Chapter 41 Now that things have come to this, let’s eat first

"Gentlemen, I have a question."

After many days, Geto Suguru sat on the bench in the corridor again and COSed the two-handed version of the Thinker sculpture. The difference was that this time he was on the left and right of Ieiri Shoko and Gojo Satoru.

Ieiri Naoko exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Speak."

Geto Suguru: "Maybe I misunderstood the ghost's 'prophecy'? I don't think Mimiko and Nanako look like my adopted daughters now."

Gojo Satoru turned the lollipop in his mouth with a vicissitudes of life: "I want to ask this question too."

The Night Moth teacher who always punished them with an iron fist could actually coax the child with a cute cursed skeleton doll under a mixed voice. For the first time, the tough guy's tenderness took concrete form in front of them.

At the same time, Gojo Satoru and Geto Gayu also felt frustrated. It can be described as...it was clearly him who said he wanted to raise a pet and brought the pet home in the beginning, but his elders repeatedly took over by saying "How did you raise a pet like this? If you don't know how to raise one, let me raise one for you to see." As time went by, he was clearly the real owner, but he had less and less say in raising the pet.

The most frustrating thing is that pets are indeed better cared for by their elders, so we don’t have the confidence to get them back.

This is what's happening to Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru right now. They're the ones raising their child, so why is it that it seems like they're losing custody now?

Ieiri Naoko: "Isn't that because you're unreliable? You're children yourself. How many times have you ever properly taken care of a human cub?"

Gojo Satoru wasn't convinced. "What I can do in my parallel world, there's no reason I can't do it. But Jay, you haven't even obtained legal custody yet, so you might be taking the wrong path. After all, given the current situation, it's impossible for you to claim you 'raised' Mimiko and Nanako. They both have the surname Yemo. If you ask me, forget about Yemo transferring custody of the children to you when you come of age. Whether he agrees or not is another matter, and by then the children won't be used to it, and it will be awkward for you."

Geto Suguru: ...

Oh no, I’m so careless that I’ve lost my daughter.

Ieiri Naoko: "Don't be sad, Jie, you're better than that guy Wu. At least Mimiko and Nanako will be close to you. The two little adults in Wu's family don't seem to know him at all. I have reason to suspect that as long as they have enough food money, they can take care of themselves."

Gojo Satoru lied without hesitation: "How could that be? I've worked so hard to take care of them! Speaking of which, Glass, have you noticed the curse of that black-haired brat?"

How could they not notice it? The Zenin family's ancestral curse, the Ten Shadows, if Fushiguro Megumi were brought back to the Zenin family, as long as he could survive to adulthood, he would undoubtedly be the next head of the Zenin family.

Geto Suguru: "The old man of the Zenin family actually agreed to let you take Kei away... That creature's control over people's minds is truly terrifying."

Gojo Satoru: "Maybe it's because I beat them up right in front of their house, and his father almost had me killed, so the Gojo family strongly supports me... Anyway, this kid is under my protection now! It's a pity, I just wanted to take Hui to let Guiying take a look, but she wasn't there. Such a pity, I don't know when she will come back this time. I was thinking that since we both play with shadows, maybe we will have something in common. Her shadow magic is much stronger than the Zenin family's."

Ieiri Shoko: "...What do you think of Miss Ghost? Fairy Godmother?"

Geto Suguru: "The devil godmother is more appropriate."

Gojo Satoru: "Very interesting. A very nice and cool old naughty grandma next door who can do magic?"

Ieiri Shoko: "...Once again, I've been struck by your childishness. But sometimes, Miss Ghost is so kind that one can't help but overlook her age and race."

Geto Suguru: "Take my advice, it's best to ignore it, because when you can't ignore her inhumanity, she's really... impactful? I don't know how to put it, but it's really a bit creepy."

???

Ieiri Naoko: "Did you piss her off?"

