Chapter 53 Catching Mice Do you want to go to school seriously?

Gojo and Geto did not rest at all and left at night. Miya Chiri also changed out of her school uniform and put on the pajamas she brought with her.

"I'd really like to have a deeper conversation with you, Riko, but it's really getting late." Gong Zhili checked the time. It was already two in the morning, and they had to get up at seven-thirty the next morning. "If we don't sleep now, tomorrow will be a bit difficult."

Sitting in the living room, Tenriko was still a little confused: "Are they really gone?" She had said before that she was not afraid, but she was not an ignorant child. She knew that many people wanted to harm her, so it was normal for her to feel confused and scared now.

Gong Zhili yawned. She rarely stayed up late, but now she was starting to have a headache. After a long yawn, she looked at the window and asked, "Can I borrow the potted plant by the window?"

There was a pot of cactus by the window of the student dormitory. It looked just like an ordinary cactus. Hei Jing nodded: "Of course, please feel free to do so."

Gong Zhili sat there and stretched out his hand towards the cactus.

The cactus trembled, its sharp spines instantly softening and curling into milky white fuzz. The turquoise sphere stretched from its base, its surface developing dark brown lines resembling bark. A tender bud at the top shot up, rapidly growing upward. After reaching a height of about ten centimeters, the fuzz on its surface unfurled, revealing its razor-sharp spines once again. The cactus' roots, having burst through the pot, arched up in the sand, twisting and tangling like the roots of an old tree.

Tenriko's mouth opened slightly, clearly still in shock. "Is this your technique?"

Gong Zhili yawned again and said, "Yes, put this cactus by your bed, it will protect you."

She likes the environment of this school. The greening is very good, so good that she can now sense through the eyes and tentacles of plants that there are several mice moving around in the school.

"Go to sleep," Gong Zhili walked towards his room, "Tomorrow will also be an ordinary day."

After returning to her room with the cactus that looked like a small tree, Tenriko Nakamoto may have been too late, so she fell asleep immediately and nothing appeared in her dream.

The next day was Monday. The students at Lianzhi Women's College had to go to church for a gathering on Monday morning. Miyajiri lowered her voice and asked Kuroi, "Is this a church school?"

This doesn't feel like a church service.

Hei Jing also replied in a low voice: "It's just that a certain religious sect donated money to build this church. They come here when there are big gatherings, and some individual students come here to worship on ordinary days."

Gong Zhili is like a drop of water. Although a teacher introduced that she would be studying in the school for a short period of time, she changed her presence and did not cause any ripples among the middle school girls who liked new changes. She blended into the school life like water.

After coming out of the church, Tenriko asked her, "Is this also your technique?"

Gong Zhili no longer explained that "this is not a ritual" and nodded calmly: "It's better not to attract attention." She suddenly transferred to this school, and no matter what kind of noise she made in the school or if she transferred and left later, she had to adhere to the principle of "not attracting attention" and not cause any impact on these girls.

Tenriko was a little depressed: "Are you really only planning to stay for a while? Don't you have to study?"

Gong Zhili said: "If you feel lonely, you can come to my house during the holidays."

At first, Riko retorted, "Who would feel lonely?" Then she was shocked: "How can you just invite someone to your house?"

According to the education she received and the unspoken rules of friendship nowadays, friends who can be invited to her home must be very good friends. She, she and herself are not that close!

Gong Zhili was puzzled: "You are also a child of the magic world, right? My place will soon be listed in cooperation with the high school, so of course you can go too."

Tenriko pouted: "I'm not a sorcerer..."

Gong Zhili smiled and patted her shoulder: "It's okay, the scenery there is beautiful, you are always welcome to come and play whenever you want."

Tenriko was stunned. After a moment's hesitation, she asked Miyajiri, "Gojo-kun said you were a 'young lady'. Whose family are you from? Do you need to take care of children and do farm work yourself?"

As soon as Gong Zhili heard this, she knew that Gojo Satoru was trying to create another strange personality for her in front of others. She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't worry about what he said. His perspective on people is just weird."

She said: "I just live in the village, bought the land over there and live a pastoral life."

Tennen Riko seemed to understand and said, "Don't you have to destroy the cursed spirits like them?"

Gong Zhili said calmly: "It's not like a sorcerer has to do this job. There are people who choose other jobs."

Tenriko realized that she had made a mistake in her previous judgment: "Well, you are not a sorcerer, you can't come here. There will be many sorcerers and strange sorcerers coming here-"

She suddenly became anxious, feeling that Gong Zhili didn't understand how serious the situation was. She looked at Kuroi Misato, hoping she could give some advice.

"Don't worry," Gong Zhili held her hand, "I came here because I knew about this."

She smiled and said, "I'll show you something nice during lunch break."

