"I hope you won't ruin my mood." Sukuna said as he saw a man heading towards him.
With lightning-shaped lines connected to the bottom of his eyelids and hair on top partied and tied into two buns on the right and left sides of his head like lightning rods, they ran with their staff in hand and wore a smile filled with excitement at the prospect of fighting the strongest sorcerer of all time.
They were Kashimo, the Thunder God!
'So they're here, after all.' Kashimo thought as he saw a heaping mass of ice floating right above Sukuna.
Riding that ice was Uraume, the Frozen Star.
And falling down towards Uraume was Hakari, who made the hand sign for his domain.
"Sorry pal, but a promise is a promise."
"I haven't the slightest interest in you!"
"Can't blame ya."
Though an intense fight was about to happen between Uraume and Hakari, Kashimo paid no mind to it as he was about to fight an even bigger threat.
The block of ice losing its control broke apart revealing a cursed tool that Sukuna had kept as a hidden card.
'All those theatrics just to deliver that?!'
Holding in Sukuna's right hand was Kamutoke, a cursed tool made from the final breath of Yoruzu.
With the sound of thunder clapping, the cursed tool Kamutoke discharged an intense lightning bolt at Kashimo. Lightning crackled down at him but as the dust revealed, Kashimo remained nearly unharmed.
He was resistant to lightning due to the unique nature of his cursed energy.
"Sukuna, did you earn the title of strongest or were you simply born as such?"
"Who knows? I was born cursed, unwanted little wretch, that I can say."
"How can you connect with others... how can you love those beneath you if you've never known weakness? I never understood such a thing. I have always been surrounded by those weaker and beneath me."
His mind wandered to his own time. Worthless sorcerers all around Japan fought him yet they all failed to kill him. All weak.
Too weak.
"So enlighten me. Is strength solitude? Or is the endless pursuit of a greater power the path the strong must overcome?"
If he were to die, then he would die fighting the strongest.
Not by old age like someone happy with their mundane life.
"My, how greedy. You both ask for too much."
Sukuna's words earned him a confused look.
"Sure, I'll teach you. Give me your best shot, revenant."
Now this earned him a smirk as he charged at Sukuna at full speed.
After the death of Satoru Gojo, he would be the one to fight Sukuna.
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The moment Gojo died, Kashimo was the first one to run out of the building and into the battlefield, but the rest of the attack force excluding Hakari stayed behind for a bit because of one person.
"Keep him alive." Shoko said to everyone. Before anyone could refute it, she continued. "I know the promise made, but the thing is that we can't afford any losses. Sukuna is 'the' threat. Though that does not mean we can be lax to the others."
"You think something is going to happen. Something outside our expectations." Higuruma said.
"Not outside our expectations. It is going to be well within our expectations because we'll be prepared for it."
"So we'll be attacking sooner than expected? That's fine by me." Itadori said as he gripped his new gauntlet weapons carefully.
"Just remember, Sukuna and Kenjaku aren't the only evil here. Keep your guard up."
"Is that a certainty?" Choso said.
She shook her head. "No, a possibility. But one that can decide the outcome of this battle."
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[Cursed Technique Release: Mythic Beast: Amber!]
Kashimo never had any hope of coming out of this battle alive.
His technique was a one-time use. Which meant that he would die once the technique's duration was over.
Though it was devastating that he could only use it once, he resolved that he would only use it against the strongest.
The strongest being Sukuna.
With a burst of increased speed, Sukuna didn't anticipate the attack and received a right hook planted firmly into his cheek. Kashimo continued and opened his mouth revealing a bright coat of yellow lightning surrounding his jawline. His mouth opened wide like an 'O' and shot out a ball of lightning that exploded on impact.
"Too loud." The king of curses seemed a bit annoyed but had yet to receive any substantial damage.
Kashimo's body was slowly transforming into pure lightning. Any phenomenon that is created by electricity can be replicated by him.
This was his trump card.
Sukuna who anticipated his new speed was once again surprised as Kashimo had become again even faster than before. Though this time he was able to narrowly dodge, but not before Kashimo released another electro ball colliding with Kamutoke.
Sukuna couldn't block the next attack and he was sent flying crashing onto the ground.
And with that, Kashimo sent a lightning bolt at Sukuna creating an explosion..
Kashimo's senses had also increased.
