Kuen didn't know what Geto was thinking, but fortunately Izanami was not the kind of parent who would interfere too much with her children.

If Izanami were to remove his mask like this, he would really have to shout out: Damn, I am so wronged.

So, when Geto Suguru secretly glanced at him, Hisaen made a "huh" gesture to hint to him that "now is not the time to talk about this."

As for how Xia Yujie would misunderstand his identity during this period, it was beyond his control.

Izanami certainly did not miss the private interactions between her son who had been away from home for many years and his friends, but she just watched the young people having fun.

...This is just like whispering or passing notes in class. This is normal, right?

"Lady Izanami." Kuen chose this more respectful title. He walked up to Kagome Jie and said to her, "Something has happened to my companion... After his body was occupied by the noose, part of his soul cannot return to its place immediately. According to what Lady Kizuna said, I think I need to take him to Taoyuan Township."

"Don't you really want to stay by my side?" Izanami raised her voice slightly. Although her words sounded like a complaint, she was not really angry with the other party.

"…That's not true." Kuen felt that if he didn't explain, Izanami might get into the mood for acting and act out a soap opera in which a rebellious teenager abandons his mother and runs away from home, leaving his mother devastated.

He explained: "We have other companions waiting for us to return."

After simply telling Izanami that Gojo Satoru and the others were still waiting for him and Geto Suguru to return, the latter said “Oh?”

"I understand the situation, but there is no need to go to such lengths just to restore the soul of this young man." Izanami walked to the body of Geto Suguru and looked over. "The soul is much younger than the original body... It doesn't matter. There is no need to go to Taoyuan Township to find a doctor for such a small problem. I can help him solve it."

She put one hand on the forehead of Geto's body, and just as she was about to take action, she remembered something and asked, "By the way, do you still need this body?"

Xia Yujie was silent for two seconds and shook his head: "No need."

"Then I will take action - but you look like a monster, so even if I want to revive this corpse, it will be meaningless."

As Izanami spoke, a ball of orange light condensed from Geto's body. This beam of light had its own beacon and flew directly into Geto's soul. The split soul finally completely merged into one.

But he still looks the same now. Izanami said considerately: "He will be back to normal after he returns."

"Oh, right..." Izanami said, "I have something to remind you. If you still want to be a human, you should go to hell to attend the trial and follow the normal process. You will eventually be reincarnated as a human. If you choose to be a monster, you can escape the punishment for your sins in life, but when you die, you will be completely reduced to ashes."

Xia Yujie paused for a moment after hearing her words, then nodded: "I understand."

Izanami didn't care about his decision. She said to the demon soldier passing by: "Find me an urn."

The kid was summoned by Izanami, so he quickly went to another department to get a new urn.

Izanami burned Geto's body directly.

As a goddess, her cremation efficiency is incomparable to that of the crematoriums on earth.

From the cremation to having the little ghost collect the ashes and put them into the urn, it took less than three minutes, and Geto Xiayou took his own urn with both hands.

Xia Yujie: “…”

Although they were doing it in a corner of King Yan's Palace, there was no way they could escape the sight of the ghost lamp.

It was a bit unfair to hold a mini cremation in the main hall of someone else's workplace (even if it was just a corner), so Jiuyuan had to take out the cursed item he received from Fitzgerald from his private storage and give it to Guizu.

Izanami: "Is this a bribe?"

Summer Oil: "...It's a bribe."

Ghost Light said expressionlessly: "Isn't this because of you two?"

Jiuyuan: “…”

Before leaving, Izanami asked Kidō to make special arrangements for Kuen's phone so that she could chat with her online.

Jiuyuan regretted that he could not record the things that Nozomi did and share them with Gojo Satoru. After all, they only saw those wonderful scenes through the means of Hell's Trial. How could the effect of oral narration be as refreshing as that of video?

With this regret, their journey to the underworld ended.

…

…

In the old house in the Kisaragi territory, Gojo Satoru looked out the window boredly at the dark scenery. Everything here was created by the Kisaragi Station, and there was nothing interesting to see.

The boy opposite was flipping through a book that was a manifestation of himself, reading under the dim oil lamp.

Gojo Satoru: "...Is it interesting to read a book that I manifested myself into?"

Kisaragi smiled and nodded: "Of course it's interesting. Don't you humans also like to indulge in the toys you make?"

Gojo Satoru felt that he couldn't make sense with him: "This is not the same thing - forget it."

In the realm of the Moon, all time becomes meaningless. Even if you use your heartbeats to count seconds, it seems that you will quickly forget the recorded time.

After Gojo Satoru dealt with the two cursed spirits, he began a long wait in Kisaragi's territory. Unfortunately, Kisaragi was very bored and didn't talk to him. There was nothing in the territory except the train station and old dormitory in the gloomy forest.

"Ah - how boring."

When Gojo Satoru complained for the hundred and first time, he saw the boy opposite him slightly raised his head and looked out the window.

“They are back.”

The house suddenly disappeared, and they appeared directly opposite Kagome Ken and Hisaen.

"Hey, it looks like you guys are doing well..." Gojo Satoru said halfway, and after seeing that Geto Suguru had clearly "grown up", his tone changed slightly: "...This really is, everything has been solved perfectly."

Xia Youjie was wearing a white base shirt and black home pants, barefoot, with his hair loose, looking very relaxed.

If we ignore the box in his hand——

Gojo Satoru: "What is that in your hand? It can't be the real body of the noose, right?"

Xia Yujie said casually: "It's my ashes."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

Normally, shouldn't there be enemy heads or something like that here?

Jiu Yuan coughed lightly, "Mr. Gojo, the essence of the noose... is a brain without a body. It has been sent to hell for the next round of trial. Don't worry, he has been sent to the King Yan's Palace, and he has no chance of escaping."

