A Bizarre Adventure That Begins in Jujutsu Kaisen

Let's start with something simple and easy to do.

Theo took out his phone from his pocket, quickly swiped his fingers, and sent instructions to Riki Miki and Kento Nanami, arranging for them to handle matters related to the Inagawa Association.

As soon as I pressed the send button, a phone call popped up, and the name "Yuki" appeared on the screen.

Theo's lips curled into a slight smile.

She didn't possess his almost unreasonable good fortune, unlike him who could accurately "encounter" his target in the vast city simply by relying on the random guidance of a coin toss or simple divination.

Is this phone call to "check up" on me?

He pressed the answer button.

"Feed?" Yuki's voice came through the receiver, tinged with a knowing probing, "Are you... currently 'gathering inspiration' on the streets of Shinjuku?"

She used the somewhat literary term "collecting local customs," which she probably learned from his previous verbal tic.

"Ah, I'm here. I've personally measured the earth with my own feet and witnessed reality with my own eyes. What, you missed me so soon?"

"Yeah~"

"Hehe, me too. I'm always happier when I hear your voice than when I hear anyone else's~"

But instead of imagining your emotional ups and downs over the phone, please come see me and appear before me.

"Then turn around~" Yuki's instruction was concise and clear.

"Hmm?" Dio turned his head as instructed, his gaze sweeping over the convenience store, izakaya, and the hurried crowd behind him. "I don't see you."

"Not this side, it's the other side."

Theo then turned in another direction, looking at the game center across the street and the somewhat deserted entrance to the small park.

"I've looked around, where are you?"

"I'm not on the street," Yuki finally couldn't help but laugh out loud. "I just wanted to see you wandering around the streets like a headless fly. It would be hilarious."

"?" Dio was speechless for a moment. What kind of perverse sense of humor was this?

"Okay, I'm not teasing you anymore."

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, he heard a faint whooshing sound above his head.

Dio seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up.

"Yahoo—!"

Amidst laughter that fell like hail in the height of summer, a lithe and familiar figure leaped gracefully from the edge of the residential building's rooftop!

Theo quickly stepped forward, opened his arms, and steadily caught the falling figure in his embrace.

He easily neutralized the impact, and his embrace was instantly filled with her body temperature and scent.

Yuji then wrapped her arms around his neck, tilted her head back, and sang with a beaming smile:

"My sentimental nature gives rise to millions of wonderful emotions for love, which transform into boundless power."

"You're singing - "God's Drift (神のまにまに)"?"

"Yes, it's so nice to skip work with your loved one on a sunny afternoon."

Looking back now, all the wandering, searching, fighting, and confusion of my life over the past thirty years...

Perhaps, it was all just preparation for meeting you.

She raised her hand, her fingertips gently tracing the contours of Theo's face.

"Speaking of which... are you and Xia You secretly planning a trip to Europe?"

I heard about it from Gojo's complaints.

You didn't tell me beforehand... That's naughty~

"I'm innocent." Theo grasped her mischievous fingers and placed them in his palm.

"It's not that I'm not taking you. It's just that the specific entry and exit procedures and the visit agenda are still under negotiation and haven't been finalized yet, so I haven't officially told you."

He explained, "Things are not what they used to be. As curses have become more prevalent in the East, the Western world of sorcery has declined."

They were very wary, even suspicious, of the arrival of the "three top-tier sorcerers".

Therefore, in order to reduce unnecessary confrontation and conflict, Jay will most likely not go this time.

However, if I'm "lucky" enough to encounter a suitable wild, top-tier cursed spirit over there... I'll just grab one extra and bring it back as a souvenir for him.

"Eh—so?"

"So," Theo continued, "we're the only two of us with top-tier combat power."

The official personnel accompanying me included Miguel, who served as my guide and liaison, and... my two most recently accepted disciples, Hiromi Hishura and Junpei Yoshino.

They need to broaden their horizons.

"I thought I'd finally get to enjoy some quality time alone with just the two of us, so why bring so many 'third wheels'?"

Seeing Yuki's childish dissatisfaction, Theo couldn't help but chuckle. He pulled her closer to him, rubbed his chin against the top of her head, and said in a tone that was both helpless and coaxing:

"There's no other way... After all, it's an official visit, so someone has to be responsible for maintaining appearances, taking notes, and handling administrative matters."

We can't just run away like an elopement, can we?

Don't worry, there will be free time then.

Hiromi Higurashi, the 36-year-old former lawyer at the Iwate Law Firm and the disciple mentioned by Theo, had just experienced an extremely peaceful, smooth, and even enviable six months.

Life seemed to be blessed, without any waves, only a steady rise.

The turning point came simply from him glancing at the crowd and spotting a strangely shaped cursed spirit across the street with a recruitment flyer hanging from it.

From then on, his life trajectory seemed to be guided by an invisible hand onto the most ideal track.

During the midterm exam, Hiromi Hitsugaya demonstrated amazing learning talent and unique potential as a sorcerer. He was personally selected by the sorcery director Theo and taken as a disciple, thus elevating his status to a whole new level.

In life, he is completely immune to the kind of fateful protagonist-like destiny of "trouble following him wherever he goes".

There were no bizarre murders, no sudden disasters, only a regular and fulfilling campus life:

I absorb cutting-edge knowledge in class, hone my physical skills and refine my techniques after class, and occasionally help out at a law firm, using my professional legal knowledge to take on a few truly worthwhile cases to defend.

Life was peaceful, fulfilling, and satisfying.

Even the persistent legal problem that had once left him feeling powerless as a lawyer, and which he had fought for years with little success—Japan's criminal conviction rate of 99.9%—has seen a turnaround in an unexpected way.

Lord Theo's single, crucial phone call with the Prime Minister directly propelled a motion to amend the law at the highest administrative level of the country, demanding a substantial reduction in wrongful convictions and a decrease in the excessively high conviction rate.

This was precisely the ultimate goal that Hiromi Hiochi had tried to achieve single-handedly in the past, but had repeatedly failed to reach.

He did not feel that his past efforts had been in vain or lost their meaning.

Just as no one would deny the value of all previous food because of a full meal, he knew that every solitary struggle and every small effort was an indispensable cornerstone for building future changes.

His life ideals were being substantially advanced in such a way that it was almost like a "dimensional reduction attack," which made him even more convinced that joining the world of sorcery and following Lord Theo's path was an absolutely correct and inevitable choice!