Chapter 16- Noticed

A few weeks later, she met up with Itadori and Mori to catch up and Mori told the news of the bullies getting expelled and how everyone in school started to expose more of their bullying.

"I am happy it worked out in the end.." Itadori said with a relieved smile. "I was pretty worried when Mori said you had those cigarette burns..I mean they were real, right? Is everything okay with you too, Nakamura san?"

"Oh yeah, don't worry about that. I'm totally fine." Sachiko said with a shrug.

"If you say so. But I was kinda worried that someone else burnt you with cigarettes.." Itadori muttered. "I mean you just couldn't have burnt yourself with cigarettes just to fake evidence, right?"

"....ah..about that.." Sachiko said with a cough, "I kinda did. Because no one else is qualified to torture me, basically."

"...."

"Please tell me you're joking?" Mori muttered, suddenly starting to get concerned if she was a few screws loose.

"Hey, don't look at me like that!" Sachiko looked at Mori disapprovingly.

"...ah..like what?"

"I know you're thinking like I'm a few screws loose!" Sachiko said as she raised her eyebrows.

"I'm sorry!!!" Mori shouted and bowed continuously in an apologetic manner.

"Okay, okay, I'm offended but not that offended." Sachiko finally said after letting him panick and apologize for about two minutes.

"Nakamura san, you scared us!" Itadori said.

"Ha, got cha!" Sachiko said as she hit Itadori's back, not enough to hard but in a way that resembled teasing more.

"Anyway, we should probably celebrate!" Sachiko announced.

"Celebrate?" Mori blinked his eyes in confusion.

"Yeah, I'm a very fun person! So, obviously, we need to celebrate our victory!!!"

"That's right! We should go eat together!!!!" Itadori agreed excitedly to Sachiko's idea.

"We should probably go watch movies too!" Sachiko was glad that at least Itadori matched her energy. He looked pretty optimistic, caring and most importantly had a party spirits. Sachiko didn't want to be stuck around boring people for three years so finding Itadori here was a plus!

Sachiko hummed in approval when Itadori started to suggest some movies and other fun activities they could do as a group like going to arcade and playing games.

"Where were you all my lifeee?" Sachiko said dramatically as she learnt that Itadori also liked arcade, video games, manga and movies.

"You also like going to the arcade?!" Itadori exclaimed, as Sachiko almost hugged him while dramatically saying how she related to him.

"Yeppp and I love video games, manga and watching horror movies!!!" Sachiko said excitedly, not paying attention to anything else.

"That's great!!! We can hang out together!"

"Yeppp!" Sachiko said, giving Itadori a high five.

"Where do you live tho?" Itadori asked.

"Well, you know the neighborhood where a lot of people disappears? I mean you're from here originally, right?"

"I mean yeah..?" Itadori answered, scratching his head before his eyes widened and asked, "Wait, don't tell me you live there!"

"I sure do!" Sachiko announced proudly.

"But...but ...people also die..there..And there just had been a case like a month ago?" Mori said.

"Yeah, that's why the rent is cheap!" Sachiko got why they would be concerned but exactly because of that, she found their reactions too entertaining.

"Nakamura san....I think I have to go home now..." Mori said and with a bow, he hurried away.

Sachiko looked at Mori who ran away and sighed dramatically. "I knew everyone thinks I'm strange, crazy and they just don't wanna hang out with me anymore!"

Itadori felt a bit bad at that so he started, "Nakamura san.."

But the words that came out of Sachiko's mouth made him speechless again.

"Too bad they didn't know how big of a loss it is! Like how could they not be phazed by my amazing self, right?"

"Ah...yeah..I guess?"

"Anyways, let's grab dinner and head to arcade!!"

After all that commotion, they ended up going to Mc Donalds to buy dinner and then they headed to an arcade to play for a few hours. Then, when it was time to go home, he asked, "Nakamura san, you live in pretty rough neighborhood. Will you be okay heading back alone?"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." She assured, "If anyone tries to hurt me, I'll just pull an uno reverse card on them so.."

Itadori laughed at her uno reference and said eventually, "Okay then, see you later, Nakamura san."

"See you!" Sachiko watched as Itadori crossed the road and headed home.

"That kid's too nice to get tattoos and start killing people..." She muttered. "I really want to know how he could change into that kind of maniac..."

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"So this is the small town with no report of any curse-related incidents?"

Gojo Satoru muttered as got off at the station. The reason he headed here was because he noticed the trends of curses going more rampant as the time went by and he started to wonder if there was any connection between the increase of curses and the power scale of those curses.

Like his birth changed the Jujutsu world, he had always suspected that something else had upsetted the balance of curse between sorcerers even more.

The problem was he didn't know what exactly upsetted the balance to result in this increase of curses.

Gojo knew Jujutsu sorcerers had no record of any possible reason, including the birth of an extremely powerful child.

He was willing to wait and see what the reason was but then he noticed a strange fact when he was going through the annual curse incident reports. The fact that there was a town that didn't have any curse related incidents for a year didn't really surprise him but as he casually looked at the past data to see if it was a town with little incidents, he realized that there was no reported incident for the past fifteen years and no Jujutsu sorcerers headed there for exorcism.

Needless to say, he found it hard to believe because regardless of the size of the town, there would still be a good amount of negative emotions released that would give birth to curses. Now, there might be something in that town to stop the curses from going rampant in the town like an exorcism object but that should be in reports if that was the case.

So, he ended up scheduling a trip to the town even with his busy schedule.

As he got off the train and stepped onto the platform, he noticed that there were definitely residuals of cursed energy and all those residuals belonged to only one person.

He decided to explore the town to see if he could find more residuals and possibly find where they came from.

He headed to places like the park, hospital, schools and even cemetery, and he found that there were residuals belonging to one person and the residuals suggested that this person had been using their cursed energy to exorcize the curses in town.

Since the town had no reported incident, it was indeed possible that this person had been preventing incidents by exorcizing the curses as they formed.

But if that was the case and this person was in the town dealing with curses, there shouldn't be many curses in town and the residuals should be a bit more recent.

Gojo also noticed that the residuals he were seeing since he arrived were from at least a few weeks ago and there were no recent residuals.

"Did they leave the town?" He muttered as he studied what seemed to be the last exorcism in this town.

There was not much to study as the curse was most likely exorcized within a move or two. Normally, sorcerers could exorcize flyheads and low grade curses within a few moves like this so it wasn't that strange.

However, he also noticed that the curses in this town were nothing like weak curses in other small towns. The strongest curses here were semi-Grade 1 and Grade-2s while the average ones were Grade 3 and 4s.

So, whoever that had been constantly dealing with this level of curses alone had to be at least Grade-2 but Gojo had a feeling that they would be stronger than a Grade-1.

'To be able to deal with the whole town's worth of curses alone without having any slip-up incident means that the person must be stronger than the strongest curses here and they probably even have a strong cursed technique that could work well for prevention of incidents..'

Gojo thought to himself. If that was the case, he definitely had to find that person.

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AN:

Our Gojo sensei is finally here!!!!

Even tho he wouldn't meet Sachiko yet, I felt like I had to write him and next chaptet will be dedicated to him mostly.

And anyone think Sachiko should meet Suguru before the jjk 0 events?

I think it will be amusing :)