HAVEN || SATORU GOJO

XXII

A SILENCE FELL UPON THEM, an eerie calm before the storm, as if time itself held its breath. Ijichi had stood beside the strongest Jujutsu sorcerer alive today. He was quiet and still, contemplating things within his own thoughts. The man was apologetic to the sorcerer's opponents.

He truly trembled that Rieka was not there with them at the moment.

The world stood on the precipice, caught in the tranquil moments preceding an impending storm. Every sorcerer held their breath, sensing the imminent shift in the air. The atmosphere was eluded with a stillness that lingered in every corner.

It was the reality of the path that Suguru had truly taken .. the outcome where there could be nothing left of their youth any longer.

The man looked around .. every sorcerer was on standby, waiting .. embracing what would come in just a few short minutes. feeling the ominous cursed energy ..

Staring at the figures atop the building, his best friend's comrades .. there was five of them .. but where was Suguru himself?

His train-like thoughts had come to a stop as he had felt the familiar feeling of a curtain.

The curse manipulator was at the school .. where Yuta was.

Was that his target all along?

He couldn't afford to go back to the school .. not until he defeated one of the lackeys that seemed to serve as a problem. The other sorcerers wouldn't stand a chance.

"Panda, Inumaki! No questions, I'm sending you two back to the school!" The man grabbed the two by their collar, drawing a transportation circle as the two had disappeared.

It had all occurred so quickly. A dark skinned African man wearing sunglasses and hoop earrings had begun exchanging blows with him. The curses had begun to attack as the first grades wasted no time in wiping them out.

Beads of sweat dripped down the foreign man's brows, their muscles coiled like springs ready to explode. With a sudden burst of speed, Gojo had launched a swift hook to his face as he deterred it to the side with a side step.

"SORRY .. BUT I'M IN A HURRY RIGHT NOW."

The sorcerer had to return to the school as quickly as possible .. he had felt Rieka's presence grow and the disappearance of nearly a thousand different cursed energies in Kyoto.

Had she done it?

His Six Eyes followed with exact paper thin precision. Enough to see every twitch, every eye movement .. all of it.

Clasping his two hands together, Gojo swung the man through three skyscrapers and windows and into a crashing building below them.

He planned to use azure blue to pummel a hole in the ground but the man named Miguel had swung a rope that made contact through his Infinity.

He blinked. His Infinity was always constant and running no matter what .. but that rope had penetrated past it, interfering with his Limitless as well.

It crackled and burned like embers, coiling around the man's arm.

"You're tenacious." His hand sizzled a bit as smoke rose from his fingertips on contact with the object .. it seemed to have a foreign curse woven into it meant to disturb his techniques.

It was going to be troublesome. It just so happened that the most annoying battles he fought were ones in which interrupted the use of his techniques. He had already sealed away the Inverted Spear of Heaven after purchasing it off of the dark web, the previous weapon that had almost taken away his life.