Gojo Satoru caught the key words: "Yanwang Palace? Judgment? So you not only went to hell, but also went to the depths of hell?"

Jiuyuan said: "No, what we did is called a successful report, and we assisted the official organization of the hell to arrest and try the fugitive Nozomi."

"…It sounds strange, but the conclusion is that the noose has completely become a thing of the past, right?"

"That's right." Kuen smiled and said, "Mr. Getsu's problem has been solved, and those cursed spirits will never come back again."

Gojo Satoru was relieved now and said with a smile: "Ah, Jay... you are now 'Mr. Summer Oil' instead of 'Sugar Oil-kun'."

Only Geto Suguru, after touring the magical hell, suspected that if Hisaen was really one of Izanami's children, then he must be older than both himself and Gojo Satoru.

At this time, it doesn't matter what the other person wants to call you.

So he just smiled back at Gojo Satoru's teasing and said calmly, "Yes."

"Since the problem has been successfully solved, my domain is no longer needed, right?" Having not been able to get a word in just now, Ruyue found a way to speak immediately.

After all, it takes a lot of demonic energy to maintain such a huge domain, and he doesn't want to waste it just to provide a place for chatting.

Want to chat? Wouldn't it be nice to go to a coffee shop with air conditioning?

Jiuyuan responded with a polite smile: "Thank you for your help."

Ruyue bowed slightly: "...I am happy to serve you."

The territory collapsed and they reappeared on the streets of Tokyo.

"Wow." Gojo Satoru looked at the busy streets and turned to Geto Suguru and said, "... Shall we bury you first?"

Summer Oil: "...Okay."

You can't just run around carrying the urn.

…

…

After dealing with the subsequent issues, Jiuyuan finally ended his busy schedule.

He returned to Hanako's folding space - every time he needed to be alone to think about things, he would choose this place.

Jiuyuan leisurely pulled out a chair and slowly drank the iced coffee he bought from the store. The ice cubes made a rumbling sound when they collided with each other.

"System, at this point, I thought you would speak first."

He took a sip of his iced coffee, put the cup on the table, leaned back in his chair and spoke to the empty ceiling.

"...But since you can't figure out where to start, we can start with why you went offline as soon as you arrived in Japan's hell."

He stirred the ice in the glass—

"Are you afraid of being recognized by the people in Hell? Kizuna? Yanma Daioh? Or maybe Izanami..."

"However, I am more curious about why you think that you won't be discovered as long as you 'don't talk'. Do you have some special mechanism of suspended animation? Can it make you pretend that you don't exist?"

"But there must be a way to break this disguise. Lady Izanami will surely be able to see through it if she wants..."

As if being asked too much by him, the system finally shouted out in grievance—

[Master, Master! I really don’t know how to explain this to you! ]

Kuen: Finally you stopped pretending to be dead.

He said, "Then explain it slowly."

【System: ……】

[System: ...I was originally created by the master, and my essence is just one of the millions of unconscious wronged souls.]

[My master gave me a little wisdom, and then sealed me in this world, saying that when the time is right, someone will unseal me, and I, I will be able to be with my master...]

"And then?" Jiuyuan guessed that the system might be a product of his own making. "Didn't the 'I' in the past say what I was going to do?"

[No, you just set a set of 'rules' for me, restricting me to give you props according to this set of 'rules'. ]

"What about my avatar characters? Are they also left by 'me' for myself?"

[You didn’t tell me this…] The system felt more and more aggrieved, [I know very little.]

"Do you know too little? Or do you know but can't tell?"

The system is dumb.

Jiuyuan knew that he had guessed right again, but it didn’t matter. If the system didn’t tell him, he could just guess it himself.

Bold assumption!

Jiuyuan thought about it and realized that the most important indicator in the system he set up was reputation.

And the most unique thing is that these strange characters, one after another, are obviously also linked to reputation points.

It's like playing a game that gives players one or two important hints.

Izanami said that she thought the "me" in the past would have been bothered by her background.

What is his origin? Yes, most of Izanami's children are real "gods", but he is more like a "demon", so he may feel a sense of disparity.

But Izanami said it lightly, apparently although she used to mind a little, she didn't mind to that extreme.

He also didn't think that he had to make such a big move, not only sealing his own memory but also throwing himself into the human world to struggle for so long, just to get some revenge.

Then we have to start with the second tip - why there are so many vests.

"System."

【？ 】

"Although you say you know nothing... I believe that's not the case. Anyway, I know myself. If you are really a ghost who knows nothing, would I choose to let you stay with 'Yoquanchuan Jiuyuan'?"

"Furthermore, many of the reputation rewards are linked to vests, and from the beginning I was strongly encouraged to use the vest to earn reputation... Does this prove that I want more than just one or two strange stories to gain reputation, but to build a 'system' that is more likely to attract people's attention?"

"Like the legends of ancient monsters, many of them are related. Ah, to use a mobile game as an example, it's like you think there is a 'connection' between two unrelated characters - it is this connection that makes the characters more popular, because people like to study the relationship between monsters more."

"It is precisely because of this that the legend of monsters can be passed down for a long time - and the more famous the monster is, the stronger the story is, and the longer they can exist in people's vision: it can be novels, comics, movies... Having a dense story network is a good thing for monsters."

"They will not disappear unless they are remembered. The more they are passed on, the stronger they become."

"It's a pity that in modern times, in the information age, most of the monsters are independent, and most of them even have a very short life span—"

"Yes, it is very simple to keep them alive. That is to increase their popularity and make people remember them more. We need to give them more stories."

"So, this is just a simple guess on my part."

"What 'I' want to do is to revive the monster culture in modern society?"

"——To find a longer way for these modern monsters with short life spans to survive?"