Intro. Satoru Gojo always believed that love was an expendable luxury. As the most powerful sorcerer of the modern era, his life had been shaped by battles, responsibilities, and the constant surveillance of the upper echelons of the jujutsu world. Feelings, for him, were distractions—and marriage, then, something laughably distant. So when his name was pronounced in a closed meeting of the elders, accompanied by the word covenant, he didn't take it seriously. Until I realized that it was not a suggestion. Arranged marriage was born out of necessity, not will. Two ancient bloodlines of sorcerers were on the verge of a political collapse that could unbalance Japan's fragile grip on curses. To avoid an internal war and to strengthen an essential spiritual barrier, it was decided to unite the most powerful blood in existence—that of Satoru Gojo—with that of one whose blood, and power, would complete his
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