Chapter 14 - The Honored One?

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

[Narration]

{Chat}

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(First POV: Omni Gojo)

'I feel so... good.' That singular thought rang in my head over and over as I lay on my back.

'Is this what you felt, Satoru? Knowing how to multiply a negative by a negative was so easy yet so difficult.' As I thought this, I stood up.

Both Sukuna and Akira were now staring at me. I spread open a portion of my sliced clothes near my chest.

"Yo, it's been a while," I said as Sukuna had a smirk growing on his face.

"It seems the Gojo brat has finally grown up a bit," Sukuna said with a smirk on his face.

"You know." As I spoke, I walked forward just two steps. "Multiplying a negative by a negative was so easy! All you have to do is go so low, you go up! The human brain is physically unable to go too low, as anger or any negative emotion will eventually run out."

A deranged smile grew on my face as I spread my arms out wide.

"It was given to me on the verge of death! I see so differently; I had the six eyes yet I couldn't see, but now, I see it all!" As I shouted out my words, I saw Sukuna and Akira share a glance before they both looked at me.

"My world is so clear, so bright, so beautiful! The honored one?! No! I am above that, so far above that!" As I finished my sentence, I saw the air distort with six eyes, as I could physically see the air move out of the way.

Tilting my body to the side, a strand of hair was cut as the dismantle made its way past my face.

"I can see it so clearly." I turned back towards Sukuna as I spoke. "I see what the universe has wanted to show me for so long! I am the greatest creation, the one above honor; I am the only one that matters."

In an instant, I appeared behind Sukuna. I was floating in the air upside down with my index and middle fingers pointed at him and his slowly turning figure.

"Red." As I spoke, a red dot appeared right above my fingers.

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(Third POV:)

*BANG*

Sukuna had been unable to dodge the reversal red and proceeded to be sent crashing down the street.

"Hey, Akira." Omni began speaking to Akira with a void in his eyes. "Should we... kill Souei?"

Akira's head did multiple tilts as he thought.

"I don't know." Akira looked down the street to see Sukuna walking back over slowly as he spoke. "Souei's soul is the sole reason I'm not using the Soul Split Katana, but it's up to you to decide."

Omni Gojo only nodded at Akira's words. With their talk over, they both began walking toward Sukuna.

An instant later, Omni Gojo was behind Sukuna once again.

"That won't work on me for a second-" Sukuna didn't get to finish his sentence as he turned around.

"Same for me." Omni Gojo interrupted Sukuna a second later.

Using lapse blue, Omni Gojo held the attraction force just enough so Sukuna couldn't move.

From the back, Akira came in with a dropkick that hit Sukuna directly in the spine! Flipping off the second he landed the dropkick, Akira slammed Sukuna forward.

Striking out with a heavy punch, Omni landed it on Sukuna's face, completely stopping his momentum.

Using lapse blue in combination with his punches, Gojo landed two punches to the chest, one across the cheek, three to the stomach, one to the liver, and three punches to the face. It was so fast that he even jumped up and landed a knee on Sukuna's nose.

Sukuna spun around 180 degrees from the final hit and came face-to-face with Akira with his fist pulled back.

'These brats...' Sukuna thought as Akira landed a hard punch to the face, which spun him back toward Gojo. 'Are they actually trying to kill me!?'

Gojo proceeded to punch him in the face as Akira kicked Sukuna's side. Gojo threw a kick to the stomach as Akira landed a punch to the side of Sukuna's face.

'I guess...' Sukuna thought once more as Gojo gave him an uppercut, only for Akira to continue with a kick to the spine. 'I can get semi-serious for once.'

The second that thought finished, Akira's eyes widened as he instantly jumped back as far as he could.

Sukuna twisted mid-air and shot a barrage of dismantles in the direction of both Gojo and Akira.

Akira made quick work of dodging the dismantles, while Gojo just let his infinity handle it.

As Sukuna landed on the ground, Gojo pointed both fingers at him again, a reversal red seemingly about to form.

'Domain amplification.' Sukuna thought as he grabbed Gojo's arm, which had been forming the reversal red.

Getting past infinity, Sukuna twisted Gojo's hand with his right hand and held Gojo's arm with his left.

Flipping Gojo over himself, a serious expression grew on Sukuna's face as he was no longer smiling.

However, Gojo, the second he was about to reach the ground, bent his knees 90 degrees and stuck the landing. Looking at Sukuna's face, dead eyes met unimpressed eyes.

Breaking the hold Sukuna had on him with a smack and a wave of his hand, Gojo flipped into the air. Now upside down in the air once more, Gojo pointed two fingers at his enemy as Akira also appeared behind Sukuna.

'A two-on-one? Let us play this game...' Sukuna thought with a voided expression quickly appearing on his face.

*Clap*

Disabling his domain amplification, Sukuna clapped his hands. Omni Gojo's eyes widened just the smallest amount as he realized both he and Akira were about to attack each other.

