#26: Ryomen Sukuna

The falling debris is no more,

The Impurities are all exorcised,

Except Ryomen Sukuna, and The Gigantic Impurity.

"Ha... Ha... Ha..." Yuzuru breathed heavily, her body covered in sweat.

Annihilating so many impurities is very draining on her strength. Moreover, the main target for the extermination, Ryomen Sukuna, has not been accomplished.

Se looked around, there were no casualties for the Amawaka squad. However, for Mitejima's squad, they weren't so lucky.

"What about Ren? Is he okay?" Yuzuru asked Hibiki.

Hibiki looked back at the Buddha head statue where Ren was, among his squadmates, Hibiki is the one with the best views. He saw that Ren was still struggling to stand.

He noticed that black markings filled the left side of Ren body, and the sclera of his left eye was blackened.

Hibiki shook her head, "He looks awful, we have to hurry!"

Yuzuru understood, "Alright-"

"Oh...! What... are... you... talking about? May... I... know?"

Suddenly, Ryomen Sukuna appeared among them. Out of reflex, Yuzuru swung her arm to cut him off.

[Note: Sorry I forgot at certain point, Impurity can have/develop its own gender]

Ryomen Sukuna casually and quickly blocked Yuzuru's attack with one arm.

Yuzuru bit her lip, the red liquid entered her mouth with a taste like iron. Her attacks could be blocked easily, and not only that she knew from the contact of her attacks, Sukuna's armor was very sturdy.

"Ah... well... we are... here... to... kill... each other... not... to... talk... Alright...! Let's...kill... each other!" replied Sukuna, happily.

The armor on his upper right arm began to vibrate, instantly the armor on his right arm turned into several lively red tentacles.

His tentacles wriggled and seemed to have a mind of its own.

More importantly, they saw Ryomen Sukuna's upper right arm. His arms had no skin, exposing blood-red muscle and flesh.

The flesh was twitching, and it was like soaked in blood.

Its squirming tentacles began to wrap around his upper right arm, forming something resembling a large sword.

"Come... on... dance... with... me" say Sukuna as he folded his lower two arm for handicap.

Benkei started attacking Sukuna from behind with his Guandao.

CLANK!

When his Guandao touched Sukuna's armor, the blade is reflected.

Not giving Sukuna any chances, Yuzuru and Hibiki swung their arms to injure Sukuna, but their talons didn't manage to penetrate Sukuna's armor, which was solid as steel.

"Tch!" Yuzuru clicked her tongue with annoyance.

Sukuna scratches his head with his upper left arm, "Is... this... the best... thing... you... can... do?" sigh him.

Sukuna started running towards Kuroki "So fast!" Yuzuru was shocked to see the figure of Sukuna who suddenly disappeared.

"One... down"

Sukuna swung his sword to slash Kuroki. Sukuna's unexpected speed keeps Kuroki from moving.

Sukuna slashed quickly, when the blade was 1 cm away from Kuroki's neck, Kuroki managed to dodge it.

"Hum..."

If Tsubasa didn't help Kuroki by pulling his collar back, he would definitely be decapitated.

Benkei appears to Sukuna's right, and Hibiki to Sukuna's left.

"Hyaaa!!"

Benkei swung his Guandao towards Sukuna's waist, while Hibiki tried to slash his left side with both arms.

"Pathetic..." say Sukuna, a bit disappointed.

Sukuna blocked Benkei Guandao with his sword, while Hibiki's two slashes were blocked with one arm.

"Now Yuzuru!!" Shout, Benkei and Hibiki.

"Haaa!" Shout her, as she tries to pierce Sukuna's back with her talons.

TIING!

Yuzuru grit her teeth, her claws only manage to shallowly pierced Sukuna's back.

"My... Turn"

When Sukuna started to speak, Yuzuru, Hibiki, and Benkei started to move away from him by jumping backward.

"Charged Bolt!!*" Sukuna unleashed sharp tendrils from all over his body like a porcupine's quills. The tendrils manage to grazed Yuzuru, and the other.

But the unfortunate one here's Benkei, two tendrils manage to pierce him in the abdomen and left knee, "Kuh!"

"Take... this" Not over yet, Sukuna create a red orb and throw it to Tsubasa and Kuroki.

The orb vibrates and unleash a sharp tendrils like Sukuna's previous Charged bolt.

Tsubasa then kick Kuroki to shove him off, ultimately protecting him.

PATCHI! PATCHI! PATCHI!

"Tsubasa!!" Kuroki shouts as he watches his friend getting pierced all over.

After that, the spiked orb disappear, leaving a red liquid, and Tsubasa's corpse on the ground like he was cheese full of holes.

"Who... is... next?" Ask Sukuna arrogantly.

Yuzuru, Hibiki and Kuroki keep attacking Ryomen Sukuna, but his armor proofed to be so firm and solid, making their attack useless.

