JUJUTSU KAISEN Hidden Inventory/Premature Death
1 Year Later August 2007
Here we go.
Yeah, it's working.
Ugh, what the heck was that?
Automatic selection of targets for your jujutsu technique?
Yup.
Though, to be precise, I'm the target for the technique.
I've automated what I used to do manually.
Now it can discern an object's danger level
based on the strength of its cursed energy, its mass, its velocity, and its shape.
I'd like to get it to discern poisons, too,
but that's still proving difficult.
This will allow me to keep my Limitless technique active
almost perpetually with minimal resources.
Having it perpetually active will fry your brain.
But I can also keep running the reverse cursed technique
with the energy I generate on my own.
So I'm constantly giving it a fresh brain to work with.
I'd already been working on shortening my hand seals. That's nailed now, too.
So I can also activate multiple instances of Blue and Red simultaneously.
The only remaining hurdles are
Domain Expansion and teleportation over long distances.
I should be able to get that down if we set up
some courses without any obstacles in Jujutsu High.
Shoko, could you lend me some lab rats?
Uh...
Satoru had become the "strongest."
Suguru, have you lost weight?
You okay?
He handled all of his missions alone,
and Shoko was never sent out on dangerous missions in the first place,
which naturally meant I was sent on missions alone more often, too.
It's just heat fatigue.
I'll be fine.
Did you eat too much somen?
Things were busy that summer.
Episode 29 Premature Death
Likely spurred by the frequent disasters of the past year,
cursed spirits were springing up like maggots.
Exorcise, absorb.
Over and over.
Exorcise.
Absorb.
No one else understands what cursed spirits taste like.
It's like swallowing a dirty rag that's been used to clean up shit and vomit.
Who am I doing this for?
Exorcise.
Absorb.
Ever since that day, I've been telling myself,
"What I witnessed isn't uncommon."
"I understood the ugliness of the masses,
"and still chose to be a jujutsu sorcerer to save others."
"Don't waver."
"Fulfill your duty as a strong jujutsu sorcerer."
Damn monkeys...
Geto-san!
Haibara...
Good work out there!
Want something to drink?
Huh? No, I'd feel bad!
But I'll take a cola!
I'm going pretty far away for my mission tomorrow.
That so?
Bring back souvenirs.
Of course!
Do you prefer sweet stuff or salty stuff?
Satoru might eat some, too, so... sweet, I guess?
Got it!
Haibara...
Do you think you can keep going as a jujutsu sorcerer? It's not too hard for you?
Well...
I'm not really one to think about things too deeply,
so it feels really good to be able to give my all to something I can actually do.
I see.
Yeah, it does.
Are you Geto-kun?
What kind of woman is your type?
Who are you?
I like girls who eat a lot!
Oh?
Haibara...
It's okay.
She's not a bad person.
I'm a great judge of character!
You say that while sitting next to me?
Yes!
He was being sarcastic, you know.
Excuse me.
Your underclassman?
He's cute. I like how frank he is.
I think he should be more suspicious of people as a sorcerer.
So, are you not going to answer?
Please answer my question first.
Who are you?
Special-grade sorcerer Yuki Tsukumo.
That ring any bells?
You're her ?
Oh, I like the sound of that! What do they say?
That you're a special-grade who never accepts any missions,
and you're a good-for-nothing who's been wandering around abroad.
I hate Jujutsu High.
She's pouting...
She's pouting.
I'm joking.
Though it's true that I don't get along with Jujutsu High's policies.
What they're doing is just treating symptoms,
and I want to do something to treat the cause.
Treat the cause?
Rather than hunt down cursed spirits,
I want to create a world where cursed spirits aren't born.
Care for a little lesson?
What are cursed spirits to begin with?
They're creatures that take shape when cursed energy
leaking from humans builds up like sediment.
Excellent.
Now this means there are two ways to create a world where cursed spirits aren't born.
One: Eliminate cursed energy from mankind.
Two: Make it possible for all of humanity to control their cursed energy.
I thought number one had a pretty good chance of working.
There was a model case for it, too.
A model case?
Someone you know well.
Toji Zen'in.
I've seen plenty of cases where a Heavenly Pact reduced
a person's cursed energy to the level of your average person,
but you could search the whole world only to find
he was the only case in which that cursed energy dropped to zero.
That wasn't the only intriguing thing about him, either.
Even though Zen'in Toji had zero cursed energy,
he was able to perceive cursed spirits with his five senses.
By completely casting aside cursed energy,
his body drew a hard line
and actually gave him great resistance to curses.
