursed energy gushed out.

"[Domain Expansion: Night Parade of a Hundred Demons at Mount Oe!]"