"Right, right! Your school isn't all guys with no girls, is it?"
Although Itadori wasn't particularly interested in romance, a school that only recruited males seemed strange to him. After all, he might not be interested in women, but that didn't mean he was interested in men.
Hearing the concerns of Seiya and Itadori, even Gojo Satoru had a few black lines appear on his forehead. Are these two mistaking me, Gojo Satoru, for a pervert? And if Masamichi Yaga, the principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High, heard this, these two would definitely be severely disciplined.
"Of course not! While our Tokyo Jujutsu High is different from normal high schools, we definitely admit female students. And I can guarantee that our school not only has pretty female students but also some very lovely female teachers! If you're lucky, you might even see alumnae who are actually famous actresses!"
Hearing Gojo Satoru's words, Fushiguro's face couldn't help but twitch. While Gojo-sensei's words were, strictly speaking, true, Fushiguro suspected that the type of beautiful students and teachers at Tokyo Jujutsu High were definitely not what Seiya and Itadori were imagining.
"Although our looks are slightly inferior compared to yours, since the Jujutsu High you speak of only accepts handsome guys, I feel it's my duty to accept the offer."
"Since Seiya agreed, and I get to study in Tokyo, I naturally won't refuse either."
Seiya and Itadori ultimately agreed to Gojo Satoru's recruitment pitch. Joining Jujutsu High was one of Seiya's original goals. He currently possessed powerful Cursed Energy but lacked systematic methods for using it. The Cursed Techniques he knew were mostly Onmyōji techniques from the Tokyo Ravens world. While there were similarities between the two, fully recreating and applying those powers in this world required a deeper understanding and mastery of Cursed Energy. Jujutsu High was precisely the training ground for this; systematic training and guidance would be much more efficient than trying to figure things out on his own.
Gojo Satoru was quite pleased to hear Seiya and Itadori were willing to enroll. He hadn't expected to find two such promising talents on this trip.
However, before taking them to Tokyo Jujutsu High, Gojo needed to verify a few things, so he asked Itadori to release Sukuna once more. Gojo had actually been nearby when Sukuna and Seiya were fighting. Initially, when Sukuna awakened, he considered intervening to suppress him. But after seeing Seiya's skill and power, Gojo was both surprised and curious to see how far Seiya could push Sukuna, so he chose to observe from the sidelines.
The final outcome was surprising to Gojo: before Seiya and Sukuna could conclude their fight, Itadori, who should have been completely consumed as a vessel, suppressed Sukuna's consciousness. That was Ryomen Sukuna! Normal people who swallow Cursed Objects instantly go berserk and become Curses. But Itadori swallowed a Sukuna finger, an object more dangerous than an average Special Grade Cursed Object, and yet he was completely fine—that was truly ridiculous.
Gojo Satoru didn't deny Seiya was a genius, but he found Itadori Yuji to be even rarer than a Cursed Technique genius like Seiya. Sukuna's fingers had always been a major headache for the higher-ups in the Jujutsu world. If Itadori Yuji could suppress Sukuna's consciousness as Gojo suspected, his inherent value was immense.
Inside the prison of consciousness, Sukuna was also incredibly furious. He was just about to kill the brat who dared to mock and challenge him, but at the crucial moment, the vessel, the kid named Itadori, somehow managed to suppress his consciousness. He's just an ordinary kid and just my vessel, yet he can suppress my consciousness! Where do I, Lord Ryomen Sukuna, go to complain about this? Having lived for over a thousand years, Sukuna had never felt so utterly humiliated.
After just awakening, he was first beaten senseless by the brat named Wenren Seiya, and then his consciousness was suppressed by Itadori Yuji and trapped in this cage-like place. The King of Curses has never suffered such a loss in all these years!
When he was suppressed back into Itadori's body, Sukuna had already decided that the next time he regained freedom, the first person he would kill would be Seiya, and the second would be Itadori.
However, as Sukuna silently calculated his kill list, he also overheard the conversation between Gojo and Itadori. Sukuna was thrilled by Gojo's suicidal request; he hadn't expected another chance to take control of the body to come so quickly. Sukuna believed Itadori's successful retrieval of his body was due to an accident or coincidence. If he got out this time, he guaranteed he wouldn't give Itadori another chance. If he got out, he'd first use his Domain, Malevolent Shrine, to kill that Gojo Satoru, then smash Wenren Seiya to death with his fists, and finally rip out Itadori's heart so he could never jump out and cause trouble again!
Outside, assured by Gojo Satoru's confident guarantee, Itadori slowly closed his eyes. As Itadori focused his mind, the black tattoos on his face and arms reappeared. Clearly, as Itadori lowered his guard, the Sukuna within him once again took control of the body!
"Mortals, I, the Great..."
Sukuna, excited upon making his entrance, was about to vent his fury and begin his slaughter. Before he could even finish his introductory monologue, his body was punched by Gojo Satoru and sent flying, then subjected to a relentless ten-second beating without any chance to fight back. It was only then that Sukuna belatedly realized that the silver-haired Sorcerer before him was far from simple.
"Itadori-kun, that's enough. Do you still have the ability to take back control of your body?"
When Gojo Satoru asked this question, Seiya, standing nearby, could sense that if Itadori failed to regain control, Gojo's handling of him would have been drastically different from the original story. Gojo and Itadori had just met; they had no deep bond. Gojo was a Special Grade Sorcerer, not a rookie. If Sukuna's consciousness truly awakened and could not be suppressed, Gojo would likely choose to temporarily imprison Itadori to prevent the disaster he could cause while they searched for a solution.
Fortunately, Seiya's worries did not materialize. Soon after Gojo's question, Itadori easily suppressed Sukuna and regained control of his body.
Returning to Itadori's body, the humiliated Sukuna recorded this new shame and immediately added Gojo Satoru to his kill list. Gojo even surpassed Seiya in rank, earning the top spot on the list of targets.