The battle had already reached a white-hot stage; both sides were descending into madness.
Yuki Tsukumo pushed her cursed technique, [Star Rage], to its absolute limit.
Her body, riddled with wounds and eroded by high concentrations of radiation, now emanated a tragic yet resolute glow.
She intended to use her broken body to create a miniature black hole capable of swallowing the radiation on this doomed land.
This was her ultimate strike, betting everything as a Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerer.
At that exact moment, the unstable cursed energy core of [Little Boy] completely lost control under Yuki's reckless, frenzied assault.
Rumble—
A terrifying roar that defied description erupted from the dark green core of cursed energy.
Nuclear energy that surpassed the limits of human imagination was entirely unleashed.
A massive mushroom cloud, large enough to blot out the sky, slowly rose above the already ruined wasteland of Fukushima.
A blinding light, intense enough to instantly turn the dark night into day, frantically expanded in all directions with Fukushima at its epicenter.
In this moment, the entire eastern coast of Japan was thoroughly illuminated by this apocalyptic radiance.
However.
Almost at the exact instant the nuclear light was about to consume everything, Yuki Tsukumo's technique succeeded.
At the spot where her body had been completely vaporized, a pitch-black singularity devoid of all light was quietly born.
The singularity was incredibly small, yet it exuded a terrifying gravitational pull that made the entire world tremble.
It was like a pure black dot suddenly appearing on a white canvas.
In the next second, this miniature black hole, capable of devouring even light, instantly slipped out of Yuki's control.
It began to frantically and greedily devour everything in its surroundings.
The apocalyptic light and heat of the nuclear blast were forcefully distorted and pulled the moment they touched it, ultimately being completely swallowed and vanishing without a trace.
The sky over Fukushima, which had just been lit up as bright as day by the nuclear blast, plunged into an absolute darkness and dead silence far deeper than the dead of night in the very next second.
That miniature black hole acted like a colossal eraser.
It completely devoured and erased the raging nuclear energy, the long-ruined nuclear power plant, the cursed land of Fukushima, and even the earth's crust beneath it.
A bottomless void, seemingly piercing straight through the earth's crust, appeared on the map of Japan.
Across Japan, Satoru Gojo, Yuta Okkotsu, and others who were fiercely battling ancient curse users and newborn cursed spirits simultaneously shuddered.
They clearly felt it.
Two massive, disaster-level cursed energies suddenly erupted in the distance, radiating a heart-palpitating power, only to completely vanish within a single second.
It was as if they had never existed in this world.
And hovering above that domain of "nothingness" erased by the black hole, Yuki Tsukumo's semi-transparent soul floated quietly, a dumbfounded expression on her face.
'How could this happen? I definitely controlled the output.'
...
Meanwhile, at Yokohama Port.
This place had long since been reduced to a graveyard of steel.
The Special Grade Cursed Spirit, the [Gun Devil], stood atop the ruins with its hideous body composed of countless firearms.
Countless gun barrels constantly adjusted their firing angles like living creatures, forming storms of death capable of instantly shredding any carbon-based lifeform into pieces.
The pungent smell of gunpowder mixed with rust permeated the air.
Megumi Fushiguro's figure slipped into the center of the battlefield as silently as a ghost, utilizing the concealment properties of the [Ten Shadows Technique].
He knew that facing an enemy with such massive area-of-effect attacks, any frontal assault would be tantamount to suicide.
He had to strike directly at the core.
"[Nue]!"
Accompanied by a low shout, a giant bird shikigami with a wingspan of over ten meters, covered in pitch-black feathers, soared into the sky from his shadow.
It let out an ear-piercing screech, crackling lightning wrapping around its wings as it dive-bombed the [Gun Devil] like a fighter jet.
"[Divine Dog: Totality]!"
On the ground, a black-and-white hound leaped out from the shadows. Its agile body darted through the countless explosions at high speed, harassing the [Gun Devil] from the flank.
"[Max Elephant]!"
Just as the [Gun Devil]'s attention was simultaneously drawn by the aerial and ground attacks, a massive pink elephant poked its head out from the shadow beneath its feet without any warning.
It violently swung its long trunk, firing a blast of high-pressure water capable of easily snapping steel plates. The water struck the [Gun Devil]'s firearm-composed knee joint like a cannonball.
The [Gun Devil]'s massive body swayed violently, and its rhythm of attack fell into momentary chaos.
However, this brief harassment was like poking a hornet's nest, thoroughly enraging the steel monster that only knew slaughter.
It abandoned its previous aimless, indiscriminate strafing.
Its body, made of tens of thousands of gun barrels, let out a grating screech of grinding metal.
In the next second, all the muzzles changed direction in unison.
They aimed squarely at the true manipulator hiding in the shadows of the ruins—Megumi Fushiguro.
Tens of thousands of bullets left their chambers in an instant.
In midair, they wove together into an absolute net of firepower with no blind spots, making evasion completely impossible.
Faced with that apocalyptic barrage, Megumi's body seemed incredibly insignificant.
An urge to summon [Mahoraga] welled up inside him.
But in the end, relying on his formidable willpower, he forcefully suppressed the urge.
He knew that if he relied on that power now, he would never be able to catch up to that man's back.
He would never be able to stand at the same height and fight alongside them.
Under this ultimate pressure of life and death, Megumi's understanding of the [Ten Shadows Technique] reached an unprecedented, entirely new realm.
He was no longer bound to summoning individual shikigami.
Instead, he completely shattered their traits and their very essence, and then—fused them anew!
He formed an extremely complex, unprecedented hand sign in front of his chest.
The cursed energy within his body surged frantically at an unimaginable speed.
The shadow beneath his feet began to violently churn and boil, like a living creature possessing its own life.
"[Domain Expansion]—"
A pitch-black domain filled with viscous liquid violently unfurled with him at the center.
"[Chimera Shadow Garden]!"