Akutagawa Shang completely blanked out, standing rooted to the spot without moving.
Satoru Gojo slowly walked over and gently poked him with a finger.
"Hey, what's wrong, Akutagawa-kun? Snap out of it. Are you still alive...?"
At Satoru Gojo's touch, Akutagawa Shang shuddered violently before slowly coming back to his senses.
He instinctively took a step back, putting some distance between himself and Satoru Gojo:
"Bruh, Sensei, are you serious?"
"Me, fight the strongest of the modern era? Sensei, are you sure you're not just annoyed with me and looking for a legitimate excuse to beat me up?"
Akutagawa Shang looked at Satoru Gojo in terror, his expression filled with a profound appreciation for his own life.
"Huh-?"
"Is that really how you see your teacher? Someone who uses official business to settle personal grudges...? I'm so hurt..."
Satoru Gojo reached up to wipe away nonexistent tears, then slowly said:
"But this training really is something I came up with after careful consideration."
"You thought it over carefully, and this was the plan you came up with?"
Akutagawa Shang frowned at Satoru Gojo, his eyes full of suspicion.
"Come on... don't be so impatient, Akutagawa-kun..."
"Hear me out... your teacher wouldn't hurt you..."
"According to what you said, your current body can use both Maki's and Mai's abilities at the same time, right?"
"In other words, you can now stack reinforcement from Mai's enormous reserves of cursed energy on top of Maki's complete-form Heavenly Restriction, producing an effect where one plus one is greater than two."
"If that really is the case, then even in all of Jujutsu High, there's practically no one qualified to spar with you now..."
At this point, Satoru Gojo suddenly stopped and sighed:
"If only Yuta were still here. Then he could keep having friendly