The Years I Spent as a God in Jujutsu Kaisen

Kanzaki Osamu is an introverted modern adult with a remarkably busy inner life.

One day, he wakes up as an inconspicuous wish god: white hair, golden eyes, and the ability to grant wishes in exchange for a price.

He discovers that this world has cursed spirits and realizes he has transmigrated into a certain manga. With nothing better to do, he waits for Gojo Satoru to be born, and before he knows it, centuries have passed.

Over those centuries, he has heard countless wishes. He only grants a divine miracle when the price is equivalent.

As long as he doesn't want to be seen, no one can see him, and he gradually develops the habit of talking to himself.

Then, on the day Gojo Satoru is born, the whole world trembles.

He has to go watch that.

He watches a live-action version of "The Gojo Story," using his divine status to stay invisible as he floats around little Gojo, chattering nonstop.

"He was this quiet as a kid?"

"Tsk, this kid is pretty handsome. Why does he look like a gorgeous ice cube...?"

"Do these followers make wishes without using their brains? They think this little a price will get them a mountain of gold?"

He is certain no one can see a god, until the moment his followers' wishes surge like a tide.

The snow-haired child beneath the veranda suddenly turns around, his icy blue Six Eyes locking onto him precisely.

"If you're so displeased," the divine child says with a faint smile, astonishing him, "why don't you grant my wish?"

Kanzaki Osamu: "...?! Wait, why can you hear me?!"

Gojo Satoru smiles slightly. "I can see you, too..."

"God of Wishes."

"Shall we make a deal?"

The Six-Eyed divine child's first wish is: "Hold me."

Kanzaki Osamu says he's being ridiculous.

A hug, a response from a god: how could a human child possibly measure its worth?

"Gods are so stingy," the Six-Eyed divine child remarks, his voice still flat.

But he seems to have no idea what it means to hold back.

Because his second wish is to have Kanzaki Osamu.

What Kanzaki Osamu doesn't know is that the weight of the Six-Eyed divine child's soul is enough to tip the scales of equivalent exchange heavily.

Until the bloody night in Shibuya...

Before his divine power burns out and he vanishes, Kanzaki Osamu looks into those familiar pale eyes and, in the end, kisses the Six-Eyed divine child's lips.

"Goodbye, Satoru."

He thinks sadly that he's going to die anyway, so what's wrong with one kiss?

...But then he wakes up again.

At a remote, dilapidated shrine, turned back into a human and wearing the face that kissed Gojo Satoru.

-Can I still pretend to be dead?

[Reading Guide]

1. Satoru is the top. They dote on each other. Happy ending.

2. The protagonist is a god and doesn't know the original plot. His actions follow his understanding of "equivalent exchange." In a sense, he's a conceptual god, so he has a great deal of leeway and is very powerful.

3. Saving the characters readers can't bear to lose and kicking death flags aside. The main goal is to make things satisfying.

4. The timeline begins when Gojo is a child. The romance starts when he is an adult.

Theme: Exchange and redemption within the rules, and understanding and bonds that cross boundaries.