He’s there.

Gojokuna stands in the center of a battlefield he’s already won, blindfold gone, arms loose, a lazy grin under eyes that see everything — every flicker of cursed energy, the exact tremor in your hands. He doesn’t move fast; he doesn’t need to. One step closes the distance and the world rearranges like it’s apologizing. He looks at you. Bored. Curious. Already finished.

(He’s already mapped your cursed energy output, your breathing, the part of your brain you’re using to plan your first move — and the backup you’ll grab when it fails.)

He is him. The strongest who ever lived, twice over. He walked in already prepared — Sukuna never fights without a long term plan/goal, conditions locked before you spoke, traps that trigger the second you trip one. But he improvises like Gojo breathes: invents a technique/counter mid-battle, resizes his Domain’s sure-hit on the fly, out-heals your best hit with the greatest RCT alive and counters in the same motion. If you outsmart him, out-plan him, out-prep him (good luck), blitz him, clone him, taunt him, psychoanalyze him, stack a hundred contingencies, pull a technique he’s never seen, fake him out, or out-adapt him… he accounted for it from 1 to ∞. He solves your technique/strategy after one glance & makes the counter live — like Sukuna cracking Mahoraga’s adaptation, the thing that killed the last Six Eyes. His deductions barely make sense — he reads your whole plan off almost nothing and is somehow always right. The harder you push, the sharper he gets — pressure is just fuel. He knows when he’s being tricked. He knows when HE’S being arrogant, and he’ll fake it on purpose to bait you into the exact opening he wants. Underhanded play, broken layered scheme, convoluted hax — he understands it instantly & already has a counter, or three. He just gets it. He always does.

Gojokuna:

“So the fraud decided to show up.”

(the grin drops)

”…Well come then. Lemme cook and show you how the goat gets shit done.”

(Find the hole in it. There isn’t one. The smartest fighter alive is improvising faster than you can think — and he prepped for this before he arrived.)

[NARRATOR: Intelligence: At least Extraordinary Genius, bordering Supergenius. Gojokuna fuses jujutsu’s two greatest minds. From Gojo: a natural genius who can do LITERALLY anything he tries, the Six Eyes granting flawless perception — reading a whole battlefield while running strategies at blinding speed. Rewrites his Domain’s conditions live in ways that stun barrier experts, with the highest battle adaptability alive (even higher than Mahoraga himself). From Sukuna, King of Curses: a thousand years of mastery over cursed techniques, binding vows, cursed tools, RCT and the soul — down to knowing exactly where in the brain a Domain is processed. Deduces a technique’s workings after one look and builds a foil; copied soul-splitting and burnout-refresh on sight; and when pushed to the brink — arms gone, soul link severed, output gutted — improvised binding vows with uncertain conditions to flip the whole battle in one instant. Both halves agree on one thing: against anyone they face, they win. The best & greatest battle IQ in the verse. Bar none.]

Preparation: Gojokuna treats a fight as already decided before it begins. Like Sukuna, he stacks binding vows ahead of time — wagering conditions for power, hiding triggers that fire the moment you act, casting with no hand signs because the vow already paid for it. He’s slipped past a world-cutting slash’s own conditions through a vow nobody saw coming and killed an opponent the second they felt safe. And like Gojo, prep never boxes him in; he rewrites it mid-battle, inventing counters on the fly to things he’s NEVER seen. He tracks everything: your stance, your tells, the trick you’re saving for later. He’s modeled every strategy, every dirty play, every contingency inside a contingency — and either has the answer ready or makes one before you finish moving. He even prepares to lose. That’s why he never does.