Everyone from Kyoto stared in shock at the half of the court that lay in ruins.
What kind of killer tennis was this? That match had been insane!
Had that black hole really not been a hallucination?
And Todo-what breed of freak was he?
He had been shouting about friendship, best friends, and bonds, and then hit a Black Flash with his racket?
Could playing tennis really make you stronger?
Kamo looked at the tennis racket in his hand and felt an urge to learn the sport.
"Wang Jiahao!!!"
On the other side of the court, Yaga led Mei Mei, Nanami, and a group of Jujutsu Sorcerers over to surround him.
Surrounded, Jiahao remained composed. He smiled and waved his racket at Yaga. "Long time no see, Principal."
Yaga's mouth twitched.
You blew up the school right in front of me yesterday, and now you're telling me it's been a long time...
Did this guy change his personality along with his clothes?!
"Wang Jiahao, what are you doing back at school now?!"
Earning valor points. What else?
Who said joining the cursed spirits meant I couldn't come back to Jujutsu High?
Jujutsu sorcerers had to choose. The Hao Heavenly Emperor wanted it all.
Unlike yesterday's arrogant Uchiha Zuohao, today's Echizen Ryugo brimmed with youthful energy.
"I'm still part of Seigaku-cough, part of Jujutsu High, after all. What's wrong with coming to the Goodwill Event?"
"You know, regrets from your school days can stay with you until you die."
Yaga's face darkened. "Don't play dumb with me!"
"You attacked Jujutsu High with cursed spirits and stole cursed tools from the Tombs of the Star Corridor! That's not some joke you can brush off by playing dumb!"
At a signal from Yaga's eyes, Nanami and the others reluctantly drew their weapons.
"Do we really need to fight?"
A stylish purple suit, paired with a tie patterned with undulating dark waves.
Exuding the allure of a mature woman, Mei Mei planted her left hand on her hip and dragged an axe weighing over a hundred pounds with her right. "Principal, do you happen to have some secret trump card that can defeat Kamui?"
Without Domain Expansion, they were not even qualified to touch Jiahao while he used Kamui.
In all of Jujutsu High, only Satoru Gojo had the strength to fight Jiahao. The others might be injured by the fallout even if they merely watched.
Yaga understood all of that, of course.
But as the principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High, he could hardly stand by and do nothing while a major villain from the curses' camp cavorted right in front of him.
Over a dozen Assistant Supervisors stood behind him, along with Gakuganji, who belonged to the Higher-Ups' faction.
If he ignored Jiahao's presence today, Jujutsu Headquarters would send someone to replace him as principal tomorrow.
Once caught up in that world, he no longer had the freedom to do as he pleased.
At the crucial moment, Satoru Gojo stepped forward.
Looking at the sorcerers behind Yaga, Satoru Gojo waved a hand. "If you've got nothing else to do, clear out."
Only after the extras whose names he could not even remember had dispersed did Satoru Gojo turn to Jiahao. "Well? What did you come back for?"
"Don't tell me you really came back just to play tennis."
Perhaps out of mutual respect between the strongest, Satoru Gojo did not actually believe Jiahao was mentally ill.
Jiahao took a tennis ball from his pocket, held his racket upright, and bounced it on the frame.
"Nothing particularly special. I just got some information from the cursed spirits that I'd like to share with you."
"I knew it!"
Itadori's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed excitedly, "You deliberately infiltrated the enemy and went undercover with the curses, didn't you?!"
"You brought curses into Jujutsu High to earn their trust! You badly injured that cursed spirit called Hanami without killing it, then deliberately waited for Gojo-sensei to show up before using the fallout to exorcise it!"
"You pinned Hanami's death on Satoru Gojo so those cursed spirits wouldn't suspect your real intentions!"
Whoa!
Heavenly Emperor Itadori's analysis actually sounded pretty convincing.
An Infernal Affairs script, huh... I could play Tony Leung for a few episodes next time.
But should I go along with Itadori's explanation?
Jiahao thought it over, then shook his head while bouncing the ball. "Detective Conan-dori, you don't need to make excuses for me."
"I really have joined the cursed spirits, and I've even entered into a Binding Vow with their boss."
At those words, Yaga, Nanami, Satoru Gojo, and the others all frowned.
When ordinary people who were not sorcerers made promises or swore oaths, they suffered no punishment even if they later denied them or lied.
But a Binding Vow between jujutsu sorcerers had to be honored.
Once someone unilaterally broke a Binding Vow, all kinds of calamities would befall them.
They might suddenly be struck by lightning while walking down the street, be hit by a meteor while sleeping at home, or even choke to death on a sip of water.
