Chapter 63 Times Have Changed
According to common logic, Gojo Satoru should immediately return to the High Commissioner to inspect the crime scene of the theft.
After all, there is now a terrifyingly thick barrier between him and the students, and he also knows that the students' lives are not in danger and he can't do anything if he stays here. According to common sense, if he rushes back to the technical college after the theft, he might be able to catch the thief and recover the lost property.
But this theft of the college entrance examination was clearly not normal.
First of all, the safe of Tokyo High School was covered with space magic, multiple layers of protection, and guarded by special personnel. Without someone to lead the way, even Gojo Satoru would have had to spend a lot of effort to find it. However, the thief was able to accurately find the correct storage room location from thousands of spaces while the security was fully guarded and the guards were not distracted, and he got away with the things.
A thief who could find the safe and do such a thing must have cursed energy. Considering that the camera did not capture any suspicious people, it is speculated that the thief may be a cursed spirit. However, it is also unusual that the outer layer of the Tokyo High School's barrier against external cursed energy did not issue a warning.
And most importantly - right after Gojo Satoru came to look for the students, he received a call about the theft at the technical high school, asking him to go back quickly. This was too much of a coincidence!
So Gojo Satoru was not in a hurry at all. According to common sense, he should still be in Fukuoka, and it would take more than five hours by Shinkansen to get back.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "I turned off the mission recorder and the driving recorder before calling you over. Please check to see if there are any omissions."
Gojo Satoru glanced inside the car with his Six Eyes. "I've cut all the wires, so they must be turned off. But it doesn't matter if you don't. The mission recorder only records what's going on inside the car, and the dashcam won't work unless the car is started. Are higher-dimensional beings so crude in their work these days?"
At least he left a recorder on, and was unwilling to make a face-saving excuse like "I called because I saw Gojo Satoru come back", which shows the impatience and perfunctory attitude of the No. 1 high-dimensional creature.
Or maybe... I'm just unable to do it.
But this is good news for them.
The more this happens, the more it shows that they are beginning to pose a real threat to the No. 1 high-level creature.
Gojo Satoru flew around the barrier. "I can't find the anchor point for this tent on the outside. It seems the anchor point is inside."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "That means if we want to break this thing, we have to use the kids to break it from the inside. Do you think calling them will help?"
Gojo Satoru: "Regular communication methods within the [tent] will be cut off. Now... the young people can only rely on themselves."
......
"Really? So, Miss Ghostly is just overly worried!" Kugisaki Nobara bent down and pulled out her long spike from the dissipating wreckage of the cursed spirit. "My lady just likes to worry about this and that."
Megumi Fushiguro: "It's better to be careful. Miss Ghost is acting a little strangely today."
In her memory, the Ghost Queen would not actively interfere with the choices or activities of others unless her own activities were affected. However, today, the Ghost Queen actually mentioned terminating the mission several times on her own initiative. This made Megumi Fushiguro feel a little strange and had a very ominous premonition.
Intuition told Megumi Fushiguro that perhaps this was related to the reason why his father, Jyouji Fushiguro, had to fake his death and leave him and Miki Fushiguro.
Cheng Xiaoyu, Fushiguro Shier and several dark killers had always avoided Fushiguro Megumi when they were talking before, but even though they didn't know what the adults were so worried about, the young Fushiguro Megumi knew that it must be a very serious and dangerous matter.
He also knew that his biological father left to protect himself and Tsumiki.
When he grew up a little, Megumi Fushiguro wanted to know what was threatening his family's safety, but neither the Ghost Queen nor the Dark Killers appeared in front of him again.
Megumi Fushiguro once asked Gojo Satoru indirectly where the ghost had gone, but he got vague answers such as "There's no need for children to know."
So Megumi Fushiguro understood that his mentor and adoptive father might have also participated in the "war" whose appearance he was not allowed to see, and this time he was excluded again.
This made Fushiguro Megumi...very unhappy.
But there was nothing Fushiguro Megumi could do. Just as Gojo Satoru said, he was too weak now. Even if he knew the truth, he could not do anything and it would only add to his burden. It was better not to know.
But even so, Megumi Fushiguro is still unwilling to accept this... No one would be happy about this!
He doesn't want to be the one who is always concealed and protected. He wants to become stronger, protect the people he cares about, and touch that "reason".
High-dimensional Being No. 1: Although I didn’t hear your wish, I will still arrange it for you?
Continuing to go deeper, when passing by the morgue, Itadori suddenly said, "I feel something is attracting me." He walked in and diligently opened a freezer drawer, and with a subtle expression, he took out a Sukuna finger from it.
The kind that has no seal and will attract cursed spirits 24 hours a day.
Kugisaki Nobara and Fushiguro Megumi's expressions suddenly changed, and they said in unison: "Quickly seal your fingers for me!"
Just as Yuji Itadori was about to hand over Sukuna's finger, the palm of his right hand holding the finger suddenly opened up and swallowed the finger.
Everyone: “…”
"Sukuna!!!" Yuji Itadori angrily shook his right hand as if it were someone's neck, "You bastard! You didn't help at all, yet you still have the nerve to intercept?"
"Idiot." The mouth in the palm of the right hand taunted, "If I hadn't shown you the way, you wouldn't have been able to find it."
Kugisaki Nobara sighed helplessly, "Hey—stop arguing. It's annoying, but it's at least sealed. After all, you told the higher-ups that you'd be responsible for retrieving and swallowing all of Sukuna's fingers. Let's go to the next place."
"Ah... this might not work. Come over here and take a look at this."
Yuji Itadori showed the same subtle expression as at the beginning. He opened the freezer a little further, and a creaking sound came from the metal body drawer.
