Chapter 105 (Patreon)

The Veil had sealed off both the Tokyo and Kyoto teams.

Only Satoru Gojo was denied entry. Everyone else could pass through it freely.

There was no way around it. For the moment, Yoshinobu Gakuganji and Utahime Iori had no choice but to provide support from outside.

Then, in the next instant...

A slash tore upward through the air.

The entire Veil was cut apart in one clean stroke.

Outside the barrier, Satoru Gojo, Yoshinobu Gakuganji, and Utahime Iori moved at the same time, leaping to either side.

A heartbeat later, the ground split open between them.

The cut ran straight through the earth, smooth and merciless.

Kazuya Somiya, who had been waiting for someone to enter the barrier, was caught directly in the path of the slash and split cleanly down the middle.

Gakuganji’s eyes widened despite himself.

“What… was that?”

Utahime crouched beside the fissure and brushed her fingers along the severed edge of the ground.

“It’s too clean. A cut this precise… could it be Kamo Noritoshi’s Blood Manipulation?”

Gojo rejected the idea immediately.

“No. Blood Manipulation can’t cut through a Veil like that. Besides, there wasn’t any blood involved.”

Utahime frowned.

“Then who did it? An enemy who slipped inside?”

Gojo lowered his blindfold and observed the lingering cursed energy with the Six Eyes.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

“Someone you’d never expect.”

Gakuganji and Utahime both fell silent, trying to think of a possible answer.

In the end, the only conclusion they could reach was that it had to be an enemy.

Then Gojo spoke.

“Yuji Itadori.”

The two of them answered at the same time.

“Impossible.”

——————

A few moments before that slash was released—

Scorching fire rained down from above like a meteor shower.

Yuji Itadori and the others looked up at the same time.

“A cursed spirit attack!”

In an instant, everyone present stopped fighting and prepared to exorcise the intruder.

“I’ll handle the flames.”

Yuta Okkotsu raised his cursed katana and swung.

A blinding white arc flashed across the sky.

The falling flames were swallowed by the blade light, and Jogo crashed down to the ground.

“Impressive swordsmanship,” Jogo said from within the flames. “To think you could cut down my fire.”

Yuta stared at the figure standing amid the heat haze.

“That presence… a cursed spirit?”

Jogo’s single eye narrowed.

“I have a name. Jogo.”

Yuta calmly adjusted his grip on the sword.

“How about we take this fight somewhere else?”

Flames surged from Jogo’s hands.

“And why would I listen to you, boy?”

This time, Jogo had come with Mahito.

His purpose was to avenge Hanami.

Kenjaku, who wore Kamo Noritoshi’s body, had told him that these students were Ragnar Kagenou’s disciples.

Jogo and the transformed Dagon had come here to kill them.

“If you want to blame someone, blame Ragnar Kagenou. You’re going to die because of him.”

The moment he said that, flames erupted around Jogo’s entire body.

Dozens of small volcanoes rose from the ground around him.

Panda charged first.

“A cursed corpse is still a cursed corpse,” Jogo said coldly. “A puppet with no brain.”

Just as Panda was about to strike, a small volcano emerged beneath him. Scorching flames gathered at its mouth, ready to burn him to ash.

Toge Inumaki popped a throat lozenge into his mouth.

“Stop!”

The force of Cursed Speech spread outward.

The flames that were about to erupt froze in place, as if blocked by an invisible wall.

Jogo’s body was also restrained by the command, making it difficult for him to move.

Junpei Yoshino summoned Moon Dregs and injected Jogo with a paralyzing poison.

“Nice one, Toge!” Panda shouted.

Bang!

Panda’s heavy paw slammed into Jogo’s face and sent him flying, caving in his cheek.

Megumi Fushiguro sank his hand into the shadows.

“Great Serpent!”

A massive serpent shikigami burst from the ground and clamped its jaws around Jogo’s body.

Mai Zen’in raised her handgun and fired several shots.

The bullets pierced Jogo’s head, left chest, and right chest, forming a triangle of wounds.

Without giving him even a moment to recover, Great Serpent hurled Jogo away.

