Death, this word once again shrouded Yuji Itadori's mind. The water pipe in his hand that was used to water the flowers fell to the ground with a snap without him noticing. The soil, which had been softened by the water, gradually formed dotted with mud and fell on his trouser legs.
However, Yuji Itadori was not in the mood to care. He hurriedly turned on the faucet and ran out of the high school.
That piece of news almost made his mind completely blank, and the only thing in his mind was going to see his grandfather.
Then, he unexpectedly ran into Fushiguro Megumi who had just returned from outside the technical high school. Fushiguro Megumi saw Itadori Yuji from a distance, and just when he was about to say hello to him, he saw that he looked absent-minded.
He is not a person who pays attention to the details of the people around him. Fushiguro Megumi has been a very cold child since he was young, but Yuji Itadori's previous actions taught him a big lesson. Fushiguro Megumi was so scared that now every time he sees the people around him, especially Yuji Itadori showing a different expression, he subconsciously thinks if something bad has happened.
When Yuji Itadori was absent-mindedly about to run past him, Megumi Fushiguro grabbed Yuji Itadori's hand.
"Yuujin."
Yuji Itadori recovered a little after Fushiguro Megumi grabbed his wrist. Fushiguro Megumi's hand was very cold, and it made his mind clear all of a sudden. He turned his head and saw Fushiguro Megumi, and said very slowly: "Megumi, you're back?"
Fushiguro Megumi nodded, not only did she not loosen her grip on Itadori Yuji's wrist, she also measured his wrist with her fingers, and when she found it was not thin, she nodded slowly and asked, "Why are you leaving in such a hurry? Are you going to do something?"
Yuji Itadori thought for a while, and told Fushiguro Megumi about his grandfather. Yuji Itadori said dejectedly: "I want to go back to see him."
Fushiguro Megumi has some impression of this incident.
He remembered the first time he met Yuji Itadori. He and Gojo Satoru sent Yuji Itadori to the hospital, and he met the old man once in the hospital.
The old man's figure was very straight, but he still could not escape the traces of time. His back became hunched, and his face was full of heavy wrinkles. When Yuji Itadori was sleeping, he sat beside Yuji Itadori's bed, tracing his cheeks again and again, for fear of missing a glance.
Fushiguro Megumi thought for a moment and asked, "Can I go with you?"
"Okay...eh?" Yuji Itadori was about to respond to Fushiguro Megumi's words subconsciously, but was suddenly a little surprised. He looked at the indifferent expression in front of him and asked again uncertainly, "Do you want to go with me?"
In response to him, Fushiguro Megumi said firmly: "Yes, I think so."
…
After Gojo Satoru heard about this.
Gojo Satoru specially sent a car to take them there. Yuji Itadori sat in the back seat of the car, looking at Junpei Yoshino on the left, and then at Kugizaki No Rose in the front passenger seat.
"Why are you two here?"
Kugizaki Norose, who had also become quite idle due to the decrease in the number of cursed spirits, turned her head to look at him, raised her eyebrows and said, "You don't want me to go?"
Yuji Itadori immediately shook his head. How could it be possible? He just...
"So, Hisahito doesn't want me to go?" Yoshino Junpei beside him also asked in a low voice.
Being squeezed in like a sandwich, Yuji Itadori quickly explained, "I just don't understand why you guys want to go with me?"
Yuji Itadori was really confused. When Megumi Fushiguro first told him that she wanted to go together, he felt a little confused. Later, when Kugizaki No Rose and Yoshino Junpei also said that they wanted to come at the same time, that feeling that came from nowhere subtly rose again.
Fushiguro Megumi, who was sitting next to him, flipped a page of the newspaper and said calmly: "I want to go."
Nagizaki Norose rolled her eyes at him and said, "Can you decide where I should go?"
Only Yoshino Junpei grabbed the corner of his clothes, curled his beautiful eyes and said, "I want to make Hisahito happy."
"Huh?" Yuji Itadori asked Junpei Yoshino in confusion, "Why..."
Yoshino Junpei smiled and explained, "We have a custom like this over there. Every child who has been away from home for a long time will bring along the friends who accompanied him when he was away from home, and tell his family that he is really doing well outside and has many friends to accompany him. There is no need to worry. The more friends that come back with him, the more at ease he will feel."
Yuji Itadori suddenly realized. He looked at Yoshino Junpei's smiling face, and the panic he felt when he received the news that his grandfather was critically ill suddenly disappeared.
"I have to be well and go back to say goodbye to him."
Yuji Itadori thought so, he seemed to have said goodbye to everyone he was reluctant to leave countless times before, except his grandfather.
Every time he started over again, his grandfather had already lost his life.
Except for the first time when Yuji Itadori was a child, he has never spoken to his grandfather again.
