"Is an introduction required? My na is Yuji Itadori."
Yuji Itadori's tone remained unchanged throughout.
"A na I've never heard of before!"
Faster than her voice was Elsa's phantom-like figure; in a single breath, she had closed the several ters of distance and arrived before Yuji Itadori.
With a blade in each hand, a continuous stream of Slashing Attacks subrged Yuji Itadori like rain.
However, the sound of clashing tal echoed continuously between the two.
Elsa could feel that every one of her strikes seed to hit an invisible barrier, as piercing screeches erupted in the air along with countless sparks.
The edges of her blades were carved into countless particles of dust, or even pulverized into nothingness at closer range, as if they had never existed.
No matter how Elsa attacked, her blades could never get closer than one centiter to Yuji Itadori.
anwhile, Yuji Itadori kept his hands in his pockets, looking down as if he were absent-minded.
Just what kind of ability is this?!
Elsa's heart was filled with confusion, yet she grew increasingly excited.
No matter what kind of ability it is, he surely can't maintain it forever!
Moreover, it seed that in this state, Yuji Itadori was unable to launch an attack.
As long as she maintained her continuous assault, Yuji Itadori would eventually reach his limit!
"Just how long can you hold out! Yuji Itadori!"
The smile on Elsa's face beca increasingly frantic. With lightning speed, she tossed aside the weapons that had turned into scrap tal and produced a pair of brand-new kukri knives, as if they were inexhaustible.
"I wonder what your bowels will look like!"
But the mont Elsa prepared to launch her offensive again, she noticed sothing.
Yuji Itadori looked up.
In those deep eyes, her own figure was reflected.
His hands were still in his pockets, but Elsa's near-beastly intuition told her that sothing was about to happen.
Every cell in her body was screaming a warning at her!
Dismantle.
In a re instant, a bloodstain erupted from Elsa's shoulder, and warm blood sprayed out.
What... happened?
This man hadn't used any weapons at all?
He hadn't even pulled his hands out of his pockets.
Elsa simply couldn't comprehend it.
The clothes she wore could even withstand a single instance of any form of magical attack.
Yet she had still been hit.
What exactly was this ability?
"This... this is definitely an Authority... It's not Magic... and a Divine Protection couldn't achieve such an effect. Are you a Sin Archbishop?"
Elsa endured the intense pain in her shoulder, sweat beaded on her forehead, but she still maintained a smile.
This pain, on the contrary, made her feel more physically and ntally delighted.
However, this Slashing Attack was incredibly precise; Elsa's entire arm could no longer be lifted.
Did he miss?
Or was it...
Intentional?
"Sin Archbishop? I've never heard of that. I'm just a Jujutsu Sorcerer."
"Jujutsu Sorcerer? How is that possible?"
Elsa let out a cold laugh.
She certainly knew what jujutsu sorcerers were—a group of people who hid behind the scenes and cast curses.
Curses were different from ordinary magic; they generally applied a status effect to a target, continuously draining mana or vitality.
But what the man before her used was definitely not a curse!
"It seems you have jujutsu sorcerers here as well, though they seem a bit different from the jujutsu sorcerers I understand."
Yuji Itadori spoke unhurriedly, stepping toward Elsa as he did so.
"Furthermore, how long do you plan to pretend to be injured—"
As soon as he finished speaking, Elsa's arm, which had seemingly been unable to move, suddenly gripped a kukri knife and lunged straight for Yuji Itadori's face.
However, this attack was no different from the previous ones; the blade, originally incredibly hard, disintegrated and collapsed as it approached him.
Countless invisible Slashing Attacks wrapped around his body like a barrier.
"My, you noticed it already?"
Elsa's face still wore a smile as she quickly pulled back to open up distance.
Her body had been modified and possessed the constitution of a Cursed Doll—
Until she completed her assassination mission, her body could continuously regenerate unless her entire physical form was pulverized into nothingness.
"I have encountered quite a few people with this kind of ability, after all."
Yuji Itadori spoke slowly, looking at Elsa's wound, which had almost completely healed.
Reverse Cursed Technique could also heal injuries.
However, Elsa's regeneration appeared to be completely different from Reverse Cursed Technique.
It was sothing else entirely.
"Oh?"
Elsa narrowed her eyes, her smile full of mockery.
"If that's the case, you should know that killing isn't quite that simple~"
"Yes, and for now, I have no intention of killing you."
Yuji Itadori's tone was calm and flat, but his words carried a different aning in Elsa's ears.
"Oh? You're not pitying , are you, lad? I'm truly being looked down upon—"
"No, it's because I don't believe I have the right to take soone else's life."
Yuji Itadori finally pulled his hands out of his pockets and looked down at them, as if they were stained with blood.
Yuji Itadori had perford the Exorcism of countless Cursed Spirits, but in reality, he had never personally killed a single human.
However, he himself did not see it that way.
Whether it was Sukuna controlling his body to commit a massacre in Shibuya, or eliminating the transfigured humans Mahito created using Idle Transfiguration...
Yuji Itadori believed his hands were stained with their blood.
Even though sixty-eight years had passed, he had not forgotten.
But—
Yuji Itadori would not allow innocent people to be hard.
If he needed to shoulder the responsibility at a critical mont, he would not hesitate.
The current him would not hesitate at all.
"Hoh~ How noble of you to say. Have you really never killed anyone?"
Elsa looked at Yuji Itadori with a cold laugh, her eyes full of curiosity.
She was becoming increasingly interested in the man before her.
"I have."
"How many?"
"Many, many. So many I've lost count."
Yuji Itadori answered.
In Shibuya alone, thousands had died.
Elsa narrowed her eyes slightly; she could feel that the man before her was not lying.
Why had she never heard of this person's existence before?
"From the looks of it, you probably won't stop until you reach your goal."
At this mont, Yuji Itadori spoke to Elsa.
"Of course. After all, we assassins have to finish the commission once we've accepted it~"
Smiling, Elsa produced new weapons, the killing intent on her body growing stronger, as if she were prepared to fight Yuji Itadori to the death.
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