His brain's electrical signals increase his speed, optimization, and tuning of sound waves matching the natural frequencies of materials and vaporizing irradiated objects with electromagnetic waves. Kashimo was now stronger than ever.
"Hm?"
Kashimo with his newfound eyes and x-ray vision gazed at Sukuna.
His new form.
A form with four eyes, four arms, and two mouths to make double the incantations and hand signs. This form was great and immaculate to Kashimo.
Sukuna was the perfect being.
In an instant, Sukuna appeared before Kashimo grabbing him with two arms while using the other two to punch him in the gut.
"Guhh!" The use of 4 arms was already making it apparent.
"WRYAHH!!" Shooting a lightning bolt, Kashimo expected the attack to land since the attack had a tracking kit.
[Dragon Scale. Recoil. Twin Meteors.]
The lower mouth of Sukuna muttered the incantations.
[World Dismantle!]
'This is what ended Gojo Satoru's life!' Kashimo thought as he looked at his now missing arm.
Even with his new senses, Kashimo could barely get out of the way of the attack.
The slash that bisects the world itself.
"Oh. It seems there is company." Sukuna said as he gazed elsewhere.
"What?" Kashimo looked where Sukuna was looking and saw people coming.
The barrier of Hakari's domain collapsed after he hit his jackpot, and falling down heading towards Sukuna were Itadori and Higuruma with his hammer.
The two looked briefly at one another and nodded.
No words needed to be uttered for them to know what to do.
"So it's the brat first, huh." Sukuna mocked Itadori.
"DON'T COME ANY CLOSER! THIS IS MY FIGHT!!" Kashimo yelled out as they broke his promise.
"Sorry, but we don't have that luxury. Not anymore." Higuruma slammed the hammer to the ground. Sukuna having dodged the attack prepared to send [Dismantles] at him, but Itadori arrived behind him.
Punching the ground, he sent rocks flying upwards and then punched them sending them like cannons to Sukuna. Going through the dust, Itadori pulled back his fist and threw a strike at Sukuna.
[Black Flash!]
Immediately, Itadori landed a [Black Flash] on Sukuna who caught it with his four arms. Still, he could feel it stinging. The pain was certainly there, but that was not what caught his eyes. What did catch his attention was the effect the attack had, it was as if his soul trembled.
"Tch! Damn it!" Kashimo's anger skyrocketed as he dashed towards Sukuna. "He's mine to fight!"
"Itadori! We're having a retrial."
[Domain Expansion: Deadly Sentencing!]
This was the first step in their plan.
"Let me in!" Kashimo said as he slammed his hands into the barrier. He stopped the banging on the barrier and started charging his cursed energy.
"I'll blow this entire barrier to bits!" He said as he aimed at the barrier.
"Stop!"
His attention turned back to see Kusakabe, Ino, Choso, and Malenia arriving.
"And why should I do that?! My body is burning and I don't have Sukuna to fight! I'll die by doing nothing!" Kashimo angrily yelled at them.
"We know. Which is why we're asking you to wait." Shoko said as she arrived with the help of Ui Ui. "I'll heal you for the moment, use the [Reverse Cursed Energy] that you've learned from me for a bit. I'll inform you about what's going on."
Inside the barrier, Higuruma just made documents appear in his hand. "Itadori is innocent. His declaration in the previous court was made due to a sense of accountability, but the real culprit is you, Sukuna. You were the one who had control of Itadori and made him do-"
"I have no interest in who was responsible or not." Sukuna said catching Higuruma off-guard. "The only thing I'm interested in is that sword of yours. With that said-"
Sukuna smiled maliciously. "Show me what you can do."
"Confiscation! Guilty! Death Penalty!" Judgeman, the shinigami responsible for the domain, had made its sentencing.
The domain collapsed as it no longer had any purpose.
Surrounding Sukuna, everyone prepared to attack him with no intention of backing out. Higuruma unveiled his [Execution Sword] which had the ability to instantly kill the person Judgeman deems guilty by trial.
Higuruma could not know what Sukuna had lost. Whether it be the [Ten Shadows] or [Shrine], Higuruma sprang into action and assumed one of the techniques was now gone.
'Do you have a death wish?'
Higuruma's eyes widened as he realized his error. In the case of the target of [Confiscation] being someone currently wielding a cursed tool, what will be seized is not the technique, but the tool.
