My Cursed Technique Is Called Crime and Punishment

July Jinghuo, a schoolyard queen, the guardian deity of the shopping district, and a delinquent girl who loves teaching other delinquents a lesson, was jailed for murder. But since her cursed technique, [Crime and Punishment], was fairly useful, a certain white-haired teacher got her out and shoved her into Jujutsu High as a temp worker.

Whenever he had to clean up one of the huge messes July caused in the years that followed, Gojo Satoru would remember how it all began and feel like gouging out his own eyes.

When July Jinghuo complained that the Kamo clan was making trouble over her cursed technique.

Gojo Satoru: It's fine. It's just the Kamo clan. No big deal.

When July Jinghuo reported that Geto Suguru had taken her innate cursed spirit, [Punishment], and was planning to kill her to cover it up.

Gojo Satoru: Wait, what the hell is an innate cursed spirit?

When July Jinghuo led her classmates in a massive strike against the higher-ups.

Gojo Satoru: I wasn't the one on strike! You can't blame me for everything just because I'm her teacher!

When Geto Suguru showed up at Jujutsu High with a little girl with white hair and blue eyes who looked just like Gojo Satoru.

Gojo Satoru broke down: What the hell is this now?!

July Jinghuo was even more shocked: Punishment, how did that body-double maniac turn you into this?

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When Geto Suguru picked up [Punishment], he hadn't thought much about it. He just wanted to recruit one more special-grade cursed spirit to help him realize his great ambition.

He underestimated how difficult that would be.

This wasn't picking up a cursed spirit. It was picking up a spoiled little ancestor.

And the ancestor even had a face like a mini Gojo Satoru. What a headache.

[Punishment]: Isn't this your fault?

Naturally, Geto Suguru got tangled up in all the trouble [Punishment] brought with her.

While cleaning up the messes July Jinghuo and [Punishment] had left behind, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru unexpectedly ran into each other. They stared at one another.

"...What a coincidence."

"...You're here too."

Geto Suguru never would have imagined that this was how they would meet again.

The whole thing was absurd, with a touch of comedy.

It wasn't until Gojo Satoru lost his cursed technique during a once-in-a-millennium upheaval that Geto Suguru understood what [Crime and Punishment] really meant to the jujutsu world.

*The serious blurb

July Jinghuo was the most formidable sorcerer in the history of the jujutsu world. She swept away the barriers imposed by the Three Great Families and purged the vermin in the higher-ups. She transformed the jujutsu world's gloomy, oppressive state and opened up an entirely new future for it. Later generations hailed her as "The Ender."

Years later, when her younger successors looked at them with curiosity, her classmates would always remember that perilous exchange event and speak of it with fondness.

Maki: A childish, annoying pest who loves teasing people.

Yuta: A shikigami user who loves cursed spirits, just like me.

Panda: A legendary figure who was imprisoned three times. She's way, way stronger than you guys.

Inumaki: Salmon.

Mai: You're all wearing rose-colored glasses about her. She nearly wiped out the entire jujutsu world single-handedly. This woman really is "The Ender."

July (sneezing): Who's badmouthing me?

July (turning around): Punishment, tell me clearly. Between me and Geto Suguru, who is your favorite person?

*Before you read: A serious story, close to the original, with some original elements. I'm tired of Gege Akutami's grim, dark battle manga and want to write a proper, classic battle story: friendship, passion, hard work, and victory.

Read these content warnings!

1. I'm a Gojo/Geto shipper. After reading chapter 261, I was so struck by the gravitational pull between Gojo and Geto that I finally decided to start this story. Gojo Satoru hopes the person cheering him on from behind will be Geto the cult leader in the present, so I plan to write a story about Geto the cult leader and Gojo the teacher fighting side by side. There will be Gojo/Geto content later on.

2. To reasonably change the original plot, the protagonist will be given some very powerful advantages.

3. The protagonist has no romantic pairing. Punishment is her family and the person she feels most deeply connected to. Everything else is JUMP-style friendship.

4. The protagonist's cursed technique is called [Crime and Punishment]. I got the idea from Fyodor in Bungo Stray Dogs next door, but I completely made up the technique's effects myself. The ability to become the person who killed you after you are killed is just too dark, no matter how you look at it.

Theme: Seek redemption in a world gone rotten