Reggie's eyes widened. He couldn't understand what had just happened.
Without any Cursed Energy fluctuations, his attack was destroyed by an invisible power.
"Who are you?" Reggie questioned loudly, while reaching into his pockets to pull out more receipts.
Yamada did not answer his question. His gaze locked onto Reggie, the Rinnegan in his left eye and the spatial vortex in his right eye spinning.
Amenotejikara!
Yamada's body swapped positions with a piece of wood near Reggie's feet. The spatial displacement occurred in a tenth of a second.
Reggie didn't even see the trajectory of Yamada's movement before he was already standing in front of him, less than half a meter away.
Reggie instinctively tried to retreat, his hands attempting to throw out receipts.
Yamada raised his right hand, fingers spread, and pressed it onto Reggie's face.
High-density Six Paths Lightning Release Chakra followed Yamada's palm and pierced through Reggie's brain. The lightning's high temperature and destructive power destroyed all of Reggie's nervous systems in an instant.
Reggie's body trembled violently in the lightning's glow, his skin carbonizing and his bones turning charred under the current's high temperature.
Yamada let go and Reggie's corpse fell backward onto the gymnasium floor, showing no signs of life.
An instant kill.
Kogane appeared in mid-air, announcing the point transfer information.
Yamada transferred all these points to Megumi.
Megumi could no longer support the domain's consumption. The black shadows on the ground quickly receded, and he collapsed to the floor, gasping for breath.
Toji jumped down from the spectator seats and walked over to Megumi. He reached out with his palm, grabbed Megumi by the collar, and lifted him off the ground.
"Covered in blood, Cursed Energy exhausted. If you were in this state on the black market, you'd have been sold ten times over by now." Toji said, inspecting the wound on Megumi's arm.
Megumi tried to break free, but he was unable to compete with a body boosted by a Heavenly Restriction.
Yamada walked to the two and raised his right hand. The emerald-green light of Yang Release lit up in his palm.
The green light covered Megumi's wound.
Muscle tissue grew rapidly, blood vessels reconnected, and the gashed area healed completely within seconds. His depleted physical strength was also greatly restored under the nourishment of Yang Release.
Megumi steadied himself, feeling the abundant power within his body. He was no longer surprised by this treatment method that transcended his understanding, but he was still shocked by Yamada's strength.
Yamada asked, "Where is Itadori?"
Megumi straightened his damaged school uniform and replied, "We were separated by random teleportation when entering the barrier. He went to find another Sorcerer here with points, Higuruma Hiromi. His goal is to have the other party hand over points to add a rule."
"Higuruma Hiromi." Yamada searched for the name in his mind.
A genius lawyer who had awakened his Cursed Technique only ten days ago and could already reach the level of a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.
"Lead the way. Let's find them." Yamada said.
Megumi didn't hesitate. He summoned a Divine Dog and let it track Yuji's residual scent.
The three left the dilapidated gymnasium and walked into the streets of Tokyo No. 1 Colony.
The sky within the barrier remained gloomy, and the sound of explosions from Cursed Energy collisions occasionally echoed from the distant streets.
Yamada walked on the flat asphalt road, feeling the Six Paths Chakra filling his body.
On the chessboard of the Culling Game, the moment of harvest belonging to him continued to advance.
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Above Tokyo No. 1 Colony, heavy greyish-white clouds obscured the sunlight.
The exterior walls of the buildings on both sides of the street were covered in cracks, and broken glass windows made a monotonous clattering sound in the cold wind.
Abandoned vehicles were parked haphazardly in the middle of the road, and dried dark red bloodstains and craters left by battles could be seen everywhere on the ground.
The entire city had lost its former bustle, leaving only a deathly silence.
Yamada walked on the asphalt road full of gravel, his black leather boots stepping through puddles with a crisp sound. He had his hands in the pockets of his black trench coat, looking straight ahead.
Toji followed two steps behind Yamada, holding the end of the Chain of a Thousand Miles in one hand, the metal chain dragging on the ground with a continuous scraping sound. His thick arms were bare, and his gaze constantly scanned the dark corners of the surrounding high-rise buildings.
Megumi walked at the very back. The black Divine Dog he summoned was sniffing the ground dozens of meters ahead, guiding their way.
Megumi looked at his biological father walking in front. He wanted to speak several times but eventually kept his mouth shut, focusing his attention on maintaining his shikigami.
Toji stopped and turned to look at Yamada. "Boss, that guy with the stitches on his forehead is already dead. Why hasn't this black barrier covering Tokyo disappeared yet?"
Yamada didn't look back and continued walking forward.
He explained, "The core of the barrier isn't on him. The Culling Game is a massive program that relies on the Cursed Energy of all participants to keep running. Although the mastermind who created this program is dead, the program itself has already started."
"The Jujutsu Sorcerers and Incarnated Sorcerers inside the colony are constantly killing each other, and the Cursed Energy they release is the power source that maintains the barrier. To dispel this barrier, one must either kill all the participants inside or use the game's own rules to destroy it from within."
Hearing this, Megumi stepped forward quickly. "So we need to find Itadori and Higuruma. Higuruma has a hundred points, which can be used to add a rule allowing Players to leave. That way, we can save those who don't want to fight."
Yamada nodded slightly without making a sound.
The black Divine Dog ahead suddenly stopped in front of a large building. This was a theater built in the last century. The theater's glass doors were completely shattered, and the interior was dimly lit.
The Divine Dog stood on the steps, letting out low growls toward the inside of the theater.
"Itadori is inside." Megumi retracted his shikigami and gripped the short sword at his waist.
Yamada looked up at the second floor of the theater. Within the vision of his Six Tomoe Rinnegan, there was an extremely intense accumulation of Cursed Energy in the space on the second floor of the theater. It was a completely enclosed spatial barrier, thoroughly isolating the interior area from the outside.
"Domain Expansion." Yamada judged.
In the lounge on the second floor of the theater, the space had been completely rewritten.
It had turned into a solemn courtroom. A wooden judge's bench towered high, and a giant scale hung from the ceiling.
Higuruma Hiromi stood at the prosecutor's desk, holding a wooden gavel in his hand. He wore a neat suit, and his tie was tied meticulously.
Opposite him, Yuji stood within the wooden frame of the defendant's dock.
Yuji had not committed any crimes of mass slaughter in Shibuya.
Just now, the shikigami "The Judge," which was suspended in the center of the courtroom with its eyes covered and lips sewn shut, had raised an accusation against Yuji for "entering a Pachinko parlor as a minor to gamble."
Yuji did not deny it and admitted to the charge.
The Judge immediately delivered the verdict: Confiscation.
The Cursed Energy within Yuji's body was completely sealed the moment the verdict was delivered. He was now unable to extract even a trace of Cursed Energy, having turned into an ordinary person with only exceptional physical strength.
Higuruma Hiromi looked at the pink-haired boy opposite him. "Within my domain, 'Deadly Sentencing,' all acts of violence are prohibited. But once the verdict is delivered, the domain will be dispelled. Without Cursed Energy, it's impossible for you to defeat me."
The courtroom space dissipated the moment Higuruma Hiromi finished speaking. The surrounding scene returned to the spacious lounge on the second floor of the theater.