Once they entered Tokyo Jujutsu High, which looked more like a deep-mountain temple than a school, Seiya and Itadori were quickly brought by Gojo Satoru to the Principal's office.
There, they met Masamichi Yaga, the Principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High, who had the imposing aura of a yakuza boss but whose hobby was creating adorable stuffed dolls.
"You must be Wenren Seiya and Itadori Yuji, the two Gojo Satoru told me about. Before we proceed, I have a question for you: Why do you want to enter this school?"
Faced with Yaga's piercing question, Itadori fell silent. Initially, he just thought going to school in Tokyo would be nice, but after learning about Curses and Sorcerers, he recalled his grandfather's last words. Is he here because of his grandfather's will, or his own?
"Before coming here, this guy named Gojo Satoru told me that tuition is waived, fighting won't get you demerits, and even the school uniforms are provided for free. That's why I came."
In contrast to the silent Itadori, Seiya answered quite directly.
Unfortunately, neither the silent Itadori nor the casually answered Seiya satisfied Masamichi Yaga.
Yaga waved his hand, and two muscular stuffed dolls immediately leaped out from beside him, charging at Seiya and Itadori in sequence.
"If you don't know the answer yourselves, then let me help you. A person only looks at their true heart when they are pushed to their limit, and at that time, your inner self will tell you the real answer."
The doll charging Itadori was a green Kappa. After taking one of Itadori's powerful punches with its face, it ricocheted off the surrounding walls, gaining speed, and finally bounced back to strike and send Itadori flying.
Seeing Itadori's plight, Seiya looked at the muscular Rabbit doll pouncing on him, a slight smile playing on his lips. He put down his travel bag, clenched his fist, and adopted an attacking stance.
Masamichi Yaga specialized in creating Cursed Corpses (Jutai) that were autonomous, which were the dolls now attacking Seiya and Itadori. Because the Cursed Corpses possessed a core, they could move independently and had certain combat capabilities. If Yaga put his mind to it, he could theoretically mass-produce an army of them. Due to their plush exterior, Yaga's autonomous Cursed Corpses had extremely high resistance to physical attacks. As long as the core inside the doll remained undamaged, the thing would theoretically not fall.
The autonomous Cursed Corpses charging Seiya and Itadori were roughly at the level of a Grade 3 Sorcerer. Considering Seiya and Itadori were just ordinary high school students until recently, Yaga believed this level of Cursed Corpse was enough to push both of them to their limits.
"Tear—!"
However, an unexpected sight quickly unfolded before Yaga.
The boy named Yuji Itadori, the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna, was indeed getting beaten back and forth by the Kappa doll, just as he had anticipated.
But the Rabbit doll attacking Seiya was smashed in one punch upon their first exchange. The doll, which had extremely high physical resistance, now had a large hole punched through it by Seiya, and even the core inside was not spared.
After accomplishing this, Seiya slowly lowered his outstretched fist, looked at Masamichi Yaga seated at the head of the room, and said, "You said this thing could push me to my limit? You're underestimating me too much. If you really want to see my limit and decide if I qualify for this school, you should at least find a decent opponent, or better yet, Principal, why don't you step in yourself and show me how excellent your school is."
Faced with the arrogant and battle-ready Seiya, Yaga didn't reply. Instead, he turned to the observing Gojo Satoru.
"He only looked at it once and immediately knew how to use Shockwave (Hatsudou) techniques to neutralize the doll's physical resistance. And he accurately located and pulverized the core inside with one strike. You told me this level of combat skill and insight belongs to an ordinary high school student?"
Gojo Satoru had definitely briefed Yaga on Seiya and Itadori's situation. Yet, looking at the scene before him, Yaga felt that everything Gojo had said on the phone was complete nonsense. According to Gojo, while Itadori was unique as Sukuna's vessel, both Seiya and Itadori were just ordinary high school students before that night.
And now... you call a high school student who can one-shot a Grade 3 Cursed Corpse an ordinary high school student?!
"You really can't blame me. I specifically looked into Seiya's background. Aside from being an orphan, which makes his origins a bit mysterious, his life truly wasn't any different from an ordinary high school student before that night Sukuna awakened."
Superb martial arts skill with shockwave techniques, and the vision to instantly find a weak point... This guy was nothing more than a local delinquent before now?
As Yaga listened to Gojo's words, his look toward Seiya became increasingly strange.
The truth was, Seiya had undeniably passed the entrance examination by destroying the Grade 3 autonomous Cursed Corpse with a single blow. But now, looking at Seiya, Yaga was curious to see just how far Seiya's limits actually extended.
Clearly, a regular Cursed Corpse wouldn't be able to test this boy's capabilities. Asking Gojo Satoru to step in would be overkill, and more importantly, Yaga worried that Gojo would be too rough and might ruin such a promising talent. As for stepping in himself? Yaga had considered it, but realizing he was the Principal and that Seiya's tone was extremely arrogant, if he did what Seiya asked, would he, Masamichi Yaga, have any face left?
"I think Panda is around the school, right? Go tell him to be this kid's entrance exam opponent."
Yaga waved his hand, and one of his autonomous dolls quickly received the command and left.
Since it would take some time for the so-called "Panda" to arrive, Seiya stood next to Gojo and watched the Kappa doll beat up Itadori.
As the "child of the world" who had now swallowed two Ryomen Sukuna fingers, Seiya, Gojo, and Yaga all observed that Itadori's growth rate was astonishing. Although he was initially taking a one-sided beating, as time passed, everyone present was surprised to see Itadori consistently dodging the doll's attacks. Furthermore, in his final move, he even adopted the exact same stance as Seiya had earlier and instinctively unleashed a punch similar to a Shockwave Technique using Cursed Energy!