Desolate Echo 03

Geto Suguru remained silent for a long time, and the blonde woman sounded puzzled.

Hearing this doubtful voice, Xia Yujie just narrowed his eyes and asked seriously: "Who are you?"

Geto Suguru's commanding presence was shattered by Haibara Yu: "I like girls with a good appetite!!" Zenin-senpai has a small appetite and is a bit picky about food. But Zenin-senpai likes rice just as much as he does! And Zenin-senpai eats with relish. Seeing Zenin-senpai eat, he can even eat two extra bowls of rice himself. However, this happened shortly after school started, when Zenin-senpai was taking him and Nanami on a mission. A few days after he and Nanami started school, Zenin-senpai fell into an unexplained coma. He was so worried! But seeing that Zenin-senpai is now alive and kicking, he feels that his initial worries were completely unnecessary!

"Really..." I didn't ask you, dear.

"Haibara..." Geto Suguru was helpless.

"It's okay, Geto-san. She's a good person just like Zenin-san." Huiyuan Yu said, and smiled confidently: "I am very confident in my judgment of people."

Geto Suguru fell silent. He put on a forced smile. Since Hana-chan wasn't here, there was no need to act innocent. Haibara was still a bit silly.

"You're sitting next to me, and you still have the nerve to say something like that?"

Huiyuan Xiong didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from saying in a firm tone: "Yes!!"

Jiujiu Yuki laughed heartily at the side: "This conversation is quite ironic."

This woman is here to see Senior Gouyu. She's not a bad person. So—Huihara Yu stood up and said, "I'll take my leave now."

The way Haibara Yuu looked back while walking amused Jiujiu Yuki: "Your junior? He's quite honest and cute."

Geto Suguru leaned back in his chair with his arms folded across his chest: "I think as a magician, he should learn to look at people with suspicion." The same goes for Hantsu-chan, who always thinks so highly of others and devotes himself to them.

Is it worth doing?

Totally not worth it.

"Getsuyu-san, are you going to answer my question or not?"

"Please answer my question first." Xia Yujie was quite dissatisfied. These people came up and exposed his scars one by one.

"Special-grade magician, Kujuku Yuki. So you know what I mean?" Kujuku Yuki said confidently. "Worship me, kid. I'm the first special-grade magician. You're just parroting what others have said."

Xia Youjie was surprised: "So you are the legendary..."

"Oh oh!! What's the legend about——" I am also a legendary figure!

"Although he's a special-grade officer, he never takes any missions and is just a lazy scoundrel wandering around overseas..." Jiujiu Yuki's face froze. She had no choice but to point at herself, then sighed deeply and slumped down on the high school.

"You don't know me from Hatsuchan. You know me from the high school." Yuki Kujuku said affirmatively.

はつちゃん? Aren't he and Satoru the only ones shouting like this? What is the relationship between this woman and Yuki?

"Ha, I think I know what type of woman you like." Kujuku Yuki said boredly: "Unless I'm already in love with a man, as long as I see Hatsu-chan, I'll fall in love with her. The Zenin family really raised a succubus, don't you think, Geto-san?"

Geto's breathing quickened. This was an undeniable fact. Just what he knew: Satoru, Fushiguro, Suzuki... and those lower creatures... including himself, of course.

He hated it being said out in the open.

"Don't be nervous, Geto. This is a normal thing. You just made a mistake that all men would make." These words did not comfort Geto. How could he be compared with those inhumans?

"I've only met Hanatsu-chan a few times, and I've fallen head over heels in love with her." Yuki Kujuku held her chest, "And I'm the only one Hanatsu-chan took the initiative to find." "Little guy, I can't do anything to you. How dare you call me a scoundrel!"

Jiujiuyuki gave him the middle finger behind his back.

Noticing Geto's growing anger, Kujukuyuki realized she'd gone too far. She paused her exaggerated movements and said, "Geto seems quite confused."

"If you and はつちゃん have only met a few times, she wouldn't agree with you calling her so intimately."

