Curse Return: Demon Void Girl Doesn't Want to Be a Weakling

When the panda hoisted Fuhei onto its shoulder, Fuhei did not struggle.

Maki walked behind the panda, taking three steps backward.

Hua Yu stood amidst the pebbles on the riverbank, branches spreading outwards from her feet.

Itsuji and Toudou stood side by side, with Toudou taking off his school uniform jacket and wrapping it around his waist.

The panda carried him and ran towards the forest, with Maki following behind.

The sounds of people and water on the riverbank grew fainter and fainter.

Huzhang moved his shoulder blades and turned his neck left and right.

His bones cracked twice, and then he took off his school uniform jacket, folded it neatly, and placed it next to a large rock on the riverbank.

The short-sleeved sleeves were rolled up to the shoulders, revealing the entire arm.

Dongtang stood beside him, arms crossed, looking down at the spreading branches at Huayu's feet.

"This top-tier 'Zoo' is a melee fighter, but it also knows how to manipulate plants. If the habitat is near water and forest, its regeneration speed will be very fast."

"It looks very hard too." Itachi pulled his hand back from behind his neck.

"But we can fight."

"Of course we can fight."

Hua Yu did not move. She stood by the river, and the reflection on the water was shattered by the ripples caused by the magical power spreading from her feet.

Megumi Fushiguro was taken away, and Noriyuki Kamo and Toshiki Inumaki had been sent away by the woman with the nunchaku even earlier.

Only two people remained on the riverbank: one with pink hair and the other a large man.

"I want to ask you something." Itajimaru looked up at Hanamichi, his eyes wide but his tone calm, "Are you all in cahoots with Masato?"

"Yes." Hua Yu looked at him for two seconds. "What if I said that?"

With a cracking sound from his knuckles, he didn't press the matter, but kicked two large rocks from the riverbed, letting the water obscure Hua Yu's view.

Then, in the next instant, Itachi appeared in front of Hanami and delivered a straight kick to Hanami's face.

Wow, that was fast! The explosive power was even stronger than the girl's earlier attack, but the actual power wasn't that great.

Hua Yu was kicked backward, thinking to herself.

next second.

"【Black Flash】!!"

A black flash, imbued with dark magical power, struck Hana's body, sending her flying backward. She crashed into a tree and came to a stop.

"When did you learn Black Flash?"

"I used it when I fought the real person before." Itadori loosened and clenched his fist, black magical energy enveloping his body. "Then I practiced it a few more times afterward."

Dongtang glanced at Itajō, a satisfied smile on his face.

He and Itajō fought each other for so long in the open space. This man never used Black Flash from beginning to end, and preferred to be beaten bloody with ordinary punches and kicks.

Now, standing in front of a top-level expert, he casually says he knows it.

"Japanese knotweed Yuhito."

"Um?"

"You truly are my dearest friend!" Dongtang said to him. "I don't have time to explain my technique right now, but I have one thing to tell you."

"What?"

"Don't stop, trust me!"

"OK! Two things, right?" Itadori replied, looking at Hanamichi and adjusting his breathing.

The rhythm of his heartbeat and the power of his curse were synchronized, each beat bringing him closer to the breaking point.

He lowered his center of gravity, with his left foot forward and his right foot back, his hands clenched into fists and hanging loosely in front of him.

"It's in!"

Dongtang loosened his arms from his chest and let them hang down at his sides as he rushed forward.

With a stomp of his shovel, gravel exploded behind him, and he charged straight toward Hua Yu.

Hua Yu raised his right arm, and branches sprouted from the riverbank, weaving three layers of defense in front of him.

The tiger rod did not slow down.

He slammed his left shoulder into the first layer, and the branch snapped in the middle from the impact on his shoulder blade, sending wood chips flying into the air.

Then, with his right fist, he smashed two giant trees in half, squeezing his body through the broken section, the broken branches cutting several shallow gashes on his arm.

Hanami did not dodge. She waited for the tussock to hit the third floor before using a side branch to counterattack.

"Smack."

The crisp sound of clapping echoed across the riverbank.

Tiger Rod's body vanished instantly from in front of the defensive layer and reappeared above and to the left of Flower Mistress.

She turned her head, and Hercules' right fist was already poised.

He compressed the curse power into his fist to its maximum, so tightly that he could feel his finger bones trembling slightly under the pressure within the curse power.

My heart skipped a beat, and the frequency of the cursed energy tremor perfectly matched my heartbeat.

That fraction of a second.

He felt the world become very quiet, and controlling his magical power was as easy as drinking water.

[Black Flash].

Black lightning lashed out from his palm, leaving a distorted spatial trace in the air.

The knotweed struck the trunk of the flower with a loud bang, and the branch instantly snapped and turned to powder.

Hua Yu's entire body tilted to the right, the spot where he was hit caved in, and cracks spread from his shoulder to his waist, while water droplets splashed into the air from his feet.

Dongtang landed on the ground. He looked at the angle at which Huayu had been hit and saw that Huzhang had not stopped after landing and was already preparing for the next attack.

A perfect black flash isn't achieved through luck; he can actively control the timing.

"Amazing, my brother!" Dongtang shouted.

"oh!"

Hua Yu barely managed to stand firm; the dent he had been struck was regenerating, but at a much slower pace than before.

The damage the black flash inflicted on her body was too great; she didn't have time to repair it.

Tiger Rod wasn't going to give her any breathing room and charged forward a second time.

Dongtang also moved, the two of them cutting into Huayu's two sides from the left and right, the rubble being scattered by their speed.

Hanako raised her arms, and branches sprouted from the ground on both sides at the same time.

The branches on the left twined around the Japanese knotweed, while those on the right lunged towards the east hall.

He sidestepped the first bar, grabbed the next bar with his backhand, and tore it off.

Dongtang blocked the blow with his forearm, the branch leaving red marks on his arm, but he didn't back down an inch.

"Smack."

Position swap.

Huzhang and Dongtang switched positions in mid-air. Hanami's branch missed its target, and Huzhang appeared to Hanami's right, while Dongtang appeared to her left.

Hanamichi had to redistribute the defensive direction of his arms, and he was less than half a second too slow. Itachi's next punch had already arrived.

"【Black Flash】!!"

With a roar, Tiger Staff swung his right fist from below and slammed it into Hanami's side. Hanami took the blow head-on, and tree branches surged from under her feet to counterattack Tiger Staff's body.

Dongtang clapped his hands again.

This time, he didn't switch positions with Itadori, but with Hanamichi.

The scene in front of Hua Yu changed, and she froze for half a second.

Tiger Rod seized that half-second, twisted his body, and punched Hanamichi in the chest with his left fist.

Hua Yu raised her hand to block, crossing her right arm in front of her chest.

Itachi's left fist struck her right arm. Just as Hanami was about to retaliate with her left fist, Itachi's right fist followed.

[Black Flash]

The third shot.

The black lightning pierced through the middle of Hua Yu's arms, striking his chest after passing through them.

"boom!"

A louder sound than the first shot rang out, and Hua Yu slid back two meters, her heels dragging two furrows on the riverbank.

A cross-shaped crack appeared at the point of impact, and broken wood chips fell from the crack.

Hadana shook her right hand, her knuckles turning slightly red from the excessive output of magical power.