Ronawa's Choice!

Facing two pairs of curious eyes.

Satoru Gojo thought for a moment before speaking. "That girl is pretty laid-back."

Yes, Satoru Gojo referred to Ronawa as a person.

Not a Curse Spirit.

In Satoru Gojo's heart, setting aside Ronawa's identity as the Death Curse Spirit,

she was not all that different from a human.

"When I first met her, I was actually pretty surprised too."

"She was too perfect—so perfect that she didn't seem like a Curse Spirit at all!"

In Jujutsu Society, even Special-Grade Curses possessed more or less some inhuman traits.

Mahito, for example.

As a Curse Spirit born from humans, Mahito was undoubtedly among the closest Curse Spirits to humans.

Yet even so, Mahito's body still bore obvious stitch marks.

Those were proof that he was a Curse Spirit.

But what about Ronawa?

She had none.

Not a single inhuman feature existed.

Judging only by her appearance, she was no different from a human girl.

That alone was enough to prove Ronawa's uniqueness.

That was also why Satoru Gojo had not immediately killed Ronawa back then.

Which led to everything that happened afterward.

After hearing Satoru Gojo's account, Yuki Tsukumo thought back and quickly nodded in agreement.

In fact, when she had first seen Ronawa,

Yuki Tsukumo had also wondered whether there had been some mistake.

Ronawa looked human no matter how she looked at her. Could she really have been a Curse Spirit?

Of course, Yuki Tsukumo had confirmed it afterward.

Ronawa in her true released form had been overwhelmingly oppressive.

Even now, whenever Yuki Tsukumo closed her eyes, she could sometimes recall what she had seen back then.

She could relive the fear and insignificance she had felt beneath the gaze of that enormous scarlet eyeball.

"Besides looking too much like a human and being lazy,"

"that brat is a little scoundrel. Her favorite things are secretly screwing people over and talking trash about them behind their backs."

"But I have to admit, she isn't like the mindless Curse Spirits we encountered before that only knew how to slaughter."

"She actually has her own set of principles."

"For instance, even though she'll be facing my challenge in two months, she still hasn't chosen to start killing people."

"That's why I let her go in the first place!"

Satoru Gojo's words sent both Mei Mei and Yuki Tsukumo into thought.

They could not help but put themselves in her place.

If it were them, what would they choose?

Knowing they would have to fight Satoru Gojo in two months,

and that killing was how they grew stronger,

could they truly hold to their principles under the immense pressure Satoru Gojo brought?

Could they really resist killing to improve their chances of defeating Satoru Gojo two months later?

They had no confidence that they could do what Ronawa had done.

At that moment, even Yuki Tsukumo could no longer bring herself to hate Ronawa.

Looking carefully over everything Ronawa had done since her birth,

it was not hard to see that Ronawa had been almost excessively well-behaved.

After all, Jujutsu Society had no shortage of arrogant jujutsu sorcerers.

They killed when they were in a bad mood, and were in a bad mood when they did not kill.

There were plenty of people like that.

Some gained a little strength and immediately looked down on everyone else, believing they had been born superior.

But what about Ronawa?

She clearly possessed authority akin to that of a myth, yet she had never actively harmed anyone.

Even when she killed, it was only those who had been conclusively proven to deserve death.

And the deaths of the jujutsu sorcerers who had died at Ronawa's hands could not really be blamed on Ronawa.

After all, it had been a life-or-death situation then.

You could not expect to take Ronawa's life while forbidding her from fighting back.

Besides, Ronawa had given them a chance before the killing began.

If the jujutsu sorcerers had listened to reason then, how could everything that followed have happened?

If it had been Yuki Tsukumo and the others, they would have made the same choice as Ronawa.

Perhaps an even more extreme one.

By this point, Yuki Tsukumo and Mei Mei had more or less figured out Ronawa's personality.

She was a complete NPC-type boss.

As long as you did not deliberately court death, you did not need to worry about Ronawa coming after you.

But if you sought death yourself,

then you would definitely die.

And if the Death Curse Spirit was like that,

then honestly, Yuki Tsukumo and Mei Mei both felt she was not so bad.

But they also knew that was only their own view.

They could not speak for the other jujutsu sorcerers.

Just because they could think that way did not mean other jujutsu sorcerers could.

Therefore, friction with Ronawa remained inevitable.

At most, now that they knew Ronawa's personality,

Yuki Tsukumo and Mei Mei both breathed a sigh of relief.

Because barring any surprises, Ronawa would not expand the scope of her retaliation.

She would only kill whoever came to kill her, rather than lumping in those who had not participated.

After visiting Yuki Tsukumo and obtaining her forgiveness,

Satoru Gojo did not hurry to leave. Instead, he went somewhere else.

The detention room at Jujutsu High.

And the one currently held in that detention room was Shoko Ieiri.

When Satoru Gojo arrived, Shoko Ieiri merely glanced up at him before looking away again, continuing to stare emptily at the ground beneath her feet.

As though there were something fascinating there.

Seeing Shoko Ieiri looking so utterly lost, Satoru Gojo felt somewhat worried.

Still, he spoke in a deliberately light tone. "I thought they'd put you through torture. Didn't expect you to be doing pretty well."

"You've even put on some weight!"

Satoru Gojo's eyes were the Six Eyes. There was no way he could be mistaken.

So Shoko Ieiri really had gained weight.

And that sentence nearly made Shoko Ieiri lose her composure.

The corners of her mouth twitched repeatedly, and she barely managed to keep herself composed with all her strength.

She turned a deaf ear to Satoru Gojo's teasing and pretended she had not heard him.

Seeing that, Satoru Gojo continued, "I went to see Ronawa again afterward. That girl is doing much better than you."

"She can eat, drink, and jump around. She's like a bird that finally got out of its cage."

Only then did Shoko Ieiri turn to look at Satoru Gojo. "That's good."

Shoko Ieiri said coldly.

Satoru Gojo nearly laughed. So when people were speechless to the extreme, they really could laugh.

At that moment, Satoru Gojo seriously suspected that Ronawa was not the Death Curse Spirit at all, but some kind of Charm Curse Spirit.

Otherwise, how had she stolen Shoko Ieiri's soul away?

A perfectly fine person now had nothing but Ronawa on her mind.

She was clearly trapped herself, yet she still worried about Ronawa.

Learning that Ronawa was fine made her happier than being released herself.

She was truly beyond saving.

Soon, Satoru Gojo added, "But although Ronawa is fine now, she'll be in trouble soon enough."

"Because before long, I'll find her and settle things with her once and for all!"

This time, Shoko Ieiri completely lost her composure.

She sprang up from the floor and rushed to the window of the detention room.

Then she unleashed a furious barrage of curses at Satoru Gojo.

From the way she acted, it seemed she wished she could take Ronawa's place and fight Satoru Gojo herself.