Toji Fushiguro clasped his hands behind his back, fingers interlocked, his chiseled muscles straining his tight shirt to the brink.
Suddenly, he snapped his head up, eyes blazing with feral intensity.
BOOM!
Toji vanished, leaving only shattered stone from the force of his launch.
"So fast!"
Even with Sawa and Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes, they caught only a fleeting afterimage.
"Satoru! Watch out!"
Before Sawa's warning landed, Toji was already in Satoru's face.
Of the brothers, Sawa posed the greater threat.
So, take out the weaker one first!
"Technique Forward: Blue!"
A terrifying blue cyclone erupted, shredding trees and buildings in a map-wide AOE blast.
Unable to match Toji's speed, Satoru opted for total devastation.
But Toji's speed was monstrous, retreating in the instant Blue detonated, dodging unscathed.
In the forest, a black shadow darted with impossible agility, weaving through trees.
Toji used trunks as springboards, defying gravity with each leap.
"Hm?"
Toji paused, noticing Sawa's figure closing in.
"Wanna match me in hand-to-hand?"
Toji grinned confidently, turning to clash head-on with Sawa.
Sawa didn't flinch. "Shinbu Style: Twin Suns Strike!"
Drawing from the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto's Two Heavens technique, Sawa unleashed a flurry of piercing thrusts with blinding speed!
Worse, each strike carried Black Flash!
It looked like a web of crackling black lightning, inescapable, surging toward Toji.
Yet, facing this deadly onslaught, Toji didn't dodge. He sheathed his Inverted Spear of Heaven and met Sawa's attacks with bare hands.
His hands danced like butterflies, precisely parrying every strike.
From Satoru's view, their clash was a blur of sonic booms and afterimages.
"Too… too insane!"
Satoru marveled, feeling the gap between himself and his brother for the first time.
He'd always coasted on his natural talent, slacking on physical training, thinking Limitless made it obsolete.
But Sawa's mastery showed him: peak hand-to-hand was just as formidable!
Meanwhile, Sawa's face grew grimmer as he traded blows with Toji.
What started as an even match had tilted—Toji was now dominating him.
Sawa's martial arts were grandmaster-level.
"It's not skill… it's his body!"
Sawa realized Toji's technique, while also grandmaster-tier, wasn't much better than his.
Yet Toji overwhelmed him in combat.
The secret? Toji's "Heavenly Restriction"!
Born without a shred of cursed energy, he gained a superhuman physique.
Though their fighting skills were close, Toji had greater strength, speed, and reflexes!
His hearing, sight, smell, and touch were razor-sharp—practically an evolved superhuman!
BAM!
A prolonged defense faltered, and Toji's fist sent Sawa flying.
Even with Limitless, Sawa felt the massive force ripple through warped space.
"Such monstrous strength…"
"Go die!"
Seizing the moment Sawa and Toji separated, Satoru charged, firing a pinpoint "Blue"!
BOOM!
The explosion engulfed Toji's form.
Before Satoru could relax, countless low-grade cursed spirits—"Fly Heads"—swarmed around him.
Their buzzing and dense bodies clogged his vision, irritating him.
The Six Eyes' flawless sight faltered for a split second.
"It's over!"
A man's voice rang from behind.
Satoru's pupils dilated as he spun, pushing Limitless to its max.
But the nagging sense of danger didn't fade!
Why?
Toji's cursed tool answered.
The Inverted Spear of Heaven!
A bizarrely shaped dagger, but a bona fide Special Grade cursed tool.
It could forcibly nullify any technique, including Limitless!
Buzz!
The moment the Split Soul Katana touched Limitless, a flash and hum erupted.
After a nanosecond—or less—of resistance, the blade pierced Satoru's carotid artery!
Toji sneered, slashing downward, gutting Satoru from throat to abdomen.
Not done, he stabbed Satoru's body repeatedly, riddling it with holes.
For good measure, he plunged a dagger into Satoru's brain.
Death surged like a tidal wave, drowning Satoru in suffocation and weightlessness.
Yet, in that moment, his mind was crystal clear.
"Am I… dying?"
Satoru's eyes darted, the world frozen like a paused film.
Cursed spirits, Toji, the Split Soul Katana, blood…
He was a bystander, wracked with unbearable pain but unable to move.
"Dying like this… I'm not ready!"
An ethereal sensation flooded his mind.
Cursed energy, techniques, creation, destruction, attraction, repulsion…
Countless strange images flickered in Satoru's eyes.
In reality, his body collapsed like a ragdoll, breath gone.
"Next up, you!"
Toji turned to Sawa, chuckling, and charged.
"Technique Forward: Blue!"
A blue cyclone enveloped Sawa, forming a second barrier beyond Limitless.
"Oh?"
Toji raised a brow. "Know my tool cancels Limitless, so you're using your technique to keep me at bay?"
"Staying so calm when I just killed your brother in front of you? No reaction?"
"Cry, scream, show a crack!"
Sawa's lips curled. "Less talk…"
Whoosh!
Toji obliged, wasting no words.
Clink clink clink…
Chains rattled.
One end in the cursed spirit "Ugly Treasure's" mouth, the other tied to the Split Soul Katana, the Special Grade cursed tool Chain of a Thousand Miles stretched endlessly when unseen!
Toji, a blur, hurled the Split Soul Katana at Sawa.
It hit Sawa's "Blue" barrier, instantly nullifying it.
"Damn! Blue's a technique, too!"
Sawa's eye twitched. The Split Soul Katana was a cheat code!
Paired with Toji—a cursed-energy-less freak with a sanctified body—it countered every sorcerer to death!
Sawa dodged the strike, facing Toji's charge with the Inverted Spear of Heaven.
Suddenly, Toji grinned.
His Inverted Spear slashed at an odd angle.
Sawa evaded easily, puzzled, until Toji yanked the Chain of a Thousand Miles.
The Split Soul Katana, having overshot Sawa, whipped back, stabbing his back.
"Dammit! The kidney again!"
Before Sawa could curse aloud, Toji's Inverted Spear pierced his heart.
(THE END.)