How Do You Get a Washed-Up Character to Take the Spotlight Seriously?

A companion fic to "Abandoned School Secret Identity Self-Rescue System."

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My name is "Jujutsu Kaisen."

I have to admit, everyone thinks it’s a strange name at first. But that doesn’t matter. I’m the strongest "higher-dimensional System," a manifestation of higher-dimensional consciousness that everyone adores.

Mere mortals. Their opinions mean nothing to me.

I can interfere with this world.

I absolutely hate this world.

[This kind of bungee-jumping plot is beneath the strongest me!]

[This world has to change.]

After watching countless predecessors at work and making it through my probationary period, I’m a newly minted System, ready to use a tool to transform this crumbling world.

"Destiny x Rejection"!

"System x Host"!!

As long as I create enough standout moments and grab readers’ attention, I’ll be acknowledged, and I can change this messed-up future!

But things never go according to plan.

My Host... is way too damn unmotivated!!!

A year into the mission, my slacker Host has done nothing but collect his daily login rewards! Threats, bribes, even death threats, all roll off him like eating and drinking. Not even a little deceptive adjustment can make him behave. If anything, he’s developed an instinctive distrust of me.

Now

I gave the redeemed him the "perfect" secret identity and an "ultra-easy" mission. I even offered him an interest-free loan during his probationary period, so he could live comfortably in a hot-blooded superpower manga, like a farming-game player enjoying retirement.

All I ask is that he deliver a message to the protagonists!

All I want to ask now is:

How do I get this washed-up couch potato to have a standout moment!!!

Wu: Why are you so worked up? Why not just get involved yourself?

Jujutsu Kaisen: Huh???

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[Only after experiencing war can you understand peace.]

[Likewise, only by swallowing pain can you understand the value of kindness.]

"My life has been utterly meaningless."

"...There’s no need to miss it, no need to remember it."

He picks up the name he was given and completely leaves behind his hazy past.

A scarecrow in the fields, protecting the future and looking forward to it.

"Is that so? That’s a pretty good name, isn’t it?"

Kakashi Hatake.

From the day he was given a name, Wu awakened to a new life.

A washed-up character? No way to gain popularity?

So what?

A washed-up character can just live well, like a retired layabout.

Forget making an old man fight and kill people. Changing the world doesn’t have to involve "Bang! Crash! Boom!" either. Why not teach and nurture the next generation?

The ones who truly change the world are those who give everything in obscurity.

Jujutsu Kaisen: So your way of giving everything is slacking off and skipping work, using the Sharingan to fool an elementary schooler who nearly got killed by a cursed spirit into thinking he watched too many horror movies before bed? He’ll get candy if he goes home and behaves? The Sharingan is actually that well-suited to early childhood education?!!!

Wu: Just tell me, did it work or not?

Jujutsu Kaisen: ...

I have to admit, the number of cursed spirits appearing around the school has dropped sharply, and there have never been any attacks. This slacker is pretty reliable.

But the Host is satisfied, and the System is furious.

Jujutsu Kaisen: A schoolteacher, huh? Working in obscurity, huh!!

I’ll show you what it means to keep pretending you’re a slacker in obscurity!!!

The next day, a report stating that "school curse attacks in Tokyo have dropped sharply" appeared on a certain strongest sorcerer’s desk.

Gojo: ~!~

There was also a report of a suspected unknown Curse User seen operating in secret. The person reportedly wore a dark robe patterned with clouds and a spiral mask. Their red eyes, set against silver hair, were like a demon wailing...

Wu: ...

Wu: ???

Wu: Wait, wait a minute?!!

Wu: Isn’t something wrong here?!!!

After the System acted indifferent to the Jujutsu Society while playing a staff-member secret identity and honing its acting skills under a retired old man who was tough on the outside but soft-hearted inside... the slacker whose account had been stolen finally understood.

Wu: All right, so I’m the secret identity now?!

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#A laid-back Host who doesn’t care x a long-suffering mom System

As long as the goal is achieved, who cares if the boss becomes an employee!

#OOC warning. I don’t want this to happen, but I’m saying it just in case.

Theme: Life doesn’t need to construct its own standout moments.