"Hoish… so tell me, Haruto, what do you want?"
On the grounds of Jujutsu High, wearing a blindfold in the middle of the day, Gojo Satoru asked as he swung on the swing, uncharacteristic of his age.
"Tell quickly, I am a quite busy man, you see."
"Busy?"
"Yeah, I will be leaving Tokyo for a bit now…" Satoru said as he laughed, continuing to swing. "So tell me fast."
"Okay… well, I wanna learn something from you."
Haruto didn't know why he felt awkward saying this as he continued.
"I wanna learn a few things from you."
"Oh well… you are my student, so learning things from me is quite natural, you see. But I can't give you dating tips."
"You require my level of looks to pull those things off… hahaha."
"The fuck you mean—"
If this were anime, you could have seen a vein popping out of Haruto's head before he sighed.
"Sigh… I wanna learn more things and test my technique a little bit. So please, can't you help me a little?"
Joining his hands together, Haruto pleaded as Gojo swung up from the swing, performing a roll midair before landing gracefully like a gymnast.
"Hoish… oh well, what kind of teacher would I be if I can't teach my students a little bit!"
Turning a bit, Gojo stretched as he released his muscles.
"So tell me, what do you wanna learn? Sense of humour? Trash talking? Pickup lines?"
"None of that, please…"
Haruto sighed as he facepalmed.
"Something curse-related and cool, like barrier techniques, Domain—"
"Nah, nah. You are too young for those."
Gojo rejected it as he shook his head and hands altogether.
"What do you mean? Those are things that need to be taught in the curriculum of Jujutsu High."
Yeah, they have a curriculum in sorcery…
'With Gojo teaching, does this curriculum ever get completed?'
Haruto thought, but knowing that the teachers for second and third year were different, Haruto deduced they did all the work here.
"Yeah… but at higher classes. Well, maybe I could have taught you that, but you are too new to this world, Haruto-chan. It's okay to take things slowly."
Honestly, Gojo's real reason for not teaching much during the first year is because he wants these kids—who would be putting their lives on the front lines against curses someday—to get a proper childhood, at best.
Gojo wants the kids to enjoy the best years of their life, and that may be why he doesn't want to throw them into heaps of books and subject them to traditional studies so early on.
"First of all, don't call me that…"
Haruto clenched his fist as he felt a shiver run down his spine the moment Gojo called him that.
"Secondly, aren't you curious about the limits of my technique?"
"Aren't you curious about how fast I could catch up to you?"
The sentence made Gojo silent as he leaned down to Haruto's eye level, the smile on his face receding a little.
Ruffle. Ruffle.
"Oh my. Haruto-chan wants to reach my level!"
Ruffling his hair, Gojo muttered as the grin on his face returned once again.
Boom!
A blue-coated fist aimed at Gojo's body—too bad for Haruto as it stopped midway.
"Has anyone ever told you how annoying you are, s-e-n-s-e-i?"
With a crooked smile on his face, Haruto muttered as his hands trembled, trying to dig deeper into the barrier of Infinity.
"Oh come on, Haruto-chan. I ain't even that special!"
With his hand scratching the back of his head, Gojo looked sideways with a wide, goofy grin on his face.
"But then again… your statement just now is interesting."
Gojo looked back at Haruto as he leaned back, taking a few steps.
"I am really interested in how far this technique of yours can go, Haruto."
With a normal smile on his face, Gojo put his hands back into his pockets.
"So yeah, let's check it out. What do you wish to learn?"
'Finally.'
Haruto sighed inwardly as his eyes blazed with eagerness. His mind rattled with a lot of techniques as he uttered the name of the technique he was most curious and excited about.
"Reverse Cursed Technique!"
Not actually a technique, but a high-level trick where sorcerers are able to generate a positive force called Reverse Cursed Energy.
It's a very high-level skill that only the most skilled sorcerers can perform. A handful of people at present times, namely—
Gojo Satoru
Shoko Ieiri
Kenjaku
Yuki Tsukumo
Okkotsu Yuta
Uraume
And Sukuna, if you could consider him half reincarnated.
"Reverse Cursed Technique? Really?"
Gojo made a strange face.
"Where did you even hear that?"
"Assistant Manager Kiyotaka, when I asked about any technique that can heal the body."
Haruto said with a straight face, having everything prepared.
"It's a very high-level technique, you know. It's—"
"I know, I know!"
Haruto butted in.
"Just show it to me already!"
Changing the properties of cursed energy, healing the human body, regeneration—there are countless applications and uses of Reverse Cursed Energy, making it a very lucrative skill to have.
"Alright, alright."
Gojo said in defeat before raising his hands as red energy flared up in his palms, different from normal cursed energy.
Haruto could feel a warm current from the radiated energy—the advanced form of cursed energy that is not natural in occurrence.
"Reverse Cursed Technique is a special type of cursed technique that takes cursed energy and reverses it into positive energy."
Mid-technique, Gojo muttered as his other hand flared up similarly.
'Sage.'
Ignoring what Gojo said, Haruto immediately deployed Sage.
With his curse sense concentrated on Gojo's hands, Sage calculated the structure of the energy itself.
Calculating cursed energy movement, structural formation, behavior, and interaction—Sage worked at full speed.
Haruto's hands flared up with cursed energy themselves in response as his eyes remained focused on Gojo's hands.
"Blah blah—"
Gojo kept muttering gibberish, but Haruto didn't listen as the cursed energy in his hands kept changing.
Great Sage went through trial and error based on the data she was getting, analyzing the RCE as she slowly formed the accurate structure.
"So don't get disappointed when you—"
Gojo stopped mid-sentence as his eyes suddenly moved to Haruto's hands.
His smile disappeared.
The color of cursed energy in Haruto's hands slowly changed before red took its permanent residence.
Extra Skill: "Reverse Cursed Energy" successfully acquired.
The voice of the world resounded in Haruto's mind as he raised his hands with a grin.
"So you were saying something?"
With his eyes moving back to Gojo, Haruto said calmly as Reverse Cursed Energy flared up in his hands, causing Gojo's mouth to twitch.