"Knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock."
Like a dying invalid, I jolted upright in bed.
Who was it? So annoying, this early in the morning.
[Friendly reminder: host, you can use Cursed Speech to open the door.]
[Oh.]
"[Open]."
Satoru Gojo raised an eyebrow in momentary surprise, then came bounding inside.
"Time to get up, get up, get up, Edano~" Then he sat down beside the bed, grabbed my shoulders, and shook me like mad.
"Ahlelelelelele... Stop shaking me, stop shaking me, G-G-G-Gojo... Aaaaaaaaaah..."
After quite a while, Satoru Gojo finally let go. "Awake now~?"
His answer was a thud!
He had shaken me unconscious.
When I blearily opened my eyes again, I found 285 staring at me with sparkling, tear-filled eyes.
Seeing Satoru Gojo sitting beside the bed without his blindfold, silently shedding tears (fake ones), his soft white hair drooping and his sky-blue eyes stripped of their sparkle, I couldn't help softening. "All right, all right, I'm fine. Don't blame yourself too much, Gojo-sensei."
Satoru Gojo looked at me, touched (an illusion). "Really, Edano? You're really not mad at your teacher?"
"Of course not. I can eat, sleep, run, and jump. There's absolutely nothing wrong with me."
"Hahahahaha, that's great! Hurry up and get out of bed, Edano. We're going to pick up our new classmate! Hahahahahahaha..."
He never finished laughing, because my Cursed Speech sent him Blow Away.
"...[Blow Away]." (Through gritted teeth.)
Both he and his blindfold vanished, leaving only my school uniform behind.
Oh dear, now I felt a little guilty. (A lie.)
Whose side were you on, captions?!
(Yours, guaranteed.)
I changed into my custom uniform. Yep, gorgeous. As expected of yours truly-beautiful girl, beautiful clothes. But this skirt didn't quite match the picture I gave them. Did Jujutsu High have that whole "advertised photo versus customer photo" thing going on too?
Tokyo, Harajuku
"Megumi, Yuji, good morning!"
"Morning, Takechi!"
"Good morning."
"Huh? Where's Gojo-sensei?"
I looked around but couldn't find Satoru Gojo anywhere.
"Oh, he just messaged me saying he's up in the sky and we shouldn't wait for him." Megumi Fushiguro waved his phone.
Uh...
"They finished your uniform that quickly?"
"Yep! Does it look good? I designed it myself!"
"Ahem. It looks good." Megumi's ears were red again. Hehe, teasing him every day was so much fun. I finally understood Satoru Gojo's joy~
"It's just that the skirt's a little strange. I don't remember designing it like this..." I was a little puzzled. There was supposed to be a patterned strip just above the knees, though it did seem prettier now.
Megumi Fushiguro and Yuji Itadori instinctively glanced at the girl's skirt in unison, then both turned away as though they had been burned.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem. Not at all. I think you look super pretty, Takechi." Yuji looked at me with the sincerity of a big puppy.
"Wow~ Thank you, my little angel Yuji. You look really handsome too!"
"Speaking of which, why's my uniform different from Fushiguro's? Mine even has a red hood."
"You can ask to have your uniform customized, but Gojo-sensei is a repeat offender."
"Ta-da~ That's right! Your teacher took it upon himself to have it altered!" Satoru Gojo suddenly appeared.
"...Anyway, why are we meeting in Harajuku?" Megumi Fushiguro looked at Satoru Gojo.
"She wanted to meet here~"
"Ha! I want popcorn!"
My eyes sparkled. "My kindred spirit! I want some too!"
And so...
"Crunch, crunch." That was Yuji eating popcorn.
"Chew, chew, chew." That was me eating tiramisu.
"Crunch, chew, chew, crunch." That was Satoru Gojo eating popcorn and tiramisu.
"...You guys are so noisy."
"Hehehe."
"Hey, look over there!"
"What the hell? Don't run away! Explain yourself!" Nobara Kugisaki grabbed the talent scout and hauled him up.
"Do we have to go talk to her now...? This is kind of embarrassing." Yuji Itadori held his popcorn, wearing glasses that spelled out "ROOK."
"Tch. You're not much better." Megumi Fushiguro gave Yuji Itadori a disdainful look.
Wow~ What a ship. What a ship~
A chill ran down both Megumi's and Yuji's backs. They turned to find me smiling like an auntie watching a budding romance.
Megumi's mouth twitched. "I feel like you're thinking something bad."
"Me too."
They exchanged a glance, then each rapped me on the forehead.
"Waaah..." I covered my forehead, my eyes brimming with tears. Pitiful, helpless, but not innocent.
"Heeey! Over here, over here!" Satoru Gojo waved.
Nobara Kugisaki put her luggage away.
"Let's introduce ourselves properly, then."
"I'm Nobara Kugisaki. Rejoice, boys." She planted her hands on her hips.
Oh my god, that cool, disdainful little expression was killing me! Let me make this clear: I really wasn't a pervert. Second, I really wanted her to step on me. But since I said right at the start that I was a pervert-no, not a pervert-couldn't you please step on me, my darling Nobara?
Staaare...
"I'm Yuji Itadori. I'm from Sendai."
"I'm Megumi Fushiguro."
Seeing Nobara Kugisaki's disdainful expression, I knew exactly what she was thinking. Yuji Itadori: he looked like a total country bumpkin. He definitely ate his own boogers as a kid. Megumi Fushiguro: just his name, huh? I didn't like guys who thought so highly of themselves. Definitely the type to set fire to a seagull covered in oil.
Life was hard. Nobara sighed.
"Ugh... I've really landed myself in a mess..."
Then I spoke up, a little shyly. "Ahem, I'm Takechi. You can call me Takechi. Kugisaki, can I call you Nobara? You're so cool, so handsome and fierce. Can we be friends?" Shyly-looking-down.JPG.
"Ah! What a pretty girl! Your hair's so long and black, and your eyes are like pools of spring water, so clear and bright. You've got such a great figure, I want to give you a squeeze. Your skin's lovely too, so fair and radiant. You're just a little thin. Are they not feeding you?" I hurriedly stopped Nobara before she went on a rampage. "No, no! I've just had poor health since birth."
"Oh, you poor thing." Nobara Kugisaki tenderly rubbed my cheeks. "It's okay. I'll look out for you from now on. If anyone dares bully you, I'll be the first to beat them up!" With that, she looked ready to go on another rampage.
"Okay! You'll have to look out for me from now on, Nobara!" I hugged her arm with a beaming smile. Nobara immediately calmed down and gently pinched my cheeks.
"..." ×2
"Could you make that double standard any more obvious?!"
"...Are we going somewhere next?"
"Hehehehe." Satoru Gojo snickered wickedly.
"It's not every day we get all four first-years together, and three of you have only just arrived in Tokyo. Of course we're going sightseeing in Tokyo."
"Tokyo! Tokyo! Tokyo!" ×3
"We love Tokyo!" ×2
Knowing Satoru Gojo's tricks all too well, Megumi Fushiguro and I stood silently to one side, watching the other two dance around in excitement.
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