Like hell he was sticking around. Naoya Zenin bolted fast.
I an, if he did not run now, then what was he supposed to do? Stand there and let chamaru pry all his secrets out of him, then go back and compare notes with Kenjaku?
In the original story, chamaru was the traitor who leaked Jujutsu High's intelligence. He was also the mole Satoru Gojo had been trying to find all along. Gojo had kept most of his attention on the jujutsu higher-ups, never realizing that even among the students there were informants Kenjaku had bought off.
chamaru was born with enormous cursed energy, and the range of his Puppet Manipulation Technique was enough to cover the entire country. He could use countless miniature puppets to eavesdrop, secretly record people, and stay hidden for long periods. He was basically a walking surveillance system.
That was exactly what caught Kenjaku's eye, so he made a deal with the boy and had him continuously provide information on Jujutsu High's personnel setup, technique intel, mission movents, and even the contents of high-level etings.
Not only did he leak the school's defensive arrangents for major events like the Exchange Event, allowing Kenjaku to easily obtain key items such as Ryon Sukuna's fingers and the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, but more importantly, he fully exposed Satoru Gojo's patterns of movent, directly providing the crucial support behind the plan to seal Gojo during the Shibuya Incident.
Strictly speaking, chamaru really was a villain, and a traitor the protagonists could never forgive.
But there was no helping it.
Mahito's Idle Transfiguration was just too absurdly overpowered.
By reshaping the soul, it could even repair the cost of Heavenly Restriction and restore chamaru's congenital disability.
No one wanted to spend their whole life disabled.
Especially not a young guy like chamaru, just starting to fall in love. Sure, his perseverance as a gifted sorcerer despite his condition was admirable, but who would not want working arms and legs so he could show off a little in front of girls?
The boy had been driven into a corner, so he had no choice but to make a Binding Vow with Kenjaku. On the condition that his companions would not be hard, he would continue feeding them information until his body was fully healed.
And in the original story, the mont his body was healed, chamaru imdiately turned on them and tried to fight Kenjaku and Mahito two against one, hoping to use that double-agent move to kill them and earn himself a shot at redemption. That kind of courage and nerve was not sothing ordinary people had.
Unfortunately, chamaru still thought too highly of himself.
He was nowhere near as cautious as Naoya Zenin.
After all, even soone as ridiculously strong as Satoru Gojo had gotten outplayed by Kenjaku and sealed inside [Prison Realm], only getting rescued by Itadori and the others during the Shinjuku showdown.
So what chance did little bro chamaru have of making it big?
In the end, forget beating Kenjaku. He could not even beat Mahito. He just got taken out on the spot.
Still, even if he ended up dying like a writhing worm, at least he died pretty heroically. Most fans sympathized with him and understood that desperation was what drove him into betraying everyone. Since he had already paid with his life, not many people kept blaming him.
This transmigrator often found himself wondering what he should do about chamaru.
Because right now chamaru really was Jujutsu High's traitor, and he was feeding Kenjaku information every day. It was like his own side's map was pitch black while the enemy had full vision. Kenjaku was practically playing with wallhacks, keeping the protagonists pinned down with total map awareness.
But if Naoya Zenin really wanted to expose chamaru, he would need hard evidence. Family influence alone would not be enough.
Otherwise, never mind clearing his own na. This Zenin young master would only end up carrying even more bla, and it was not impossible that Mai and the others would start liking him even less.
So Naoya Zenin had always been trying to pull chamaru back onto the right path.
After all, turning an enemy into an ally was a lot more reliable than making one more enemy.
If chamaru was willing to turn back, then the information Kenjaku got from that point on would be wrong. Maybe even the Shibuya Incident would never happen. Gojo would never be sealed inside [Prison Realm], and Naoya Zenin could even use chamaru's defection to screw Kenjaku over hard.
The problem was that Naoya Zenin had no way to heal chamaru. He simply did not have enough to offer to really tempt him.
And on top of that, chamaru had made a Binding Vow with Kenjaku. The kind of absolute contract that could not be broken, the sort that even Special Grade Curses had to honor, forcing them to have Mahito heal chamaru's body.
If anyone broke that vow, they would be hunted endlessly by fate itself. A top-tier poison oath, the kind of curse that might as well an your whole family dies and your descendants are damned.
So all Naoya Zenin could do was patiently try to persuade the boy, appealing to both emotion and reason, hoping he would co back before it was too late.
Stop while you still can, little bro chamaru.
Once Mahito opens his Domain Expansion, [Self-Embodint of Perfection], you are not so peak final-boss chosen one. You are just going to get folded.
And if you really do end up running with Kenjaku and the others, there is no way I can ignore it. We were teacher and student once. If things blow up, nobody is going to enjoy how that ends.
Naoya Zenin really did not want to fight chamaru.
At the end of the day, judging by the original Naoya's strength, whether he could even beat chamaru was a genuine question mark.
chamaru was out there piloting a giant war machine, while Naoya Zenin was basically out here scraping people down with his bare fists. The two of them were not even from the sa genre.