The hospital where my grandfather lived was not far from the technical college. It took us almost an hour and a half to drive there.
The hospital was a large one, with people coming and going at the gate. Yuji Itadori didn't know his grandfather's ward number at all, and was ready to ask along the way. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the gate, he was recognized by a nurse. The gentle woman in a white nurse's uniform and with her hair tied up smiled at Yuji Itadori and said, "Yuji, you're here again."
The nurse really likes this filial child, Yuji Itadori.
Although he was attending a boarding school, starting from his grandfather's hospital, Yuji Itadori would come to the hospital every week to accompany the old man for tea and meals, and make him laugh.
It's rare for a child this young, at an age when other boys like to play video games, to still have so much energy to make the elderly happy.
The old people in their area are very jealous of Yuji Itadori's grandfather.
Yuji Itadori stopped and thought, have I been here before?
No, perhaps to be precise, it was not me who had been here, but the person who had lived for me who had been here.
He followed the nurse to the door of the ward.
Through the glass window of the ward, he saw the whole scene inside. His grandfather was lying on a blue and white bed, looking at the scenery outside the window. Beside the bed, there was a bunch of pure white lilies.
Yuji Itadori recalled the past with a sad look.
He recalled that day. It was a cloudy day. Outside the window, there were heavy dark clouds hanging low over his heart. In the ward, beside the bed were placed lilies like today. His elderly grandfather held his hand and said, "You want to be the one who dies surrounded by thousands of people."
Yuji Itadori suddenly became a little timid. He was a little afraid to go in. He couldn't face such an ending.
He took a step back slightly, but was stopped by Fushiguro Megumi.
Fushiguro Megumi placed his hand on his waist and abdomen. He seemed to see through all of Itadori Yuji's worries. He whispered, "Don't be afraid."
Fushiguro Megumi's words can always calm people down quickly, not to mention that he comforted Yuji Itadori so gently and rationally: "We will always stand behind you and watch over you."
Yuji Itadori looked back.
Not only Fushiguro Megumi, but also Kugizaki No Rose and Yoshino Junpei looked at him calmly and gently, giving him unlimited courage.
Yuji Itadori let out a breath lightly, and then he smiled: "Then I'll go in."
At that moment, it seemed as if some spell that bound him was broken, and Yuji Itadori pushed open the door and walked into the ward.
Yuji Itadori said: "Grandpa, I'm here."
The man lying on the hospital bed dazedly turned his gaze from the window to the person who heard the sound. On his face, which looked older than before, he forced a stiff smile. It seemed that his facial nerves no longer supported him to smile, but he still stubbornly displayed the smile, opened his mouth, and shouted vaguely.
"Yuujin..."
Yuji Itadori walked up to him, sat down on the chair next to him, and held his hand. The hand was dry and old, but warm. Yuji Itadori couldn't help but have tears in his eyes. He was like a kitten who finally came home, and whispered in a low voice: "I'm here, Grandpa, I'm always here."
…
In fact, Kugizaki No Rose didn't know why she had to come with Yuji Itadori. She was used to doing things as she pleased and came whenever she wanted.
When she heard Yoshino Junpei's explanation on the road, she actually didn't believe it in her heart. How could anyone be so stupid? If she brought a hundred friends home, would she really have a hundred friends?
But it is undeniable that Yuji Itadori's grandfather was indeed very happy. He held their hands and called them good children one by one.
This was the first time that Kugizaki No Rose came so close to the death of an ordinary person.
It was not the flash of swords and blood, nor the thrill of life and death. The death of ordinary people was so slow and yet so fast. He was clearly a little old man who could speak three days ago, but like a withered flower, he aged faster and faster every day. No one could stop his death. In the face of death, these sorcerers who were good at removing curses were of no use at all. They could only watch him grow old.
From the day Yuji Itadori arrived here, it was as if he had grown up by his grandfather's bedside, always accompanying him.
He kept responding to his mumblings. He told his grandfather everything about his high school and the people who surrounded him. He knew that what his grandfather would like most was for him to become a hero admired by everyone.
But even so, time is running out.
On the last day, Yuji Itadori could only watch his grandfather being pushed into the operating room by the doctor. Before approaching the operating room, the doctor who had already walked in suddenly came out and asked him to go in, saying that his grandfather had one last thing to say to Yuji Itadori.
Yuji Itadori put on the sterile suit as he wished and walked to the side of his grandfather. He squatted down and asked softly, "Grandpa, do you want to tell me something?"
“…”
Grandpa was lying on the hospital bed. He was very weak now, but still stubborn. He looked at him with red eyes, and suddenly a tear fell from the corner of his eyes.
"Yuujin..."
"May you live a long life."
Grandpa doesn't want you to die surrounded by people, Grandpa wants you.
Live an ordinary life in peace and happiness.
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