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"shit! this one's fucking strong", mai cussed, using the inverted spear of heaven that kiyo had given her as she worked together with her twin, her schoolmates, and her father's clan.

it was truly an odd combination.

dagon — another one of the nine death paintings — was a full-fledged demon with a red octopus-like head along with the tips of the tentacles being black.

not only did it have a muscular build, he also had a pair of red and black wings attached to its lower back.

"MAI! GET OUT OF THE WAY!", maki shouted as she pushed her sister to the side, taking the hit for her as she spat out a copious amount of blood.

"MAKI!!"

a scoff was heard as the heir of the zenin clan had appeared, standing calmly beside dagon.

"naoya, what are you—"

"father, I see that you might be a little sick to the head. you're allowing these two to fight alongside you when they don't even have the capabilities to protect themselves? you should know that women are weak".

maki furrowed her brows meanwhile mai had gritted her teeth.

"naoya, this isn't the way to prove a point. I'm so disappointed in you!", naobito declared, to which naoya had a face of pure confusion.

"are you serious right now, father? I DO ALL THIS AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THE BENEFITS?!"

"YOU'RE SIDING WITH THE DEMONS THAT ARE ATTACKING THE SHOGUN. NOTHING IS BENEFICIAL ABOUT THIS!", naobito shouted back.

"SO THAT BITCH CAN MARRY ONE BUT I CAN'T WORK WITH ONE?! DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF, OLD MAN?!"

naobito's eyes widened as he couldn't believe that this was the son that he had raised.

"naoya, stop this immediately".

the green-haired boy scoffed.

"I didn't come this far for you to tell me to give up", the boy replied.

naobito then prepared to fight, meanwhile maki and mai stood up too, holding the weapons given by kiyo.

"I'll prove that women are below men, starting from now".

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"you don't seem like you're giving up", choso panted, quite worn out as kiyo was beyond spectacular in keeping up with his speed and strength.

she was a gojō after all.

kiyo slightly smiled.

"the same could be said about you", the priestess replied, as the majority of the demons around them had fallen.

however, without warning, a man had appeared, wearing a gold-colored rakusu garment over black yukata robes.

nanako and mimiko froze, meanwhile uraume had squinted their eyes, doubting the man's true identity even though he looked very human like.

choso turned around and felt a pang in his entire body.

the man smirked, witnessing kiyo standing there, in utter disbelief.

"miss me, my dear fiancé?"

kiyo felt the entire world stop, as the man before her looked exactly the same, possessed the same voice, and held the same smile that she had fell in love with so many years ago.

"who are you?", the miko managed to breathe out, as she felt her muscles tense and her lungs constrict the air that was going in and out.

"ouch!", the man teasingly chuckled. "I'm your dear fiancé, but it seems that you've forgotten about me after you had met sukuna, huh?"

kiyo's lips dried, as she slowly shook her head.

"you're...not him. you're...not my suguru. who are you?"

"kamo...noritoshi...", choso quietly answered, to which everyone had snapped their heads over to the demon, watching as his face slowly contorted from bewilderment to rage.

"what do you mean?"

"THE EVILEST SORCERER OF ALL TIMES: KAMO NORITOSHI! he's residing inside your fiancé's body!", choso clarified.

the man laughed.

"smart, but that's to be expected from my son, huh?", the man grinned as he undid the stitching across getō's forehead, revealing a disgustingly purple brain with a cocky mouth plastered on it.

everyone's eyes widened in shock as kiyo suddenly knew that this must've been how satoru got sealed.

"YOU BASTARD! DON'T CALL ME THAT, ESPECIALLY AFTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO OUR MOTHER AND US!", choso shouted, clenching his fists as his focus was now on kamo the first.

"now now, that's not the proper attitude you should have towards the father that had improved you and given you the blood manipulation technique", kamo the first scoffed, quickly sewing the top of getō's head back together as nanako and mimiko hurried over to the priestess.

"lady kiyo, here are the two beads. we'll—"

without another second, the two girls fell onto the ground, their bodies bleeding endlessly as nozomi and hakaku watched in horror, covering their eyes as they hid beside the shogunate.

"you—"

"lady kiyo, I've heard great things about you from mahito. honestly, it's such a pity that things had to turn out this way between you and the original owner of this body", kamo the first snorted, clearly not apologetic at all.

"if I recall correctly, it was the twenty-fourth of december that he said that he'd release all 2,000 of his demons correct?", kamo the first hummed, to which kiyo had immediately knew what the man was talking about.

getō had wanted to create a world where humans could live to evolve and protect themselves. however, satoru killed him before he could release all 2,000 demons that he manipulated, as his technique was cursed demon manipulation — categorized as one of the four most dangerous sorcerer techniques at the time.

"well, today is the twenty-fourth of december...I'm sure your fiancé would love to see his dream come true!", kamo the first laughed as immediately, two thousand demons had covered the sky, casting a dark shadow over the palace as not one single person could not notice such a drastic change in numbers.

"what is your goal? why're you doing this?!"

"unlike your implausible fiancé here, my plan actually involves optimizing demons to the best of their abilities. I mean, did you truly think that demons would perish once humans evolve? quite a joke I'd say".

kiyo clenched tightly onto her bow as she then immediately dropped it, making hakaku and nozomi flinch as they wondered why their mother would condemn such an action.

"oh? giving up already?", kamo the first snorted, to which kiyo had immediately crossed her pointer and middle finger.

"domain expansion: benevolent shrine".

the entire palace was now in the 200 meter radius of kiyo's domain expansion, to which everyone had momentarily stopped fighting as many low level demons had perished.

only those that were special grade had remained, and that included sukuna of course.

"damn, she's getting serious", sukuna snorted.

the entire front of his body was covered in blood, as the top of his body was bare since he broke out of his sokutai and gained back his original appearance.

mahito was on the verge of death as kiyo's activation of her domain had sent the male straight to hell, where he belonged for eternity.

sukuna watched as itadori, kugisaki, and fushiguro were badly injured, to which the male had scoffed.

"can you three get any more pathetic? I mean, at least you put up a pretty good fight", sukuna said to fushiguro.

"but you're the weakest out of the bunch", sukuna stated, staring straight at itadori, who was pissed, but with no one to be mad at but himself.

"you've got the motivation, but you just lack the experience", sukuna hummed, standing back up as he started walking away, leaving the three on the ground.

"HEY! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!"

"I'm going to find my miko of course. you think I give a shit about the rest of you lot?", sukuna snarled, to which kugisaki and fushiguro had held their wounds, pressing against it so that it could momentarily stop the bleeding.

"she'll be upset if you left us like this. at least take us to her so that we can help her", itadori stated.

"you think you three are in the condition to help her? hilarious. however, I suppose that I'll take you along since you mean quite a bit to her", sukuna sneered, mostly referring to fushiguro.

as the demon king carried the three teens with ease, kiyo's domain suddenly deactivated, causing sukuna to wonder whether it was because she had finished exorcising the demons or whether she was in danger.

nevertheless, he had never been more desperate to see her now.

"fucking hell. I'll kill anyone and everyone if something happens to her", sukuna darkly muttered.

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a/n: y'all, I would've totally LOVED to write a fight scene between naoya and the zenin twins, but the manga has yet to show me wtf naoya's ability is.

hence, I will just leave that up to your imagination.

also, sukuna's powers are REALLY op, to the point that only a SMALL PORTION of his powers have been revealed, so I probably won't go full detail with him either.

however, what I can go into full detail is that I love you all so so much!! thank you for the comments + votes!!

I hope you all enjoy!! <33