Chapter 86: Time and Space Spell I only wish to sleep forever in your shadow...
The closer we got to the top of the mountain, the more we felt the slightly ominous feeling in the air. This path that seemed to have been trampled by humans was almost at the end. If nothing unexpected happened, the first-level cursed spirit was here.
"Nue!" A big bird flew into the sky, and its flapping wings rolled up countless fallen leaves.
Not long after, Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki were the first to reach the top of the mountain.
Unless it was a tourist attraction, there would not be a flat ground on an ordinary hill, let alone a white stone brick-paved area as flat as a playground. This place seemed to be a half-developed scenic spot that had been abandoned. There was no trace of the cursed spirit, and not even a tree could be found. The two searched for clues in this area of dozens of square meters.
Megumi Fushiguro remained alert and soon found a strange place.
The black patterns connected together to form a circle of moderate size, just enough for a person to stand inside.
Fushiguro Megumi carefully picked up the rubble and tested it.
On the other side, Kugisaki Nobara was dismayed to see three second-year students also stepping onto the platform from another path, and she sighed at the loss of her leading advantage.
Especially after asking about the opponent's battle results, the desire to win burned in the heart of this iron-blooded female sorcerer!
"Senior Inujū, please come and take a look here." Fushiguro Megumi was not so eager to win. He guessed that the circle was drawn with some kind of spell, and perhaps the knowledgeable Inujū Sō could recognize it.
The young spellcaster came closer upon hearing this. The spell courses at the spellcasting academy were very simple. After all, students relied more on their own spells. If they did not have an absolute talent for spellcasting, it would be impossible to fight with them. Therefore, even the "good student" Fushiguro Megumi only knew the contents of the textbook.
Inujuan Ji was quite interested in this, but he didn't know much about it.
This pattern...
The boy frowned, his cute hairdo was messed up by the wind on the top of the mountain, and he thought of something not so good.
At this time, Panda came over and put his arm on Inumaki Satoru's shoulder, pointing to a few places and answering Fushiguro Megumi: "During the One Hundred Demons Night Parade, Wu asked me and the Satoru Society's high-level specialists to support Yuta. The things drawn on the ground seem to be a bit similar to this place."
Goujuan Ji nodded and showed the words typed quickly on his phone: When the Nine Square Array self-harmed and knocked itself unconscious, I saw a similar pattern flash by in his dormitory.
Zenin Maki: "Huh? Then why didn't we know?"
Gojuanji buried his face in his turtleneck.
Because the traces disappeared quickly, and he was busy taking the unconscious junior to the infirmary. After solving the trouble, the impression of this strangeness quickly disappeared, and he only recalled it now.
Panda's recollection was correct. Gojo Sensei had indeed used the patterns here. Then why would patterns related to time and space appear next to the Nine Square Array?
Jiang Jiu naturally didn't know that the signs of time and space retracing would be dug out from the depths of people's minds after several months. At that time, the external force, Hasebe and his men, turned history back to the right path, and accidentally traced the physical conditions of the three excluded identities back to a few days ago, causing the Nine Squares to have to review the psychological shadow of the battle again.
The taste is still vivid in his mind.
After the Nine Squares confirmed that Itadori Yuji was harmless, they didn't have much time to play the "crying eyes of emotion at seeing a dead companion come back to life" scene. He brushed away the hair blocking his eyes and found a tree that was not affected by the battle and sat down again.
Yuji Itadori originally wanted to go up the mountain to meet up with the others and see the "tears of joy" he imagined, but in the blink of an eye he saw a listless boy sitting alone under a tree.
...I always feel that Jiufang has lost its previous tit-for-tat aggressiveness, and has an indescribable feeling.
Well, how should I put it? Not fighting or quarreling is obviously a good thing, right? But this tired look of not wanting to care about others seems to be less pleasing to the eye than the previous irritable look...
"Kyuu-fang, are you hungry?" Yuji Itadori was squatting on a tree while the others were fighting the cursed spirits. Gojo-sensei also said that this was a good activity to accumulate combat experience. The pink-haired boy scratched his head, not knowing whether he should abandon the Kyuu-fang formation and go up the mountain to find Fushiguro and the others.
Finally, the cheerful boy decided to stay at the foot of the mountain and chat with him.
Basically, he was not embarrassed to speak alone, and when someone at the same time called him noisy, he would just pretend to be angry and pout in a nonchalant way. Because he could see that Jiu Fang Zhen just couldn't say nice things and was used to talking back.
Given Yuji Itadori's personality, after understanding this boy, he will not be angry, but will want to take better care of him.
What's more, this young man had fought hard with the Ryomen Sukuna in his body until he was exhausted, and he almost killed him because of his own mistake!
“……”I’m hungry.
Jiu Fangzhen even felt that his blood sugar was dropping and he felt so lazy that he didn't want to move or even talk.
"I'm hungry too!" Itadaki Yuji seemed to understand the meaning of the Nine Square Array without the other party saying anything: "There are no fruit trees nearby, and I can't see anything edible. I have to go deeper to find it."
He jumped down from the tree swiftly and told the Nine Squares Array, which was listless but still stubbornly using its magical power to drive away the mosquitoes, "I know there are people nearby. I'm going to see if I can buy some water and food. You wait here for me first!"
Actually, "very close" is not that close, but according to his own physical strength, it won't take too long to run back and forth. Jiufang's face is not very good. If he must fight later, it will be very bad to hold on, right?
