Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

Chapter 126 Hunt

Di Kui braced himself on the ground with his right hand, trying to stand up.

But he could no longer lift his left arm, and the dark red rock shell was now peeling away piece by piece along the crack.

Lava flowed uncontrollably from the hole in his chest, dripping onto the rock pillar and emitting puffs of white smoke.

Gojo Satoru stood in front of him, less than ten meters away.

The mountain wind passed between the two, stirring up snow and rock dust.

The orange-red light in Di Kui's eye sockets was almost extinguished. He lowered his head, staring at the fist-sized hole in his chest. The semi-solidified lava core was exposed to the cold air, its surface covered with a dark gray film.

He wasn't beyond recovery; he was simply injured at his core in an instant, and he wasn't at his peak due to the presence of clones.

He needs time to recover.

But Gojo Satoru won't give it to him.

"Hmm."

A crimson light shot out from Gojo Satoru's palm and struck Jikai's right shoulder precisely.

The repulsive force exploded instantly above, sending dark red rock fragments and semi-solidified lava flying backward. The Earth Demon's right arm was blown off at the shoulder, crashing onto the edge of the rock pillar, rolling twice, and falling into the valley below.

He didn't yell.

He hasn't made a sound since the start of the battle.

The Earth Demon's massive body swayed slightly as it lost the support of its right arm, causing it to tilt to the left, but it managed to regain its balance.

Just then, Gojo Satoru took a step forward.

Without the slightest hesitation, Di Kui suddenly pressed his left hand onto the ground in front of him.

"Boom!"

The rock pillar beneath his feet began to crack in the middle.

Jikki split the rock pillar beneath his feet in two, using the lava gushing from the crack to block the path between him and Gojo Satoru.

Scalding lava gushed from the crack, forming a temporary barrier between the two.

Gojo Satoru paused, no longer advancing. He could sense the colossal object before him gathering a terrifying power. He feared its dying counterattack.

To his surprise, on the other side of the crack, Di Kui's body began to slowly sink.

Starting from his knees, the dark red behemoth gradually sank into the surface of the rock pillar. The rock beneath him opened up like the surface of water, gradually engulfing his legs, waist, and chest—and slowly, his enormous body sank completely into the earth's crust.

This was his method of escape.

Gojo Satoru continued to stare at the sinking giant body.

He is a target. He's spell output can blast through rock layers, and Cang's gravity can also try to pull him out from underground.

However, his six eyes kept reporting that an extremely terrifying energy was accumulating ahead.

If we force a fight against them again, who knows what will happen? We still don't have enough information.

Gojo Satoru stood there in front of the magma barrier, watching helplessly as the Earth Demon's body disappeared bit by bit into the rocks.

Finally, his head was exposed.

The two almost extinguished eye sockets on the rock surface looked up at Gojo Satoru.

It's not fear.

There was no anger.

Even with his chest pierced and his right arm blown off, he showed no anger or fear, as if everything was part of his plan.

Then his head slowly sank down. The rock surface closed up, returning to its flat state.

Gojo Satoru stood still, looking down at the rock face beneath his feet.

Six Eyes could still track the Earth Demon's aura as he descended slowly. With such severe injuries, he couldn't move at high speed within the earth's crust as he had before.

His direction was very clear.

Heading south.

Gojo Satoru looked at it for a few seconds, then looked away.

He pulled his communicator out of his pocket. The screen was half cracked, but it still worked.

"Bone of the 'Yi' radical".

There was a two-second silence on the communicator.

"Gojo-sensei! Over there!"

"The Earth Demon escaped." Gojo Satoru brushed aside the stray hairs blocking his eyes. "I punched through his chest, and his right arm is useless too."

But he burrowed underground, and I didn't chase after him.

"—Where to go?"

"Heading south. Most likely heading towards the seabed." Gojo Satoru looked up at the grayish-white sky. "Help me monitor his route. In his current state, he can't be going too fast."

"Understood." The sound of keyboard typing came from the other end of the line. "I've received a signal from Okinawa. December and Itadori are both alright."

"Where is that thing?"

"He was killed on the first day of the twelfth month."

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Gojo Satoru's lips twitched slightly.

"Um."

He turned off the communicator and stood on the ravaged mountain ridge.

The snowstorm in the Alps subsided once more. Without the storm's churning the air, snowflakes fell normally from the sky, covering the solidified black lava layer and hissing as they vaporized.

Gojo Satoru walked back a few steps and sat down on a relatively intact rock.

He looked down at his hands.

There were several small cracks on the back of his hand, left from Ximu's several attempts at sharpening with air pressure blades. Having no limits doesn't guarantee immunity against attacks at the level of laws; something will always seep through.

He stood up and put his hands in his pockets.

In the distant valley, lava still flowed slowly. The Earth Demon's right arm lay at the bottom of the valley, its dark red rock shell losing its luster and gradually turning into ordinary gray-black stone.

Like the creation of Okinawa that was torn in two.

Anything that loses the nourishment of its master's essence will revert to inanimate objects.

After watching for a while, Gojo Satoru leaned against the rock and looked up at the gray-white sky.

"It's over." He muttered to himself.

Mariana Trench.

Basha dwelled in the deepest crevice of the trench, her pale blue scales emitting a faint glow in the absolute darkness. Her body had shrunk to one-third of its usual size—a posture for recuperation, with all her energy focused inward to heal the wounds inflicted by the New Moon and the Black Queen.

Her vertical pupils suddenly opened.

Suddenly, the surrounding seawater trembled.

It was extremely faint, but she still sensed it.

Something within the earth's veins has broken.

That was an energy transmission line she and the Earth Demon laid together, stretching from Okinawa to the Mariana Trench. The cocoon received the source of water she poured in through this line.

Now, there's nothing left at the other end of that line.

The cocoon is gone.

Basha's vertical pupils slowly contracted.

Shortly after, she received a second signal.

Further afield. In the direction of Europe. The aura of the laws of the earth is waning in an abnormal way.

Di Kui was seriously injured.

Basha's body lay motionless in the depths of the trench. A pale blue light flickered on her scales, like a slow, deliberate breath.

Their cocoons were destroyed.

The Earth Demon was almost killed.

The plan failed.

She closed her eyes.

The surrounding seawater turned very cold. The source of water was spontaneously shrinking towards her, turning the area within a hundred meters into a lifeless stagnant zone.

The tube worms and blind shrimp clinging to the trench walls all died within seconds, their bodies detaching from the rock face and slowly sinking into the deeper darkness.

Basha did not open her eyes again.

For a long time, only the faint blue light on her scales flickered in the depths of the trench.

Then the light went out.

She shrank even smaller. Even the glowing stopped.

He completely hid himself in the darkness of the abyss.