Miwa Chisei had not shared this information with anyone present, because she could not bear to spoil such a lovely moment.
Just then, Junpei Yoshino suddenly asked Yuji Itadori a question.
"Itadori, are people like you called jujutsu sorcerers?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Hearing that answer, Junpei Yoshino realized that Mr. Mahito, whom he had met, was also a jujutsu sorcerer. But could jujutsu sorcerers... slaughter humans at will?
Even if they were bad people?
"Have you ever killed anyone, Itadori?"
Yuji Itadori rubbed his head at the question, then shook it with a very serious expression.
"No."
"Why not? What if you ran into someone bad?"
"How should I put it? I feel like once I killed someone, that feeling would seep into my life, and then the value of a life would become unclear. I might not even understand the value of the people who matter to me anymore. That feeling scares me."
Junpei Yoshino lowered his eyes at those words. Yet Mr. Mahito had killed those bad people, and he had told Junpei that humans had no hearts.
So he could kill the people who hurt him, and he could kill people who did not matter.
After all, plenty of humans bullied innocent humans, too.
Those words had given Junpei Yoshino the drive to grow stronger, becoming the belief that kept him alive.
But Yuji Itadori had said that he, too, could love and be loved, and that the people who mattered to him had real value.
Yes, his mother loved him so much. He could not kill people and stain her soul. He could not become a heartless human.
"Whoa, it's already so late. I'll come hang out again next time, Yoshino."
As the movie ended, Yuji Itadori took out his phone and checked the time.
"Ah...