Turning toward Sukuna, both Gojo and Akira knew he was getting serious if he was using all of his kit.

*Clap*

Gojo's position had changed with Sukuna, and just as it did, Sukuna struck out with an attack planned to hit Akira directly.

Akira was unimpressed, as he deftly dodged the attack and struck Sukuna in the face quite easily.

A smile quickly formed on Akira's face as he thought of something funny.

"Hey," Akira spoke as he began landing punches that broke Sukuna's guard every time they landed. "Is this you when you're serious?"

Akira immediately disappeared after landing rapid-fire punches, only to reappear in the exact same spot where he was with his leg outstretched.

*BANG*

Akira had used a run attack to boost his speed massively and run around Sukuna. The speed he gained allowed him to charge up the kick with a large amount of momentum.

The kick was so heavy that Sukuna nearly spit up saliva. Being launched back so far down the street, Sukuna thought he had time to rethink a strategy.

Time seemed to slow down as Sukuna flew through the air. His eyes widened as parallel to his form; directly above him was Omni Gojo.

Gojo held both his fingers in the air like he was flipping Sukuna off. At that moment, both exchanged glances that meant a thousand words, but what was said was mainly...

'You know I'm going to hit you with this red so fucking hard that you bounce off this pavement, right, bitch?'

'Just hit me with it already.'

Sukuna looked as if he was about to sigh.

*BANG*

Sukuna's forward momentum was instantly canceled as he was pushed downward hard by the red.

Crashing into the ground, he bounced off the pavement, only for Gojo to appear next to him and throw a spinning kick into his stomach.

Sukuna, once again being launched, was finally ready, and when his feet touched the ground, he killed his momentum and brought his hands together.

It was a special gesture he'd found himself using once before. With a smile on his face, Sukuna began speaking.

"Domain-"

Only to be immediately cut off as Akira grabbed both his arms and spread them wide to break the hand sign.

"I won't let that happen," Akira said with a devious grin appearing on his face.

"I won't either," Sukuna said as he broke one hand free and held it close to his chest.

The singular hand formed half of Sukuna's hand sign as Akira's eyes widened.

"Domain Expansion: Malevolent-"

Sukuna's eyes widened as, in the corner of his eye, he saw something that had to be impossible.

It was Omni Gojo, his eyes bearing an insane look and an equally angry frown.

'That's not possible... off of one look?' Sukuna thought as he realized what Omni Gojo had done.

With a hand sign that had the middle finger wrapped around the index finger that was held so close to his face that it was almost touching his nose... Omni Gojo spoke.

"DOMAIN EXPANSION: UNLIMITED VOID!!!"

{Omni Gojo has made the advancement: Mastery Domain Expansion}

Omni Gojo's voice was laced with insanity and anger, his eyes as wide as they could go as his improved six eyes went into a frenzy, trying to analyze Sukuna's domain before he could open it.

It was a very massive stretch, but just by seeing how Sukuna's cursed energy, gestures, and fluxes in the movement worked, Omni Gojo was able to put together the pieces on how to open his domain before Sukuna could even fully open his.

The reaction was instant as Sukuna remembered he had paused in opening his domain.

"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine!"

Sukuna exclaimed as fast as he could in order to not be hit by any sure-hit effect that the newly awakened Gojo could hit him with.

Akira's instincts went completely haywire, as the amount of danger at that moment was causing the start of a migraine.

Letting go of Sukuna, Akira jumped, tucked his legs in, and flipped as a large gray mouth ate Sukuna.

The mouth quickly dove under the concrete as if it were water.

Behind Gojo, there was nothing, just white, and then black popped into existence far behind both him and the white.

Multicolored, small lines quickly formed and blitzed forward as if they were encouraged by the black that was traveling just a few feet ahead.

The multicolored lines quickly ate up the distance behind Gojo and pushed past him. The blackness of the void was just in front of it and trying to eat at the area Sukuna had disappeared into.

A second later, the gray mouth returned, diving straight up and then turning 90 degrees to face Gojo. It opened and revealed Sukuna standing inside.

The shrine appeared fully, with skulls leading up to it as the mouth opened.

With the shrine up, the advance of the void was halted as it ran into its first resistance.

"Akira, we're killing him now!" Gojo exclaimed as loud as he could as he strained through the clashing of domains.

Jumping from the mouth of the shrine, Sukuna smiled as the strain on this domain battle was like a toddler trying its hardest to push back an adult.

But as quickly as the smile went up, it dropped just as fast. Sukuna looked downward to see the edge of the Soul Split Katana poking out of his chest.

Turning his head, Sukuna realized that Akira, who now had a worm curse wrapped around his body, had stabbed him clean through with no resistance.

Sukuna tried to throw a dismantle at Akira, but just as quickly as he showed up, he was gone. But that one distraction was all that was needed.

Sukuna's eyes widened even further as he tried to turn his head toward the position of Omni Gojo.

