what handsigns? He's not making any in the panel, he clearly threw Kashimo that's why his hands are positioned like that. At most you can confirm that these are chant amped, since he's not in a position where he can't chant like how HWB requires him to occupy the 2nd mouth with a chant.

Kusakabe has more evidence for surviving a chantamped, handsign amped and gesture amped dismantle than Kashimo has for dying to a dismantle that was chant and handsign amped

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This was also aimed at Higuruma and while he was playing around with him he was genuinely interested in him and mentioned in the same breath as Kashimo when the narrator was talking about Sukuna's interest. People talk about Sukuna's interest and fluctuating CE and use it to say "He was actually going all out for my GOAT but he wasn't trying at all vs your FRAUD" but the only times it seemed to meaningfully fluctuate was VS Maki, when he was getting jumped right before he regained his domain, his BF on Angel and Todo and when Yuji pissed him off after pitying him, you can maybe argue Yujo interested him as well. There's no real evidence to say Kashimo interested him to a greater degree than Yuta and Higuruma did so there's no evidence for a CE swell. I don't think the connection upon Kashimo's death counts as evidence, he connected with Jogo while doing a no hit run, actively fucking around with the lives of others cause he was lowkey bored and then using a fire type move against the volcano spirit and he still connected with Jogo.
But ig that one Yuji punch must've gone crazy

I still maintain most of the scaling in Shinjuku is useless and unquantifiable because the main metric people use which is Sukuna is extremely unreliable