[Turning back the clock a little, while bloodshed swept through Shinjuku, a suffocating silence hung over Jujutsu High, far away on the outskirts of Tokyo.]
[The lights in the first-year classroom were off. Yuta Okkotsu sat alone at his desk, leaning back against his chair and staring blankly at the dim ceiling.]
[As the central trigger for this "Night Parade of a Hundred Demons," he was suspected of being Suguru Geto's true target. There was also a profound fear that if the terrifying power of the Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit "Rika" went out of control in such a high-pressure, large-scale melee, all of Tokyo would become hell on earth.]
[He had therefore been strictly forbidden from participating in this all-out battle in Tokyo and Kyoto, left locked inside this seemingly safe barrier like a prisoner.]
[His classmate Maki Zenin, whose unusual constitution left her born without cursed energy and unable to see cursed spirits, had also been forcibly stripped of her right to fight and made to remain at Jujutsu High, under the higher-ups' utterly hypocritical pretext of "protection."]
[The scenes of your lightning-fast yet brutally savage battle with Suguru Geto on the school field that day replayed uncontrollably in Yuta Okkotsu's mind.]
["Mr. Li... his file clearly only lists him as a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer."]
[Yuta Okkotsu murmured to himself, his voice filled with profound shock and confusion.]
["But to uphold the line he refused to cross, he showed no fear even against that legendary Special Grade. He didn't even hesitate to risk his life in that almost self-destructive way. I always feel like Mr. Li is different from every other teacher. Even Mr. Gojo..."]
["Bang!"]
[Before Okkotsu could finish muttering to himself, the classroom door was kicked open with tremendous force.]
[Maki stood in the doorway