Chapter 137 – Domain Recast
The sphere-shaped barrier trembled violently—
and then suddenly began to shrink.
Sukuna was contracting the range of his domain
to amplify the lethality of the attacks inside.
BOOOOM!
Cracks webbed across the barrier's surface.
A heartbeat later—
KRAK—BOOM!
The entire domain exploded, ejecting multiple figures in all directions—
Sukuna included.
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"So fast?"
Zen'in Shinsuke raised a brow.
He didn't expect a six-domain clash to collapse that quickly.
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Sukuna staggered upright, and Gojo stepped forward.
"Sukuna… there are six of us.
You don't have a single ally."
"So tell me—"
"What exactly are you planning to use to fight all six?"
If Sukuna's domain couldn't overpower theirs, then with his domain gone and his technique entering burnout…
He'd have no choice but to take a beating.
"Sukuna's head is mine."
Before Sukuna could even answer, Kashimo shot forward as a streak of lightning.
During technique burnout, sorcerers couldn't use their cursed techniques.
But Kashimo had never used one anyway.
His entire fighting style was pure cursed-energy manipulation.
Burnout meant nothing to him.
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"You bastard!
You're cheating!"
Yorozu yelled and prepared to rush in as well.
But—
SHRRRAAK!
A massive cleaving strike erupted from Sukuna's position, tearing through the ground and ripping toward Kashimo like it was splitting space itself.
Kashimo sensed death.
He twisted sideways—
SWISH!
His arm flew off.
The slash continued for hundreds of meters, carving a canyon into the earth.
Kashimo retreated immediately, blood mist trailing behind him.
Yorozu, who had been about to charge, froze in place.
"How… how is that possible?!
You're not in burnout?!"
Kashimo stared at Sukuna in disbelief.
The others turned to look as well—
faces grim.
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"That shouldn't be possible.
Gojo-sensei—can you do that?"
Yuta's voice trembled slightly.
Sorcerers enter technique burnout after using a domain because their brains—
specifically the parts that handle cursed technique activation—
are temporarily overloaded.
That's why techniques can't be activated for a while.
But Sukuna…
Sukuna was unaffected.
To Yuta, there was only one explanation:
"He… destroyed the part of his brain used for cursed techniques with cursed energy, then used Reverse Cursed Technique to instantly repair it…?"
"But that level of control…
That precision—
How?!"
It was a level of cursed-energy mastery he couldn't even imagine.
"Before? No."
Gojo replied.
"But after spending some time inside the Prison Realm…
This much is doable."
He had originally planned to finish Sukuna off with a coordinated ambush.
But clearly—
He had underestimated him.
"But don't misunderstand."
Gojo's expression sharpened.
"Sukuna did enter technique burnout."
"It's just that his burnout period is so short it's practically nonexistent."
"That's because of… whatever he's become."
Gojo offered a quiet reminder.
He could clearly feel whether Sukuna had used Reverse Cursed Technique.
So he knew—
Sukuna hadn't escaped burnout using Yuta's imagined method.
"He isn't a sorcerer or a curse anymore.
He's… something else entirely."
As he spoke, Gojo activated Reverse Cursed Technique on himself—
repairing the portion of his brain he had deliberately destroyed.
His own burnout ended instantly.
"The real fight starts now."
The moment he finished speaking—
Gojo stepped forward, Limitless humming to life around him.
One hand formed a seal.
A tidal wave of cursed energy erupted.
"Domain Expansion — Unlimited Void!"
Sukuna grinned, amused.
"Hahaha… Gojo Satoru.
I'm impressed."
After all, Sukuna himself needed Tengen's body
and the assimilation of a million people
to achieve such output.
"Domain Expansion — Malevolent Shrine!"
This time, Gojo's domain came first.
For a fraction of a second—
Sukuna's mind drowned in an ocean of useless information.
Enough to kill a normal person instantly.
But for Sukuna—
who had merged with over a million souls—
it barely counted as stimulation.
Inside the overlapping domains, both barriers collided.
Domain against domain—
a pure head-on clash.
Whoever broke first would face certain death.
Gojo didn't bother with words.
Cursed energy wrapped his fist, and he charged straight for Sukuna beneath the shrine.
Sukuna welcomed him with his own flurry of blows.
They collided in a violent blur.
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Outside the barrier, the others could only watch.
"These two monsters…
How the hell are they opening domains back-to-back like that?"
Yorozu puffed her cheeks in pure frustration.
Yuta spoke next, calmly analyzing:
"I have a plan.
Once their domains collapse, our techniques should recover."
"If we take turns expanding our domains,
we can drag Sukuna into one after another.
All five of us can use domains—
we'll wear him down and kill him."
He refused to believe Sukuna could sustain unlimited domain expansion.
"What do you think?"
"…I'm not doing that."
Kashimo rejected it immediately.
"When their domains end, I'll use my own technique to fight him.
It only works once.
So before that—do not interfere."
He didn't care about the jujutsu world.
He didn't care about saving civilians.
He cared only about fighting Sukuna.
Yuta opened his mouth to object—
But Shinsuke cut him off.
"Let him.
All of you should leave."
"Sukuna is ours—mine and Gojo's.
We've played around enough."
He stared at the glowing silver barrier in the distance, face calm.
He had planned to beat Sukuna to a pulp with everyone ganging up.
But Sukuna's strength exceeded expectations.
Too many strong fighters would only get in each other's way.
"Fine," Yuki said with a mischievous wink.
"If you two fail, I'll handle it.
I still have a trump card, you know."
Shinsuke's eye twitched.
A trump card?
She meant the one capable of erasing this entire region from the map.
"…Great."
"I trust Zen'in-sensei and Gojo-sensei," Yuta said, retreating.
"Hey—HEY!
I didn't agree!
I'm staying!
I'm killing Sukuna with my own hands!!"
Yorozu stomped like a furious child.
Shinsuke ignored her.
"Tsumiki."
At his call, Tsumiki instantly regained control of her body.
"Uncle, I'll withdraw.
Good luck to both of you."
She clenched her fist in encouragement and fled the battlefield.
Inside her mind, Yorozu screamed:
"WHAT THE—!?
@#!$%!!!!!"
Nobody cared.