Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

Lu Suo looked down at them from his high position, the eyes of his mask gleaming with a scarlet light.

"Perfect teamwork. Aggressive attack, crowd control, and..." His gaze fell on Kugizaki, "A strike targeting the soul and core. As expected of Gojo Satoru's student."

"Rōsō?" Kugizaki gripped his hammer tightly, his eyes filled with disgust. "You rat in the gutter, finally willing to show your face?"

"Don't say that, Wild Rose." Lu Su spread her hands. "I came here today to bring you a big gift."

"What do you mean?" Itachi clenched his fist, and the magical power in his body began to boil.

"Don't you find it strange?" Lu Suo pointed to the half-mask on the ground. "Why is 'Pliers' only half there?"

Fukuro Megumi's pupils constricted sharply: "The other half is in your hands?"

Bingo.

Lu Suo snapped his fingers.

"In this world, everything strives for 'perfection.' Half-hearted power is unstable and incomplete. Just like you humans, you are always full of regrets."

He pulled the other half of the mask from his sleeve. It was also bluish-purple, and the broken edge fit perfectly with the half on the ground.

"But when the two halves come together as one..."

With a gentle toss, Lu Suo tossed the half-mask in his hand, which traced an arc before falling to the ground.

"No! Stop him!" Otsuko shouted. "Rika!"

The giant Rika shot out instantly, trying to intercept the half of the mask in mid-air.

But the mask closed even faster. The half of the mask on the ground seemed to be summoned and jumped up automatically, as if it were magnetic, and collided hard with the falling half in mid-air.

"Snap!"

Perfectly fitted.

A black shockwave, ten times stronger than before—no, a hundred times stronger—suddenly erupted from the mask's center.

"Boom!"

Rika's massive body was actually bounced back by the shockwave.

The complete "Hunter's Pike" mask floated in mid-air, its compound eyes flashing an eerie red light, as if mocking everyone's powerlessness.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow beneath the mask began to boil wildly. It could summon an army even without a host.

This is no longer five or ten shadows.

Instead, there are hundreds or thousands.

The entire deck was instantly overrun by a dense swarm of predator pincers. They huddled together, their pincers clashing with a sickening click, like a black ocean.

"There are too many! And..." Kugizaki looked at the shadows, "each one of them has a stronger aura than the ones before!"

"This is the 'Legion'." Luso stood high above, like a conductor. "Go, children. Have some fun with these excellent mages."

"kill!"

Countless pincer shadows surged in like a tsunami.

"Rika! Crush them all!" Yigu no longer held back, unleashing his full magical power.

"Hairpin! Maximum output!" Kugizaki unleashed all the nails in his hand, frantically pouring in his magical power. "Explode!"

"Boom!"

The explosions resounded through the sky, but in the face of the black ocean, these explosions were like throwing a few stones into the sea; they stirred up waves but could not stop the tide from surging.

With the complete mask activating them, these shadows become whole and can even split into two smaller individuals to fight. Often, as soon as they are blown apart by Kugizaki, they split into two smaller individuals and continue to tear each other apart.

Fukuro Megumi formed a hand seal.

"Full of elephants!"

A giant pink elephant descended from the sky, spewing high-pressure water jets that swept a shadow into the sea. This was the only one of his few shikigami that could be effective on this kind of battlefield.

"Kudoshin! Don't linger! The target is Lusuo!" Eto shouted amidst the chaos. "Once we take him down, these shadows will lose their leader!"

"I know!"

Tiger Stick stepped on the head of a hunter's claw shadow, leaped high into the air, and charged straight at the rope at the top of the crane.

"Take this punch!"

Itachi roared, his fist gleaming with a dark red light.

"Black Flash!"

Faced with this attack that was enough to severely injure a top-tier cursed spirit, Lu Suo merely smiled slightly.

"Very energetic."

Just as the cane was about to strike him, his body suddenly twisted like a shadow.

"What?" Itachi punched empty air.

The next second, Lu Su appeared beside Hu Zhang, gently placing a hand on Hu Zhang's shoulder.

"Anti-gravity mechanism".

boom!

As if struck by a mountain, Hu Zhang plummeted like a cannonball, crashing into the container cluster below.

"Yujin!" Kugizaki and Fushiguro shouted at the same time.

"Don't get distracted, Fushiguro-kun."

The sound of a clapper suddenly rang in Fushiguro Megumi's ear.

Fushiguro Megumi's hair stood on end. Without thinking, he thrust the cursed tool in his hand backward.

"bite."

Lu Suo pinched Fu Hei's blade with just two fingers.

He looked at Fushiguro Megumi with a morbid admiration in his eyes.

"Ten types of shadow magic... This is a technique passed down in the Zen-in family. It can summon shikigami using shadows as a medium. These shadows, in the end, still belong to the category of shikigami. It was only because... I killed Makuro—this 'gatekeeper'—during the battle with Sukuna that they were all released."

"Lu Suo said softly, and with a gentle wave of his other hand, several huge cursed spirits appeared out of thin air, tightly binding Otsuku Yuta and Kugisaki Nobara who wanted to come to their aid."

"What do you want to do?" Fukuro Megumi tried to draw her sword, but it wouldn't budge.

"I'm wondering, since the essence of your spell is 'shadow,' what would happen if you put on this mask that rules over shadows?"

Lu Suo's smile widened, revealing his gleaming white teeth.

"Will you control the mask, or will the mask devour you?"

