At that moment, the two of them saw Suzuki glitching from one place to another, giving them a chill of his new technique.
The three had changed their locations and moved into the abandoned department store, where they could give their everything, yet when they saw Suzuki's new technique, they knew it was impossible to defeat him.
King Crimson.
When one heard Suzuki's name, one would surely know it was the Stand of one of the villains in the Jojo franchise, which served as the basis and inspiration for this new technique from his projection sorcery.
It might seem weird how he could think to develop the projection sorcery into the ability to King Crimson, which was practically the ability to erase time, worked by removing the cause of an event, forcing only the consequence to occur.
For those who understood, it was easy; for those who didn't, it was like wanting to walk from point A to point B, but instead of walking, all of a sudden, one would appear at point B without anyone realizing it.
Or rather, it was like how one wanted to go to the toilet, to take a piss, but instead of walking from their room to the toilet, by using the King Crimson, one would appear directly at the toilet.
Wasn't it like teleportation, then?
While the result was the same, Suzuki would have to say otherwise, since the method differed.
Teleportation worked in the domain of space, and it was all about how one could travel from point A to point B instantly.
However, King Crimson worked on the domain of time, and what this ability did was to erase the time that one needed to spend from point A to point B, making it zero or almost instantly.
Yes, what it did was the same, as it was just moving from point A to point B, but the method was different, since the teleportation was within the domain of space manipulation; his technique was a frame deletion.
His technique revolved around manipulating the 24 fps rule, but unlike his father and his older brother, who moved in 24 frames per second, his figure was only seen on the first and last frame during that single second, as he deleted all the frames in the middle, making him suddenly appear on the destination without having to move a complicated movement, like what his father and older brother did.
Suzuki crossed the space between Point A and Point B. However, his Binding Vow deleted the time (Frames 2 through 23) it took for the universe to record that action.
In other words, by mimicking King Crimson, he manipulates Memory and Causality.
So, which was better?
While many might say it was teleportation, since it could move people from point A to point B instantly, he felt his technique was better because, while teleportation appeared, he moved.
If he teleported from Point A to Point B, he would have exactly the same momentum hehad when he left. If he were standing still at Point A, he would arrive standing still at Point B.
This was troublesome, since if he teleported in front of an enemy, especially a strong one, his punch would carry zero velocity.
Energy = 1/2mv2, in other words, since he had zero velocity, he had zero damage.
Projection Sorcery, on the other hand, forced the user to pre-program 24 frames of animation. The technique's primary rule was to rapidly accelerate the user through those frames. By deleting the middle frames, Suzuki maintained the accumulated velocity without accelerating.
The result?
Suzuki didn't just "appear" in front of the enemy. He spawned in front of the enemy with his fist already traveling at Mach 5. He essentially teleported the momentum of a missile strike directly onto the target.
Projection sorcery, while weird, had the best affinity to mimic King Crimson's ability, the time erasure, which erased the time of the user to do an act, erasing the cause (travel) and only forcing the result (the arrival).
His ability, the Projection Sorcery, divided one second into twenty-four frames of animation, using the user's field of view as the projection angle by moving them into 24 frames in a single motion.
While the others only thought to move faster, as he learned physics, he wanted something different, as speed had a limit, especially when his body wasn't that of a monster like the Heavenly Restriction, but as Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer on the planet, could manipulate space, making it impossible for anyone to attack him, Suzuki felt that while he wasn't sure whether he could reach Gojo's level, he at least wanted to try to incorporate the knowledge of classical physics into his ability and he was successful.
This ability of his, which mimics King Crimson's, was the casualty weapon.
It doesn't just move him; it allows him to harvest the physical rewards of an action (speed, momentum, positioning) while completely erasing the risks (travel time, being counter-attacked, air resistance).
He had effectively exploited the universe's physics engine to skip the loading screen and spawn with a fully charged attack.
Others would probably think that he should skip the 24fps and people would try to break away from the 24fps rule by increasing the numbers of frames into 48 fps, 60 fps, or even 120 fps, but frankly, if one did that, it would weaken the projection sorcery ability itself, as it would weaken the technique, forcing the user to define twice as many movements, increasing their mental load and making their path essentially a continuous line—which was easier for high-level sorcerers (like Maki or Gojo) to track.
24fps might be looked down upon, yet despite everyone looking down on it, this was the basis of his ability, and he had never thought of the 24fps rule as a restriction. In the movie, 24fps was perfect for the cinematic principle, as it created the "Soap Opera Effect."
Moreover, by mastering the 24 fps limit would create natural motion blur, allowing the human brain to suspend disbelief.
Blur.
This was the key to using the 24 fps ruler.
If Naoya and his father, Naobito, used the standard projection sorcery, focusing on the position of the 24 frames.
On the other hand, he, Suzuki, would focus on the quality of the frames.
In cinema, a standard "180-degree shutter" means the camera is open for half the frame duration, creating a specific amount of blur that links movement A to movement B.
By studying optics, he learned to manipulate his cursed energy to simulate a "360-degree shutter" (maximum blur) or a "45-degree shutter" (staccato, crisp movement). He maximized motion blur so that in every frame, he appeared as a smear rather than a solid object. The opponent couldn't pinpoint his vital spots because he was effectively "intangible" to the eye between frames.
This was why he was able to match Naoya, despite not having natural talent. Yes, he admitted that, compared to Naoya's, his was just above average, but Naoya was brainless and so overconfident, thinking he was the fastest.
Yet, being the fastest among the sorcerers wasn't enough to make him the strongest.
Suzuki wanted to go beyond, reach the realm of the gods where Gojo and Sukuna resided, and be in a place where he had no need to worry about anything.
His goal was to be a force of nature, a disaster, and by doing that, the trash around him wouldn't bother him, as instead of fighting, reasoning, or trying to do many other things to stop him, they would just adjust and not have to try to do stupid things, as it was impossible to fight an earthquake, tsunami, tornado, and all other disasters, right?
Still, the world of Jujutsu Kaisen was different from the world of Jojo, and because of that, he needed to follow the rules of this world, yet even if the mechanics were different, the result was the same.
However, his King Crimson-like ability was his foundation, and when he wondered how it would be for him to step up even further?
"...are you serious?" Maki asked, looking at Suzuki in a daze.
"Yes." Suzuki nodded. "You two should give your all, since if I lose just by the two of you, I can't lead this clan, so give your all, beat me with all you've got, even with the intent to kill."
Yup, before that, let's train first, as he knew well that the battle that he would face after this would be different from what he had fought, as he knew that with his intent to take over the clan, it wouldn't be weird of them, thinking to kill him, erasing him, and because of that, he needed preparation.
"....." Mai and Maki.
The two met his gaze, and they knew he was serious; yet, because of that, they looked at each other and decided to beat him up, since if he lost, he wouldn't do anything stupid.
Yet, as the three made their secret training, Suzuki from the world of Naruto, also received his exam to become a ninja, and as expected, when he presented his perfect scores on the theory and also three basic jutsus, Transformation Technique, Clone Technique, and Substitution Technique, the result—
"Suzuki Tanaka passed!"