Akuto lit a cigarette and looked out the window, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Tozuka remained bowed at ninety degrees, respectfully waiting for Akuto's answer.
Unfortunately, Tozuka guessed wrong.
To Akuto, nothing mattered except Sukuna's Finger.
Placing a bet?
A game for the weak. "Tozuka."
"Yes!"
"Take your family on a vacation."
Tozuka's expression stiffened as he realized he had been rejected, his gaze becoming complicated.
Akuto picked up a pen and paper, scribbled on two notes, and handed them to Tozuka. "Have your people deliver the letters to the addresses on these notes, then leave Japan immediately."
"This is a warning."
After saying this, Akuto opened the window and vanished in a flash.
Half an hour later, Akuto stood atop the tallest building in Shibuya, waiting quietly.
"Lord Akuto, I..."
"Miko, do you think your begging will earn you sympathy?"
Akuto's voice was low, his eyes filled with disdain. "They want to make your younger brother eat my finger now. Do you know what will happen?"
"Your brother will certainly die."
"Miko, always remember: never let others choose for you."
"Force them to choose instead."
As he spoke, Akuto opened his phone and dialed Kyosuke's smartwatch.
At that time, in an underground fortress.
Countless researchers in white lab coats were working at a fast pace.
"The person has been brought in!"
"What are you going to do to us! Let me go!"
Touko tried to struggle but was quickly restrained.
Kitamura walked slowly to Kyosuke's side, pinched his face, and bared a cruel smile.
"This is the child, right? He shares the same bloodline as Yotsuya Miko."
"Then let's give it a try."
"What are you going to do to my child! Let him go! Come at me if you have the guts!"
Touko struggled with all her might but was pinned down by two men.
"Don't be nervous, we're just conducting a small experiment."
"Your name is Yotsuya Kyosuke, right? Don't you want to become as strong as your sister?"
"Bang!"
Kyosuke suddenly punched Kitamura in the eye socket.
"Let go of my mom!"
Kyosuke tried to save Touko but was quickly restrained. "Fool! You damn brat!"
"Slap!"
Kitamura's slap nearly knocked Kyosuke unconscious.
"Install the taser on him first."
"Let me go!"
No matter how much Kyosuke struggled, it was in vain; he was pinned to the experimental table by two men.
The next moment, a mechanical arm extended and gripped Kyosuke's head.
Immediately after, Kyosuke felt a needle prick his neck, followed by the sound of an electric drill.
"Let go of my child! Kyosuke!!"
Touko could clearly see the mechanical arm with the drill boring into Kyosuke's neck, after which a chip was implanted.
Staff members quickly came forward to suture the wound.
"Ring ring!"
Just then, the smartwatch on Kyosuke's wrist began to ring.
The sound was as piercing as a thunderclap in the silent laboratory.
Kitamura's face instantly turned very ugly.
He snatched the watch, saw the caller was labeled "Sister," and turned to look at the Minister nearby.
"Answer it."
The Minister gently rubbed his teacup.
"You've taken Kyosuke and Touko, haven't you? People of the Exorcism Society." Akuto's low voice struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer.
"What? Do you want to find us? Or start a massacre?"
Kitamura spoke with a cold sneer.
On the other end, Akuto suddenly burst into wild laughter.
"Hehehe... Hahahahaha!!!"
"Very well." Akuto slowly withdrew his smile. "I want to play a game with you."
"This game is called 'Wooden Man'."
"If you remain motionless for one hour, I will let bygones be bygones."
"But if you lose, all of you must die."
"Now, let the game begin."
The call was disconnected, and everyone in the lab looked at each other in bewilderment.
Kitamura angrily smashed the smartwatch to pieces.
"Fool!"
"Prime Minister! Let's start the experiment!"
"No."
The Minister's face was grim. "Wait first."
Akuto's attitude was too abnormal; he was excessively calm.
It was completely different from their expected reactions—that he would go mad, make threats, or beg for cooperation.