Sukuna catch Hibiki and Kuroki arm with his other three arms, "Got... you", he then pulls and crashing both of them together, making a loud BUMP sound when they collide.

Both of them helplessly sitting on the ground while Sukuna still grabbing their arm.

"What... so... funny?" Sukuna confused, looking at Hibiki and Kuroki who let out a smug.

Stealthily behind him, Yuzuru begin to extend his arm to pierce Sukuna's back again.

"Tch!"

"Useless..."

Like before Yuzuru shallowly pierced his armor, but it's okay, the preparation already complete, and by doing so she also gives Hibiki and Kuroki opportunity to escape Sukuna's clutch.

Yuzuru then retreat fast, as she starts chanting like her life depends on it.

"In the night the dragon came, belching forth in rage his fiery poison, and filling the air with burning vapor, but could do him no harm, and the fire consumed itself while the World-honored One remained composed. And the venomous fiend became very wroth so that he died in his anger*"

Sukuna heard a strange sound like paper being rubbed repeatedly, he started to look around but couldn't find it. Sukuna then smelled something burning from behind his back, "Bastard... !!" he shouted furiously.

"Bannō Jirai (Universal Mine)*! Kyuu Kyuu Nyo Ritsuryo!!"

Sukuna saw a dazzling light from behind him.

BOOM!

A huge, widespread explosion with a sound like dozens of lightning strikes sounded extremely loud.

The explosion made the earth shake violently, the smoke and ash generated by the explosion rose high into the sky.

The dust from the explosion covered Ryomen Sukuna's figure, the Amawaka squad was on alert waiting for the dust from the explosion to dissipate.

"Did... did we get him?" ask Hibiki.

"Stay alert! We don't know if he's alive or not" warn Yuzuru.

The dust from the explosion just now started to dissipate little by little, and behind the dust Yuzuru saw multiple shadiwy dots

"Dodg-"

Yuzuru shout, but her word were cut off, many spikes were flying from the place where Ryomen Sukuna supposed to be standing.

Yuzuru try to guard, but many of the spikes were grazing her and one even manage to pierce her left gauntlet in the forearm.

Benkei get pierced again, one pierced his left ear completly destroying it, and one pierced his shoulder.

Kuroki was the fortunate one, none of the spikes hit him while he ducks.

"Kuak!!" Hibiki vomited blood from his mouth, he looked down, there was a reddish iron rod that pierced right through his chest where his heart was.

Hibiki's pupils began to dilate, and turn darker. Then he stopped moving, and fell to the ground.

"That... is... Hurt" say Sukuna.

Yuzuru, Benkei, and Kuroki watch Ryomen Sukuna's form without the armor.

The head looks like a fleshy skeleton, he's missing a nose, lip, and eyesockets. Bulging eyes with black scleras and miniscule green pupils glare at Yuzuru.

Because he doesn't have any lip, his gums and teeth jagged like a Shark is exposed.

Because his body resemble that of human, he can be mistaken as Basara if he doesn't have four arms.

There's a bulging white socket on his crotch, and if you can see very closely, something like a pinkish tube is peeping behind the narrow entrance I called hole.

Because he doesn't have any skin with flesh exposed, he is truly resembling a walking flesh anatomy model.

And don't forget The Kujiki (#) symbol on his chest.

Yuzuru, Benkei, and Kuroki breathless seeing this.

Repulsing!

That was Yuzuru and the other though seeing Ryomen Sukuna exposed appearance.

"Let... me... tell... you... something... nice" Sukuna say, as many little tendrils appear on his body like a fur,

"My... element... from... The... Wu-Xing... is... Metal... I... can... control... all... the... iron... inside... my... body" the tendrils then coiled and merge together, becoming big tentacles.

Yuzuru squinted her eyes, she already had a guess of what his ability is. Based on her observation, she thinks his element is water, and he can manipulate his blood, and she was right albeit partially.

But now, a new question arrived.

"You... must... be... thinking... why... I... told... you... my... ability... or... something... closer...?"

Sukuna let out a chuckle, the tentacles on his body begin wrapping him and transformed into an armor.

"It's... because... I... had... enough... of... this... dance... thank... you... for... the... dance... it... was... fun"

Fuuuittt~

Sukuna begin to whistle, Yuzuru know what this mean, and she starts to sweating.

"Come... here... Dog-"

"Honoikazuchi!!!!"

A loud shout, then

BOOM!

Explosion was heard.

"W... What?"

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Trivia:

*The incantation Yuzuru chant is from The Fire Sermon: The Third Sermon Of The Buddha, by Prof. David Dale Holmes.

*Charged bolt is a skill used by Raven, a character from a Korean game called ELSWORD.

*Banno Jirai (Universal Mine) is refers to Yugioh trap card, named Widespread Ruin.