Her calmness infected Riko, who hesitated and calmed down, her eyes falling on their folded hands. Her cheeks blushed slightly as she usually didn't have such close contact with girls of her age.

Gong Zhili followed her gaze, retracted his hand, and said with a smile: "Sorry, there are many children in the family, so we are a bit casual when it comes to physical contact."

Tianlizi was full of curiosity about her: "Are all the children in your family your brothers and sisters?"

Miyajiri walked with her to the classroom for the next class and said, "No, there are a pair of twin sisters that I adopted, and the other three children were brought by Gojo and Geto."

Tenriko was shocked: "How could they leave the child with you?"

Gong Zhili smiled and said, "Maybe it's because I'm strong?"

When Tennenriko first heard from Geto that Miya Chiri was very strong, she trusted his words about 70%. Last night before going to bed, Miya Chiri showed off a little bit of his skills, and her trust increased a little. Today, when she heard Miya Chiri say that she was able to support five children because she was so strong, she felt that this statement was really convincing.

During lunch break, Gong Zhili took them to the rooftop. The door to the rooftop was originally locked, but when Chiriko saw her just move her fingers slightly, a small, twisted vine stretched out from the door lock, and the lock opened with a "click".

"Just a little trick," Gong Zhili winked at them, "I'll lock it up properly later."

Riko Tennantu almost wanted to cover her chest: She is so cute!

They went up to the rooftop. Miya Chiri didn't lock the door, but asked Hei Jing to stand by the door. She waved towards the air - no, towards the small platform above the rooftop, and a large bundle of green...balls slowly floated out from it?

"This is the curse master you are talking about - I don't know these people, but they were indeed wandering around the school stealthily, and I tied them up last night." Gong Zhili waved his hand again, and the vines on the surface of the sphere began to move like living things. Tiantian couldn't stand this scene anymore and took a few steps back.

The vines faded away and turned into long ropes that tightly bound the bodies of several curse masters, leaving only their faces exposed, and even their mouths were gagged.

"Ms. Kuroi, do you know what organization they belong to? Capture them and hand them over to Gojo and the others?" Miya Chiri didn't care much about the lives of these people, but Gojo and the others had informed her in advance and asked her to capture them alive, saying that there would be a reward if she handed them over.

Gojo Satoru had long realized that in the eyes of Gong Zhili, taking the lives of certain people who threatened him was not an insurmountable hurdle. The reason he did not do so was that he had not encountered such a short-sighted guy yet.

Gong Zhili's temper is really not good.

Gojo was a little worried that she would really get angry this time, so he gave her some insurance in advance: as long as she caught a curser or a defecting sorcerer, there would be a reward. Once she caught them, she didn't have to listen to their nonsense, just shut them up and wait for someone to take them away.

He gave her so many precautions, but he didn't tell her who to find to hand over the person and get the money. She knew that Kuroi Misato was probably from their side, so she asked her directly.

Kuroi Misato looked at the miserable bodies lying on the ground and asked cautiously, "Are they still alive?"

These people were either pale or grayish-green in complexion, and seemed to be breathing out more than breathing in. Plants of different kinds and colors were parasitic all over their bodies, and some even had bright little flowers. It looked as if these vines and plants could absorb their vitality, which was really scary.

Gong Zhili: "Of course they're alive. Don't worry, I guarantee they'll still have their own consciousness when I hand them over."

It's just the extraction of cursed energy, it's not that exaggerated.

Misato Kuroi quickly called Principal Yega, no, Minister Yega.

Although Yega Masamichi still serves as the principal, he now mostly stays in the general directorate, working with several other directors to clean up the mess left by Gojo and Goyu.

Yaga Masamichi attaches great importance to the "new barrier plan" proposed by Gojo, especially since Gojo had just transformed the old house of the Zenin family into a "land without cursed spirits" a while ago, and used this fact to convince him to join the plan, so Yaga Masamichi is also very concerned about the safety of the astral plasma body Tennuriko.

He rushed to the school after receiving the call, his heart in turmoil: Wu, Jie and Gaozi knew a "barrier master" who could change the entire country. This barrier master is currently in Lianzhi Girls' Middle School and has protected Tennuriko!

Even though this barrier master has proven his strength, Gojo and Getsu trust him quite a bit, but he can't feel at ease unless he communicates with him once.

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On the other side, Geto Suguru was also discussing this matter with Gojo.

What he was saying was that Gojo wasn't exaggerating in what he told Chiri Miyabi.

"She's never done anything out of line before. Isn't your warning a bit too much?" Xia Yu asked. "She'll notice something's wrong."

Gojo Satoru stroked his hair and said, "Maybe it's just my intuition. If those scumbags really did something unforgivable in front of her, the situation might get out of control. Anyway—it's just my intuition."

