Malevolent Shrine

Malevolent Shrine is Sukuna's domain expansion.

Description
Befitting its name, Malevolent Shrine constructs an environment centered around a small, disfeatured Buddhist shrine (vaguely resembling a chinjudō) that has been distorted to instead enshrine demons. It is surrounded by dark-colored water and horned, bull-like skulls on the ground. The roof also has horns coming out of it, along with human skulls that hang down from it. The four entrances to the shrine are formed by large, grotesque mouths, complete with humanlike teeth and tongues.

Malevolent Shrine's guaranteed-hit ability can be made to relentlessly slash apart anything until nothing but dust remains of what has caught in the effective range, via Sukuna's two types of slashing attacks: Cleave and Dismantle, which only cease when the domain is disengaged or Sukuna is so badly injured he can not sustain the domain anymore. Sukuna can set which of the two attacks to use against specific types of targets, such as using Dismantle for inanimate objects and Cleave for subjects with cursed energy.

Usage
Sukuna is a master of domain expansion and his Malevolent Shrine is equally refined as Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void, capable of overpowering the vast majority of domains. With the power of only three fingers, Sukuna effortlessly cut a Finger Bearer, a special grade cursed spirit, to pieces immediately after opening Malevolent Shrine. Sukuna only expanded his domain against the Finger Bearer to display "true jujutsu".

Sukuna unleashed Malevolent Shrine and decimated Shibuya during his battle with Mahoraga. In order to overwhelm Mahoraga's adaptation ability, Sukuna used his domain to unleash a torrent of slashing attacks over a one-hundred-and-forty-meter radius. He set Malevolent Shrine to target anything within range with cursed energy using Cleave and used Dismantle for inanimate objects. This not only injured Mahoraga but massacred numerous civilians and cut off Toge Inumaki's arm as a result.

Sukuna has the divine ability to expand his domain without closing the barrier. This creates a binding vow due to allowing an escape route from the domain that enables him to expand the effective range of the guaranteed hit up to a maximum radius of nearly 200 meters. In Shibuya, Sukuna narrowed his domain's range down to a radius of 140 meters in order to avoid hitting Megumi Fushiguro. Furthermore, unlike other domains which operate with an outer shell like Unlimited Void and can be cancelled if the shell is destroyed, Malevolent Shrine cannot be destroy by any normal means because of the lack of an enclosed barrier. The only way to effectively destroy Malevolent Shrine is to injure Sukuna to the point where he can no longer maintain the domain.

As previously mentioned, Malevolent Shrine can equal Unlimited Void in a domain clash, but that is only the case inside a barrier. Malevolent Shrine's range reached beyond Unlimited Void's barrier during Sukuna's battle with Satoru Gojo. With a domain's barrier being weak to attacks on its outer shell, Satoru Gojo's domain was crushed by Malevolent Shrine's slashing attacks and he was immediately struck by its can't-miss attack. Later in the fight, Sukuna revealed that he can change the conditions of his domain with a binding vow, such as removing Malevolent Shrine's guaranteed-hit effect within Unlimited Void's effective area or narrowing down its effective range similar to when it was used in Shibuya in exchange for increased power to counter Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void's reinforced outer shell. In the end, due to the latter also changing his domain's condition in response, both domains collapsed simultaneously after three minutes due to Malevolent Shrine destroying Unlimited Void's barrier from the outside, but Satoru managing to damage Sukuna enough to the point where he can't maintain his domain.

After a brief physical exchange, the two sorcerers expand their domains at the same time once again. However, the outcome remains the same, and both domains collapse simultaneously. As Satoru punches Sukuna into a pillar, both fighters activate their Domain Expansions once more. However, Sukuna activated his less than one-hundredth of a second later due to having to heal his physical body, thus delaying him from restoring his cursed technique. As a result, Unlimited Void is able to briefly immobilize him, allowing Satoru to severely wound him. The injury renders Sukuna unable to maintain Malevolent Shrine after two minutes and forty seconds, causing it to collapse within Satoru's domain. Without his domain's guaranteed-hit effect negating Satoru's, Sukuna's mind is flooded with infinite yet incomplete information, immobilizing him and forcing him to summon Mahoraga to destroy the domain.

Afterwards, when Satoru attempts to expand his domain a sixth time but fails, Sukuna plans to finish their fight by expanding his own domain and enclosing it with a barrier to prevent Satoru from escaping. However, upon expanding his domain, it immediately collapses as a result of the damage done to Sukuna's brain by Unlimited Void, which he was subjected to for less than ten seconds total. This prevented the King of Curses from using Domain Expansion for the remainder of his fight with the strongest sorcerer of modern times.

Trivia

 * Regarding the name of this Domain Expansion:
 * The first part, fukuma (伏魔), comes from fukumaden (伏魔殿), referring to an abode of demons/a palace where demons lurk, and is also translatable as pandemonium.
 * The second part, mizushi (御厨子), could have several meanings:
 * Disregarding the honorific prefix mi- (御), a zushi (厨子) is a miniature, double-doored Buddhist shrine, similar to a feretory, that is used to store important items like statues, śarīra, sutras, mortuary tablets, and so on.
 * The mizushi-dokoro (御厨子所) is an archaic word referring to a section of the Emperor's residential compound in the Imperial Palace, where food from the kitchen compound, meant for the Emperor's meals, would be brought for more advanced stages of preparation.
 * The second character zu/kuriya (厨) means "kitchen".

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