The moment the white-haired man raised his fingers and formed a hand sign, Yukinoshita Yukino also extended her hands in front of her, forming the Enma Heaven Mudra.
"Domain Expansion: Infinite Void."
"Domain Expansion: Cursed Demon Kitchen."
The barriers of both domains expanded rapidly from behind each of them, crashing together like two massive waves colliding head-on. The space between them became a clear dividing line where their opposing domain landscapes started to erode each other.
On one side was a vast and endless universe, with the white-haired man floating in front of a breathtaking planet. On the other side was a blood-red sea filled with massive, twisted white bones, with a sinister-looking Buddhist shrine standing behind the black-haired girl.
"Ah! I can't see anything anymore!"
Itadori Yuji widened his eyes as he watched Gojo Satoru and Yukinoshita Yukino enter their domains. From the outside, all he could see was an enormous black sphere enclosing them.
"Who's going to win?" Itadori Yuji asked, confused.
Now that the two had entered the ninth stage of their domain battle, the watching students no longer had to worry about getting caught in the shockwaves of their fight. They gathered together once again, waiting for the moment when one of the domains would emerge victorious.
Fushiguro Megumi, who had just arrived, heard the pink-haired boy's question and replied with a serious expression, "I don't know… Yukinoshita-senpai's true strength is far beyond what we imagined."
She was too fast.
Her power was growing at an unbelievable rate.
If he remembered correctly, just a few months ago, Yukinoshita Yukino had only become a sorcerer because she became the vessel of Hayashizaki. But in just a few months, she had already reached the same level as Gojo Satoru, who had long been considered the strongest.
Right now, the strongest should still be Hayashizaki, who had been missing for some time. What Yukinoshita Yukino and Gojo Satoru were competing for was probably the position just below that.
It was insane.
The students from Kyoto Jujutsu High, who didn't know much about Yukinoshita Yukino, were stunned when they heard from Fushiguro Megumi that the black-haired girl, who was fighting Gojo Satoru on equal footing, had been a complete beginner just a few months ago.
"Even Okkotsu Yuta can't match her, right?" Kamo Noritoshi, who always kept his eyes half-closed, actually opened them a little. He turned to Zenin, hoping for confirmation.
"Yuta wouldn't last this long against Gojo," Zenin adjusted her glasses.
Her dorm was right next to Yukinoshita Yukino's, so she had been watching her go on mission after mission, barely ever taking a break.
It was clear that Yukinoshita Yukino's rapid growth was closely tied to the constant real-world experience she gained from these missions.
But what Zenin couldn't figure out was—why was she so desperate to become stronger?
...
Inside the domain, neither combatant knew how shocked the people outside were. The sure-hit effects of both domains were continuously canceling each other out.
It was exactly as Yukinoshita Yukino had seen before when Hayashizaki fought Gojo Satoru in a domain battle.
However, unlike Hayashizaki, the black-haired girl didn't have his godlike ability to paint without a canvas. She couldn't use an Open Barrier Domain, which meant she couldn't defeat Gojo Satoru using only her domain like Hayashizaki did.
"Good, good. So you still haven't mastered… 904… 842905… Search U: Open Barrier Domain," Gojo Satoru grinned. "Otherwise, I might've started to suspect that Hayashizaki secretly crawled back inside your body."
"Gojo-sensei, you really love to joke," Yukinoshita Yukino replied in a calm tone.
If that were really the case, she wouldn't have to work so hard collecting points.
But these days were about to come to an end.
As long as she defeated Gojo Satoru here, the points from winning plus the points from completing the system mission would add up to nearly 100,000. That meant she'd only be 30,000 points away from reaching a million.
"That's enough small talk." Yukinoshita Yukino spoke.
Without an Open Barrier Domain, the performance of Cursed Demon Kitchen and Infinite Void was nearly equal.
But compared to Cursed Demon Kitchen, Infinite Void had the advantage in technique. The moment the balance of their sure-hit effects was broken, Infinite Void would take over and end the fight instantly.
At the same time, Gojo Satoru also had the extreme techniques of using Reverse Cursed Technique to repair his body and severing his own cursed energy flow, like walking on a tightrope between life and death.
As for Yukinoshita Yukino...
"The technique is engraved in the sorcerer's brain, roughly in the right frontal cortex. Resetting a severed technique with Reverse Cursed Energy means destroying your own brain with cursed energy and then healing it with Reverse Cursed Energy to reset the severed technique."
"Yukino, don't use it lightly."
During that soul-crossing conversation across world lines, Hayashizaki's warning echoed in the black-haired girl's mind, as if he had already predicted that Yukinoshita Yukino and Gojo Satoru would inevitably clash.
"Oh, and if it's that guy Gojo Satoru, I'd guess he can reset it about five times before reaching his limit."
Yukinoshita Yukino focused her gaze, steadied her mind, and shot forward from the shrine altar alongside a white shikigami, charging at the white-haired man on the other side.
Hayashizaki had said that Gojo Satoru could reset his severed technique five times before hitting his limit. That meant she needed to break his domain at least four times before she could completely defeat him in a domain battle.
For Yukinoshita Yukino, who had only recently mastered her own domain, this was a daunting challenge.
"That's why you need to fully use our advantage of being able to activate multiple techniques at once. And then there's Mahoraga—its ability to adapt to anything. If used properly, it could be our ultimate trump card."
Facing an attack from both her and Isshiki's deity at the same time, Gojo Satoru still seemed completely at ease.
"So even my sure-hit effect against Mahoraga got nullified? The ability to activate multiple techniques at once really is cheating, huh."
Mahoraga's massive figure descended from the sky, its clenched fists smashing down—but just before they could land on the white-haired man's head, they stopped inches away.
In that instant, Gojo Satoru countered with a flurry of punches, striking the white shikigami with relentless force. The blows sent it coughing up blood before it was finally blasted away by an explosion of cursed energy.
At the same time, an overwhelming surge of cursed energy suddenly appeared in his perception.
Blinding purple lightning illuminated the battlefield, flashing past the flying deity and catching Gojo Satoru's eye.
"Kukō" "Henkō" "Karasu to Shōmyō" "Hyōri no Hazama"
"Hollow Purple!"
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