Jujutsu Kaisen: Naoya Zenin Wants to Live! Chapter 88: How About Using Black Flash As A Basic Attack?

[Black Flash].

It was a legendary Cursed Energy technique.

Its difficulty could even be said to far surpass that of the [Reverse Cursed Technique].

After all, the [Reverse Cursed Technique] was incredibly difficult to grasp at first, but once understood, it beca far easier to use. As long as a Jujutsu Sorcerer mastered the [Reverse Cursed Technique], they could wield it smoothly from then on, as naturally as eating and drinking.

But [Black Flash] was different.

[Black Flash] was a Cursed Energy technique that anyone had a chance to unleash.

It had no requirents regarding a Jujutsu Sorcerer's strength. In theory, even Kasumi Miwa, the weakest among them, could potentially unleash [Black Flash].

However.

Even if soone happened to trigger [Black Flash] by sheer luck, not a single Jujutsu Sorcerer could confidently guarantee they would be able to unleash a second [Black Flash] on command.

Because there was only one condition for using [Black Flash]:

The gap between the physical strike and the Cursed Energy impact had to be within 0.000001 seconds!

In that instant, the surging Cursed Energy would transform into pitch black mad lightning, warping and shattering space completely!!!

"Guhhhoh!"

Kenjaku was struck squarely in the chest by that pitch black lightning, and her body was instantly sent flying backward like a kite with its string cut.

Even though the total amount of Cursed Energy she had accumulated over thousands of years was as vast as the sea, and even a casually unleashed [Antigravity System] was enough to crush the body of an ordinary Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, before the terrifying, space warping explosive force of [Black Flash], she was as fragile as a stumbling infant!

A heavy crash erupted.

Kenjaku slamd hard into the train's solid carriage wall. The entire alloy panel instantly caved inward and shattered, spiderweb cracks spreading in every direction.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

She slid helplessly down the cold wall and collapsed to the floor, imdiately vomiting a mouthful of dark red blood mixed with fragnts of internal organs.

That face, which had always carried a calm, elegant expression, was for the first ti stained with a look of pain and shock.

"H-how is this possible... It was actually [Black Flash]?"

Even the layers of gravitational fields had been rendered useless by that single strike.

Because that was [Black Flash]!

Not even the King of Curses, Ryon Sukuna, could casually use such a miraculous cursed energy technique!

Even across Kenjaku's extrely long life, she had only managed to stumble upon this almost completely random Cursed Energy technique by chance once every few hundred years.

With luck like that, why weren't you making a na for yourself at a lottery shop instead of coming here to bully a defenseless married woman?

"Naoya, you little brat, you just missed the chance to pull ten SSRs in a row..."

The laziness and contempt from before had completely vanished from Kenjaku's brow.

No one had expected Naoya Zenin to use the massive fra rate boost gained through the [Revealing One's Hand]'s Binding Vow to break free from the restraints of hundredfold gravity, while also timing his strike with absolute precision at the instant when his Cursed Energy and physical impact aligned perfectly, forcing out a [Black Flash]!

Was all of this luck?

Or...

Was all of this the future he had seen?

Cursed Energy churned chaotically inside the Mara's chest.

Naoya Zenin's punch had already shattered all of her internal organs.

The devastating damage to her flesh made this vessel, already frail and long since sealed at its limits, send out waves of stabbing pain on the verge of collapse.

The drawbacks of the [Brain Transplant Cursed Technique] were magnified to the extre at this mont!

If this had been Suguru Geto's body, tempered through years of rigorous training, with both its physical foundation and Cursed Energy foundation at the very top, taking a direct hit from [Black Flash] would certainly have injured him, but it would never have left him in such a miserable state.

But Kaori Itadori's body was fundantally that of an ordinary housewife. It possessed the [Antigravity System], but had no foundation built through training at all, and simply could not withstand the spatial shockwaves and Cursed Energy explosion of [Black Flash].

"Interesting, Naoya. I misjudged you just now! You really are an incredibly interesting man!"

Kenjaku burst into laughter.

"But so what? What does landing one lucky [Black Flash] change?! With just that, you think you can kill ? You think you can cut off the head of Kenjaku?!"

