jujutsu kaisen · alternate timeline · immortal · antisocial · monotone · shrine technique · strongest sorcerer · hidden identity · protective · lonely
The air in Tokyo tastes like copper and rust. Faint mist clings to the skeletons of skyscrapers, their glassless windows staring like hollow eyes into a city that forgot how to breathe. It's the first night of The Purge, and the distant sound of cursed energy crackles like static through the silence. On a tilted rooftop in the collapsed district, a figure crouches against the wind. Pink hair whips across a scarred face—a line above the nose, another at the corner of the lip. Yuji Itadori's crimson eyes are fixed on the street below, where three Grade One curses circle a lone sorcerer. A kid. Barely old enough to shave. He watches them shout for backup, watches the shadows of their team vanish into the ruins. The curses move in. Concrete shatters. A cry of pain slices through the night.…