Hanami: "I'm withdrawing. I'm not arrogant enough to face Gojo Satoru."

Roots slowly began wrapping around the curse.

Itadori: "Screw you! What were you all trying to do here?!"

Itadori then tried to run at Hanami but was stopped by Todo.

Todo: "Wait, brother!"

Itadori: "Why are you stopping me, Todo?!"

Todo: "Don't take another step forward... or you'll get caught in it."

Satoru:

A purple sphere appeared in front of Satoru, going at immense speeds at Hanami, completely obliterating anything that came across its path. While creating a groove.

The curse tried its best to protect itself from the upcoming attack.

But as the sphere passed through Hanami's direction, lifting a huge cloud of smoke, that covered Hanami's position.

Todo: "He's just as nonstandard as ever. Now we can't tell if it was exorcised or not."

Itadori had his mouth wide open as he stared at the results of Satoru's attack.

(y/n): "I think he overdid it."

Mai: "Y-yeah"

Miwa: "He's so cool!"

(y/n): "Tch. I can do the same."

Mai: "Oh really?"

(y/n): "of course!"

Mai: "I would like to see you try."

(y/n): "Watch me!"

He stood up but was immediately yanked down by Mai.

Mai: "Not now, idiot!"

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Juzo: "Ow! It hurts!"

Principal Yoshinobu: "Quiet!"

Satoru: "Yay! That settles everything!"

He said as cheerily as ever.

Satoru: Or I guess it doesn't.

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Meanwhile, in a certain location deep inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College, a figure could be seen coming out of a roll-up steel door, carrying something over his right shoulder and a finger on his other hand. As two curses laid death next to him.

Mahito: "I wonder if Hanami's safe. But with him over there should be safe, I hope. Anyways, That's mission complete."

He said those final words as he stared at the finger. To then continue his way.

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Another figure was seen walking through a cave.

???: "I ended up not doing anything. I wonder if they'll be mad."

Suddenly, the roof of the cave behind him began to crack and finally break. Roots appeared from them and a half-dead Hanami appeared from it. Missing its left arm with some parts of the torso, showing parts of its ribs, besides its whole body being damaged.

Haruta: "Though in contrast, you worked too hard."

Hanami then fell to the floor. Normally, Hanami would be kind of fine, but Satoru's attack was way different than others, plus, (y/n) did the same to the curse but to a lesser extent.

Haruta stared at the injured Hanami while licking his lips.

Haruta: "Poor thing."

He got his sword out and began walking towards the curse.

Haruta: "Should I put you out of your misery?"

Before he could continue, he was stopped by someone putting their arm on his shoulder.

Mahito: "Good work. You're just a human. Don't act on your own. Or I'll kill you."

Haruta: "Come on, I'm just being nice. But I guess a curse wouldn't understand such subtleties."

Some seconds passed and he half lifted his arms, freeing himself from Mahito's grip.

Haruta: "So, got the goods?"

Mahito: "Without a hitch. All six of the special-grade 'Sukuna's finger' cursed objects that Jujutsu High possessed... and the other special-grade cursed object, 'cursed wombs: death painting' one through three."

He said as he remembered something said to him by someone, at the beach.

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???: "Most of the temples at Jujutsu High are actually just a facade, Tengen's barrier keeps their position changing every day. Among those, only one over a thousand doors leads to the storeroom that holds cursed objects as dangerous as the fingers. Only Tengen knows which door leads to the storehouse each day, so I doubt anyone will interfere."

???: "Who's Tengen?"

Geto: "A Jujutsu sorcerer with an immortality technique."

Jogo: "Immortality?! Who's stronger, him or Satoru?!"

Geto: "He has immortality, but not eternal youth. You can think of him as just a tree. Tengen basically doesn't interfere with the world, aside from maintaining barriers. You really don't have to worry about him, besides, we can let 'him' hunt Tengen down."

Jogo: "Are you even sure he's still with us?"

Geto: "Only time will tell... Remember the finger we let Jujutsu High retrieve previously? I placed a charm comprised of Mahito's cursed energy on it before they collected it. It's under a single-layer seal, so they won't remove it. He'll be able to find it easily."

Mahito: "Any gatekeepers?"

Geto: "There are two of Tengen's attendants between the door and the storeroom, but they're chumps. More importantly, before the veil goes down, I'd like you to thin out the sorcerers standing by Jujutsu High as quietly as possible. We want to reduce the burden on Hanami."

Hanami: "Why aren't we sealing Gojo Satoru within the veil?"

Geto: "because we don't want him to redirect his attention towards Mahito's mission. And we need him to exercise a degree of his full power, or it won't be a proper test of the vail. Trapping the students inside will be more effective."

Hanami: "Is it okay to kill Sukuna's vessel?"

