Mahito was clearly taken aback by the question. He could sense something all too familiar coming from Junpei.
Hatred between humans, grudges born of hurting one another, delicious disgust.
Heh... what an interesting fellow.
Mahito's interest was piqued. He wanted to see where this kid who had suddenly appeared got the nerve to chase after him.
He knew I could kill him easily, yet he still dared approach me. Was he adorably foolish...
Or laughably stupid?
Hahahahahaha!
Contempt churned inside him, but his face wore an unruffled smile. Like a god listening to a believer, he stared straight down at Junpei Yoshino.
With one hand on his hip, he stood quietly before the boy, his posture relaxed.
He waited for the boy's emotions to settle, for his anger to fade, for him... to walk step by step into a hell called heaven!
"Please... wait a moment."
Back at their temporary base outside Jujutsu High, Kento Nanami stopped Kamo Xu.
Itadori had gotten soaked in the rain outside and temporarily left to wash up, giving Kento Nanami a chance to be alone with Kamo Xu.
This should have been a moment worth celebrating, but Nanami couldn't focus on that just yet.
"Those things you killed earlier... they were humans, weren't they?"
Although finding the culprit who had murdered Kamo Xu's mother enraged him, he had keenly picked up on a few clues in their brief exchange.
[Influencing the body by altering the soul]
Didn't that mean those things that looked like cursed spirits... were actually all [humans] whose souls had been altered?
He had noticed it long ago. The question had been there all along.
But with Itadori present, he couldn't bring himself to spell it out.
That was why he had waited until the boy was gone to ask