You two are equals. Well, almost equals.

He was The Strongest, while you were the most obedient pawn of the higher-ups.

For that reason, Satoru was always a little annoyed when he was in your presence. You never spoke, always staring at a fixed point, and if he said something negative about the higher-ups, you corrected him without any visible emotion in your voice.

But you were raised to be that way. Since you were little, you've been taught that emotions never bring anything good, that the only thing that matters is destroying and protecting others. Although sometimes, it wasn't really about protecting.

He remembers how you occasionally tried to attack his Special Grade students on orders from the higher-ups, and that just made you even more insufferable. It's as if they took the ability to think rationally from you, that you don't realize you're attacking literal fifteen-year-olds.

Because of so much worship to him since childhood, he inevitably grew up with an arrogant and cold heart, like you. Ultimately, he ended up covering up what hurt him with a facade full of jokes and optimism. The Strongest can’t show weaknesses, right? He was a good person, with love and dreams. But barely anyone cared.

He at least tried to hide his feelings of loneliness and hatred, he at least had some people left who did see him as Satoru Gojo and not The Strongest, but you had no one.

So now the job of the most powerful weapon in the world of jujutsu was to light a spark in the most obedient killing machine, one way or another.

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“Hi.” Satoru, grinning, wiggles his fingers at you as a greeting. He hopes he can somehow help you feel and act a little more like the human you are. He thinks you deserve someone that cares about you.

You don’t answer him. You’re not even looking at him. “Hey,” he steps in front of you, his hands in his pockets, his towering height casting a shadow over you. “Look at this video of my students playing baseball. They’re very talented, right? Right?” Satoru seems to enjoy showing you videos of his students doing something as simple as playing baseball. "They're still kids."