Leveling up during battle was clearly standard treatment for a protagonist.
At that moment, although Yuta Okkotsu was not the protagonist, he was even more protagonist-like than the protagonist.
The Pure Love Warrior feared nothing.
In the end, because Suguru Geto had scattered a large number of cursed spirits across other battlefields, he lost to Yuta Okkotsu, suffered heavy injuries, and had his right arm destroyed.
Of course, Yuta Okkotsu did not get the chance to counterkill him either. Geto escaped through a side path.
Unfortunately, on the road while fleeing, he encountered his close friend, Gojo Satoru, and was ultimately executed by Gojo Satoru.
After Gojo Satoru killed Suguru Geto, he did not destroy Suguru Geto's body. This allowed Kenjaku to seize the opportunity to move into Suguru Geto's corpse, taking over his body and abilities.
But in this crossover anime world, Suguru Geto's fate had undergone a tremendous change.
When Rowan defeated Gojo Satoru earlier, he had extracted Gojo Satoru's memories and discovered something very interesting from them.
In this world, Suguru Geto had indeed seized the Star Religious Group and become its leader.
But not long after, he had been defeated by a mysterious person and reduced to the Star Religious Group's vice leader.
Combined with Mahito's memories, Rowan pieced together the trajectory of Suguru Geto in this world.
After seizing the Star Religious Group, the Suguru Geto of this world did not launch the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. Or rather, before he could launch the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, he was defeated by a mysterious person.
The mysterious person became the leader of the Star Religious Group, while he became its vice leader.
Whether he became vice leader by force or willingly, this proved one thing.
There was someone above Suguru Geto now. He had become someone under restraint.
Without the permission of the Star Religious Group's leader, Suguru Geto could not, and did not dare to, launch the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
So Suguru Geto in this world was not defeated by Yuta Okkotsu, nor was he executed by Gojo Satoru.
He was still alive and well.
Kenjaku also had not taken over Suguru Geto's body and driven it around causing trouble.
But interestingly, Jogo and Mahito had still encountered Suguru Geto.
And then they had been subdued by Suguru Geto.
Suguru Geto's technique was called Cursed Spirit Manipulation. It was a technique that allowed him to take subdued cursed spirits under his control and freely manipulate them.
This jujutsu required no medium. It could be activated using only the cursed energy of the cursed spirits he controlled.
According to rank conversion, when the difference was more than two grades, the subjugation process could be skipped. In other words, he could unconditionally acquire cursed spirits.
In the original plot, Suguru Geto possessed more than four thousand cursed spirits while he was alive.
Another thing worth mentioning was that the reason Suguru Geto lost to the Pure Love Warrior Yuta Okkotsu in the original plot was entirely because he had dispersed his cursed spirits everywhere.
If Suguru Geto had not done that back then, with his strength, he definitely could have defeated Yuta Okkotsu.
Therefore, defeating Mahito and Jogo and taking them under his control was not difficult for Suguru Geto.
Although Mahito and Jogo were unwilling to admit this, it could not be denied that they were indeed under Suguru Geto's control.
Aside from Mahito and Jogo, the other Special Grade cursed spirits from the original plot, such as Hanami and Dagon, were also Suguru Geto's subordinates and were controlled by Suguru Geto.
The reason Suguru Geto controlled them was simple. He wanted to borrow the power of these cursed spirits to defeat the leader of the Star Religious Group.
To take the Star Religious Group back from that person's hands.
Unfortunately, although Suguru Geto controlled several Special Grade cursed spirits, he still did not dare challenge this leader head-on.
Because the other party's strength was simply unfathomable. Even with several Special Grade cursed spirits, Suguru Geto still did not have enough confidence to defeat this mysterious leader.
After understanding these things, Rowan's thought was that Suguru Geto was way too cowardly.
You dared send people to find trouble with me, but you're still afraid to challenge the Star Religious Group's leader?
So Rowan decided to raise the difficulty for Suguru Geto a little.
Although he did not like fighting and killing, the other side had already come knocking. If he did not fight back now, the other side might think he was afraid.
This difficulty had to be raised.
After making his decision, Rowan immediately copied Mahito's Idle Transfiguration and planned to disguise himself as Mahito, taking Jogo, who had turned into a ball, back to report to Suguru Geto.
As for the real Mahito, Rowan destroyed his soul and fed him to Mahoraga as nourishment.
With Mahito's contribution, Mahoraga's strength increased a little more. Worth celebrating, worth celebrating.
Medea understood Rowan's current strength very clearly. She was not worried at all about Rowan disguising himself as Mahito to find Suguru Geto. With a fool like Suguru Geto, there was basically no chance he could see through Rowan's disguise.
And even if he did see through it, it did not matter. He might not be able to beat Rowan anyway.
Nero, on the other hand, completely did not understand why Rowan wanted to do this. With their current strength, they could simply charge in openly and beat the other side into the ground.
All this disguising and scheming—wasn't it a little beneath them?
Rowan slapped his forehead.
"Now that you mention it, that seems true."
He thought about it carefully. With his strength, there was no need to disguise himself at all. He could just crush his way over openly. It was not as if he were some fun-seeker who liked playing with people's hearts.
