"Woah, suddenly there are only 3 people left! and two students are from Tokyo High! and the only Todo is left from Kyoto High. It looks like Tokyo High's strategy worked..." The girl spoke...
And everyone else in the room other than Gojo, Yaga and Utahime was frowning or straight up bored, like Naobito Zenin, who had closed his eyes and almost started to fall asleep...
Naobito thought. "This was a huge waste of time; I was only here to see Ren Sato… Sure, the war march plan was there, but nothing is going to happen from that, or even if something stupid like the whole world going against Japan does happen, the Zenin family won't butt in unless we are targeted. That Naomichi bastard can do whatever he wants; I won't shed Zenin blood for his plans…"
Shino looked absently and thought, "Ah, taken down by cursed speech? It's fine; that cursed technique is annoying and tricky and has been for the past hundred years…"
Gakuganji, on the other hand, had the biggest frown in the whole room; he thought, "You have to be kidding me. These idiots actually fell for such a strategy? Ugh, I need to teach them more about strategy… Anyway, it does not matter; that Zenin girl and the other student would not be able to stop Todo… we still win."
"There are not only 3 people left…" Yaga said, and everyone in the room looked at him other than Gojo…
"What do you mean? Principal Yaga? There are clearly only 3 students in the event, right? Everyone else was eliminated…" Utahime spoke, asking the question everyone in the room had…
"I just got informed that Ren Sato has entered through the north gate…" Yaga spoke, and everyone in the room for a second blinked before reacting…
"What? How is this possible? I thought he was not going to take part!" Gakuganji spoke out loud!
"Wait, is that even allowed? Can he just participate when the event is pretty much over?" Also, like, this changes everything; the advantage is heavily on Tokyo High's side now!" The girl spoke in a giddy tone!
Naobito thought, "Eh? Best for last, huh? Maybe it will be worth coming here; I finally get to see the youngest special grade, the one who is said to be at the peak of sorcery!" And Naobito opened his eyes and smiled…
Gojo thought, "Oh, you are finally here, huh? I actually hoped you would just stay in bed, but you just love to do what I don't want you to, right? Ha, I guess it does not matter; I told him not to use Rika… But you know what? I am a little curious how strong you truly are... I have heard things and seen things but never truly saw you in action… It's been almost like a year since we last fought? It feels like that was yesterday… but he was holding back even then… I wonder how strong he is now…"
Gojo smiled and played with his blindfold…
…
"Uh, where is everybody? Like, I have been walking around this lake for the past 3 minutes, and I have seen no one else other than some other sorcerers who just took out the injured students. The students here are not as different as anyone who is suppose to be here. There is Momo and Noritoshi and Inumaki, and I already know Maki is here, so, like, I guess all the people I have seen so far should have been in the canon Goodwill Event, which should happen next year…"
Ren thought as he walked through the woods.
Whoosh!
Suddenly a sword came down on Ren!
Ren blinked!
But the sword stopped right before it touched Ren!
"Eh? What the hell are you doing here? Idiot, why are you late? And also, why didn't you dodge? I almost cut you, idiot!" Maki spoke in an angry but happy tone.
Ren, on the other hand, only blinked once again when he saw the blade close to his neck and thought, "What? I could not sense her, which makes sense because she has low cursed energy, but still… My reaction time was trash there… ugh."
Ren rubbed his eye… and spoke, "Ah, sorry, I didn't know where the event was being held, so I got lost, but I am here now, right? What's up? What's the deal?"
"Well, we played a pack strategy and took them down one by one. Now only one person is left in Kyoto High, and this is perfect because I didn't know if I could take him on... It's Todo. I don't know if you know him or not, but he is a grade 1. They say he does not even use his cursed technique against grade 1's, you know? He is a big tall guy who kind of looks like a gorilla too."
Maki spoke and pulled the blade down and looked at Ren up and down, and Maki moved her hands up and tried to somehow show how Todo looked with her hands…
'Todo? Well, that's troublesome; his Boogie Woogie is one of those cursed techniques which can be really annoying… but also one of those rare cursed techniques that I would like to copy…
Later on in the manga, Todo becomes even more troublesome with his nonsense, plus Boogie Woogie works on everyone; even someone like Gojo and Sukuna is affected by that cursed technique…' Ren thought as he looked down on the ground at the stones.
Were they slowly vibrating?
"Maki, you said there was another person other than me, and you are still in the Tokyo High team, right? Do you know who it is?" Ren spoke while still looking down at the stones…
"Huh? Well, the other guy was someone from the second year; he was weirdly down, kind of depressed? He also was talking about something about his fever—" Maki was cut off by a sound…
Clap.
In a flash suddenly Maki was not next to Ren, and before Ren could even blink, a punch came fast right to Ren's face!
"Huh?"
BANG!
Ren was too slow to react; he got punched hard on his cheek and got sent flying back!
WOSH!!!
THUD!
Ren crashed into a tree…
Cough! Cough!