Gojo Satoru: "As expected of you, Jie, you managed to do something that even I couldn't do easily. Did you say anything that touched her nerves?"

Geto didn't want to talk about his recent wild thoughts; he felt they were a bit of a dark past. "I didn't piss her off, but maybe... I just touched upon some of her worst instincts... After learning her race was demonic, I think a lot of her previous actions made sense."

But his friends were not going to let him go.

Ieiri Naoko: "What on earth did you say to offend her? I haven't seen her behave like you described in such a long time. Tell us quickly so we can avoid her. You're being so secretive, I have reason to suspect it's your fault."

Xia Youjie's eyes dodged. "I didn't deny it. It was indeed my problem. I was the one who troubled her, and she did help me. It's just that the way she solved my problem was a bit scary..."

The words spoken by the ghost had such a strong impact on his mind, it was like a punch that shattered the storm in Geto's brain that should have stopped, turning the storm directly into a reverse-rotating tornado, causing his brain CPU to be as chaotic as a parking lot destroyed by a tornado. When he was in that village, he didn't have much energy to think about how to deal with the villagers. He just remembered to take the child away first.

Gojo Satoru: "Is this why you've been buying so many animal encyclopedias and human sociology books lately? You...did you ask her about the ecology of alien creatures and get shocked? Honestly, when I first learned about the eyeball tree, I was really shocked. I argued with her about how it didn't conform to biology, and then she said why alien creatures should conform to Earth's biology."

Xia Yujie wondered what kind of weird thing the eyeball tree was. "No, I just got caught up in some contemplation about human nature and human society. I think it's easier to be a bystander than to be involved, so I wanted to find a ghost that wasn't human to listen to my thoughts. Maybe I'd discover something new about my own thoughts."

Now Gojo Satoru and Ieiri Shoko were even more curious: "What's the result? What did you find?"

Xia Yujie held his forehead and said, "I found her to be too indifferent and too inhuman."

Everyone: “…”

Gojo Satoru: "This is me standing like a ghost."

Ieichi Glass: "Second."

What are you thinking? Using a non-human race to discuss human sociology, won't it definitely be a shock?

......

Perhaps because they all went through a difficult time without their parents, Nanako, Mimiko and Fushiguro couldn't be said to get along particularly well, but at least they could still talk to each other.

This weekend, the Fushiguro siblings were afraid that if they walked around outside they would run into Cheng Xiaoyu and start acting out her hellish act, so they basically stayed in their room and didn't dare to walk around. However, others thought this behavior was just children being shy in a new place, so it wasn't too strange.

Especially with the publicity of Gojo Satoru's "devil grandmother eats children" and the "witness" twin sisters, this is particularly reasonable, so reasonable that Gojo Satoru was even scolded by Ye Mo Zhengdao for scaring children.

Faced with Gojo Satoru's embarrassed apology, the Fushiguro siblings felt guilty and became more obedient to Gojo Satoru. In Gojo Satoru's eyes, this meant that the child was finally starting to get close to him, and he felt a special sense of accomplishment.

In the end, because he showed off too many times in front of Geto Suguru, who had lost his two daughters, Geto Suguru challenged him to a training ground and he gave up.

During this period, Cheng Xiaoyu has been dealing with abnormal cursed spirits in Beika Town with high intensity, and she discovered something unusual.

After Geto Suguru brought out the two twins, the high-dimensional creature No. 1, which was originally active, became quiet. In contrast, the high-dimensional creature No. 2, which was supposed to be sleeping, became active. The abnormal effects of Beika Town stopped expanding outward and began to shrink. The sorcerers who had been busy for several months were overjoyed that they no longer had to be on standby 24 hours a day and were ready to go to Beika Town. They could finally take a break from their work.

But the actual situation did not get better. It was not known whether Cheng Xiaoyu's previous frequent entries had angered the No. 2 high-dimensional creature entrenched in Beika Town, or whether the No. 1 high-dimensional creature whose plan was disrupted had reported Cheng Xiaoyu to his companions. In short, she could not use any method to enter Beika Town now, and the summoned four-member dark killer team could not enter either.