I must have been confused.
After scolding himself inwardly, Rowan decisively fed Jogo to Mahoraga as well, making Mahoraga even stronger.
Then, with a fierce momentum, he brought Medea and Nero straight to the door.
As for where Suguru Geto was, Rowan had already found the exact location from Mahito's memories.
It was at a shrine in Tokyo dedicated to Inari. Because it was very efficacious, its incense offerings were usually quite prosperous, and many high officials and nobles even came here to offer incense.
But few people knew that this shrine was actually one of the Star Religious Group's assets.
The reason its incense was so prosperous was because the people here truly had ability.
At present, this shrine had fallen into Suguru Geto's hands and was being managed quite successfully by him.
When Rowan arrived at the shrine, the shrine gate was tightly shut. The surroundings were pitch black. There was not even a single streetlight or candle flame nearby.
The enormous shrine quietly lurked in the darkness, emitting an inexplicable chill.
It was as if once someone walked in, they would never come out again.
Rowan could tell that the shrine had already been enveloped by black mud flowing down from the sky. This thing was called a Curtain, a type of barrier technique from Jujutsu Kaisen.
Not only could it block network signals, it could also affect perception. When ordinary people looked through the Curtain at what was inside, they would ignore the abnormal parts. Therefore, Curtains were usually deployed by people connected to Jujutsu High in order to conceal accident scenes.
"Why do you think Suguru Geto opened this thing?"
Rowan was very puzzled and turned to ask Medea. Although he had killed Mahito and Jogo, and as the master of the two cursed spirits, Suguru Geto had likely already discovered they were dead,
Suguru Geto did not know that Rowan could read memories and thereby find his location.
So why take the initiative to open this thing?
If it was out of caution, why not just run away?
"Perhaps he simply wants to meet you, but is afraid of affecting the people nearby, so he took the initiative to open this barrier and intends to settle grievances with you inside it."
Medea thought it over, and this was probably the only explanation.
Rowan observed the surrounding environment and felt that Medea's words made sense. Although this shrine was built on a hill, it was not remote. It was quiet amid the bustle, with the noisy city and complicated surroundings at the foot of the hill.
If a fight really broke out, it would inevitably alarm the people nearby. Opening a barrier to avoid alarming outsiders and affecting tomorrow's daily life was indeed a good method.
Smart.
Rowan praised him, then led Medea and Nero inside with heads held high.
Whoosh!
The moment the three of them stepped into the barrier, they heard the sharp howl of air being torn apart.
Looking up, they saw beams of light descending from the sky. The enemy had actually launched the attack one step ahead of them. The timing was perfect, giving Rowan's group no chance to dodge or react at all.
However, the enemy had underestimated Rowan and the others too much. When these lights, powerful enough to pierce steel, approached Rowan, their speed became slower and slower until they finally stopped in front of him.
Cursed Technique: Stopping Power.
This was the skill Rowan had copied from Gojo Satoru. Using it now was just right. He lightly blocked the enemy's attack. That tiny, weak distance became like an uncrossable chasm.
At the same time, Medea raised her hand. Layers of magic circles unfolded, locking onto the enemy who had launched the attack. Magic bullets shot out like a storm, giving the enemy no chance to dodge.
What did it mean to be impolite not to return the favor?
This was it.
The one who had ambushed Rowan just now was the Special Grade cursed spirit Hanami, a cursed spirit born from humanity's hatred and fear of forests. This guy's appearance was just as abstract as Jogo's.
Although it had a humanoid appearance, the branches growing out from where its eyes should be made people frown.
Rowan expressed that if he looked like this, he might as well die.
Fortunately, Hanami was not human, did not care about its own appearance, and had no intention of dying. Seeing the overwhelming magic bullets, it instinctively retreated.
Boom, boom, boom.
Explosions rang out. The place where it had been standing was instantly blasted into deep pits of various sizes.
Seeing that her attack had been dodged, Medea did not care, because the next round of strikes was already on the way. The overwhelming magic bullets pursued Hanami relentlessly. The shadow of death bit tightly at Hanami's heels, forcing Hanami to continue moving and dodge in a sorry state.
As long as it dared stop, it would inevitably suffer an unprecedentedly heavy blow.
Hanami clearly understood this as well. Knowing that it was now walking a tightrope and that even the slightest mistake would result in serious injury, though not death, it would definitely feel terrible. So while dodging, it continuously brewed cursed energy.
The next second, the ground it stepped on suddenly cracked open. Giant tree branches broke through the earth one after another, rushing out from underground and sweeping in every direction.
The overwhelming magic bullets were immediately exploded in midair, giving Hanami a chance to breathe.
But the branches it had created were also blown apart by the magic bullets, scattering broken fragments across the ground.
"A little interesting."
Seeing this, a smile appeared in Medea's eyes. The enemy before her had some brains, but that was all. If she wanted, she could toy with it to death at any time.
Boom, boom, boom!
At that moment, heavy footsteps sounded, as if an out-of-control car were speeding toward them at astonishing speed.
Rowan turned his head and saw a tall cursed spirit appear.