Nishinari Ward, Osaka City. It was during the witching hour, when even the plants and trees sleep, that the building housing the office of the Yakuza-style curse user group 'Kyokujukai' was completely sealed off by a Curtain and a separate barrier.
While the members of the Kyokujukai, who had been fast asleep, were thrown into confusion after being rudely awakened by a mysterious spotlight, the one who made a fair and square entry by tearing the front door to shreds was Special Grade Sorcerer Naoya Zen'in. His vast total cursed energy had been further bolstered to 1.2 times its original amount prior to the operation by Utahime's cursed technique.
A third-rate curse user standing guard at the entrance drew a cheap katana and slashed at him—but it was a dud.
What awaited the curse user, whose hand went numb after his sword—swung with the speed of a fist—was struck from the side and broken, was a merciless and brutal killing method.
Naoya kicked him down, grabbed his arm, stomped on his shoulder, and, letting his cursed energy reinforcement do the talking, 'ripped off' the third-rate's arm.
As a result, the arm was forcibly severed from the middle of the upper arm. The fierce scream of the underling, having had his humerus pulled out, echoed throughout the building, luring the other curse users to gather with their weapons in hand.
However, no matter how many of this disorderly mob gathered, they were no match for the current Naoya.
Naoya crushed the sacrum of the underling he was stepping on to incapacitate him. Then, using 'Projection Sorcery' to accelerate instantaneously, he stabbed the jagged bone protruding from the 'arm' he was holding into the shoulder of a nearby curse user. Hooking his fingers onto the lower jaw of the man's mouth, which had opened wide to scream, Naoya tore that lower jaw off with brute force. The tongue, having lost its support, lolled out from what used to be the curse user's mouth as he rolled his eyes back and fainted.
Having 'slaughtered' two men in quick succession like that, what Naoya gained was a slight invincibility barrier. This defensive wall, named 'Awe', was a temporary territory realized by the overwhelming survival instinct of the curse users, who, despite holding swords, would retreat a step for every step Naoya took.
However, it was also true that remaining surrounded was annoying. Even if they were a group lesser than a disorderly mob of third-rates frozen in fear, they still possessed swords and cursed energy.
Carelessness was forbidden. If he showed mercy and let them go here, they might recover and slash him from behind. Therefore, Naoya would inflict punishment upon every last curse user he deemed 'evil', without pity, mercy, or compassion.
He shattered hip joints with subsonic low kicks, pulverized both collarbones with cross chops, gouged out both eyes after blinding them, and severed legs with hand chops as he passed by.
He exhausted every method of destroying the human body, specifically targeting and destroying limbs. This manner of fighting brought indescribable terror to the curse users, with some even wetting themselves and fainting.
Amidst this, as he mercilessly went around destroying the limbs, hip bones, and parts of the faces of the small fry, eventually, only groans echoed through the first floor of the building.
Checking the upper floors lightly, he sensed a reasonably large presence of cursed energy. They were likely lying in wait, assuming Naoya would come up the stairs, but if he were going to use such leisurely methods, there would have been no need to receive Utahime's buff.
Kneading his temporarily increased cursed energy and filling his entire body with it, Naoya unleashed a Maximum.
However, the one performing the super-acceleration reliant on cursed energy was strictly 'Naoya's arm alone'.
"Maximum: Irregular Activation... Arm Limited! ...!!!"
With the momentum of a ferocious uppercut, Naoya's fist was thrust towards the heavens. At the moment it fully extended, he used an applied technique of Falling Blossom Emotion, usually used for seppuku, to sever his own arm, which was clad in Black Flash due to the super-acceleration.
That absurd technique, however, established itself as a powerful long-range attack by ejecting the arm itself as a 4.8kg projectile.
Just like the normal version, the initial velocity of the arm flying off was 7.9km per second. Although its power did not reach the level of Naoya's full power, it was accompanied by energy equivalent to 1,300 Tsar Bombas. It was fired diagonally upward through the building, designed to punch through as many pillars as possible.
However, it was ultimately just a severed arm. If it hit the steel frame of the building, it would simply be minced into meat. But that didn't mean the kinetic energy would disappear.
If it hit a steel frame, the steel frame would be blown away at tremendous speed in its place, and that blown-away steel frame and scattered concrete would blow away yet other objects.
At the end of such a chain of destruction, the upper floors collapsed entirely, driving the curse users who were there into a near-death critical state, wiping them out. Naoya, dodging the rain of rubble, operated his mobile phone with his newly regrown arm.
"It's done. I half-killed everyone in the bunch. Have the assistant directors collect them."
'Nice, Zen'in! I'm heading there with Shoko right now! If they're critically injured, we have to treat them so they don't die.'
"Right. Then I'll move the rubble out of the way. You can take your time coming."
Exchanging such a conversation, Naoya took out a 'paper doll' from his pocket, poured cursed energy into it to summon a simple shikigami for menial tasks, stretched slowly, and moved to collect the curse users.
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