"Ah... a Cursed Spirit?"
Utahime, whose consciousness had just barely cleared, found her mind growing hazy once more due to the feverish heat in her body.
"Utahime-senpai, please protect yourself until I deal with this Cursed Spirit."
A wisp of Cursed Energy gradually coalesced at Renji's shoulder.
Beneath Hayabusa's pallid white bones, a pair of spider-like compound eyes were hidden. Its sharp claws gripped Renji's shoulder. If it were an ordinary First-Grade Sorcerer, even a gentle grasp would likely shatter the shoulder blade.
"This is the Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, Hayabusa, that Geto gave me. I didn't expect to use it now. If possible, Utahime-senpai, try to stay as conscious as you can. This Cursed Spirit will protect you temporarily." Renji held his longsword horizontally across his chest, his gaze fixed straight ahead.
This was his first time encountering a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. He didn't know how much reward there would be for killing it.
Utahime nodded, her voice involuntarily becoming soft and weak. "Be... careful."
Buzz!
Renji's golden pupils were filled with the indistinct mass of Cursed Energy before him. With the enhancement of his Heavenly Restriction, the faster his speed, the stronger his Cursed Energy and the stronger his Cursed Energy, the faster his speed.
Each of Renji's strikes was more terrifying than the last. As for the upper limit, only encountering a powerful enemy in the future would reveal it.
Bang!
Natsume flashed with a silver glint in the shadows.
Just as the attack was about to land, the mass of Cursed Energy polymer instantly vanished. Then, a distorted sound rang out from all directions.
"Domain Expansion – NTR Banzai!"
The next second, centered on Renji, the area within a hundred-meter radius plunged into utter darkness. Unconcealed Cursed Energy sealed off the surroundings completely.
[Ding! Host has witnessed Domain Expansion: NTR Banzai for the first time.]
A Domain is a skill that only top-tier Jujutsu Sorcerers or Cursed Spirits can unleash, requiring immense Cursed Energy and highly concentrated mental power. Within the Domain, the caster's attacks are 'guaranteed to hit.'
Normally, one without a Domain would undoubtedly die inside another's. However, the one now trapped within this Domain was Renji.
Renji felt the scene before his eyes change. The originally pitch-black world transformed into a corridor in a high-end hotel. On either side of the corridor were ten rooms, numbered from 911 to 920, each emanating a faint aura of a Cursed Spirit.
"What kind of Domain is this?" Renji frowned.
This Domain wasn't like the ones in the story that immediately forced a life-or-death battle. It seemed more like a... maze?
Just as Renji was puzzled, the end of the corridor suddenly distorted and a huge mouth appeared on the wall, slowly opening and closing.
"Sorcerer... I am the NTR Cursed Spirit, born from humanity's twisted lust. A bunch of guys who like other men's wives and those women who willingly fall into depravity provide most of my Cursed Energy."
Renji: ?
What?
NTR Cursed Spirit?
"So... eat my blade!" Renji vanished instantly.
Buzz!
Natsume instantly slashed onto the huge mouth. Deep purple Cursed Spirit blood gushed out.
Renji's attack was so fast the Cursed Spirit couldn't react. However, in just an instant, upon realizing Renji in front had disappeared, it immediately tried to change position, so Renji only managed to slash its upper lip.
"Missed. Next time, I'll definitely cut that stinking tongue of yours." Renji taunted with a mischievous tone.
As soon as the words fell, the Cursed Spirit's voice sounded again from an unknown location.
"Young man, you have no honor. Trying to trick ans sneak attack me."
The Cursed Spirit had learned its lesson this time, it seemed to have hidden its body inside one of the rooms.
"It doesn't matter. I'll just cut through each room one by one. I have plenty of strength." Renji said with a laugh.
"Isn't that just having no tactics? Wait! Sorcerer, I'm not the kind of Cursed Spirit that likes killing. I possessed self-awareness from the moment I was born and I even keep a diary." The NTR Cursed Spirit's voice grew increasingly agitated.
"What decent Cursed Spirit keeps a diary? Despicable!"
"You motherf— No, no, don't interrupt me. Let's play a game. If you win, I'll let... Fucking hell! Don't cut my door!"
Renji was seen raising his sword and bringing it down. A seemingly high-end wooden door was shattered, revealing a pitch-black room inside. There was nothing, the Cursed Spirit's true body wasn't there.
Renji looked towards another door and spread his hands, gesturing for the NTR Cursed Spirit to continue.
"Because I've seen too much of humanity's twisted love. Emptiness, loneliness, are just excuses for humans to tire of the old and crave the new. They sell their souls, thirsting for physical pleasure..."
Crack!
"No, you don't understand Cursed Spirit language, do you! Are you deaf! I told you to stop cutting!"
Countless black arms sprouted from the ground. The owners of those arms were both men and women, looking as if they had killed many people.
Renji grabbed a shattered door panel beside him with one hand, halted his longsword mid-air, then abruptly backflipped, his heel striking the hilt forcefully.
Bang!
Natsume plunged fiercely into the ground and terrifying Cursed Energy spread outwards from the blade along the ground. Those black arms actually turned to dust the instant they came into contact with Renji's Cursed Energy.
"You sorcerer... I don't believe I can't control you. If you keep messing with my Domain, I'll have a few mindless humanoid Cursed Spirits take turns with that woman in the shrine maiden outfit right in front of you." The NTR Cursed Spirit's voice grew even more distorted.
Renji pulled out his longsword and coldly said, "You can try. I'll cut you to pieces before you can act."
This wasn't an empty threat, there had been sorcerers who broke through Domains directly with sheer powerful Cursed Energy.
For example, the famous sorcerer from four hundred years ago, Kashimo, didn't have his own Domain but could break through others' Domains with his own abilities.
The NTR Cursed Spirit, as a Cursed Spirit with self-awareness, clearly understood Renji's words were not a joke, and continued, "I already said, I just want to play a game with you."
"The rules of the game are simple."
"But if either you or your wife betrays the other, you will both die. Now then, let our corruption begin. Heh heh."