Jiujiu Yuki shook his hair: "Don't think that はつちゃん is so unkind. I have some American blood. The enthusiasm of Americans is known to the whole world. I asked はつちゃん to ​​respect our family style."

"Heh..." Geto Xia Yu curled his lips.

Just as persistent as Wu. He understands.

"Why did I want to come to you?"

"Ask me something. We've been in touch ever since."

"Are you here looking for Hazuchan? She's not here. Didn't you do any research before you came?"

"What!?" Kujuuyuki was shocked. "Is Gojo Satoru here?"

"Satoru isn't here either."

"You are the only one among the three special-level ones?"

"Only me." Xia Yujie stabbed her: "Are you not satisfied?"

"Ahh..." Kujuku Yuki leaned back in his chair, looking puzzled. "What else do students want to do if they don't stay in school? Are they skipping school?"

"I also want to take Yuki for a ride on a motorcycle..."

"Hatsuchan is on tour nationwide, and Satoru is out on a mission."

"Getsu-san answered very honestly."

"After answering, can you leave now?"

"No. Want to chat for a minute?"

Geto Suguru remained silent. He didn't know where he could go now.

"On my way here, I noticed that there are fewer cursed spirits in Tokyo, almost none. Did Hatsuchan's plan really work?"

"If you're referring to expanding the scope of Aieidan to all of Tokyo to exorcise the cursed spirit, I don't think it would be successful."

"Huh? It worked, didn't it?" Kujuyuki placed her hand on her cheek. She was thinking.

"The deadline is 45 days. After 45 days, Tokyo will gradually become no different from before."

"Well... there are simply too many humans living in Tokyo."

"But..." Kujuku Yuki raised his index finger, "If Hassan can release "Aieidan" in Tokyo once every 45 days, or even be crazier and expand "Aieidan" to the whole of Japan, the problem of cursed spirits will be solved!" Kujuku Yuki even applauded.

"That's impossible." Geto Suguru said bluntly.

"I think so." Kujukuyuki nodded and expressed her opinion: "Hatsuchan consumes a lot of energy, right?"

"Satoru and I won't let her do this a second time."

"You care about her a lot, don't you? Is Hasukan attracted to you? Geto-san is pretty..."

Doesn't this woman know that Yuki and Satoru are together? Her relationship with Yuki is not as close as she said.

"It's not important." Geto Satsuki slapped Kujukuyuki's hand away. This woman had no sense of propriety.

"No, this is very important!" Kujuku Yuki shook her finger, "To a special woman like Hatsuchan. When we first met, I asked her two questions."

Jiujiu Yuki started talking to himself.

"First, what type of woman do you like?"

"Hero's answer is 'my mother'."

"Second, what type of men do you like?"

"Hero's answer is 'my father'."

"Getsuyu-san, do you know how much effort I put into finding out information about Hasukhan's parents? I'll tell you now for free." Be grateful, kid.

"Hero's mother is the same type of woman as Kobe. His father is the same type of man as Natsura-san."

"Me?" Yuki Kujuku's words were so outrageous that Geto Suguru couldn't believe it.

"You know Hanatsu-chan, so there's no need to explain the woman part. As for the man... Hanatsu-chan's father is an artist, and artists probably like to have long hair. That's one point. The second point is that Hanatsu-chan's father is a gentle and easy-going man. The third point is that Hanatsu-chan's father is an extremely kind person. Before meeting Geto-chan, this is the image of Geto-chan that Hanatsu-chan described to me."

"But after meeting in person, I realized that words on paper are still too flimsy." Kujuku Yuki laughed, "I think Hanatsu-chan's father is not as mean as you."

"Thank you for the compliment." Geto Suguru felt good about it.

"So, are you with her?"

"Why do you ask such a thing?"

"Curious."

"Ask him yourself."

Kujukuyuki felt she had hurt the boy's feelings, so she brought up the past: "You said you and Gojo Satoru wouldn't let Hatsu-chan do this again. Is it really that serious?"

