A Jujutsu Kaisen Multiverse: Starting by Transforming into Fu Hua

The Herrscher of Reason nodded.

Jogo: "...More or less. So?"

"There's no 'so.'"

"??"

"Oh, I was just asking about your thoughts. Whether you join today or not, you're joining."

Only then did the Herrscher of Reason reveal a healthy smile. "Anyway, your ideal will definitely never come true. Instead of throwing your lives away for nothing, why not work for me?"

The volcano atop Jogo's head was already bubbling nonstop, but he was extremely tolerant of his fellow cursed spirits. Even angered to this extent, he showed no intention of attacking. Temporarily suppressing his fury, he asked, "Then what is your ideal?"

"Oh, I want cursed spirits to walk openly upon the earth."

The Herrscher of Reason said.

"???"

Jogo could no longer hold himself back. "Isn't that the same as me?! You brat!"

"Hey! That's not right. You're using improper means to seek illegal rights and interests, while I'm achieving my goal through proper means! Besides, it's absolutely impossible for you to achieve your goal, while mine is easy."

The Herrscher of Reason paid no attention to Jogo's anger. "Oh, right. I just made the law. Since we're going to be aboveboard from now on, we should probably establish some laws too. I'll keep adding to them when I think of more."

Humiliated again and again, he was still a cursed spirit. Even Jogo found it difficult to quell the rage in his heart. "Then let me see what backing you have for all that boasting!"

The next moment, surging flames blasted from his hands toward the gray-haired girl.

Admissions Interview

Amber heard a faint sound by her ear.

It was a gentle yet incomparably sorrowful voice, one she had heard before. It sounded like a farewell before departure, yet also as though it were entrusting something to her, hoping for something. Amber wanted to listen more carefully, but discovered that her consciousness was gradually waking.

Wake up! Get up already!

The gentle voice by her ear turned into Black Amber's loud, dissatisfied call once she woke up.

How much longer are you going to sleep? The knocking is so loud, and you still won't get up. If someone barges in, I won't hold back!

Seeing Amber open her eyes, Black Amber secretly let out a breath of relief before frowning. You already slept for five thousand years. Haven't you had enough?

"Sorry, I think I had a dream..."

Amber carefully tried to recall the scenes from her dream, only to find that she could not remember them.

There was no need to trouble herself over a mere dream. Realizing that, Amber called out to soothe the person knocking outside. "Please wait a moment...!"

"It's good that you're alright."

Hearing the girl inside finally respond, Fushiguro Megumi sighed in relief. "Gojo-sensei just called and said to gather at the entrance of Jujutsu High, so I came to let you know. Once you're ready, just head to the school gate and find them."

"Shier understands. Thank you for coming to tell Shier."

Amber replied.

She did not need to spend much effort getting ready. A simple wash-up would do. Her hairstyle and clothing came with the Character Card. While they did not have a permanent buff, she could refresh them with one-click dressing whenever she wanted.

Thus, less than five minutes later, Amber pushed open her door and headed toward the agreed meeting place.

"Yo, how did you rest yesterday?"

Seeing the girl approach, Gojo Satoru greeted her.

"Shier rested very well. What about Gojo-sensei and Yuji-senpai?"

"Your teacher here is full of energy."

"Although some things happened that reshaped my worldview, I still got a decent night's sleep."

Yuji looked somewhat tired, and his smile was no longer quite as bright, but it was clear that he had more or less adjusted.

"Come to think of it, Yuji won't be Little Shier's senior anymore. After all, you two are going to become classmates."

Gojo Satoru said as he led them down the road.

"Ah, right. That's true."

Yuji remembered as well, then looked worriedly at Shier. "But Shier is skipping grades like this. Will her studies be alright?"

"Uh..."

Amber immediately found herself unable to keep it together.

She did rather yearn for school life, but bringing up studying right away... She had not even finished elementary school...

"Haha, it's fine. Jujutsu Sorcerers don't have that many regular classes. If you need help with anything, your teacher can tutor you."

Gojo Satoru laughed.

Other me, can you help with schoolwork...?

Amber did not want to expose herself as an uneducated girl, so she could only hope her other self could lend her some aid in that regard.

