He pressed the issue one question at a time.

"You're not here just for fun, are you?"

"That time I asked you why you risked your life to be sealed in place of your teacher. You told me that it was because you saw that your teacher was sealed and then we all died."

"That's not what you see, that's what you experience, right?"

"You came back here for all of us to stay alive, so everything that happened to you was not an accident."

Megumi Fushiguro held Yuji Itadori's hand and counted them one by one: "Not only did he lose his sense of taste, but also his sense of smell and pain..."

At the end, even he couldn't help laughing. With red eyes, he looked at Yuji Itadori and said, "Can you tell me, Yuji, what did you pay for saving me?"

Mizue Yi met Fushiguro Megumi's eyes. He knew that he could get away with it now because he had lost too many things. He could just pick someone at random to fool Fushiguro Megumi and no one would discover his lie. However, Fushiguro Megumi's eyes were too clear.

It was so clear that he couldn't tell a lie.

The pink-haired boy turned his head to avoid his eyes and spoke softly.

“It’s emotions.”

·

For Mizue Yi, the most difficult thing about playing the role of Yuji Itadori, also a high school student, is to learn Yuji Itadori's angelic smile.

For this purpose, the system once brought out several mirrors for Shui Jiangyi to practice in front of.

Shui Jiangyi raised his eyebrows and decisively refused. The system was just about to give him a heartfelt admonition: "Yi Yi! The little angel will not smile like you!"

Last night when Shui Jiangyi was playing the game, he finally defeated the final boss. That laugh didn't need any systematic exaggeration. He could just go to the theater next door and act out the role of a big devil.

"I know." Shui Jiangyi said incoherently with a toothbrush in his mouth full of foam, "But if you put yourself into Yuji Itadori's memory, it's easy to laugh."

"Eh?" The system was a little confused. It said, "Can you smile for me?"

Then the system saw Shui Jiangyi smiled towards the mirror with curved eyebrows and slightly raised corners of lips. He looked harmless and warm, making people want to get close to him.

"Well, isn't it?" Shui Jiangyi said confidently, "I still have a talent for acting, right?"

The system couldn't understand why this happened, so Mizue Yi kindly told it that because there were still some weak emotions remaining in Yuji Itadori's body, even if Mizue Yi had a completely different personality from Yuji Itadori, he could use these remaining emotions to naturally express the same emotions as Yuji Itadori.

Relying on these emotions, Shui Jiangyi is always successful.

Until he rescued Fushiguro Megumi, and then he suddenly lost all his ability to perceive emotions. Only when he was Mizue Yi could he feel the slightest happiness or unhappiness. Mizue Yi originally thought that it was just emotion and it didn't matter. Who knew that day, Fushiguro Megumi held his hand after falling asleep.

It was like a kitten whispering, "Can you smile for me? You haven't smiled for a long time."

At that time, Mizue Yi really thought that Fushiguro Megumi's skill of talking in his sleep was super cheating, but he couldn't refuse.

So, that month, Shui Jiangyi smiled hundreds of times in front of the mirror, imitating the expressions in the photos.

Finally, relying on muscle memory, I remembered the smile that once belonged to Yuji Itadori.

…

"Tong, I feel like I did something wrong."

Shui Jiangyi sat cross-legged in the sea of ​​consciousness, staring blankly at the group of people surrounding the sleeping body of Itadori Yuji outside the screen, feeling a little depressed: "Shouldn't I have used Huihui as a tool to gamble with Gojo Satoru at that time? I should have thought of it a long time ago. Huihui is a very smart person. As long as he finds the slightest clue, he will follow that clue to figure out all the consequences."

His consciousness was empty, and the system that was reporting to the main system could not detect any changes on Shui Jiangyi's side. Fortunately, Shui Jiangyi did not need anyone to talk to him. He had been sitting here for almost half an hour, and no one talked to him. He just spoke one sentence after another as if he was confessing to himself.

"The script is progressing very well, and the effect is even better than I imagined. No one will doubt me anymore. No matter what I do in the future, people will believe me."

However, Shui Jiangyi covered his chest and wondered why his heart felt so clumsy and dull that he didn't even have the strength to jump and it hurt all the time.

Mizue Yi recalled the sad look in Fushiguro Megumi's eyes before he fell asleep, the tears shed by Yoshino Junpei, and the expression of Kugizaki No Rose who wanted to speak but was restrained behind Fushiguro Megumi. He covered his face and said.

"I regret it so much. I really regret it."

"I should have ended everything with Gojo Satoru directly at that time. I shouldn't have slowed down my pace because of Yoshino Junpei's appearance, I shouldn't have met with Fushiguro Megumi and Kugizaki again, I shouldn't have acted on impulse, I shouldn't have..."

Shui Jiangyi felt that he had been charged with countless crimes, but the minor ones were nothing compared to the others: "I made them sad. This is something I should bear. It happened and it cannot be changed. But they are all very sad because they know about my past."

Those heavy, depressed years when he walked alone, all the hardships he had to endure alone, were all insignificant in Shui Jiangyi's eyes. These were just tasks he had to complete. As long as he could ensure his survival, he could achieve it no matter how difficult it was, and he could get through it no matter how difficult it was.

But he, with his steely body, could not withstand a single tear from his companion. That tear almost burned him, leaving him with nowhere to hide, revealing his true form, and making him panic.

Faced with their true feelings, Shui Jiangyi was speechless. When he couldn't bear to do anything to Yoshino Junpei, he had already embarked on a path that was bound to hurt them.

"Do you think this is all your fault?" an inorganic voice suddenly came.

Shui Jiangyi lowered his head and said dejectedly: "Tong, you showed up so suddenly."

"Still processing things." Ryoumen Sukuna lowered his eyes, imitated the system's tone, and said softly, "Why do you think everything is your fault?"

"Well, Tong, you knew it a long time ago, but you probably forgot." Shui Jiangyi said dejectedly, "I'm not used to being friends with others, nor am I used to bearing other people's more intense emotions. And I feel so guilty. Itadori Yuji clearly asked me to take good care of them."

"Aren't you taking good care of them? Even he himself couldn't do it so well. In his past, he didn't keep them." Ryoumen Sukuna said. He said this sincerely without any flattery. This was what he thought.

"I know." Shui Jiangyi said, "I was just thinking that I actually have a better way to deal with it. I can plan earlier, I can avoid them, I can keep them in the dark about this, I can..."

Died quietly.

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