Overwhelming arrogance.
Unrestrained venom in every word.
The kind of pride that stood above the summit itself.
Without question—
the man on that stage was about to become every student in this school's worst nightmare.
Good.
As Naoya Zen'in felt the shock and fear rolling up from the students below, he finally let out a secret sigh of relief. He was, in fact, quite satisfied with his own performance—
It worked.
He had successfully developed another application of Projection Sorcery.
In the original story, both Naoya Zen'in and Naobito Zen'in treated Projection Sorcery as nothing more than a support technique for enhancing the body. Every use of it revolved around throwing hands: accelerating themselves again and again, freezing enemies who failed to keep up with their movements, and winning the fight that way.
That approach was not exactly wrong.
It was just far too narrow-minded.
They had valued the control effect of Projection Sorcery too highly, while overlooking the fact that its real upper limit lay in its capacity for continuous acceleration.
But the reason an upper limit was an upper limit was simple:
the caster could not actually keep up with the technique's full potential.
The cursed energy consumption, the computational burden on the brain, the strain on the body...
Those were all real problems.
But that was only under the premise that the technique covered the entire body.
What if...
he reduced the affected area even further?
What if he did the calculations while remaining completely still?
What if he applied Projection Sorcery to only a single finger?
If he did that, then both the cursed energy drain and the computational burden on his brain would become manageable.
The only thing left to worry about would be the physical limit of the flesh itself.
The ever-increasing speed, the violently accumulating energy, the rotating air torn from the surroundings—
it was like a hair dryer with no upper cap on its output.
In just a few seconds, tremendous wind pressure could form with a thunderous force right at his fingertip.
And thanks to the tremendous precision granted by Sigma Male, Naoya could use cursed energy to manipulate that compressed wind pressure, breaking the little cyclone at his fingertip into a series of sharp blades and creating a dazzling spectacle that looked almost like magic.
So-called modern jujutsu was, for now, mostly still just a flashy concept used to fool people.
It could not be helped. Compared with ancient techniques that had been refined for centuries, complex modern techniques had an absurdly hard road if they wanted to stand out.
After all, Gojo's Six Eyes + Limitless combo alone was already enough to turn him into a monstrously broken boss nobody could properly crack.
Still, even if this was only showmanship for now, the transmigrator believed that if he were given enough time, the little breeze at his fingertip would one day become a storm capable of toppling trees.
That was one of the reasons Naoya Zen'in had been willing to become a teacher just to enter Jujutsu High.
In the rigid, backward Zen'in household, it would have been impossible to push his technique any further.
Only by joining the most cutting-edge institution in the jujutsu world—Jujutsu High—could he continue strengthening himself.
But before that—
Naoya needed to make sure that his life at Jujutsu High would not be disturbed by anyone.
For example, by students attending his classes.
Please. He was a doomed villain with his head practically already on the chopping block. He still had countless things to do. He did not have time to waste inside a school.
And besides, while he knew the original plot of Jujutsu Kaisen inside out, the manga never exactly gave detailed lessons on how to train in jujutsu.
So the transmigrator decided to do the thing most perfectly suited to the original Naoya's character—
crush the students' self-esteem without mercy.
In other words, he would throw out nonstop trash talk and draw all their aggro onto himself.
Kyoto Jujutsu High.
This was a place crawling with aristocrats and geniuses, all with their noses tilted so high they were practically pointing at the sky.
Which meant that as long as he put pressure on them, as long as he nicked even the slightest bit of their pride—
they would immediately be ready to duel him in the name of family honor.
Of course, in an actual fight, not one of these students could beat him. However much of a roadside jobber the original Naoya might have been in the story, he was still a special grade-one sorcerer.
As for family background, that was even more ridiculous. How could any of them compare to one of the Big Three Families?
They could not beat him.
They could not outmatch his background.
So what else could they do?
The students' only option would be to collectively stay the hell away from Naoya Zen'in.
Those noble little parasites who only wanted a diploma would never take his classes.
And the proud, talented students would surely be unable to swallow the humiliation he handed out.
Perfect.
Which meant that, from this point on, Naoya Zen'in would be reverse-bullying the entirety of Jujutsu High by himself.
And if there were still students reckless enough to deliberately step on this landmine and choose his course anyway, then the transmigrator had nothing more to say.
Those kinds of people probably got off on this sort of thing.
Hopefully, this school did not contain any maniacs like that.
So Naoya struck while the iron was hot. Clearing his throat lightly, he prepared to keep talking and apply even more pressure—
but before he could open his mouth again, an ill-timed voice suddenly rang out.
"U-Um! Zen'in-sensei! I have a question!"