...No way.
Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki came forward to take a look, and saw that there were four fingers lying in the cold drawer, all of which were not sealed and could attract cursed spirits at any time.
Everyone: ...
What a psycho!!! Are Sukuna's fingers being sold wholesale these days? Sukuna, did you cut off your palm here that year?
The situation was urgent. Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki each used up two fingers and exhausted most of their cursed power to start an emergency seal. Yuji Itadori stood not far away to protect his companions to prevent any cursed spirits from threatening his teammates.
Gojo Satoru had said before that with Yuji Itadori's special physique, there would be no problem eating one Sukuna finger a day, but if he ate too much, he would most likely lose control of his body.
Just now, Ryoumen Sukuna had already performed the "backhand eating" move once, and now Yuji Itadori did not dare to touch these fingers at all, giving Ryoumen Sukuna the opportunity to score again.
After sealing the four fingers, the cursed energy of Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki was almost gone, and the mission was doomed to be unable to continue.
Kugisaki Nobara wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and said thankfully, "Fortunately, we have already killed most of the cursed spirits in here, and we sealed it quickly, so we didn't have time to attract any troublesome cursed spirits.
Fushiguro Megumi's expression wasn't very good. "No, the thing we need to worry about outside isn't the cursed spirits that will be attracted. With Miss Ghost Shadow outside, they definitely can't get in. What we need to worry about is the cursed spirits inside this crematorium."
"[Window] There's no way they missed the five unsealed Sukuna fingers during the evaluation. They must have been put in after the evaluation. In other words, between then and when we came in, they were probably already—"
A white bone claw rested on Fushiguro Megumi's shoulder. The melted and twisted face behind him had a purple mouth that seemed to be smiling. Maggot-like, segmented tentacles were swirling in the mouth, and the breath of death spread throughout the cold room.
"whee."
...something mixed in that exceeds the original rating!
"Itadori, take Kugisaki and run!" Fushiguro Megumi held down the cursed spirit's bone claws, pulled out the gun for emergency self-defense from under her clothes, and fired six shots at the disgusting mouth of the cursed spirit behind her. While the cursed spirit was in pain, she immediately threw the Sukuna finger in her hand to Yuji Itadori.
Yuji Itadori picked up Nobara Kugisaki by the waist with one hand and used Sukuna's fingers with the other hand, and tried to run to the corridor and jump out the window to escape at his speed of 3.50 meters in 3.0 seconds.
Ordinary weapons cannot cause any harm to the cursed spirit. This cursed spirit that has entered the special level already has intelligence, so it originally intended to tease its prey and deliberately did not block Fushiguro Megumi's bullet.
But it didn't expect that times have changed, and the bullets fired by Megumi Fushiguro were filled with cursed energy.
I'm sorry, Zhenyi, for using up so much of your precious ammunition at once. I will definitely apologize to you when I get back alive.
Megumi Fushiguro took advantage of the cursed spirit's pain and ran out of the morgue. He took out a grenade from his waist, bit off the fuse and threw it in, arranging a cremation for the cursed spirit that was born in the crematorium.
Listening to the explosions and the roars of the cursed spirits behind her, the running Fushiguro Megumi couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had moved the bodies in the morgue away when she dismissed the staff. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to the families why the bodies had to be cremated in advance for a "routine inspection."
You can't explain it by saying that the crematorium is secretly working to improve its performance.
The explosives and shrapnel of this grenade were generated by Shinji Zenin using cursed power, and a large amount of ordinary gunpowder was mixed in by Haibara Yu to assist in the explosion. This grenade is a powerful product of the combination of technology and curses.
Of course, these damages are not fatal to the cursed spirits of the entire level, but they are enough to make Megumi Fushiguro full of hatred.
While escaping, Fushiguro Megumi formed seals with her hands to summon the jade dog...the head of the jade dog, which was not completely summoned and only had the head exposed, diligently helped Fushiguro Megumi pay attention to the situation behind him.
Two rapid dog barks were heard. Fushiguro Megumi changed the magazine with one hand, and without looking back, he fired another shot at the hand that was attacking the cursed spirit at the jade dog's signal, and quickly emptied another magazine amid the cursed spirit's roar.
......
This... isn't this right?
The high-dimensional creature No. 1 blinked and watched in disbelief as Megumi Fushiguro and the special-grade cursed spirit moved around, while Yuji Itadori was already running to the door with Nobara Kugisaki.
The script he had originally envisioned was that Megumi Fushiguro would slap the special-grade cursed spirit, severely injuring it and letting it escape with Nobara Kugisaki, and then let Yuji Itadori cover their retreat and naturally let Sukuna come out to destroy the cursed spirit.
Judging from Megumi Fushiguro's speed, by the time he brings Nobara Kugisaki to the door, Sukuna will probably have killed almost all the people inside. By then, once the barrier is opened, Gojo Satoru and Onikage will not be able to solve the problem.
He had finally come up with an ingenious way to push the script forward. This was the first major event he envisioned involving the main trio. Gojo Satoru and the Space-Time Maintainer were trapped outside and unable to intervene. Everything was so perfect. But why... why did it develop like this?
Could anyone tell him where Fushiguro Megumi got all these modern firearms and cursed tools, and how he mastered them? What happened during his ten years of dormancy?
No, no, no... This is not the most important thing now. The most important thing is that he has to keep the barrier open to prevent the two killing gods outside from disrupting his script, and then find a way to let Megumi Fushiguro survive the pursuit of the angry special-grade cursed spirits until Yuji Itadori rushes back... What the hell?
Fushiguro Megumi can also shoot headshots???
When did he learn it? Who taught him?
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