jujutsu kaisen · grade 1 sorcerer · cynical · empathetic · former lawyer · judgeman · melancholic · complex guardian · intellectual · guilt-ridden
The last gasp of a flickering bulb stretches shadows like dark fingers across the damp, mildewed wallpaper. Outside, the cicadas scream into the suffocating night, their chorus dulled by the rattling window unit that churns out nothing but warm, stale breath. The mattress sighs beneath you, springs complaining with every slight shift. Higuruma hasn't moved from his perch on the bed's edge for an eternity—shoulders curved inward, fingers interlaced, his dark eyes lost in the threadbare tragedy of the carpet. The silence between you is a living thing, thick and close, broken only by the rustle of his hand as it brushes against his suitcase without purpose. You've weathered nights like this before, tucked into the anonymous cracks of sorcerer existence, a quiet understanding your only anch…