However, afterward, in the faculty office, facing Masamichi Yaga, who stood like an iron tower behind his desk radiating an oppressive air, Li Shunchen still chose to confess part of the truth.
He explained what had happened on the field to Masamichi Yaga in exhaustive detail, including how the blast of Hollow Technique: Purple that had nearly split the barrier had actually been his doing, using his technique to replicate Limitless. He also explained that the special nature of his innate cursed technique gave him a far deeper understanding of their techniques than Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto themselves possessed, and that he intended to spend the coming days teaching those advanced skills back to the two special grades.
Upon first hearing these seemingly fantastical claims, Masamichi Yaga's eyes behind his dark sunglasses instantly widened like saucers, and his rugged face filled with barely concealed shock.
But Masamichi Yaga was, after all, an experienced and knowledgeable Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer. After the initial shock, he frowned and thought it over briefly, then gradually came to accept it.
After all, the core mechanisms of Li Shunchen's innate cursed technique, Phantom Parade, were replication and simulation.
While analyzing a target in depth, following the clues to uncover deeper information about the technique being analyzed, and even extrapolating advanced applications, was a perfectly logical extension.
Masamichi Yaga even privately speculated that this might be the true, complete, and most terrifying core of Phantom Parade's abilities.
Especially when Li Shunchen calmly told Masamichi Yaga about his ability to permanently increase his cursed energy capacity by unlocking technique ability nodes, his homeroom teacher's reaction was actually much the same as Satoru Gojo's and Suguru Geto's had been.
To Masamichi Yaga, although rare, this was entirely reasonable. In Jujutsu Society, where equivalent exchange and binding vows