"WITH THIS TREASURE, I SUMMON!!" Sukuna exclaimed as quickly as he could as he did the hand sign.

But it was already too late...

Omni Gojo was in the air; as if he had jumped, his fist pulled back as far as he could go, with rage written all over his face.

"DIVINE—URKAKHHH!"

Sukuna was instantly punched in the face. Gojo's form was immaculate as he pulled his fist from so far back that you'd think he had hit him with a slingshot.

Replaying the scene from the top, you could see the height difference in their current positions and how Gojo had really made a run-up to punch the shit out of Sukuna.

Replaying from the right, you could see how Gojo's fist indented itself into Sukuna's face so soundly that it seemed as if it belonged there.

Replaying one last time from the bottom, you could see how Sukuna's hand sign absolutely crumbled and Gojo's Superman posture further pushed the scene into greatness.

Akira, who was watching from the side, only had one thought. 'Damn, he punched that fucker so hard it replayed three different times!'

Speeding up time back to normal, Gojo's punch landed, followed by a punch to the stomach, three to the face, an uppercut to reset his posture, five jabs to the chest, a punch to the liver to lower posture, a knee to the nose to push back, two hard taps to either shoulder and finally ended with a...

"BLACK FLASH!" Gojo screamed out as reddish-black lightning spread out from his fist and Sukuna's body.

{Omni Gojo has completed the challenge: Black Flash}

As soon as he did so, Gojo's domain crumbled into nothing. However, Sukuna was launched directly into Malevolent Shrine, and because of his hard landing, the domain was destroyed.

With Sukuna down and against the concrete, Gojo's reverse cursed technique kicked in to heal his burnt-out technique, and as it did, he slowly began rising into the sky.

As he rose higher and higher while looking like he was lying on a bed of clouds, Omni Gojo began thinking.

The world slowed as all the colors and fractures of light became more beautiful.

'Sorry, Souei. It doesn't seem like we will be able to save you...' Gojo thought this as the world slowed in his eyes to a crawl. 'Right now, I feel as if I am everything, so I can't bring myself to truly care...'

As Gojo's thoughts trailed, he sat up slowly, his arms waving around softly, while Akira watched with a smirk.

'So as I tell this universe's truth, hear me and understand why I did this.'

With his arms finished waving, his right arm above his head, and his left arm held under and curved, Omni Gojo spoke the truth of this universe.

"Throughout the universe and endless cosmos, I alone am the One Above All."

Sukuna, who was finally on his feet, scoffed at the claim.

"You think your word is law? Are you better than everyone else by simply being born due to an influx of ideas and wishes by nothingness? To call yourself Lord and try to talk down to me is pathetic." Sukuna was furious at the claim. It was as if he were an angel in heaven, seeing a dictatorship.

'Take the amplified and the reversal,' Gojo thought about two spheres of red and blue crashing and merging together as he spoke internally.

"Come, Rika!" Sukuna screamed as he knew Mahoraga needed time to adapt, and there would be no way he had enough time.

Couldn't he just run? No. He would put these brats in their place even with one finger.

"Yuta!" Rika screamed as she, somehow alive, rushed toward Gojo.

At the same time, Sukuna threw everything to the wind; he didn't know if Mahoraga was even tamed, so even if he did summon him to get past infinity, would the divine general listen?

'Then smash those two different expressions of infinity to create and push out imaginary mass.' Gojo thought once again internally as Rika began clawing at his back, unable to break through infinity.

"I'm sorry, Rika..." Gojo said as a single tear threatened to form in his eye.

'Imaginary Technique: Purple.'

Gojo's thumb, index, and middle fingers came together with a small purple dot brimming with power forming on the hold.

An instant later, with Rika on his back while he was in the air, Sukuna unable to accept defeat, and Akira watching from the sidelines with indifference, Omni Gojo released the hold.

'Even at one finger, I won't... not to some underdeveloped brat, I can't...'

...

"Yuta, Yuta!" Rika cried as she held the face of the half-destroyed body of Sukuna.

Her plated white face was leaking tears. Sukuna, however, just laid in her arms. The left part of his body was totally destroyed. A massive hole was left where his torso should be.

"Who knew... You had it in you, Gojo Brat." Sukuna said as he slowly tried to heal with the reverse curse technique.

Omni Gojo only looked down at his pitiful form. Sukuna hadn't run, even though he knew an attack was coming. He could have used domain amplification, but both he and Gojo knew the fight was over.

He was on one finger and didn't expect the sacrifice of a close friend until the last moments.

"Are you going to finish me off now? You know there are still 19 more of my fingers out there; I'll come back." Sukuna smirked as he finished his sentence.

"Yeah, I know." Omni Gojo spoke with a downcast look while beginning to form another hollow purple. "It was a fun fight, all things considered. If you come back, I'll be here to defeat you once again."

"You won today due to luck and the weakness of your opponent. You have already heard the truth from me; I won't repeat myself." Sukuna said as he accepted what was to come.

"So long, Souei."