"When I first heard Kenjaku describe the person who could stop me, I suspected it might be you. Seeing that it is indeed you now makes me quite happy, but what is going on with your current state?"
Sukuna, looking down from above, frowned slightly as he gazed at Chinatsu, who was in poor condition below him, feeling a hint of displeasure.
When he noticed the weak common people nearby, shivering and scrambling to flee away from the area, the frown on his face deepened, and he understood the reason for Chinatsu's exhaustion.
"Did you make yourself look this wretched just to protect those weak small fry? How greedy."
Ryomen Sukuna felt pity and dissatisfaction that Chinatsu was expending her energy on these weak small fry, because, in his view, the very purpose of weak small fry was to provide amusement for the strong.
Why should the strong expend extra energy on small fry and make themselves tired? After all, the only advantage small fry have is their overwhelming numbers, whether they die by the hands of the strong or lose their lives due to various factors.
The small fry continue endlessly.
He looked down at Chinatsu. When he realized that Chinatsu was completely unmoved by his words, he showed a helpless expression and let out a soft sigh.
"Forget it, truly incorrigible."
After Sukuna finished speaking, he raised one of his palms, shaped it into a hand-blade, and swung it lightly.
[Dismantle]!
As Sukuna softly chanted the name of his technique, an invisible, sharp slash of sword energy swiftly flew out. However, the target of this attack was not Chinatsu, but the ordinary Jujutsu Sorcerers who were fleeing in panic.
A strong sense of crisis surged over this group of ordinary Jujutsu Sorcerers, making them feel as if a giant rock was pressing down on their hearts, and a strange sense of suffocation, even though their heads were not underwater.
"Damn it!!!"
Just as the sword energy was about to cleave the nearest Jujutsu Sorcerer in two, Chinatsu, who should have been under "Cursed Technique Reversal" and unable to use teleportation, suddenly appeared in front of him.
Under the interference of Limitless Defense, this incredibly sharp slash of sword energy stopped less than a centimeter away from Chinatsu's body.
"Tha—"
"Hurry up and run!"
"Yes!!!"
The Jujutsu Sorcerer behind Chinatsu, who had been so frightened he had plopped onto the ground, paused for a moment, then quickly scrambled to his feet and continued running out of the area, enduring his physical discomfort.
Seeing this, Sukuna was displeased with Chinatsu's actions but was more interested in the move Chinatsu made while blocking his attack for the small fry.
After a Domain Expansion is deployed and then released, Jujutsu Sorcerers enter a state called "Cursed Technique Reversal" for a period, requiring time to regain the ability to use their Cursed Technique.
To avoid waiting for the cooldown period to restore her Cursed Technique activation, Chinatsu chose the same method used by Gojo Satoru when he fought Sukuna in the original work.
She used Cursed Energy to destroy a small part of her brain where her Innate Technique was imprinted, and then healed it using Reverse Cursed Technique, thereby ignoring the cooldown time she would normally have to pay and resetting her Cursed Technique directly.
After completing this sequence of actions, Chinatsu couldn't help but raise a hand to cover her face, trying to hide her somewhat complicated expression.
Pain!
It hurts so much!
It hurts incredibly!
Destroying a part of your brain and then healing it with Reverse Cursed Technique—it's a miracle the author of the original work could come up with such an absurd maneuver.
While resisting the throbbing, phantom-limb-like pain in her head, she tried to hypnotize herself into believing that this pain was helpful for concentrating her mind.
Consequently, when Chinatsu removed the hand covering her face, her already listless expression became even more... desolate.
Sukuna looked at Chinatsu in this state. Although he still felt it was worthless for Chinatsu to waste her energy helping those small fry, at the same time, Chinatsu's rating as a source of amusement rapidly climbed in his heart.
He did not intend to immediately fight Chinatsu; instead, he adopted a leisurely attitude and started chatting with her.
"Actually, you could choose to run away. The speed you showed when you went to help those small fry just now was quite fast. If you act like a rat scurrying across the street and run the moment you see me, perhaps even if I wanted to choke you, I wouldn't be able to achieve it~"
Sukuna initiated a conversation with Chinatsu using what he believed was a benevolent tone, but this topic greatly displeased Chinatsu, and the conversation was unilaterally rejected by her.
Looking at Chinatsu, who did not reply, Sukuna did not become enraged. In his view, this kind of development also held a certain entertainment value.
He chuckled softly, casually waved a hand, and was about to open his mouth to introduce the next topic when Chinatsu suddenly spoke up, seizing the right to speak.
"Sukuna, you only have the strength of 16 fingers right now, don't you? Do you want to know where the remaining 4 fingers are?"
The words spoken by Chinatsu made Sukuna frown once again.
He didn't believe the other party would tell him the location of the fingers, but the sincerity written all over Chinatsu's face piqued Sukuna's curiosity somewhat.
"Then tell me, where are my remaining fingers?"
Sukuna was somewhat anticipating Chinatsu's answer, and he was confident that as soon as he heard her reply, he would immediately be able to guess whether she was speaking the truth or a lie.
Since she was offering the information herself, and not trading it by sacrificing something through a Binding Vow, if it was false, it would be amusing; if it was true, it would be a huge gain. Either way, he wouldn't lose anything.
As Sukuna thought this, a rather demonic smile appeared on Chinatsu's face. Under Sukuna's expectant gaze, she slowly extended one of her fingers and pointed toward the sky.
"Hmm?"
Sukuna couldn't help but be slightly stunned. He raised his head and looked up at the sky. Although he didn't react immediately, when he finally understood, his normally composed expression instantly crumbled.
In space, approximately 100 kilometers above the ground, a small private satellite engraved with the characters "Gojo" silently floated.
Sukuna's remaining 4 fingers were stored inside the extremely narrow space of this small private satellite. Through multiple barriers carefully arranged by the Jujutsu Sorcerer Tengen, Sukuna still couldn't precisely sense the location of his fingers unless he was extremely close.
Sukuna stood on the earth of the planet.
Sukuna's Fingers were carried by the satellite in outer space.
Once Sukuna understood Chinatsu's meaning, his composure shattered, and he glared furiously at Chinatsu, an overwhelming murderous aura erupting from his body.
The casual chat abruptly ceased.
The great battle was imminent!