Ryomen Sukuna Quotes

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“A hierarchy not based purely on strength is boring, if you ask me.”

Ryomen Sukuna, Jujutsu Kaisen Source / locator: Manga, chapter 3, p. 90 (Viz); spoken through a mouth on Yuji's cheek; a preceding balloon on p. 89, "What a disappointment... I thought you were the leader...", whose speaker is off-panel, is omitted Viz · Publisher source

Grinning out of a mouth that has opened on Yuji's cheek, Sukuna has just heard that the man who outpaced him in Sendai has a principal to report to, and he finds the arrangement dull. The rest of the chapter stages exactly that arrangement. A panel after Gojo's boast about fighting a fully restored Sukuna, a voice calls him by his first name and tells him he is eight minutes late, and the voice belongs to a man sewing a stuffed animal. Masamichi Yaga rules it not late enough to get angry about, and Gojo, the strongest sorcerer by his own description, asks to be cut some slack like any student. Nobody answers Sukuna, and the page answers him anyway. Strength settles fights here and nothing else; who gets scolded, who conducts the interview and who passes it are decided by other means, while the man who could flatten the room stands through it with his arms folded.

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