He seemed more like... he was happy!?
The Minister felt as if he had personally unleashed a demon. "Minister! He's just bluffing. We should be racing against time; he can't kill that many people!"
Kitamura's expression was somewhat distorted. "Shut up! I said wait!"
"Everyone, pay attention to the news!"
...At that time, atop the tallest building in Shibuya Ward.
"Lord Akuto, you..."
Before Miko could finish, Akuto, with a wicked smile, raised his index and middle fingers in front of his face and whispered softly.
"Emerging from the darkness, darker than darkness itself."
"Purify all that is filthy and defiled."
As Akuto finished his chant, a black dot suddenly appeared thirty meters above.
Then, like ink spreading on rice paper...
A pitch-black aura suddenly expanded, turning into a barrier that enveloped the entire Shibuya Ward.
Yet ordinary people felt nothing.
"Lord Akuto, what is that?"
It was the first time Miko had seen Akuto use an ability she didn't recognize.
"A petty trick developed by a bunch of weaklings."
"But for now, it's a very useful technique."
Akuto spread his arms to feel the breeze, his body trembling slightly with excitement.
"This is a Curtain. I set the rules within the barrier."
"And the function of this curtain is..."
Akuto grinned, revealing a bloodthirsty smile.
"Within the Curtain, everyone can see cursed spirits, and it's easy to enter but impossible to leave!"
"Swoosh~"
Just before the curtain completely closed, a plane flew over it. Akuto looked up.
Tozuka looked down at Kyoto from the plane.
He didn't think Akuto's instruction for him to leave was without purpose.
He feared a great upheaval, perhaps even a disaster, was about to occur here.
After Akuto left, he immediately took his family onto a private jet and took off from Japan at maximum speed.
"Father, where are we going?"
"To seek refuge."
Tozuka closed his eyes and said no more.
Meanwhile, below in Shibuya Ward.
Miko suddenly looked into the distance in extreme terror.
In the distance, two cursed spirits as large as mountain ranges were walking slowly, each step seemingly making all of Kyoto tremble!
Terrifying black smoke shot straight into the sky!
Miko recognized these two cursed spirits. One was the sealed Ultra Special Grade from the Sendagaya Tunnel.
And the other... was that giant fox from the Sanko Valley Shrine that had been unsealed; it had never left the shrine before.
She hadn't expected Akuto to summon them here.
The Ultra Special Grade cursed spirit from Sendagaya Tunnel was a monster like a mountain of flesh, with countless hands and faces on its body wailing, crying for help, and roaring.
Besides the two Ultra Special Grade there were dense swarms of other cursed spirits.
The lowest among them was the 2nd Grade.
At this moment, Miko finally understood what Akuto wanted to do.
He was going to create a disaster!
A disaster that would cost countless lives.
This was a game with a foregone conclusion.
Miko was extremely conflicted; her humanity told her she must stop Akuto.
It would be simple; as long as she reclaimed her body and cut off the flow of Cursed Energy, these cursed spirits wouldn't be able to cause trouble.
But her emotions told her those people deserved to die!
They had to be made to pay the price!
By now, the two massive Ultra Special Grade cursed spirits had reached Akuto's side.
Their enormous bodies, just standing on the ground, were as tall as a hundred-story building. "Akuto, where are the infinite human sacrifices you promised us?"
The Ultra Special Grade cursed spirit from Sendagaya Tunnel pulled out a note.
On it was written. [ Come to Shibuya Ward, and I shall grant you infinite human sacrifices. ]
Akuto spread his arms wide. "They're everywhere, you fools!"
"Here, as long as you wish, you can let anyone see you!"
"Go and slaughter! Tear apart everything you see! Devour everything you see!"
"Today, Kyoto belongs to the cursed spirits!"
"Roar!!!!"
Countless cursed spirits let out roars.
Immediately after, the first scream pierced the sky.
"AAAAHHHH!!!"
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T/N: This guy is truly a hypocrite, he's no different from Sukuna lol.