Maki Zen’in rushed in and drove her spear through him, pinning him in place.

Kasumi Miwa appeared behind him.

“New Shadow Style: Simple Domain.”

She drew her blade.

“Batto Sword Drawing.”

A lightning-fast slash cut across Jogo’s back, tearing it open and exposing white bone.

Ultimate Mechamaru grabbed Jogo’s head with one hand.

“Great Exorcism Cannon.”

Boom!

A blast of cursed energy struck Jogo head-on, leaving him stunned.

Seeing that opening, Kamo Noritoshi did not even reach for a blood bag. He cut open the blood vessel in his palm instead.

“Blood Manipulation: Crimson Binding.”

His blood twisted like vines and wrapped around Jogo in an instant.

“Tool Manipulation: Scythe Cut!”

Momo Nishimiya swung her broom, whipping up wind and sand into a blade that forcibly sliced off Jogo’s hand.

By chance, the severed hand landed right in front of Nobara Kugisaki.

“In that case, I’ll make use of it.”

Nobara nailed a straw doll to Jogo’s severed hand, then struck it with her hammer, cursed energy flowing through the blow.

“Straw Doll Technique: Resonance!”

Pfft!

Jogo’s chest tore open from within.

Aoi Todo seized the moment and drove his fist into Jogo’s face, cracking the ground beneath them.

“Itadori!”

Clap.

In the next instant, Yuji Itadori and Aoi Todo switched places.

“I don’t really get what’s going on,” Yuji said, raising his fist, “but I just have to hit him, right?”

Then cursed energy sharpened around him.

“Dismantle.”

An invisible slash swept across Jogo’s waist.

Jogo was cut in two on the spot.

His body, now separated into two halves, flew dozens of meters away. Yuta immediately moved in the direction he had been thrown.

Just as Yuta was about to finish him off, dozens of Grade 1 cursed spirits appeared out of nowhere, surrounding Yuji and the others.

“What? Where did all these cursed spirits come from?”

That brief hesitation was enough.

Jogo used cursed energy to regenerate his fatal wounds.

“You hesitated.”

A triumphant smile appeared on Jogo’s face as he formed a hand sign.

The Daikokuten hand sign.

“Domain Expansion: Coffin of the Iron Mountain.”

A pitch-black sphere descended upon the ground.

Yuta Okkotsu, the strongest fighter present, was swallowed into Jogo’s Domain.

Meanwhile, the students of Jujutsu High were forced into battle against dozens of Grade 1 cursed spirits.

Yuji Itadori, Aoi Todo, and Kamo Noritoshi could barely hold their ground against two cursed spirits each.

Even then, there were too many enemies.

The others gradually began to lose their advantage.

Most of them had not yet reached Grade 1. Against cursed spirits of a higher grade, the fact that they had not been killed instantly was already impressive.

“Damn it… where did they all come from?”

Yuji was being pressed by two Grade 1 cursed spirits, leaving him no chance to release another slash.

Black Flash.

Before he even realized it, Yuji’s fist struck with a distortion of cursed energy, killing one of the cursed spirits instantly.

“What was that just now?”

He had not even registered that he had landed a Black Flash.

But there was no time to stand around in shock.

With one enemy gone, dealing with the remaining cursed spirit became much easier. Yuji killed it with Dismantle.

After exorcising the cursed spirit, Yuji turned back.

His companions were all injured.

Megumi Fushiguro.

Nobara Kugisaki.

Junpei Yoshino.

Even the second-years and the Kyoto students were covered in wounds, some shallow, some deep.

At this rate, everyone would be worn down and killed.

Ragnar and Gojo-sensei were outside.

As long as the Veil was destroyed, everyone could be saved.

Yuji gritted his teeth.

If Sukuna could use Domain Expansion through his body, then Yuji’s body should remember it.

Even if Yuji himself had not been the one to perform the technique, that cursed energy had still flowed through him.

It was time for Sukuna to pay rent.

“Domain Expansion.”

Yuji brought his hands together.

“Malevolent Shrine.”