[Watching Yuji Itadori's small figure gradually disappear at the end of the dusky street, you stood where you were and let the evening sun stretch your shadow long.]
[In truth, the instant you had confirmed Sukuna's presence, your mind had raced through the simplest, most brutal option, and the one most advantageous to the current situation: forcibly taking Yuji Itadori away.]
[With your current strength, secretly taking a child of a few years old from this completely unguarded, ordinary street would have been effortless.]
[As long as you kept him within sight, or simply confined him within the barrier at the lowest level of Jujutsu High, you would have ample leeway to slowly research a way to separate Sukuna's soul, while also bringing this walking "time bomb" completely under control.]
[But that cold thought survived in your mind for only a few seconds before you rejected it without hesitation.]
[Leaving aside the fact that Yuji Itadori's current legal guardian was his grandfather, Wasuke Itadori, simply considering his development as a "person," a child his age ought to receive a normal education and have an ordinary childhood running beneath the sun, rather than be forcibly dragged into the bloody, brutal world of jujutsu to learn about curses and death.]
[You closed your eyes, and images from an earlier simulation surfaced in your mind.]
[In that timeline, where Sukuna had not appeared inside Yuji Itadori's body so early and so strangely, the boy raised single-handedly by his grandfather had grown into a gentle teenager with a wonderful disposition, sunny and cheerful, who would even risk his life to protect strangers.]
[That teenager had his own life, his own clubmates and classmates, and family he cared about.]
[If you forcibly deprived him of the life he should have had merely because of your