Chapter 207

Choso rejoins Yuki Tsukumo's increasingly desperate struggle against Kenjaku. Working in tandem, they try to corner him during the window before his techniques replenish. Kenjaku, however, will not be put down easily, and the chapter ends with a devastating reversal.

A flashback shows Choso telling Yuki he would accept death so long as Kenjaku died too, for the sake of his family and Yuji. He insisted on attacking first, reasoning that Kenjaku would not open his domain if he knew a second fighter waited in reserve, and that being defeated once would make Kenjaku treat the bout as one-on-one. The ambush lands as planned: Garuda clamps around Kenjaku's waist and weighs him down while Choso aims compressed blood point-blank at his forehead and fires Piercing Blood. Kenjaku survives by letting the beam strike the upper, switched-on portion of his head, which spins like a boxer slipping a punch. Wounded but unbothered, he reattaches his head.

Yuki kicks him hard and reflects that a healthy Star Rage would have given Garuda enough weight for Choso to end it. The two press their assault together, overwhelming Kenjaku without landing a decisive blow. Choso holds him off so Yuki can heal with reverse cursed technique, but the healing weakens Star Rage's grip through Garuda, letting Kenjaku slip free. Yuki seizes Garuda by the bill and swings it like a whip. She deliberately has Garuda test his gravity power and works out that he can only warp gravity within a few meters of himself for roughly six seconds. She times her strikes to that interval, crushing the cursed spirits he summons. Then Kenjaku reveals the spirits were never stalling for gravity but building a miniature Maximum: Uzumaki, which he fires through her upper body and follows with a second blast through her lower torso, having deduced her durability does not scale with her technique. The wound is fatal, and Choso screams for her.

Set within the Culling Game arc and collected in Volume 23, the chapter showcases Yuki's analytical read of Kenjaku's gravity limits alongside the tag-team coordination with Choso. The fight remains in the Tombs of the Star, and the mini-Uzumaki ambush escalates the duel toward its conclusion.