Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Good shot! ...

"What's going on?"

"Why haven't you and Fushiguro reconciled yet?"

Instructing the two male classmates to buy more desserts, Nobara Kugisaki, who was sitting in the cafe, poked Eri Inori's arm with her elbow. She was in the same state three days ago. Megumi Fushiguro's already expressionless face became even colder for three days.

"I didn't quarrel with him!"

Eri Kimoto's face also looked unhappy. She snorted and withdrew her gaze from the sea urchin-headed guy, and looked out the window. There were a lot of people in Shibuya today, probably because it was summer vacation. Except for them, all other normal high school students were on summer vacation.

"He's been so cold ever since that day. I don't know what's driving him so mad. It's really annoying!"

That day refers to the day when he came to call Eri Norimoto and Yuji Itadori to have dinner.

That day at the dinner table, Nobara Kugisaki had sensed something was amiss, and she was even more stunned when she saw the boxing bear corpse in Yuji Itadori's arms and the polar bear corpse that Eri Kimoto had dragged along...

"How did you—"

"That bastard didn't tell us how to stop the Curse Corpse, asshole!"

Eri Kimoto was panting, carrying the cursed corpse that was twice as big as her and furiously said, "If I don't drag it over here, that basement will really be demolished!"

Senior Panda on the other side almost fainted with laughter: "Just send it to the principal's office, Eri. It's been hard for you to carry it halfway across the school, hahahahahahahaha!"

Unexpectedly, Eri Kimoto on this level became even angrier, she was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She snorted heavily and then sat down next to Megumi Fushiguro, and dropped the cursed corpse to the ground with a "bang". In order to prevent it from ruining everyone's meal, she could only continue to inject cursed power while eating.

Fushiguro Megumi, whose low pressure had not yet dissipated, paused and did not turn her head to look at her.

This scene made Nobara Kugisaki move her plate to another place. Her gossipy intuition was sounding an alarm. If it were in the past, Megumi Fushiguro would definitely not have reacted like this. Her sharp eyes swept over the two of them again and again, and finally reached out and grabbed Yuji Itadori who was preparing to eat happily on the other side.

"What happened? Did they have a fight?"

"Um?"

"No,"

Driven by her tone, Itadori Yuji also subconsciously lowered his voice. The two spoke like agents meeting each other: "You must have been bullied by the second-year seniors. Fushiguro looks so cold!"

"It doesn't seem like it. It was just a normal beating." Kugisaki Nobara frowned. "No matter how I think about it, it must have happened after I went to ask you guys to have dinner. What happened over there? Tell me everything!"

Yuji Itadori scratched his head, trying hard to recall: "Really, not really. I just kept controlling my cursed energy while watching movies. I even asked Eri for her method. Later, I felt itchy and wanted to try her cursed corpse, and then... huh?"

"Then I failed to control her bear, and Eri-sama reached out to save me," Itadori Yuji paused and added, "It seems that Fushiguro appeared at this time."

Kugisaki Nobara suddenly realized what was going on and asked, "Were you very close at that time?"

Itadori Yuji nodded obediently: "A little?"

Instantly changing into detective mode, Kugisaki Nobara pushed up the reflective glasses she had pulled out from nowhere and uttered the famous line with uncanny seriousness: "There is only one truth!"

Hishito Polygonum cuspidatum: "??"

Too lazy to watch them act funny, Fushiguro Megumi quietly finished her meal and left. Eri Kimoto frowned as she watched him leave. Of course, she noticed that something was wrong with the boy.

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That night,

After returning to her dormitory, Eri Kimoto tossed and turned, and her mood became increasingly unhappy as she thought about Fushiguro Megumi's attitude just now.

The more she thought about it, the weirder it became and the angrier she became. The girl suddenly sat up from the bed!

It seemed a bit late to go downstairs and knock on his door at this time, but Qi Ben Eri wanted to find out what he was saying, so she opened the glass door of her balcony and jumped down.

Downstairs is Fushiguro Megumi's room. The layout of the rooms is similar. The large curtains are drawn so that she can't see what's going on inside, but she can still see a faint light. It seems that he is still awake at this time.

Eri Qimoto knocked directly on his large French window, and soon, the boy with the sea urchin hair appeared in her sight.

"...how?"

The young man slowly opened the glass door. Perhaps he didn't want to make too much noise and wake up the others next door, so his tone and gaze were as calm as ever.

"What are you angry about?" Eri Kimoto also asked.

She decided to ask clearly: "You have been acting weird since before dinner, during dinner, and after dinner. You left without even waiting for me. Why are you angry——"

"I'm not angry."