Sure, now he had so shuriken as weapons, but facing chamaru's top-tier giant puppet, forged from a lifeti of stockpiled cursed energy, this transmigrator still did not feel confident at all.
He could not beat him, right?
He really could not beat him, right?
So even today, when such a perfect chance had fallen into his lap to expel chamaru outright, Naoya Zenin still chose to protect him.
There was nothing more to say.
This guy was sentintal. If things really ca down to it and Naoya Zenin could not beat him, then chamaru would probably rember today, when he had been let off at the last mont, and spare him in return.
Heavenly Restriction was just way too cracked.
Could an ordinary person really beat soone with Heavenly Restriction?
Naoya Zenin thought to himself that he did not want to end up as a corpse either.
But he had to keep his head down and keep building strength. He could not go around chasing empty glory like so hot-blooded conqueror. He had to be even more careful, even steadier.
After all, the opponents waiting for him next were all monsters from high-level matches.
What kind of monsters?
All right, ti to lay it out properly.
Kenjaku. Toji Fushiguro. Ryon Sukuna. The kind of beings who ranked in the top tier of the jujutsu world.
And if the question of the clan head position really ca into it, he might even have to fight gumi Fushiguro too.
Sure, gumi Fushiguro was only a Grade 2 Sorcerer who could get beaten around by a Grade 2 Curse, but his real trump card, Mahoraga, was an absurd monster of pure chanics. If Naoya Zenin, who relied almost entirely on physical attacks, ran into that thing, he could pretty much call it quits on the spot.
"Naoya-sensei! How are chamaru and Nishimiya-senpai?! They're okay, right?!"
As soon as Naoya Zenin stepped out of the detention room, Kasumi Miwa, who had been crouching by the classroom door, hurried over and asked in a panic.
"They used Cursed Techniques to fight in full view of everyone, and they even dragged you, an innocent bystander, into the explosion. Do you really think they'd be fine?"
Faced with Naoya Zenin's question, the blue-haired girl imdiately started flailing and giving the clumsiest defense imaginable.
"T-they were just sparring! They spar all the ti! It really wasn't a private fight! I was there, I can testify for them! And I'm not hurt either!!!"
"That's because I saved your life."
"Ah, then I'm truly grateful. Looks like the only way I can ever repay you in this life is by serving you like an ox or horse."
Kasumi Miwa imdiately bowed and thanked him on reflex. Then she instantly realized what she had just said and hurriedly tried to patch it over with a red face and an awkward laugh.
"Naoya-sensei, you're exaggerating! It wasn't that serious at all! I work out regularly! Even if I really had gotten caught in the blast, I'd just need one day in the hospital before they discharged !!!"
What, did she know Reverse Cursed Technique or sothing?
Naoya Zenin looked at Kasumi Miwa in speechless disbelief, then asked again in an unusually serious tone,
"You really weren't hurt?"
"R-really."
Kasumi Miwa had no idea why Naoya Zenin was suddenly looking at her so seriously.
Her heart started pounding uncontrollably.
W-what is this?
What kind of developnt is this?!
Why is Naoya-sensei suddenly this concerned about ?!
Could it be... could it be that I've caught his eye too?!?!
"That's good, then."
Only after staring at Kasumi Miwa for quite a while did Naoya Zenin finally withdraw his gaze and sink into thought.
Kasumi Miwa really was unhard?
But given what had happened, she should definitely have been caught in the explosion.
Naoya Zenin lowered his head and looked at his own hands, recalling the mont earlier when he had arrived at the school and seen Kasumi Miwa on the verge of being swallowed by the cursed explosion.
The situation had been incredibly urgent.
The instant it happened, he activated Projection Sorcery and rushed over, trying to save the foolish blue-haired girl before she got hurt and made the situation even worse.
But even if Naoya Zenin could divide one second into twenty-four fras and keep accelerating himself, he still should not have been able to stop the explosion from happening in real ti.
Because Projection Sorcery could not change the laws of physics, and ti would never truly stop.
No matter what, Kasumi Miwa should have been caught in the blast.
And yet the truth was that Kasumi Miwa was still perfectly lively, without so much as a scratch on her.
At that mont, everything had seed to halt.
It was as if an invisible wall of air had risen in front of Kasumi Miwa, blocking every fragnt from the explosion.
At first, Naoya Zenin had thought that his speed had sohow produced the sa kind of effect as when he had once gathered a spiral airflow at his fingertips, and that by sheer coincidence he had created a countercurrent that happened to shield Kasumi Miwa.
But now that he thought about it carefully, the truth was definitely not that simple.
It felt more like Projection Sorcery had undergone so mysterious transformation, dragging everything around him into it through his subconscious intent.
"..."
Naoya Zenin thought to himself,
"In that mont... had I already stepped into the realm of Cursed Technique Reversal without even realizing it?"
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