"This is what you're hiding then."
Gojo said when he saw Onoki using a technique unrelated to his original earth release technique.
'You have two innate cursed techniques, don't you? Usually, I can discern someone's technique through the cursed energy flow in their brains, but your cursed energy flow is exceedingly complex. Now I understand the reason for that."
'You have two innate cursed techniques, don't you?'
When Onoki heard him speak as if he had discovered a great secret, he smirked disdainfully. This smirk unsettled Gojo, who thought he had made a significant discovery.
Naturally, the birth of a person with two innate cursed techniques was unprecedented and would undoubtedly cause a stir in the Jujutsu community.
But Onoki didn't care; he planned to reveal it anyway.
"Yes, I was born with two innate cursed techniques, Dust Release and Earth Release" Onoki revealed expressionlessly.
Gojo was annoyed by Onoki's calm tone but continued to mock him.
"If the reason your confidence is up is your second cursed technique, it won't help you at all. You won't be able to defeat me at all"
Onoki didn't didn't respond but gathered his palms together. When he opened them, a white light radiated from them.
Dust Release had two weaknesses, if you will. The first being that it consumes a lot of energy. Of course, this problem could easily be solved by possessing a lot of energy.
The second problem is that it takes a lot of time to activate the technique. Although it was only two seconds, the world could end in these two seconds.
Naturally, Onoki wouldn't allow such a flaw to stand in his way of becoming stronger.
After years of training and mastering Dust Release, he managed to reduce the time needed to less than a single second.
[Dust Release: Primitive World Separation Technique]
A cylinder of white light and a concentrated sphere in the center formed between Onoki's hands. Directing it towards Gojo, the cylinder expanded and fired towards him.
Gojo didn't move from his spot and let the attack approach him. In less than a second, the attack hit Gojo, but when it was only a few millimeters away, the beam stopped in front of him.
Seeing this, Gojo pointed his finger mockingly at the cone he couldn't touch and said, "Is this your trump card? Not very impressive."
Seeing that the attack was ineffective, Onoki canceled the technique and appeared in front of Gojo in the blink of an eye. In his right hand, there was a small cube of white light, which Onuki directed towards Goujo's face.
[Dust Release: Primitive World Separation Technique]
The cube expanded rapidly, without regard to Gojo's infinity, and enveloped him completely. Seeing this, Gojo was surprised and tried to escape the cube's range, but he was too late.
The white light filled the cube, breaking down anything inside it into tiny particles.
Gojo Satoru stood officially more than ten meters away. His right arm was completely missing from his elbow down as if it had evaporated into thin air.
Suddenly, his arm began to regenerate, and within seconds, it was fully grown again.
"What do you think now of my cursed technique? Anything struck by this technique is disassembled at the molecular level, including material objects or things made of cursed energy. Although my first attack didn't hit you due to your infinity, my second attack disassembles anything within its range into particles."
"Even if there's an infinite distance between you and the attack, as long as you're within the three-dimensional shape, it will definitely hit you."
Upon hearing Onoki's explanation, Goujo was surprised by the power of the attack. Just because he can break anything down into particles doesn't mean it can't be countered.
"That's how we'll fight from now on. If you use your cursed technique, I'll use mine too. If you fight without your cursed technique, I'll fight without mine as well. What do you think? It's easier this way, isn't it?"
Onoki's goal wasn't to kill gojo but to teach him a lesson , so he couldn't risk using his dust release , knowing Gojo's big ego he was sure that he will along .
As Onoki spoke, a blood vessel bulged on Gojo's forehead. Usually, it was him who boasted with his cursed style and insulted others at the same time, but now the roles were reversed.
Onoki was toying with him, even abandoning his cursed style. Well, if he wanted to play that game, he would play along.
The next battle was without cursed techniques, devoid of fighting styles and cursed energy enhancements. Naturally, Onoki was superior in both.
For every blow Gojo managed to land on Onoki, he received seven or eight punches in return. Yet, thanks to the Reverse Curse technique, he endured the pain and maintained his resilience.
On the other hand, Onoki fought with only half his strength. If he used his full power, he might accidentally kill Goujo.
