Went to sleep
Megumi was already fighting back against him before, Sukuna's additional statement talks about it being particularly strong when he's Attacking Allies.
No he wasn’t. The first time Sukuna mentions Megumi fighting back was when he used his CT on Yuji. You’d need to prove Megumi was affecting Sukuna before then.
It fluctuates even while he doesn't perform any actions. He speaks about this in present tense after getting punched and observing himself.
No it doesn’t. Sukuna even says “this body strongly resists me and drops cursed energy output
when I’m hurting his allies.”
He speaks of only when he starts attacking Megumi’s friends does his cursed energy output drop. His output isn’t fluctuating otherwise.
Already stating CE OUTPUT covers these things.
The clarification was the strong rejection that comes with attacking Yuji and Maki
CE output for his technique. Sukuna makes no mention of his CE output dropping for his physical reinforcements. The clarification was that this only happens when he attacks Yuji and Maki.
You're using more images of said dot particles to justify calling it blood, that doesn't work.
Gege has a distinct way of drawing blood and it's not just mere dots, solid black streaks
Blood isn’t always big and solid, especially for smaller blows. I’m calling it blood because we can literally see it being blood and the mark it left behind, like in the case with Yuji’s punch for example.
We can see a clear mark on Sukuna’s face and a small amount of blood on the side of his lip. The same mark and blood shown when Yuji punches Sukuna earlier.
That’s blood. The particle effects were used for blood, we see the mark left behind by Yuji.
Like I said, they typically denote impact if a hit to the face actually drew blood you'd see it spill from their mouths or spit it out like Maki did when Sukuna punched her
I don't think my images are working, I highlighted multiple instances of these impact particles you're using as justification for drawing blood
The image isn’t working but again, just because these affects can be used for impacts, doesn’t mean they’re not also used for blood in the same impact. The literal example you cited was Gojo being pierced, those particles are blood. That’s blood spewing from Gojo’s arm.
Blood isn’t always big and solid, sometimes only small amounts of blood are drawn from wounds. Which we can see being done in cases like Yuji punching Sukuna.
He clearly didn't even notice immediately even when continuously attacking and it took him a while enough for Yuji to walk up to him and punch him, the drop is something he had to pay attention to to fully notice.
“A while?” What are you talking about? He literally noticed right as he was cutting up Yuji. The minute he really used his attack, noticed something was off, and he started questioning what was going on. None of that was shown when he was attacking Yuji earlier.
In simple terms the only instance Sukuna notices his output is on the decline is when he uses his CT. The burden of proof is thereby onto you to prove Sukuna’s output was on the decline before he first used his CT. Which he makes no mention of.
He didn't go straight up "My output is declining", he started by Questioning why Yuji was so strong, then realized that no that's not the case but he was the one becoming weak.
Yeah…
immediately in the same instance. He realized his output was dropping in the very same instance. He went “how is he so durable…no that’s not it, my output is declining.”
That’s all the same instance. What you just showed is Sukuna noticing his output declining after a quick thought, but your claim is that Sukuna had a whole
extended interaction with Yuji without so much as a thought that his output was on the decline. So what you’re saying isn’t supported by the series given by how quickly Sukuna noticed his output was on the decline.
It was to only note the CT Output was dropping, he says him attacking causes a strong rejection for CT Output that is in addition to the earlier statement of CE Output passively Fluctuating
If you’re using these statements in addition to one another then Sukuna’s
only referring to his CT output being dropped in those two statements. The first one is when he’s using his CT on Yuji does he say his output is fluctuating, and the next time he specifically clarified that his cursed technique’s output is dropping. These two statements in addition to one another clearly point to him saying his cursed technique’s output was the one that was dropping, not his Physcial stats.
You’re trying to extend this to his Physcial reinforcement without proof.
There was no reason to, Yuji's Speed was not significant enough for it to be an issue
Yuji was literally keeping up with Maki and even surprised Sukuna with his own speed. Sukuna makes no mention that he was slower ever in the course of the fight.
Because he never got hit prior to notice his Cursed Energy Decline
What about him hitting Yuji? He’s punching and kicking him isn’t he? He can feel his strikes, and he doesn’t notice himself being weaker or his output declining.
Oh and Sukuna was hit multiple times in the fight but makes no mention ever that his durability was weaker than normal.
Cursed Energy usage alone covers the all the affected areas, there's no need to note them all individual for that reason.
So if it’s covering all the afflicted areas at once, then Sukuna should surely feel his output dropping very quickly like he very quickly noticed it was when he used his CT on Yuji. It didn’t take him an extended interaction there to notice his output was on the decline.
Or is only ever a coincidence that Sukuna mentions his output on the decline only when he’s used his CT but all other times he’s landed strikes on his opponents he just doesn’t notice.
That's completely false it's not just for his Cursed Technique.
He straight up says that it's fluctuating while he's doing nothing and checking on himself.
When he was attacking and got hit he first in the previous chapter henoted it was falling then in the scene after that
He's looking at himself, he says it's fluctuating and can't access 10% of his CE at worst.
By extension Megumi limiting CE Output limits CT Output because that's what makes them work and it's not strictly towards just his CT because it's simply the flow of Cursed Energy, they are not Mutually exclusive.
You’re completely ignoring what transpired in the scene in question. That was right after he used his CT on Yuji. So he’s referring to his CT cursed energy output fluctuating (and he even specifically clarified this only happens when he attacks his friends), but physical movement is fine since that’s not being affected by the output droppage. Hence why he literally clarified his CT’s cursed energy output was dropping in his later statement. He has no need to clarify it was his CT’s output if it was just his overall CE fluctuating. Sukuna is exclusively referring to his CT in that instance.
Moreover, if we go by what you say, then this whole interaction with Sukuna makes no sense whatsoever:
So Sukuna’s entire cursed energy output (not just his CT) is dropping, but for some reason he decides to attack
the ground with his CT, but
punch Maki in the face. Why? This makes no sense going by what you’re claiming. If Sukuna is becoming physically weaker regardless of if he’s using his CT or not, then why is he using his CT on the ground just so he could land a punch on Maki. It makes no sense.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to, you know,
use his CT on his opponent?? The only reason he would actively choose to throw hands instead of using his cursed technique, were if his cursed technique was the one that had his output being dropped and not his reinforcement with cursed energy. Like he says.
This makes even less sense too when you take in the fact that Sukuna is literally
complimenting Maki as well. So Sukuna’s complimenting Maki, but she’s apparently taking fodder level punches? This is his second compliment towards her by the way, he already admitted she wasn’t someone that was easy to take down so the fact that Sukuna is praising her for how well she took his punch shows his Physcial CE output isn’t being dropped like it is for his CT.
Otherwise he wouldn’t be praising Maki for tanking what should be considered “weak punches” to Sukuna.
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