Geto Suguru wasn't lying.
He had truly come to ask for help.
He sat calmly in the reception room. Masamichi Yaga and Kusakabe Atsuya were both present.
At that moment, another person casually slid open the reception room door and walked in.
She extinguished the cigarette in her mouth and smiled at Geto Suguru.
"I should've known the King of Curses would resurrect you."
Ieiri Shoko walked over and naturally sat beside Geto Suguru.
Compared to Masamichi Yaga, who had shown some surprise when seeing Geto Suguru, Ieiri Shoko's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.
Her familiar greeting carried no shock at seeing the dead return, no vigilance toward a dangerous enemy, and not even the most basic caution.
It was as though Geto Suguru was still that outstanding student from their school days.
As though their relationship had never changed.
Kusakabe Atsuya covered his eyes again and collapsed into his chair.
"Have I entered some tragic literary work?"
"This is Jujutsu High, right?"
"Geto is a Special Grade Curse User, right?"
Kusakabe Atsuya believed he was the normal one.
Masamichi Yaga, Ieiri Shoko, and Geto Suguru were all abnormal!
In fact, if he had known that after Geto Suguru's betrayal, he had even gone to persuade Ieiri Shoko to join him, and that despite knowing she was contacting Gojo Satoru, he remained completely calm—
then he would understand that the current scene was actually rather mild.
And if he knew that Gojo Satoru had already arrived back then, and after exchanging only a few words simply watched Geto Suguru disappear into the crowd, sitting on the stairs like the protagonist of a tragic story—
then he would be completely at ease.
Masamichi Yaga glanced at Ieiri Shoko.
"I thought you had already called Satoru."
"He's currently enthusiastically fighting Sukuna. How would he have time for these trivial matters?" Ieiri Shoko relaxedly crossed her arms on the table.
"I've already sent him a message through Kogane."
"He only replied with one sentence."
"What?" Kusakabe Atsuya asked expectantly.
"Oh, got it," Ieiri Shoko replied.
"'Oh, got it?'"
"Yes. 'Oh, got it,'" Ieiri Shoko confirmed.
Kusakabe Atsuya closed his eyes in despair.
Geto Suguru couldn't help laughing.
His laughter echoed throughout the reception room, to the point where tears appeared in his eyes.
Raising a hand to wipe them away, he said between breaths:
"This really... really fits my stereotype of Satoru."
"It seems he's been living quite energetically these years after my death."
Masamichi Yaga sighed.
"Too energetically."
"Energetically enough to openly declare that he would reform the Jujutsu World while simultaneously raising students one after another..."
"...preparing successors to replace the higher-ups of Jujutsu society."
"The higher-ups probably hate Satoru to death."
Geto Suguru paused for a moment before laughing again.
"That also fits my stereotype of Satoru."
Geto Suguru looked curiously at Ieiri Shoko.
"You said you already judged that I would be resurrected by the King of Curses. Why?"
"Before you appeared, your corpse had been occupied by a thousand-year-old Sorcerer named Kenjaku. At the time, he even led people into the Tombs of the Star Corridor and was ultimately defeated by Yuta Okkotsu."
"We all suspected that it might have actually been you."
"It wasn't until Gojo Satoru had an honest phone conversation with the King of Curses that we confirmed it wasn't."
Ieiri Shoko recalled the events as she spoke.
"At the time, Gojo Satoru formed a Binding Vow with the King of Curses."
"That vow seemed to remove some kind of restriction on the King's side."
"We suspect the King of Curses had also wanted to sever his connection with Kenjaku but lacked the opportunity, until Gojo Satoru's call arrived."
"But that call was an accident—a sudden inspiration on the King's part—not something he had originally planned."
Hearing this, Geto Suguru understood what Ieiri Shoko meant.
He laughed.
"So before that call, the King of Curses had already prepared to turn against Kenjaku."
"And that preparation... was me?"
Ieiri Shoko said proudly:
"Exactly."
"And now, it seems my judgment was completely correct."
"Here you are, sitting right in front of us."
Geto Suguru raised a hand and lightly applauded.
"As expected of you, Shoko."
"I've always thought that if the three of us competed not in strength, but in intelligence, you would be the one who won every time."
Ieiri Shoko straightened her back and cheerfully said:
"Even if you flatter me, you won't get any benefits."
Kusakabe Atsuya finally couldn't take it anymore.
"Hey, this isn't a class reunion!"
"This isn't a class reunion!"
"Geto, are you done with the small talk already? What exactly is your request for help?"
Kusakabe Atsuya suspected that if he hadn't interrupted, this conversation might have continued until after Gojo Satoru finished fighting Ryomen Sukuna.
