Jujutsu Kaisen: The Traveler

Chapter 20

It happened a couple of years ago. When young Satoru, out of nowhere, suddenly decided to ask his brother Hiroyuki to spar. It was just a casual spar between two siblings and was made with no hidden intent.

Well, actually, there is an intent but it's not that big —just a mild curiosity of a young child who couldn't hide his interest.

How could he do that anyway? Given the lifestyle revolving around the Gojo Clan.

Ever since Satoru was born, every people around him told him that he was extremely special. That he is going to be someone great in the future. Destined to be the very strongest.

A pretty reasonable thought given that it's always been like that for every bearer of Six Eyes.

But for Satoru himself, he is somehow conflicted with all that statement.

Six Eyes makes its users inherently genius. That's why, despite his young age, Satoru possesses a level of awareness and maturity unparalleled by anyone of his age. Given such a fact, it would make sense how, as time passed by, he noticed the peculiarity that his Brother possessed.

Thanks to his eyes, he can see lots of things even if he wants it or not. But when it comes to his brother, for some reason... he can see nothing about him. Whenever he tries to gouge Hiroyuki out, all he sees is a 'pulsating static'. Nothing more than that.

Or at least, that's how Satoru likes to describe it.

That fact paired with other feats such as... Defeating even the adults with almost no effort, hailed as an unparalleled genius of his generation, cool personality, and that 'Hidden Power'.

For a young mind like Satoru who was always isolated inside the house, void of any normal interaction from kids his age, there is nothing that could be as cool as that. For him, that was the epitome of sheer 'power' and 'epicness'.

Like the superheroes he always watches on TV that hides their powers away and only shows it when needed.

In any case, that's what led to Satoru asking his Brother for a spar. Since kids tend to imitate whatever or whoever they like. So, in short, all of it is so that he can know more about Hiroyuki, to see how much work he should put in to reach his brother's level.

That's it. That's pretty much the reason for it. A pretty simple and cute reason... that unfortunately grew into something else entirely.

Obviously, going into this spar, Satoru didn't expect to win. He fully accepted the fact that he was only doing this to gather information, that's all.

But at the end of the day, Satoru isn't that much of a slacker either. Before asking for the spar, he trained hard for years and was the best among his peers as well. Like Hiroyuki, he is also undefeated in every fight and won all his evaluation tests so far.

That's how talented he is.

So with such a fact, imagine Satoru's expression when the spar ended and what he only found was... emptiness. It was as if he just stared in front of a void.

He found nothing at all.

Well, how could he find something when all his brother did during the fight was jump around and smack his head over and over again until the end of the match? Like that one annoying kid in the arcade who only spams that one button to defeat his challengers.

That's all he did.

And to make matters worse, Satoru gave everything his all during their spar. He used the Six Eyes and Limitless technique without holding back at all. But, despite doing that, he did not even manage to touch at least the hem of his clothes.