Fushiguro Megumi's pursed lips seemed to tighten even more. He avoided the gaze of the person in front of him. His blue-green eyes were now dim and unclear. Only he himself could understand the complex emotions surging in his half-closed eyes. Was it irritation, displeasure, or a hint of embarrassment that he didn't want to say more? But in the end, he just whispered, "I'm not angry, I'm just... a little tired from training today."

He didn't give her any more opportunities to ask further questions after that. He revealed a mood of not wanting to communicate anymore. "It's getting late. Let's go back."

Eri Kimoto: "..."

Her face turned cold at his inexplicable attitude. Qi Ben Eri stared at him for a few seconds before nodding with a sneer, and then she climbed a few steps under the big tree next to her and returned to the second floor.

She's going to be angry too, bastard!

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The scene quickly changed to the present. Kugisaki Nobara held her forehead and sighed heavily. She felt that she was the only normal person among the four who had come to her senses. It was her suggestion to go out and play today. After all, the wrongness between the two of them was too obvious. Master Fushiguro hadn't laughed for a long time.

But there was more than one person who was awkward. Wild Rose looked at the girl sitting next to her with amusement. At this moment, Eri Kimoto was like an unhappy black cat, rubbing her claws on the coffee cup intermittently, but when she saw Megumi Fushiguro coming with a cake, she pretended to be casual and stood up.

With a raised hand, she grabbed the back of the collar of Yuji Itadori who was about to sit next to her. Finding it funny, Nobara pulled the confused pink-haired boy to sit next to her, and even gave him a look, asking him to cooperate with her actions later.

"What are we going to do next?" Wild Rose narrowed her eyes at the two people opposite her and suggested, "Why don't we go to an amusement park or an aquarium?"

Yuji Itadori seemed to understand, but still nodded obediently. However, it might be that he simply wanted to go to the amusement park.

"So suddenly?"

Qi Ben Eri was puzzled but did not object: "But it's almost afternoon, where are we going at this time?"

"Disney?"

"Didn't you say it was in Chiba?"

"Universal City X?"

“That one’s in Osaka!”

"Then Fuji-Q Highland? I've always wanted to go there!"

"Yamanashi."

"But it seems to only take about an hour and a half to get there."

"...Next time, then."

"hateful."

Eri Kimoto found their conversation amusing and quickly joined in on the conversation: "Let's go to Fuji-Q Highlander next time we have a break! Besides the famous roller coaster there, I've always wanted to check out the Super Thrill Maze. I heard it's the scariest haunted house!"

Yuji Itadori glanced at her and hesitated before speaking the truth: "You will definitely join the staff to play a prank on us... No, by then, Eri, I guess you will scare everyone in the haunted house by yourself!"

Eri Kimoto laughed and waved her hands, but the mischievous look on her face didn't seem fake: "It won't be that exaggerated!"

...It will definitely be extremely terrifying. Yuji Itadori has already started to worry about the ordinary people who will enter with her. Just when he was about to say something, a fierce kick from under the table made him let out a cry.

Surprised and aggrieved, Yuji Itadori immediately turned to look at Nobara Kugisaki, but Nobara Kugisaki's eyes were even more terrifying... Yuji Itadori was instantly scared and sat there obediently, pretending to be a little mute who could not speak.

Nobara Kugisaki withdrew her foot, but she didn't withdraw her gaze. She just glanced at Fushiguro Megumi's expressionless face, thinking that he looked a little too aloof. If she didn't know that he wasn't the type to set fire to a seagull soaked in oil, she would have thought he was a scoundrel...

Was he still unaware of her feelings, or was he just too naive? Wild Rose narrowed her eyes and studied him for a long time. Then, unnoticed, she glanced at Eri Kimoto, who had pulled out her phone and was texting someone. This guy was a bit like the first type, like an elementary school kid having a fight with their parents... What a tonic!

In that case, Fushiguro, you are the male mother in her heart! Kugisaki Nobara's mouth twitched, wondering how it could be so. She originally thought that the person she needed to worry about was Fushiguro Megumi, a cool guy who rarely expressed his thoughts, but she didn't expect that this person here seemed to be even more important!

"Wow, let's go to Koshien in a few days, Xia... Someone said they could give me some tickets!" Heavyweight competitor Eri Kimoto suddenly put down her phone, looked up and said excitedly, "Well, who wants to go with me?!"

“…Huh?!!!”

It's already the beginning of August, and tickets for the Koshien games are even harder to get at this time of year. Is it really that easy to get a few tickets? Kugisaki Nobara asked curiously, "Which high school's game is it?"

