[Useless Goddess, You Really Deserve to Die: Did the White Whale get sliced into sashimi?]
After Natsuki Subaru sent the footage of the previous battle to the group chat, Sato Kazuma imdiately expressed his amazent.
[Useless Goddess, You Really Deserve to Die: It feels like a bit of a waste, though. A beast that big should've made a lot of plates of at!]
[Jujutsu Physical Education Student: You... would eat that kind of thing?]
[Useless Goddess, You Really Deserve to Die: Of course! We subjugated a giant frog before and ate grilled frog legs that night! The taste was quite good!]
The group's topic unknowingly shifted from dealing with beasts to various delicacies. Himl, in particular, began talking about the various foods he and his companions had tasted during their journey.
The Purge King, anwhile, watched the content of everyone's chat and fell into thought.
He hadn't expected Yuji Itadori's combat power to be so imnse.
Natsuki Subaru closed the chat interface and focused his attention back on the real world. The bumpy sensation of the Dragon Carriage moving again made everything that had just happened feel sowhat surreal.
The White Whale was dead; it was no different from an ant in front of Yuji Itadori.
If not for his help this ti as well, the White Whale probably would have beco a massive problem...
"It's all thanks to Senior Itadori," Natsuki Subaru sighed. "But I never expected a beast that's existed for over four hundred years to show up here. Talk about bad luck..."
"I don't think it was necessarily a coincidence."
Yuji Itadori's expression, however, gradually beca serious.
Having been seasoned by a long passage of ti, Yuji Itadori knew that the probability of so-called coincidences was far too low.
Just like the events of him eating Sukuna's Finger or encountering a Special Grade Cursed Spirit for the first ti—at first, Yuji Itadori thought those were just unfortunate coincidences.
In the end, he discovered it was all Kenjaku's conspiracy.
Since Natsuki Subaru arrived in this world, he had encountered many things. Initially, it was Roswaal's sche, but since the latter's conspiracy had been exposed, the White Whale should have nothing to do with him this ti.
"Senior Itadori, do you an... the White Whale appearing here wasn't a coincidence?"
"It's just a guess. After all, a beast that has supposedly existed for 400 years and is hard to track—why would it happen to appear right here today?"
Yuji Itadori shook his head.
"That's true... and I'm not sure if the White Whale is the crisis Roswaal ntioned," Natsuki Subaru continued.
If the White Whale was what the Book of Wisdom referred to, then Emilia and the others shouldn't be in any more danger.
But what if... the White Whale wasn't the predicted danger?
Natsuki Subaru had previously heard that abnormal activities were happening in Roswaal's territory, which was why he was in such a hurry to get back to the Mansion.
Clearly, the White Whale had nothing to do with those abnormal activities.
The crisis hadn't been resolved yet.
Just then, Rem, who was at the very front, suddenly slumped. She gasped for breath, and the Dragon Carriage ca to a sudden halt.
"Rem, what's wrong?!" Natsuki Subaru asked anxiously.
"It's Sister..." Rem's forehead was covered in a light sweat.
As twins, Rem and Ram could sense each other's state to a certain extent.
"Sister is in a very uneasy state right now. She seems to be fearing sothing..."
"Rem, take a breath! We'll head out in a mont!"
"No, I... I'm fine..."
Rem shook her head and prepared to set off again—
But at that mont, her face took on a look of extre wariness, as if an incredibly dangerous presence was approaching.
"There's... the stench of the Witch Cult!!!"
Yuji Itadori also sensed the arrival of uninvited guests.
Flowing Red Scale: Stack!
Before the explosive sound of tearing air rang out, Yuji Itadori, who had gained enhanced dynamic vision, clearly saw sothing flying toward them.
A pebble.
Yuji Itadori imdiately launched Dismantle, intending to slice that pebble to pieces.
But it was ineffective!
The Dismantle landed squarely on the pebble, but it had no effect; he couldn't even slow its speed or change its direction.
'The Cursed Technique is ineffective?'
