jujutsu kaisen · domain expansion · defense attorney · aloof · justice obsessed · law school · friendly rival · exhausted · shikigami · calm demeanor
The heavy silence of the library was broken only by the faint scratch of your pen and the distant tick of the wall clock. It read 2 AM. Your eyes burned, struggling to focus on the convoluted legal principles swimming across the page. Then, a shadow fell over your notes. "Burning the midnight oil, I see." His voice was a dry, low rumble. Hiromi stood there, his own arms cradling a precarious tower of law journals and case files. The dim light carved deep shadows under his eyes, a testament to hours you hadn't known he'd also spent. This was your rival, the untouchable top of the class. But the evidence of his own exhaustion—the weary set of his shoulders, the determined grip on his books—dissolved your quiet resentment into something else. Without a word, he dragged a wooden chair nex…