The Fourth Turn: How Mahoraga's Wheel Shattered Gojo's Unbreakable Infinity

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Historical lore established that heads of the Gojo and Zen'in clans once killed each other in a double-suicide duel featuring the Limitless and the Ten Shadows. For centuries, readers assumed Mahoraga was inherently strong enough to defeat a Six Eyes user. The modern fight proved the opposite: untamed, Mahoraga is an unguided missile easily vaporized by high-output moves like Hollow Purple.

Past Zen'in clan heads used Mahoraga purely as a suicide pact via the subjugation ritual, summoning it when already facing defeat. In that un-tamed state, the Shikigami attacks indiscriminately. It lacks strategic guidance, and its adaptation wheel is tied solely to its own physical form. When Sukuna tamed the beast, he fundamentally changed how its passive properties operate:

• Burden Shifting: Sukuna could host the wheel himself or place it upon another soul inside his body, allowing the adaptation counter to tick up while Mahoraga remained completely safe from lethal, one-shot attacks.
• Tactical Shadow Merging: Sukuna repeatedly manifested only the wheel or merged Mahoraga into hybrid chimera forms like Agito, protecting his primary asset until the four required turns concluded.
• Blueprint Extraction: Rather than relying on the shikigami to win the duel, Sukuna treated Mahoraga as an engineering probe, extracting a technique-altering formula he could execute independently.

Gojo recognized this danger, attempting to erase the shikigami with an un-chanted, maximum-output Hollow Purple before the second adaptation could be translated. While the detonation wiped Mahoraga from the battlefield entirely, the destruction arrived seconds too late. The fourth turn had already occurred, the dimensional slash had already been displayed, and the blueprint sat fully formed in Sukuna's mind.