In the span of just a few breaths, Kenjaku's previously dying, near death state vanished in an instant, and the Cursed Energy that should have fallen into chaos and disappeared erupted once more!

Rather than a final flash before death, it was more like being reborn.

In a re mont, her body had been rebuilt, and even her shattered internal organs were repaired with ease.

[Reverse Cursed Technique].

If [Black Flash] was the ultimate spear, then [Reverse Cursed Technique] was the ultimate shield.

It was the stepping stone to becoming a top tier powerhouse in the Jujutsu World.

As long as a Jujutsu Sorcerer was not killed instantly, the [Reverse Cursed Technique] could continuously repair their injuries, allowing them to wear down and consu their opponent in battle until the enemy's Cursed Energy ran dry and their physical strength was exhausted.

So what if she could not use [Black Flash]?

The [Reverse Cursed Technique] was the true trump card that decided victory or defeat!

"Naoya! Lower your head and take a good look at that blood soaked body of yours! Look at your bones, ravaged again and again by the [Antigravity System]!"

Kenjaku elegantly wiped the blood from the corner of her lips with a finger, once again revealing the graceful smile of soone in full control.

"Then despair! Cry your heart out! Lant your pitiful stupidity! Curse the self that could never master the [Reverse Cursed Technique]! Because your fate has reached its end! A miracle like that will never happen again!!!"

[Antigravity System], unleashed once more!

20x gravity!!!

Under that terrifying, extre pressure, even the speeding train ground to a halt!

The friction between the wheels and the rails let out an explosive screech. The entire carriage sank violently, and the tal fra gave an anguished groan as it twisted under the unbearable strain. Cracks spread wildly across the roof and side walls. Even the howling wind and snow outside the windows were pinned down by the sudden surge of gravity, and even the airflow began to stagnate!

This terrifying, indiscriminate pressure had already far exceeded Kenjaku's control, instantly plunging the other carriages into a world turning disaster!

The train attendant who had approached because of the chaos beca the first sacrifice to this gravity.

Before the attendant could react, the sudden gravity slamd him hard into the floor, as though a terrifying giant hand had descended from the sky. His bones gave a dull groan under the strain, and in an instant, he was crushed into a pool of blood!

In the neighboring business class carriage, the passengers did not even have ti to cry out before the runaway gravity pinned them hard to their seats!

The laptop on the table was instantly flattened into a useless sheet of scrap. A thermos burst apart, and scalding tea mixed with shards of glass, yet under the force of gravity, it could not even flow or spread!

Even more terrifying was that the runaway gravity continued tearing at the carriage fra. The ceiling began cracking and collapsing across large sections, and tal fragnts fell like torrential rain. The passengers, unable to move, could only watch helplessly as they were pierced like hedgehogs, letting out utterly desperate wails before they died.

Although the students' ordinary carriage was far from the first class carriage, they could still feel that astonishing gravity firsthand!

Everyone who had been locked in confrontation monts earlier was swept up by the gravity in an instant, their blood churning as they found themselves unable to move!

"That lunatic Kaori Itadori! Didn't we agree to keep a low profile?!"

Even Mahito could not escape the pressure of this gravity.

It looked toward the first class carriage not far away, where a fierce battle was raging, then looked at Mai Zenin in front of it, who was performing a mysterious ritual. For a mont, it was caught between two choices.

Should it go help Kenjaku, or hold back this group of students?

"No. If this keeps going, I'll get dragged into that gravity sooner or later too!"

Mahito had never trusted Kenjaku in the first place.

Although that woman kept talking about the future of the Cursed Spirits, she clearly was not a Cursed Spirit herself, so what did the future of the Cursed Spirits have to do with her?

But Jogo trusted this woman completely, so Mahito had been forced to cooperate with her series of plans.

Still, cooperation or not, there was no need to throw itself into the fire.

On top of that, Mai Zenin's Cursed Technique was unbelievably strange, almost as if she were its natural nesis. It really could not afford to stay here any longer!

So after weighing it over again and again, Mahito finally ca up with a third choice.

Retreat imdiately!!!

"Mai Zenin! I'll rember your na!"

