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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2

[Juzo Pov]

The jujutsu schools are considered the place for the community and provide mediation, general support, education, and shelter. Tokyo Jujutsu High is a broad campus of several buildings built in a traditional Japanese architectural style, operating under the guise of a Buddhist temple. The school building is well hidden on Tokyo's outskirts, far and high in the mountains. Naturally, there are a lot of trees around the property to further obscure the location. Some elements other than the buildings reflect the Buddhist theme. There are several statues of deities, shrines, and torii gates around the campus.

There are several entrances to the school. The entire property is hidden by a protective barrier maintained by Master Tengen. The school grounds include training grounds, courtyards, dormitories, and classrooms, among a variety of other amenities.

Upon enrolling in Jujutsu High, transfer students are taught about the school's rules and security measures. The school is protected by Master Tengen's barrier, which hides its location from the outside world. Those who already know the location can easily find it. One entrance is in the foothills of Mount Mushiro up a long set of stairs marked with a series of torii gates.

The school's curriculum is taught over four years. The concept is to train young sorcerers to control their curses and use them to exorcise other curses. All classes are taught by active professional jujutsu sorcerers. The teachers regulate their students' training regiments and education as they see fit. Sorcerers are rare, so classes are often small and focused on building up the individual students into competent sorcerers as quickly as possible.

Students are given a formal education with standard school classes such as homeroom and sorcerer training through practical jujutsu classes. They move from their original homes to live on campus in the dormitories. The majority of training, classes, and school events are all conducted on campus grounds.

Practical training assignments and field tests often consist of investigating paranormal locations and exorcising weaker curses. Jujutsu High students are ranked on the same scale as professional jujutsu sorcerers, which their student ID reflects. Same as jujutsu sorcerers, students are given missions according to their ranking. When leaving school grounds to exorcise curses as a part of their training to gain experience, students are often supervised by a sorcerer or manager.

 Each student is given a large room in the school dorms to stay in. They can be reorganized and decorated as the student sees fit. Due to the low volume of students, there are many empty rooms.

My room had a few anime and comic posters, a weapons rack for my cursed tool, and all the other standard living necessities. 

It was currently six in the morning. Classes don't begin until eight. Today I would meet my new teacher since Gojo sensei teaches the first years and a different teacher teaches the second years. We currently have no third or fourth-year students and thus no assigned teachers for those years. 

I was practicing on the training field. I spent half an hour practicing with Jashin and another half an hour practicing taekwondo. After that, I went for a run to cool off and got back by seven-thirty. I took a shower and got dressed in my uniform. The male school uniform consists of asymmetrical blue jackets with high collars and two pins on the left side engraved with the school logo. The male uniform is completed with a pair of matching blue slacks. My uniform had a hood and a holster for Jashin on the back. 

I got to class with a minute to spare. As with any school, there are several classrooms throughout the facility. No one was there yet meaning I was the first to arrive. Then again knowing who the other two students were I wasn't surprised. Ten minutes passed before the other two students showed up. Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi my classmates from first year. Kinji is a tall young man with tan skin and a muscular build. He has small magenta-colored eyes with thin slitted eyebrows and a thin mustache made of stubble. Hakari had black hair styled into short twisted locks with a fade below his brow line. 

Kinji is a very self-absorbed type of person who cares little for the rules and regulations of Jujutsu High. All the old classmates we had often called him moody and apparently, thought of him as a good-for-nothing. However, that didn't matter because they quit. So their opinions don't mean shit to me. They looked into the abyss that was the world of Jujutsu and unlike Hikari, they blinked. Hakari sports a Jujutsu High uniform jacket jeans, boots, and a hood same as me. 

Kirara is a young, slender person guy with a feminine appearance. He has long dark hair that reaches just past the back of his neck. The front of his hair is cut flat at the ends and styled into bangs that cover Kirara's forehead. There are also two flat-cut strands of hair in front of Kirara's face that frame their cheeks. The right section of Kirara's bangs is dyed a lighter color. The back of their hair has a much more stringy appearance to it and the individual hairs jut out in several directions. Now while Kirara is a guy he doesn't act like one and prefers not to be called one. How he dresses portrays that. 

Kirara has large eyes with star-shaped pupils and thin eyebrows with pronounced eyelashes. They also have tally-like markings directly under both their eyes and sports four piercings around their mouth. The piercings are all circular, with two on each side of their mouth, one just below their lips, and the last one on the front of the chin.

Kirara's upper body outfit consists of an off-shoulder, light-colored crop top with black straps and a spiked choker around the neck. 

"Sup Juzo"

"Hi Ju-kun"

My eye involuntarily twitched at the second greeting. If correcting her would make her stop I would but I've tried the nickname is stuck. 

"Yo Hikari, Kira you guys know who's teaching us this year."

"Nah, but it doesn't matter as long as they have a burning fever like Gojo," said Hikari to which Kirara nodded in agreement. Kinji is an individual who enjoys watching people get lost in their passions. He describes this as people's "fever" burning hot. He believes people are desperate to change their lives. According to Kirara Hoshi, Kinji's fever burns hottest when he's working as a sorcerer for Jujutsu High. However, Kinji's attitude and modern cursed technique don't mesh well with the higher-ups.

Exactly at eight-thirty, our new teacher walked in. It was a tall man with spiky brown hair and sharp dark eyes. He wore a dust brown peacoat over a white dress shirt with a jade necktie, black pants, and black shoes.

The man cleared his throat"My name is Atsuya Kusakabe, I will be your teacher during your second year." He paused and popped a toothpick in his mouth" Now I need to get a gauge on what you guys can do so go to the training area and do some sparing." 

He pivoted and headed for the entrance before pausing again."Let's start with hand-to-hand combat Kinji vs Juuzo" he said before leaving.

Juuzo and Kinji looked at one another. Kinja had a smile, Juuzo seeing that rolled his eyes before getting up and heading for the door. Kinja got up as well and was followed closely by Kirara

"It's been a while since I sampled your fever," Kinji said while licking his lips.