Yaga's expression turned serious. "When you say their boss, do you mean a cursed spirit or a human?"
Jiahao replied, "I can't say. One of the vow's conditions is that I can't reveal their appearance or name."
Nanami put away his cursed tool. "What about their strength? Can you tell us that?"
Following the original plot, the later half of Jujutsu Kaisen might as well have been renamed Battle Nuo Continent.
After Sukuna killed Satoru Gojo with a World-Cutting Slash bought on credit, practically every named character in the series had taken a turn fighting him.
Never mind the outrageous netizens online clamoring to buy plane tickets to join the Shinjuku Showdown-even the Black guy from overseas took two punches from Sukuna.
Jiahao considered it and decided to put some pressure on the people at Jujutsu High.
Otherwise, when the time came to fight Sukuna at full strength, most of them would not even be able to withstand the fallout as spectators.
"I can't give you specifics, but... if their boss finishes all the preparations and comes after Satoru Gojo..."
Jiahao looked at Satoru Gojo and spoke with unprecedented seriousness. "You will die!"
Not lose... die?!
The moment he said that, strings of triple-digit valor points floated above everyone's heads.
Yaga and the others would not have believed those words from anyone else, because those people could not comprehend Satoru Gojo's strength.
But coming from Jiahao, who had fought Satoru Gojo just yesterday, those words made their expressions turn grave.
Watching his valor points keep rising, Jiahao's lips gradually curled into a Dragon King's smirk.
Afraid they might not believe him, Jiahao suppressed his smile and added, "If you don't believe me, I can enter into a Binding Vow to guarantee that this information is true."
More valor points floated up!
This time, it was not just Satoru Gojo. Even Sukuna inside Itadori was so shocked that he yielded the maximum score of 999 valor points.
Sukuna did not know that the boss of the cursed spirits Jiahao mentioned was Kenjaku. Even if he had known, he would not have believed Kenjaku had the strength to kill Satoru Gojo.
And Jiahao had not lied either. After all, he was talking about Kenjaku after all the preparations were complete.
Without Kenjaku's schemes and preparations in the original story, Sukuna would never even have had a chance to incarnate.
Even Sukuna's initial vessel, Yuji Itadori, had been personally birthed by Kenjaku, postpartum recovery and all.
So how could Sukuna eventually unlocking the "2.5-toru Gojo" achievement not count as part of Kenjaku's preparations?
His gaze passed over Yaga and the others' conflicted expressions before finally settling on Satoru Gojo's fearless face. Jiahao piled on the pressure. "Hurry up and get stronger. You don't have much time left!"
Seizing on the key point, Yaga immediately followed up. "Are you saying the boss of the cursed spirit organization is preparing to attack Satoru Gojo?"
"Congratulations, that's correct!"
Jiahao turned his racket flat, bringing the tennis ball to a steady stop in the middle of the strings. "That's one of the pieces of information I came to share!"
"October thirty-first. That's when they plan to make their move against Satoru Gojo."
Yaga swiped through the calendar app on his phone, checking repeatedly before his expression darkened.
"Two months left, huh? I'm actually looking forward to it!"
Compared with the tension on Yaga and the others' faces, the man who had received the prediction of his own death remained composed.
Perhaps excited and expectant would have been more accurate.
He was looking forward to an opponent against whom he could go all out!
Although Jiahao was strong, Satoru Gojo could not bring himself to attack his own student with the intent to kill.
If it was a cursed spirit, though, he could ask for nothing better!
Once everyone had digested the first piece of information, Jiahao immediately adopted an even more solemn expression.
"Next comes the second and most important piece of information!"
"Get out your pens and paper, and write this down carefully!"
When Jiahao suddenly fell silent at the crucial moment, Yaga gritted his teeth in frustration, but there was nothing he could do.
With no other choice, everyone had to wait for Itadori to fetch pens and paper from the office.
A few minutes later, Yaga held his pen and paper and glared at Jiahao. "Can you tell us now?!"
Seeing Yaga's studious expression, ready to take notes at any moment, Jiahao finally spoke solemnly. "Since you've asked so sincerely, I'll be merciful enough to tell you!"
"To protect the peace of the world, to prevent the world from being destroyed!"
"Villains who champion the evil of love and truth, handsome and fabulously wealthy!"
"From this day forward, the cursed spirit group led by your king shall officially be renamed the Disaster Cross Society!"
After a long while, Yaga finished writing down every line and looked up. "That's it?"
"What about the most important information?"
Jiahao shrugged. "That was all of it."
"Ha ha, hahahahaha!"
Laughing, Yaga crushed the pen and paper in his hands to dust, took off his jacket, and began warming up.
"Shut the doors!!!"
"Unleash Gojo!!"
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