Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube-Chapter 1216 - 887: Special Grade Curse Involvement
Because they had their backs turned, Itadori Yuji and the other two did not see the presence that appeared behind them.
Only Reiger, who was facing Itadori Yuji and the other two from afar, took in the entirety of that presence.
It was a humanoid creature, with pale skin and flesh, a wide gaping mouth on its face, and four claw-shaped eyes distributed on its head.
Without a doubt, it was a Curse Spirit.
Moreover, unlike the comical-looking Curse Spirits from before, this Curse Spirit was filled with a sense of horror and eeriness from head to toe, resembling the "ghost" in Reiger’s memory, sinister and terrifying.
Its hands hung down, red palms elongated like claws, its split mouth clearly smiling, allowing Reiger to distinctly feel that this monster was very happy, very pleased.
As for why it was happy, why it was pleased?
It’s simple.
Because it was enjoying itself.
It considered the humans in front of it to be its prey, its playthings.
The thought of being able to savagely kill everyone present, relishing in their fear, despair, anger, and resentment, conjuring curse energy from these negative emotions, made it especially happy, exceptionally excited.
This was also the reason Itadori Yuji and the other two couldn’t move at all.
With their keen senses, they had realized they were facing a monster intent on savagely killing them, so their instincts forced their bodies not to move, so as to prolong their lives as much as possible until the monster’s curiosity waned.
However, this did not include Reiger.
He wasn’t annoyed by the monster’s playfulness and sadistic impulses.
But, coincidentally, he hadn’t been in a good mood recently, which was why he engaged in Dimensional Travel to change his mood.
Now, the monster’s happiness, the monster’s pleasure, the monster’s smile reignited the unpleasantness Reiger had just relieved.
Therefore...
"Take back that disgusting smile of yours!"
With these words, a hand suddenly appeared in front of the monster, pinning its face.
"Bang!"
In a thundering crash, the hand that was pressing on the monster’s face directly seized it, fiercely slamming it onto the ground, shattering the entire area.
"...?!"
Amidst the explosive shockwave and flying rubble, Itadori Yuji and the other two were finally released from their frozen state, each leaping in different directions, narrowly avoiding being swallowed by the collapsing ground.
Only then did they see the Curse Spirit driven into the ground, and also saw Reiger who had appeared there, with a hand pressed onto the Curse Spirit’s face.
(So fast!)
(He...!)
(When did he...?!)
Itadori Yuji, Fushiguro Megumi, and Kugisaki Nobara all widened their eyes in shock.
Even though they had been standing face to face with Reiger, they didn’t catch any sight of Reiger’s movements, not even when he leaped in front of them and pressed a hand on that Curse Spirit’s face.
If he hadn’t attacked the Curse Spirit just now, but them instead, what would the result have been?
The answer didn’t even need contemplation.
(He surely isn’t an ordinary person!)
As this thought was confirmed in the trio’s hearts, a strange howl of rage erupted from the shattered ground.
"Aaaaahhhhh...!"
Within the howling, a surge of extremely pure negative spiritual power—curse energy was unleashed.
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion sounded, and the storm of curse energy obliterated everything, causing the already collapsing ground to completely shatter, splitting into countless pieces.
Meanwhile, the one responsible for it all, a Curse Spirit of an entirely different level than the previous ones, burst out from beneath the earth accompanied by a radiance-like explosion of curse energy.
Its target was none other than Reiger, who had somehow leaped into the air, evading the curse energy storm.
"Aaahhh...!"
The smile on the Curse Spirit’s face vanished, replaced by a ferocious countenance, informing others it had grown to hate Reiger.
Regarding this, Reiger merely looked down at the Curse Spirit hurtling toward him.
"Foolish."
In cold words, Reiger slowly extended his hand to grasp the knife hilt.
In such a circumstance, the Curse Spirit soared up, shooting rapidly towards Reiger, with both hands raised high, converging curse energy akin to radiant explosions, concentrating it like golden light onto its hands.
Anyone, upon feeling that highly compressed, terrifying curse energy, would understand that the coming strike would be earth-shattering.
At the very least, piercing through several buildings, penetrating through them was absolutely possible.
"Watch out!"
Itadori Yuji instinctively cried out.
"Idiot!"
Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara were even angrier.
In their eyes, Reiger’s refusal to dodge seemed no different from courting death, right? 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Thus, what happened next would be deeply etched into their memories.
"Cing!"
This was the sound of a blade being drawn.
The sound was so crisp, so clear.
Just a second before that humanoid Curse Spirit with radiant curse energy, hands about to touch Reiger, this soul-piercing sound of blade drawing echoed.
Then, a cold blade light slashed through like lightning.
Fast!
Sharp!
"Pfffft!"
With a tearing sound, the Curse Spirit’s raised hands, brimming with astonishing curse energy, were effortlessly sliced off.
The radiant curse energy abruptly stagnated, dispersing due to loss of control.