Seizing the pause in Naoya Zen'in's speech, Kasumi Miwa suddenly shot her right hand into the air and yelled.
"I want to know—if everyone is supposed to value modern jujutsu, then what about someone like me, a sorcerer who relies on swordsmanship?"
That was the first thought that had come to Miwa's mind after hearing Naoya's earlier speech.
After all, she was just an ordinary person with no innate technique whatsoever.
Strictly speaking, Kasumi Miwa should never have had any chance of becoming a sorcerer at all, let alone studying at Jujutsu High.
And yet, somehow, she had become a successor to the New Shadow Style.
That sword school, handed down since the Warring States period, allowed her to circulate cursed energy and become a sorcerer.
In other words—
Kasumi Miwa had no privileged bloodline whatsoever.
She was not one of the chosen elite.
She was just an ordinary girl from nowhere who had managed to make something of herself through sheer hard work.
Even so, reality was cruel.
Kasumi Miwa's strength was frankly miserable, to the point that everyone mocked her as useless Miwa.
Hearing the girl's question, Naoya Zen'in could not help frowning.
In the original story, the original Naoya had no interaction with Miwa at all. She was not any important figure either. She was basically just a mascot who barely mattered later on.
And more importantly, this was clearly not the moment for her to speak.
Naoya Zen'in was still in the middle of his address. The question-and-answer portion had not even begun yet. Miwa had failed to show even the most basic level of respect, and her crude interruption left the noble students below too embarrassed to even associate with her.
If he were acting fully in character, there was absolutely no reason for Naoya Zen'in to respond to Kasumi Miwa at all.
Because women, fools, and idiots—
those were the three things the young master of the Zen'in family hated most.
And this blue-haired girl with the vacant little face had managed to hit all three at once.
Still, when the transmigrator caught sight of Mai Zen'in standing beside her, he thought for a moment, suppressed the disgust welling inside him, and finally spoke.
"Hmph. Woman. In you, I see no possibility whatsoever of becoming a true sorcerer. All I see is the effort and sweat of a piece of useless trash foolishly proud of itself."
"Uh."
Kasumi Miwa froze on the spot.
She had not done anything to offend Mai's cousin, so why was this handsome bastard speaking with such venom?!
Was he not basically calling her a hopeless waste of space?!
After hearing Naoya Zen'in's speech, Miwa had genuinely thought that maybe, by training in modern jujutsu, she might be able to become stronger—strong enough to earn more money and support her younger brothers.
But now that he said it...
modern jujutsu still required a technique, did it not?
And she had never awakened any technique at all!
So she really was not some late-blooming genius after all?!
She really was a completely worthless nobody?!
Just as Kasumi Miwa lowered her head in despair, Naoya Zen'in lazily added—
"But even so—pitiful as you are, even with such laughably ordinary blood running through your veins—I am still forced to admit that you possess a talent found nowhere else. And that talent is proof that modern jujutsu truly exists—"
"A gifted ordinary person will one day stand above heaven's chosen children who rely on nothing but their bloodline."
"Just like Toji Zen'in—the man the jujutsu world called trash from the moment he was born."
At those words, Mai Zen'in—who had lowered her head—snapped it back up in disbelief.
What the hell was he saying?!
Fushiguro Toji had always been the Zen'in family's disgrace. People avoided even mentioning his name, and after he was cast out of the family, few ever spoke again of that abandoned child born without cursed energy.
And yet now, in front of half the jujutsu world, the next heir of the Zen'in family, Naoya Zen'in, had placed the name of that criminal of the jujutsu world on such a pedestal?
And he had referred to him with the Zen'in name?!
That was impossible.
After all...
Maki had the same condition Toji did.
They were both under Heavenly Restriction.
If Naoya Zen'in spoke so highly of Toji, then did that not mean he held the same opinion of her sister as well?!
Was this really still the same Naoya Zen'in who had bullied both her and Maki since childhood?!
And then, in the very next moment, Naoya Zen'in said something that shocked not only every student present, but even the steady, composed Principal Gakuganji—
"The world I seek is not one where greatness belongs only to those lucky enough to inherit the right bloodline. Talent—that is the tyranny I pursue."
The young nobleman lifted his gaze elegantly, dangerous light flickering in his amber eyes and reflecting that faintly mocking curve at his lips.
"If any of you still retain even the slightest desire for truth..."
"If any of you still dare, in your bodies as insignificant as insects, to seek the authority of gods..."
"Then I would be more than happy to demonstrate in class what true jujutsu really is."
"Of course... that is only if you can bear the price of such knowledge."
With that, the young aristocrat turned and left, his haori billowing behind him like the wings of a night crow, leaving every student below trembling in silence, not daring to utter a single sound.
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