Shoko walked into her office. Busy days at work had long since become routine.
It was always the same: dissecting her comrades' corpses or using her cursed technique to treat injured jujutsu sorcerers.
Shoko sat down at her desk, reached out, and took a book from the shelf on it-
It was the study material Ze Zenin had given her before she took her medical licensing exam.
She slowly leafed through it. Its pages had yellowed, time wearing away their former appearance. Only the slightly curled corners told of the days she had spent painstakingly memorizing it in classrooms and dorm rooms as a girl.
"This is..."
Shoko turned to a photo. Looking at the expressionless boy in the photo-booth sticker, she couldn't help smiling.
"You big idiot." Shoko gently stroked the photo, then took it out and set it beside two other frames.
One held a group photo of everyone at Jujutsu High. Shoko stood in the middle, with Gojo and Geto beside her and Ze Zenin behind her. Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami stood at the far ends.
In the other frame, a girl with short, light brown hair sat blushing beside an expressionless boy...
Yet Shoko had noticed the faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
Suddenly remembering something else, she hurriedly got up to search for it.
She opened the cabinet beneath her desk, revealing a thick diary.
"It's pretty old, but luckily, I can use my cursed energy to preserve it." Shoko smiled, two faint dimples appearing on her lovely face.
Shoko had developed the little habit of keeping a diary as a child...
Opening the first page of the thick diary, she was greeted by lines of writing:
Mid-April 2005. Spring.
Rain pattered outside the windows as the boys and girls at