Mahito shot Mai one last hateful glare, then leaped out the train window in an instant.

"Don't run!"

Aoi Todo was about to give chase, but when he stuck his head out the window, he saw that Mahito had transford into a winged bird and vanished completely into the tunnel.

"Oh no! The train's breaking apart!!!"

Noritoshi Kamo was the first to realize sothing was wrong.

"If this keeps up, the rear half of the train will crash straight onto the tracks!"

Everyone's faces changed. Through the cracked windows, they saw that at the center of the train, the alloy connecting fra had been completely torn apart by the runaway gravity. The gap was widening by the second, and the two carriages that had once been tightly joined were slowly tilting apart to either side.

The gravity was still increasing, already far beyond what the train's fra could withstand.

The cracks at the central joint burst open completely, sending screws and rivets shooting out like torrential rain.

The students could only watch helplessly as the distance between the two carriages grew wider and wider. Wind and snow surged wildly through the break, carrying freezing air and tal shards that struck their bodies with biting pain.

What kind of monster could cause a disaster this terrifying?

"What on earth is happening over there with Naoya-sensei?!"

Just as Noritoshi Kamo was thinking, Kasumi Miwa suddenly rushed out from the crowd and leaped into the neighboring carriage in a single bound.

"Hey! Miwa!"

Noritoshi Kamo had just reached out to grab Kasumi Miwa when Mai imdiately followed, mounting Momo Nishimiya's broom. The two of them flew across in full view of everyone.

"Damn it! Are you all insane?!"

Even this elegant young aristocrat could not help swearing at the sight.

Because once the train fully snapped apart, the first-class carriage where Naoya Zenin was might very well tip over.

This was a snowy mountain.

One wrong move, and the entire carriage would plunge into the abyss.

"Shit! Then I'm going too!!!"

Noritoshi Kamo was about to jump after them, but Aoi Todo grabbed his shoulder.

"Calm down. We still need you here to keep control of the situation."

Aoi Todo's voice was low.

"What if that Cursed Spirit cos back? What happens to the ordinary passengers here?"

"But even the girls have already gone over."

"That was their choice. What we have to do is trust Master unconditionally and believe he will win."

The burly man's eyes turned cold.

"Besides, we still have to capture the traitor chamaru and send him back to Tokyo Jujutsu High to stand trial."

anwhile, at the center of the disaster, there was no sign of it ending. Instead, it was growing even more violent.

The tremors from the train breaking apart spread through the floor. Cracks covered the carriage walls like a spiderweb, threatening to collapse at any mont.

"Hahahaha! Why need hostility? Why need hatred? Let the curtain rise on this cody within a whirlpool of mocking joy! Naoya, do you see it? This is the essence of the martial way! To live by the martial way, to fight the world, and to make it submit. That is the aning of life! And I will reveal this truth beneath the open sky!!!"

Kenjaku admired her own masterpiece.

[Antigravity System].

It was the Cursed Technique that satisfied this Mara the most throughout her long life.

At first, she had only intended to take over Kaori Itadori's body and use it to give birth to the perfect vessel capable of containing Ryon Sukuna.

But she had never expected that this seemingly ordinary housewife would secretly possess such terrifying power.

[Antigravity System].

It was nothing less than divine authority.

With a single thought, it could shake mountains and earth and change the color of heaven and land.

Chaos, unpredictability, human choices...

These were the goals Kenjaku had spent her entire life pursuing.

So when she held nothing back and pushed this [Antigravity System] to its absolute limit,

then even gods would have no choice but to kneel before the "Mara".

"How is this possible?"

Kenjaku's eyes widened.

And yet, even under 20 tis gravity, Naoya Zenin had not fallen.

Kenjaku had instantly grasped every chanism of [Projection Sorcery] the mont it was revealed through [Revealing One's Hand].

This was not a Cursed Technique focused on defense.

It was a Cursed Technique of absolute offense.

When Naoya Zenin activated [Projection Sorcery], ti did seem to slow down for him, but that was only his relative perception of ti.

In other words, from an outsider's perspective, ti itself had not changed at all.

That ant every external factor could still interfere with Naoya Zenin while he was using [Projection Sorcery].