This mistake caught everyone off guard.
In an instant, the slashes were sent and slashed Higuruma and Kusakabe who protected him.
"Fwoo..." Kusakabe exhaled as he reduced the damage of the slashes with his [New Shadow Style: Simple Domain].
'Hm... it seems everyone here has become much stronger in the past two months. Cursed Energy strengthening and quantity has become much greater. And that man's [Simple Domain] is reducing the damage of my slashes.' Sukuna thought which made him smile.
"I guess it isn't going to be so boring." Sukuna cackled. "Shall we have a race, brats?"
Choso shot a [Piercing Blood], but Sukuna's speed far exceeded it.
'Where'd he-' Choso thought before Sukuna appeared before him and was about to hit him.
[Blood Manipulation: Crimson Lotus!]
Sukuna jumped back and gazed at his finger which was slowly rotting.
Malenia arrived just in time to protect her brother and immediately activated her Butterfly mode.
"Back off relic, you can't touch him." Malenia spouted with venom.
"I guess Kenjaku's creations are good for one thing." Sukuna smiled not at all bothered as he cut off his finger and quickly regenerated.
[Auspicious Summon Beast: Kaichi!]
A drill-like weapon shot out of Ino's hand, but the attack didn't affect Sukuna as he easily swatted it away. Ino jumped up and struck down with his weapon at Sukuna which made the ground crack.
'That was stronger than I thought...' Sukuna wondered but quickly realized. 'I see, they've made the 7:3 sorcerer's technique into a weapon.'
Ino was the one who held the responsibility for that weapon.
Kusakabe and Itadori arrived swinging their sword and hands at him. However, Sukuna simply deflected the strikes and sent slashes at them.
"Urgh!" The slashes pushed them back as they bleed from the cuts all over their body.
[Auspicious Summon Beast: R-!]
Sukuna didn't give him any time and sent some slashes at him. But being opened, he did not have time to stop his attack or dodge.
'Shit!' Ino screamed in his mind.
"Huh?" A hand grabbed him by the shoulder and launched him upwards to the sky. "What the-ow!"
"Out of my way!" Kashimo was the one who did this. "Sukuna! Fight me!"
Kashimo shot out electro balls at Sukuna who cut them apart with his slashes creating explosions of electric sparks everywhere on the battlefield.
"Damn it, that guy doesn't listen." Kusakabe cursed.
"Take this!" Kashimo shot a thunderbolt at Sukuna but unlike last time, this was three of them.
"Hmph. [Dragon Scale. Recoil. Twin Meteors]." Sukuna unfazed by the attack had his lower mouth say the incantations.
Everyone knowing what this meant dodged out of the way, but Kashimo stayed. He stayed for the glory.
Even after being told what to do, he remained unfazed. He wanted to die at Sukuna's hands.
However, that did not mean he was the only one who wanted to fight Sukuna at the moment.
[World Dis-]
As Sukuna was prepared to shoot out his strongest attack, he felt a spark of cursed energy being erupted. One that he was familiar with.
[Maximum: Uzumaki!]
The collision of Uzumaki and the lightning bolts created an explosion that flashed and rang the ears of all sorcerers present. The attack was so powerful that it even created a ravine with Sukuna standing the opposite of it.
"You." Sukuna didn't smile any longer. Instead, he seemed bothered by the attack. He was full of scratches and cuts that oozed out blood from his body, but what indicated how he seemed alright even after the attack was the bright glow surrounding his body.
[Domain Amplification!]
"Well, it seems you're using that very well."
A man walked behind Sukuna. His outlines were made apparent by his shadow casting over the smoke.
"Maybe I shouldn't have taught you that."
An all too familiar figure walked towards him. His gold-colored kāṣāya garment over black yukata robes with that nihilistic smile of his, why was he here?
Sukuna didn't know. That was not their agreement.
Had something changed?
"Don't take this personally, Sukuna."
He who had no care for humans nor Jujutsu sorcerers' lives.
"Because I promise, that it isn't 'me' that has personal stakes in this."
The man who had planned for more than a thousand years.
"That, I swear." He said pointing to the sky and having his other hand on his heart. A face that seemed almost apologetic to Sukuna.
Almost...
"To God himself."
He alone was the unpredictable one.
"Kenjaku..."
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{AN: What. The. Fuck. Is. This. Ending.}