Chapter 96

Not long ago, curse users answered to no one and could harm whoever they chose. That whole order collapsed once the Gojo Clan produced an heir whose eyes held the Six Eyes. Furious that his liberty was stripped from him, Awasaka hurls himself at the Jujutsu High students, set on dragging Gojo down into the same loss.

From 1989 onward, the year Gojo entered the world, sorcery's whole shape began to bend. Before his arrival, Ogami and Awasaka slaughtered as the mood took them. Ogami once killed a father's daughter, borrowed the dead girl's form through her seance ability, and used that stolen face to sink a blade into the grieving man's neck. Awasaka, for his part, stripped the skin from the faces of those he caught and tortured them to learn the workings of the body. Neither answered to anyone, and both grew rich putting curses on people for pay. A bounty was eventually posted on the infant who held the Six Eyes, and the two went after it without ever landing the prize; even as a child, Gojo picked the two killers from among passing strangers and shattered their nerve with one cold stare, then strolled off, sneering that weaklings had no business looking his way.

That fleeting brush was all it took to end their unchecked lives. Just by drawing breath, Gojo reset the balance across the sorcery world, stripping curse users of their license and seeding in Awasaka and Ogami a grudge that never let go. Now, out on the expressway, Awasaka feeds that long hatred into his assault on Yuji and Megumi, forcing the two first-years backward while they cannot grasp why none of their strikes seem to land.

Sensing the secret hides inside Awasaka's innate power, Megumi runs a test, shouting a blatant lie that Gojo has turned up in Shibuya. Since Awasaka instantly recognizes it as false, Megumi rules out any plain damage cancellation that might neutralize Limitless. The curse user says he intends to close out the fight, and Megumi responds by releasing his newly acquired Rabbit Escape shikigami, a flood of little rabbits meant purely as a diversion. One rabbit connects far harder than it ought to, and that anomaly is the clue Megumi needed: he scoops up Yuji and declares the enemy's cursed technique solved.