Itadori releases a breath and blinks his eyes open, realising he's been quiet for perhaps rather a long while.

"Sorry! I got distracted thinking. Uh, I think... we probably should find your mother and get you somewhere safe before anything else. If your stitched person friend isn't bad then it'll be wasted caution and if they are then better safe than sorry."

"... Kay. Uh. But then. Where would we even go? My mom's got, you know. A job."

"This is probably more important, but... I don't know. I can't reach my point of contact but I could maybe call some other people? Curses that can speak are really powerful."

"Uh. Okay. But you get to be the one to explain it to her."

"Yeah! Can do."

"You should probably open with, um, the magic powers. Or whatever. Er. Not that she's home right now? She'll be at work for another couple of hours."

"Where does she work? It's probably too paranoid to want to follow her. Or is it? —hey, did stitched curse person ever teach you how to do any jujutsu? Wait no you said they didn't? I think?"

"She works in customer support, uhm. I have, like... I don't know if it's properly jujutsu, it didn't seem very useful for things that aren't, fighting and stuff? It's not very good for proving that I have magic powers. Whereas you just. Seem to have some kind of physical... whatever it is?? If you can pick up our couch by yourself then that'll work fine."

"Most jujutsu is only good for fighting! Kind of. It's all the negativeness of spirit. I don't have a cursed technique, though, because I barely have any cursed energy of my own, so it's really cool to see other people's." He stands up and stretches. "I can pick up a couch though no problem!"

"That'll work, then. Um. My thing is poison. Through a jellyfish, but. It's invisible to everyone and not... very big. So. Not very interesting."

"Oh, like a shikigami? That's actually really cool! I have a friend who can do shadow shikigami. Can you show me?"

"Oh. Yeah, sure, um." Junpei closes his eyes and then summons a transparent jellyfish, pale blue and floating through the air like it's water. It's small enough to fit in the size of a palm, and obviously made entirely out of cursed energy; invisible to normal people.

"This is as big as I can get it," he admits, embarrassed. "F-for right now, anyway! Apparently I'll be able to change its size, at, uh, some point, but I was. ... Working on refinement to get it to be a numbing agent. Um. Instead of just. Being poison that kills."

"That's so cute! Does it have a name?"

"Uh, well, it, hasn't been that long, but. I was thinking Orizuki?" Why did he say that, he should have just said he didn't have anything figured out yet, it's silly to name something that's just a cursed summon that doesn't... really feel things.

(But the little jellyfish is also the closest thing he has to a friend, so.)

Itadori looks directly at the little jellyfish and grins. "Hi, Orizuki! It's nice to meet you! I'm Itadori Tōkan."

Junpei smiles a little, and he makes the little jellyfish wiggle a tentacle in something like a wave.

"So, your place or your mum's workplace?"

"My place. I don't think mom would appreciate if I just kind of. Showed up. At her job. While she's busy."

She wouldn't say anything, of course, and would welcome them both, but. She'd be very worried, and he doesn't want to do that to her.

"Yosh! Lead the way."

It's around that time that Ijichi receives another phone call. This one is from Nanami.

Ijichi had left his phone in his car when he went to chase one of the curses he and Itadori had meant to use to check Yoshino's status, so when he got back he had a minor heart attack when he saw the missed calls from Itadori. The text messages were more reassuring, though, if still somewhat concerning, and he's been trying to work up the courage to call Nanami for the past five minutes when he sees Nanami's call (which startles him bad enough he drops the phone and has to spend a few seconds fishing it from under his car's seat).

"Moshi moshi?" he says, a pit of dread in his stomach.

Nanami is currently in a shopping center bathroom, nursing a large wound on his side. He has, at this point, managed to stop the bleeding, but he will probably need to be taken to the resident expert in healing to see that everything's sorted out properly. Such are the dangers of risky maneuvers. Even calculated risks are still risks.

"I've sent you my location. Please come and pick me up ASAP. I need you to take me to Jujutsu High, to get some treatment from Ieiri."

...oh he's not being scolded, alright. "Are you alright?"

"More or less. It's not going to kill me anytime soon."

"...right. I'll meet up with Itadori-kun and be right there—"