Chapter 251: The Feast Prepared by Gojo Satoshi

Facing the fingers before him, Satoshi raised his right hand and pointed, calmly humming,

"Bakudō #4: Hainawa."

As the five-syllable incantation fell, spiritual energy surged within his body and flowed out from his fingertip, forming a luminous rope of Reiryoku that bound the six fingers of Ryoumen Sukuna together.

His casual demeanor left the onlookers momentarily stunned.

Was this a technique? Hadn't Zenin Ogi insisted that the abilities Satoshi used in battle were just one-time tools? Then why could he still use them again?

Anyone paying attention could recognize it immediately. The technique, Hainawa, was the same one Satoshi had used to bind the Finger Cursed Spirit in an earlier battle.

That cursed spirit had been annihilated by two other mysterious techniques Satoshi released afterward.

Was he now going to use the same combo on Ryoumen Sukuna's six fingers?

That couldn't be, right?

While the cursed spirit that devoured Sukuna's finger had been killed by that mysterious attack, the finger itself had remained completely unharmed. What gave Satoshi such confidence now?

What was the point of binding these fingers?

Sukuna's fingers weren't going to flee. What was needed wasn't restraint, but overwhelming destructive force to obliterate them.

Every technique a sorcerer casts requires Cursed Energy. Was Gojo Satoshi just wasting energy?

That was the thought among many watching the livestream, while those present furrowed their brows and focused intently on Satoshi's next move.

Because something felt off.

Satoshi had just used that technique, yet there hadn't been any fluctuation of Cursed Energy.

Had they simply missed it?

Zenin Ogi and Kamo Kaname shared a glance, both noticing this oddity. But Satoshi gave them no time to ponder it.

Following Hainawa, he began chanting another incantation.

"Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini!!

Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!"

This was the incantation for Bakudō #9: Geki. A reward Satoshi had received after defeating the Finger Cursed Spirit.

A higher-level binding technique compared to Hainawa.

A golden wheel appeared between his palms, spinning rapidly. Several luminous golden ropes shot out, further reinforcing the restraint already applied by Hainawa.

The six fingers of Ryoumen Sukuna were now tightly sealed by both Hainawa and Geki. If not for the faint outline of dark red flesh and black nails visible beneath the layers of spiritual light, it would've looked like a purely luminous bundle.

Confirmed. That really isn't Cursed Energy.

Kamo Kaname glanced at Zenin Ogi, silently signaling the realization.

Zenin Ogi gave a subtle nod. He had been tracking Satoshi's every move and hadn't detected the slightest ripple of Cursed Energy.

Besides, Satoshi wasn't supposed to have any to begin with.

Both Satoshi and Toji were born under the most extreme form of Heavenly Restriction, devoid of Cursed Energy entirely.

Could it be that his body had changed after sleeping for nine years? Had the restriction somehow lifted?

No, that couldn't be.

More importantly, in the world of jujutsu, innate techniques didn't require chant-like incantations to activate. This wasn't some fantasy magic from novels or movies.

What Satoshi had done just now was undeniably a form of chant-based spellcasting.

It was not jujutsu. It wasn't ritual-based sorcery either.

It wasn't Cursed Technique. What he used simply wasn't sorcery at all.

Zenin Ogi reached this conclusion, and so did many of the sharp-eyed spectators at the scene.

Under the scrutiny of the public eye, no one had sensed any Cursed Energy coming from Satoshi. His actions were undeniably different.

Which meant these techniques—like Hainawa and the binding wheel—were not jujutsu. At least not in the conventional sense.

What was more disturbing was that these strange techniques didn't stop at one or two. Everyone still remembered clearly that Satoshi had unleashed two techniques called Hadō in the earlier battle to directly destroy the Finger Cursed Spirit.

Was he about to repeat that performance?

Was this to prove Zenin Ogi wrong?

But what would be the point of that?

...

Satoshi didn't care what the audience thought.

He had his own purpose.

Earlier, when he came into contact with Sukuna's finger, he had sensed the interaction between Reiryoku and Cursed Energy.

The effect was faint, but Reiryoku disrupted the balance of Cursed Energy ever so slightly.

So, the first course in the feast he had prepared for Ryoumen Sukuna's fingers was to bind them using Bakudō, allowing the fingers to soak in spiritual energy and destabilize their internal structure.

There was no denying Sukuna's power in this world.

Just because he had a system didn't mean Satoshi could take Sukuna lightly, or that dealing with him would be as easy as slicing vegetables.

That was impossible.

So, he had meticulously prepared a plan to eliminate Sukuna's fingers in a single move.

Course one—double Bakudō.

Hainawa and Geki had completed their task, binding the six fingers and subtly eroding the structure of their Cursed Energy.

Next came course two in Gojo Satoshi's feast.

The Hadō.

If Bakudō was meant to create internal imbalance, then the Hadō was the strike that would fully unravel the cursed structure of Sukuna's preserved remains.

These fingers were dead tissue. What allowed them to exist so long was the cursed energy structure embedded in them.

Once that structure was fully destabilized by external interference, Sukuna's fingers would lose their resilience.

That outcome would be ideal for Satoshi's plan.

If he could end this with Hadō, there was no need to use his Zanpakutō.

(To be continued.)