Thinking of this, Yuji Itadori quickly slipped to the small village he had passed before to exchange some snacks, and then when he approached the Nine Square Formation, he watched helplessly as the young man with a belligerent look on his face was captured by Fushiguro Megumi's bird-shaped Shikigami!
Hisuhito Polygonum cuspidatum: "..."
"!"
The pink-haired boy chased after him and waved like a poor man who had been cheated of his money and sex and then abandoned by a scumbag: "Hey - you left me behind -! Take me with you -!"
The Nine Square Array was familiar with Fushiguro Megumi's cursed power and was taken to the sky by Nue without resistance. It took only a moment for them to sense the fierce battle below.
He didn't know that the other students in the first and second grades were about to beat this first-level cursed spirit to death! Nue didn't let him go, nor did he land on the battlefield. He used his hearing and a huge evil gray shadow in his vision to judge the battle situation below.
When the Curse Spirit fled in panic and approached his direction, the Nine Square Array just thought it was trying to "pick on the weak" and attack them, so they unceremoniously released the trick that had wiped out dozens of Time Travelers!
A black gas that was even more ominous than the curse power of the curse spirit spread from directly below him. The sorcerers who were attacking together below dodged it swiftly, leaving the mad insect-shaped curse spirit to step unconsciously into the corroded and rotten land of death!
Like a piece of chocolate melting in water, the areas covered by the Nine-Square Array's spell power gradually became empty. It was even more terrifying than being bitten and devoured by wild beasts!
Zenin Maki hefted the naginata onto her shoulder and said, "This guy has gotten stronger again!"
As far as she knew, there was no spell for the Nine Square Array, so was the effect to concentrate the cursed energy to the extreme until it became corrosive?
Lian Tianyu's cursed power only created a few meters of corroded ground. This attack should only be used on himself, right?
New moves...
The Nue cried out in the air, flew towards its master, loosened its claws, and put the captured human to the ground.
It was used to assisting the agile Fushiguro Megumi, so this height was nothing to him. But the Nine Square Array had never cooperated with it before, and was startled by its sudden acceleration. It held the bird's claws tightly during the dive and failed to let go in the first place.
So when he realized the intention of the shikigami and released his hand gesture, he had been lifted up to a certain height again!
...Jiu Fangzhen looked arrogant, and did not make any preparations for landing, as if he was dominated by adrenaline! ...Then he fell into the arms of Fushiguro Megumi who was running over.
Actually, although the posture of falling to the ground may be embarrassing, who is not a sorcerer? Even if you are not good at physical skills, at least you can handle the battle with the cursed spirits. Even if the height is a little higher, you will not be injured or disabled. What's more, the Nine Squares are conscious this time and have just experienced a battle. The whole body is protected by the cursed power, so it doesn't matter if you knock down a few walls!
The shikigami user's action without a moment's hesitation only showed how much he cared.
"Oh, really..." Someone couldn't stand this disgusting scene anymore and started muttering as soon as he left the battle.
Jiu Fangzhen used Fushiguro Megumi's arm to stand firm and said angrily: "Don't take your bird back, I want to beat it up!"
Shameful!
Megumi Fushiguro immediately let Nue return to the shadow.
At the same time, he talked about something else and took out the roasted mushrooms from the shadow to comfort the Nine Squares, who were still in the battle state and were full of excitement and fighting spirit: "The battle consumed a lot of energy. Eat something and rest, then we can go down the mountain."
Inugami Saki stared at the mushroom in Fushiguro Megumi's hand and blinked longingly.
The boy with the urchin-like hair who respected his senior received the fiery gaze and turned his face away silently.
The black-haired boy who smelled the aroma of the roasted food finally lost some of his fanatical desire for battle, and calmed down after a few minutes. After calming down, he even felt a little listless and yawned sleepily.
After drinking a bottle of throat medicine, Goujuan Ji went to memorize a circle of spells that concerned him. He couldn't take pictures with his cell phone, and drawing such unknown patterns on paper was also a hidden danger. He could only rely on his brain's memory to go back and write it down for Gojo Sensei.
The others were also taking a short break to replenish their energy after the battle, sitting casually on the ground. Fushiguro Megumi was the only one beside the Nine Square Array, but even though the top of the mountain was empty, everyone's voices could be heard clearly.
The panda fanned his nose with his palms, complaining that after so long, the remnant of the first-level cursed spirit had not dissipated? It made the air on the top of the mountain no longer fresh!
"Then you, the panda, might as well ask its corpse! After all, if it's you, you should be able to understand, right?"
"It's not special grade, how can we communicate?"
Megumi Fushiguro listened to the unreliable nonsense of her predecessors and felt powerless to complain.
The relaxed atmosphere soon came to an end.
The boy seemed to be reminded by some words and suddenly remembered something. His tone was unclear, but overall he said calmly: "Oh, by the way, Yuji Itadori may be climbing the mountain now. Do you want to wait?"
A group of young boys and girls who were chatting about everything suddenly fell silent.
Fushiguro Megumi lowered his head and silently took something out from the shadow, then realized he had taken the wrong thing, so he put it back and took it out several times before he got the right one...
It had been a long time since he first experienced this feeling of powerlessness on Jiufang. He felt as if he was floating on the sea, swinging his arms vigorously to cut through the waves, but he couldn't save the person who was gradually suffocating, the person he wanted to save no matter what.
——This is not the first time he has said something like he saw Yuji Itadori.
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