A few days after Kamo Tetsuya's body was returned to the Kamo Clan, Miwa Chisei and Satoru Gojo received a message from Tengen.
As promised, Miwa Chisei brought dango from Satoru Gojo's favorite shop.
In a rare sight, Tengen had brewed tea beneath the ancient tree. Satoru Gojo marveled when he saw it.
"You actually have time for this sort of thing, old man?"
Tengen smiled at that, his tone gentle.
"With Kenjaku gone, I can finally breathe a little easier."
Kenjaku had never stopped harming Jujutsu Society, and Tengen had always waited for a jujutsu sorcerer who could truly destroy him.
Jujutsu Society had already endured more than enough because of Kenjaku.
Miwa Chisei set the Three-Color Dango on the low table, and the three settled in as comfortably as old friends reunited after many years.
"Mr. Tengen, Satoru and I came to learn the truth about what happened five hundred years ago."
Tengen cradled his teacup, watching the steam curl upward as his thoughts drifted back to the distant past.
"Kenjaku was always devoted to all kinds of research. The Death Painting Wombs were only one example, but his most heinous creation was the mismatched-eyed jujutsu sorcerer born five hundred years ago."
"That being was created by combining the organs and blood of dozens of outstanding jujutsu sorcerers from the Miwa family and the Gojo Clan. The last time I had seen power like that was from Ryomen Sukuna at his peak."
Satoru Gojo and Miwa Chisei fell silent at his words. Neither had imagined that this was the history behind it.
"The Miwa family was likely the strongest of the Four Great Families at the time. A child with immense cursed energy was born into the family. The Miwa family's cursed energy was ordinarily weak, so a