Chapter 119: Re-fighting Sōsuke—Is This Shengzai

Shengzai, flung backward, was still hurtling through the air when Rokudō Sōsuke kicked the ground beneath him to shatter it, bursting through the dust at equal speed to catch up to the flying Shengzai.

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, kid Shengzai!”

Seeing Rokudō Sōsuke crush the air as he closed in and swung a punch straight at him, Shengzai could only cross his arms before his chest to block.

After taking that punch, Shengzai’s body accelerated backward again, smashing through several walls with brutal force.

In fact, Rokudō Sōsuke had more than enough time to use a cursed technique just then.

But Rokudō Sōsuke had no intention of doing so; as the King of Curses, he was a man of immense pride.

Their previous duel at Sugi High had ended without a victor, and Rokudō Sōsuke had never let go of that sense of unfinished business between men.

He wasn’t incapable of using cursed techniques—but unless Shengzai used one first, Rokudō Sōsuke would never lower himself to use one against this brat.

After all, he was Rokudō Sōsuke—he would prove that even with only body techniques, he could utterly dominate a brat like Shengzai!

“Wenren Sword Style, Form One—Lan Ya!”

From the rubble where Shengzai lay, a cursed energy slash shot out, wrapped in howling wind!

The crescent-shaped slash swelled as it met the wind, and as it scraped the ground, it instantly carved a deep trench into it.

Rokudō Sōsuke, unprepared for a slash to erupt from the dust, barely dodged it—but the sharp cursed blade-qi still carved a gash across his face, and a few drops of crimson blood now traced down the wound.

The missed slash sliced past Rokudō Sōsuke’s face, cleanly severing the wall behind him as smoothly as a hot knife through butter.

“By swinging the slash, you release cursed energy without lengthy incantations or casting animations—yet it retains the power of a cursed technique.”

As the King of Curses from a thousand years ago, Rokudō Sōsuke needed only one glance to understand the mechanism behind Shengzai’s cursed slash—and his face showed clear admiration.

Having dwelled inside Toge’s body all this time, Rokudō Sōsuke knew Shengzai had only recently begun practicing cursed techniques.

Yet this opponent had fused cursed energy with his martial arts to such a degree in so short a time—even Rokudō Sōsuke had to admit that, even in the golden age of his own era, Shengzai’s talent and strength qualified as genius.

“Wenren Sword Style, Form One—Modified—Lan Ya Ran!”

Compared to before, the number of cursed energy slashes erupting from the distant rubble had multiplied, and the difficulty of dodging them skyrocketed.

But after his initial surprise, Rokudō Sōsuke had now read Shengzai’s attack pattern—he simply stood his ground, twisting his body into bizarre angles to evade each slash effortlessly.

Finally, to taunt Shengzai and fully demonstrate his superiority, Rokudō Sōsuke didn’t even bother blocking Shengzai’s final slash—he extended both hands, clasped them together, and caught the crescent-shaped cursed energy slash barehanded!

As his hands clamped down on the slash, he instantly squeezed with brute force, crushing Shengzai’s attack completely!

“Crack, crack—!”

Yet just as Rokudō Sōsuke crushed Shengzai’s slash like a performance, Shengzai suddenly appeared beside him and swung his blade straight at Rokudō Sōsuke’s head!

To Shengzai’s shock, as his blade struck, the mouth on Rokudō Sōsuke’s face split open wide and bit down on Shengzai’s cursed weapon, “Shenyou.”

Though Shengzai’s blade was a cursed tool sharper than ordinary longswords, it now sparked violently against Rokudō Sōsuke’s teeth.

“Damn it, what kind of freak is Toge, anyway? Even his teeth are this tough.”

Seeing his attack completely neutralized, Rokudō Sōsuke was about to sneer in triumph—but before he could speak, Shengzai switched from two hands to one, and with his free hand, punched Rokudō Sōsuke square in the face.

Taking a cursed energy-laced “Po Yan Fist” directly to the face, even Rokudō Sōsuke was staggered.

As Rokudō Sōsuke’s body reeled backward from the punch, Shengzai grabbed his head and slammed it into the ground with brutal force.

With a sickening crunch as the back of his skull met the concrete, the solid ground shattered, spraying debris and leaving a deep crater.

Yet Shengzai did not stop—he held Rokudō Sōsuke’s head against the ground and began sprinting forward.

Rokudō Sōsuke, his head embedded in the earth, was dragged violently for hundreds of meters before Shengzai hurled him outward—he crashed into a nearby wall.

With a violent tremor shaking the land, Fukuroi Megumi and Kōsaku, watching from afar, finally snapped out of their stunned silence.

Though it felt like an eternity, the entire exchange—from Shengzai’s sudden appearance to the furious back-and-forth—had lasted less than a few minutes.

In those few minutes, the once-intact buildings and ground around them had been reduced to ruins.

Walls were riddled with slashes and gaping holes; the once-solid concrete ground was now pockmarked with craters and crisscrossed by deep furrows.

Fukuroi Megumi’s reaction was relatively calm—he had already known Shengzai’s power was monstrous, so he’d prepared himself mentally.

But Kōsaku, seeing Shengzai fight for the first time, was utterly dumbfounded.

Now she finally understood why Tokyo Jujutsu High had let Shengzai operate alone as a one-man team.

The gap in level was just too damn enormous! If she remembered correctly, Shengzai had once called himself a delinquent, right?

Now Kōsaku wondered—what kind of delinquents had he fought before, and how the hell had they not been killed by a Shengzai like this?

“Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap!”

As Fukuroi and Kōsaku stood frozen, stunned by Shengzai’s overwhelming power and assuming Rokudō Sōsuke might have been defeated, a rhythmic clapping echoed from the rubble nearby.

Soon after, Rokudō Sōsuke, who had just taken a barrage of punches from Shengzai, stepped calmly out of the dust—as if nothing had happened—amid the stunned gazes of the others.

(End of Chapter)