(3rd PoV)
Teruhashi grumbled as she sat in the cargo of the Truck.
She was being ignored now that Tachibana-senpai got back his girlfriend.
She wanted to get away from all this, but she wants to survive this death game.
She doesn't just want to survive, but she wants to become stronger.
Even if it means loosing herself.
Even now, she can't actually say that she is Teruhashi anymore.
Is she a primitive single-celled organism? A dinosaur? A monkey? A cat? A slave? A genocider? A simple kid? A father? A mother? An office lady?
All the memories that have become hers have made her very confused about who she actually is.
Only, 'Teruhashi' seemed to be the identity that held an impression on her, which Tachibana-senpai called her.
So, she decided that it will be fine, no matter how many more souls she gets.
She will become stronger, with Tachibana-senpai as her anchor.
But then, when it came to his girlfriend, he is searching for a way so that she will not have to suffer like Teruhashi herself is suffering.
She realised that he doesn't care about her.
At most, he wants to keep her alive so that he doesn't feel bad about not being able to save even one of the people from the group they formed on the first day.
She kept biting her fingernails, going more and more insane as she realised that her anchor doesn't care much about her.
And then, it suddenly hit her.
"I can use Kotoamatsukami..."
Yes! She can get him for herself!
Then she realised the problem.
He is already adapting to manipulate the memories. Since it is Tachibana-senpai, he will most likely break out of it soon, and then hate her for manipulating him.
So, she changed her target.
His girlfriend, Yamakawa Miyako, is inhabiting her original body.
She can just—
"Domain Expansion—"
Just then, the monstrous sound of someone opening its domain rang in everyone's ears.
Yuta, sitting in the front, quickly opened his Domain as well.
"Domain Expansion—"
"—Spiderweb Lair!"
"—Authentic Mutual Love!"
Spider, the Special Grade Cursed Spirit born out of fear of Spiders, was released in the Culling Games as a player by Kenjaku.
Using its ability to hide its Cursed Energy and lower its presence, Kenjaku had been ensuring that he is extra safe from getting caught before he could seal Gojo Satarou.
Spider normally wouldn't have used its domain expansion right off the bat, and instead would have stalked its prey first and prepared traps using its webs to seal their movements in a limited area.
But having noticed three individuals(Yuta, Tachibana Yosuke, Teruhashi) with more Cursed Energy than it, it deemed catching them off-guard and killing them this way the best possible method.
Yuta's Domain opened 0.5 seconds after the opponent's.
So, while the Spider's Domain Expansion shattered in the contest with Yuta's the sure-hit still hit everyone in the truck for 0.5 seconds.
While Teruhashi may have the ability to use Flying Thunder God due to cosplaying as Minato, she doesn't have his reaction timing and instincts. So even she couldn't escape without getting hit for a bit.
In the front, Tachibana, Yuta and Miyako, all three of them were hit by sticky, pointy webs all over their body for 0.5 seconds.
"Urghhh!"
So while they were cut, they weren't cut fully like tofu. Nothing Reverse Cursed Technique can't heal.
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