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After leaving the mansion, the girl seemed to finally come back to life. She dressed herself up, disguised herself as a man and started doing business. She overcame many difficulties and obstacles along the way, and built a shrine for the Noragami who had helped her, including Yato, as promised.
At a banquet, she recognized her cousin by the birthmark on the back of her hand.
Because the girl had run away from her marriage, her family had to arrange for her younger cousin to take her place. Like being forced to jump from one fire pit to another, her cousin was treated like a maid by her husband, a dissolute man who treated women like clothes. He ordered her to pour wine and smile at every banquet.
The girl knew that her escape would hurt others, and this was the consequence she had to bear, so she tried every means to take her cousin away.
But something unexpected happened. A fire broke out in the man's house and the cousin disappeared.
The next time I saw her was in a mass grave. My cousin had been disemboweled and eaten by wild dogs until her identity was barely recognizable. It was said that she was abandoned here by the Kamo family.
While investigating the truth, the girl set out to seek revenge, but was discovered by the man with stitches on his forehead from the Kamo family and died in his hands.
“…That’s about it.”
The story ends here. Unfortunately, the shrine the girl built for him was destroyed during the war and has now become the territory of the land god.
"...So, it's possible that Gui helps humans simply to seek revenge on Nozomi?" Gojo Satoru concluded.
Why do I feel that the cursed spirit may not like humans that much, so asking it for help won’t be of much use?
"Not necessarily?" Yato was unsure.
"Adults generally don't care about the love and hate of life. If you really want revenge, you can easily accomplish it after turning back into a cursed spirit, without having to rely on others."
Glass asked, "Then how do you think we can get Him to return Xiao Kui?"
"Uh..." Yato stretched out his two index fingers and drew circles on both sides of his head, thinking hard:
"...Let's make it interesting for adults."
Very good, another way of saying "ask Him." Gojo Satoru is dead.
Yato was very satisfied with the answer he came up with:
"My Lord is very eager to understand humans. As long as I can make my Lord feel that the identity of 'Hinata Aoi' can bring him more joy, I may reactivate it."
——
Under Tengen's guidance, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru came to a hot spring on the mountain.
When I entered, I didn't see Gui's real body, I only felt the weak curse power of the curse spirit at the bottom of the hot spring.
The two walked to the edge of the hot spring and looked down. Huge splashes of water suddenly gushed out from the bottom of the hot spring, and a huge black cat stood up from the hot spring.
Thanks to his lower limit, Gojo Satoru was not splashed. But Geto Suguru was not so lucky and became a drowned rat.
It must have been intentional, otherwise with their reaction speed, they shouldn't have been hit by the splash, thought Xia Yujie.
"What can I do for you~"
Gui did not hide his intention at all. He shrank his body and jumped next to Geto Suguru, shaking his hair violently and splashing it on Geto Suguru again.
Geto Summer Oil: “…”
Didn’t you say you don’t hold grudges?
With his best friend Gojo Satoru's unbridled laughter still ringing in his ears, Geto Suguru tried hard to maintain a decent smile and spoke to Gui:
"We want to fight for it and take Xiaokui home."
If you try to beat around the bush with this cursed spirit, you won't be able to save Hinata Aoi.
"Oh, I miss Hinata Aoi too~"
"Isn't this unlivable?"
Gui looked at the murderer with a joking look, and his sarcastic words were more biting than the cold wind blowing through wet clothes.
Geto Suguru consciously turned off the microphone and looked towards Gojo Satoru who was watching the fun for help.
Taking two steps forward to separate Gui and Geto, Gojo Satoru squatted in front of the black cat and said, "What's the point of talking to a dead person? The rest of us miss Xiaokui very much~"
The word "ask" was definitely not something he could say, so Gojo Satoru planned to appeal to his emotions and reason with him. Of course, he knew that reasoning with a cursed spirit was just ridiculous, but as long as he could keep talking, there would always be a chance to persuade Gui.
