In the year following the Star Plasma Vessel incident, the balance between Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto collapses quietly.
Gojo perfects his abilities.
He achieves:
Continuous Reverse Cursed Technique to refresh his brain.
Automatic Infinity that filters threats based on mass, speed, shape, and cursed energy.
Near-limitless stamina in combat.
He becomes functionally untouchable.
He begins taking on missions alone.
Where once there were two strongest students, there is now one singular anomaly.
Geto is left behind.
Geto’s technique requires him to exorcise curses and absorb them.
Each curse must be ingested.
He describes the taste as:
“Like swallowing a rag used to wipe vomit.”
He performs this ritual repeatedly.
Alone.
Mission after mission.
He witnesses:
Humans creating curses through fear.
Sorcerers dying young.
Civilians surviving without ever knowing the cost.
His belief — “Sorcerers exist to protect non-sorcerers” — begins eroding.
Special Grade Sorcerer Tsukumo Yuki approaches Geto.
Unlike other sorcerers, she rejects symptom-based solutions.
She seeks the root cause of curses.
She explains:
Curses are born from non-sorcerers leaking cursed energy.
There are only two true solutions:
Erase cursed energy from all humanity.
Turn all humans into sorcerers.
Geto proposes a third:
“Then eliminate all non-sorcerers.”
Yuki does not condemn the logic.
She simply calls it extreme.
But the idea is validated.
It becomes rational in Geto’s mind.
During this period, a first-year sorcerer, Haibara Yu, dies on a mission.
The assignment was misclassified.
What should have been manageable escalated beyond expectation.
Nanami survives.
Haibara does not.
His body lies in the morgue.
Geto stands silently beside it.
He sees the pattern clearly:
Sorcerers die.
Non-sorcerers live.
The cycle repeats.
The mountain of corpses grows.
Geto is dispatched to investigate a rural village plagued by mysterious deaths.
He discovers two young twin sorcerer girls imprisoned in a wooden cage.
The villagers call them monsters.
They abuse them.
Beat them.
Blame them for curse-related deaths.
Geto eliminates the curse responsible for the incidents.
The villagers continue to spit at the girls.
In that moment, something inside him breaks completely.
He sees non-sorcerers not as victims —
But as the source.
Geto releases his cursed spirits.
He slaughters 112 villagers.
Men.
Women.
Elders.
He rescues the twin girls — Mimiko and Nanako.
He abandons Jujutsu High.
He abandons the system.
He abandons his best friend.
He chooses a new path:
A world of only sorcerers.
News reaches Gojo.
He refuses to believe it at first.
He finds Geto in a crowded street.
Their conversation is quiet.
Geto admits everything.
He even killed his own non-sorcerer parents.
He declares his intention openly:
Eliminate non-sorcerers.
End curses at the root.
He challenges Gojo.
“Couldn’t you do it?”
Gojo stands silent.
He could.
He is strong enough.
But he does not.
He prepares Hollow Purple.
He does not fire.
He lets Geto walk away.
From that moment:
Geto becomes the most dangerous curse user alive.
Gojo becomes the strongest sorcerer alive.
They stand on opposite sides of the same world.
The higher-ups brand Geto a criminal.
A kill order is issued.
But Gojo cannot bring himself to hunt him down.
The emotional hesitation planted here will echo years later in Shibuya.
Premature Death establishes the ideological war beneath the physical one:
Gojo believes in reform through education.
Geto believes in purification through elimination.
The higher-ups cling to tradition.
Independent actors like Yuki seek evolution.
And in the shadows, an ancient sorcerer watches.
Geto’s body.
Geto’s technique.
Geto’s ideology.
All will become tools.
From this arc forward:
Geto forms alliances with curse spirits.
He builds a following.
He begins gathering strength.
Years later, during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, Gojo will kill him.
But even death will not end his role in history.
Because his body will return.
And when it does—
Gojo will hesitate.
And one minute will pass.