Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

"But, well... this is actually suitable for containing entities from other worlds, since it's pure enough..."

"You really dare to say that!" Louhu roared angrily, molten lava gushing from his head.

"You're a cursed spirit too, aren't you?!"

Dongjiang tilted his head slightly. He didn't explain anything, but just that calm expression made Louhu and the others feel a chill run down their spines from the inside out!

"This train consists of 8 cars. Please wait behind the yellow line. Do not stick your hands or head out of the platform or lean against the railings..."

Just then, the tram whistle rang out as it arrived at the station. Louhu immediately perked up!

"Louhu, I'm here!!!"

A cursed spirit with half his face covered in stitches jumped off the tram with an innocent smile, while behind him surged countless cyborgs, their shapes twisted and deformed to the extreme, filling the tram.

Some of them had their heads caved inwards, some had their skin turn an unusual color, some grew extra limbs, some became like human-like lizards, and some...

"Oh dear, the air is so sweet, yet filled with dread—wait, why is Gojo Satoru lying here?" Makoto asked, looking at Gojo Satoru lying on the ground.

"This guy, this newly born imaginary curse used his technique to trick Gojo Satoru, knocking him unconscious," Louhu explained, flames gathering in his hands.

"Really? Hahaha, what kind of technique did you use? I'm really interested!"

The real man laughed loudly, but suddenly threw several shrunken, doll-like androids at Tsurugi.

These androids instantly unfolded in the air, forming more than a dozen twisted, deformed, obese androids that pressed down on Tsurugi in an instant.

Now!!!

Expand your domain and indulge in the wonders of the world!

Hua Yu instantly activated his domain, while Lou Hu and Tuo Gen immediately began their actions!

They weren't arrogant enough to think they could defeat the enemy who had defeated Gojo Satoru, but based on Louhu's observation, he believed that Tsugumi had used a trick to trick the arrogant Gojo Satoru, rather than defeating him head-on.

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Because the curse energy reaction within Tsugumi's body wasn't particularly strong, and there were no signs of any battle from beginning to end.

"Be careful of his techniques, but the primary objective is to kill Gojo Satoru!" Louhu commanded.

"I will completely control him!" Hua Yu maintained her domain and spoke in reversed words.

Her domain, the Sea of ​​Light, wasn't designed for lethality; in fact, she could use it in a completely harmless way. The moment she unleashed her domain, Hana-no-Kami constructed what appeared to be an endless field of flowers, while the domain's guaranteed-hit attack instantly covered Tsurugi.

The function of the flower field is simple: it emits a fragrance that relaxes people's consciousness and lowers their guard. Even Gojo Satoru would be stunned for a moment without activating his domain!

Tsurugi's gaze glazed over. Hanamichi, certain of the success of her technique, immediately shouted...

"Hurry up, now's the time!"

Louhu and Tuogen unhesitatingly unleashed their full power on the unconscious Gojo Satoru with their own techniques, while the real man chose to attack the unconscious Yotsuya Miko.

"Hahaha, this human is your 'master,' right? How disgusting! She hates us, including you!"

"I wouldn't lie, after all, I was born from human malice!!!"

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"Although you cursed spirits claim to be products of human malice and fear, in my opinion, you have not even seen one ten-thousandth of true malice."

Tsurugi watched their performance with amusement, as if watching a monkey show, then opened his arms.

"Interestingly, after I was called the Crimson King and this inscribed name spread, I could sense a very chaotic and indescribable world... I probably will never be able to go there in my lifetime, but I can try to materialize some of it, well, in the form of domains."

"Of course, because of the malice that condensed in this body, all I can present is a part of the malice that represents that chaotic world."

"Since you believe yourself to be a curse formed from hatred of humanity, then why not accept this little curse that I bring?"

"If you all survive unscathed, I'll admit you are truly enemies of humanity~~~~"

Tsurugi's hand naturally extended downwards, with her fingertips drooping and her palm facing outwards, forming a wish-granting mudra.

Of course, he doesn't actually care about using hand seals; he just does it to look cool.

"Domain Expansion—"

Tsurugi's voice turned both pleasurable and cruel, and in that instant, Makoto's eyes narrowed.

In that instant, he saw countless souls in extreme agony, never to be reborn. They died, they were resurrected, they existed. Death was not eternal; suffering was.

"Get out of here!!!"

Suddenly, a pair of wings sprouted from the back of the real person. He screamed and fled, because the malice and terror he witnessed were a million times, a billion times more terrifying than he had imagined!

However, it was too late. The expanded domain instantly devoured Hua Yu's domain, easily suppressing it, and then dragged Lou Hu, Tuo Gen, and the True Person into it.

"What happens after death"

"Welcome to the eternal world after death, you pathetic spirit who calls yourself malicious."

The surveillance footage uploaded by the machine abruptly ended there, leaving only static on the screen.

"When we got there, we only found Mr. Gojo unconscious. We took him back, and that was it."

Inside the high school, facing Maki and the others' questions, Itadori, after watching the last surveillance footage transmitted by the Machine Gun, honestly stated...

"That's it? Where did those top-tier cursed spirits go?" Zenin Maki asked, her brows furrowed.

"And where did those people in the station who were transformed by the face-stitching curse go?"

"After that, Miss Mingming used her crow to scout the Shibuya area and found absolutely no suspicious targets," Fushiguro Megumi replied.

"It is speculated that the imaginary cursed spirit that played threatening videos throughout Japan possessed some kind of spatial teleportation technique, which took the cursed spirit and all the cyborgs away with it."