Indeed, under the guidance of Gojo Satoru, Gui suddenly remembered something he had been curious about for a long time:
“Why are humans so obsessed with realizing the meaning of life?”
"The world may seem fair, but it actually favors humans. It's hard for ignorant cursed spirits to compete with sorcerers. But humans themselves have made up for this bias. Experienced, understanding of human nature, and willing to delve deeper, humans who transform and curse are more terrifying than cursed spirits, and their destructive power is even greater."
"And what drives them to do this is the so-called 'meaning'." This is the case with Noose, and Geto Suguru can also be considered half of it.
"Young and old, rich and poor, all like to search for the meaning of life, to satisfy their greed and ambition, to make the future become what they imagine, even at the expense of their present feelings..."
"Why are humans so obsessed with unity?"
Gojo Satoru: "..."
When the topic of philosophy suddenly arose, he didn't know what to say.
This seems to be a matter of course. Life is a line, and resources need to be consumed at each stage. For personal development, for happiness in old age, for social stability... for many reasons, or even just to survive, it is normal to find meaning and set goals.
Moreover, there are people in this world who live for the moment, and there are also people who are swept along by the current without knowing the meaning of life.
All I can say is that the overall situation is large enough that any situation may occur, and it is considered good enough if it can live in a self-consistent manner.
Gojo Satoru spread his hands, giving up on answering:
"It would be more interesting if you found the answer yourself, wouldn't it?"
"If you just accept someone's answer, you won't become a human and experience it yourself, right?"
"Hmm~" Gui agreed with Gojo Satoru's statement.
"Then why do I have to continue using the identity of Hinata Aoi?"
"Although they are human, they contain the soul of a cursed spirit. They should be lively and energetic, but they have been disciplined into overthinking."
“Isn’t this a very hard life?”
"...You also like this kind of experience, right?" Gojo Satoru was not misled by Gui's words and completely believed Tengen's guess:
"The more complex the experience, the more you enjoy it. Besides, is there really nothing remarkable about Hinata Aoi's life?"
Holding his hands on his waist, Gojo Satoru was very confident and was sure that he alone was worth the price of admission.
"I'm asking for a change of meal because the food isn't good enough, but if I don't change restaurants, the new meal might not even be as good as this one."
"Heh~" Gui was persuaded by Gojo Satoru.
"That's one last question."
"What are you going to do with this person?"
After jumping onto the top of Geto Suguru's head a few times, Gui was looking forward to Gojo Satoru's answer.
Should I uphold the original verdict or write off the murder of my best friend?
Gojo Satoru lived up to His expectations: "I will once again execute Jie with my own hands."
Xia Yujie, who was acting as a background, smiled bitterly and said, "Do you really have to discuss this topic in front of me?"
“Hahahahahahahahaha…”
Gui found it very interesting, and watching humans make choices in dilemmas was also his interest.
"I really miss you guys."
"Don't forget to deal with the body this time~"
Before jumping back into the hot spring, Gui gave them a chance:
"Once the domain ends, all memories of this period will be cleared."
"It depends on how strong your obsession is to save people. If you can save Hinata Aoi before she bleeds to death, you will be considered successful."
"Also, let Gou Juanji go and rescue him."
——
The wind was not strong, but the air was filled with coldness. The vegetation on the mountain was covered by falling snowflakes. Unable to pick the wild flowers that grandma liked, Hinata Aoi had to go up the mountain with the bright flowers she had picked at the flower shop.
Amidst the solemnity, bright colors are not only in front of grandma's tombstone, but also in front of the tombstones of the Takeuchi couple... and in front of the newly built tombstone of Takeru Takeuchi.
Gui asked that question purely to satisfy his own bad taste.
Even without Gojo Satoru taking any action, Geto Suguru's life slowly faded away uncontrollably after the domain ended.
It was only enough time to say a few last words, and all Gojo Satoru needed to do was to deal with his body.
"I'll leave Nanako and Mimiko to you~"
"It's a pity that I lived so long but never got to talk to Aoi..."
While still looking at Hinata Aoi sleeping on the hospital bed, Geto Suguru's life came to an end.
