"Whether you admit it or not, that's the truth."
Gojo Satoru scratched the back of his head.
"You really do nothing but make irresponsible remarks!"
"Are you deliberately trying to become enemies with the Director's Office?!"
Gojo Satoru could not be bothered to respond to them, but Amber felt somewhat upset.
The only reason they had stopped targeting her was because Gojo Satoru had explained how dangerous she was. Once it was made clear that she was not someone to be trifled with, they naturally turned all their attacks toward Gojo Satoru instead.
It had to be said that after becoming a teacher, Gojo Satoru had truly taken responsibility for and cared for his students. But Amber did not want someone who had helped her to suffer even more insults because of it.
"Don't target Teacher Gojo...!"
Amber could not help speaking up.
Gojo Satoru looked at the girl beside him in surprise.
Wasn't she supposed to be the shy and introverted type? He had thought she would quietly blame herself after everything was over. He had not expected her to stand up for him in a situation like this.
"This is no place for you to speak! You're just a curse!"
"Gojo Satoru! What are you still looking at?!"
Amber had long known how disgusting the Director's Office's trash was, but only now did she understand just how disgusting they truly were. They were practically a pack of uncivilized creatures incapable of communication. Suppressing quite a bit of resentment, Amber loosened her restrictions on Black Amber a little.
A dangerous chill instantly filled the entire room. Though she had not come in person, the suffocating sense of danger that could strike at any moment was exceptionally clear.
"Do you want to die?"
The girl whose eyes had been dyed crimson murmured those murderous words. She did not care in the slightest that the strongest person in the Jujutsu World stood beside her, freely releasing the terror that belonged to her.
Fortunately, the situation lasted only for that one sentence before the girl returned to normal. Yet judging from her faintly angry expression, she could turn into that curse, like a god of slaughter, again at any time.
In the end, the two of them were released without any difficulty.
Gojo Satoru whistled and laughed in high spirits. "See? They can casually threaten to kill ordinary people like little Shier, but the moment their own lives are involved, these Rotten Oranges go completely quiet. Pretty ridiculous, right? Yet it's people like them who hold the power to speak for the Jujutsu World."
The man's words drew Amber's attention, pulling her out of the oppressive atmosphere from earlier.
"It won't be easy to change the Jujutsu World. Killing them all would be simple, but no one would sincerely follow something like that."
Gojo Satoru explained, "That's why I want to use education to cultivate Jujutsu Sorcerers capable of replacing the higher-ups. Little Shier, you're one of them too."
"I'll work hard."
Amber also wanted to change the Jujutsu World's environment. After all, she was already here. Thinking about how those Rotten Oranges had persecuted everyone at Jujutsu High in the original story made her hate them intensely.
"Ah~ It really hasn't been easy. At last, a student who understands how hard teachers have it has appeared. In the Jujutsu World, finding an obedient and adorable student is harder than reaching the heavens. Your other classmates admire and care about their teacher too, but they never know how to express themselves. Is that another common problem in the Jujutsu World?"
Gojo Satoru sighed dramatically.
Amber neither agreed nor disagreed.
Only someone like Yuji could accept Gojo Satoru's personality without any negative feelings. The fact that everyone else hated Gojo Satoru enough to grind their teeth was definitely not without reason.
Just as she was thinking that, Gojo Satoru's phone suddenly gave off a distinct notification sound.
It was clearly a special setting, because after spending most of the day together, Amber had heard only that one notification.
Gojo Satoru leisurely opened his phone. Seeing the message, he revealed an interested expression. "Eh—"
"Is it important news?"
Amber asked curiously.
"Sort of... Oh, right. Shier, you should come along too. I'll show you something good, and you can meet one of your classmates while we're at it."
Gojo Satoru smiled. "Though you only have one classmate for now."
"...Okay."
Only one person, and something good to see? Could this be where the first episode began?
