Chapter 11 - The Strongest Today vs The Strongest In History Part 4

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

[Group Chat]

[[Grave Warnings]]

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Sukuna began healing and walking slowly away from the battlefield. The fight was over, and Omni Gojo lay on his deathbed.

'I just wasn't strong enough...'

'Why wasn't I stronger?'

'Why couldn't I be stronger?'

These words replayed in Gojo's head. He couldn't accept this! This was bullshit! He had won! He wouldn't accept it!

'I see...' A satisfied smile appeared on Gojo's face. He understood. He could die in peace.

There was one thing that was on his mind, however. Something was whispering in the back of his head that he couldn't get out, no matter how hard he tried.

'What is that melody?' He thought as the light in his eyes began fading.

'What is that melody?'

'What is that melody?'

'WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?! WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!'

'THE UNIVERSE IS SINGING TO ME!!!'

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(First POV: Eren)

I watched as Omni Gojo was cut in half. It was what I expected to happen. The only problem I had was what was going to happen to me when his death was confirmed.

Right as Sukuna began walking away, the curses around me began turning to me with a sinister intent in their eyes.

Right as the first of them took a step forward, I froze. This was the only problem I couldn't get out of.

"Wait." Dev suddenly said as all the curses tried to rush to me. "This battle isn't over."

I looked at the screen with confusion. Sukuna was walking away. How was the battle not over?

That was until I remembered... I didn't get completion rewards from the group chat. Omni Gojo was still in the fight!

All the curses around me backed up a step as they realized the fight was still going and they still couldn't lay a finger on me without Dev turning them to ash.

I want to root for Gojo, but my reward lies in Sukuna winning the fight.

'Reach your maximum potential, Gojo. Win for humanity!' I thought, with a smile creeping up on my face.

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(Third POV:)

Sukuna had begun walking away from Gojo's body. The fight was over, and as he healed his body, he froze.

He was feeling something... cursed energy? Behind him?

'It can't be!' Sukuna thought as his eyes widened.

Instantly, Sukuna turned around to see that Omni Gojo's body had disappeared from the ground where he had cut him down.

Slowly, Sukuna's head looked up to see the two halves of Gojo's body floating. Light bent around both halves as if they were God's gift.

The lower half of Gojo's body was crushed under an invisible weight and turned into mush; however, his clothes remained fine.

The clothes moved to his upper half, which had begun regenerating. The second his pelvis was being healed, light bent around it, leaving just a dark area where no light was allowed.

Blocking his privates from any watchers, when his lower body was finished healing, the clothes began to float over to put themselves on him.

Sukuna wasn't going to watch him heal! Throwing another World Cleave at Omni Gojo, Sukuna waited for the brat's death.

The second the attack tried to make contact with Gojo's body by bypassing infinity, gravity suddenly shifted. This ultra-heavy shift in gravity bent the attack away from Omni Gojo's body.

Sukuna's eyes widened before a smirk appeared on his face. "It seems the Gojo brat has finally grown up." He said in a whisper.

Light reflected and bent around Gojo's body, causing multiple false mirages of his body.

'I'm sorry, everyone.' Omni Gojo thought with a delirious smile on his face. 'I can't think about avenging you. All I can think about is seeing my new maximum.'

In mid-air, Gojo sat up, waving his arms softly around his body as he turned in Sukuna's direction.

His right arm curved above his head with his left arm curved a bit below his body and pointed toward the ground.

"Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one."

Gojo's voice was distorted by gravity, and upon his exclamation, the rubble on the battlefield began rising in the air as if confirming his words.

How was Gojo able to get this power? The words he spoke reflected what the Buddha had said when he first gained enlightenment.

If you compare Gojo to Buddha at this moment, when Buddha gained enlightenment, he was 29 years old!

Due to being in a realm where time didn't exist for around 17 days, today was Omni Gojo's birthday!

Omni Gojo turned 29 years old today! He had truly gained enlightenment!

Not everything was as it seemed. Inside Gojo's mind was a different battle. The only way Gojo could describe it was that 'the universe was singing to him.'

Numerous voices played in his mind, and an unknown melody played in the background was barely heard.

Slowly making his way to the ground in front of Sukuna, Gojo held a palm to his head.

'Surprise! Look who's back!'

'The reverse grip technique really did save me, huh?!'

'Hahahahahaha!'

'Mom and Dad, I just think I am the honored one after all!'

'I'm just edging to do it already!'

'Uh, oh, spaghetti o's, someone is getting angry!'

'The early bird gets the worm!'

'Honored one number sixty-nine, ready to give out divine punishment!'

'Holy guacamole I surely cannot wait!'

'Shut your mouths!'

Gojo couldn't take the random voices that all had his voice in his mind talking at once.

All the voices blended, so he couldn't tell what they were saying, but he knew it was nonsense.

Staring at Sukuna standing in front of him, Gojo raised his hand. The rubble around them circled the both of them as if Gojo had become the center of a supermassive black hole.

"Let's end this, Sukuna."

"Of course."

Suddenly, gravity began denying what Gojo had ordered. Immediately, Omni Gojo frowned. Sukuna had copied his ability.

It was now the battle of two entities of gravity.

Both of them blasted forward at the same time! Both of their fists were pulled back! Gravity around them caused the ground to fracture and meld together, only to be pushed away.

Theoretical Series.

""Infinite Mass Punch!""

Both fists collided, forming a black hole due to their uncontrolled gravitational force! Light began being sucked in, as well as everything in the surrounding area.