Nonetheless, Yuji Itadori took action imdiately.
In an instant, he grabbed Rem and Natsuki Subaru, teleporting away from their position. Half a second later, the ground where they had been standing was smashed into a massive crater by that seemingly insignificant stone. It was as if an explosion had occurred, and the Dragon Carriage was also blown to smithereens.
Yuji Itadori looked at the crater in the ground and narrowed his eyes.
That stone looked perfectly ordinary and wasn't fast; it should have been impossible to cause such destruction.
Even his Cursed Technique hadn't worked.
Was this stone under so kind of special state?
"Wha—what happened?" Natsuki Subaru's mind was a blank; he had no idea what was going on.
Once Rem snapped out of it, she had sohow produced a morning star and was looking in a certain direction with a wary expression.
"The Witch Cult!"
Her voice was filled with hatred and fury.
Yuji Itadori rembered this na. During his first encounter with the Bowel Hunter, she had ntioned this organization.
"Oh my, oh my, don't bla for attacking suddenly. You were all just talking to yourselves and didn't notice my presence at all~ That's very impolite behavior."
A lazy male voice rang out from the side. Yuji Itadori turned his head to look.
It was a thin man dressed in white with delicate features. His hair and skin were the sa shade of white.
Beside him was a long-haired youth with dark skin covered in filth.
"You two!!"
Seeing the pair, the fire in Rem's eyes burned even more intensely, as if she wanted to incinerate them.
"The Witch Cult?" Yuji Itadori imdiately asked about the situation.
"They are a terrorist organization that commits countless atrocities in this world! My clansn... were all murdered by Witch Cultists. Sister's horn... was also because of these people. These people!!!!"
Agitated emotions made Rem's voice tremble, and her morning star let out a piercing sound.
Facing the enraged Rem, the man in white said nonchalantly:
"Don't bla these things on ! I'm just doing what I want to do~ If you have to bla soone, bla those people for being too weak! It's because they were too weak that they were trampling on my rights. My rights!"
Yuji Itadori observed the opponent. This man appeared completely relaxed from start to finish, as if Yuji Itadori and the others were insignificant beings.
"Who are you, and why are you stopping us?" Yuji Itadori spoke.
"Oh my, how rude of to forget to introduce myself. Sin Archbishop of the Witch Cult, representing Greed, Regulus Corneas."
The man in white spoke with a smile, and then the dark-haired youth beside him also answered:
"Chew, crunch, swallow, digest. Sin Archbishop of the Witch Cult, Gluttony—Lye Batenkaitos."
As he spoke, he revealed rows of teeth as sharp as blades, looking like a wild beast.
"Sin Archbishop?" Natsuki Subaru was also hearing this term for the first ti.
"They are the most vile existences within the Witch Cult! They use any ans to achieve their goals, often taking the lives of the innocent and causing massive casualties. Therefore, they are seen as symbols of malice by the world! They... are no longer human!"
Rem was already poised, ready for a life-and-death struggle at any mont.
"You're speaking to in such a tone upon our first eting? Since you're cute, I'll forgive you this once~ After all, since the White Whale, the Witch Cult's pet, was suddenly killed, we ca to see what was going on. I didn't expect to run into you people here~"
Regulus gave a nonchalant shrug.
"The White Whale... the White Whale was brought here by you?!" Natsuki Subaru was stunned.
Did such a ferocious beast have an inseparable connection with the Witch Cult?
"Do you know how many people the White Whale would have killed?!"
"Dead people? What does that have to do with ? It's because they were too weak. One could even say their existence was infringing upon my rights. Do you understand?"
Regulus's voice now betrayed a hint of impatience.
"Those without talent—if they're dead, they're dead. How are they different from ants? So many people don't know their place and try to stop . Every ti I just want to take a beautiful girl ho to be my wife, these people don't seem willing to cooperate. I didn't want to do anything originally, but what can I do? I've been patient ti and again, and eventually, I had to kill them all—it's all their fault! That... what was it? Which city in the Empire was it? The people there were such a hassle, so I had to kill everyone in the entire city~ The White Whale being able to kill so many ants is a good thing for too. Of course, it would be even better if there were no beautiful girls among them."
