"You know I can't afford to be seen by anyone from that school, so I'll be going now," Kenjaku said, standing up and dusting himself off.
"If you want to help him, help him. I don't know if you cursed spirits feel affection for each other, though."
Hanami began moving towards the cliff's edge as she said something in her garbled language before vanishing with extreme speed. As she was gone, Kenjaku's face was dark as an amused grin nearly split his face.
"Talking so big. Know your place, cursed spirit!"
He honestly would have killed Hanami just then if not for his plan for ridding himself of his headache named Satoru Gojo. These cursed spirits have been getting so disrespectful recently.
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"Not the type to take orders, huh?" Gojo said, hands in his pockets as he rolled Jogo's head in the dirt with his foot.
"Is there something nice waiting for you if you kill me?" Gojo said, unaware of how close to the mark he was.
"Anyway, who're we looking for?"
Still getting no answer, Gojo was annoyed.
"Hurry up! I'm gonna exorcise you!"
"C'mon man, I'm gonna kill ya!"
"I'll exorcise you either way." Gojo kept asking as Jogo was still frozen stiff on the ground.
"So, curses can talk?" Yuji asked.
'I almost forgot about that...' he thought, embarrassed, as Gojo sensed something.
"!" He stepped back, dodging a large flower that stabbed into the ground where his head was when looking down at Jogo.
Yuji and Jogo looked over in shock as the large flower twisted deeper into the ground, as many beautiful flowers bloomed around them all.
WHEE!
'Flowers...' Yuji thought, as he saw Gojo smiled happily.
Then Gojo slapped himself in the face, snapping out of it.
'This is jujutsu, right? I don't sense any killing intent,' he thought.
"Yikes!" Yuji shouted as a branch wrapped around his ankle, lifting him into the air.
As they were distracted, a blur rushed past them, snatching Jogo's head as Hanami made a break for it.
"I'm fine, sensei! Go after them!!" Yuji shouted, as with his enhanced strength he snapped the branch around his ankle, allowing Gojo to blitz in front of Hanami with a smile.
"Haha, you almost got away..." Gojo kicked Hanami through the forest, causing her to drop Jogo's head.
Yuji, who had just destroyed the living tree creature, turned just in time to duck a soaring Hanami as Gojo held Jogo's head, tossing it up and down.
"Who would have thought there were two high-level cursed spirits working together? This is getting fun," Gojo said as Yuji walked over to him.
"Yuji, it's not just you; I want all of you kids to get strong enough to beat something like these cursed spirits," Gojo said, as Hanami emerged from the forest, ready to fight to retrieve Jogo's head.
"Don't worry, Gojo-sensei. I already plan to beat Sukuna when the time comes, so my goal is a bit higher than just this," Yuji said, as Gojo saw the conviction in his eyes and nodded.
"Here I thought I'd need to give you an amazing self-made speech," Gojo said dramatically as Hanami fired multiple branches, each harder than steel, towards them as Gojo swatted them away.
"Don't worry, you can have your friend back. I plan on letting my student here take you both out on his own anyway. I can't always be there to interfere, so count yourselves lucky I'm having a great day," Gojo said as he wound back his arm and tossed Jogo's head at Hanami so hard it almost knocked her off her feet as she clutched the head and ran off, using her ties to nature to hide her presence.
"Eh, you're just letting them go?" Yuji questioned, as Gojo chuckled.
"Don't worry, they're super weak anyway. Didn't you just say you're aiming for Sukuna himself?" Gojo said.
"Sensei... they're only weak because you are you..." Yuji muttered, as Gojo was in his own world.
"I'm sure it'll be fine, Yuji. Now, we're gonna be speeding up your training schedule for the next month. You were gonna watch more movies to really get a handle on your cursed energy, but since you learned it so well so fast, you'll spend all your time fighting me!" Gojo smiled.
"Between training with me, I'll send you to do some fieldwork. There will be some tough missions, too."
"You'll learn the basics of Jujutsu and how to use it, and at the Goodwill Event, we'll show off your amazing results!"
"Question!" Yuji raised his hand.
"Yes, Yuji-kun?!" Gojo pointed at Yuji.
"What exactly is the Goodwill Event?"
'Right, I had him hidden away since the detention center,' Gojo thought as he began to explain in detail.
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Principal Yaga and Ijichi sat silently at a table as Yaga seemed particularly pissed off.
"He's late!"
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Kenjaku was walking casually on a floor of an apartment building. Stopping in front of one door, he twisted the handle and stepped through it, only to appear on a sunny beach.
Swimming in the waters, the octopus cursed spirit shuffled quietly as the waves gently swayed back and forth.
"This is quite the calm domain," Kenjaku stated, as a figure relaxing under an umbrella on a beach chair sat up.
"What's happening to Jogo, Geto?" the figure asked.
"At death's door. But Hanami went after him, so he's probably okay," Kenjaku kept walking forward.
"How irresponsible. You encouraged him, right?" the man asked teasingly.
"Hardly. I tried to stop him."
"Well, speak of the devil," the man suddenly said, as Hanami rushed into the domain holding Jogo's head.
"Jogo. Hanami. I'm glad you're okay." The man smiled.
"What are you talking about?!" Jogo instantly got pissed off at that condescending tone.
"You got off easy," Kenjaku said, shrugging cheekily at Jogo's glare.
"I think you understand now, about Satoru Gojo and the right time and place."
"We need to get every advantage we can get if we're going to seal him for certain," Kenjaku said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"We'll proceed on October 31st in Shibuya. I'll give you the details later."
"Is that okay, Mahito?" Kenjaku smiled with mock kindness as Mahito thought about it for a second.
"No objections here."
"Let's be cunning. Worthy of a curse, worthy of a human." He smiled, amused.
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"I wish we had more vending machines..." Nobara complained, crouching in front of a vending machine to grab what she paid for.
"Not gonna happen. We're strict with who we do business with," Megumi said, bored.
"Whut? Where's the first-year crew?" Panda asked Maki.
"Running errands."
"Will they be okay?"
"They're not kids. They can run errands," Maki said, as Panda clarified.
"That's not what I mean."
"Isn't the Kyoto school coming today? The meeting for the Goodwill Event and all..." Panda said as Maki realized.
"There's talk that the higher-ups, who have friction with Satoru, were involved with the special-grade incident and the dispatch of the first-years."
"The Kyoto principal is one of those higher-ups. What if they start something," Panda said, worried.
"They targeted Itadori and he's missing."
"I don't think Megumi and Kugisaki are in danger. The Kyoto geezer wouldn't try something so openly," Maki said as Panda nodded.
"The teachers have reputations. But not the students."
"Is Mai coming?" Maki asked.
"Probably not. The students aren't involved with the meeting. But..." Back with Megumi and Kugisaki, two people had arrived: a tall, muscular guy and a woman.
"Those guys love to talk trash."