Chapter 134

With Mahito sealed inside a black sphere in his hand, Pseudo-Geto walks Yuji through the idea of Maximum Techniques, an innate ability's strongest form aside from a domain. He breaks down Cursed Spirit Manipulation: Maximum Uzumaki, which fuses the curses he carries into one super-condensed discharge of energy. Mid-lecture he catches himself laughing like Suguru, then concedes he was wrong to assume Uzumaki wasted his roster, since drawing in spirits of semi-grade 1 and above lets him peel off and keep their techniques.

He gulps down the orb to make Mahito part of the collection, noting that he already sensed the trap overhead. Momo signals with a lantern, and the Kyoto students attack from afar. Cursed-energy arrows fly from Noritoshi Kamo, Mai's sniper rifle wins Geto's nod for choosing ordinary weapons against human sorcerers, and Kasumi Miwa, her family hardships flashing past, rushes in with Batto Sword Drawing before Geto snaps the blade barehanded.

Maximum Uzumaki is Geto's reply, gouging a fissure through the ground, yet New Shadow Style lets Kusakabe blunt part of the blast and shield Miwa, with Momo and Utahime beside him. Panda shows up glad to see Yuji ruling his own body again, and when Noritoshi demands a name, Panda can only describe an unknown figure piloting Suguru Geto. Choso's entrance turns the tide: he names the man as one of the three who made him, the sorcerer who tortured his mother into producing the Death Painting Wombs, history's most repulsive sorcerer, Noritoshi Kamo. What sets Choso off here is the realization that this thing steered his own fists toward Yuji, the younger brother he never knew he had. He charges, but Uraume slides in front of Geto and snaps at the bottom-feeder to move.

Belonging to the Shibuya Incident Arc, the installment landed in Volume 16, ran in 2021, and reached screens through Episode 46. Eso, Kechizu, and Jogo show up purely in flashback, while the ancestor Noritoshi Kamo appears in a picture. The clash with Pseudo-Geto and Uraume keeps going. Akutami's side note singles out a favored Arlong design from a fighting game.