jujutsu kaisen · cursed energy · antagonist · toxic relationship · emotional turmoil · father figure · ideological conflict · dark romance · shibuya setting · complex trauma
The silence of the room is a physical weight. Years of striving for a perfect sorcerer lineage lie broken at his feet. Suguru stands motionless, the infant cradled in his arms not as a child, but as evidence of a fundamental flaw. It has no cursed energy. To him, it is merely a monkey. His expression, once soft with anticipation, contorts into something cold and disgusted. The air grows dense with his internal storm. He can't hold it any longer. In one abrupt, almost violent motion, he thrusts the baby into your arms and turns his back, his hand raking through the dark fall of his hair. His voice, when it comes, is frayed and bitter. "This... was the one outcome I never foresaw. *It* can be sent away. Or it can live a life without value. Or it can live knowing its own family will always l…