Ever since Junpei Yoshino met Yuji Itadori, he always thought he was a very strange person.

It seems that nothing can defeat him. He is always happy and sunny, whether in doing things or making friends.

Even though she had never met him before, she was able to quickly get along with him and work hard to integrate him into the small group of first-year students in the technical secondary school. Her eager attempts also made him outstanding and brilliant.

Yoshino Junpei's first mission was to go out with them, under the encouragement of Itadori Yuji.

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The location of the first mission was at the beach near Yokohama. It was summer and there were many people at the beach. Ijichi had not sent the latest news yet, so they all went to the beach to hang out for a while.

"Meihui!" The pink-haired boy turned around and smiled, excitedly holding up the things in his hands and running towards Fushiguro Megumi, "Look what I found?!"

Fushiguro Megumi lazily opened his eyes from the beach chair, and after taking a closer look, he couldn't help but turn his head away and said helplessly: "Please face this mission, okay?"

However, a hint of smile inadvertently appeared in his words.

After all, Yuji Itadori, who is holding a lobster and showing his teeth and claws, is really cute, especially when the lobster is as big as Yuji Itadori's face.

"Okay, got it." The pink-haired boy lay down beside him, the soft sand covering his naked limbs. He put the lobster on the beach and watched it slowly crawl back into the sea. Suddenly, he remembered something and spoke to Yoshino Junpei on his left.

"Shunping, let's go to the sea together?"

"Ah?" Yoshino Junpei, who was sitting on the side nervously sorting out his emotions during his first mission, tilted his head and asked in confusion, "What is the sea?"

Upon hearing this, Megumi Fushiguro covered her ears with her hands, but still couldn't block out the sound of Yuji Itadori's joyful escape.

"Eh? Junpei, you've never tried to catch a fish? Then come with me!"

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The cold sea water splashed over his ankles, and Yoshino Junpei stepped on the soft and wet sand with a little trepidation, walking very slowly.

Just now, he accidentally stepped on a conch and the pain made the sole of his foot turn red.

Yuji Itadori's hand was tightly on his wrist, holding it tightly, making him feel safe. He would turn around and look at Junpei Yoshino from time to time: "Junpei, remember to follow my footsteps."

The place where his wrist was grabbed was hot. Yoshino Junpei looked at Yuji Itadori's back. He was obviously still a teenager, but with his back turned to him, he looked so strong that he seemed able to withstand any storm.

He felt a little ashamed, but he couldn't resist the sense of security that Yuji Itadori brought him, so he couldn't help but reveal a little bit of his thoughts and whispered to Yuji Itadori: "Yuji, shouldn't I come with you guys?"

Junpei Yoshino has been feeling anxious since receiving the mission.

He had no experience. After Yuji Itadori's suggestion, Gojo Satoru, who didn't act like a teacher at all, just thought about it for a moment and decisively inserted him into Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro's team, saying that it didn't matter, he was just a not very strong cursed spirit, and he could just take it as a chance to gain some experience.

However, Junpei Yoshino is not a novice who has never seen a powerful cursed spirit. Before he met Yuji Itadori, the only person he could contact was a cursed spirit, a real person.

He had seen with his own eyes a real person killing a large group of people just by stretching out his hand.

Will such a useless person become a burden to Yuji Itadori and the others?

Yuji Itadori suddenly stopped moving forward and turned his head. Yoshino Junpei actually regretted what he said. At this time, he bit his lip, fearing that Yuji Itadori, who had been very nice to him since they first met, would show an impatient expression towards him.

But Mizue Yi was not angry. On the contrary, Mizue Yi felt that he could actually understand Yoshino Junpei's psychology better.

Yoshino Junpei is probably like a person walking on a tightrope. He had been trapped in a deserted well and was bullied by people throwing stones at him. Now he finally got out, but he was timid and afraid of the dazzling light. He was not sure, "Have I really come out of the well?"

Can I really meet a better me?

The pink-haired boy smiled softly, waved at Yoshino Junpei, and whispered, "Junpei, come closer."

Yoshino Junpei, who had waited for a long time and had not expected to hear such a sentence in the end, felt a little uneasy, but he still went over. The pink-haired boy's warm breath hit Yoshino Junpei's earlobe, which was a little itchy, but it was a very nostalgic temperature.

He said softly, "Me too."

"What?" Yoshino Junpei didn't react at first. Yuji Itadori's warm breath made the tips of his ears start to feel hot.

Fortunately, the pink-haired boy was very patient and repeated it again: "Actually, when I went on my first mission, I was also very nervous. I was not good at all before!"

