Reborn in Jujutsu Kaisen world with THREE WISHES

16- Goodwill Event- Fight with Miwa, Kamo and Mai

"Tokyo-Kyoto Sister School Goodwill Event will be held across two days. First day, we'll have a team battle. It's the Wacky Spirit Bash Race!" Principal Yaga explained, "Rules are simple. The team who eliminated the Grade 2 cursed spirits released within the school grounds wins! Grade-3 and below curses have been released too. If there's no winner by sunset, the winner is decided by the number of eliminations. There are no other rules. You may hinder your opponents in the race, but don't kill each other. Don't cause irreparable damage to your opponent."

After the rules were explained, the students got ready for the team battle. While the students were preaparing for battle, Gojo spoke with Utahime in private.

"I suspect there is a traitor among us." He said. He knew the curses were planning to replace humans and they also plan to seal him in prison realm to render him unable to fight. They also planned carefully in the previous incidents so that he couldn't join the fights. Their plans however failed because they didn't know one factor, which is Sachiko taking out two of them. But, except that, they seemed to know inside-outs of the Jujutsu high. Those feats will not be possible without someone from their side betraying them. He realized this.
So, Gojo explained why he thought there was a traitor and asked Utahime to investigate.

After that, he reminded Yuji that the higher ups might use this event as a chance to get rid of him.

"But isn't this a school event? Isn't it obvious if I died?" Itadori asked in confusion.

"Well, accidents can happen, Itadori. So, they can just claim it was an accident if you died. I won't be surprised even if they bribed the students to do the job." Sachiko said as she walked over to them.

"Oh, you get it, Sachiko?" Gojo said.

"How couldn't I? They even tried to get rid of me silently in the past two months with the reason being I did one thing. Just one thing that interfered their plans." Sachiko let out a bitter laugh.

" What? They tried to kill you too?" Itadori was surprised.

"Yeah. It's not like they tried to do the job themselves but it's more like leading me to more dangerous cases on purpose so that they could claim I died while exorcising a dangerous curse. I suspect it was the case with Mahito, too. I'm sure Gojo sensei also noticed that. But he's so black-hearted that he didn't even bat an eye when those incidents happened."

Noticing the glare Sachiko gave, Gojo tried to defend himself , "That's not true. I was always looking after you when I noticed their plans!"

"You weren't even there when I fought with Mahito." Sachiko pointed out but Gojo was quick to reply , "I sent Nanami with you! Also, didn't you say that you learned a lot that day? You can even say that it's for your own growth."

"But what if I actually died? Aren't you being so unreliable, sensei?" Sachiko asked with a pout.

"..You won't die, Sachiko." Gojo said, "Why? Because I have faith in you that you will not be taken down by those petty plans. And you proved me right , didn't you?"

"...That's not even the point.." Sachiko complained but she couldn't help but blush when Gojo said he had faith in her.

"But, don't get me wrong. I didn't really expect some of the events to happen like that and when I did, I was always away on a trip and couldn't really interfere. Maybe that was their plan all along. But.." Gojo said as he looked at her with a serious expression, "if I could do anything, I wouldn't just let you deal with all those danger alone."

"...." Sachiko didn't say a word. She didn't think she needed to as she subconsciously hugged Gojo. Gojo froze, not expecting to be pulled into a hug and he wondered how Sachiko could touch him while he had his infinity turned on. Did he subconsciously turn off infinity when she suddenly tried to hug him? Or was there any other factor?
However, he forgot those thoughts soon as he felt tears falling onto his shoulders. Was she crying?