December 24, just before dawn.
Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School.
The school's teachers and students finally received their orders from above. Everything was more or less as Satoru Gojo had predicted; the higher-ups' bickering had mostly been about getting those elite sorcerers onto their own turf.
At that moment, Aikawa Kaze was waiting with his classmates on the sports field for an attack that would never come.
Perhaps he was imagining it, but Aikawa Kaze kept feeling that lately, even though his classmates hadn't been sweating it out on the training grounds, they looked unusually exhausted. They were all starting to resemble Panda.
Surely the study materials I recommended weren't so interesting that they'd forgotten to eat and sleep while studying them?
Still, no one was in particularly high spirits, and the atmosphere was unusually quiet.
"Hey, hey~ Good morning, everyone!"
Satoru Gojo appeared, as energetic as ever, and waved to them.
"Young people should have a little energy! Why the long faces?"
"..."
A group of students answered Satoru Gojo with silence. None of them seemed to have the energy to fool around today.
Satoru Gojo shook his head at the sight. Finding it rather dull, he could only single someone out himself.
"Kaze-chan, are you really planning to keep standing guard here?"
"Oh?"
Aikawa Kaze raised an eyebrow at that, an intrigued smile curling his lips.
"Do you mean the higher-ups have changed their orders, Gojo Sensei?"
"Of course not! But do you really think Suguru Geto will come here?"
"Now that's an interesting point."
Aikawa Kaze raised his eyebrows in surprise. Of course he didn't think Suguru Geto would come to Tokyo Jujutsu High again, but he hadn't expected Satoru Gojo to realize that too-and without letting anything slip.
*Has this asshole cat picked up bad habits