Above the ruins of the Tombs of the Star, the battle seemed to have devolved into a one-sided slaughter.
That ultimate being, composed of billions of souls, flesh, and cursed energy, was like an insatiable black hole, greedily devouring and analyzing everything in its path.
The moment Satoru Gojo unleashed his [Blue], it was perfectly copied and reflected back with even greater power.
Before that overwhelming barrage of mimicked cursed techniques, the army of cursed spirits released by Suguru Geto was like moths drawn to a flame. They were torn to shreds in droves, converted into the purest form of nourishment, and absorbed.
Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were steadily losing ground.
With every passing second, the indescribable monster grew stronger.
It even began to manifest a complete [Limitless Cursed Technique] across its surface, rendering the vast majority of their attacks completely ineffective against it.
Just then, all expressions suddenly vanished from Kenjaku's face—a visage formed from billions of agonizing faces—replaced by a uniform, mocking sneer radiating with divine brilliance.
On the surface of its constantly writhing mass of flesh, a face slowly emerged. It was a face Satoru Gojo was incredibly familiar with, yet currently despised to the core.
It was Suguru Geto's face.
"Satoru."
Its voice had also morphed into Suguru Geto's unique, slightly raspy, and magnetic tone.
"Look."
"I am surpassing you."
"I am becoming the true 'strongest'."
Those words made Satoru Gojo see red. He hadn't expected that even at a time like this, Kenjaku would still spare the effort to taunt him.
Satoru Gojo couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
In that split second of distraction, a [Blue] copied by Kenjaku slammed into his body.
The terrifying gravitational pull bizarrely bypassed his Limitless Cursed Technique, directly tearing at his flesh. Even with his ultimately evolved body, several bone-deep gashes were instantly ripped open.
Blood dyed his pitch-black Jujutsu High uniform red.
This attack made him realize that he could no longer hold anything back.
Satoru Gojo frantically and recklessly poured the ocean of cursed energy surging within him into his Six Eyes at an unprecedented speed.
Buzz—
A groan of overwhelming burden echoed from deep within his brain.
Those azure eyes, which were supposed to see through all things in the world, now wept two glaring trails of bloody tears due to the sheer overload.
A soul-tearing agony, like a fuse about to blow, shot through his nerve endings.
The world before his eyes collapsed.
The existence of all matter and the flow of all cursed energy were completely shattered in his vision, transforming into an endless, surging torrent of data.
He saw it!
Within that utterly chaotic ocean of data, he finally caught a fleeting flaw!
Between Kenjaku's transition from analyzing to copying a cursed technique, there was an incredibly minuscule delay in soul information synchronization—a gap of less than 0.01 seconds!
That was the sole crack in its armor before it became a true ultimate being!
"Satoru!"
Suguru Geto's roar forcibly yanked Satoru Gojo's consciousness, which was on the verge of being swallowed by the data torrent, back to reality.
He had noticed his best friend's abnormal state.
Looking at Satoru Gojo's miserable appearance—bleeding from all seven orifices and looking like a madman—he immediately understood.
Satoru seemed to have found the key to breaking this stalemate.
As if realizing something, an unprecedented, resolute, yet relieved calmness surfaced in Suguru Geto's eyes.
He smiled.
In the next second, he completely and unreservedly released all the resurrected cursed spirits within his body, then began to burn their power.
An army of tens of thousands of cursed spirits blotted out the sky, letting out their final, mournful wails in this world.
"Satoru."
Suguru Geto spread his arms wide, a brilliant smile on his face—just like the one from all those years ago.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
He was actually going to burn all the cursed spirits he had collected over his entire lifetime, along with his newly regained soul.
Sacrificing it all to Satoru Gojo.
All in exchange for that single strike to shatter the barrier of a god!
Boom—!!!
A terrifying torrent of cursed energy, capable of piercing heaven and earth, transformed into a pillar of energy that defied all colors, surging straight toward Satoru Gojo.
Meanwhile, under the backlash of this apocalyptic power, Suguru Geto's body began to shatter inch by inch, turning into a sky full of golden motes of light.
"No—!!!"
Kenjaku sensed this terrifying power that was enough to threaten its very core.
Billions of eyes, filled with fury and terror, suddenly surfaced on its massive fleshy body, locking dead onto the white-haired man receiving the power.
It temporarily abandoned its evolution and synchronization; it had to stop this first!
However, it was too late.
Satoru Gojo bore everything his best friend had entrusted to him.
He knew he only had one chance.
Within that 0.01 seconds!
Having received all of Suguru Geto's power, the total amount of cursed energy within Satoru Gojo instantly breached an immeasurable critical point.
He gathered this limit-breaking power—a fusion of everything from the two 'strongest'—entirely at his fingertips.
[Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue].
[Cursed Technique Reversal: Red].
Two diametrically opposed forces converged and merged at his fingertips.
Hollow Technique—[Purple]!
A purplish-black beam of light, containing endless destructive power capable of completely piercing through the entire continental shelf, blasted forth!
Facing this apocalyptic strike, Kenjaku felt a true "threat" for the very first time.
It mobilized all of its power, pushing the newly analyzed [Limitless Cursed Technique] to its absolute limit, constructing an absolute defensive barrier in front of itself.
Now was the time!
This exact moment was what Satoru Gojo had been waiting for!
Under the cover of [Purple]'s dazzlingly extreme brilliance.
His figure flashed, instantly vanishing from his spot.
Using the terrifying, space-distorting power of [Purple] to tear open a rift, he teleported himself into the interior of Kenjaku's massive fleshy body during the brief window before it could recover!
Inside Kenjaku's body.
It was a chaotic world composed of countless wailing souls and viscous cursed energy.
Any creature that stepped into this place would be instantly decomposed, assimilated, and turned into a part of this ultimate being.
But Satoru Gojo's ultimately enhanced [Limitless Cursed Technique] acted as the perfect isolation layer, completely shielding him from this all-consuming chaos.
On the outside, Kenjaku's body, which had been ruthlessly pierced by the Hollow Technique: [Purple], began to rapidly repair itself.
On the inside.
Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes pierced through the overlapping layers of fog formed by souls and cursed energy.
He finally saw Kenjaku's true body.
That brain, wrapped in countless nerves and blood vessels!