"If it wasn't for Glass's presence, there's a high probability that Tsuki would die."

"Glass... Is that the reversal technique? Even at this point, you still haven't given up?"

"We have only agreed to select only a portion of the area for coverage next time."

"She's really persistent. Like the people at the Polytechnic Institute, she believes in treating the symptoms. But she can do more than those idiots."

Symptomatic treatment?

"Are you interested? I'll teach you a little bit. Treatments like those you follow, such as Hatsuchan, that exorcise cursed spirits while they exist are called symptomatic treatments. I practice causal treatments."

"Cause therapy?"

"It's not about exorcising the cursed spirits, but about creating a world without them. Hanatsu-chan said that's impossible." Kujuku Yuki tilted his head slightly. "'As long as the cursed energy exists, the cursed spirits won't disappear,' that's what she said."

[はつちゃんWant to save everyone? ]

[That's what I want to do, but unfortunately I can't do it. The cursed spirits won't disappear, and there will always be humans killed by them.]

"That--"

"Geto-kun, don't be so hasty. You and I both know the origin of cursed spirits. From this, we can infer that there are two ways to create a world without cursed spirits. One is to make all human beings' cursed energy disappear. The other is to make all human beings control their cursed energy."

"That's a good idea. And there's a real example, Fushiguro Shiji. You and Hanatsu-chan are both familiar with this person."

"Looking around the world, he's the only one with zero cursed energy. Because he completely abandoned cursed energy, he became a superman. Ever since he left the Zenin family, he's been the shadow of the sorcerers for a long time. You don't need to feel ashamed of losing to him. I once wanted to study him, but he dumped me. When I told this to Hatsu-chan, she only told me that Fushiguro Jyouji's XP is black hair, and I'm not as good-looking as him. Tsk..." Kujuku Yuki showed disgust on his face.

"That's not important. After in-depth research by Hazuchan and I, we've determined that this idea is completely impossible to achieve under the Tengen Barrier. So we can give up."

"Hatsuchan...Hatsuchan can make people have no emotions." Summer Oil Jie muttered to himself. Although Hatsuchan had never suggested this, he knew that he could do it... could do it...

"Ha...that's quite sensible, Takeru-san. Unfortunately, Hasukan would never do such a thing. So I'm focusing on the second point now. A sorcerer cannot create a cursed spirit. Of course, this doesn't include the case where a sorcerer's corpse becomes a cursed spirit after death. Looking at Takeru-san, you've seen such a situation before. It's quite rare."

"Basically, if all humans became sorcerers, cursed spirits would cease to exist. Hasukan thinks my idea is too crazy and impossible to achieve. She says it's not that simple. But you never know unless you try. Someone has to do what no one has done before."

Can those non-humans become magicians?

There is no need for scum to exist.

"If we want to make the world populated only by magicians... then wouldn't it be the same to kill everyone who isn't a magician?"

Jiujiu Yuki waved his hand: "Hatsuchan, do you know what you're thinking?"

Only then did Geto Suguru realize what he had said.

"No need to hide, I won't tell Hantschan. There are too many people who are on the same side as Hantschan, and only a few are on the same side as me." Kujuku Yuki even patted Geto Suguru's shoulder.

"You don't care?" Satoru and Tsukiko, no, only Tsukiko cares. Enlightenment actually doesn’t matter. But he has a conscience.

Ridiculous morals and conscience.

"Me? All I want is to create a world without cursed spirits. Geto-san's idea is feasible. It can even be said to be the simplest and most effective method. Curse masters as powerful as you and me can achieve what ordinary people cannot."

"It's easy for you to hurt ordinary people, that's it. Great power makes people swell up."

Is it easy... If you are against everyone, can you still say it is "easy"?

"It's just that I'm not that crazy." Kujuku Yuki waved his hand. "Just like Hanatsuchan wouldn't use magic to clear other people's emotions, I won't kill people for no reason. But if someone wants to do that, I don't object. I'm curious why Geto-san wants to do that."

