Location: Forest, now warped by Hanami's Domain Expansion
The forest was no longer green.
The moment Hanami screamed in rage and raised both arms, the sky above cracked. Trees twisted unnaturally, bark turning black, leaves bleeding red sap. Vines surged from the ground like tendrils of a god screaming in pain. Flowers bloomed with eyes. The ground became uneven, soft, like flesh.
A cursed Domain Expansion had begun.
Hanami's voice echoed across the grotesque jungle:
"You will be buried in the garden of extinction. You will return to earth as fertilizer!"
A black, circular curtain slammed into place — the Domain sealed.
Everything inside was Hanami's world now.
Everything—except for Agent 47.
[SYSTEM MESSAGE – LEGENDARY PERK TRIGGERED]
Thronebreaker – (Passive) ACTIVATED"Target identified as Domain Owner."
Eroding Domain Influence... 3%... 7%... 14%...
Mental pressure nullified. User immune to domain effects.User's presence is destabilizing the throne-holder.
[Mental Fortress – (Passive) ACTIVATED]"All mental and spiritual manipulation attempts: Nullified."
Psychic flora failed to root.Emotional hallucinogens neutralized.Control feedback to throne: Cracking.
Hanami stumbled.
The Domain began to flicker at the edges — vines wilting, screams of the cursed fauna distorting into static. The spirit held its head, confused.
"Wh—Why isn't it working on you…? This is MY DOMAIN!"
47 walked calmly through the cursed garden. His footsteps made no sound, but the ground beneath him rotted into ash.
"Then defend it."
And like that — the storm resumed.
Inside the Dying Domain
Hanami lunged — a dozen vine-limbs lashing at once. 47 ducked under the first, summoned a spiked chain, and snapped it upward into the mass. Thorns sliced across his coat — but 47 twisted mid-air, planted one foot on a vine, used it as a springboard, and landed a pistol whip to Hanami's temple.
Then — another weapon, different again.A black blade, thin and curved like a surgeon's scalpel, embedded into Hanami's throat.
Hanami stumbled back, bleeding black sap. It tried to heal, but its Domain was destabilizing — regeneration lagged.
47 gave no time.
He summoned a massive two-handed axe, something almost medieval, and brought it down with such force that Hanami's shoulder was cleaved in half, bark and muscle spraying outward.
Hanami shrieked in pain.The Domain walls cracked — pieces falling like glass shards.
Hanami (snarling):"You have no cursed energy! You're just a man!"
47:"Correct. And yet, here you are."
Back on the rooftop outside the domain...
Gojo's eyes narrowed as he watched the shimmering cursed sphere tremble unnaturally.
Gojo:"No. That domain's collapsing from the inside. He's not just resisting it—he's breaking it."
Megumi:"That's not possible. A sorcerer can't destabilize a domain unless they're inside and stronger—"
Nobara (softly):"Then… what is he?"
Hanami, now half-dismantled, released a final cursed wave — a massive spike of earth and thorn surged from the ground to impale 47.
But the assassin didn't move. Instead, he summoned a tower shield mid-air, made of obsidian and etched with molten red — something straight out of a nightmare.
BOOM. The impact was deafening. Dust flew. Bark shredded.
And then — silence.
From within the smoke — a blur.
47 emerged with a double-bladed scythe, and in one fluid spin, sliced through Hanami's midsection — twice.
Once across the gut.Once across the neck.
Black sap and cursed energy burst outward like a dying star.
Hanami collapsed forward — its domain shattered completely, the world returning to a quiet forest. Only moonlight remained.
47 stood still, blood dripping from the curved scythe, now slowly dissolving into thin air. His collar fluttered again. His eyes never blinked. Not once.
[SYSTEM UPDATE – TARGET ELIMINATED]"One remaining: Kenjaku."
Gojo's group approached the ruins.They didn't speak at first.
Then:
Itadori (in disbelief):"I thought... that guy was human."
Nobara:"He is. That's what makes it terrifying."
Megumi:"He fought a Domain user... alone... and broke the Domain."
Gojo (finally speaking, flatly):"No cursed energy. No domain. No technique.Just pure skill... and whatever monster is inside him."
47 walked past them without a word.