The deadliest of those factors was the full-area coverage of [Antigravity System].

Because once even the slightest error appeared in the movent path of [Projection Sorcery], the Jujutsu Sorcerer would be frozen in place for one second.

And [Antigravity System] could drastically affect a Jujutsu Sorcerer's movents.

Under the extre pressure of 20 tis gravity, how could Naoya Zenin, even empowered by [Revealing One's Hand], possibly remain completely unaffected?

No.

None of that mattered.

What mattered most was this.

"How can you still be standing there when you don't even have [Reverse Cursed Technique]?!"

"Kenjaku, you and I are fundantally different. Your caution exists so you can carry out your plans and toy with the world. My caution exists because I want to survive."

Naoya Zenin was already covered in blood from head to toe.

Yet he rely turned his head, his expression ice-cold.

"Mara, don't underestimate the resilience of humans who want to live."

Under that irresistible gravity, the man still raised his fist with imnse difficulty.

"You said my [Black Flash] was a fluke? You said there wouldn't be another miracle?"

Naoya Zenin took a deep breath.

The effect of [Revealing One's Hand] had already ended.

That once-in-a-lifeti finishing move could no longer be used again.

But...

"[Black Flash]!!!"

"Guhhhoh!"

All Kenjaku saw was pitch-black mad lightning erupting inside the carriage.

How was that possible?!

How could he unleash a second [Black Flash]?!

The effect of [Revealing One's Hand] had clearly already ended!!!

Even if his luck was absurdly good, how could he possibly unleash a second [Black Flash] in a row?!

No one in this world should be able to use [Black Flash] at will!!!

Kenjaku was just about to strengthen [Antigravity System] again when Naoya Zenin gave her no ti at all. In the next instant, another fist wrapped in pitch-black mad lightning ca crashing toward her.

"[Black Flash]!!!"

"Guh-ho-ho-ho-ahhhhh!!!"

Two consecutive [Black Flashes]. No matter how desperately Kenjaku activated [Reverse Cursed Technique], her recovery speed could no longer keep up with the injuries piling up.

She vomited a huge pool of blood. Every ridian in her body had been completely destroyed by that tyrannical force, leaving her unable to even gather Cursed Energy.

But the more desperate the situation beca, the louder Kenjaku laughed.

"Naoya! What kind of man hits a woman?"

Naoya Zenin said nothing. In an instant, pitch-black mad lightning exploded across his entire body once more.

There was a world of difference between a Jujutsu Sorcerer who had experienced [Black Flash] and one who had not when it ca to their distance from the core of Cursed Energy.

Every ti soone unleashed [Black Flash], it was equivalent to briefly touching the essence of Cursed Energy, reaching that all-knowing, all-powerful realm for a single instant.

If the margin of error required for the previous [Black Flash] had to be within 0.000001 seconds, then the margin of error required for the next [Black Flash] would shrink to within 0.00001 seconds.

Repeating that cycle again and again, one would eventually reach that realm.

A realm only one person could attain.

The ability to use [Black Flash] freely, exactly as one wished.

That was the realm of the Tiger Emperor, Future Yuji Itadori.

"Naoya-sensei!!!"

At this critical mont between life and death, Kasumi Miwa, Mai Zenin, and Momo Nishimiya finally arrived at the scene.

But Naoya Zenin, focused with every fiber of his being, was not affected.

The man said nothing. He simply kept using [Black Flash], giving Kenjaku no chance to survive.

[Do not linger over my statue any longer! Do not peck at my heart any longer! Do not leave black feathers behind as a symbol of your soul's lies! Do not disturb my perfect solitude any longer!]

Yet just as that fist was about to strike Kenjaku again, Kenjaku suddenly ford Hand Seals and began chanting, forcibly breaking through the disorder in her Cursed Energy through incantation.

[The dead shall not live, and the departed shall not die! And the crows shall answer ! Never to return!!]

Mara revealed a smile of utter madness.

"Cursed Technique Reversal, [Antigravity System]!!!"

In an instant, the gravity between heaven and earth was completely inverted.

Imdiately after, everyone's vision began to spin wildly.

No.

It was not their vision that was spinning.

It was the entire train!!!

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