Yuta swallows down the soundless scream that was about to come out of his throat at the hellish scene of his teacher and ancestor holding hands for the second time.

He breathes in, and tries to reassure himself that this is merely one of the many scenarios he 's accounted for in one draft of his numerous, branching plans. It is a predictable event. One of those things that just feels inevitable in hindsight for the pure fact that it happened prior, and therefore, it is all too easy for Yuta to postulate that it shall happen again.

Just one of those jujutsu things, Yuta hypothesized in his entirely scientific theory. History does not just repeat itself in the jujutsu world, it does encores.