The lack of Gojo/Megumi content and interactions is hurting me physically. Not just in the manga -where I was waiting for Gojo to mention Megumi in any flashback in vain, but there was no mention of Gojo and Megumi's relationship in the exhibition or the Q&A. Even though, the last answer Gege answers the students and they put the panel from 79, and the last page in the ch 78 drafts was Gojo meeting Megumi.
Ch 78 was the crossroad in Gojo's life. Geto leaves and Gojo meets Megumi -you'd think it should be meaningful and holds more weight on the story but Gege doesn't explore their relationship. Meanwhile Gege keeps dragging his -mind you- toxic relationship with geto even though their relationship not only didn't work out and they drifted apart long before Geto leave, but it got a conclusion in jjk0. from before jjk even starts. More over, Gege himself said that Gojo moved on with his life after Geto left in 2 separate occasions. If Gege had the time to recycle this relationship, he should have more than enough time to focus on developing characters and relationships that need attention and development, Gege literally said he failed to explore Tsumiki and Hana's characters. He definitely failed to explore Megumi as a character as well as most of his relationships, but you'd think he won't mess the one with Gojo since Gojo is an important character unlike the girls.

I mean after 261, I thought I needed a reality check, (I guess 236 too), maybe I was wrong about the importance of their relationship, maybe they didn't have that much impact on each other's lives seeing as Gojo is emotionally distant and still stuck in the past, and perhaps that's why Gege doesn't really show us their relationship. Maybe my judgment was wrong. So recently I decided that I need to face reality and start letting go before I get hurt even more.
But suddenly Gege dropped these Q&A, and despite the fact that there was no mention of Megumi in any of them -which is hurtful, but the answers put more weight and depth on Gojo's relationship with Megumi, now it makes even less sense that it's not focused on. The fact that Gojo was distant from his parents from a young age and later left the clan, as well as the fact that he couldn't experience normal family relationship (or feel like a human), and then Gojo met Megumi -an orphan and an abandoned kid who will also might get treated like Gojo was treated -and not as a human being. Megumi already had no one but Tsumiki, when Gojo had other people around but it was as if he was alone.
I feel like all that logically should make their relationship more significant. It should be more than a simple teacher and student or a benefactor and someone who received the charity. Gojo definitely had an emotional investment in their relationship but Gege barely showed us that, he keeps telling us that Gojo felt lonely and isolated. Why did he reject his students in 261 when he was "I can count on everyone" the moment he was sealed? why would he say that you can't ask a flower to understand you when he kept saying that to Megumi subtly? "don't get left behind by me" "at this rate you won't reach my level" the talk about the clan head..
I mean I do think there's some emotional distance between Gojo and Megumi, not just from Megumi having attachment issues and lack of self wroth, but also because Gojo is emotionally distant too. But that's the thing that they need to realize and face, having been together should have meant something, and they need to convey that to each other and understand what they meant to the other. I feel like they have to meet again, because if Gojo died and will never come back, does that mean that all the years and the love they shared didn't reach the other? that it didn't save either of them? Did Gojo yet again reach someone who was right next to him? it made me even less acceptant of Gojo's death. Gojo needs to tell Megumi things himself.

Sometimes I wonder if Gege had his original perception of the characters but when he changed the story he didn't adapt the changes. I mean Gojo was always supposed to be a teacher with or without Megumi, Gojo was not supposed to know Megumi from childhood, but now that the plot has changed their relationship and the impacts it has on them should have changed -and if it did in Gege's mind, he failed to portray it in the manga.
Sometimes it feels like Gege writing all the sad stuff and skipping all the happy parts? Shouldn't be a balance between and the hurt and comfort? the pain and reward? This is fiction not real life, there should be a conclusion at least.

I feel like there might still be some hope, we can still get some conclusion to their relationship one way or the other, at the end of the day Gege said Gojo should be the one to tell Megumi about his father, and he mention "the possibility" of Megumi knowing about his father in the exhibition -although he didn't mention Gojo of course. but I don't know if I'm just clinging to false hope.
Again, perhaps my judgment was wrong from the start, but some things definitely don't make sense, and Gege definitely didn't do their relationship justice.