Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think that if Suguru had opened up to Satoru about how he felt about non-sorcerers, everything would’ve turned out fine. That is an overly emotional headcanon that assumes that they ultimately wanted the same future.
In Jujutsu Kaisen, Satoru’s goal was reform. He wanted to change jujutsu society from within, to raise stronger, freer sorcerers, to dismantle the corrupt leadership, to create a system that wasn’t so exploitative.
But that's it. That reform still accepts the premise of the world that Suguru ultimately can't accept: that curses would still exist, that non-sorcerers would still unconsciously create them, and that weaker sorcerers would still lose their lives fighting them.
The system might be fairer. Less stagnant. But the fundamental issue wouldn’t change.
Even if Suguru had explained everything (the disgust, the exhaustion, the logic that led him to blame non-sorcerers), Satoru’s solution would still have been reform. Structural change. Gradual improvement.
But Suguru had already reached a radical conclusion: as long as non-sorcerers exist, curses will exist. And as long as curses exist, sorcerers will suffer. This is not faulty logic, this is the strict truth.
So no, a heart-to-heart wouldn’t have "fixed" Suguru's defection or his depression. Satoru knew this and that's why he didn't chase after Suguru. And Suguru knew this and that's why he left. His fall wasn’t sudden. It was long because he fought against the conclusion he reached. He didn’t want to "falter". He didn’t want to betray his ideals or his bond with Satoru. He tried to keep functioning inside the system for a long time.
But once he identified what was the root cause of curses, it was over. He couldn't simply unknown this truth, and knowing it meant that he as a strong sorcerer had the duty to fix it.
The fix would be a crazy and horrific task. But that's why he thinks he must be the one to do it. And he’s not someone who quits because something is difficult. Once he believed he had found the source of the problem, anything short of addressing it directly would have been cowardice. Living otherwise would be meaningless.
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