Mastering his own cursed energy output was simpler than expected. Itadori, demonstrating his level of learning, only needed a day and a half to achieve this and was already able to control his cursed energy.

Although he wasn't that skilled yet, it was enough to keep him out of trouble, and with his increased power since devouring Sukuna's third finger, he felt he could defeat the special-grade curse at the boarding school.

Unlike the original Itadori, he had no problem making his cursed energy accompany his superhuman body, which caused him to miss out on an interesting technique that could be useful to him later: Divergent Fist.

He could try to learn how to use it later, but for now, he didn't see much point in this technique. The best thing to do at the moment was to refine his control even more so that, in the future, the effectiveness of this technique would increase by at least 300%.

Moreover, Itadori was very tempted to learn how to imbue cursed energy into weapons. He had liked the knife he used against the cursed womb, but unfortunately, it had been destroyed during the clash.

If possible, he would like to get another knife. This would increase his arsenal and power in battle.

Being limited to just his fists was not something he wanted, especially considering that he would be facing opponents with innate techniques in the future.

Boom!

Punching the cursed doll as it tried to attack him, Itadori sent it into the wall.

Since he already had decent control over his cursed energy, he decided to use the cursed doll as a means of combat training.

Its agility made it the perfect target for reflex training.

Although...

!

Punching the doll the instant it appeared in front of him, Itadori once again sent it flying away.

Its agility was no longer enough for someone like Itadori.

"Yuji!"

Jumping when a voice came from behind him, Itadori immediately turned and attacked, his fist colliding with a palm that stopped his punch with frightening ease.

"You seem to have improved very quickly."

Blinking, Itadori looked up to see Gojo with a small smile on his lips.

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"Ah, Gojo-Sensei... It's you." Retracting his fist, Itadori rubbed it.

'Damn, even though I imbued my fist with cursed energy, it still hurt...' What a monster.

"We're leaving now."

Itadori blinked, his mind immediately going to Gojo's fight against Jogo.

"Uh... Okay."

.

Domain Expansion.

Itadori already knew about this; after all, it was something that could be considered the pinnacle of a Jujutsu sorcerer.

What's more, he had already seen Sukuna use his expansion firsthand, so he wasn't too surprised to see Jogo use it too.

But he couldn't help admitting that the curse was too strong. Even though for someone like Gojo it wasn't much, the current Itadori couldn't see himself lasting more than 10 seconds against someone like him.

But while Jogo's Domain Expansion was frightening, Gojo's expansion was oppressive and terrifying. Itadori wouldn't have been able to understand it if it hadn't been for the fact that he followed the anime.

It was definitely a difficult level to reach.

"Who sent you here?" Gojo questioned with authority, looking at Jogo's head.

'This is no time to be amazed.' But while Gojo was busy interrogating the curse, Itadori frowned as he spread cursed energy throughout his body, enhancing it as much as possible. 'If we can exorcise Jogo here and now, it will save us a lot of trouble later. I can't let Hanami save him.'

!

Going on alert when a projectile flew toward him, Gojo jumped back to dodge, while Jogo's head slid away until it stopped next to Yuji.

Unlike Gojo, who was distracted, Itadori was ready for the attack when a sea of petals sprang up all over the place, his attention fully on the curse's head.

And, anticipating Hanami's arrival, Itadori immediately noticed the approach of nature's protective curse.

'I've got you!'

Clenching his teeth and thrusting his body forward, Itadori proved quick enough to reach Jogo's head first, kicking it away and surprising Hanami, who simply ignored the boy and tried to retrieve the head.

'Not so fast!'

Unwilling to let that happen, Itadori came up behind her with a dangerous smile, his fist coming down on her back with enough force to push her to the ground.

Boom!

Crushing the curse, Itadori blinked when the curse was out of sight, the hairs on the back of his neck rising, prompting him to throw himself backward to escape the roots that sprang up from the ground, threatening to impale him.

'Shit.' Cursing in his mind, he tried to look around, but Hanami's presence had already disappeared completely. 'Too fast.'

"Interesting." Gojo, walking over to stand beside him, rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "You did well to try and stop the curse, Yuji."

"I swore I got it right." Itadori frowned in disappointment.

"And you did, but the curse sank her own body into the ground. That's how she escaped."

Itadori sighed, begrudgingly admiring Hanami's cunning.

"Well, since you saw that, I want you to become strong enough to defeat those two."

Itadori blinked and pointed to himself, Gojo nodding in agreement with a small smile.

"Don't worry. To speed up your progress, let's move on to the next step in your training...

Combat training!"

.

A whole month had passed since Itadori's encounter with the two special-grade curses.

And during that short time, Itadori hadn't interrupted his training for a single day.

Because of that, his progress had been tremendous.

At this point, Itadori was already many steps ahead of his canonical version.

Gojo could see his growth and could praise him for it. Itadori had improved to the point where he was completely different from the version he was a month ago.

A genius, as Gojo himself liked to praise him.

"Are you ready?"

Next to Nanami, Itadori kept a hunting knife in a sheath at his waist, a small smile appearing on his lips as he nodded determinedly.