The two exchanged punches repeatedly, with each blow Onoki received, he noticed Gojo's fighting style slowly adapting to his. Gojo was gradually copying his style and evolving, thanks to his six eyes, making fewer movements each time.
However, this wasn't enough to defeat onoki. If you look at the various dojutsu in the Naruto world, you'll find that most have the ability to predict the opponent's next moves or mimic fighting styles.
Naturally, Onoki had fought against people who copied his fighting style completely, yet he still emerged victorious, thanks to his experience.
Each time, he changed his style completely, leaving no chance for the opponent.
After a few minutes, the difference between Gojo and Onoki narrowed to three punches received for every six punches thrown. He was learning at an extraordinary rate.
Now, Onoki didn't think about anything other than changing the expression on Gojo's face. His focus was entirely on the opponent in front of him, and so was Gojo .
"Well, let's change the rhythm a bit," Onoki thought.
With a backward flip, Onoki pulled out two kunai tied with sharp iron wires and threw them towards Gojo, but Gojo easily dodged them.
Upon seeing this, Onoki paid no attention and grabbed another kunai and advanced for the attack. Gojo turned Onoki's arm aside, but Onoki let the kunai go, grabbed it with his other hand, and slashed towards Gojo's neck.
However, suddenly, Onoki felt pain between his legs as if his precious things were being crushed. Gojo launched a vicious attack, targeting a crucial area for a man.
Onoki's rage soared high. Those things had been lost in the previous world before he could use them, and now they were on the verge of shattering suddenly.
Increasing his strength, Onoki pushed Gojo forcefully backward and then sent him flying with a high kick to the face.
Flying through the trees and landing on the ground , Gojo felt as if a part of him was missing, and naturally, his right foot lay relaxed on the ground near him.
Looking up, he could see a thin metal wire fixed between two trees with the kunais dripping with blood .
'So their purpose was to prepare for a later attack and not to really attack me,' Gojo thought as he directed positive energy to treat his leg.
However as soon as he finish healing his leg , Onoki was coming again.
Onoki extracted the kunai from the tree and swung them from the middle of the metal wire then sent them at Gojo.
Seeing it coming towards him, Gojo lowered his center of gravity and allowed the attack to pass over him, then launched towards Onoki.
At that moment, time slowed down as the two approached each other, with clenched fists towards each other and absolute concentration, all obstacles within their sights disappeared.
The trees, the rocks, the sounds of the wind and the sunlight were all replaced by a white background as the two approached each other.
Suddenly, streaks of black lightning formed on Onoki's right fist coming from above, and the same scene was on Gojo's left fist coming from below.
[Black Flash]
The two fists covered in black lightning moved toward each other, but there was no contact between them at all.
Suddenly , the two fists were twisted in space in a circular manner and were advancing towards each other only slowly, the roaring sound of the black lightning streaks increasing as the two fists approached.
The moment the two fists touched, the landscape reappeared while cracks filled the air like broken glass.
With the sound of glass shattering, Onoki and Gojo's figures crumbled as space around them twisted and black lightning filled the entire forest.
Anyone could see black lightning filling the entire sky from several kilometers in every direction.
At the center of the devastation was a hole more than twenty meters deep and more than 100 meters in diameter.
Down in the hole, arcs of black lightning could still be seen flashing from time to time, but there was no trace of either Onoki or Gojo.
-Dozens of kilometers from Tokyo Prefecture-
In one of the dark and damp alleys between the buildings, there was the body of a child no more than twelve years old lying on the ground.
It was Onoki.
Onoki's body was full of blood and wounds and his clothes were torn into small rags stained with his blood.
A pool of blood gathered under Onoki and without looking at the wounds it was certain that he would die from blood loss at the very least.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the cold alley as a small figure approached Onoki who was lying on the ground and carried him on her back.
There was not much difference between the size of Onoki's body and the body of the person carrying him, but despite that, he was carried with steady steps as the figure moved away from the alley.
What is happening to the world today? First, I find my father in front of the door of the house with his armor missing, and today I find a child in this condition in a deserted alley."
These words evaded with the wind as Onoki and the mysterious figure disappeared from the alley.
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