Employees hurried inside Jujutsu Headquarter
with grim expressions across their faces while tension continuously crushed them under its weight.
It wasn't pressure from superiors, but the fear of the death looming over them. After 68 years, once again Tokyo was facing a catastrophic-level threat. But this time it was an extraterrestrial invasion.
Immediately, they informed all the jujutsu sorcerers in their range.
Usami had buried his head in his arms, staring blankly at the floor. His body trembled with fear as the thought of the impending disaster gripped him.
"They broke the peace treaty. Sooner than expected...damn it! We're finished."
He clenched his fist, scratching the fibre of desk as his anger bled into pain. But, the terror shrouding his mind blocked the pain from reaching there.
"I have to contact the prime minister. I need orders to continue..." He stood up and glanced at the CCTV monitors before him.
A simurian was wreaking havoc on the city. He swung his arms lazily, which resulted in absolute destruction around him. Air around him felt incredibly heavy.
That alien was Dabura— king of simurians and biggest nightmare of Usami and soon of all humanity.
With another swing of his arm, the monitor went blank; rainbow coloured RGB lines streaked accross the screen, indicating the loss of signals.
*****
Hojo sat on the edge of the building's roof, his legs swinging freely in the air. Before him was Dabura—the king of Simurians.
Dabura bisected the buildings perfectly into two halves as simple as slicing the butter for him.
"Shrine... this technique of Sukuna is truly beautiful and devastating." Dabura said, staring at his hands.
Hojo watched him quitely. His presence was almost vanished which left him little careless.
"If I'm right, what he's using is Sukuna's technique." Hojo said, looking at the buildings which collapsed on the earth.
Dabura was indeed using Sukuna's shrine. So, Hojo couldn't help but wonder how he had managed to get his hands on such powerful and ancient technique.
Hojo's words that he said were merely a whisper, yet somehow they reached Dabura.
Dabura turned toward him and flicked his arm lazily in Hojo's direction. An invisible arc of malevolent energy surged toward him, growing larger every moment until it hit building, slicing it into two.
A thin line appeared across the building before its top half slides off the bottom, collapsing on the earth. All happened in just a mere second.
Then Dabura turned away.
"I have to be careful." Hojo leapt into the air before the building could carry him away. "I have to be careful."
Gravity still applied to everyone except aliens like Dabura who could somehow fly. So again, Hojo was falling down, gravity pulling him rapidly.
But in the next instant, he slammed his foot against the massive rock beneath him, using it as a launchpad. The impact sent him rocketing back into the air, charging straight at the alien above him.
Dabura thought that Hojo had died already, so he had forgot about him completely.
That's why...
In the blink of an eye, Hojo's kick crashed straight into Dabura's neck, sending him plummeting toward the earth like a meteor. The earth shattered and cracks appeared on it.
"Enough flying for you," Hojo smirked as he also descended back to the earth. In the air, Dabura held the advantage, as Hojo couldn't fly. So he forced the fight to take place where it belonged— on the ground.
Dabura stood up immediately, before dust had even settled back around him. Instead of searching for source of attack, his eyes locked instantly onto the Hojo.
"This time, you're dead for sure."
Dabura said, irritation clearly visible on his face. He raised his hand as the crimson orbs of energy snapped into existence around him, blazing violently. He clenched his fist, gesturing the orbs to surge forward at Hojo, ripping through the air.
Moving at hypersonic speed, they struck Hojo instantly before his brain could even send signals to defend.
Boom!!
Explosion swallowed Hojo whole, devouring everything in its path. Metals vaporized instantaneously, skipping the process of melting. Earth ruptured, glowing molten red as the immense heat tore through it. Air temprature reached boiling point immediately.
Dabura watched as the colossal flames rushed outward, engulfing more and more of the area around them.
Unlike before, he didn't turn away. This time, Dabura focused on the centre of the inferno, assuming that Hojo might come out alive, ripping apart the belly of raging flames that devoured him.
Just as Dabura had anticipated, Hojo stepped out of the inferno, his hands tucked casually into his pockets as he remained untouched by the flames.
No burns. No scars. Not even a single scratch.
A smile crept across Hojo's face, widening with every step closer.
"You really thought that one move would be enough to kill me?" Hojo chuckled as he stopped near him.
Instead of attacking again and wasting more energy, Dabura studied Hojo carefully to grasp the reason for the failure of his attacks.
He could sense that something around Hojo felt wrong— something extra in his presence. Just to confirm, Dabura swiped his palm in air and released a cleave at Hojo.
Dabura was literally using dismantle and cleave of Sukuna effortlessly, just like Sukuna himself once did.
Multiple slashes that were unleashed at Hojo never reached him, disorienting and dissipating as they struck his absolute defence— Infinity.
Dabura's cleave did exactly what it meant to do, but was halted by Hojo's Infinity before it could ever reach him.
'Just as I expected, there's an invisible barrier around him, blocking all of my attacks. It's same as Gojo's infinity, which manipulated the space, so that an attack never truly reach its target. I've already copied all of Sukuna's technique, but my body will take few more hours to analyse and copy Gojo's limitless and infinity completely. He is too complex unlike Sukuna.'
Dabura realized as he deliberately tried to prolong the battle, forming more of the crimson orbs which pulsed violently, flooding the air with blinding red light.
He already understood that all of his attacks were meaningless against Hojo as long as his infinity is manipulating the space around him. Only domain amplification and malevolent shrine could bypass it.
But unleashing Sukuna's most broken abilities wasn't something, he could do cold. First, he would need to warm up by using ordinary dismantles and cleaves. It was a process that was necessary for him.
However, forming the orbs was one of his own techniques. So, he intended to combine the abilities of two monsters— Sukuna and himself.
With his left hand he released the Cleave and simultaneously shot the orbs at Hojo with his right hand.
Boom!
Same as before, slashes resulted in no damage at all, while orbs only increased the ongoing inferno of massive flames.
But surely, everything within a quarter-kilometer radius was reduced to nothing but a jagged wasteland of pulverized concrete and dust, still burning in flames.
[Author:- Don't get confuse that why is Dabura using Sukuna's shrine. It's because, I already had decided the technique of Dabura before Jjk modulo chapter 5 or 6 were even released. So they were my plans for something like this. Thanks for reading until here.]