He truly was superhuman.
You shouldn't be ashamed of losing to him.
I wanted to try studying him, but he turned me down.
It was a real shame to lose him.
And there aren't many people with Heavenly Pacts,
so I'm currently favoring route number two,
making it possible for all of humanity to control their cursed energy.
Did you know?
Cursed spirits aren't born from sorcerers.
Of course, that excludes cases where the jujutsu sorcerer
turns themselves into a curse after death.
Compared to non-sorcerers, jujutsu sorcerers leak extremely little cursed energy.
There's some variance based on the sorcerer's capacity
and the amount of cursed energy their technique expends,
but the main reason is their flow.
Jujutsu sorcerers circulate cursed energy through their own bodies well.
To put it in rough, general terms,
if all of mankind were jujutsu sorcerers,
curses wouldn't be born.
Then you could solve it simply by killing all non-sorcerers.
Geto-kun.
That's possible.
Huh? But...
I mean, that's probably the easiest way to achieve it.
Just keep culling non-sorcerers and
force them to adapt into sorcerers as a survival strategy.
You would be forcing them to evolve using fear and danger,
the same way birds gained wings.
But unfortunately, I'm not crazy enough to do that.
Do you hate non-sorcerers, Geto-kun?
I don't know.
I always thought jujutsu sorcery existed to protect non-sorcerers.
But lately, the value of non-sorcerers
has been wavering in my mind.
The admirability of the weak...
The ugliness of the weak...
I find myself struggling to discern the difference and accept those things.
There's a part of me that despises non-sorcerers,
and a part of me that wants to reject that part.
My vision for what lies at the end of the marathon game
of being a jujutsu sorcerer is so vague now
that I can't tell which represents how I truly feel.
Neither one is how you truly feel.
You're not at that stage yet.
This part of you despising non-sorcerers,
and this part of you rejecting that,
are both just possibilities that you're considering.
It's up to you to choose which part
becomes your true feelings from here on out.
See you later.
It's a shame I didn't get to talk to Gojo-kun, too,
but it looks like I missed him today.
I hope the three of us can all get along as fellow special-grades.
I'll pass that along to Satoru.
Oh, right, one last thing.
You don't need to worry about the Star Plasma Vessel.
Either there was already another Star Plasma Vessel at the time,
or a new Star Plasma Vessel has already been born.
Either way, Tengen is stable.
I'm sure.
Oh...
Oh, I didn't get his type.
I didn't get his type.
It was supposed to be an easy mission to exterminate a second-grade cursed spirit!
Damn it!
Their faith in Ubusunagami...
That was a local deity.
That was a first-grade case!
You need to rest for now, Nanami.
Satoru has taken up your mission.
Can't we just leave everything up to him alone at this point?
This marathon game of being a jujutsu sorcerer...
If the only thing waiting at the end
is a mountain of our comrades' corpses, then...
What is this?
What, you ask?
These two are responsible for the latest incidents, right?
No, they're not.
These two are crazy!
They used their mysterious powers to attack the villagers!
I've already exterminated the cause of those incidents.
My granddaughter was nearly killed by these two, too!
That's because she—
Shut up, you monsters!
Your parents were just as bad!
It... It's okay.
I knew we should have killed you two when you were babies!
This part of you despising non-sorcerers,
and this part of you rejecting that..
It's up to you to choose which part...
Everyone, shall we step outside for a moment?
...becomes your true feelings from here on out.
What?!
Why?!
No!
...112 residents of the village were killed, after which a fire... (By the time Jujutsu High investigated on September 23rd... Investigations confirmed that all 112 were... ...residuals revealed to be the work of Suguru Geto's curse manipulation.
Investigations confirmed that all 112 were killed by a cursed spirit, which the residuals revealed to be the work of Suguru Geto's curse manipulation.
...sentenced to death.
Huh?
Don't make me repeat myself.
Suguru killed everyone in the village and—
I heard you the first time.
That's why I said, "Huh?"
Suguru's old home was already an empty husk, as well.
Though, from the bloodstains and residuals, he most likely killed his parents, too—
Like hell he did!
Satoru.
I don't understand what's going on, either.
Huh? A high schooler?
Need a light?
Hey.
It's the criminal.
Need something?
Just testing my luck, I guess.
I'll go ahead and ask...
Any chance the charges are false?
Nope. Unfortunately not.
I'll ask further, then. Why?
I'm going to create a world of only jujutsu sorcerers.
I don't get it.
I'm not a child.
