"What kind of hardness is this?"
Every slash powerful enough to shatter steel plates was blocked by an invisible wall. Intense metallic clashes rose and fell, and the darkness was filled with sparks violently struck from metal.
The man with a scar on his lip had emerald eyes filled with a bloody, dark, and wild abandon. His sharply defined, powerful muscles were perfectly highlighted by his black bodysuit.
"It seems taking a small job to get a feel for things before accepting a big one was the right choice."
He glanced at the wrist holding the knife; it was already trembling slightly from the high-intensity recoil. A bloodthirsty smile appeared on his lips.
"Otherwise, I wouldn't have known my touch was this rusty."
Anyone meeting those wild eyes would instinctively look away; he resembled a fierce, arrogant lone wolf more than a man, never running with a pack.
Isayama Yomi, having regained her calm thinking ability, finally noticed the anomaly: although this man was standing right in front of her, he had no presence, like an invisible person.
This led her to consider a possibility.
It wasn't that her ability had failed; rather, this person simply could not be detected.
The principle of the Perception Ability relies on Cursed Energy; even the most ordinary humans possess faint Cursed Energy, which is why the ability is always effective.
When she saw the man regurgitate a Cursed Spirit Orb from his mouth, and the orb rapidly expanded upon contact with the air, turning into an ugly Cursed Spirit with the long, slender body of a caterpillar but the head of an infant, slowly wrapping itself around him...
...it made Isayama Yomi, just like Kenmyo Isayama, recall this notorious individual who once caused chaos in the Jujutsu World.
"Be careful, that's the Sorcerer Killer!"
She said to Kenmyo Isayama.
"Zen'in Toji!"
"Oh~ So someone still remembers me."
The man called Zen'in Toji by Isayama Yomi pulled out the knife that had popped out of the caterpillar Cursed Spirit's mouth.
"I married into a family; I'm called Fushiguro now."
"The Zen'in Family? Not even a dog would stay there."
He switched to a lighter weapon and threw it directly at Isayama Yomi.
But before the weapon could reach Isayama Yomi, it was instantly immobilized in mid-air by Kenmyo Isayama.
"Boom!"
Unexpectedly, the Cursed Tool exploded the next second, and fierce flames engulfed Kenmyo Isayama and Isayama Yomi.
When the smoke cleared, they were completely unharmed.
Kenmyo Isayama had clenched his hand, and the explosion caused by the Grade Three Cursed Tool was forcefully crushed by his Telekinesis, condensing it into a fireball containing both Psychic Power and Cursed Energy.
"I know. This man's reputation is so great that even an outsider like me has heard of him."
Fushiguro Toji, possessor of the Heavenly Restriction, whose formidable strength crushed the entire Jujutsu World, having killed over a dozen First Grade Jujutsu Sorcerers.
The Zen'in Family, along with the Kamo Family—Kenmyo Isayama's former surname—are listed as the Three Great Jujutsu Sorcerer Families of Neon. Coincidentally, the similarity between Kenmyo Isayama and Fushiguro Toji stems from this.
Both of them were expelled by their respective families because they lacked the talent to be Jujutsu Sorcerers.
What Kenmyo Isayama could be sure of was that he had no involvement with such a dangerous person; the opponent was clearly targeting Isayama Yomi.
"Then, esteemed 'Heavenly Restraints Tyrant,' could you explain why you are attacking my sister?"
The small, pale purple sphere bounced like a will-o'-the-wisp in Kenmyo Isayama's palm. Before he finished speaking, he hurled the fireball straight at Fushiguro Toji.
Facing the surging fireball, Fushiguro Toji's expression remained unchanged. Instead, he rapidly drew a Double-Headed Short Blade from the mouth of the ugly Cursed Spirit.
He neither dodged nor retreated, meeting the attack head-on. When the two forces met, the brilliant flash of the blade effortlessly sliced the destructive fireball in two.
"Who knows?"
Without turning to look at the spectacular explosion behind him, Fushiguro Toji's hair whipped in the wind, and his emerald eyes displayed undisguised fighting spirit.
"Beat me, and I'll tell you."
Fushiguro Toji scratched his hair, looking slightly disgusted. He tapped the back of the blade against his neck, his tone full of helplessness.
"Also, don't call me that. That title I earned when I was young sounds quite embarrassing now."
Facing an existence that every Jujutsu Sorcerer in the Jujutsu World feared, one that caused almost everyone to feel unsafe.
"You've been fighting me this long. You don't actually think you're the one gaining the upper hand, do you?"
Kenmyo Isayama said calmly, as if stating a fact.
"You're going to die, old man."
The expressionless Kenmyo Isayama raised a Psychic Shield in front of himself and Isayama Yomi, blocking the incoming gale.
Fushiguro Toji's methods might be highly effective against Jujutsu Sorcerers; even the strongest, those at the pinnacle of strength, could easily be defeated if they made a single mistake when facing him.
But Kenmyo Isayama was not a Jujutsu Sorcerer.
The Heavenly Restriction granted Fushiguro Toji the ultimate physical strength, making him the pinnacle of Martial Arts in the Jujutsu World.
If he couldn't break the defense, everything was useless.
Kenmyo Isayama's Psychic Shield completely countered Fushiguro Toji's method of attack. The nearly instant Psychic Shield could withstand the Sorcerer Killer's relentless, storm-like assaults.
Theoretically, as long as Kenmyo Isayama's mana points did not deplete, he could cast this Spell anytime, anywhere.
The strength of the Psychic Shield could be freely adjusted by Kenmyo Isayama, choosing to consume a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 200 mana points to form the Energy Shield (the higher the mana points consumed, the stronger the Psychic Shield).
At the same time, the Psychic Shield's shape, size, and thickness were all controlled by him, allowing him to instantly generate the Psychic Shield at any designated position within three meters.
Furthermore, Kenmyo Isayama's Psychic Shield was composed of Psychic Power, not Cursed Energy.
The weapon currently held by Fushiguro Toji was a Wakizashi Tachi whose blade resembled a Jutte.
Special Grade Cursed Tool - Heavenly Restriction.
To Kenmyo Isayama, it was practically no different from an ordinary kitchen knife.
Everything has a counter.
The world may have produced only one Heavenly Restraints Tyrant who terrified Jujutsu Sorcerers, but Kenmyo Isayama was also unique in his own right.
"Face reality, old man."
Correspondingly, an ancient, curved longsword appeared in Kenmyo Isayama's hand, its surface covered in unknown runes and faintly shimmering. The name of this Scythe-shaped Sword was the "Blade of Prospero."
It is the Sidearm of the "scarab terminator." Like the Terminators' armor, every blade is a most precious relic of the Thousand Sons Legion, symbolizing the Thousand Sons Legion's supreme status on Prospero.
"You've got guts, kid!"
Fushiguro Toji, instead, smiled, tensing all his muscles and charging straight at Kenmyo Isayama to kill him.
Acting first, he bent his body mid-air to increase his core strength, and thrust the Special Grade Cursed Tool in his hand straight towards Kenmyo Isayama's head.