Meanwhile, the timeline within Beika Town was becoming chaotic, with the chaos of the timeline ten years later being particularly horrifying. It was as if approximately twenty years had been condensed into six months, with December and Valentine's Day appearing multiple times in just one year. The timeline was so chaotic it made Cheng Xiaoyu dizzy.

It's not as good as Mahua, which can cut through the Gordian knot quickly! The entanglement of timelines can only be solved manually by untangling the problematic time and space nodes bit by bit.

The good news is: this high-dimensional creature is blocking Cheng Xiaoyu and her forces while stabilizing the space-time to prevent it from being shattered by the chaotic timeline. The stabilization fusion process will definitely consume a lot of energy. If nothing unexpected happens, the shielding against her will be lifted when the universe is almost integrated.

The bad news is: Cheng Xiaoyu has been blocked. Now she can't even get close to get a more accurate monitoring report, let alone do any actual work. She can't even accurately control the progress of the integration of Beika Town and this world.

She didn't want to spend 24 hours near Beika Town, so she went into Beika Town every day to see when it stopped disturbing her before going back in.

That was her head on her neck, not the wood that struck the bell.

Now Cheng Xiaoyu finally understood why this second-dimensional being wouldn't cause trouble even after waking up. It was because he devoted the vast majority of his power and all his energy to maintaining the space-time of Beika Town, preventing it from being destroyed by a chaotic timeline. The spread of abnormal phenomena in Beika Town was most likely his attempt to balance the timeline of Beika Town's universe through the "fusion of cosmic laws" that occurred when these universes merged.

But this is difficult. A normal timeline would have exact dates such as years as "anchor points", but the timeline of Komika Town does not have that. The only thing that can determine its direction is the huge ball of yarn on the time-space axis "ten years later" that is so tangled that it can cause people to have claustrophobia. It is like a rope floating on the sea, drifting with the waves, without an anchor point.

After three busy days, I saw that my work ideas had reached a dead end. It seemed that the only thing I could do was to wait here for ten years. Everyone in the system felt heavy-hearted.

No. 233: [Headquarters has good news. Monitoring results indicate that the actions of the second higher-dimensional being haven't been a failure. Ten years from now, a portion of that folded and repetitive timeline has begun to merge and integrate. With luck, we won't have to worry about it. With even more luck, the second higher-dimensional being might complete its world line and return home happily, without the need for us to repatriate it.]

Cheng Xiaoyu: "Although I also want to be optimistic, but ask yourself, are we really lucky enough to be trapped in this endless overtime hell?"

No. 233: [...You've convinced me. But think on the bright side. At least the worst-case scenario is you'll be here for ten years. Isn't that much better than the previous mission that took two hundred years?]

Cheng Xiaoyu: "I could have endured the darkness of work, but I missed the light of vacation. This light was too short-lived, and before I had time to adapt, I fell back into darkness.

No. 233: [Sister, we have no grudges against each other, but you've crossed the line. Please say something I can answer, like asking me what I want for dinner.]

Cheng Xiaoyu agreed: "What are we having for dinner?"

No. 233: [I don’t know.]

Cheng Xiaoyu:?

No. 233, chuckling a bit, cleaned up a bunch of erroneous data that had fallen into a computational dead zone: [Just kidding, I want to eat octopus balls. I can't eat them without a physical body, and after working non-stop for so long, I just want to watch a food show. Hurry up, hurry up, I've already activated the taste sharing feature.]

Cheng Xiaoyu thought about it and decided that since the project couldn't be advanced, he might as well have a meal first.

Perhaps the fact that Cheng Xiaoyu never forgot to eat even when she was trapped in the hell of overtime touched the food soul - or something else. Anyway, after she finished eating the 20th octopus balls, the problem suddenly became clear.