Two days later, at the Gojo Family.
"Divine Child, here is the information you requested."
An Assistant Supervisor from the Gojo Family handed Satoru Gojo the compiled data on Eiji Zenin, which he had organized overnight after receiving the order.
At this moment, Satoru Gojo was chewing on bread, listlessly gazing at the bamboo forest and rock garden in the courtyard.
"Just put it there."
After returning home the night before, Satoru Gojo's two bodyguards had reported the previous events to the family head. Subsequently, the Gojo family head had people gather information on Eiji overnight.
Upon hearing this, Satoru Gojo also requested a copy.
Name: Eiji Zenin
Family Members:
Father: Sho Zenin (Deceased)
Mother: Chiyoko Yukimura (Deceased)
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Below was a detailed introduction to Eiji and his parents' situation.
Sho Zenin did not possess an Innate Technique. He was loyal to the Zenin Family's Kukuru Squad and died two years ago during an extermination mission while covering the retreat of Zenin Family Jujutsu Sorcerers who had failed.
Chiyoko Yukimura was an ordinary person who had always fantasized about marrying into a wealthy family and living a noble life. Unfortunately, after marrying into the wealthy Zenin Family, she discovered that Sho Zenin was not the protagonist of the dramas she imagined, and her life was vastly different from what she had envisioned.
Chiyoko Yukimura, who wanted a divorce, was subjected to the Zenin family's strict laws. In her fear, she abandoned any thoughts of escape.
One year after Sho Zenin's death, 6-year-old Eiji Zenin still had not awakened his Innate Technique. Having lost her last hope, Chiyoko Yukimura hanged herself.
In this world, ages 4-6 are the typical period for Jujutsu Sorcerers to awaken their Innate Techniques. Few people awaken their techniques after this age. Most who do awaken them do so accidentally during life-or-death crises.
However, not everyone is a protagonist in a hot-blooded manga, capable of escaping danger by awakening their technique.
After all, obtaining an unfamiliar ability during a life-or-death crisis can sometimes be a hindrance if not used properly.
Therefore, most people, even if they awaken a technique, cannot escape the fate of death, let alone in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, where even important characters are constantly killed off.
Thus, after Eiji Zenin did not awaken his technique at age 6, Chiyoko Yukimura lost hope of using Eiji Zenin's awakened technique to elevate herself and become someone of status, ultimately leading to her suicide by hanging.
After reading Eiji's profile, Satoru Gojo placed it on the floor beside him, tilted his head back to look at the sky, and began to contemplate what kind of amusement Eiji could bring him.
Meanwhile, in the Kamo Family's grand mansion, an elder with stitches on his forehead was also looking through the same document.
The elder was a Kamo Family elder possessed by Kenjaku, and one of the powerful figures in the jujutsu world. Kenjaku had received news when the Gojo Family used the Management Council's influence to search for a Cursed Spirit to train Satoru Gojo.
With the intention of testing the Six Eyes of this generation, Kenjaku fed a Sukuna's Finger to the Cursed Spirit Satoru Gojo intended to use for training, thus giving rise to the Special Grade Imaginary Curse Spirit, Half-Body Vengeful Spirit.
However, he did not manage to ascertain the situation of the Six Eyes and instead caught another big fish.
"The strongest Summoned Spirit, Mahoraga, which no one has been able to tame in a thousand years. How did that brat manage it?"
Kenjaku was baffled.
"Never mind, the answer will be found someday."
In Kenjaku's view, Eiji had many uses, whether it was subtly bringing him under his control, turning him into a participant in the Culling Game, or keeping him as a spare body.
It would be best to keep such a useful tool under his own control, and at the very least, he could not allow any other family to control him.
"Another five hundred years."
The five-hundred-year deadline was approaching, and the Six Eyes had been born on schedule. The next time Master Tengen would begin assimilation was not far off.
"Will we be able to prevent the assimilation of Master Tengen and the Star Plasma Vessel this time, or will we have to wait another five hundred years?"
