[You showed no surprise when Ryomen Sukuna's almost provocative mockery suddenly rang out in the air.]
[Rather, from the very beginning of your lesson with Itadori, you had fully accounted for the fact that the monster residing inside the boy could share all his perceptions and know everything happening outside. In fact, in your deeper plans, if he did not appear or pay attention to your actions, some of your subsequent arrangements would risk coming to nothing.]
[What you did not know at this moment was that the arrogant King of Curses was not normally the sort of being bored enough to watch every trivial event outside at all times.]
[For a being of his level, the time when he could not exercise absolute control over the body was spent dozing in utter boredom on his throne deep within his consciousness.]
[Yuji Itadori's ordinary, unremarkable daily life, full of youthful spirit, was blander than plain water to an "evil" of his caliber.]
[The sole reason he had opened that second pair of eyes with such focus now was that, after the battle just now, you had forcibly stirred an unprecedented, intensely powerful curiosity in him.]
[You were the only "plaything" he cared about now.]
[You adjusted your glasses, ignored the sneer, and continued speaking to Itadori in a gentle, steady voice:]
["Listen carefully. Even without an Innate Cursed Technique like Megumi Fushiguro's, you can still fight on the front lines as a competent Jujutsu Sorcerer. You need to understand that in the Jujutsu Society, having the talent to sense and control cursed energy, but being born without an engraved cursed technique circuit, is actually not uncommon."]
[Having said that, you did not stop at verbal theory, but took up a stance right in front of Itadori.]
["Hum."]
[A surge of