Hidaka stood over Kiyotaka and said, "If you don't do something in 5 seconds, I'll consider it a defeat."
Kiyotaka, with a raspy voice, then chanted, "Manifest", as a pillar of mass appeared and hit Hidaka, pushing her back, and he slowly stood up, healing from the damage and thinking, 'Taking another 2 hits from that might prove lethal. Even one might knock me down like that again. I must avoid it no matter what. But that must have burned through a lot of her Cursed Energy.'
Hidaka patted herself off, saying, "You're playing so hard to get. I love it", while thinking, 'I used up about a sixth of my Cursed Energy with that attack, but if I get it off one or two more times.'
She smiled before calming herself and thinking, 'Hold on. Hold on. If I overdo it, he'll die, and then he won't be able to marry me.'
Hidaka rushed at Kiyotaka, propelled herself with bursts of flame as Kiyotaka formed gauntlets on his arms and blocked her blows, thinking, 'This should help.'
He knocked her arms away from her centre of mass and slammed his foot into her chest, forming mass between his foot and her, sending her back as she smiled and said, "Oh? Stepping on my breasts now?"
Kiyotaka deadpanned and said, "I didn't step on you. I kicked you."
She smiled with glee and said, "It still counts as reaching second base!"
"No... I... don't think it does."
Kiyotaka said this, feeling awkward at being the one who was more socially competent in this moment.
Kiyotaka sighed and thought, 'What would happen if I tried to use Reversal? What would that create?'
Kiyotaka began applying positive energy to his Cursed Technique as Hidaka rushed into only to phase through Kiyotaka, who thought, 'It allows me to change my own state of matter?!'
However, after the second, Kiyotaka felt a looming sense of dread and undid the technique, thinking, 'It has a time limit for turning myself into a gas, and it takes a lot of Cursed Energy to use, but this is useful.'
Hidaka turned around and said, "Your fighting style just gets more and more distant. I love it."
Kiyotaka then swung his fist, completely solidifying his skin and making it as dense as possible as his fist impacted Hidaka's Black Sparks flew.
Hidaka coughed up blood from the impact and was sent flying back, and Kiyotaka smiled, thinking, 'Ah! There's that feeling of lightheadedness again.'
She got up and thought, 'He made his hand that dense?! Amazing.'
Kiyotaka deactivated his technique and thought, 'Well, solidifying my fist and making it more dense isn't problematic at all.'
She looked to him and looked annoyed as she asked, "You're smiling?"
Kiyotaka sighed and said, "Don't get it wrong. I'm not smiling about you but my own growth."
Hidaka felt her heart skip a beat as she blushed and thought, 'Even his smiles are as cold as ice. I can't. It's too much. I want him! I'd rather die than not have him!'
Hidaka rushed forward, chanting, "Cursed Technique Reversal: Heat Return!" as she swung a fist coated in heat at Kiyotaka, who threw up his arms in defence, creating a mass in front of him to block the blow, but her punch broke through as she punched his arms and sent him flying back.
Kiyotaka got up and spat out the blood in his mouth as he thought, 'Her Crused Energy Reinforcement has improved.'
He healed the burns on his arms and thought, 'She's like Okkotsu, so I should try that. But let's try some other stuff first.'
Kiyotaka then waved his hand, chanting, "Slicing Mass", as a cut appeared on Hidaka's chest. She had reinforced herself with more Cursed Energy, understanding the threat of the cuts.
She rushed in shouting, "Second base again!"
Kiyotaka deadpanned again as she rushed in, but Kiyotaka accelerated his fist and slammed it into Hidaka's face, stunning her as he jumped back.
Kiyotaka looked at the wound on her chest healing and thought, 'Slicing Mass is highly concentrated, so I wanted to use it to damage her heart and force her to use higher output in terms of Cursed Energy, but it didn't work. It's an instant of damage, so Cursed Energy Reinforce of an appropriate amount can block it. How will you fare against this?' as he clasped his hands together and chanted, "Piercing Mass!"
Hidaka regained focus as she blocked the liquid with her hands and thought, 'It's breaking through my reinforcement. I need to get clear.'
Hidaka dashed to the side, but Kiyotaka chanted, "Shift", as the Piercing mass changed directions and shot right through her stomach, and she spat out blood, thinking, 'It changed directions? I've never met a member of the Kamo Clan who can do that!'
Kiyotaka had shifted the end of the stream into a highly dense platform that the stream could ricochet off.
Hidaka began healing as the hole in her stomach closed up, and Kiyotaka thought, 'Piercing mass bought me enough time. I can use it now.'
Kiyotaka chanted, "Flowing Mass Fists", as the liquid mass formed around his hands and he rushed towards Hidaka.
She looked at him and thought, 'That again? My husband really loves being rough with me.'