Amber wanted to remind him not to let Yuji eat that finger, but she swallowed the words. Given the situation back then, if Yuji had not eaten it, both he and Fushiguro would have been done for. Who would have had time to think about anything else? Besides, she had no way to explain why she knew about it.
After considering those two points, Amber could only change her approach. "Then let's hurry over, shall we? It wouldn't be good if my classmate gets tired of waiting."
"That's true."
Gojo Satoru did not think much of it and held out his hand toward Amber. "Flying there directly will be faster. Teacher will give you a lift."
Amber did not resist contact from elders, but considering how Black Amber hated Gojo Satoru on sight, and how his head pat earlier had directly angered her, Amber still shook her head. "It's fine. If I enter Quantization, I can keep up with you, Teacher."
Gojo Satoru was quite supportive of students wanting to try their own techniques. After all, she was a child. It was only natural for her to feel anticipation and eagerness toward supernatural powers she had just encountered for the first time.
So he did not say anything unnecessary. "Then I'll head off first. If you get lost, call me. Teacher will come find you on my way back."
Elsewhere.
"Have you thought it over? Why not join us? With your technique that can greatly strengthen Cursed Spirits, our plan can be completed much faster."
Looking at the humanoid Cursed Spirit standing before her, smiling harmlessly despite the stitches covering his body, the Herrscher of Reason revealed a healthy smile.
Good, good, good. Before I could even go looking for you, you came right to my door.
Yuji and Fushiguro.
Moving through Quantization did not require much calculating ability. She only needed to instinctively use Quantization on herself, and her entire body would enter Phase Space.
This was a Six-Dimensional Space where both time and space could be manipulated. Unfortunately, neither Amber nor Black Amber had any understanding of this Six-Dimensional Space, so they could only perform simple displacement within it.
And that was not the only inconvenience. There was no one else in this space besides her, nor did any real-world constructs exist within it. Therefore, all Amber could do was sense locations she had marked before entering the space and instantly move between those points.
Amber did not know Yuji and Fushiguro's locations at the school, so she could only place a mark on Gojo Satoru. Once he began moving, she continued following him.
As a result, Gojo Satoru could constantly see Amber steadily following behind him. Whether he sped up or slowed down, the distance between them never changed by the slightest bit. If he had not been able to see Amber's obedient, adorable face, even he would have found it a little creepy.
Yet even with Gojo Satoru moving at full speed, when the two arrived, they still saw Fushiguro summon his Shikigami and prepare to attack at any moment, while Yuji stood there with an awkward, helpless expression, desperately trying to calm him down.
"What is going on?"
Landing behind Fushiguro, Gojo Satoru felt an ominous suspicion rise in his heart.
"Teacher Gojo?!"
Fushiguro Megumi, who had been prepared to fight to the death, froze for a moment, and a trace of hope rose in his heart.
His technique was the Zen'in Clan's top-tier technique, the Ten Shadows Technique. It was unquestionably a technique capable of standing alongside the Six Eyes and Limitless. The reason it received such high praise was that among the Ten Shadows Technique's ten Shikigami was an ultimate Shikigami named Mahoraga.
The Ten Shadows Technique's Shikigami could not simply be commanded after being summoned. They had to be "tamed" through battle. An untamed Shikigami would not only attack the enemy, but also its user.
Fushiguro Megumi's earlier action had been an attempt to summon Mahoraga and die together with his opponent.
"Senior Yuji... has undergone Incarnation?"
Amber had not expected to still be too late. But... this was not entirely a bad thing. Fu Hua had also said that while changing the plot was her freedom, she had to bear the loss of foresight that came with changing it.
If it was not a plot point that absolutely had to be changed, there was no need for her to take the risk of making things worse.
"Who are you?"
Only then did Fushiguro notice the petite girl standing behind Gojo Satoru. She looked slightly younger than him.
How could he bring a girl like this to such a dangerous place?
"Ah, little Shier."
Yuji noticed Amber's arrival first.
"You know each other?"
Gojo Satoru asked curiously.
