Chiharu domain was expanding. The domain was a completely darkened hall, but the floor underneath seemed to be the same.
At once all the pebbles inside the domain lit with bluish flames of curse energy. They were metamorphosizing into curses of various shapes and sizes. Some were worm shaped, others were insect like while some were half human form. The knife that Megumi was holding also turned into a snake curse. Upon witnessing it he fling it away.
Not only that even the curse tools that he had stored inside his shadows were creeping out of it as newly formed powerful curses.
[ Chiharu domain imbues any non living object enclosed within her space with curse energy turning them into curses. How strong the curse will be depends upon the total amount of curse energy present within that object. The stronger the curse energy in an object the more powerful the resulting curse will be]
'Dang it! All my weapons have turned into curses. And not just ordinary but grade 1 level I suppose. How many curses might be here? Guess 50 or so. Her domain looks just like the Zenin clan discipline pit. Wait don't tell me she got the inspiration from that! Gosh, they are so close. When did they get so near me' he was thinking.
Megumi was so deep in his thoughts that he failed to keep an eye on the curses, who were closing on him.
Seeing Megumi immobile in his position, Chiharu grinned believing she had cornered him.
'Well I can just swallow her domain with my own domain' he thought and almost made the domain sign but stop before completing it. 'Nah, it will be just too easy. I will break her resolve first. I will summon That"
He made a sign to summon a shikigami. The casted shadow stretch longer onto the floor. A deep roar vibrated across the domain. The shikigami had materialized into a 2 dimensional tiger. Upon hearing the roar, the curses stop on their path.
But the shadow drift right and left and pawwed the curses. Each time the shikigami attack, it clawed arms would extend our of the floor and ripped pieces out of the curses. Even if a curse was strong enough to face head on, it was of no use, for Tiger Funeral can switch it existence between two dimensions. Soon the tiger shadow was biting out chunks from the remaining curses.
As the number of curses thinned out. Megumi could see the terror stricken face of Chiharu. The tiger shifted it attention and stretched towards Chiharu. She tried to defend herself by flinging a few insect curses but they were destroyed even before they could reached Megumi. In just a split second, Tiger Funeral claws sink into her abdomen. The claws pass her stomach, leaving three bloody wounds.
Terrified and shocked, she at once lost consciousness, and with that the domain broke.