Zenin Mirai. Head of the Big Three Zenin Family.
He had joined Jujutsu High and used his Domain Expansion to instantly defeat a Special Grade Disaster Curse that used fire. During the Sister School Exchange Event, his strength was comparable to Gojo Satoru's... or perhaps even higher. The Shibuya Incident was the main culmination of his plan to directly suppress and seal Gojo Satoru.
This was the intelligence that Yuki Tsukumo already knew before she entered the battlefield.
As for the situation within Mirai's Domain and the reactions after being infected by it...
During their brief exchange earlier, Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro, who had both been trapped within Mirai's Domain, revealed everything they knew about the illusion. Furthermore, back when White Zetsu was at the school, he had casually mentioned that Mirai seemed to have two different Domains.
However, after White Zetsu summoned the ancient tree that Maki had seen when she was a child, this chilling speculation about a second Domain was temporarily put aside by everyone.
The initial formulation of their plan was brutal.
Ideally, they would take advantage of Todo's Boogie Woogie to catch Mirai off guard with a head-on strike.
If that failed, Yuki would deploy her Domain Expansion at point-blank range. Even at the cost of half her body self-destructing from the clash of innate techniques, she would ensure that the outer shell of Mirai's Domain would shatter along with hers. She planned to use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal the physical meltdown; ninety-nine percent of Sorcerers couldn't perform such precise manipulation, but she could. She was prepared to let them break together.
Toge Inumaki also needed to use his Cursed Speech to its absolute full effect during the rare moment Mirai's intangibility dropped.
In the fraction of a second that Inumaki froze him, Todo needed to transfer Mirai to Yuki's side. Then, even if half her body self-destructed, Yuki would unleash her Shikigami, Garuda, for the final killing move!
Everything was planned perfectly.
The premise, however, relied on Mirai possessing the kind of strength they expected.
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"Domain Expansion: Star Rage - Kengan Hall!"
If Mirai's Final Scenery of the Glazed Moon was a sure-kill technique that obliterated the spiritual realm, then Yuki Tsukumo's Kengan Hall was the ultimate technique to instantly kill the physical body!
A massive surge of Cursed Energy roared forth!
The inky outer shell enveloped Mirai and all the students from Jujutsu High.
"A boxing match?!"
Supporting Panda with his severed arm, Kusakabe looked up and cried out in a daze.
It was a square boxing ring of about six square meters! Blood-red ropes encircled the ring, preventing the fighters from leaving or escaping.
Countless shadowy figures formed from Cursed Energy crowded below the arena, shouting at the top of their lungs! They were in incredibly high spirits.
The students from Jujutsu High collectively appeared on the benches in the audience area below the arena, becoming just a few of the many people in the cheering crowd.
There were two contestants above the ring. Naturally, it was Mirai, and Yuki Tsukumo, who now wore glowing Cursed Energy boxing gloves.
'In the manga of my past life, Yuki Tsukumo died to Kenjaku,' Mirai thought.
Because he had never seen her Domain in the original story, instead of immediately expanding his own Domain to counter it, he observed the internal situation with great interest. He wanted to understand the rules within the field.
Bang! Bang!
Yuki smashed her gloved fists together. Her expression slightly relaxed.
"Within this ring, every punch I throw with virtual mass will be exponentially multiplied!"
"Even if your Reverse Cursed Technique is strong, you can only withstand my third punch at most!"
For Yuki Tsukumo, as long as the punch imbued with the blessing spell hit, it was a guaranteed kill!
Mirai nodded slightly in agreement.
"The possibility of doubling mass in theory without an upper limit is enough to shatter space, or even time," Mirai analyzed. "Indeed, even if I took a few more punches head-on, I would still die."
Mirai looked up at Yuki, his expression utterly indifferent. "The premise is that your fists actually have the potential to touch me."
Her golden hair fluttered in the wind. Yuki stared intently at Mirai, her fingers clenching tightly!
"How arrogant!"
"The exponential increase I'm referring to isn't just in power... but also in quantity!"
By revealing her technique, the power was amplified!
Yuki bent down and delivered a powerful punch!
One punch, a hundred followed!
