Chapter 140 – Sukuna…More Powerful?
"...That last attack."
Gojo Satoru murmured as Reversed Cursed Technique stitched together the grid-shaped wound carved almost to the bone.
His expression darkened.
Could Limitless really block that slash?
He had already sensed something wrong—
That slash didn't just cut the air.
It severed space, even brushing the edge of ignoring Limitless's infinite buffer.
This was dangerous.
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"Looks like this guy's going to be troublesome."
Shinsuke flexed his fingers. The bleeding on his chest had already stopped, though the raw, brutal gash would take time to close.
"I'll pin him down. You deploy your domain and finish him in one go."
Gojo frowned.
"And what about you? You'll get dragged into the domain too."
"Me?" Shinsuke snorted. "I'm not a sorcerer. Your domain might as well treat me like a lamp post."
And with that, he stomped once—
BOOM—
and shot toward Sukuna like a fired cannon shell.
Gojo smacked his forehead.
"Right. He's a zero cursed energy monster. Forgot for a moment."
In his domain, someone without cursed energy had all the significance of a piece of furniture.
No information flood.
No paralysis.
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BOOM!!!
Their fists collided.
Even though Sukuna's speed matched Shinsuke's, his strength clearly didn't.
Bones cracked instantly—
and his arm exploded under the force.
But with four arms and an automatic reverse healing loop, he parried Shinsuke's relentless barrage blow for blow.
"What's wrong? Is Gojo running out of steam?"
Sukuna mocked, grin widening.
"Or maybe the two of you are cooking up another cheap trick?"
Right now, Sukuna was practically a supercharged Mahoraga—
not adapting to techniques, but simply unkillable.
Four hands.
Infinite regeneration.
Cursed energy that refused to end.
A nightmare.
Shinsuke ignored the taunt.
His fists blurred, cracking space with each strike, pulverizing each of Sukuna's arms the moment they regenerated.
"You really are a freak," Sukuna admitted.
"In my prime, I might not have beaten you in raw strength."
Two of his eyes constantly monitored Shinsuke—
the other two were fixed on Gojo.
He wasn't stupid enough to forget that threat.
"I recall sorcerers have a way to distort space too…"
Sukuna's expression sharpened.
The freshly regenerated fists detonated—
bursting into black-red lightning.
All four arms punched simultaneously.
Black Flash.
The collision of their blows warped the space around them—
an invisible gravity well forming between them, sucking in rubble and debris like a miniature singularity.
Shinsuke and Sukuna both leapt away instantly.
It was the same spatial distortion as Gojo's Blue, but created with pure physical force.
No techniques.
Just raw power.
Even Gojo couldn't help but click his tongue.
"Okay, now that's ridiculous…"
"Stop daydreaming! Now's our chance!"
The moment they dodged, Shinsuke flickered—
reappearing behind Sukuna.
In one fluid motion he pinned all four of Sukuna's arms with his limbs—
locking him in place, preventing a single hand sign.
Gojo reacted instantly.
One hand rose.
Cursed energy roared.
"Domain Expansion — Unlimited Void!"
A massive surge of cursed energy unfolded into a gray-white void, dragging Sukuna—and Shinsuke clinging to him—straight into Unlimited Void.
Sukuna's pupils shrank.
In that instant he made a decision.
All four of his arms snapped off at once, severing themselves so he could break free and sprint toward Gojo.
He poured Reversed Cursed Technique into the stumps as he ran.
Only by physically touching Satoru Gojo could he escape the guaranteed-hit effect of Gojo's domain.
But—
He was one step too late.
Unlimited Void fully activated.
Infinite, meaningless information flooded Sukuna's brain in an instant, freezing his body mid-stride.
His vision registered everything normally—
but his body… simply stopped.
Paralyzed under the weight of impossible data.
Seeing Sukuna frozen, Shinsuke finally exhaled.
"Looks like he's done. Seriously… who designed this domain? It's not a place for humans to exist."
He shivered as he looked at the endless empty horizon.
"So then… who does this count as?" Gojo asked, rubbing his chin while staring at the immobilized Sukuna.
"Since he's trapped inside my domain, doesn't that mean I beat him?"
He had bet 100 billion on himself.
No way was he letting that money get flushed for nothing.
"Without me pinning him down, would you have even gotten him inside?"
Shinsuke countered immediately.
"It obviously counts as my win."
He wasn't about to lose the biggest payout of his life.
"But we're in my domain." Gojo smirked.
"As long as Sukuna dies here, everyone outside will assume I killed him.
So certain people's 100 billion is about to go poof~"
That grin was downright villainous.
Shinsuke stared.
"...You're the head of the Gojo Clan. You don't even need that 100 billion. Why are you being so petty?"
All this just to watch him suffer?
Gojo opened his mouth to fire back—
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CRACK. CRACK. CRACK.
A sharp fracturing sound echoed through the domain.
Gojo's expression shifted instantly.
"What the—?"
He felt the domain distort beneath him.
A surge of danger prickled his skin.
"Not good!"
He bolted toward Sukuna to finish him off.
But—
BOOM!
Unlimited Void shattered, exploding outward.
The sky darkened as though night had fallen in an instant.
A monstrous tidal wave of cursed energy poured from every direction into Sukuna's body, detonating in a violent shockwave that blasted Gojo and Shinsuke back dozens of meters.
"What now…?"
Shinsuke frowned.
Doing a sit-up to power up? Isn't that supposed to be the protagonist's skill?
Why does Sukuna have it?
"HAHAHAHAHAHA—!"
Sukuna's expression twisted into pure mania.
Cursed energy surged endlessly from his body, condensing into a cocoon of raw power that wrapped tightly around him.
Gojo's face darkened.
"Stop him!"
He fired a Reversal: Red—a violent blast of raw repulsion.
CRACK!
But as the crimson orb reached Sukuna—
It was torn apart.
Not deflected.
Not countered.
Simply ripped to shreds by the violent aura raging around Sukuna.
"I've got a really bad feeling…" Gojo muttered.
Shinsuke rolled his eyes.
"At this point it's not a 'feeling.'
Anyone with eyes can see something's seriously wrong with this guy."