After waking up, Hinata Aoi could only look at Geto Suguru's cold body with his eyes closed and sob through gritted teeth.
The world's timeline was pulled back to before the Shibuya incident. Gui's domain helped the winner avoid that painful experience, and also sent all the marked losers to the underworld, even Sukuna's fingers were all solved.
In order to test the depth of Inujū's feelings, Gui set a condition, but Gojo Satoru took advantage of it and used his six eyes to force the memory to be retained. He held Inujū's head with one hand, frantically trying to recall what he had forgotten, and held the confused Nozomi Ieiri with the other hand, and teleported to the foot of the mountain to find Hinata Aoi and rescued her immediately.
But perhaps due to the need for self-healing, Hinata Aoi fell into a coma for a long time. When she woke up, her vocal cords and hemophilia were healed, but she missed the living Geto...
This long season is finally coming to an end.
......
Finally, her birthday came. As soon as it was past midnight, Goumaki Saki took out the plain ring he had customized in advance, and with trembling hands, put it on Hinata Aoi's ring finger.
The outer ring of the ring is engraved with the initials of their names, which is also Goujuan’s last insistence.
If he hadn't taken into consideration that Hinata Aoi didn't like to be too high-profile, he would have bought her a super conspicuous big diamond ring!
After giving the ring, Goujuan looked up at Hinata Aoi from time to time, wanting to say something but hesitant. He was afraid that he would stutter and was a little embarrassed to speak.
Unexpectedly, Gojuan was so eager. Hinata Aoi smiled and took the initiative to say:
"Let's get married~"
Inumaki Ji's cheeks flushed red, and he subconsciously opened his phone to find the wedding process he had already planned, but it was only after Hinata Aoi reminded him that he remembered to inform his parents.
"marry??!!!!!!"
As excited as Inugami's parents were, Hinanoko was as shocked.
"Xiao Kui, no, Mom, that's not right..."
Ms. Hyuga was so flustered that she couldn't speak clearly.
"Mom, yes, Mom is not ready yet. Xiaokui, don't you want to live with Mom?"
There is no angle to criticize Inumaki Satoru's character. Hinanoko knew that her daughter would leave her sooner or later, but she refused to accept it now. Her tears burst out "whoosh". She was not acting, but expressing her true feelings.
Hinata Aoi hugged Noko: "Of course not, it's just registration. I am still my mother's child, we will never be separated..."
In the end, the parents respected the choices of their two children. On the carpet beside Hinata Aoi's bed, Inuma Saki carefully fiddled with the marriage form he had just filled out and took photos in different directions.
The boy couldn't stop grinning. Hinata Aoi put down the "Reconstruction Plan for the Curse World" she was writing and walked over to Inuma and sat down next to him.
“Send it out once you’ve taken it.”
"Is it really possible?!" Goujuan Ji was anxious to get married just to feel at ease, and he didn't expect it to be made public.
But when the time comes to get married, he can't help but want to show off and let everyone know that he, Inumaki Satoru, is Hinata Aoi's important and only other half!
"...How about sending a message to notify them first?" Hinata Aoi hesitated again.
"Hehe~" Goujuanji handed his cell phone to the girl.
It was too late. Worried that Hinata Aoi would change her mind, he quickly edited the status and sent it out while being surprised.
A single stone stirred up a thousand waves. The first thing that arrived in the comment section was not blessings, but questions.
"How come it has come to this? Why didn't you tell me in advance?!!!!!!" Several people were jumping up and down during the team building session with similar comments.
Unable to cope with the bombardment of friends and family, Hinata Aoi buried her head in the side of Inumaki Saki's neck amid the incessant message notification sounds from both phones, and inexplicably felt like laughing:
"Hahaha, it seems like we are 'accomplices' now~"
"Yeah!" Inumaki Satoru completely ignored the feelings of his teachers and friends, happily agreed, and gently kissed Hinata Aoi on the hair.
Their coming-of-age ceremony finally arrived amidst the noise.
——End of the article
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