He wasn't being sarcastic.
He truly felt like he had walked into a class reunion.
The atmosphere felt like old classmates meeting again after years apart, chatting about meaningless topics, unconsciously reverting from modern working adults back into their student selves.
As though nothing had changed.
As though time itself had turned back.
Geto Suguru shrugged.
"Alright, then I'll get straight to the point."
His expression became serious.
"Teacher Yaga, Shoko..."
"I want to deal with Kenjaku."
Although Geto Suguru's resurrection was flawless—both his body and soul were perfect—as a backup plan against Kenjaku, Mahito naturally could not place any Binding Vows on Geto Suguru.
It could even be said that both Mahito and Geto Suguru knew that the moment Geto Suguru was resurrected, Kenjaku would naturally become Geto Suguru's mortal enemy.
Mahito didn't need to do anything extra.
In fact, that was exactly what happened.
When Geto Suguru was resurrected, he immediately decided to exact the cruelest revenge on Kenjaku for wantonly playing with his corpse.
But there was one very awkward problem.
Although Geto Suguru had been perfectly resurrected, precisely because it was too perfect, his Cursed Technique had been reset to zero.
Geto Suguru's Cursed Technique: Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
This is a Jujutsu that grows stronger the more Cursed Spirits it absorbs.
It could even be said that as long as Cursed Spirits do not go extinct, Cursed Spirit Manipulation will only continue becoming more powerful.
This is the foundation of an infinitely scaling Cursed Technique, superior to the Copy Technique.
The Copy Technique, after all, is only one kind of Cursed Technique.
Even if it truly copies the target's Cursed Technique, the Copy Technique cannot unleash its full potential.
In the original work, this was clearly demonstrated: Yuta Okkotsu's Domain Expansion was True and Mutual Love, not the Domain Expansion of the techniques he copied.
The one capable of using the target's Domain Expansion was actually Kenjaku's Brain Exchange Technique.
Yuta Okkotsu once used the Copy Technique to copy Kenjaku's Brain Exchange Technique, then transferred his own brain into Gojo Satoru's body.
Afterward, Yuta Okkotsu "piloted" Gojo Satoru's body and used Unlimited Void.
But Cursed Spirit Manipulation is different.
The absorbed Special Grade Cursed Spirits can use Domain Expansion!
In the original work, when Geto Suguru faced Toji Fushiguro, he released the Slit-Mouthed Woman.
This Cursed Spirit could use Simple Domain.
Within this Simple Domain, although there was no sure-kill effect, one had to continuously answer the question:
"Am I beautiful?"
If the answer was wrong or delayed, scissors would immediately strike.
From this, one could conclude that over time, as the quality of absorbed Cursed Spirits improved, the final form of Cursed Spirit Manipulation would become a monstrous Cursed Technique possessing multiple Domain Expansions, cooperating seamlessly and functioning perfectly.
Most terrifyingly, the spirit storage of Cursed Spirit Manipulation has no upper limit.
In other words, there is no issue of powerful Cursed Spirits occupying too much storage space and limiting the total number of spirits.
As long as Geto Suguru's intelligence and ability to manipulate Cursed Spirits are high enough, he alone could absorb every Cursed Spirit in the world.
And if the quality of those Cursed Spirits were high enough—such as having more Jogo, Hanami, Dagon, Mahito, and the like—then...
...he alone could flatten the entire world.
This was why Kenjaku coveted Geto Suguru's body so much.
It was also the real reason why Kenjaku once stated that:
"The Copy Technique is far inferior to Cursed Spirit Manipulation."
A powerful Cursed Technique, right?
An outrageous ability, right?
Does it make your blood boil, feeling that with such a technique you would become invincible?
Well, such a powerful Cursed Technique has one fatal flaw.
"My spirit storage is currently empty."
Geto Suguru shrugged.
"Unfortunately, without even a single Cursed Spirit, I'm basically just a blank-slate Jujutsu Sorcerer."
"My combat ability isn't nonexistent, but it's only slightly stronger than that of a Grade 1 Sorcerer."
That's right.
The essence of Cursed Spirit Manipulation lies in whether there are Cursed Spirits to command.
Mahito's resurrection had been too perfect.
So perfect that even the Cursed Spirit storage had been completely emptied!
And although even Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes could no longer distinguish between Geto Suguru's Residual Cursed Energy and Kenjaku's Residual Cursed Energy, ultimately, in the eyes of Heaven, they were two entirely different individuals.
Therefore, their spirit storages were not interchangeable.
This meant that even if Geto Suguru wanted revenge, he currently lacked the ability.
Thus, he came to Tokyo Jujutsu High seeking help.
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