Black Amber: Fine. Since you're sincerely asking me, it's not like I can't tutor you. You'll learn all that stuff after studying it a little anyway. It won't take much effort.

Thank you, other me.

Amber breathed a sigh of relief. She did not want to be some illiterate pretty girl! Besides, that would ruin her image as Shier's wife... No, wait, Shier during the Quantum Sea Period... seemed to be uneducated too...?

Neither of them knew much about Jujutsu Sorcerer schools, so Gojo Satoru took the opportunity while they were walking to explain the school and their upcoming life. "This is Tokyo Jujutsu High, one of Japan's only two Jujutsu education institutions. On the surface, it's a private religious school."

A religious school? There were schools like that?

In Japan, forget religion—even cults can exist openly. After all, even the yakuza can legally exist. Compared to the yakuza, religions at least look somewhat respectable, right?

Black Amber explained.

Why did she seem to understand more than I did...?

Gojo Satoru was unaware of her inner thoughts. "Quite a few Jujutsu Sorcerers start their activities from here after graduating. This place does not only provide education; it also carries out missions and support work. It holds an extremely important position in the Jujutsu World."

After saying that, he began explaining where the three of them were headed. "We're going to meet this school's principal. You two had better do your best, or something very scary will happen~"

"Something scary?"

Itadori Yuji asked curiously, "What kind of scary thing? Being forbidden from enrolling?"

"Haha, normally, yes. But you two are special cases. Forbidding you from enrolling would basically mean leaving you unsupervised. Neither the higher-ups nor the principal would want to see that."

Gojo Satoru said cheerfully, "But if your interview gets dangerous, even if you aren't forbidden from enrolling, your activities will be restricted."

"Eh..."

Itadori Yuji tugged at the corner of his mouth. Wouldn't that be the same as prison?

Amber also became nervous. Given Yaga's personality in the original work, someone like her would not be able to pass, right...?

With his 360-degree vision, Gojo Satoru smiled inwardly as he watched the two grow tense. Each with different thoughts, the three entered a dim room that resembled a Director's Office meeting room.

The room was pitch-black, with only dim yellow candlelight providing a little illumination. A burly middle-aged man wearing sunglasses and a formal suit sat on the floor at the very front.

Contrary to the tough-guy impression given by his appearance, he was currently holding needle and thread, making a somewhat ugly yet cute doll. There were even quite a few finished dolls beside him. The harmonious sight of this middle-aged man and the dolls made Itadori Yuji widen his eyes.

"You're late, Satoru."

The burly man spoke in a somewhat deep voice. "I won't reprimand you, but I've told you to fix that habit of being late."

That opening remark did not hit Gojo Satoru, but it wounded Amber instead.

Come to think of it, they seemed to be late this time because she had not gotten up that morning...

"If you're not going to reprimand me, then don't blame me. You were making dolls anyway. Waiting ten or so minutes is nothing."

Gojo Satoru casually took the blame and introduced him to the two. "This is Principal Yaga Masamichi."

Yaga set the doll he had finished aside and finally looked up at the three of them.

"So these are the ones? Those incarnated by curses."

Us? Was Shier incarnated by a curse too?

Yuji had initially thought that Shier had merely happened to be discovered to possess Jujutsu talent and was therefore enrolling with him. Now, it seemed her situation was similar to his?

The feeling of finding someone like himself comforted Yuji somewhat. He gave an energetic bow. "I'm Itadori Yuji! Please take care of me!"

Amber also bowed lightly. "I'm Shier Fulei. Um... Gojo-sensei wasn't deliberately late. Shier just failed to get up on time this morning..."

"What are you here for?"

Yaga's brows furrowed deeply upon seeing the two of them. Especially when he looked at Amber, his eyebrows nearly twisted into a mountain.

Why did it have to be a child like this?

Yaga Masamichi's Questioning

"Um... To enroll and learn Jujutsu?"

Itadori Yuji was somewhat confused by the question. What else could they come here for besides school?

Yaga Masamichi said coldly, "I'm asking about what comes after that. Once you understand curses and master the ability to exorcise them, what will you do?"

"Uh?"

Yuji looked at Gojo Satoru, only to find that the teacher who had brought him here had no intention of explaining anything. He merely smiled and remained silent. Yuji could only point at his fingers. "I'm going to collect Sukuna's fingers, right? It would be dangerous to leave them alone."