"You madman!" Fukuro Megumi loosened the hilt of his sword and leaped backward. He sensed immense danger, but he had no good strategy to deal with it; he now felt he was indeed holding everyone back.

"Give it a try."

The complete plier mask that had been floating in the air suddenly transformed into a beam of black light and appeared instantly in front of Fushiguro Megumi.

It seemed to have a life of its own, clinging tightly to Fushiguro Megumi's face.

"Hmm!"

Fushiguro Megumi's retreat was interrupted, and he clutched the mask in anguish, trying to tear it off.

"It's useless." Lu Suo retreated to a distance, as if admiring the birth of a work of art. "Once the mask selects a host, it will not fall off unless the host dies or stronger positive energy intervenes."

"And it likes you a lot. I can feel it cheering."

"Kuro!"

Kugizaki Nobara watched this scene, her eyes turning red. Ignoring the cursed spirits beside her, she raised her hammer and aimed it at Fushiguro Megumi—or rather, at the mask.

"Get down here!"

She pulled a special long nail from her sleeve, which was covered with incantations.

"resonance!"

Instead of attacking Fu Hei, she drove the nail deep into the shadow of a hunting pincer that Fu Hei had just severed. She was gambling, gambling that these shadows and the mask were one and the same.

"Thump!"

A muffled thud.

Fushiguro Megumi's mask trembled violently, as if it had been shocked.

"Oh?" Rōsō glanced at Kugizaki with some surprise. "A clever idea. But in the face of absolute power, such a petty trick..."

"Aaaaaaahh ...

Fushiguro Megumi suddenly let out a piercing scream.

The scream interrupted everyone's actions.

Countless cold tentacles extended from the inside of the mask, piercing his skin, his nerves, and even his soul.

Those tentacles connected to his shadow.

The shadows he had successfully subdued, which originally belonged to the ten types of shadow magic, are now undergoing a dramatic change.

"Kuro!"

Ekuku Yuta unleashed astonishing magical power, shattering the magical spirits blocking his path with a single strike, and charged towards Fushiguro Megumi.

"Rika! Take that mask off!"

Rika's huge hand grabbed the mask on Fushiguro Megumi's face and pulled it outward forcefully.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

Black threads stretched between the mask and the skin, causing Fushiguro Megumi to convulse in pain, and blood flowed down from the edge of the mask.

"Stop...it..." Fushiguro Megumi managed to squeeze out a few words, his voice already distorted, "Quickly...kill me..."

"Looks like they're stuck together pretty well." Lu Suo had retreated to a safe distance by now. He watched the scene with a fanatical gaze. "The fusion has begun. The last remaining user of shadow magic, plus this mask from the Shadow Kingdom... this is truly something to look forward to."

Just as Rika was preparing to intensify her efforts.

Fushiguro Megumi's body suddenly stopped trembling.

His left hand, which was sticking out of the mask, suddenly rose and grabbed Rika's wrist.

"Huh?" Yi Gu was taken aback.

The next second, an immense, suffocating surge of magical power erupted from Fushiguro Megumi's body. It wasn't his usual magical power; it was mixed with a purer form of dark energy.

"boom!"

Rika was actually blasted away by this force.

Fushiguro Megumi slowly straightened up.

The pliers mask had completely embedded itself into his flesh; in other words, his face had become part of the mask.

His hands, which were originally covered with a layer of black carapace, now had sharp claws at the tips.

He slowly turned his head, the compound eyes on his mask flashing with an eerie red light, staring intently at Yuta Otsuki and Nobara Kugisaki.

"Fushiguro...?" Kugizaki's hand trembled slightly. "Hey, stop joking... say something!"

"Megumi Fushiguro is no longer here."

The voice coming from under the mask was still Fushiguro Megumi's calm voice, only it had become more hoarse.

"Right now, all we have are the hunting pincers."

"asshole......"

Just as Huzhang crawled out of the wreckage of the container, he witnessed this scene and was struck dumb.

"Give me back Fushiguro...!!!"

Tiger Stick charged forward like a madman.

But his former comrade-in-arms merely raised a finger indifferently.

The shadows on the ground instantly transformed into countless sharp blades, rising from the ground.

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

Despite his best efforts to dodge, Huzhang was still cut in several places and had to stop.

"What a perfect fit." Lu Su clapped his hands, his eyes full of admiration. "Ten shadow spells plus the mask of the Shadow Kingdom... this is simply a masterpiece born for destruction."

"Alright, Mr. Fushiguro—oh no, General Hunter's Pliers. The test of the blade is over."

Rōsō turned around and looked towards the exit of Tokyo Bay.

"We should go now. Let's go meet our other companions."

"Don't even think about leaving!" Yigu raised his knife, ready to give chase.

But Fukurohime—General Hunter Pliers—stood in his way.

"Your opponent is me."

Fushiguro Megumi assumed a starting stance. It was Fushiguro Megumi's most familiar martial arts posture, but now, as this monster adopted it, it was filled with deadly killing intent.

"Don't get in my way, Senior Yigu. And... Wild Rose."

The word "wild rose" made Kugizaki's heart skip a beat.

He remembers.

He still remembers his name.

But this only made it more despairing. It meant that Fushiguro Megumi hadn't completely lost consciousness; he was being controlled and locked inside that mask.

To defeat the enemy before us, we must kill Fushiguro Megumi.

This is an unsolvable problem that Lu Suo has presented to them.