"Aodou!!" Eri Norimoto quickly pulled up the catcher's report she'd been following recently and showed it to everyone, silently giving a thumbs-up. "Not only is he strong, but his looks are also very impressive... But of course, I'm still focused on Aodou's strength!! Returning to Koshien after five years is like a comeback!"

After all, baseball is Japan's national sport, and everyone is more or less interested in it. Nobara Kugisaki and Yuji Itadori expressed their agreement, and after making an appointment to go watch the game together, they became interested and suggested going back to the school playground to play baseball, or finding a place to play.

However, the baseball batting cage was also very easy to find. We quickly found a venue on the rooftop. After paying the money, Eri Kimoto immediately picked up the baseball bat and started swinging it, directly adjusting the speed of the pitching machine to medium-high.

“Clang——”

With a crisp and loud hitting sound, the baseball hit the highest score area on the scoreboard directly, and soon the cartoon version of "Home Run Home Run" cheers rang out throughout the stadium.

Eri Kimoto rubbed the tip of her nose with her index finger, tugged at the hem of her skirt towards Yuji Itadori and Nobara who exclaimed "Wow" on the side, and made an elegant gesture of thanks. Her eyes then casually glanced over the calm expression of the other sea urchin-haired boy.

...After seeing that he had no reaction, she snorted heavily and silently increased the difficulty again.

However, she didn't catch the next few high-speed balls with angles very well, which made her expression a little dull. The anxious Itadori Yujin immediately stood up.

"Let me try, let me try!" With his super motor nerves and reaction speed, even though his posture was not particularly standard, his hit rate was quite good. Yuji Itadori was having a lot of fun playing: "Oh ho ho! Good shot!!"

..Don’t show off like this at a time like this, you idiot Yuji.

Ye Qiangwei, who was very disappointed with her success, sighed and immediately pushed Fushiguro Megumi, who was leaning on the side, out: "You go and try, hurry up!"

Without saying a word, Megumi Fushiguro picked up the bat with standard posture and precise movements. She swung the bat with full force and hit the ball as soon as she aimed. The sound of the ball hitting the target was powerful and crisp.

"Tsk, you're quite capable, Fushiguro."

Kugisaki Nobara raised an eyebrow and said, "How about the four of us split into two teams and compete? The losing team will get tonight's dinner."

Immediately gaining the approval of everyone except the mute Fushiguro, Nobara hooked her arm around Itadori Yuji's neck and said, "We're a team of two."

Yuji Itadori dared not have any opinions and nodded frantically. Eri Kimoto also had nothing to say. She took the bat and her eyes became sharp. Unfortunately, the score was very average, belonging to the type that was very high but not the best.

"As expected, you still prefer to catch straight balls. The winding balls are really troublesome." Eri Kimoto handed the bat to Megumi Fushiguro and muttered softly.

Megumi Fushiguro silently tightened his grip on the bat. He didn't look at Eri Kimoto, but just lowered his eyes. The light from the batting cage fell on the side of his face, and his crow-feather-like eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking at this moment.

In the end, the 2v2 baseball game was won by the pair of Megumi Fushiguro and Eri Kimoto. The loser Yuji Itadori complained in a low voice that Nobara hit people very hard, but why did she hit the ball so lightly.

Nobara Kugisaki gave him a look that showed she had hidden her achievements and fame, put her arm around his shoulder, and when the two men weren't paying attention, she leaned over to Yuji Itadori's ear and whispered something in a low voice.

“…Eh!!!!”

Yuji Itadori's scream made the two people in front turn around at the same time, but Yuji Itadori, who had covered his mouth, was staring at them with a look of sudden enlightenment and a look of joy.

Eri Kimoto subconsciously looked at Megumi Fushiguro.

When our eyes met, we realized something was wrong. When we were about to look away out of anger, we heard his voice.

Although Fushiguro Megumi only asked in a low voice what she wanted to eat for dinner, the inexplicable awkwardness she had felt in the past two days seemed to have inexplicably disappeared at this moment.

Qiben Eri snorted very heavily!

But in the end, I chose to kindly forgive him and quickly told him who was going to give him the Koshien tickets. The person said it was one of the rewards after opening the domain, blah blah——

Kugisaki Nobara breathed a sigh of relief as she saw the atmosphere between the two people in front of her finally return to normal. Her strong female intuition told her that the two would probably reconcile soon.

But two days later, next to the vending machine at Jujutsu High School, Aoi Todou, a first-class sorcerer from Kyoto High School, asked that question!

She was still shocked!!