[The Constellation, 'Abyssal Black Flame Dragon', grabs his right arm and looks at you in disbelief!]
[The Constellation, 'Secretive Plotter', flinches in surprise and trembles.]
[The Constellation, 'Prisoner of the Golden Headband', eyes shine for a moment as he swings his staff.]
[The Constellation, 'Demonic Judge of Fire', covers her mouth with both hands.]
The notification window continues to update.
Every time it did, it hit my eardrums with a loud Ring-!, so I frowned in extreme displeasure.
[A majority of Constellations raise questions about the above phenomenon.]
[Several Constellations question the fairness of the scenario.]
[A few Constellations point out the Probability of Incarnation, Kang Yuhyeon!]
[The Star Stream synthesizes and judges the above opinions.]
In the meantime, a few notifications that shouldn't be ignored caught my eye.
Scenario fairness? Probability? Star Stream? What on earth is all this—
[Settlement complete.]
At that moment.
[A penalty is imposed on the above Incarnation, Kang Yuhyeon.]
I couldn't finish my thought completely.
[Adjusting the progress of the scenario.]
-Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang—!!!!
"Kuhuk, kuek. Kuaaaaaak—!!!!"
Because a dark red lightning bolt covered my body completely.
"Kuhup, ugh. Uuuuugh…!!!"
Consciousness gradually fading. Pain covering the entire body.
In that fleeting yet eternally long time.
-Kugugugu…!!
I looked at a huge throne.
To be precise.
-Thump. Thump. Thump.
At an entity with a form indescribable.
[The power of a 'Fable' wriggles deep within your soul.]
[Your first 'Stigma' prepares to germinate.]
"…Keo-heo-eok—!!!"
A woman suddenly sprang up and began to gasp for breath violently.
She struggled like a fish just caught, shed tears and snot while repeatedly begging for her life, and even banged her head on the floor in maddening mental agony.
-Boom! Boom! Boom!!
It was Han Sooyoung, who had been fighting Kang Yuhyeon in Gwanghwamun Plaza just moments ago.
"Haa, haa…, haaaa…, f, f*ck…."
-Thud.
The successive shocks were seemingly enough to awaken her panicked brain; her body, which had been in a state of excitement, gradually calmed down and she slumped onto the floor.
However, that did not mean she had completely shaken off the fear and anxiety.
"Ah, ugh…, kagh…."
She would probably never be able to forget it for the rest of her life.
The domain he expanded, Malevolent Shrine (伏魔御廚子). It is a space that can be seen as a 'scenery of the heart', manifesting what is innately inside him.
But what did that space look like?
The ceiling was shaped like human ribs, the throne he sat on was a mountain of corpses, and the floor was filled with pooled blood.
A sight truly like hell itself. Just seeing that scene had planted such a huge trauma in her heart.
"M, my arms…. Legs…. They are all properly there, right…?"
From the moment she entered the domain, she was hit by his technique without being able to offer any resistance.
His technique cut through parts of her body horribly.
Han Sooyoung could never forget.
The moment her body was slowly being cut. The reality where she was being cut along with the Avatars she created to withstand it, making her thoughts pointless.
The voice screaming to save her despite being an Avatar. The reflection of herself in the pupils of the dying Avatars, looking no different from them.
The ominous and unpleasant feeling called 'Death' covering her.
Domain Expansion, Malevolent Shrine.
If Jujutsu Sorcerer Kang Yuhyeon's technique hadn't been pointed out by the majority of Constellations, and if the Star Stream had judged it appropriate for Probability, Han Sooyoung would already be a cold corpse. No, she would have died without leaving even a proper form behind.
Because the trick of transferring her memories to an Avatar far away while dying was already too late.
"Haa, haaaa. Haaaaa…!!"
However, that didn't enter her mind at all right now.
Furthermore, even the scenario that had to proceed according to plan was not important to her.
Han Sooyoung, who returned alive from the threshold of death, was intensely relieved at this moment and felt extreme fear towards the existence called Kang Yuhyeon.
Like that, in that state. How much time had passed?
-Ring!
[Qualified Kings are moving to the final test location.]
Reaching the end of the fourth scenario.
[Sub Scenario - Throne Usurpation]
Even though the finally selected King only had to sit on the throne to end it, he refused to sit on the throne.
[The Sub Scenario has been forcibly terminated.]
