"Hello. Nice to meet you for the first time. I am Naoya Zen'in, please take care of me."
"...What's this, you're lame."
Upon their first encounter, what occurred was Naoya's greeting with a smile plastered on his face, and Satoru Gojo's overtly bored reply.
"Put that down. It'll get in the way."
"Ah, this? Did you dislike the Dashi Chazuke?"
Evasive and elusive. At that attitude of having a conversation with Satoru Gojo while smiling yet not really conversing, naturally, Gojo's anger voltage rose, and veins popped visibly on his temples.
Before Suguru Geto, who came running in a panic, could stop him saying "Wait Satoru, fighting an outsider is going too far—!", Satoru Gojo's 'Limitless Cursed Technique' activated.
The power of the Limitless Cursed Technique, wielded perfectly by combining it with the special constitution 'Six Eyes' passed down in the Gojo family, was such that tremors ran through the jujutsu world upon Satoru Gojo's birth, and it was rumored as fact that curse users in the wild had been restraining their activities since he was born.
Even with just its basic effect, the technique can deploy an infinite barrier that nullifies all attacks, bringing overwhelming violence to the user where they can unilaterally beat down the opponent while remaining invincible.
On top of that, what makes the Limitless Cursed Technique the strongest is the power to create 'infinite convergence' called 'Blue'. By materializing the utterly unreasonable concept of 'negative space', it creates an overly irrational force field that pulls, swings around, and flings away the target at will. When combined with the infinite barrier, it is no exaggeration to call it effectively the strongest.
What was unleashed on Naoya this time was the power of that 'Blue'. In Satoru Gojo's assumption, he intended to pull Naoya in with 'Blue' and deliver a blow to his defenseless gut.
—But the opponent is also a Special Grade Sorcerer. He will definitely deal with this attack.
Yes, that attack was made with such thinking. In a sense, the blow he unleashed to confirm how it would be blocked, however, hit the flank of the 'completely unresisting' Naoya Zen'in directly. Naoya was blown away tumbling, bouncing two or three times across the ground, exposing a sorry state covered in dirt and scratches.
"...Hah?"
"—Hey!? Satoru!? Seriously, no matter how you think about it, you can't excuse this one!?"
"No no, wrong. That's not it. You, why did you get hit!?"
"...Hah?"
As a result, what remained on the spot was Suguru Geto, naturally pale and accusing his friend, and Satoru Gojo, confused despite being the one who did it.
Although Gojo's behavior was obviously extremely unreasonable, there was technically a reason for his action, in his own way.
That reason was the 'Six Eyes' he possessed. The clairvoyance of the jujutsu world that sees through all cursed energy and perceives the techniques and even the composition of the beings it looks upon.
The Special Grade Sorcerer named Naoya Zen'in reflected in those eyes was an existence far removed from the image of someone who would be 'hit while defenseless'.
Cursed Energy Amount: Double Satoru's Cursed Technique Lapse: Projection Sorcery Cursed Technique Reversal: Record Self Sorcery Reverse Cursed Technique: Acquired Domain Expansion: Acquired Cursed Energy Efficiency: Approaching Satoru's
Roughly writing it out like a status, it would look like this. Satoru Gojo, unable to remain calm after being shown such specs, attacked joyfully; that was the beginning of this commotion.
But how about the result? The scattered boxes of year-end gifts, Naoya Zen'in lying fallen in the distance. No matter how you thought about the situation, it was nothing other than Satoru Gojo unilaterally 'picking a fight with a younger boy and punching him', and thinking about it with common sense in this situation, 'the bad one is Satoru Gojo no matter how you think about it'.
In such a situation, what swirled within Satoru Gojo was confusion, disappointment, regret, and indignation.
However—immediately after that, a terrifying torrent of cursed energy raged from the body of Naoya, who should have been blown away.
"—Tsk!?!?"
Suguru Geto was confused, wondering what on earth was happening in that situation, but although his technique was equivalent to Special Grade, Geto's ability was still Grade 1. The overwhelming conviction that 'if I stay here, I'll die' made him choose retreat rather than mediation.
On the other hand, the tension of Satoru Gojo, who had been 'dropped and then lifted', turned from disappointment to expectation and shot up to the climax instantly.
Beyond his gaze, Naoya, standing up while repairing his wounds with Reverse Cursed Technique, had a fed-up face contrasting with Satoru Gojo.
"I don't particularly have a seppuku hobby, you know... Why did I end up having to fight Gojo... Being made to fight a matchup I can't win isn't interesting; can I snap?"
The 'Promoting Good' binding prohibited a preemptive strike against Satoru Gojo, and to include Satoru Gojo as a target for the 'Punishing Evil' binding, he took the attack with no guard. Because that state was counted as a 'defeat', he was forced to pay the seppuku quota due to 'Seppuku'.
No matter how you look at it, it's adding insult to injury. In this utterly worst situation, Naoya accumulated frustration fiercely, feeling stress to the point of emptiness, passing beyond furious anger.
But at the same time, sharply, Naoya, who had placed bindings to 'perform a greeting' and 'yield the first move' before combat, was in top form. Coupled with the fact that Satoru Gojo, who punched the ethically defenseless Naoya first, was 'bad' no matter how you thought about it, his cursed energy efficiency hit a record low fuel consumption even better than usual, realizing super recovery where his belly healed as soon as it was cut, even with Reverse Cursed Technique run on naturally recovering cursed energy.
Such was Naoya in peak condition, but the calmness thinking 'Well, I probably can't win' remained in his brain.
The compatibility between Projection Sorcery and Limitless is unimaginably worst. The desperate absolute law when facing Limitless Cursed Technique is that no matter what super speed one runs at, ultimately, like Achilles, one cannot catch up to the 'tortoise'.
In other words, for Naoya to defeat Satoru Gojo, he needs to exhaust Satoru Gojo to the point where he can no longer deploy the infinite barrier, but...
"That kind of thing would take three days and three nights. His cursed energy efficiency is too good. ...However, crying myself to sleep isn't my style. At the very least, I'll startle you."
Simultaneously with muttering that, Naoya activated his technique, repeating the 'Gigeiten Seal' and 'Gassho' 6 times each in a reciprocating manner.
—Naoya Zen'in finds it very difficult to say 'Domain Expansion (Ryōiki Tenkai - 8 morae)' due to his bindings.
Overcoming that flaw by substituting repeated hand seals for chanting, and further enabling '0.1 Second Domain Expansion' by exercising his own technique while forming hand seals, was due to Naoya's own tireless effort and careful reinterpretation of the technique.
Special Grade Sorcerer Naoya Zen'in's Projection Sorcery, its pinnacle is now unleashed—!
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