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"All right, Satoru, I understand. Let's not talk about this now... we'll discuss it back at school." After a moment of silence, Sakurada Niji spoke to Satoru Gojo.

"All right~ Up we go~" Satoru Gojo used his Cursed Technique and carried Sakurada Niji over to Shoko like a handbag.

"I can walk... carry the patient with the severe burns instead..." With little cursed energy left, Sakurada Niji could not resist and could only offer a feeble suggestion.

"Are you done, Shoko~?" Satoru Gojo ignored Sakurada Niji and addressed Shoko, who was giving the injured man basic treatment.

"Okay, his vital signs have stabilized. We need to take him back to the infirmary at Jujutsu High to restore his burned skin." Shoko stood up and saw Sakurada Niji dangling from Satoru Gojo's hand. She silently pulled out her camera.

"Shoko, don't turn into a scumbag... you promised Utahime..." Sakurada Niji looked at Shoko in silence, trying to awaken her conscience.

"This is your punishment for not valuing your own life." Shoko was not joking. She earnestly photographed Sakurada Niji, covered in scars.

"Niji, the value of a life can't be measured," Shoko told Sakurada Niji.

"I don't believe any human life is worth more than another, but looking purely at the facts, your death would be a greater loss to humanity as a whole."

"I hope you won't be so rigid. If a cursed spirit takes someone hostage and tells you to kill yourself, will you really do it? Once you die, that hostage will be dead for certain." Shoko pointed at Sakurada Niji, then at the injured man she had treated.

Shoko had never said anything like this before. She had never had any particular thoughts about such things, until one of them happened to her own companion.

Shoko's words left Sakurada Niji silent for a long time.

[Back in Shibuya, Satoru decided those people's lives were more important... so he was sealed... that was because he was confident in his own strength.]

"I understand. From now on, I'll judge whether to save a hostage... based on my own strength..." Sakurada Niji could not be sure he could watch a hostage be killed. All he could give Shoko was a vague promise.

"We're heading out~" Satoru Gojo enveloped Shoko and the burn patient in his Cursed Technique, slowly rose into the air, and began calculating the distance to Jujutsu High.

"Shoko... this won't make me dizzy, right...?" Something suddenly occurred to Sakurada Niji.

"Who knows~?" Shoko smiled faintly and hid the camera behind her back.

Long-distance teleportation in progress----------

Anyone wanting to ask Sakurada Niji how long-distance teleportation felt would have to wait until he finished throwing up...

"Urgh... blegh... cough, cough..." After teleporting, Satoru Gojo took Sakurada Niji straight to the forest beside Jujutsu High and helped him over to some bushes.

Having gone almost an entire day without food, Sakurada Niji had little to throw up. He felt as though he was about to vomit all the acid in his stomach, which burned his throat, yet the severe dizziness in his head still had not eased.

"Please leave a good review~" Satoru Gojo patted Sakurada Niji's back, thoughtfully helping ease his retching.

Once Sakurada Niji recovered a little, he fixed Satoru Gojo with a hard stare.

"Bad... review!" Bracing himself against a tree trunk, Sakurada Niji finally managed to catch his breath.

"Heartbreaking~" Satoru Gojo did not take it to heart and thoughtfully handed him a tissue.

"Click-" Shoko captured this heartwarming scene from the sidelines.

"Never teleport me again..." Sakurada Niji told Satoru Gojo after wiping his mouth. Even his worst bout of carsickness had never been this bad. Once in a lifetime was enough for an experience like this.

"Shoko~ Did you capture my gentle side~?" Satoru Gojo skipped over, took the camera from Shoko, and happily looked at the photos she had just taken.

"Hey... Shoko~ Have you been watching something weird lately...?" Looking at the strange scene on the camera, Satoru Gojo questioned Shoko, who had quietly backed away and pretended to tend to the patient.

In the video: Sakurada Niji bent over with a hand against the tree trunk (vomiting), while Satoru Gojo stroked his back from behind (to keep him from choking on his vomit).

"What did you take this time?! Let me see!" Having only just recovered, Sakurada Niji hurried over as soon as he heard the camera click.

"Nope~ Saku-chan~ Keep trying~" Satoru Gojo held the camera high above his head and even stood on tiptoe.

"..." Sakurada Niji stared at the beanpole before him, nearly two meters tall on tiptoe, and clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles cracked.

"Business first... take Shoko and the patient to the infirmary. We need to restore him to normal as soon as possible." Sakurada Niji walked straight toward Shoko as he spoke to Satoru Gojo behind him.

"Boo-hoo~" Looking as dejected as a pet cat with no one to keep him company, Satoru Gojo trudged over.

The instant Satoru Gojo passed Sakurada Niji, Sakurada Niji sneakily reached out his light-fingered little hand, trying to "borrow" the camera.

"Yay~" Satoru Gojo instantly raised the camera high, his expression (^▽^)ゞ.

"You two little kids~ Have you had enough fun~?" Shoko asked fondly.

"No~ Auntie Shoko~ Come play with us too~" Wearing the expression of an elementary school student, Satoru Gojo began wheedling at "Shoko."

"Enough! Stop playing around! Get to work!" Sakurada Niji strode over, hoisted the patient onto his back, and headed toward Shoko's infirmary.

Although Shoko had said the patient would be fine, Sakurada Niji still felt that playing around in front of an injured person was deeply disrespectful.

"Okay~" Satoru Gojo quietly followed the two of them, and they all arrived at Shoko's infirmary together.

"The patient hasn't eaten for three days. He probably needs nutrients, right?" Sakurada Niji asked Shoko as he laid the injured man on the operating table.

He wanted to use this opportunity to learn some medical knowledge from Shoko so he could treat others himself in the future.

"We generally give a glucose drip to provide some nutrients." Shoko began slipping into professional mode.

The operation began.

"First, administer general anesthesia, then wait for it to take effect. Excise the skin fused together by the burns while using Reverse Cursed Technique to regenerate it," Shoko said.

A little while later.

"All right, the anesthesia has taken effect. Let's begin the operation."

"Okay." Sakurada Niji watched with his full attention.

Operation---complete.

The patient had now essentially returned to normal. Apart from being very pale, his skin showed no side effects. An Assistant Supervisor would later contact the relevant personnel to send him to a regular hospital, arrange his admission, and complete the surgical report retroactively.