Cataclysm [jujutsu kaisen fanfic]

chapter five

"where are we going ?" Tomoe asked as they walked side by side with her usual outfit. looking around the outskirt of Tokyo, she never seen a place like this. it was full with nature and even more serene than the shrine.

"i promised you to bring you to jujutsu tech, right ?" Satoru said, watching as she kept looking around and not staying put.

"oh yeah ! but, didn't you say i have to at least to be able to see those ugly things ?" Tomoe questioned curiously, and Satoru just smiled.

"not necessarily. i have a student that has little to no curse energy at all, but she still could see through different means." Satoru said.

"like that time you did in the forest ?" Satoru hummed.

"however, you were imbued only temporarily with the help of my curse energy over your eyes. for her, she had a pair of glasses that imbued with curse energy and she can use it at any time." Satoru explained, which caught her interest.

"well, can you make me one too ?" she said, and added playfully.

"don't worry, i look good in glasses too."

"it would be useless on you. unlike you, she's master in martial arts." she pouted.

"Gojo-san, i may look like this, but i still can pack a punch." she said, approaching Satoru and threw a punch onto his abdomen with her slender hand. it felt as if someone just poke on his abs, but she looked so proud that he did not dare to laugh.

"come on, i already informed your arrival as a new employee."

"already ? you really want to get me out of there hellhole huh ?" she snickered and turned around, walking ahead of Satoru.

"that place was load of crap anyway."

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Tomoe entered the room similar to any pharmacy. however, the room did not smell any disinfectant like any hospital or pharmacy would smell. it was like a simple office but with a few extra beds in the room to lay around.

"Shoko, i bring your assistant !" Satoru shouted in the room of no people, that what Tomoe saw anyway when she entered the room, but she heard shuffles coming from behind a curtain and saw a tired and gloomy look of a girl, a bag case of eyebags were both on her eyes.

"i don't need anyone to assist me, Satoru." she said, although she still walked closer to the both of them and greeted Tomoe.

"hello, i'm Tomoe." Tomoe bow down a little to her new colleague, and Satoru liked to see that she was behave and respect a senior. even Shoko seemed impressed and had a change of heart seeing her.

"although, i do need a few hands in a few things." she said followed with a yawn.

"yep. i think you need some goodnight sleep, Shoko." Satoru said, backing away when Shoko flapped her hand at him.

"what are you doing ?" he asked.

"leave us alone, now. i'll be in charge on this new intern." Shoko said with her lazy eyes still trailed on him. he just nodded affirmatively as his eyes went to Tomoe. she looked a little awkward but he knew she could warm up with Shoko soon.

"he looks extra weird being with new people." Shoko said, walking across her office with a yawn. Tomoe just stood at the place where she was left, did not know what to do the first thing.

"or perhaps ?" her eyes went to a pair of dark ones turning to look at her, giving a suspicious look. she immediately shook her head with a scrunch.

"nah, no way. he's too young for me." she shook her hand along, finally comfortable herself to lean onto the bed.

"too young ?" Shoko looked at pink-haired fenale through the corner of her eyes, noticing that Tomoe caught her bait.

"hm ? Satoru, you know that i don't like working with other people, unless they could also to reversal curse technique and lift up the burden on my shoulders. an assistant with no curse energy ?" Shoko stopped talking when Satoru raised a finger, telling her she was getting at the point.

"that's it. she doesn't have a curse energy."

Shoko eyes widened for a moment, thinking of any possibility that she would be similar to Maki Zen'in and Toji Fushiguro, but she quickly shook her head.

"a normal human can also acquire that condition. they simply blessed with not having to live in fear of the cursed spirit." Shoko interjected Satoru's thought and even her own.

the possibility of bringing danger into jujutsu tech in this situation is high. among the sorcerer, two of Zen'in people were born without cursed energy. she even had the data of the wanderer, Toji Fushiguro, then she should also get another data of another person of no-cursed energy if she was a sorcerer.

Satoru would not being a simple person into Jujutsu Tech. there should be a reason.

"believe me Shoko." Shoko were taken aback for a moment, before she frowned.

to see him being genuine in this matter was rare.

"i have thia gut feeling, that she was not a simple non-sorcerer." Satoru rested a few fingers on his lips, a smile grazed on it.

"we need to keep an enemy close to us, anyway." he spread his hands.

"not that i say she was an enemy, yet."

"from a female to another." Shoko said, leaning to the bed opposite of Tomoe, who did not look like a nervous intern now but simply a buddy who was here to talk.

"how old are you ? i'm curious." Shoko questioned.

The pink-haired girl hummed.

"If you're that curious then i'll tell you."

Tomoe smiled.

"i am 38 plus 1000 that divided by two and each multiply with two and put the two together and minus 2000."

shoko looked up in a daze as she was calculating, but in the end, she just frowned.

"38 ?"

"Ting ting ting, you got it right !" Tomoe grinned at the correct answer, annoyed Shoko who actually cannot believe she was 38 with that personality. she also looked younger than the said age.

"yes, i am 38."