She reinforced her arms as she moved to block the attack, only for Kiyotaka to strike her with both fists as she thought, 'I'll just reinforce more Cursed-' only for her arm to be blown apart and for the attack to hit her in the stomach as her ribs cracked and she was sent flying back.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had adjusted after his fight with Okkotsu Yuta. In exchange for lowering the damage output of Flowing Mass Fists during normal strikes and adding a cooldown period after the use of both fists, he would be able to increase the damage output by 50% if both fists hit the opponent within 2 seconds.
Kiytoka rushed in thinking, 'I can't let up. Get as much damage off as possible and force her to heal. Take her to the brink of death and maximise this opportunity!'
Hidaka made some hand signs and chanted, "Domain Expansion: Sacred Ritual Rites Of Amaterua and Tsukyomi!"
A barrier formed around Kiyotaka as the space resembled outer space with Hidaka at the centre as its sun.
Kiyotaka looked at this and thought, 'My Cursed Energy is invisible, so it should be fine if I just- wait! The sure hit absorbs heat from everything inside the barrier?! Being invisible won't matter in a domain like this. Am I really going to have to use it?'
Kiyotaka stretched out his hands, touching the tips of his thumbs and the sides of his pointing fingers to create a triangle while keeping his other finger straight and chanted, "Domain Expansion!" as a white expanse stretched out dominating half the area, and a white tree with apples that all had different colours hanging from the branches sprouted behind him.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's Domain is an Open Domain. How did he achieve this level of Jujutsu? He felt the experience of Ryomen Sukuan's Domain Expansion etched into his body during the Shibuya Incident. With this unique experience, he instantly compartmentalised it, breaking down the logic behind it and producing a recipe for creating it. However, he lacked the ability to imagine such a thing, but...
[Tengen stood there and said, "You want to learn how to use a Domain Expansion?"
Kiyotaka nodded and said, "I have what I need from the Shibuya massacre committed by Sukuna, but I can't visualise it. That is because I lack some understanding in regard to the true essence of Domain Expansions. If I can learn some more of the mechanics of Domains, I think I'll be able to pull it off."
Tengen nodded and said, "Very well. Let me explain it to you."
Holograms of various sorcerers casting their domains appeared as Tengen explained, "A Domain Expansion is the highest expression of a Cursed Technique where the user paints their innate domain unto reality. Even if you have the same Cursed Technique as another person, your Domains will be different, as it embodies your true self. So who are you, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka?"
Kiyotaka looked at his hands, gripping them and said, "A man who wants to experience being human. That colour upon my blank pages. That passion is what I live for.]
Ayanokoji's Domain barrier spread out as Hidaka's barrier shattered, having been broken from the outside by Kiyotaka, who finished his Domain Cast, saying, "Blank Expanse That Awaits Colour!"
Hidaka looked shocked, thinking, 'He... broke my barrier from the outside? This Domain... it doesn't have a barrier. I can escape, but its range is huge! How did he make this? A Domain Expansion like this is like painting a masterpiece without a canvas. It's a... divine technique. My husband... is a Jujutsu Masterpiece.'
Ayanokoj Kiyotaka's Cursed Technique is fairly complicated, so Technique Burnout would be a significantly disadvantageous state to be in. Due to this, he opted to avoid using his Domain Expansion if possible, but when Hidaka expanded her Domain, he was forced to expand his own in response.
Kiyotaka looked to Hidaka and asked, "Shall we get started?"
Hidaka smiled and said, "Of course, my love!"
She charged forward when suddenly one of the apples floated out to him and fired out a barrage of spikes that Hidaka blocked, thinking, 'The output is immense!' as his body became riddled with cuts from the sharp spikes, and she began healing.
Kiyotaka appeared behind her and slammed her leg, sending her flying towards the tree as two apples came off the tree and transformed into gigantic cubes falling on top of her as she spat out blood, thinking, 'Those apples! They contain the sure hit of his domain!'
She rushed over to the tree to attack it when one of the apples that was still hanging from the tree transformed into liquid and shot out at high pressure, going right through her stomach as she coughed up blood, thinking, 'The tree has an automated defence system?'
Kiyotaka appeared in front of her and slammed his fists into her as she coughed up more blood, thinking, 'How is he so fast?'
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's Domain was specialised to automate the process of commands required to use Jujutsu, meaning that in his domain, he does not require hand signs or chants. He was moving that fast by turning his entire body into plasma and then moving at light speed to a new location. It was a very risky technique, only possible within the domain and only allowed for short-distance travel.
Kiyotaka began pumelling Hidaka over and over as she was forced back, thinking, 'It's not some flashy sure hit. It's pure efficiency. Automated Jujutsu.'
Suddenly, an apple disappeared, and a viscous liquid was at her feet, holding her in place as Kiyotaka began pummelling her over and over as she directed the Reverse Cursed technique to heal herself, focusing entirely on that task as she thought, 'Not good! If this keeps up, eventually I'll run out of Cursed Energy.'
Kiyotaka stopped and asked, "Ready to give up on this incarnation?"
"No. I want to be with you."
Kiyotaka smiled and said, "That makes me happy to hear."
"Don't try to trick me with bullshit. That wasn't genuine at all."