Geto: "That's fine, but I wouldn't recommend it. Sukuna's actions aren't quite what I imagined. This is just my guess, but I believe one of the students acts as a land mine for Sukuna. If we step on that, then in the worst case, all of our plans will be ruined, perhaps 'he' would go after Sukuna, we can also use him if things go south, he will probably want to fight you, Hanami."

Jogo: "You should stop thinking of him as still one of us."

Geto: "I have confidence."

Jogo: "Right... We should just kidnap Itadori ahead of time. He's also a pawn we'll be using anyway."

Geto: "No, Itadori... or rather, Sukuna himself, is also a bomb. Both for us and Jujutsu High. We shouldn't agitate it until the moment we want more chaos: October 31st, in Shibuya. We should keep everything we can use to seal Gojo Satoru in reserve until then. We'll have a few curse users accompanying us, too, but Kumiya Juzo... He's disposable. He's not the kind of person who can follow a plan all the way through. He'll get in our way later. We'll have a different human monitoring our commissioned test run of the veil, so get along with them"

Mahito: "Hear that? Get along, Jogo!"

Jogo: "Hmph! I'm not going, anyway."

Geto sighed as he looked up in the air.

Geto: We'll meet again, Nakatomi-Kun.

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Back at the cave, Mahito carried Hanami over his shoulder.

Mahito: "Come on, wake up, Hanami. Let's go home."

Hanami: "Mahito."

Mahito: "Hm?"

Hanami: "Trying to pump the brakes on my hostility is incredibly stressful."

Mahito gave a slow chuckle as he began to walk.

Mahito: "You're starting to sound more like a curse, too, Hanami."

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The senseis were together in a room, discussing the now solved situation.

Ijichi: "Next up are the casualties. Three second-grade sorcerers, one semi-first-grade sorcerer, five assistant supervisors, and two cursed storehouse guards. They're all sorcerers who were standing by at Jujutsu High and working separately from Gojo-san and Principal Yaga. We're waiting on the report from Ieri-san, but we're nearly certain it was the work of the cursed spirit that Nanami-san encountered before."

Satoru: "Tsk."

Utahime: "Do you think we should share this information with the students and the other sorcerers?"

Principal Yoshinobu: "No."

Principal Yaga: "It's probably better to keep this among the higher-ups. We don't want to give cursed users certainty that special-grade cursed objects were stolen. Has the curse user we captured spilled anything?"

Ijichi: "It's not hard to get him to talk, but most of what he says is irrelevant nonsense. However, he claims that he only participated in the attack because he was ordered to as part of a deal."

Juzo: "I wanted to make a coat rack. That monk promised me that. I don't know their name, I couldn't tell if they were a man or woman. Just a brat with white hair in a bob cut."

Mei: "An androgynous monk kid with a bob cut? That ring any bells?"

Satoru: "Nope. We sure he's not spouting bullshit? Is there any sorcerer skilled at getting confessions"

Utahime: "How did a cursed spirit and outsiders get through Tengen-sama's barriers in the first place?"

Satoru: "That was probably the work of the special-grade cursed spirit the students fought. That one has a unique presence. Even though it's a cursed spirit, it's incredibly close to a natural spirit. According to Aoi, it was able to hide among plants. And Tengen-sama's barrier doesn't function against plants. Tengen-sama's barrier puts all its power into hiding, not protecting. So once you get in, it's kind of weak." Are they worried about Sukuna's fingers enhancing Yuji's potential? Or are they trying to enhance themselves? Something isn't sitting right.

Utahime: "For now, let's be glad our students are safe."

Principal Yaga: "But it goes without saying that the exchange event is now canceled."

Satoru: "Hold on. That's not for us to decide, is it?"

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Meanwhile, (y/n) had just gotten healed by the Juutsu High's medic, Shoko Ieri. But still had to have a bandage around his wounded shoulder.

She opened the door of the medical bay and stood there with (y/n).

Ieri: "You should be fine now. But try to not do that again."

(y/n): "Yeah, yeah."

Ieri returned to the room as (y/n) walked out and adjusted his eye bandages, which were a new pair he had put on. His clothes were also new since the old was ragged.

Upon coming out of the building, he spotted Mai standing over the door, like she was waiting for someone.

(y/n): "Mai?"

Mai: "O-oh, you're out already."

(y/n): "What are you doing here?... Waiting for me, perhaps?"

Mai: "O-of course not! I mean-! Shut up, you blind idiot!"

Mai would usually tease (y/n), as she would with the other Kyoto students, but (y/n) would tease her in return, never failing to get her flustered.

Mai: "L-let's just go back, they're waiting for us."

(y/n): "Wait, can we walk for a moment, Mai?"

Mai: "Hm? What for?"

(y/n): "I want to speak to you."