"How could it be?" Yoshino Junpei didn't believe it. From the moment he met Yuji Itadori, Yuji Itadori's excellence was obvious to all. How could he become so strong overnight?

"Are you trying to comfort me?"

The pink-haired boy raised his hand and scratched his head. “No, it’s true. Unlike Huihui and the others, Junpei and I just came into contact with the curse circle not long ago. When I first met Huihui, it was really embarrassing.”

Just met recently?

Yoshino Junpei murmured, "But you are so powerful now."

Shui Jiangyi smiled with eyes curved: "So Shunping doesn't need to worry, it's just the beginning, Shunping will become as amazing as me in the future."

His words were so inspiring that Yoshino Junpei couldn't help but continue asking, "Really?"

"Yes." Shui Jiangyi nodded solemnly, "I will watch Shunping become very powerful. I also think Shunping will become very powerful."

Shui Jiangyi didn't know about others, but when facing Yoshino Junpei, Shui Jiangyi thought.

In this world, while he was still alive, he had every hope that he had a bright future.

The boy smiled shyly in front of Shui Jiangyi. For the first time, he opened his arms and hugged his friend: "Okay, I will definitely become very powerful, powerful enough to protect you!"

Yoshino Junpei thought that this was his original intention to become stronger.

There are too few kind people in this world, and too few people who are willing to illuminate others. He wants Yuji Itadori to always smile happily in front of him.

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Under the clear moonlight, Yoshino Junpei sat under a tree, touching the surface of the pages of the book, but his eyes were a little absent-minded. He had just left the infirmary in too much of a hurry, and he didn't know whether Yuji Itadori was asleep now.

He thought casually, why not deliberately pass by the infirmary on the way back?

"You're not paying attention, Junpei." The real person who slipped out from beside Geto Suguru and came to chat with Yoshino Junpei said with his chin in his hand, looking at the person in front of him and smiling.

Yoshino Junpei pulled himself out of his memories, closed his book, looked up at the real person hanging high in the distance, and said with a clear look, "I was just thinking about one thing."

"What's the matter?" Zhenren curiously floated to his side, circled around him, and asked temptingly, "Is it about Yuji Itadori?"

In the six months since they separated, Yoshino Junpei has grown up a lot. He is no longer the feminine person he used to be. He looks much tougher, but he also has more thoughts than before.

Born with the evil in human nature, the real person smelled the scent of greed from Yoshino Junpei as soon as he approached him, but he was not in a hurry to kill Yoshino Junpei. He just watched Yoshino Junpei perform in front of him with a smile.

Human nature is such an interesting thing.

Hearing him talk about Itadori Yuji, Yoshino Junpei's fingers holding the book tightened slightly, and he nodded calmly: "Yes, I just went to see him, what you said is indeed true."

The real person smiled and circled around him: "So you came here today to have a smooth journey, is it because you want it?"

Yoshino Junpei met his gaze and was not fooled by him. He said seriously, "Didn't you tell me before that you would help me as long as I paid a price? I want you to tell me how to restore Yuhito's sense of smell."

The real person was satisfied with the answer, and he said proudly: "Yes, Shunping, you are really good and remember it very clearly, but the price is not small."

"Yes." Yoshino Jun nodded calmly, "What do you want? As long as you tell me, I can give it to you."

What he said was so decisive that the real person seemed to be tempted. He slowly approached him and stretched out his hand to touch his cheek. When his slender fingernails were about to touch Yoshino Junpei's skin, he couldn't help laughing and asked in a neurotic tone: "...Ah, ah, I'm really curious, Junpei, why do you think I'm a fool?"

Before he could finish his words, he grabbed Yoshino Junpei's neck and scratched it with his nails, leaving bloody marks.

The moment Yoshino Junpei was grabbed by the neck, he twisted his arm with his body, raised his hand and used the cursed tool that he had just hidden on his body to slash at the arm of the real person, and the arm that was pinching his neck was directly chopped off by him. He touched his neck with the cursed tool in his hand, panted and shouted loudly: "Mr. Nanami!"

A sharp light flew towards the real person. The real person looked at the arm on the ground, held his broken arm expressionlessly, and while growing a new arm, he flew away directly.

And from where the light came from, a blond man in a suit walked out slowly, holding a knife in his hand. The delicate halo of the moonlight made the blade look extremely sharp.

Nanami Kento pushed his glasses with his fingers, and a sharp light flashed through his eyes under the silver-framed glasses. He said coldly: "I caught you, Master."