Chapter 104: You Call This an Ordinary High School Student?

After entering Tokyo Jujutsu High, which resembled a remote mountain temple more than a school, Shengzai and the other were quickly taken to the principal’s office by Gojo Satoru.

There they met Yaga Masato, the principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High, who exuded the aura of a yakuza boss yet loved crafting cute dolls.

“You must be Wen Shengzai and Tachibana Yūjin, the two Gojo Satoru mentioned?”

“Before anything else, I have a question for you: why did you want to enroll in this school?”

Faced with Yaga Masato’s soul-searching question, Tachibana fell silent, for initially he had only thought it would be nice to attend school in Tokyo, but after learning about curses and jujutsu sorcerers, he recalled the words his grandfather had spoken to him.

So now, why was he here—because of his grandfather’s dying words, or because of his own will?

“Before coming here, this guy named Gojo Satoru told me tuition is free, fighting doesn’t get you disciplined, and even the school uniform is given for free, so I came.”

In contrast to Tachibana’s silence, Shengzai answered with remarkable frankness.

Unfortunately, neither Tachibana’s silence nor Shengzai’s casual reply satisfied Yaga Masato.

So Yaga Masato simply waved his hand, and two muscular doll-like constructs immediately leapt from his side, charging at Shengzai and Tachibana from front and back.

“Since you don’t know the answer yourselves, let me help you.

Only when pushed to your limits do people confront their true hearts—and at that moment, your inner selves will reveal the real answer.”

The doll charging at Tachibana was a green kappa; after taking Tachibana’s heavy punch to the face, it bounced repeatedly off the walls, accelerating each time, until it finally shot back and slammed Tachibana into the air.

Seeing Tachibana’s condition, Shengzai glanced at the muscular rabbit doll now lunging at him, and a faint smile curled his lips; he set down his luggage, clenched his fist, and adopted an offensive stance.

Yaga Masato specializes in creating autonomous cursed corpses—the very dolls now attacking Shengzai and Tachibana.

Because these cursed corpses possess a core, they can act independently and possess a certain degree of combat capability.

If Yaga Masato wished, he could mass-produce an entire army of cursed corpses.

Due to their doll-like appearance, Yaga Masato’s autonomous cursed corpses have exceptional resistance to physical strikes; as long as their internal core remains unharmed, they theoretically cannot be destroyed.

The autonomous cursed corpse dolls charging at Shengzai and Tachibana were, in actual strength, approaching the level of a Grade Three jujutsu sorcerer.

Considering Shengzai and Tachibana had both been ordinary high school students until now, Yaga Masato believed this level of autonomous cursed corpse doll was sufficient to push them to their limits.

“Riiip——————!”

But then, something utterly unexpected happened.

The vessel of Sukuna, the boy named Tachibana Yūjin, was indeed being brutally beaten by the kappa doll, just as Yaga had anticipated.

But the rabbit doll attacking Shengzai was shattered in a single blow—right from the first encounter.

This doll, renowned for its extreme physical resistance, now bore a massive hole punched clean through it, its internal core obliterated along with the rest.

After doing this, Shengzai slowly lowered his outstretched fist and looked up at Yaga Masato seated above him: “You said this thing could push me to my limit? You’re seriously underestimating me.

If you truly want to see my limit and decide whether I’m worthy of entering this school, at least send someone decent—or better yet, have the principal himself step in. Let me see just how excellent your school really is.”

Facing Shengzai’s arrogant tone and fierce combat intent, Yaga Masato said nothing, but turned his head to look at Gojo Satoru, who had been watching the scene with amusement.

“He saw it once and immediately understood how to use explosive force to neutralize the doll’s physical resistance.

And he pinpointed its core with perfect accuracy, crushing it in one strike. Are you telling me this kid is an ordinary high school student?”

Gojo Satoru had previously informed Yaga Masato about Shengzai and Tachibana’s circumstances.

But seeing the situation before him, Yaga Masato now felt Gojo’s earlier phone call had been utter nonsense.

According to Gojo’s earlier account, while Tachibana was unique as Sukuna’s vessel, Shengzai had been, until that night before Sukuna’s awakening, no different from any ordinary high school student.

And yet now… you call a high school student who can obliterate a Grade Three cursed corpse in one punch “ordinary”?

“You can’t blame me—I specifically looked into Shengzai’s background.

Aside from being raised in an orphanage, which makes his origins mysterious, his life before Sukuna’s awakening that night was indistinguishable from that of any ordinary high school student.”

Such refined explosive martial skill, such piercing insight into weaknesses… this guy was once just some delinquent thug…

When he heard Gojo’s words, Yaga Masato’s gaze toward Shengzai had grown strangely thoughtful.

In truth, Shengzai had unquestionably passed his entrance exam by destroying Yaga’s Grade Three autonomous cursed corpse with a single punch.

But looking at Shengzai before him, Yaga Masato couldn’t help but wonder: just how far could this boy’s limit truly extend?

Clearly, a standard autonomous cursed corpse would be useless for testing this child’s true level.

Having Gojo Satoru personally evaluate him would be overkill—and more importantly, Yaga feared Gojo might be too careless, and accidentally ruin such a promising talent.

What about Yaga himself stepping in? He had considered it, but then remembered he was the principal, and Shengzai’s tone had been downright arrogant; if he truly followed Shengzai’s demand, wouldn’t that make him lose face?

“I recall Panda should be on campus. Send someone to bring him here as Shengzai’s entrance examiner.”

Yaga Masato waved his hand, and an autonomous doll immediately departed to carry out the order.

Since the so-called “Panda” would take some time to arrive, Shengzai and Gojo stepped aside to watch the kappa doll pummel Tachibana.

As the world’s chosen one and one who had consumed two of Sukuna’s fingers, Tachibana’s growth rate had been astonishingly rapid, as observed by Shengzai, Gojo, and Yaga.

Though he had initially taken nothing but punishment, as time passed, those present were astonished to see Tachibana begin evading the doll’s attacks with increasing skill.

And in his final strike, he adopted the exact same stance Shengzai had used moments earlier—and, without instruction, unleashed a punch infused with cursed energy, mimicking explosive force!

(End of Chapter)