"Yo, Geto! Looking pretty beat-up again, huh? How many times has it been now?"
"If you want to take pictures, go ahead. Suit yourself."
"Tch... You're no fun."
"If it's no fun, put your phone down!"
"Nooo~~~ waaay~~~~"
Satoru Gojo pulled a face, admiring the latest prized addition to his collection. Only after checking that the photos were clear and properly saved did he look up at Suguru Geto.
"You two are unbelievable. Both of you kept me in the dark."
"I thought my goal was already quite clear. If you'd been studying seriously too, it shouldn't have been hard to figure out."
"I have been reading seriously-manga counts, right?-but..."
Satoru Gojo's expression changed in an instant, his teeth grinding.
"How the fuck was I supposed to know you'd backtrack, go back to something you'd rejected, and pull this?!"
Aikawa Kaze had thought Satoru Gojo hadn't been studying properly, but that really had been an unfair accusation.
Satoru Gojo had, in fact, given the matter some serious thought. With his intelligence, it wasn't as though the possibility of Suguru Geto attacking Jujutsu Headquarters hadn't occurred to him. It was just...
"You bastard! Weren't you the one who said killing them all wouldn't solve anything and stopped me?!"
The very next second after that possibility occurred to him, Satoru Gojo had ruled it out himself.
Now, thinking back on it made Satoru Gojo furious.
After their mission to escort Riko had failed, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto had witnessed the ugly faces of the Time Vessel Association's members. He'd wanted to kill them all then, only for Suguru Geto to stop him.
Later, when he realized that the upper ranks of Jujutsu Society were corrupt, all cut from the same rotten cloth, the utterly fearless Satoru Gojo had suggested simply slaughtering