At the edge of the barrier of the Tokyo Jujutsu High, a slender figure stood silently in the shadows.
Suguru Geto turned his head one last time, taking a deep look at the campus that had carried so much of his youth and passion.
In the infirmary, Shoko was likely still pulling an all-nighter studying those tedious jujutsu pathologies.
On the training grounds, Yu Haibara and Nanami had been pushed to their limits by Instructor Yoru earlier today; they were probably dead to the world by now.
And that white-haired, blue-eyed bastard was perhaps sitting on some roof somewhere, silently watching his departure with the Six Eyes.
'Goodbye, everyone.'
Geto whispered silently in his heart, then resolutely turned and stepped out of the Jujutsu High barrier.
Outside the barrier, two small figures were huddled behind a tree, shivering.
They were the twin sisters, Nanako and Mimiko, whom he had rescued from that remote village.
Seeing Geto emerge, the two young girls immediately ran over as if they had found their pillar of support, timidly grabbing onto the corners of his clothes.
"Geto-sama..."
Nanako looked up, her face covered in dirt, her voice trembling with fear. "Where... where are we going?"
Geto looked down at the two suffering girls, and his originally cold gaze softened slightly.
He reached out his broad palm and gently stroked their hair.
"Do not be afraid."
"From this day forward, you will never have to suffer the bullying of those monkeys again."
"I am taking you to create a paradise that belongs only to jujutsu sorcerers."
Geto took the two girls' hands and strode into the deep night.
A few hours later.
Geto brought the twins back to his childhood home in the suburbs.
This was where he had grown up, and in the original timeline, it was the starting point where he would have completely fallen into the demonic path and committed the heinous crime of parricide.
Standing before the familiar gate, Geto took a deep breath.
He pushed the door open.
The house was pitch black, silent with an eerie stillness.
There was no warm greeting from his mother, nor any stern yet caring rebuke from his father.
The place was empty.
Just yesterday, Yoru had used his unfathomable methods to secretly move Geto's parents abroad without anyone being the wiser.
It was said that he had even deliberately arranged for them to live in the same neighborhood as Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi, making them neighbors.
Yoru had even prepared everything—passports, identification, and a bank account with enough money for an ordinary person to live on for a lifetime.
At the thought of this, a grateful smile tugged at the corner of Geto's mouth.
He walked to the coffee table in the living room.
A letter lay there silently.
Geto opened the envelope by the moonlight.
The letter was from his mother. The handwriting was a bit hurried, but every line was filled with concern for her son.
"Suguru, although that young man named Yoru said you were going on a secret mission to save the world and needed our cooperation to seek refuge..."
"...Mom knows that ever since you were a child, you've liked to shoulder everything on your own."
"Do not push yourself too hard."
"Remember to eat on time, and put on more clothes when it gets cold."
"Your father and I will take care of ourselves abroad. When you finish your mission, our family will be reunited."
Looking at the familiar handwriting on the paper, Geto's eyes reddened.
A single tear fell quietly, landing on the letter and blurring a patch of ink.
"I'm sorry, Father, Mother."
"Your son is unfilial."
Geto closed his eyes and pressed the letter to his chest, taking a deep breath.
When he opened his eyes again, the warmth and weakness in them had completely vanished, replaced by a chilling coldness and madness!
'If I'm going to act, then I must perform perfectly!'
'If I'm going to become the greatest evil, then I must make everyone believe it without a doubt!'
"Come out."
With a thought, several hideous cursed spirits instantly appeared in the living room.
"Destroy... everything here!"
At Geto's command, the cursed spirits let out piercing shrieks and began to frantically destroy everything in the house.
Furniture was torn apart, walls were smashed, and the television was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.
In an instant, the entire house was turned into a complete wreck.
Next, Geto took out several large buckets of pig blood he had prepared in advance, expressionlessly splashing the foul-smelling blood onto the walls, the floor, and the sofa.
The thick scent of blood instantly filled the entire house.
To make the scene even more realistic, Geto even drew a dagger and, without hesitation, carved a deep wound into his own arm.
He allowed his own blood to mix with the pig blood, dripping onto the fake remains.
Nanako and Mimiko hid outside the door, watching the hellish scene inside the house, covering their mouths in terror.
But they did not run away, because in their hearts, Geto was already their one and only god.
After finishing the preparations, Geto stood in the center of the blood-soaked living room.
He slowly raised his hand, a ball of searing cursed energy fire condensing at his fingertips.
"It is time for this pitiful farce to come to an end."
Geto whispered like a demon to the empty house.
"Goodbye, to this hypocritical and rotten world."
"BOOM!"
The cursed energy fire was hurled out, instantly igniting the flammable materials inside.
Raging flames soared into the sky, quickly swallowing the house that held all of Geto's past memories.
The firelight reflected off Geto's handsome yet cold profile, making him look exceptionally eerie and mad.
He turned around, took Nanako and Mimiko's hands, and walked into the darkness without looking back.
Only the soaring flames remained, raging wildly against the night sky.
The next morning.
When the pursuit team from Jujutsu High and the investigation squad from the General Headquarters arrived at the scene, only a smoldering ruin remained.
Masamichi Yaga stood before the debris, his eyes bloodshot.
He could hardly believe the report he had just received.
Suguru Geto—the star student who always insisted that 'jujutsu sorcerers exist to protect non-sorcerers,' the Special Grade sorcerer he had placed such high hopes in...
He had actually defected?!
Furthermore, he was suspected of slaughtering 112 villagers in a remote village?!
"Principal Yaga, we've found extremely thick bloodstains and cursed spirit residues in the ruins," an investigator reported, his voice trembling as he ran over.
"According to preliminary identification... the amount of blood at the scene was enough to be fatal."
"Moreover, we found a message written in blood on the wall."
Yaga took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart. "What message?"
The investigator swallowed hard and tremblingly handed over a photograph.
In the photo, written in stark, crimson blood on the charred wall, were several large words:
[MONKEYS DESERVE TO DIE.]
The moment he saw those words, Yaga felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His body shook violently, and he nearly collapsed.
Yaga closed his eyes in pain, two lines of tears sliding down his rugged face.
He knew that those words meant Suguru Geto had personally severed all his paths of retreat.
Killing ordinary villagers might have been explained away as a mission going out of control.
But parricide was an absolute taboo that could never be forgiven in any era or society!
From this moment on, Suguru Geto's title as the most heinous curse user was set in stone!
The news spread back to Tokyo Jujutsu High with terrifying speed.
The entire school fell into a state of dead silence and panic.
As the night deepened, the fire gradually died out, leaving only charred ruins to tell a tale of desolation in the cold wind.
Geto did not look back. He held the two girls' hands and walked with firm steps toward the endless darkness.
From this moment on, he was no longer the genius student of Jujutsu High, but the most irredeemable demon in the eyes of the world.
And this was merely the opening act of this world-shaking play.
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