"Run? Mei Mei, it seems you're not getting away."
A teasing voice echoed.
Gojo Satoshi suddenly appeared at the Kyoto trio's hiding spot, and the Curse Corpse live broadcast had already locked onto their location.
"Impossible! You were clearly a full kilometer away!"
Kamo Kenshin's expression changed drastically. He hadn't expected Satoshi to appear in front of them in the blink of an eye.
That one-kilometer distance had been deliberately chosen. It allowed them to support Satoru's battle quickly while staying far enough away to reap the benefits when the opportunity arose.
But in front of Gojo Satoshi, that carefully calculated distance had become meaningless.
Countless viewers watching the Curse Corpse feed were just as stunned by Satoshi's sudden appearance.
None of them had seen how he moved. Even the broadcast from the cursed puppet in the sky had failed to track him.
If Satoshi hadn't intentionally revealed himself to let the broadcaster capture his arrival, the audience might have lost track of him entirely.
...
After this period of recovery, Satoshi's body had returned to peak form.
With the perfect synergy between his Heavenly Restriction physique and mastery of Shunpo, Satoshi was easily the fastest across short distances.
That said, Satoshi himself didn't consider himself the fastest.
In fact, it was Satoru, who had mastered the advanced application of Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue, who was unrivaled in long-distance mobility.
In the original timeline, Satoru had crossed cities in the blink of an eye, teleporting from battlefields to Jujutsu High and bringing Yuji back instantly.
Satoshi knew he couldn't replicate that level of speed.
After all, this was the world of Jujutsu Kaisen. The Limitless Technique remained the pinnacle of technique, its status unshakable.
...
Yoshinobu Gakuganji and Sekiguchi Seiji exchanged glances, silently suppressing the shock in their eyes.
Then, Sekiguchi Seiji muttered sarcastically.
"Kyoto High students sure know how to pick a spot. Yaga's Curse Corpse broadcast couldn't find them for so long. Who'd have thought they were hiding right there?"
"If I'm not mistaken, this is supposed to be a goodwill competition between Kyoto and Tokyo Jujutsu High, right? A test of combat prowess, not hide-and-seek."
Seiji instantly saw through Kamo Kenshin's intent to capitalize on the chaos.
Satoshi, Satoru, Suguru, and Shoko were all from Tokyo Jujutsu High. If they exhausted themselves and Kamo Kenshin swooped in afterward, only Tokyo's reputation would suffer.
Still, Seiji had absolute faith in Satoshi.
As Tokyo's principal, he had personally witnessed Satoshi obliterate six of Sukuna's fingers. That scene was still burned into his memory.
To him, the only person who could threaten Satoshi was Gojo Satoru himself.
Even if the trio drained Satoshi's stamina, that would never give Kamo Kenshin's team the edge.
Satoshi's strength had already far surpassed anything Kamo Kenshin could comprehend.
Yoshinobu Gakuganji heard the shade in Seiji's tone and let out a few coughs before speaking gravely, leaning on his cane.
"Fighting isn't always about head-on clashes. Strategy is just as important. A sorcerer's duty is to exorcise cursed spirits. You don't face a spirit stronger than yourself and blindly charge into death, do you?"
He raised his heavy eyelids and looked toward Yaga Masamichi and Yuki.
"If that were the case, all sorcerers in Neon would've gone extinct long ago."
Though Gakuganji was clearly frustrated by his students' cowardice, he still needed to defend them.
They were his students, after all.
Yuki, on the other hand, didn't care at all about what Kamo Kenshin and the others had done.
In the eyes of this Special Grade, nothing the Kyoto trio did could affect the outcome.
Yaga Masamichi shared a similar sentiment.
People like Gojo Satoshi stood on a completely different level than the rest of their generation.
The only reason this proposal for the Sister School Goodwill Event had passed was because the General Directorate wanted to observe Satoshi's actual combat strength.
They wanted to know just how wide the gap was.
How many people would it take to match the current Gojo Satoshi?
Had it not been for the fact that it was inappropriate to let Yuki participate as a teacher, the General Directorate had even suggested letting her join the event herself.
Ultimately, this exchange only had one real point of suspense.
Satoshi was facing the best talents from both schools. Could he still display overwhelming dominance?
Yes. Even though the higher-ups disapproved of Satoshi's existence, none of them doubted the power of Ryomen Sukuna or his resilience.
For Satoshi to have defeated him at all already meant there was a massive power gap.
So what everyone wanted to see now... was just how massive that gap really was.
As for the Kyoto trio?
Frankly, the General Directorate didn't care.
Even if their strength was impressive among their peers, they had no Zanpakutō.
And that meant they were ultimately irrelevant.
(To be continued.)
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