"I... I hate non-magicians." Geto Suguru closed his eyes. "I used to think that magic existed only to protect ordinary people. I was proud of it. But I recently discovered that this is not the case. Cursed spirits are the product of ordinary people, yet magicians always sacrifice and dedicate themselves to them. What's worse is that ordinary people who know nothing will destroy everything the magicians care about."

"I shouldn't care about that. Spells are meant for ordinary people."

[Those who can see cursed spirits and make it their business to exorcise them, secretly protecting ordinary people, are called "cursors."]

[By definition, you already are.]

"Ordinary people know nothing." Whether they rejoice over the death of the Astral Plasma or blaspheme Harukan, they know nothing. They don't know the existence of spells, nor do they know how much effort spellcasters put into the stability of this world.

"What I care about is that the sorcerer's sacrifice and dedication are in vain."

"So you want to put an end to this kind of sacrifice and dedication?"

"I have no idea."

"So you really hate non-magicians?"

"Yes. They make me sick."

"You despise non-magicians, yet you hate yourself for despising them. Geto-san is really conflicted. But—" Kujuku Yuki said seriously, "Why do you sincerely despise non-magicians, yet hate yourself for despising them?"

I want to stand with them.

That's all.

What is my original intention in becoming a sorcerer?

I can't remember.

"I have no idea."

"Since I don't know anything at the moment, I can only leave the choice to my future self." Jiujiu Yuki concluded.

Can I really still stand with them?

No one is with me.

How long can I hold on alone?

Seeing that Geto Suguru was lost in thought and the situation had been explained, Kujuku Yuki began to mutter to herself, "National tour... just because I'm abroad they didn't notify me?... No way!!" She was very angry that she didn't see him at the technical high school! "I plan to ask Hanatsu-chan for tickets to see the show. Did Geto-san see the first show?"

"No."

"What a pity." No, Kujuku Yuki suddenly woke up, "You really like はつちゃん?"

"I really like it. There's no doubt about that." said Geto Suguru with a smile.

"Then why don't you go to the show?"

Why not go?

“Because it was played for me alone.”

"Ah... you want a sense of exclusivity." Geto Suguru and Yuki Kujuku walked out of the campus together.

"This is a bit difficult, Getsu. After all, the one you like is Hanatsu-chan. Even if she chooses to be with a man, there will be people who will continue to like her. And Hanatsu-chan herself has done nothing wrong. This kind of thing is not something that an ordinary man can do or tolerate. You need to have an extremely broad mind." Kujuku Yuki smiled and made a heart shape with his hands.

"Yeah. I'm quite possessive."

Kujukuyuki paused in putting on his goggles. "Just admitting it so openly? That's too boring."

"It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not."

"No girl would like you if you were this decadent... Never mind, say hello to Gojo-san for me."

"Aren't you here to see Yuki?"

"By the way, I wanted to say hello to both of you. Turns out you're the only one here."

"There are only a few of us in the special class, so it's better for us to get to know each other."

"By the way, Geto-san. If I ask Gojo-san 'What type of woman do you like?' his answer would be—"

"What do you think?"

"Even the Six Eyes couldn't escape~" It's really hard to laugh out loud in the car~

It’s not that Wu didn’t escape.

Satoru didn't need to escape.

And I don't want to escape.

*

"Moshi Moshi..." Finally answered... Jiujiu Yuki lay on the motorcycle, "You haven't answered the phone for so long, what are you doing?"

“Doing research.”

"By the time you achieved your goal, humans had already moved to the moon." After complaining, Kujukuyuki immediately mentioned another thing he wanted to complain about: "What a waste of time. What a coincidence that Wakaba and Gojo are not here."

"So you only saw one?"

"Hey, what's wrong with meeting one? The young man is very promising, completely different from those old-fashioned ones."

"As long as you like it."

"When did I say I liked it?"

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