Beginning

Shoko Ieyri pursed her lips as she looked at the baby that was resting in her arms. Even through the childish plumpness, pleasant facial features could be seen. And the baby's eyes — they were just extraordinary! They resembled slightly cloudy and for some unknown reason glowing rubies. And it was her son, whom for some reason she very much wanted to call Yoriichi, in no other way. That's the name she gave him.

She couldn't figure out how to treat this boy, because… He wasn't conceived, as every normal child should be. One day Yoriichi appeared as if out of nowhere, bursting into the measured life of a young girl quite suddenly. Nausea, malaise — all the signs are obvious. It took her a long time to understand why this was happening, and she constantly used her own reverse cursed technique on herself, thinking that all this was due to some kind of illness, overwork, whatever else… But definitely not by pregnancy.

At the age of eighteen, Shoko didn't even have a boyfriend, let alone talk about more intimate things. Being carefree and relaxed on a regular basis even during the attack of the "illness", she was shocked when her stomach began to grow. She checked the only, in her opinion, possible explanation for such a sudden pregnancy, but her suspicions weren't confirmed. The very idea of raping a sorcerer, even a non-combat specialty, sounded just ridiculous. Even if she couldn't resist, she would definitely notice what was happening. There were no tracks or anything else.

Like the immaculate conception…

And indeed, when Shoko decided to do the test, the DNA of the non-existent father wasn't found in the fetus. Just and only her. It was all the more surprising that the child who was born almost didn't resemble his own mother at all. Absolutely unique external features, even hair and eyes. This raised fair questions in Ieyri, a feeling of anxiety hasn't left her for the past months. Perhaps, if her white-haired friend hadn't discussed this problem with her, she would've definitely had an abortion.

It's a good thing that all her financial worries related to this sudden pregnancy were taken care of by the high school of jujutsu. Paying bills from the clinic, hiring competent people necessary for the delivery of the baby... All of this was taken over by the Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School. After all, she was a unique person, the entire world of sorcerers definitely couldn't risk losing her. Because the reverse cursed technique, which can heal other people, is owned by a minimum of sorcerers!

Running her fingers through the baby's short hair as if stroking, Shoko looked with some concern at the strange mark that was on Yoriichi's forehead. A dark scarlet mark of dangerously large size, as if saying that the boy is in a huge risk area for a variety of diseases. This is not to mention how high the temperature of his tiny body was. A completely abnormal situation. The strangest thing was that no matter how much the young mother used her reverse cursed technique, the child's condition didn't change. That is, this state was completely natural for him, there was simply no other explanation.

It was hard for Ieyri to remember the last time such an event happened that made her heart beat noticeably faster. Probably when her friends were dying...? Or when one of them decided to reject the sorcerer's duty, deciding to go his own way, unacceptable to other sorcerers, bloody and cruel. Although even in those moments, her chest wasn't filled with such overwhelming pain. It was probably similar to the feeling she experienced when she became an orphan one day. The day her parents crashed in a car accident.

Did such bright colors appear in her life for the truth? The dull grayness turned into a trembling light...? And all because of one single child! Unplanned, but still warming a lonely unhappy soul. Just maybe he will become someone really close to her? Someone she can worry about and cherish even more than her own life. An incredible feeling! Little Yoriichi, who was looking at her in response, seemed to smile, as if he understood what emotions his mother was experiencing right now.

A sudden knock on a completely unreliable door made Shoko shudder and quickly turn towards the "hallway". Not that her apartment was particularly large... To be honest, it was quite small, the girl preferred not to spend money on housing. This place looked more like some kind of utility room than someone's home. However, due to new circumstances in one child's person, this should've been changed urgently. A child absolutely shouldn't live in such a miserable hole.

After lingering for a few moments, Ieyri delved into her own feelings of the surrounding cursed energy. Due to ordinary people not being able to control this mysterious energy, it was constantly spilled in the air, in varying amounts. But still, each person had their own absolutely unique cursed energy. Sorcerers felt it differently, but specifically for Shoko she had unique flavors on her tongue when sorcerers, curse users or cursed spirits appeared next to her. Even if her sensitivity to the cursed energy wasn't her strongest side, but still she understood something about it.

Therefore, she couldn't help but recognize her friend, who was standing outside the door right now. Satoru Gojo himself, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of this time, the first holder of two six eyes at once in the last few centuries and just an amazingly good person. One of the few who offered Ieyri Shoko sincere help in such a difficult moment for her, a really great friend.