Hidaka said this as Kiyotaka deadpanned, thinking, 'Well, that was a bust.'
Hidaka gritted her teeth as Kiyotaka continued the pummelling, thinking, 'I'm losing so much Cursed Energy. Am I down half my reserves? Damn it! Recover! Recover!'
And then Hidaka Akira's Curse Technique recovered, allowing her to use her Reversal.
Hidaka burned through the viscous liquid as she launched a punch at Kiyotaka, only for Kiyotaka to disappear and appear behind her and slam his elbow in her back as she stumbled forward, thinking, 'He's completely overwhelming me.'
Kiyotaka sweated thinking, 'I'm down to 35% of my reserves.'
Hidaka struck as Kiyotaka as matter appeared in between them, blocking the attack and then turned into blades and accelerated at her, cutting off her arms and legs as she fell to the floor and began healing, thinking, 'Damn it! Damn it! I won't lose! I will marry him!'
Kiyotaka slammed his fist down into her gut just as she finished healing, forcing her to heal again as she cursed, thinking, 'Damn it!'
A barrage of slashes began cutting up her body as she struggled to heal, losing her limbs a few times, but then... the barrier broke, and Kiyotaka took a breath, thinking, 'That's it. That's my limit. I can't sustain it any longer.'
Kiyotaka looked at himself and thought, 'I've got 30% left. As for her, I'd say 10% is generous. Still, she has double the amount of Cursed Energy I have. What a monster.'
Kiyotaka stood there thinking, 'How long will it take me? 5 minutes? Damn it. That's too long.'
Hidaka stood up, her injuries healing as she looked to him and said, "That was incredible, darling."
Kiyotaka took a few deep breaths, steadying himself as she went on saying, "But that's it. It's over. Let's get married."
"I'd rather not."
Kiyotaka said this as his eyes widened, and he smiled as he rushed up to Hidaka and slammed his fist into her gut as mass manifested between him and her, sending her flying back as she crashed into a wall, and she asked, "How? Your technique is complex, so it shouldn't be so easy to use!"
Kiyotaka tapped on his head and said, "I destroyed my prefrontal cortex and then used the Reverse Cursed Technique to regenerate it, and it refreshed my Cursed Technique."
Hidaka's eyes widened, thinking, 'What is this sheer genius?'
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Sukuna looked amused, thinking, 'That was a magnificent Domain. I'm impressed. Heh heh. To deal with Cursed Technique burnout like that is ingenious. It's a move only the greatest of us would do. The rest of your journey will probably be even more interesting, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.'
Sukuna rested his face on the back of his hand, with his elbow on the armrest of this throne of bones, as he watched in amusement and curiosity, thinking, 'Show me more Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.'
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Kiyotaka took a breath, increasing the density of his fists as he and Hidaka went into an exchange of blows, as Hidaka thought, 'This man....'
A punch landed on her face, forcing her back as she thought, '... is too...'
Kiyotaka slammed his leg into her stomach, sending her flying back as she thought, '... strong!'
Kiyotaka raised his arms and asked, "Isn't it about time we finished things now?" as he chanted, "Manifest", as spikes burst up from the ground and impaled her arms to hold her in place.
Kiyotaka then chanted, "Flowing Mass Fists".
Hidaka tore herself off the spikes, ripping off her own hands as they were now dangling off her flesh, thinking, 'I don't have enough Cursed Energy to block that. I have to avoid it!' But it was too late as Kiyotaka accelerated his attack and slammed his fists into her, as she coughed out a huge amount of blood from her mouth, thinking, 'It's too much!' and the wall behind her cracked and broke as she fell through, and the building collapsed on top of her as her eyes rolled back.
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Kiyotaka sat there as Hidaka woke up and asked, "You healed me? Why?"
"That's not your body, you know."
Kiyotaka said this as she nodded and said, "I know that already. My body was never this strong, healthy or beautiful."
"You were cursed from birth. Surviving through that isn't ugly or weak. It's beautiful and strong."
Kiyotaka said this as Hidaka looked at him in shock as her heart skipped a beat again and she said, "You're making me fall even deeper in love with you."
"What makes you say that?"
Kiyotaka asked this as Hidaka answered, saying, "Even when you use corny sweet words, I don't seem to mind. Probably it wouldn't matter whether you were sweet or cold to me anymore. I'm a maiden that's helplessly in love."
"I suppose. I don't like you one bit, though. You're a vile woman after all."
Kiyotaka said this as Hidaka laughed and said, "I know. Alright. As promised."
She got up and said, "Kogane. Transfer my points as per the agreement."
Kogane popped out and said, "Agreement conditions fulfilled. Transferring points."
Kiyotaka's Kogane popped up and said, "Through an agreement, Player Hidaka Akira has transferred 98 points to you."
Hidaka smiled and said, "This girl really does love you. Try to show her love, kay? Even if it's cold love."
Kiyotaka nodded and said, "Alright."
Name: Ayanokoji Kiyotaka
Rules Added: 0
Points: 103
Colony: ANHS Colony
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To Be Continued
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