"It doesn't matter if she realizes it, because I paid for it this time~"

Xia Yujie: "What was the scene like when you first met? You clearly didn't fight, yet you are so cautious about this."

Gojo Satoru crossed his arms over his chest and looked up in thought: "Yeah, even though we haven't fought each other before, I still have this intuition. Why?"

He didn't talk about this topic anymore, and instead asked Geto Suguru: "Did you see her wearing her school uniform?"

Geto Summer Oil: "It suits her very well."

Gojo Satoru nodded: "Yes, so how can we get her to go to school?"

Xia Yujie hesitated: "I don't think she would like you to treat her as a student."

Gong Zhili sometimes behaves more maturely than adults. She has absolute control over her own life. As long as she does not show the desire to go to school like her peers, no one can make her go to school.

Gojo Satoru: "So if she's interested in school life this time, doesn't that give her a reason?"

He fantasized: "If she doesn't want to go to junior high school, it wouldn't be bad for her to skip a grade and go directly to a technical college next year. She'll still be our junior."

Xia Yujie twisted his neck and reminded him: "She still has five children there, and the family she created."

Gojo Satoru didn't care: "As long as she's moved, none of this will be a problem."

Xia Yujie didn't sympathize with the situation and said perfunctorily, "Then you should do your best."

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Yaga Masamichi didn't expect that the barrier master was such a young girl, almost not much older than Tenriko.

He looked at the half-dead curse masters without saying anything. After a while, Gong Zhili dragged two more out from the bushes in the school garden: "These are the ones we just caught today."

Ye Mo Zhengdao had a vision for a moment where his cat caught a bunch of mice and put them in front of him, then he quickly corrected the impression in his head, thinking that maybe he had been working overtime too much recently, which was why he was distracted and had wild thoughts.

"Gojo said these people can be exchanged for bonuses, is that true?" Gong Zhili asked, "Will you take whatever you can get?"

Misato Kuroi: That tone doesn't sound like you're treating the curse master as a human being.

Ye Moth Zhengdao nodded and said, "These people are on the wanted list. As long as you capture them alive, you will get money. The money will be transferred to your account within five working days."

Gong Zhili nodded. She was not dissatisfied with the efficiency. As long as there was money coming in, it was fine.

Ye Moth Zheng Dao examined the vines on the men and asked, "Are these plants your magic?"

Gong Zhili: “Hmm.” It’s all right, you can understand it any way you want, it’s a universal explanation of the technique.

Ye Moth said, "Are these vines absorbing their magical powers?" He searched for the relevant techniques in his mind.

Gong Zhili: "This is targeted." She pulled a small seedling from one of them. "After they entered the area I designated, they were covered with pollen, so I can promote the growth of these vines. If someone other than the one I selected comes into contact with these vines, it's fine; they're easily removed."

After she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something: "If you take them away, be careful of the mole. I can't control it if the mole unties himself."

This was said too bluntly, and Hei Jing hesitated whether to defend her. After all, Mr. Yega was one of the senior ministers, and such words might anger him.

Ye Mo Zheng Dao's attitude remained unchanged. When it came to dealing with the rude words of a teenager, who could be more capable than his students? The little girl's words were clearly not meant to anger him, but rather as a kind reminder.

"I understand," Ye Moth said, "I will put the restraints on them again."

Gong Zhili nodded and said, "Then I'll go to class."

Tenriko was currently in home economics class, and Miya Chiri had used some cheating methods to sneak out with Kuroi.

Ye Mo Zhengdao watched her leave and chose to ask Kuroi Misato about the strength of this barrier master.

Misato Kuroi gave an awkward but polite smile: She had seen no more than Mr. Yega, and at most she could provide the cactus from last night as additional information. Yega Masamichi guessed that Gong Zhili's technique might be to control plants, but the changes in the Zenin family indicated that her ability was definitely more than just changing plants.

Moreover, she is still so young, with the mentality of young people... Ye Mo Zhengdao has been teaching for so many years and knows that children at this age are easily influenced by external concepts. It is risky to entrust the task of "saving the world" to young children.

"Will she continue to study at this school?" Yega Zhengdao asked, "Do you know her personal situation?"

He was just asking out of habit, but he didn't expect that Kuroi had much more information in this regard than the information he had just given about the technique!

After hearing this information, Ye Mo Zheng Dao subtly resonated with Gojo Satoru's thoughts: How can we make her go to school seriously?

Gong Zhili, who was taking home economics class, didn't know that someone was already thinking about letting her go to school to study properly.

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The author has something to say: I feel like I’m so sleep-deprived. I want to take a nap every day and I don’t cook enough. I feel ashamed to treat everyone to a meal.