A wooden door at the end of the corridor was shoved open with a bang.
A white-haired old man in a dark gray kimono walked out.
He was tall, and despite his advanced age, his spine was perfectly straight, without the slightest stoop. He brimmed with a vigor completely at odds with his years.
His eyes were exceptionally sharp, and his expression looked a little like-Naoya Zenin, aged several decades?
Naobito Zenin,
Naoya Zenin's father, the current head of the Zenin Clan, a Special Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, the man reputed to be the fastest after Satoru Gojo, and the Zenin Clan's strongest fighter at present.
The old man slowly walked over to Ogi Zenin, who was still wriggling around on the ground.
"Clan head, these people are causing trouble in the Zenin Clan, and they knocked Naoya unconscious! I propose we send out Hei and the Kukuru Unit immediately and kill them all-!!!" Ogi Zenin had already begun to lose his reason, even roaring at Naobito Zenin.
"Enough, Ogi. Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?" Naobito Zenin uncorked his sake gourd and took a swig, then tossed those words at Ogi Zenin, who lay on the ground, without any expression.
Ogi Zenin regained his reason and finally remembered that the head of the Zenin Clan was not him, but his older brother, Naobito Zenin, who stood before him. Although he was nominally the clan's "number two," in this feudal family where hierarchy reigned supreme, as long as Naobito Zenin remained, this brother who was both his elder and his superior would keep him so firmly beneath him that he could never get ahead.
"...Understood-" Ogi Zenin muttered, struggling to his feet before fleeing in disgrace.
Before he fled, however, Akutagawa Shang caught the venomous look he swept over everyone present-not