#kashimo will hopefully further weaken sukuna before they die so the kids can finish him off

[hxhhasmysoul]

the more i think about it, maybe gojou did take a hit to his mental health in the prison realm. maybe he had too much time to think and to miss the people no longer in his life. and then he got out and found out more of them were gone. he failed to prevent all of those loses, one way or the other. maybe he saw the hollowness of his own strength. strength that does not protect, that does not let him keep people around him.

maybe he didn't believe that megumi can be saved so he didn't try, and didn't prepare himself for the fight, just tried to wing it.

that last flash back kinda shows that he wasn't with the living in his thoughts, he was with the dead. maybe that's why he orchestrated the killing of the elders but appointed gakuganji because he couldn't make himself care anymore.

it's a shame that seeing the reflection of himself in sukuna wasn't a wake-up call, something to get him out of the stupor. didn't make him strive not to be sukuna. not to be detached and selfish, not to give in to his worst instincts.

i wish this fight never happened and gege actually explored gojou a bit instead. i wish we never established who was stronger. i wish gojou's last fight didn't make him look so bad.