Okkotsu, You're Not Some Timid High School Boy

(Unfinished, but the outline is complete.)

Wei, who thought she had already died, transmigrates to a world where jujutsu is a special ability. The first jujutsu user she meets is a high school student named Yuta Okkotsu.

His face, build, posture, and expression all make him look weak from every angle. Wei tries to take advantage of the fact that timid people like him tend not to fight back... and then a being named Rika pierces her chest.

Through her inhuman body, Wei sees that Rika’s soul is no more than a little girl’s. She immediately loses all desire to fight, and instead thinks...

Someone as abnormal as Yuta Okkotsu is the perfect person to help someone as abnormal as she is.

She stays at Yuta Okkotsu’s apartment, helps minimize the incidents where Rika fully manifests, and gets Yuta Okkotsu out of the unreasonable confinement imposed by the rotten jujutsu higher-ups ahead of schedule.

Then, as an afterthought, Wei discovers she has jujutsu abilities, too. Not wanting to affect her combat strength, she enrolls at Tokyo Jujutsu High alongside Yuta Okkotsu.

Missions, studying, having fun.

Good teachers, good classmates, a good cafeteria.

Wei is very happy with life at Jujutsu High.

Until Yuta Okkotsu discovers that she is immortal.

She needs to value her life more, take better care of her Soul Gem, and stop ignoring her pain and injuries for the sake of other people’s feelings... So many tedious lectures, so many tedious demands.

On the surface, Wei follows Yuta Okkotsu’s instructions. She changes her Soul Gem from an earring into a tongue piercing, stops using her healing ability on others without his permission, and no longer ignores her own injuries to save someone else.

In reality, she never understood Yuta Okkotsu’s values.

She can’t understand them, and she doesn’t want to.

She has died so many times to make it this far, and her wish as a magical girl is to protect the people she wants to protect, no matter what.

Cherish herself? Care about herself?

If she’d always thought that way, she would have gone crazy a long time ago.

“I’m sorry, I was wrong. The Wei you are now may actually be the Wei who protects herself best. I shouldn’t be asking you to do anything. What I should do is work hard to become stronger, so that I can protect you in a way you can’t refuse.”

Hey, hey, hey?! What kind of terrifying thing is he saying?!

“Because only you know what you’ve been through best, Wei. You know what makes you uncomfortable and what you can adapt to. The things I assume will make you healthier and happier might be poison to you. So you should just be yourself.”

His utterly sincere words, impossible to find fault with, give Wei a sense of impending doom on an epic scale.

For the first time, she wonders what on earth is up with Yuta Okkotsu... Isn’t he a little too good? Is he some kind of saint from a religious text? Is he really that good at putting himself in someone else’s shoes?

Trying to hide her wavering feelings behind rational analysis, Wei and Yuta Okkotsu return to the way they used to get along before he started making all those demands. Though the demanding phase went on for so long that some habits stuck, and she never changed them back.

Missions, studying, having fun.

Good teachers, good classmates, a good cafeteria.

Wei is very happy with life at Jujutsu High.

Until she confirms that Yuta Okkotsu likes her, and that she... All right, she’s been avoiding it this whole time. She likes Yuta Okkotsu, too.

But Wei doesn’t want to start dating. She simply and sincerely confesses her feelings to Yuta Okkotsu in return.

“Do you not know what to do, Wei?”

Yuta Okkotsu asks after recovering from her confession.

“Yes,” Wei answers honestly.

She doesn’t want to date, but she doesn’t want their relationship to go backward, either.

1. The heroine is the protagonist of my completed long-form Genshin Impact series. This is an alternate route where she leaves the Hunter world and transmigrates into the Jujutsu Kaisen world instead of Genshin Impact, so you can read this on its own. The heroine is a little different between the two stories (I revised her backstory and settings). I’m using the same heroine because she suits the feeling I want to write.

2. The ending will probably only go as far as the two of them agreeing to try dating once they both want to. The extras will cover them getting together around the time they graduate from Jujutsu High, and what happens afterward.

Theme: Support teenagers’ mental health and build a better jujutsu society together