First Year Second Field Test Event

## First-Year Second Field Test

### Outcome

Overall success, Death and removal of Maulani Kaua, Appearance of Yoichi Nakamura

## Extra

### Next

TBD.

The **First-Year Second Field Test** was the second event for Tokyo Jujutsu High's first years, seeing the return of the class after their crushing loss to the Acid-Poison curse duo. Tasked with hunting down grade four curses in pairs of two, the students work to earn some pride and faith from their teacher back once more.

## Prologue

After the events of the last field test, most of the students have worked and had encounters that shaped them into better sorcerers; most especially, Hendo Gojo and Kuro Tanaka both having dangerous encounters with cursed spirits and escaping either through their own duties or through the aid of third parties.

The students reconvene after this, returning to class with Haruto to prepare for their next lesson. In this session, a few new faces arrive and accompany the class;

1. Seifuku: Returning from the prior field test, Seifuku represents herself as the teacher's assistant now.
2. Ryoto and Omaku: A wielder of Heavenly Restriction and Sukuna's vessel respectively, both were brought along for their first lessons under Haruto's supervision.
3. Maulani Kaua: Though technically a student beforehand, Maulani made his first — and last — appearance in Haruto's classes here.
4. Kaito Hayashi and Michio Gushiken: Two newcomers to the class.

Once being briefed on what they will be doing for the lesson; a field test where each student is paired with another, sent out to hunt a grade four cursed spirit, the students follow Haruto and Seifuku off to their destination. After preparations are made, teams are set and groups scheme for their oncoming fights, everyone is discharged and sent into their respective battles.

## Battles

### Ryoto and Michio

Ryoto Zen'in and Michio Gushiken are paired together and sent off to hunt down a chimera-like curse. Due to a lack of foresight, Ryoto misplaced his only means of seeing the curse, but through working with Michio he was able to find and attack the curse. Whilst the pair didn't struggle massively, further lack of spatial awareness led Michio to being critically injured as Ryoto frinished off their curse with quick lacerations. Michio, before dying, is saved and healed by Haruto arriving and the two are debriefed on their success. Though scolding the boy (Ryoto) for not protecting Michio, Haruto is glad he enrolled Ryoto and praises the two for their swift and effective teamwork despite no prior meeting.

### Michael and Kaito

Michael Anderson and Kaito Hayashi are paired together and sent off to hunt down a shell-covered curse. The pair start off with a strange sense of disorder as the curse chases down Michael, though with a quick bit of teamwork where Kaito struck it from range to create an opening for Michael to critically strike the curse, the two are able to combo the curse briefly. After it opens up its shell to lacerate both with hundreds of sharp spikes, Kaito slips up and is left open for the curse's quick pummelling, only to be saved by a last-moment counter by Michael which obliterated the curse. The two are then met by Haruto who tells Michael to find balance between his prior recklessness and his new cautiousness, and simply judges Kaito less. *He's weird*.

### Kuro and Batsu

Kuro Tanaka and Batsu Kamo are paired together and sent off to hunt down a sense-depraving curse. Being deafened and blinded respectively, the two were at first aimless but were soon lucky as the curse, in a panic, attacked and swapped their ailments. With this they were able to work together, comboing the curse with Batsu's lasers and Kuro's cursed speech freezing it to be stricken. The two were awarded for average success and moved along.

### Omaku and Ashiro

Omaku Itadori and Ashiro Staria are paired together and sent off to hunt down a swift curse which inflicts rabies. The two have shoddy teamwork although don't suffer immensely as both have a relatively straight-forward curse to fight. Omaku is inflicted with rabies from an attack from the curse but Ashiro, awakening his technique in the midst of battle, is able to kill the curse with a well-timed and placed throw of a rock, changing its density to crush the curse's head in. The two are met, healed and sent off as usual.

### Billy and Sheldon

Billy Eve Watterson and Sheldon Lee Cooper Zen'in are paired together... *unfortunately...* and sent off to hunt down a similarly swift curse with skittish movements and cursed energy. The pair perform terribly: rather than working together, they act discordantly and attack the curse separately, with Sheldon even calling out his untamed shadow Nue to try and electrocute the curse. As this fails, both enter a yelling match where they insult one another, leaving the curse confused as it watches. Eventually they calm down and work together, with Billy distracting the curse and holding it still whilst Sheldon rushes it down, followed by Nue divebombing it into its grave.

