❝she's very observant❞

"MARRI! ARE YOU OKAY?! ARE YOU SURE THAT YOU CAN BEAT HIM AND HIS STINKY AS—"

kugisaki hastily bonked the pink-haired boy on the head, making him wince as he had promptly shut up.

"yeah, I'll be okay", the little girl calmly responded.

"but—"

"by the way yūji, good luck today. I will be watching you guys fight against my curse friends", marri smiled, gently squeezing the boy's hand as she skipped off to who knows where.

meanwhile the kyoto students have arrived, yoshino suddenly felt himself tense up, as he doubted whether he'd be able to catch up with the others or not.

he surely didn't want to be a burden.

"well look~ if it isn't the tokyo studen—"

"we saw them on new years", kamo stated, interrupting mai.

"can't you just let me have my moment?!", she seethed, huffing as she crossed her arms and saw yoshino, who awkwardly looked away when meeting her gaze.

"oho? and I suppose that's that new student? he might look a bit like okkotsu yūta, but I can tell that their skill level are on vastly differential levels", mai mocked, making yoshino feel his gut wrench even more.

"that may be true, but at least he's trying, and he's not alone", itadori huffed.

"JUST LIKE YOU AND ME, BROTHAAA!! REMEMBER THE TEARS AND SWEAT WE SHARED ON THE ROOFTOP OF OUR DODGY SCHOOL?! WHEN YOU COMFORTED ME BECAUSE TAKADA-CHAN SAID THAT SHE WAS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE?!"

tōdō sniffled a bit as the man had a strong imagination, to which itadori had just scratched the back of his head.

"bro, we met like three tim—"

"we should get on with our competition and talk after", maki intervened, as she couldn't take anymore of this bullshit that people were spouting.

"gojō-sensei already explained the rules and said to head towards the open field, so let's not waste anymore time".

maki led the group as the kyoto and tokyo students separated, getting five minutes to devise a plan meanwhile the principals and staff sat in a room, where mei mei's — a sorcerer who's very motivated by money — crows showed them different sections of the field.

"so where's your daughter, satoru? I thought you said she was going to be here today", mei mei commented.

satoru feigned distress as he took a sip of his piping hot green tea.

"she's on the field with them", satoru calmly replied, making everyone turn towards the man like he was insane.

"you let your four year old daughter...go on a field with sorcerers-in-training...and special grade curses?!"

"well she's friends...with most of them", satoru smiled, to which iori had flinched, aiming her cup of tea at the man as she marched off, on a mission to go retrieve marri.

"you should follow her", mei mei suggested, to which satoru had sighed as he too left the room.

* ‧̍̊˙· 𓆝.° ｡˚𓆛˚｡ °.𓆞 ·˙‧̍̊

marri was hopping from tree to tree, making binoculars with her hands as she spied on all the kyoto and tokyo students that had apparently all split up.

"ugh...more work for me", marri complained as she first found nishimiya and kugisaki.

marri sighed, shaking her head.

"they're like fans of the zenin twins...as they should be", marri smiled, as not too far away was maki and mai having a one on one battle.

marri was truly amazed at how maki quite literally caught the bullet before it had hit her forehead. it was beyond impressive and badass.

the little girl then spotted panda versus mechamaru, to which the robot man had complained about not having a real body or something, making marri now intrigued.

"I'll ask hito to like make a new one for him or something. after all, can't he like use his trans...fig...what was that word again?"

marri then left as she had found tōdō teaching itadori and yoshino how to use their cursed energy, to which she wasn't particularly interested, as she was already well-versed in it.

though it wasn't long before the trio were interrupted by mahito, to which she was amazed at how creative the curse was with his body.

"the body is shaped based on the soul", he said.

marri hummed as she wondered if she could change her body too, to which she had breathed in and breathed out, focusing all her energy on her hand.

the girl then closed her eyes, peeking with her left eye as she saw no change.

"okay, so maybe not", she bitterly muttered as she then saw twigs burst from the ground not too far away.

"TEA?!"

the girl hastily swung from tree to tree like a monkey. as she popped her head out from the leaves, marri saw kamo and megumi against hanami, meanwhile inumaki seemed a bit worn out.

she couldn't be more impressed with how kamo was using his blood manipulation technique as he could practically make arrows — and basically anything — out of it.

"don't move!", inumaki repeated, spitting out blood as marri made a mental note to buy inumaki some warm ginger soup for his throat.

though hanami was disabled for a moment, he had quickly regained his own body control and shot branches at the students.

a small volcanic eruption also happened at the same time, to which marri knew that it must've been jōgo against the girls.

"woahhh!! lava..."

"MARRI! WHERE ARE YOU MARRI?!", iori shouted using a megaphone.

"EVERYBODY PAUSE RIGHT NOW AND—"

satoru suddenly snatched the megaphone from iori's hand as he too started shouting.

"NO WORRIES GUYS!! KEEP FIGHTING! YOU ALL ARE DOING GREAT, EXCEPT YOU KYOTO LOSERSSS—"

"HEY! DON'T LISTEN TO THIS MAN CHILD! YOU GUYS KEEP SQUASHING THOSE TOKYO STUDENTS AND—"

everybody stopped as even the curses had no idea what was going on.

a distance arguing was heard as the two jujutsu instructors fought over the megaphone.

"LET ME—"

"NO! GIVE ME THE—"

"MARRI! COME GET YOUR FATHER!"

"MARRI, STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND ENJOY THE FIGHT!", satoru hollered back.

marri giggled to herself as she sighed, hopping off the tree as she made her way to the two.

"I'm here, I'm here", marri waved, to which the two had momentarily stopped bickering, as iori checked to see if whether the girl was wounded in any way, shape, or form.

"marri! do you know how dangerous it is to be in the middle of the battlefield? it's not a place for kids", iori reprimanded.

"normal kids", marri corrected. "I'm not normal, and plus, I was just doing some training".

"training? for what?"

"for when I whoop naoya's as—I mean arse".