Aoi Todo looked at Yuji Itadori before him, once again automatically ignoring Junpei.
He said calmly, "You, the skinny guy beside him, leave... I don't want to hurt you!"
"Huh?" Junpei looked at Aoi Todo in confusion, increasingly convinced that something was wrong with this guy.
"Go, Junpei. The more cursed spirits you exorcise, the better our chances of winning!"
"That guy's a grade one!" Junpei snapped under his breath. "You'll get seriously hurt holding him off alone!"
"Don't worry!"
Yuji Itadori confidently pointed at his heart. "That guy definitely won't just sit back and watch. Doesn't he still want to take over my body?"
"Sukuna..." Junpei seemed to understand. He gave Yuji Itadori a long look, then turned and left.
All that remained was a spirited one-on-one showdown between Aoi Todo and Yuji Itadori.
They fought using nothing but their bodies. Aoi Todo could tell that Yuji Itadori didn't know how to use a cursed technique, so he refrained from using his Boogie Woogie as well.
In his mind, the Yuji Itadori standing before him was already his best friend!
As Yuji Itadori kept attacking, Aoi Todo grew more convinced of his strength and increasingly excited.
"Good, good... Your body's smaller than mine, but your raw strength is actually much greater!"
Yuji Itadori gave the muscular man before him a strange look. In that man's eyes, he actually saw... pleasure?
A bad feeling crept into Yuji Itadori's mind, and he suddenly shuddered.
This guy... isn't gay, is he?
The two continued trading punches in the forest, each preoccupied with his own thoughts.
"So, why did you want to become a jujutsu sorcerer?"
Leaning against a large tree, Mai asked her older sister, Maki, beside her.
"Why?" Maki looked at her younger sister, momentarily taken aback. Rather than answering directly,