The four red ropes around the ring suddenly bulged out and transformed into giant red boxing gloves that lashed out!
With terrifying Cursed Energy fluctuations, the virtual mass bombarded Mirai from all directions toward the center of the arena!
The roars from the shadow audience below reached their peak at this moment! The sonic waves that shot straight up transformed into a dense array of invisible fists!
A trembling outer shell, red gauntlets, and an inescapable barrage.
Mirai smiled slightly. He interlaced his fingers, pressed the backs of his hands together, and let them hang down to the ground.
'Wrong!!!'
In the audience, upon seeing Mirai forming that specific hand seal, Fushiguro, Kugisaki, and Yuji suddenly stood up!
Their pupils trembled wildly, and a chill shot straight to the top of their heads!
That... wasn't the Domain hand seal he used against the volcano! It was Megumi's!
Startled by the trio's reaction, Kusakabe and the other girls hadn't even had a chance to ask a question.
A terrifying surge of Cursed Energy spread out from the center of the stage!
A thick, dark ink, deeper than darkness itself, instantly erupted and covered the entirety of Yuki's realm!
"Domain Expansion..."
"Chimera Shadow Garden: Perfected."
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The boundless Kamui space.
"White Zetsu... what exactly is Mirai's plan?"
Mai Zenin sat under the sacred tree, hugging her knees with her hands, her expression complicated.
Previously, when Mirai absorbed the Cursed Energy within the Shibuya barrier, he had launched an attack using the roots of the Divine Tree. Through the Kamui dimension, Mai could still vaguely see the battle scenes outside. However, once Yuki's Domain was opened, Mai's perspective was completely blocked.
She couldn't quite describe the feeling; her heart was torn apart.
On one side were her comrades-in-arms who had shared life and death with her, and on the other side was her brother whom she had always feared.
After Mai came back to life, she had thought about it.
If I hadn't taken those steps back then, if I hadn't closed my eyes and walked toward Mirai... what if I really never woke up again?
"It's no problem for me to tell you," White Zetsu said casually. "Anyway, the kid won't let you go back to Jujutsu High."
Zetsu lay on his back on the ground with a Cuban cigar dangling from his mouth. With his hands behind his head and one leg crossed over his knee, he dangled his foot back and forth.
"That idiot Kenjaku is preparing to set up ten super-large barriers throughout Japan," Zetsu explained. "Before the summoning, he prepared countless bizarre and fantastical spirits."
Zetsu turned his head to look at Mai and smiled. "Guess what all this means to the kid?"
Mai was stunned; she had only just learned of the Fake Geto's plan.
She recalled the terrifying scenes she had witnessed in the Zenin clan's storehouse during her many years in the mansion—Sorcerers going out to capture Cursed Spirits, which Mirai would then absorb in the forbidden storehouse.
Mai asked blankly, "Absorb... nutrients?"
If what Zetsu said was true, those ten extremely large-scale barriers were equivalent to a massive farm with an unlimited supply.
"That's one of them, and it's also the easiest goal to achieve," Zetsu smacked his lips and swung his leg. "As for Cursed Energy, the kid has the help of Master Zetsu's physical body, so he doesn't actually lack it at all."
"Those old guys from a thousand years ago... even if we drain their magical power, it won't make much of a difference."
Mai's eyes widened in surprise. "Then, Brother Mirai, why are you helping that guy called Kenjaku?"
White Zetsu grinned. "The so-called strongmen from a thousand years ago... including Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna, whom you mentioned. They are just appetizers."
"Why do you Sorcerers set up a barrier when you exorcise Cursed Spirits?" Zetsu asked.
Hearing the question, Mai replied without hesitation. "We need to suppress the birth of Cursed Spirits so that ordinary people can't see those invisible threats. We need to keep the public at peace..."
Mai recounted the rules that Jujutsu High taught from the moment she entered the school.
"What if all of Japan could see Cursed Spirits?" Zetsu asked, his voice dropping. "Perhaps... it's not just Japan."
Zetsu's casual words froze Mai in place.
The sheer volume of negative emotions from a worldwide panic would be apocalyptic.
After a long while, she whispered.
"The world... is ending."
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