(A/N: Thought I was good at Pokemon, wasn't)
"Sukuna being nice?" Matteo asked Itadori.
The four students were being driven by one of the assistant managers of Jujutsu High. Fushiguro was in the passenger seat while Itadori, Matteo, and Kugisaki were placed in the back with Matteo in the middle.
"Yeah, he's been quiet since we made the binding vow," Itadori replied.
The deal that Itadori had made with Sukuna, under the supervision of Gojo, was that if either Sukuna or Itadori said the word 'Enchain' they would switch with each other for one minute.
Within that one minute, Itadori could set a single enemy, and that enemy is the only one that Sukuna could harm. If Sukuna took over Itadori by force, Itadori wouldn't be able to call a target, and so Sukuna couldn't harm anyone.
It wasn't the best deal, but it kept Sukuna in line. Matteo was still worried that Sukuna had something else up his sleeve.
"Can you be any louder!" Kugisaki yelled out, turning to Itadori and Matteo.
"We're not even being loud!" Itadori yelled back.
"Yeah, you are!" Kugisaki replied.
"Here we are," the assistant manager said, slowing down.
"No, we're not," Itadori yelled back.
"Yeah, you are!" Kugisaki yelled.
"Itadori, could you move?" Matteo asked, "We're here," he explained.
"Oh, we're here?" Itadori asked.
"Yes," Matteo replied.
Hearing this, Itadori left the car, allowing Matteo to move away from the yelling.
In front of them stood a large building that was circled by a police line, which stopped any normal people from coming too near the building.
"What are we looking at?" Fushiguro asked, getting out of the car as well.
"Definitely a curse womb, our window verified that about three hours ago," the assistant manager explained, "Once ninety percent were evacuated, a decision was made to seal off the center," he continued.
"I, uh, have a question," Itadori said, "What is this window?" he asked.
"It's an in-house term for unique members of Jujutsu High who can see curses," the assistant answered, "But they aren't sorcerers," he finished.
"Oh, okay," Itadori replied.
"Let's continue, detainee, block two, at present five detainees are still inside along with the cursed womb," the assistant manager explained, "If the curse womb is the type that metamorphose, we predict it will become a special grade cursed spirit," he said.
"Hey, so what is a special-grade curse?" Itadori asked.
"Alright, allow me to explain on an idiot level," the assistant manager began.
"First, there's grade four, a wooden bat is enough for them. Grade three: if you have a handgun, you can rest easy. Grade two, close call with a shotgun. Grade one, even a tank may be insufficient. Then special-grade, well, you might be on even footing if you carpet bomb it with cluster bombs," he explained.
"That is bad!" Itadori exclaimed.
"Normally, a sorcerer on par with the cursed spirit would handle this," Fushiguro explained, "And in this case that would have been Gojo," he said.
"That figures, so where is Gojo then?" Itadori asked.
"Away on business," Fushiguro answered, "Guy like him has better things to do than loaf around the school in the first place," he continued.
"Unfortunately, we're often short-handed in this business," the assistant manager said, "You'll often have to undertake missions beyond your expertise," he explained, "However, this current case is an urgent on and most abnormal, so no matter what, don't fight, and if you should encounter a special-grade, you run or you-"
"Die," Matteo interrupted
"Yes," the assistant manager replied, "Please do not disregard your fears, and don't forget that your entire mission here today is strictly the verification and rescue of survivors," he explained.
"Excuse me, sir!" a woman said, walking up to the students, "Tell me where's my son!" she yelled out.
"Stay back, ma'am, you can't come in here, move back, please," one of the officers in the police line told her.
"I need to know if my son Tadashi is all right!" she begged.
Seeing the woman, Itadori's eyes began to fill with tears, and a frown found itself on his face.
"She's a guardian here for a visit," the assistant manager whispered to Itadori, "Please leave, ma'am, it is possible that someone may have released poisonous gas in the compound," he told the women.
"Oh no," the woman said.
She then put her hand to her face while crouching down, attempting to hide herself from what had happened.
"Why is this happening?" she sobbed.
"Fushiguro, Kugisaki, Matteo," Itadori said, cracking his knuckles, "We'll save them," he told them.
"Of course," Kugisaki replied.
"Hmm," Fushiguro nodded.
Matteo said nothing to Itadori as he walked up to the woman.
"Ma'am, a moment of your time, please?" Matteo asked.
The woman looked up from the ground at Matteo.
She was hoping for good news; she was hoping that her son was about to come out of that car; she was hoping she was not sad for nothing.
"Your son has perished, I am very sorry, there is nothing to do," Matteo told the women.
She didn't say a word; the woman just looked at Matteo.
"Matteo, what the hell!" Itadori said, running up to Matteo.
"What?" Matto replied, turning to Itadori.
"You can't just say that!" Itadori said.
"Why not?" Matteo asked, "Her son is dead, what else do you want me to do?" he asked.
In Matteo's view, he was sparing the woman from any suffering she would have had between now and when she was told.
"Because you don't know," Itadori replied.
"Yes, yes, I do," Matteo replied.
"So why didn't you do anything, huh?" Kugisaki asked.
"What do you mean?" Matteo replied.
"You're the all-knowing man, right? So why didn't you do anything before the, uh," Kugisaki began before remembering the woman in front of her.
"Let's talk about this later," Fushiguro said, "We still need to confirm that the detainees are dead," he explained.
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"Be careful," the assistant manager told the students as they began to walk into the detention center, "I'll put up my Veil," he said.
He then held up two fingers and began to chant.
"Emerge from darkness, blacker still, purify that which is impure," he chanted.
From the sky, the Veil began to lower itself around the detention center.
"Day's turning into night!" Itadori exclaimed looking at the dropping Veil.
"That's part of the Veil," Fushiguro explained, "Since there's a residential area nearby, we use it to conceal us from those on the outside," he continued.
"Awesome!" Itadori replied.
"Moron," Kugisaki said.
"Demon Dogs!" Fushiguro called out as he clamped his hands together.
From Fushiguro's shadow, a white wolf with a red triangle on its head emerged.
"He'll let us know if the curse gets near," Fushiguro explained.
"What a good boy!" Itadori said while bending down to pet the wolf, "You know we're all counting on you," he told the wolf.
"Two, three, five, seven," Matteo muttered.
Fushiguro opened the large rusty doors to the detention block. As it opened a loud creak echoed throughout the inside of the detention center.
"Eleven, thirteen, seventeen, nineteen," Matteo continued.
"Let's go," Fushiguro said opening the door.
Looking through the door, Matteo could almost see Sukuna on the other side, taunting him.
'No, Sukuna shouldn't be a problem, a deal was made, he shouldn't be a problem' Matteo repeated in his mind
Shaking his head, Matteo followed the other three students in while promising himself that no one would die today and Sukuna would remain uninterested in Itadori.