All the sorcerers who received the mission and rushed to Shibuya were left empty-handed. Gojo Satoru, who was leading the charge, was knocked unconscious by a fake spirit that suddenly appeared and used some unknown spell. Then, the other party used a domain to take away the most troublesome special-grade spirits.

By the time they arrived, the 'tent' covering Shibuya had already been lifted, and they only had time to deal with a few scattered curse masters.

"—But the higher-ups have already found out the source of that hypothetical cursed spirit."

Nanami Kento adjusted his glasses and calmly said...

"He is a virtual spirit created by the technique awakened by the sixteen-year-old girl named Yotsuya Miko. The specific technique is speculated to be 'virtual manipulation', which creates and controls virtual spirits. This spirit she conceived has been identified as a special-grade virtual spirit."

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Top-tier, without a doubt. In fact, if it weren't for this being the only rank, he would deserve an even higher evaluation.

After all, he was a special-grade cursed spirit who knocked down the invincible Gojo Satoru with an elbow the moment he appeared. Whether or not he benefited from the spell, that fact remains unchanged.

Moreover, since he can expand his domain, he is someone that only a top-tier technique can face and exorcise alone.

"A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the curse master, Miko Yotsuya, but to be honest, I don't believe she is the master of that imaginary cursed spirit."

Nanami Kento said this from the perspective of an adult and a senior.

"It's more like she's been controlled by that imaginary cursed spirit. Although there's a possibility of signing a contract to obtain the summoning, even so, the contract would probably be based on losing control of the cursed spirit."

After Qi Haijian finished speaking, the college was silent, and the atmosphere was quite somber.

After all, that guy who's always laughing and joking around is now lying in Shoko's infirmary receiving treatment, but according to Ms. Shoko, the situation isn't optimistic.

The reversal technique was completely ineffective in healing Gojo Satoru, or rather, she couldn't find where Gojo Satoru was injured.

Without Gojo Satoru, and now facing a super cursed spirit that had defeated Gojo Satoru and caused panic throughout Japan, the atmosphere was anything but pleasant.

"Speaking of which, imaginary cursed spirits refer to cursed spirits created from fictitious, non-existent legends, right?" Itajira broke the tense atmosphere with a question.

"What kind of fictional cursed spirit is he from?"

"After unanimous discussion, the higher-ups ruled out all products of Japanese mythology and urban legends. Although it is hard to believe, it is a hypothetical curse spirit based on a demon from a biblical story."

Nanami Kento adjusted his glasses and said quietly.

"The higher-ups named it—Special Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit: Crimson King."

The scene became somewhat quiet, and everyone suddenly felt a chill, as if the name itself brought a sense of terror.

"...Anyway, let's focus on healing Professor Gojo first. Once he wakes up, we'll find a way!"

While Knotweed was still speaking optimistically, suddenly, Moth, whose face was completely black, walked over.

He brought with him orders from the high-level directorate of sorcery.

Gojo Satoru was identified as a co-principal in the Shibuya incident, permanently expelled from the jutsu world, and sentenced to death, to be carried out immediately!

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P.S.: I recently watched the new season of Re:Zero and suddenly felt like writing something, like giving Subaru a power-up and then loving Ang (staring into the distance), but I don't have any inspiration right now.

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579. Behemoth, the Demon on the Moon

Cold, shivering

For Miko Yotsuya, Halloween night was a complete nightmare.

Actually, she didn't want to come to Shibuya tonight; Miko really dislikes overly lively places.

Because lively places have many people, and where there are many people, there are more evil spirits that ordinary people cannot see, twisted in shape, and constantly writhing in the crowd.

They'll perch on people's shoulders, hang from streetlights, and sticky fingers will stick out from the cracks in manhole covers. These disgusting things can be seen in almost every corner of Japan.

She didn't like seeing these things, even though he had gotten used to it. He had gotten used to pretending not to see the black worm crawling on his mother's shoulder while eating, to ignoring the constantly dripping fog above the track team seniors' heads during PE class, and to not looking in anyone's direction on the tram to school, since at least three people in each carriage were entangled with different evil spirits.

Being an invisible girl is the greatest lesson that has allowed Miko Yotsuya to survive to this day.

But today her younger brother said there was a Halloween cosplay performance in Shibuya tonight, and begged his mother to come and watch. She couldn't refuse her brother, so she came with them.

She stood in the middle of the Shibuya intersection, surrounded by a sea of ​​people dressed in Halloween costumes, with colorful neon billboards overhead. Her phone showed 7:32 PM.

It got dark at 7:33.

Or rather, in the darkness that had already arrived, a massive black wall of light descended from the sky, enveloping Shibuya within it.

Amidst the chaos of the crowd, Jianzi struggled to grab her younger brother's hand, only to watch helplessly as he was swept into an unseen vortex.

"Kyousuke!!!"

Miko called out loudly for her younger brother and mother, but the crowd was already in chaos. Screams came from all directions, and in the midst of the chaos, Miko saw a strange man with stitches all over his face leap off the roof and hum a song as he walked into Shibuya Station.

It's obvious that an ordinary person couldn't possibly jump from a building tens of meters high and be unharmed. That person was definitely not an ordinary person, or even a human being. After all, it seemed that only he among everyone had seen this strange young man with stitches.

Perhaps his younger brother's disappearance was related to him! Seeing this, he mustered his courage and chased after him, and then—