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"...-nd with Naoya Zen'in being the last competitor in this year's final, we can now officially congratulate Nanami Kento on the title of World Champion!" the commentator drones from the tv, unceremoniously ripping both Satoru and Suguru out of their respective trances.

"This will be the first time in ten years that the gold does not go to Russia's Satoru Gojo, who is taking a surprising but probably well-deserved break for the rest of the season, as has been announced by his press team a few days earlier."

The other commentator is quick to start a discussion about how Satoru's absence affects the quality of the competition and how all three of his world records remain unbroken, but the sound already moved to the background of Satoru's perception again as Suguru drops the last piece of sushi he's been about to stuff into his mouth.

“I bet if it’d been Dr. Getou on this table you would've tried harder,” Nanami spits out and disappears out of his sight.

He blinks again.

There’s too much pain in his head all of a sudden, the ringing sounds closing in on him, burning whatever is left of his neuronal network up there. He doesn’t react outwardly, can’t, really. Too detached, feeling like his body is barely his own. His entire core is cold now.

“What’s next?” he asks his assisting operator, and his own voice sounds about 10 miles away. Maybe like a diver sounds screaming underwater before losing all of his oxygen. Before he pathetically drowns with his lungs full of fluid, bursting the smallest of his airways and the rest of his lung tissue. 

He doesn’t look over, just glances at the door closing in front of him automatically again.

It’s not true.

He tried so hard for Haibara, he tried so hard for Nanami and … and they don’t see it. How can they see when all he ever shows them is perfection? If this had been Suguru, he’d … he would’ve crumpled. He would’ve died right there with him. But he couldn’t have tried harder, even for Suguru. He couldn’t have done better because he’s done his absolute best. This was a complication he could not salvage, he could not solve, and he couldn’t have solved it for Suguru, either. He would’ve watched Suguru die like Nanami had to watch Haibara die, on his table and in a heap of blood and viscera and brain matter and liquor. 

• the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut
• calling any founding father a slut
• the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS
• that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing
• Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210
• 210 slutty, slutty years
• the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS
• the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence
• i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.
• His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock
• i barely know who alexander hamilton is

Satoru Gojou (五条 悟) - Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) - Episode 18