Yaga did not continue speaking and instead looked at Amber. "And you?"

"Shier wants to protect everyone..."

Amber was not lying. Though Nobara and Gojo Satoru were the only characters she had especially liked while watching the anime, that did not mean she disliked the others. In fact, before Fushiguro's breakdown, Amber had liked everyone in the main cast.

Even after Fushiguro's breakdown, Amber merely felt frustrated that he had failed to live up to expectations. She could not say she hated him.

So, if possible, Amber naturally wanted to achieve an ending where everyone survived.

Ah, come to think of it, she had said yesterday that she would go all-in to get the Herrscher of Death Core, but then she had gone straight to sleep...

"Dangerous to leave alone? Protect?"

Yaga Masamichi rose to his feet and slowly walked before them. His tall frame blocked out much of the light, making him seem even more oppressive. "Accidents, incidents, disease—countless people die every day. Why must your desire to protect people be premised on becoming Jujutsu Sorcerers?"

"Because this is something only I can do, right?"

Yuji's brows furrowed as well. "No one but me can serve as a vessel for the fingers, so I have to do it. Otherwise, whenever I'm doing nothing in the future, if I think about the people who died because of those fingers, I won't be able to live as though nothing happened."

"In short, no matter what, I don't want to make a choice I'll regret."

Hearing his words, Yaga's tightly furrowed brows eased slightly before he turned his gaze to Amber.

Even through his sunglasses, everyone could tell that Yaga was giving Amber's existence extremely serious consideration. Yuji, who knew he had passed, also looked toward Amber and worried for his junior.

If Amber were going to be confined within Jujutsu High like this... no matter what, he would rescue her.

Yes, because he had passed himself, Yuji had more or less understood the purpose of Yaga's questions. But in his eyes, Amber's answer would probably be difficult to match what Yaga wanted to hear. It was not because he knew Amber well, but because of his intuition.

"Because... Shier has something she wants to accomplish, but can only accomplish after becoming a Jujutsu Sorcerer."

Amber could not exactly say that she was here to follow the main cast, but she was not lying either. She really did need to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer to follow them.

"About the orphanage? Even if you don't become a Jujutsu Sorcerer, you can still ask other Jujutsu Sorcerers to investigate that matter."

Yaga had already reviewed Shier's information and knew that Shier had initially entered the world of Jujutsu Sorcerers to uncover the truth behind everyone at the orphanage dying.

He continued, "Someone obsessed with life and death cannot become a good Jujutsu Sorcerer. Anger and hatred are nourishment that breeds Cursed Energy, but they can also make Jujutsu Sorcerers act rashly and lose their lives."

"Shier will be fine... The other me will protect Shier too."

"It isn't only your own death. Jujutsu Sorcerers must deal with death at all times. Not only will you see people killed by curses, you may even see your comrades die. And you must personally kill curses as well."

Yaga was not surprised by Amber's reply, but he still did not believe that she possessed the qualities needed to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer. It was not about strength, but mentality.

"Your power is very strong. Before you have even enrolled, you have already been approved for the rank of Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerer. But that does not mean you truly possess the ability to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer. Fighting cursed spirits for a long time and witnessing life and death for a long time requires more than strength. It requires a certain madness and an immense degree of positivity."

Yaga Masamichi pointed out the inadequacy of Shier's resolve. "You lived for years in a warm environment, and entered the Jujutsu World to avenge the orphanage? Can your heart support you through continuous battle without becoming twisted? Once you have avenged them, can your purpose keep you motivated to continue eliminating cursed spirits?"

If Yaga had not valued such things much before, then the blow he had suffered when that incredibly gentle yet spirited boy took another path was enough to elevate the importance he placed on a Jujutsu Sorcerer's inner strength to an extremely high level.

Amber: ...She could not refute that.

Yaga Masamichi's words left her completely unable to argue, because her reason for getting involved was not truly legitimate to begin with. Nor had she been forced into a corner. She had simply gotten involved because she wanted to.

Itadori Yuji also understood the situation. Afraid that Shier would be kept under watch inside Jujutsu High from then on, he prepared to say a few words to help her.