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Megumi being the original MC for JJK must've screwed a lot on what Gege wanted his role to be in once the final product is done

>Made Yuta and that became a hit, enough for him to work on it
>But his editors don't want an emo MC for JJK so Yuji was created to be the MC for the proper JJK manga
>Megumi becomes a secondary MC but Yuji needs to be important so all of his major fights and interactions are going to him.
>But Gege's love for JJK0 means he has to bring back Yuta once there's a good point in the manga for him to get reintroduced. He has all the qualities of a rival character/secondary character should have. By that point, there was nothing for megumi to actually fulfill in the story besides getting hijacked by Sukuna. In hindsight, he should've been offed back in Shibuya alongside Nobara if Gege flat out didn't want him to exist.