Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

Chapter 138 Penetration

a circle.

Two laps.

Three laps.

The gap appears once every time the high-speed water flow around the vortex completes a revolution.

The position is fixed, the angle is fixed, and the duration is almost the same.

Mayi moved her finger from the trigger guard to the trigger, but didn't pull it.

"The water flow is regular. Every time it goes around, a gap appears at the ten o'clock position and lasts for about half a second."

Her voice echoed muffledly in the metallic cavity.

"But there's another layer behind the gap."

That is the outer shell of the dead water zone itself.

It wasn't a physical barrier formed by flowing water, but something solidified by laws. When the dark patterns on the scope were aligned with that outer shell, the purplish-black light became extremely agitated.

The Black Queen can penetrate it.

But the prerequisite is that a sufficiently large opening must first be torn in the water flow barrier in front of it.

That half-second interval isn't enough.

If the current is too narrow, the Black Queen's trajectory will be deflected by the high-pressure ocean current.

What she needs is a wider passage.

Even if it's just for a second.

"Fu Hei".

"I heard you."

His voice came in from outside, muffled by the water pressure and the shell.

"Can you widen the gap as soon as it appears?"

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She felt the masked general's body tremble.

That's not caused by water pressure; something inside the shikigami is moving.

"The Masked General's left arm can still move once more." Fushiguro Megumi's voice was more serious than before. "The water pressure has already deformed the joints of his right arm."

"Once is enough."

"What about the distance?"

"The closer the better."

Another silence followed.

Then, the masked general began to slowly approach the edge of the vortex.

The sound of flowing water is no longer sound at this depth.

It is a vibration.

It entered through the outer shell of the Masked General's armor, passed through the buffer layer of the Shadow Entity, and finally reached Zhenyi's neck.

My whole body was trembling in sync with that frequency.

When they were still a few dozen meters from the outer edge of the vortex, the masked general stopped.

Shinichi saw the reason through the scope.

The water is not just rotating.

The outer edge of the vortex flung out a large number of high-pressure water blades in all directions, like the blades of a giant shredder cutting through the seawater at high speed.

When the water blades swept past the masked general's armor a few meters in front of him, the resulting vortexes caused the entire shikigami to shift laterally.

If we go any closer, the shell will come into contact with it.

"At this distance."

Zhenyi said.

Fushiguro Megumi did not reply.

But the masked general's left arm moved.

The arm emitted a loud metallic scraping sound starting from the base of the shikigami's shoulder armor.

The shadow adhesive layer at the joints had been squeezed to its limit by the pressure of the deep sea, and fine air bubbles seeped out between the bronze armor plates.

When her arm was halfway raised, Zhenyi felt a change in temperature coming from the inner wall of the Masked General's chest cavity.

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It's getting hot.

Fushiguro Megumi was desperately pouring her magical power into the shikigami's body from the outside. She could feel the rapid and intense output rhythm through the pulsation of the shadowy entity on the inner wall.

The masked general finally raised his left arm above his head.

With fingers spread, the nail plates at the fingertips cracked, revealing the solidified shadow blades inside.

The vortex spun around once.

The gap appeared at the ten o'clock position.

The masked general's arm slashed down.

The strike was silent.

Or perhaps the sound was too loud, exceeding the range that the human ear can process, turning into a pure shock.

The shadow blade sliced ​​into the edge of the gap, following the direction of the water's rotation, tearing what was originally a half-second gap into a rift several meters wide.

The high-pressure water flow churned violently on both sides of the rift, and the cut-off ocean current instantly lost its original trajectory, swinging outward like two broken whips.

The masked general's entire left arm broke off at the shoulder joint after delivering the blow.

Bronze fragments and shadowy remnants tumbled in the water and were sucked into the vortex, instantly pulverized into powder.

But the crack is still there.

The water flow is attempting to heal, and the ocean currents that were cut off on both sides are beginning to bend and converge again.

Zhenyi saw what was behind the crack.

The outer shell of the law.

It was grayish-white, without luster or warmth, like a dead wall.

The shadow patterns in the scope lit up instantly. A purplish-black light burned from the barrel all the way to the stock, and the Black Queen's temperature soared, the heat penetrating her gloves and scalding her palms.

Zhenyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Pull the trigger.

The Black Queen fires silently and without recoil.

All that remained was a dark purple beam of light shooting straight out from the muzzle of the gun.

The moment the tip of the light touched the seawater, it pushed away all the surrounding water molecules.

A vacuum channel, about half a meter in diameter, extends from the muzzle of the gun, passes through the crack, and reaches the outer shell of the law.

Vacuum chamber.

At a depth of 10,000 meters underwater, this passage would exist for no more than a second. The surrounding seawater would rush in from all directions with unimaginable pressure, shattering the vacuum.

But one second is enough for the ballistic trajectory to complete its full range.

When the dark purple light struck the outer shell of the law, Mayu saw a scene through the scope.

The grayish-white wall surface dented at the point of impact.

Then it cracked.

The cracks spread outward from the center, like ice shattering when struck by a stone. A deep blue, almost black liquid seeped from the cracks, its color identical to the darkness within the stagnant water zone.

The outer shell is broken.

The ballistic trajectory passed through the crack and disappeared into that deep blue-black space.

At the same time, the vacuum chamber collapsed. Seawater poured in from all directions with a muffled bang. The water at the crack also healed at that moment, and the vortex resumed its rotation.

But the cracks in the outer shell of the law have not healed.

It was still there, seeping with dark liquid, like a wound that hadn't had time to scab over.

The masked general's body slid backward dozens of meters in the shockwave. Fushiguro Megumi knelt on one knee in the seawater behind the shikigami, several cracks appearing on the shadow shell, and the cursed power seeping out from them turned into pale blue threads in the water.

His breathing was heavy and rapid.

The masked general's left arm was missing, the joints of his right arm were severely deformed, and his armor was covered with dents and cracks.

But the shikigami is still there.

Fukuguro Megumi stared at the unhealed crack in the distance, clenching her back teeth.

The square hole on the masked general's breastplate was not yet closed, and Zhenyi's gun barrel slowly retracted from it.

"It's been breached." Her voice was very soft.

Fushiguro Megumi paused for a moment.

"I saw it."

He stood up, supporting himself on the masked general's back armor, the shadowy shell cracking softly with his movements.

More and more dark liquid is seeping out from the crack. After the outer shell of the law was pierced, the pressure inside the stagnant water realm is leaking out through that gap.

An unusual turbulence formed around the crack in the seawater.

"Can we walk?" Zhenyi asked.

"able."

Fushiguro Megumi's shadow extended from beneath her feet, once again enveloping the masked general's tattered lower body. The shikigami's legs regained basic mobility under the shadow's influence.

He looked up at the crack.

The crack is widening.

Things inside the stagnant water area are gushing out from that gap.

It is not a liquid.

It's a kind of aura.

The air was cold and stagnant, slowing down one's thoughts.

Fushiguro took a deep breath.

"Go in."

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