[Satoru Gojo stood quietly where he was, as the breeze scattered the smoke rings you exhaled.]
[Behind those pitch-black sunglasses, his "Six Eyes," renowned for seeing through every flow of cursed energy in the world, were fixed on your slightly weary, weathered profile.]
[Within his absolute understanding and the logic of his talent, what he had said was plainly an indisputable fact. After all, whether it was the profoundly complex Cursed Technique Reversal or the Hollow Technique "Purple" that existed only in theory, this classmate before him had mastered them first, then casually guided him in turn, breaking through that final thin barrier in his understanding.]
[Yet when you let out that bleak chuckle, as though you had lived through long ages, and looked at him with a gaze mingling envy and helplessness, Satoru Gojo's ever-arrogant, unrestrained heart skipped a beat for the very first time.]
[He keenly sensed that you were not mocking him.]
[The heaviness you exuded, as though weighed down by endless cause and effect, truly existed.]
[This involuntarily sent his thoughts racing. Could it... really not be what he thought?]
[Could this guy truly have paid some devastating price even the "Six Eyes" could not perceive to acquire this terrifying strength?]
[Satoru Gojo did not argue any further. He put aside his usual flippant manner and committed your earlier words of caution deeply to memory.]
[He secretly resolved to put away his playful attitude completely once he returned and seriously study matters concerning "Domain Expansion."]
[Meanwhile, with Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo secretly intervening and providing backup, the work of tying up loose ends after Riko Amanai's "faked death," including fabricating her subsequent identity, went far more smoothly than you had initially expected.]
[Although this strongest duo constantly stirred up trouble in everyday life, they truly