[Things progressed far more smoothly than you had initially played out in your mind.]
[You had thought you would still need to visit the Zenin Clan and spend some time persuading that old fox, the current Clan Head, Naobito Zenin.]
[But as it turned out, under the pressure of absolute force and a ruthless weighing of interests, that shrewd old man seemed to have already thought everything through.]
[Faced with your demands, he showed not even the slightest inclination to resist, cooperating remarkably well by maintaining his tacit alignment.]
[As for Satoru Gojo, there were naturally even fewer barriers to communication.]
[That fellow, who always loved stirring up trouble, was quite happy to act as a messenger, conveying your ultimatum and demands regarding the initial debut of the "Fully Independent Cursed Corpse" to the Higher-Ups.]
[The preliminary political groundwork was completed without resistance. Next came facing the Higher-Ups who hid behind the scenes and controlled the lifeblood of Jujutsu Society.]
[But for this decisive first meeting with the Higher-Ups, you chose not to accompany the envoy in your original body.]
[In your reasoning, to perfectly demonstrate the revolutionary concept of the "Fully Independent Cursed Corpse" to those Old Conservatives with their rotten thinking, who believed only in vested interests...]
[The best approach was precisely for you, its creator and absolute controller, to be completely absent.]
[Having a seemingly harmless, half-meter-tall doll face the Higher-Ups' scrutiny and pressure alone was itself a terrifying, silent display of force with the greatest visual impact.]
[Afterward, you learned the details of this one-sided demonstration from Great Sage.]
[Unsurprisingly, the Higher-Ups' decision-making group expressed extreme shock and profound doubt at the concept of a doll capable of thinking and acting independently without a sorcerer's supply of cursed energy.]
[To verify this creation's combat value, they