After their barely successful test, Haruto scolds both dearly, berating them for their shared terrible teamwork, for Sheldon's cowardice and lack of initiative, and Billy's offensive and disgusting behaviour and blind movements. Both are told to re-evaluate themselves as sorcerers or leave, and then dismissed.

### Hendo and Maulani

Hendo Gojo and Maulani Kaua are paired together and sent off to hunt down a maternal curse who spawns numerous toddler-like curses. Hendo and Maulani do not work together well *at all*, with Maulani getting offended at simple friendly gestures from Hendo and then actively impairing his partner's ability to use his technique. As the babies start to swarm in, Hendo is quick to handle the spawn which come after him, using a mix of his technique and weapons to batter and keep them away from him. Maulani on the other hand... *fails to do that*. He is quickly mauled and broken by a series of poor decisions including wasting his technique's shikigami on silly attacks which cause him further failure. Eventually, Maulani is even killed in the test.

#### Hendo and Haruto

With Maulani dead, Haruto Gojo intervenes on Hendo's test, offering to help his cousin handle the rest which he graciously accepts. The two work near-perfectly in synergy, even as Haruto pulls his punches for obvious reasons, as Hendo blends seamlessly in and out of combat with Haruto accompanying him. Eventually the pair find the source of the cursed babies, noticing it being able to talk and having the energy of both Human and Curse. This startles both sorcerers, Hendo mercilessly kills the human-curse chimera, leaving Haruto in a mix of shock but also pride at his cousin's quick and focused work.

The two are soon interrupted as they discuss whatever *that* was however, being greeted by a then-unknown curse user. The man soon reveals himself to be Special Grade curse user, Yoichi Nakamura, and he asks for the location of Sukuna's Finger. Haruto explains to a shocked Hendo the situation with Ryomen, witch Yoichi inadvertently also hearing this and being outraged, exclaiming they "already had a vessel ready". After getting a message from his "boss" however, Yoichi is calmed and leaves, knowing there is *another finger* ready.

Hendo and Haruto then discuss what to do with Maulani, seeing the situation has passed. Hendo says they should exclude him from the school for his own safety after Haruto offers a forced resignation, with the pair affirming this plan after that. Haruto "revives" Maulani through using Reverse Cursed Technique amplified by the Six Eyes, and the two then leave to finish off the missions.

## Aftermath

Everyone is debriefed and awarded placements on a "leaderboard" of sorts. The class — specifically Hendo and Haruto — now know of the looming threat of another vessel for Ryomen Sukuna and a group wanting to incarnate him. Maulani is removed from the school indefinitely for the time-being.

The rankings go as follows:

1. First Place, **Hendo Gojo**. Excellent performance all-around with few-to-no hiccups.
2. Second Place, **Michael Anderson**. Performed far better than prior test, although overly cautious. Has room for improvement, though is doing well.
3. Third Place, **Ryoto Zen'in**. All-around solid, though ignorance of his coworker's strife led to a potential loss. Has room for improvement.
4. Fourth Place, **Kuro Tanaka, Batsu Kamo and Kaito Hayashi**. All performed as expected: neither excellently nor poorly.
5. Fifth Place, **Omaku Itadori**. Didn't perform terribly, although higher expectations were had given her nature as vessel to Ryomen Sukuna and faith put in her.
6. Sixth Place, **Ashiro Staria**. A lack of awakening his technique could've prompted a total failure in his and Omaku's test. His late awakening saved them just.
7. Seventh Place, **Michio Gushiken**. Spatial awareness and a lack of self-defence led to a close call with death.
8. Eighth Place, **Sheldon Cooper Zen'in**. Performed poorly, argued with partner thoroughly and used an untamed shikigami almost immediately upon entry. Only scraping by through his persistence to focus and trying to succeed over all else.

Other mentions are:

1. **Billy Eve Watterson**. Constant bickering, lack of focus, arguing with Sheldon and literal threatening of his safety and even life persisted throughout test. Acted brashly and idiotically, and is being *considered* for forced resignation. Scraping by due to test's success however.
2. **Maulani Kaua**. Forcibly removed from Tokyo Jujutsu High for his inability to perform under standards and his death during operation, only alive thanks to Haruto Gojo's work.