In 2006, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were second-year students at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
At this point:
Gojo possessed Limitless and the Six Eyes.
Geto was already a Grade 1 sorcerer with elite Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
Shoko Ieiri studied alongside them as a rare Reverse Cursed Technique user.
They were considered the most powerful duo of their generation.
But Gojo had not yet transcended.
He was powerful — not invincible.
Master Tengen, the immortal foundation of Japan’s barrier system, required merging with a compatible human every 500 years.
Without merging, Tengen would evolve beyond humanity and destabilize the barrier network protecting the country.
The chosen vessel was:
Amanai Riko — the Star Plasma Vessel.
Gojo and Geto were assigned to:
Escort her safely.
Deliver her to Tengen for assimilation.
This was considered a routine high-level mission.
It became the most consequential event in modern jujutsu history.
Two factions opposed the merger:
A small extremist organization targeting Tengen.
A religious cult worshipping Tengen’s “pure form.”
They believed merging with a human would taint him.
The cult hired a specialist assassin:
Toji Fushiguro.
Toji was born into the Zenin Clan but possessed:
Zero cursed energy.
A Heavenly Restriction granting superhuman physical ability.
Because he had no cursed energy:
He could not be sensed by sorcerers.
He bypassed detection.
He was invisible to barrier perception.
He carried an arsenal of cursed tools, including:
The Inverted Spear of Heaven — capable of nullifying techniques.
A special-grade cursed spirit used as a storage armory.
Toji did not fight head-on.
He used strategy.
Toji placed a bounty on Amanai Riko.
This forced Gojo to keep Limitless active continuously.
For days, Gojo:
Maintained Infinity.
Stayed on alert.
Protected Riko without rest.
Toji’s goal was exhaustion.
Even the strongest sorcerer has limits.
On the final day, within the protective barriers of Jujutsu High, Gojo finally relaxed.
He dropped Infinity.
Toji struck instantly.
He stabbed Gojo through the throat.
Then through the head.
Gojo collapsed.
Dead.
The strongest sorcerer had fallen.
Geto escorted Riko toward Tengen’s chamber.
He gave her a choice:
Proceed with assimilation.
Or return home.
For the first time, Riko chose life.
She wanted to live.
The moment she spoke—
A gunshot echoed.
Toji shot her in the head.
She died instantly.
Geto unleashed multiple powerful curses.
Toji dismantled them effortlessly.
He overwhelmed Geto with pure physical superiority.
He left him critically injured.
Toji had defeated both future legends in a single day.
At death’s threshold, Gojo understood something fundamental.
Cursed energy is negative.
Reverse Cursed Technique multiplies negative by negative to create positive.
He grasped the core of energy flow.
He healed himself.
He stood back up.
Awakened.
Gojo returned to confront Toji.
This time, the battle was one-sided.
Gojo demonstrated:
Automatic Infinity.
Cursed Technique Reversal: Red.
Hollow Purple — the fusion of Blue and Red, erasing matter.
Toji was obliterated.
Before dying, he mentioned his son:
Megumi.
Gojo later ensured Megumi would not be sold back to the Zenin Clan.
Gojo and Geto retrieved Riko’s body.
Inside the Time Vessel Association headquarters, cult members applauded her death.
They celebrated.
They were human.
Geto saw them.
Something inside him cracked.
Gojo emerged from the incident transformed.
He became the uncontested strongest.
He no longer needed partnership.
Missions increasingly became solo assignments.
He could solve any crisis alone.
But power created distance.
He stood above everyone.
Including Geto.
Hidden Inventory marks the true beginning of Shibuya.
Because it created:
Gojo the Untouchable.
Geto the Disillusioned.
Toji’s legacy through Megumi.
The ideological fracture between protecting humans and despising them.
And it introduced the body that would later become the perfect disguise.
Suguru Geto’s corpse would one day walk again.
And Gojo would hesitate.
That hesitation would cost everything.