Would Sweetheart Gojo Dream of His Substitute Childhood Friend?

[Third-person narration, slow burn, romance-focused]

My name is Hatori Marin. As an ordinary person, I have fun by visiting my school’s “Host Club” during the day and finding a real host in Kabukicho at night.

Deep down, I’ve always felt that an ordinary, uneventful life isn’t what I want.

That is, until I met a handsome white-haired high school boy and became the “childhood friend who died” in his story.

With the ultimate buff of being a “resurrected first love,” I share all kinds of heart-fluttering moments with young Master Gojo.

He’s powerful and gentle. You can’t blame me for gradually falling for him.

Later, my memories return, and I learn the truth he doesn’t know. But then I accidentally let something slip.

My handsome crush corners me in the school hallway. “Why did you pretend you didn’t remember? What… do you really think of me?”

“I like you! But I’m not her,” I tell him, then ask,

“And you? Who am I to you?”

[DK Gojo’s perspective]

When he reunites with the childhood friend he lost years ago, at first he can’t believe it.

He had confirmed that the girl was dead. It was so real there was no room for doubt.

But now she’s alive, only she’s lost her cursed energy and her memories.

No matter. There are plenty of stories about a divine child descending to earth and falling in love with an ordinary person.

He thought their relationship would naturally progress, but she began avoiding him again and again. Unable to take it anymore, he asks her about it, only for her to say she isn’t the childhood friend he once knew.

He swears on his Six Eyes that this is impossible!

But before he can confess or answer her question about his soul, she vanishes without a trace the next day.

[Marin’s perspective]

In the blink of an eye, my invincible teenage crush has transformed into a mature, composed adult.

Only then do I realize I’ve transmigrated ten years into the future and become the “dead girlfriend” he talks about.

Me: How many times have I died? Are we really doing the body-double plot twice?

But he really is a knockout. He’s lost his boyishness and gained all the charm of a mature man.

I guess I’m supposed to start dating him under the halo of “resurrected girlfriend” now?

And yet… he’s become my strictest Spartan teacher!

Gojo at 27: No teacher-student romance. No dating minors, thanks.

Me and everyone at Jujutsu High: …Really?

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“Blue is the color of the sky, water, and air, of depth and infinity, the most fundamental color of the universe.”

Ives Klein

The light dancing at his fingertips was freedom and life unlike anything she had ever seen.

[Reader Guide and Content Warnings]

1. Pure romance, one-on-one pairing with teenage Gojo, including the 27-year-old Gojo. They’re on the same timeline.

2. Ouran High School Host Club is included as part of the heroine’s backstory, but only briefly, so it won’t affect your reading. I love Ouran so much, and recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.

3. The heroine’s family arranged her engagement. She has no feelings for her fiancé, and the engagement will be called off later.

4. A slow burn. Volume One is a slice-of-life arc, a little over thirty chapters, focused on awkward, bittersweet young love. Volume Two begins the Jujutsu High arc.

5. The heroine is an ordinary person at first, but her seal is removed midway through.

Theme: A youth without regrets for jujutsu sorcerers