Why?
High school-era Satoru Gojo answered with a smile: [You lost because you didn't destroy my head, and because you didn't use that cursed tool when you stabbed me.]
Conversely, as long as Gojo's head was not destroyed, or a cursed tool with the technique burnout effect was not used to directly pierce his innate technique, even high school-era Gojo could not be killed.
Being bisected at the waist simply could not kill that man!
Forget the waist—even in high school, he could revive after his brain and abdomen were destroyed at the same time.
By the final battle, Gojo had even used Reverse Cursed Technique while suffering from technique burnout, directly healing the burnout itself. The jujutsu sorcerers watching at the time had called it impossible, because Reverse Cursed Technique also had to be activated through one's innate technique. In theory, Reverse Cursed Technique could not be used while one's technique was burnt out.
And that was indeed the case. When Choso and Kenjaku fought each other, Kenjaku sealed Choso's neck to prevent him from using Reverse Cursed Technique, stopping it from flowing down from his neck into the rest of his body. Kenjaku had stated outright at the time, "This way, you can't use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal your body."
Reverse Cursed Technique had to operate through one's innate technique. That was common knowledge in Jujutsu Society! Yet Satoru Gojo had surpassed all that common sense.
That was why readers had reacted so fiercely in the original manga when Gojo was killed after being bisected by the World-Cutting Slash. They all said Gojo was a clown. Back in high school, he could already heal a shattered waist and abdomen. He should have been even stronger now! How had he gotten worse with age?
Then why had he