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The first basement level of Shibuya Station.

Yuji clutched his chest and back, scrambling out of the center of the clash between the two sides in a sorry state.

He touched his somewhat charred skin and winced in pain, but he couldn't afford to worry about that. With Mechamaru engaged in a clash with the enemy behind him, he had to act as the vanguard.

He kicked off with both legs, causing cracks to appear in the ground beneath him, and shot forward.

He raised his right fist high, aiming at Eso, who was continuously releasing blood tentacles.

Take out the ranged fighter first!

Seeing Yuji approaching, Eso's expression changed drastically. He was still locked in a clash with Mechamaru and couldn't spare the effort to block him.

Just as the fist was about to make contact with Eso's body, a figure suddenly appeared before him, blocking the full-force punch.

Kechizu let out a strange cry as two impacts hit his abdomen simultaneously. His body was sent flying backward, slamming into the distance, with pus and blood spraying.

"How dare you hurt my little brother! I'm going to kill you!"

Seeing his brother sent flying, Eso's pupils turned blood-red, and his expression became as ferocious as a demon's.

With a roar, the maw on his back suddenly erupted with blood spikes, which shot toward Yuji.

Yuji raised his hands to block, condensing all his Cursed Energy in front of him to form a shield, stopping the attack of the blood spikes.

While Yuji was tanking the damage in the front, Mechamaru, acting as the backline attacker, found his opportunity. He pressed his hands together, and massive amounts of Cursed Energy erupted from the openings in his palms, transforming into a laser that flew toward Eso's head.

Eso felt a premonition of death but it was already too late to change his direction of attack.

Facing the coordination between Yuji, who was tanking in the front, and Mechamaru, who was attacking from the back, he was finding it difficult to hold his ground.

In the next moment, a sharp, strange cry rang out once again.

The bloated Kechizu curled himself into a ball of blue flesh, using his own body to block the laser filled with massive Cursed Energy for his brother.

His body was pierced through on the spot, and the flesh around the impact site was seared.

Eso, eyes brimming with tears, unleashed the strongest attack he could muster, shattering Yuji's Cursed Energy Shield and piercing through his body.

Yuji coughed up blood, forcibly pulling his body free from the blood spikes, and retreated rapidly.

"Nii-san... I can't let you fight alone... I can help too..."

After barely getting the words out, Kechizu looked at the bloody hole pierced through his body, opened his mouth, and spewed out a waterfall of green acid. It eroded the ground and flowed like a river, surrounding the two of them.

At the same time, black patterns began to spread across Yuji's body where he had been hit by the blood, looking like black roses. The moment these patterns appeared, an agonizing pain flooded Yuji's senses.

His pupils constricted immediately, and he began to gasp for air, his whole body trembling violently.

Mechamaru noticed that something was wrong with Yuji's condition and rushed to intervene, firing continuous lasers from his hands toward Kechizu and Eso.

Eso shielded his brother behind him, the blood on his back solidifying into dense shields to block the laser attacks, while simultaneously launching blood spikes in retaliation.

He looked at the trembling Yuji, his pupils full of mockery.

"Suffer. This is the price for hurting my brother. This poison won't just paralyze your whole body, it will make you feel the pain of being hit by bullets."

The next moment, something happened that was beyond Eso's expectations.

Yuji stood up shakily. Perhaps due to the pain, his body trembled slightly, and he gritted his teeth, but his eyes were filled with determination.

"If you think pain can make me lose my ability to fight, then you've guessed wrong. Mechamaru, let's go!"

This is impossible! Why didn't the paralytic poison take effect!

Although he couldn't figure out why part of his Cursed Technique had failed, he didn't have time to understand it.

Charging toward him was the Tiger of West Junior High, the strongest seasoned athlete, the Cursed Energy-filled Itadori Yuji.

Yuji moved his feet rapidly, stepping into the acid covering the ground. The soles of his shoes began to emit white smoke within seconds and were quickly corroded away.

However, when this highly corrosive acid touched the skin of his feet, it only caused a slight stinging sensation and did not corrode them.

Kechizu's distorted features were filled with disbelief. He couldn't believe that the acid he spat out had such negligible power.

Seeing Yuji charging forward, Mechamaru opened his hands straightforwardly, and massive Cursed Energy gathered toward the front once again, firing lasers in rapid succession.

Kechizu watched helplessly as his brother was caught in a pincer attack. He struggled to move, but because of the wounds blasted into his body, he couldn't move and could only watch everything in despair.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The lasers all surged toward Eso, stirring up clouds of dust that made it impossible to see the scene inside.

Yuji leapt into the air, his right fist raised high and burning with Cursed Energy, and charged straight into the smoke.