[An 'Unknown Deity' has noticed the abnormality of this world.]
In the end, a King of a world without a King was born.
Like that.
[The fourth scenario is forcibly terminated.]
The fourth scenario, which was long if you consider it long, came to an end.
-Ring!
[Due to an unexpected divergence, settlement of the scenario will take time.]
-Chik, chi-jik. Chi-ji-ji-jik….
Continuously heard, severely annoying static noise.
Frowning at that noise, I slowly opened my eyes and looked around.
Is this place…, ruins?
-Kugugu….
Surrounding buildings looking as if they were cut by something, or collapsed due to something.
For some reason, looking at that scenery, I fell into a contradiction of emotions that cannot occur simultaneously: a slight unpleasantness and longing.
"…Now I will chop you up finely and adapt to that infinity as well."
At that moment, a voice came from somewhere.
I turned my head quickly towards it.
There stood a man.
"Farewell, strongest. You were just an ordinary man born in an era without me."
A man standing alone in a solitary position, looking down on everything as trivial.
-Swaaaaa—!!
"…!!"
"…Hahaha! It worked quite well!!"
However, as if to show resistance against such a Great Evil somehow, a man who didn't lose his smile despite vomiting blood pointed behind him with his thumb and took a combat stance again.
"My students are watching, I have to show off a bit more."
-Whooosh.
At that moment.
Silence spreading through the area for a brief moment.
That did not mean the battle was over.
-Kwa-a-a-ang—!!!!
It was a silence announcing that the battle had started again.
"Phase (位相), Twilight (黄昏), Eyes of Wisdom. Cursed Technique Lapse (術式順転), Blue (Azure/蒼)."
The ground shakes, and the debris of broken buildings condenses into one place.
Looking closely, the place where debris began to gather at high speed was being crushed as if space was distorting.
"Phase (位相), Paramita (波羅蜜), Pillar of Light. Cursed Technique Reversal (術式反転), Red (Glow/赫)."
That wasn't all.
If the previously explained technique was about converging the newly formed space, this technique was divergence.
The newly created void moved forward, destroying the existing space.
And.
"Nine Ropes (九綱), Polarized Light (偏光), Crow and Declaration (Declaration/声明), Between Front and Back."
His final technique followed.
Colliding the converging void created by Blue and the diverging void created by Red, clashing the infinity of Lapse and Reversal respectively to create an imaginary mass.
A purple void that will swallow everything.
"Hollow Technique (虚式), Purple (Purple/自)."
As if pouring everything he had into him, a single technique containing all his Cursed Energy headed towards that man.
Truly a desperate crisis.
However.
-Seo-geok—!!!
The situation is reversed in an instant.
-Swaaaaaah—!!
At that moment, a sound that shouldn't be heard, that mustn't be heard, was heard.
-Whooosh…!!
The world the man was looking at is reversed.
The ground up, the sky down.
The world didn't flip. His gaze flipped.
-Thud…!!
Because he failed to defend perfectly against the purple void, half of his body became tatters, but the man who didn't die despite that smiled brightly and spoke to the one who fought him.
But there is no answer from the returning one.
"Magnificent, Gojo Satoru. I shall never forget you for as long as I live."
Because that man was already dead with a somewhat relieved face, his upper body and lower body separated.
-Whirrr—!!!
At that moment, without even a moment to mourn his death, someone enters the battlefield.
But I have no leisure to focus or care about that.
Because, the technique of a man seen right before my eyes.
That technique, which instantly cut down the one who fired the purple void, was none other than identical to mine.
The technique that man just used is the technique that fires invisible slashes at high speed, cutting as if with a formless sword. The so-called 'Dismantle' (解) of 'Shrine' (Mizushi).
But, the level was different from mine. If my Dismantle is at the level of a toddler just taking their first steps, his Dismantle has already reached perfection and completion.
And if it's not just my feeling, his Dismantle definitely didn't have him as the focal point for the target to be cut, but rather the space where he existed, that is, the world itself as the focal point.
Is this, really possible? Even if we use the same technique, can the difference in skill be this big?
-Whishhh….
At that moment, an unpleasant feeling began to cover my entire body as if bugs were crawling inside.
I have heard of this emotion somewhere, sometime.
That is, exactly….
-Ring!
[You realize the Essence of Cursed Energy.]
[The Fable, 'King of Curses', smiles faintly at your growth.]