"Things like the White Whale—if we want, we can just make another one!"
Lye's face wore a wild laugh, as if all of this was of no consequence.
"But you killed the White Whale. Who exactly did it? And how was it done? You're the only ones around here, so it could only be you~ But that's perfect; we're hungry too~ It wouldn't be bad to have you as a post-al dessert."
"Eat the others as you please, but leave that woman for ~"
Regulus's gaze focused on Rem, which made her blood boil with rage.
But just as Rem was about to risk her life, she felt a powerful sense of pressure sweeping toward them.
The brows of the two Witch Cultists also furrowed slightly.
"What do you take life for?"
The owner of the voice was Yuji Itadori.
His tone was still devoid of ripples, but his gaze was sharp as a blade, threatening to pierce through the bodies of the two Witch Cultists.
"Hey, hey, hey, I was right in the middle of talking. You suddenly interrupting is trampling on my right to speak freely—"
"So you trample on the lives of others?"
Yuji Itadori narrowed his eyes slightly.
The conversation between the two in front of him had completely stepped on Yuji Itadori's landmines.
Their disregard for life was ingrained in their very bones; they were beyond saving.
They were vile to the extre, having long since departed from the realm of humanity.
"You bastard, do you know I've been putting up with you for a long ti?! You've been trampling on my rights over and over and over again!!"
Regulus's expression was completely distorted, his face full of disdain for Yuji Itadori.
At the sa ti, he gripped a stone in his hand and threw it directly toward Yuji Itadori.
Yuji Itadori imdiately grabbed the two people beside him and teleported away. The position they were just in was smashed into a massive crater almost simultaneously.
"It's him."
Yuji Itadori already knew that the one who had attacked him just now was Regulus.
In the process of dodging, Yuji Itadori also launched an attack on him.
Several Slashing Attacks hit Regulus directly, making an incredibly piercing sound—
However, he was perfectly fine; not even his clothes were damaged.
'Is it so strange Magic?'
'No, it's an Authority.'
Yuji Itadori rembered Elsa ntioning the concept of Authorities.
Perhaps the eerie power the opponent possessed was a so-called Authority.
And looking at its nature, it seed sowhat similar to Satoru Gojo's Limitless.
No, there were still obvious differences.
Satoru Gojo's Limitless makes the distance between himself and an attack infinite; in other words, the attack simply never hits.
But Yuji Itadori was certain that his Dismantle had actually hit Regulus's body; it just hadn't taken effect.
'Is it sothing like a barrier?'
'Or is it sothing else?'
Whatever it was, it could be applied to his own body and also to things touched by Regulus.
This was Regulus's Cursed Technique—no, Authority.
While Yuji Itadori was thinking, a figure rushed toward them from the side.
Lye!
His figure was like a ghost, the claw blades in his hands reflecting a cold light. He almost rged into the shadows, making it difficult for the eyes to capture him.
However, Lye's every move was still within Yuji Itadori's vision.
It was all laid bare.
His claw blades thrust directly toward Yuji Itadori's throat—
But soon, a look of surprise appeared on Lye's face.
The mont his blades were about to touch Yuji Itadori, the tips of the blades burst with dazzling sparks.
It was as if an invisible black hole was slowly eating away at the blades.
That was the barrier Yuji Itadori had constructed using countless Slashing Attacks!
Lye imdiately realized sothing was wrong and hurriedly stepped back. In the half-second of contact, his right claw blade had already been mostly worn away.
On the remaining blade body, he saw countless tiny scratches.
"You bastard, what did you do?!"
Yuji Itadori ignored Lye and simply turned to look at Rem and Natsuki Subaru behind him:
"Leave this side to ."
His tone was calm, like a windless sea.
However, there seed to be invisible whirlpools hidden within.
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