Amber did not actually know Yuji. If she did, it was through the anime. But the entrance of this school had Sugikawa written on it, and Yuji was famous at school. Though one was in high school and the other in middle school, they shared the same athletic field, so she felt it was not strange for her to recognize Yuji.
What she had not expected was that Yuji knew her too.
"Senior Yuji is famous at school."
Amber could only say that.
"No way, little Shier is famous too. You're cute, and you work part-time to help support your family. Everyone thinks you're amazing."
Yuji seemed to realize something and scratched the back of his head.
"Haha, after all, she's my student."
Even though she had not enrolled yet, Gojo Satoru shamelessly took credit for himself before finally getting to the matter at hand. "So, what's going on, young man? Did you eat something incredible?"
"Uh..."
Yuji remembered how Fushiguro Megumi had just been shouting about killing him. Yuji could naturally tell that Fushiguro Megumi was not some ungrateful person who would harm ordinary people, so there was clearly some rule Yuji did not know about behind it.
But a person should take responsibility for what he did. He was not so cowardly that he would refuse to admit it.
So he said with a pained expression, "I ate a finger with a really long nail."
"Ridiculous."
Gojo Satoru gave his assessment.
He truly found it ridiculous. He had taken in a Shier possessed through Incarnation by a special-grade curse that morning, and then another heavyweight appeared that evening, directly eating Sukuna's finger.
Fortunately, he had already dealt with one case, so he had some experience. And judging from the Cursed Remnant at the scene, he could tell that Yuji must have made an emergency move out of necessity in order to help Fushiguro.
But...
"I really don't know what's going on these days. Two rare special-grade curse Incarnations in a row, and not only did neither die because of the curse, both can even suppress the curses inside them. Has even teacher me fallen behind the times?"
Gojo Satoru leisurely walked toward Itadori Yuji.
"Amazing. They've completely fused together."
It was entirely different from Shier's situation. If Shier's condition was like a curse obediently staying motionless in the place called its "vessel," then Yuji was being watched greedily by the curse within him.
"Eh..."
Yuji did not understand, but he still knew that his situation seemed somewhat bad.
"You can let Sukuna out, right? And you can suppress him at any time too?"
Gojo Satoru asked.
"Sukuna? Ah, is that the ghost from the finger?"
Yuji nodded. "I can let him out, and I can suppress him whenever... Wait, what do you mean, too?"
Was he not an exception?
While Gojo Satoru was still learning about the situation, Amber had already taken out bandages to dress Fushiguro Megumi's wounds.
Where had the bandages come from? Naturally, she had torn off Fushiguro Megumi's school uniform sleeve to use as a temporary substitute.
"Thank you."
Fushiguro Megumi had lost quite a bit of blood. Just moments ago, he had even been on the verge of losing consciousness. It was only because someone he could rely on was now beside him, combined with his determination to fight to the death, that adrenaline had helped him temporarily recover.
That did not mean his injuries were fine.
"You're welcome."
Amber wanted the Herrscher of Death and Life's core more and more. She had decided that even if she had to spend all her points tonight, she would draw it!
Bang!
The sound of a building being smashed apart rang out not far from them. Gojo Satoru had already started fighting Itadori Yuji, who had transformed into Sukuna.
Though they were said to be fighting, anyone could see that Sukuna with only one finger was a toy Gojo Satoru could destroy whenever he wished. Rather than a battle, it was more like they were waiting for the countdown to end and seeing whether Yuji could regain his senses.
Sukuna naturally knew that too. As the killing intent in his heart surged, he intended to kill the two spectators nearby and teach that white-haired bastard a lesson.
But the moment his eyes fell on Amber, he found it difficult to look away.
Strong. Such powerful Cursed Energy, and a body that was slender yet possessed strength completely mismatched with its appearance. Just who was this?
And that sea-urchin-haired guy's technique was very interesting too.
Was the diversity of sorcerers in this era this rich?
A Conversation.
"Not very good."
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