Meanwhile.
After Megumi Fushiguro and the others met Utahime at the agreed location, they were shocked to hear the details of their mission.
"A mole?! Mechamaru??"
The investigation into the Special Grade Curse's intrusion at the Jujutsu High Goodwill Event had remained unresolved. They had never expected Utahime to say that Mechamaru was likely the one who had leaked information about the event to the curses.
This time, they were going to Mechamaru's location to confirm it. If the suspicions proved true, they were to arrest him on the spot.
Junpei's pupils trembled. "N-no way, right? Mechamaru... how could he be the mole?"
He had sat at the same table as Mechamaru when they ate hot pot, and they had added each other as friends afterward. Mechamaru was a good person, and his concern for his companions was certainly no act.
The curses had invaded the Goodwill Event and injured plenty of people. How could he do something that endangered his own companions?
"But this is the only answer left..."
Utahime's voice was subdued.
Of course she did not want to suspect her own student. She got along well with every student at Kyoto Jujutsu High, and they liked coming to her to chat and discuss their problems. She was more a friend than a teacher.
Mechamaru-or rather, the boy whose real name was Kokichi Muta-was also one of her best-behaved students. He had never given her any cause for concern.
Yet when she followed Gojo's advice and investigated the mole at Kyoto Jujutsu High, repeated searches and eliminations had left Kokichi Muta as the only possible suspect.
Kokichi Muta possessed an extraordinarily long-range Cursed Technique that could operate without his physical presence, along with versatile abilities that let him create and control machines even as small as insects.
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