Kenjaku's gaze fell upon a game piece labeled the Star Religious Cult.
Subsequently, Kenjaku and the Gojo Family took the same tacit action: concealing traces of Eiji's existence and removing him from the Zenin Family's sight.
Kenjaku did not want Eiji to return to the Zenin Family because he intended to use him himself.
The Gojo Family did not want Eiji to return to the Zenin Family because if Eiji returned, the Zenin Family's strength would greatly increase, and they would possess a means to threaten the child of the Six Eyes.
They wanted to eliminate the existence that could threaten the child of the Six Eyes in advance, yet they were hesitant to act rashly due to Mahoraga's power.
Finally, the Gojo family head and several elders decided to recruit Eiji into their family, keeping it a secret from the Zenin Family.
In their minds, recruiting a child who had been bullied by the Zenin Family and helped by the Gojo Family would be as easy as pie.
Because Eiji did not know how to clean Cursed Energy residue, his whereabouts were still under the Gojo Family's control. All they had to do was stage a few accidental encounters later and offer him favors. Wouldn't this seven-year-old child then happily follow them home?
As for the Zenin Family.
Possessing both the child of the Six Eyes and the unprecedented Ten Shadows Technique's Mahoraga, how dare the Zenin Family make a sound?
It just so happened that Eiji Zenin had been bullied by members of the Zenin Family back then; they would settle that score properly.
Thinking of this, the Gojo family head's aged face broke into a smile like a chrysanthemum. Satoru Gojo, who had just entered the room, saw this scene and turned to leave.
"Ah, it's Satoru. Come and chat with this old man for a while."
Upon hearing this, Satoru Gojo ran even faster.
Born with the Six Eyes, Satoru Gojo possessed unparalleled observational skills, allowing him to perceive countless details invisible to ordinary people. Because of this, Satoru Gojo was far more mature than his peers.
Because those people's thoughts were completely transparent to Satoru Gojo, he didn't need to study micro-expressions; he could guess what they were thinking just by the subtle changes in the adults' expressions.
And he knew that when the old family head made that kind of expression and called him with such an intimate tone, he would probably try to drag him into doing something boring again.
For example, dragging him out to visit people and telling them that he only awakened his Infinity technique at four years old and could exorcise Cursed Spirits at five, saying things like "he's not as good as your child."
"Sigh, why is this child running away."
The elderly Gojo family head shook his head helplessly as Satoru Gojo disappeared around the corner of the corridor in an instant.
He couldn't catch him, he just couldn't catch him.
Meanwhile, Eiji, who was on the minds of Kenjaku and the Gojo family head, was leisurely sunbathing in a small countryside courtyard.
A recently abandoned countryside courtyard with a fence, a newly bought lounge chair, a small fan in his hand, a tea table beside him filled with snacks, and two fluffy large dogs lying at his feet.
"This is the life."
Eiji couldn't help but exclaim.
After resting for a day yesterday, Eiji took advantage of the time before dark and before the shops closed to withdraw some money from an ATM.
After that, Eiji went on a shopping spree in town.
This area was already within Osaka. Whether it was the information he indirectly obtained about the Zenin Family's sphere of influence or the intelligence he got from chatting with Satoru Gojo the day before yesterday, this area belonged to the Gojo Family, and Zenin Family members rarely appeared here.
Therefore, Eiji no longer had to hide. Mainly, the Gojo Family's presence in the plot was too weak, and because of Satoru Gojo, Eiji didn't have any aversion to the Gojo Family.
Thanks to the ATM, which had been in use for many years, otherwise, if a 7-year-old child like Eiji took a bank card with a huge deposit to withdraw money, the bank would probably mistake him for a child stealing money from home and call the police.
He was also grateful to the worker who went to the city to work a few years ago and left the small courtyard to him, allowing him to have a warm little home.
And so, seven-year-old Eiji was living the retired life he couldn't even achieve in his previous life, ahead of schedule.
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