Sendai Prefecture.
On a high school field.
Yuji Itadori kicked a soccer ball, snapping the goalpost clean in half and blasting through the wall behind it.
Everyone on the field froze.
Including Yuji Itadori himself.
As he watched the soccer ball he had kicked produce an effect comparable to a mortar shell,
Yuji Itadori was dumbfounded as well.
His body had always been absurdly strong.
But it had still been within the bounds of humanity, more or less.
He could still fool himself by saying he was an "athlete."
But after that kick,
he could no longer deceive himself.
Clearly, he was no ordinary human anymore.
He was a Jujutsu Sorcerer!
That was right. With Jujutsu Sorcerers exposed to the public, Yuji Itadori had learned of their existence early on.
So he naturally assumed that he had awakened as a Jujutsu Sorcerer too.
Furthermore, Yuji Itadori could feel a surging power that had appeared within him.
If nothing unexpected had happened, that should have been cursed energy!
While Yuji Itadori rejoiced at awakening cursed energy and becoming a Jujutsu Sorcerer,
over in Tokyo Metropolis,
a trial was underway in a courtroom.
When all the evidence he had painstakingly uncovered was rejected by the judge,
and a murderer whose guilt was beyond doubt was casually declared innocent,
Hiromi Higuruma's mind completely shattered.
He watched the family of the victim he represented weep in heartbroken anguish.
He watched the criminal, who deserved to die but had escaped legal punishment because his father was a council chairman,
smirk at him provocatively.
Hiromi Higuruma felt something inside him break completely.
He knew what had broken.
It was the law he had believed in as a lawyer.
It was also the chain that had restrained him all this time.
And as that chain shattered,