I'm not holding out hope that everyone will understand.
Sulking over the idea that no one will understand you
sounds pretty childish to me, though.
Hey, Gojo?
I found Geto.
Yeah, Shinjuku.
No way. I don't want to get killed.
Explain yourself, Suguru.
You already heard from Shoko, right?
That's all there is to it.
So you're just going to kill everyone who's not a sorcerer?
Even your parents?!
I can't allow my parents to be a special exception.
Besides, those people aren't my family anymore.
That's not what I was asking!
I thought we weren't allowed to kill when there's no point to it!
There is a point to it. Significance, too.
Even a great cause.
There's not!
You're going to kill all non-sorcerers and create a world of only jujutsu sorcerers?!
You know that's impossible!
There's no point in chipping away bit by bit
at something you can't possibly do!
How arrogant.
Huh?
You could do it, couldn't you, Satoru?
Yet you would try to convince someone else
that it's impossible to do something that's possible for you?
Are you the strongest because you're Satoru Gojo?
Or does being the strongest make you Satoru Gojo?
What are you trying to say?
If I were able to become you,
this foolish ideal would become a lot more grounded and real, don't you think?
I've decided how I'll live my life.
Now it's just a matter of doing the best I can to achieve that.
If you want to kill me, then kill me.
There would be a point to that.
Why didn't you pursue him?
You're actually asking me that?
Nah, it's fine.
My bad.
Sensei, I'm strong, right?
Yeah, brazenly so.
But apparently, it's not good enough for just me to be strong.
The only ones I can save
are those who are already ready to be saved by another.
I thought the Star Religious Group was already dissolved.
It's a different group, but their roots are the same.
They're claiming they just bought the existing space as-is.
Don't like it?
No, it doesn't matter, as long as I can gather curses and money.
Are you really going out dressed like that?
Why not? A little showmanship is important.
Geto-sama...
Watch closely.
They're all there, right?
All the branch directors, all the representatives, and the president.
All the big donors, as well.
Test, test. Sorry for the wait, everyone.
Now, I'll keep this brief.
From this moment onward, this organization belongs to me.
I'll be changing the name, too,
so everyone, please be sure to follow me.
Many Objected
Now, that's not good.
I know!
Sonoda-san, if you wouldn't mind, please come to the stage.
Yes! You there!
Now, once again.
I hate monkeys.
You obey me now...
That's the true feeling I chose.
...monkeys.
You're Megumi Fushiguro-kun, right?
Who are you?
And what's with that weird face?
You look just like him, is all.
My own issue.
So listen. About your dad...
He's from this big shot jujutsu sorcerer family called the Zen'in,
but they're such scumbags they make even me sick,
and that's why your dad left the family and had you.
Now, you're one of the ones who can see things,
so you're privileged there, right?
You've noticed the power within yourself, too, yeah?
The Zen'in clan just loves strong powers.
Most become aware of their cursed techniques around 4-6 years old.
So it's the perfect timing to sell a kid off.
So, Megumi-kun,
you were the ultimate card that your dad kept on hand against the Zen'in clan.
Pisses you off, doesn't it?
So, about that dad of yours. I ki—
I don't care.
I have no interest in where he is or what he's doing.
I haven't even seen him in years, so I don't remember what he looks like.
Though I get the general idea from what you just said.
Tsumiki's mother hasn't come home for a while now, either.
Ah, Megumi's home!
That means they're finished with us,
and they're off enjoying themselves elsewhere, right?
Are you really a first grader?
Well, whatever.
If you ever want to know about your father, you can ask me.
Hup.
I think it'll be pretty interesting to hear.
Now, on to the main point.
What do you want to do?
Do you want to go to the Zen'in clan?
What will happen to Tsumiki?
If I go there, will Tsumiki be able to find happiness? It all depends on that.
No. A hundred percent no.
I can say that with certainty.
Okay!
Leave the rest to me, then.
I might need you to push yourself a bit, though.
So do your best.
Get stronger.
Strong enough to keep up with me.
October 19, 2018
Gojo-sensei.
So even Sensei sleeps, huh?
Of course he does. What kind of nonsense is that?
Gojo-sensei!
Oh, he's awake.
Hey, that's one of those expensive chairs, isn't it?
Please don't fall asleep after summoning all of us here.
Hey, no fair! I get it next, got it?!
Hey! Hurry up!
What are you smiling about?
Don't be mean! Move it!
Nothing.
How do you write "motto" in kanji?
Wait, you use katakana? It's a foreign word?
Next time, "It's Like That."
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