#modulo chapter 20

option 1: he solves everything as soon as he judges that the jujutsu sorcerers of the modern age are struggling too much, using overwhelming force to shape the world as he sees fit and making everyone reliant on him, taking on the burden of deciding who lives and who dies because despite his strength he’s only one person who can only be at one place at a time (within a certain range anyway)

option 2: he does what Tengen did for the majority of their life and becomes a neutral force who interferes as little as possible, keeping the general curse population manageable but letting Jujutsu society pick and fight their own battles beyond that

option 1 seems more consistent with his personality in main jjk, but it would make for a poor plot for a sequel, for the same reason why Gojo spent the majority of jjk either sealed in the prison realm or being on overseas missions, it’s why Gojo having emotional weak points was integral

having a character in the story who Can and Does just fix every obstacle in the main characters’ way just isn’t an interesting story,

also Yuuji isn’t an idealistic 15 year old anymore, nor is he a freshly traumatized kid trying to make up for lives lost

he’s in his mid 80s and tired, the plan he had for his life (living as well as he can and dying surrounded by loved ones) was ripped away from him by the curse of immortality, a supremely isolating experience on top of being the strongest sorcerer since all of his peers aged out of their prime and the newer generations are born weaker

he spent the past decade or more losing people one by one, until he decided he couldn’t stand to see them go anymore and removed himself from society, further isolating himself

Yuji’s entire existence is unnatural. He doesn’t have a counterbalance, unlike Gojo in his time. It’s very possible that the reason why sorcerers are born weaker than they used to be is Yuji’s continued existence, just like how curses grew stronger because Satoru Gojo was born with the six eyes and limitless.

considering the fact that Yuji is immortal, he could try to shoulder everything on his own forever

He’s the embodiment of “with great power comes great responsibility” because he can either take responsibility for everything happening in jujutsu society as the immortal strongest or choose to remove himself from the equation as best he can

The “good” choice would probably to try his best to emulate Gojo AND Tengen, maybe even the Kalyan sages of the Rumelian’s, foster the new generations through the ages while simultaneously having some kind of pact not to interfere in current events but that would still leave him with the pain of being immortal while everyone around him isn’t AND have him being pressured into acting whenever jujutsu sorcerers are faced with a threat they deem to dangerous to face themselves

it would be the most selfless choice but it would just turn him into a weapon in their hands in the long run, because unlike Satoru Gojo would have, he will not die from old age and unlike Tengen his technique and skills do not lend themselves to being an unseen passive force that doesn’t tip the scales in either direction. Tengen could be absorbed by Kenjaku without a fight because they didn’t really have offensive capabilities, only defensive ones

Even Sukuna, who was an unbeatable violent force during his original lifetime was granted the right to fade away, though it is unclear if he made his pact with Kenjaku because he was nearing the end of his natural life and wanted more or if he grew bored with not having a worthy opponent and turned himself into cursed objects with Kenjaku’s help to wait for a worthy fight in a later era

i’m not sure if Yuji could end his own life and chooses not to for now or if the only way for him to end his current way of existence is to do what Sukuna did and turn himself into a cursed object once he grows tired of life, though that would inevitably lead to him being used in some ways (either by humans using him as an actual weapon or by curses consuming him like they did Sukuna’s fingers and becoming too powerful for the weakened sorcerers to handle)

Yuji, as he is now, should never have existed and he is painfully aware of that

in a writing sense, it’s not like his overwhelming force could solve this conflict in a meaningful way. He could end the duel between Mahoraga and Dabura by exorcising the former and existing as a deterrent for to Dabura but that doesn’t solve the philosophical conflict between the Sorcerers and the Rumelians (plus he doesn’t seem willing to do that before Yuka loses right now)