Meanwhile.
Shibuya Station, fifth basement floor, Fukutoshin Line platform.
Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer Nanami Kento, Special Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer Zenin Naobito, and Zenin Maki stood back-to-back, staring intently at the deformed monster floating in mid-air.
Just minutes ago, it had consumed a massive amount of human flesh, completing its transformation from a Cursed Womb to its complete form.
Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Dagon.
The transformed Dagon had become a muscular monster with a powerful build, wearing something like a straw raincoat.
Its face had no features, only rows of sharp serrated teeth, emitting a vast and tyrannical aura belonging to the deep ocean.
"For Jogo, for Hanami... all of you humans will die here."
Dagon's voice was like a whisper from the deep sea, and massive Cursed Energy formed visible blue ripples around it.
"Everyone, be careful. His total Cursed Energy is terrifying." Nanami Kento pushed up the goggles on the bridge of his nose, his blunt blade ready for the counterattack.
Naobito took a swig of sake and hung the gourd back on his waist. "I've lived a long time and seen all kinds of Cursed Spirits. It's just a mutated piece of seafood, watch me slice it into sashimi."
Projection Sorcery!
Naobito's figure instantly vanished from the spot.
The ultimate speed of dividing one second into twenty-four frames made him appear above Dagon's head as if teleporting, his fist wrapped in Cursed Energy slamming down.
But Dagon's reaction exceeded everyone's expectations. He didn't dodge. His abdomen suddenly split open, spewing out hundreds of large piranha-like Shikigami.
These Shikigami, composed of water and Cursed Energy, were like a waterfall flowing upward, knocking Naobito away.
"This Curse can release Shikigami without hand signs! Maki, get back!" Nanami Kento shouted, cutting down several piranhas lunging at Maki.
But Dagon's attacks were as continuous as a tsunami. Endless marine life Shikigami filled the entire underground space, pinning the three down.
"It's no use, there are too many! We can't even get close!" Maki swung her cursed tool spear, panting heavily.
She had no Cursed Energy and relied entirely on physical strength, her arms were already numb to the extreme.
Dagon looked at the three struggling and seemed to lose interest in playing. He folded his hands in front of his chest, forming a strange hand sign.
"Humans, witness the wrath of the ocean."
"Domain Expansion: Horizon of the Captivating Skandha!"
With Dagon's proclamation, the entire space of the fifth basement floor was instantly rewritten.
The hard concrete walls, tracks, and lights all vanished. Replacing them was a beautiful tropical beach with bright sunshine and swaying palm trees, and an endless azure ocean.
However, within this seemingly heavenly scenery lay a deadly killing intent.
"A Domain?!" Nanami Kento's expression changed drastically.
The moment they were pulled into the Domain, they lost all initiative.
The Domain's sure-hit effect meant that all of Dagon's attacks would bypass distance and defense to strike them directly.
Death Swarm!
Dagon waved a hand.
The ocean boiled.
Thousands of massive sea dragons, giant piranhas, and poisonous jellyfish, swept toward the three on the beach from all directions.
Puff! Puff!
There was no possibility of dodging.
Naobito's right arm was torn off by a sea dragon Shikigami that suddenly bit out from the void, blood spraying everywhere. He screamed and fell onto the beach.
Nanami Kento's left eye was pierced by a sharp, strange fish, and half of his body was bitten into a bloody mess.
Maki was entangled by several jellyfish, their poison invading her body, making it difficult for her even to stand.
"It's over."
Dagon floated above the sea, looking at the three who had lost their fighting capacity, preparing to issue the final execution order.
In this desperate deadlock.
"Chimera Shadow Garden!"
A slightly youthful but resolute voice suddenly rang out at the edge of the Domain.
Above the beach, the barrier of Dagon's Domain was being forcibly eroded and melted into a huge hole by a thick black shadow.
Megumi, hands maintaining the hand sign for Domain Expansion, jumped down from the hole, drenched in sweat.
He used his incomplete Domain to forcibly neutralize the sure-hit command within Dagon's Domain.
"Nanami-san! Zenin Clan Head! Maki-senpai!"
Megumi's legs sank into the shadows on the beach as he desperately maintained the spatial gap to keep it from closing.
"I've neutralized the Domain's sure-hit effect! Quick! Escape through this hole while you can!" Megumi shouted at the top of his lungs.
Seeing this, Nanami Kento and Naobito endured their severe injuries and used their last bits of strength to rush toward the gap where Megumi was.
"Trying to run? Fat chance!"
Dagon was furious and was about to control the Shikigami to block them.
But just when everyone thought there was hope for escape.
Outside the gap in the Domain that Megumi had forcibly torn open, a steady, unhurried sound of footsteps suddenly echoed.
Tap... Tap...
The sound of leather boots stepping on the concrete floor clearly reached the sun-drenched beach through the gap.
Megumi was stunned. He was desperately maintaining the gap for those inside to get out, but now, someone was actually trying to come in from the outside?
A slender hand casually rested on the edge of the Domain's gap.
Then, a tall figure in a black trench coat blocked the faint light from outside and stepped across the boundary of life and death with extreme composure, entering Dagon's Domain.
Short black hair, deep dark eyes, and a straight sword wrapped in gray cloth held casually in his hand.
As this person stepped in, an indescribable, abyss-like terrifying pressure instantly swept across the entire tropical beach.
The marine Shikigami that were still rolling and roaring seemed to be placed under a freezing spell at this moment, all stiffening mid-air.
"Ya... Yamada-san?!" Megumi's eyes widened.
In his extreme shock, he even forgot to maintain the hand signs for his Domain. But miraculously, the gap did not close. Simply by standing there, the massive Chakra Yamada emitted had already forcibly suppressed the laws of this space.
Nanami Kento clutched his bleeding left eye, and Naobito held his severed arm. Both panted as they stopped, staring in horror at the black-haired young man who had suddenly intruded.
Naobito recognized that face.
The monster who, with just a single glance at the Zenin Clan, had forced the entire clan to not dare act rashly.
"Who... are you?"
Dagon, on the sea's surface, felt an unprecedented crisis.
Although no expression could be seen on his featureless face, his tensed muscles betrayed his inner fear.
He couldn't feel any Cursed Energy from this human. Yet the other party stood there so casually, appearing as if he were the true master of this Domain, with even the surrounding air submitting to him.
"A piece of seafood decorating a sewer into a beach and you really think you're the overlord of the ocean?"
Yamada's gaze swept over the mangled Nanami Kento and the others before finally landing on Dagon.