Would the world survive this fight?

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(First POV: Eren)

""Infinite Mass Punch!""

I couldn't hear it correctly due to the way gravity distorted their voice, but the second their voice came through the screen, I felt an extreme pulling force on my body.

"Boost!"

The boosted gear's twice-critical form appeared on my arm as I tried to focus the boost on holding myself together.

That was probably the worst idea I ever had, as the force grew and the light around me was being sucked in. My body flew forward at an impossible speed, as I couldn't see anything as all the light quickly rushed to the force Gojo and Sukuna created.

'This is it, huh.' That was my last thought, and an instant later I was hit with nothing but darkness.

"Restart White."

...

'What happened?' I thought as I looked around, able to see.

I was still surrounded by the army of curses, with all of them looking at their invisible screens.

Looking at my own, I saw Omni Gojo floating in the air, fully healed. Didn't this already happen?

'How am I back?' This thought was the only thing I couldn't answer.

I couldn't understand what had happened. I knew I didn't have return by death or anything like that, so how am I alive?

I took a deeper look into what was happening to Gojo. Gravity seemed to hear his calls and respond to his desires.

My eyes widened. Gravity... and space... make time. By combining his abilities, Omni Gojo reversed the time of the universe to save everyone on the planet!

'No one seems to remember.'

Was it because I had the group chat? Did Gojo even remember?

I focused back on the fight and cringed.

""Infinite Mass Punch!""

They were going to do it again! Was this one of those infinite death loops?

Right as their fists were about to collide, a portal opened up below them, and they disappeared!

Their effects on the battlefield subsided, and all the rubble that had spun around them dropped to the ground.

*WHOOSH*

I covered my eyes with my arms as a fast blast of wind flew over me. It was the aftereffects of the punch; they didn't even land.

The moment I looked back at the screen, somehow it was still following them. They were traveling through space, somewhere in the solar system.

With this new power, could Gojo do it?

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(Third POV:)

The second the punches were thrown, Omni Gojo used his newfound abilities to open up a wormhole.

The wormhole teleported both him and Sukuna as far away as possible, a few hundred thousand kilometers past Mars.

The second their fists met, instead of a black hole being created, Gojo inverted the gravitational force, causing both of them to be blasted away from the solar system at light speed!

*CRASH*

*BANG*

Both of them used gravity to slow themselves down and ended up crashing through one of Jupiter's moons and landing on another one.

Omni Gojo stumbled his way to the edge of a cliff on the moon. Directly below him was Sukuna, who was looking up at him.

Five white wings spread from his back, with the sixth one being the highest on the right side, which is completely black.

This was Sukuna's malevolent angel form. In this form, he didn't need to breathe and could speak even in the depths of space.

Omni Gojo, however, did need to breathe, but instead of breathing, he used his new abilities to create a time-based ability that allowed him to reverse time on his body before he exhaled a breath.

This took a lot of energy, and so he only reversed time on his lungs to decrease the amount of strain it took.

They would no longer be using their speed but gravity and time to move faster, as they both knew everything in this battle was a game of inches.

The ability Sukuna stole, Gojo had named it Yellow. Yellow makes the user of the ability a supermassive black hole and allows the user to set its radius.

In order to get yellow, one must merge compression green and weightless orange. Sukuna completely skipped the steps of green and orange and copied yellow.

By combining his abilities at different moments in time, Omni Gojo could gain different effects.

Both fighters tensed before rushing toward each other! The moment their fists clashed, a massive crator formed under them, followed by rock and dust being blasted backward!

They were punching with the force of black holes! Immediately bending the gravity around him, Sukuna made a wormhole by combining his copied boogie-woogie and yellow!

Gojo immediately grabbed the wormhole with his hand wrapped in his power and... tossed it like a frisbee.

"Huh?" A dumbfounded expression was left on Sukuna's face.

Sukuna instantly recovered and launched hundreds of wormholes that attacked every inch around both of them.

That was until the true wormhole that was supposed to hit Gojo appeared. Immediately, Gojo bent his knees backward 90 degrees and dodged the punch!

Standing back up instantly, Gojo sent his own punch through Sukuna's wormhole, landing directly on his face!

Sukuna was blasted backward as Gojo ran after him. The moment he was able to stop his momentum, Gojo appeared before him.

Pulling his fist back, Gojo landed a barrage of punches that not only weakened Sukuna's concentration on his gravitational field but also broke bones in his body!

"ENOUGH!"

Sukuna screamed out as Gojo slid backward from an invisible force.

"I've truly given thee courtesy enough. No longer shall I treat you as a meager child grasping at minuscule amounts of power." Sukuna spoke as the gravity around him strengthened.

Sukuna's body was engulfed in darkness as the moon they were on shook and began breaking apart. The ground broke down in patterns that repeated over and over.

The gravity around Sukuna calmed down as the darkness receded.

Sukuna's entire body was covered in absolute black. The eyes on his face had turned grayish as if he were blind. 

Four tendrils are attached to the sides and back of his head. The tendrils moved and wiggled before eyes with black sclera, orange irises, and black pupils appeared on them.

Sukuna's mouth was fully covered before his black skin split apart to reveal impossibly sharp teeth. Drool leaked from his mouth as his teeth gritted together.

His body had rune-like patterns and markings on it. His fingers and toes became a little sharper as his body grew in size.

Now eight feet tall, Sukuna had activated a transformation he had only used once in the age of gods.

Eldritch transformation: Azaogdesz.

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