Chapter 42
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After dinner, Tadano Shiori and Otsutsuki Yuuta arrived at the High Commissioner's meeting room together. Seeing that everyone was almost there, Yuuta took the lead in reporting today's mission to Gojo Satoru.
"I see," Gojo Satoru said, tapping his fingertips on the table. "So, Yuta and the others not only recovered one of Sukuna's fingers, but also exorcised numbers two and three from the Nine Phases Diagram. Ha—are these guys really that eager to know just how far Sukuna can go now? They're testing him again and again."
Ye Moth said: "It can be considered as a disguised return of the property to its original owner. After all, during the last exchange meeting, a Sukuna finger was stolen. Now that it can be recovered in this way, it is not a bad thing." After saying that, he looked at Mingming and silently signaled her to report with his eyes.
Mingming: "I've already interrogated the curse masters who invaded the Polytechnic Institute. They said they were contacted by a monk with a white bob haircut, but I've searched the list of current magicians and can't find anyone like him. The curse masters can't explain his identity either."
"What about Mechanical Maru?" Gojo Satoru asked.
Mingming shook his head: "I asked Mechanical Pill, he has no idea."
Yuta Otsutsukota frowned when he heard this: "So the clue is broken now?"
"Not really." Mingming curled the corners of his lips and changed the subject, "Later, when I was investigating this group of captured curse masters, I discovered something interesting. This group of people should have been arrested by the former Curse Masters Association long ago, but someone was secretly manipulating and releasing them all."
After saying that, her eyes fell on Shiori.
Shizhi didn't understand what was going on, and was a little bewildered by her sudden look: "Mingming-senpai, what does this have to do with me?"
"Of course it's related." Mingming chuckled and reminded, "Have you forgotten? We once carried out a mission together to capture the curse master who could eliminate the remnants of cursed power."
"I understand!" Shiori reacted instantly. "No wonder the curse caster at Romance Academy never left any traces of cursed energy after committing crimes. It turns out that the curse caster who could remove the remaining cursed energy was released and is now working with the curse caster hidden at Romance Academy."
"Bingo." Mingming raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"What a bunch of awful old men," Gojo Satoru scoffed. He leaned back in his chair and casually draped his long legs over the conference table. He then turned to look at Ye Mo Zhengdao and said, "Principal, just kill them all. What kind of nonsense are these people thinking about all day? I really don't understand."
Yaga Masamichi didn't respond. After a moment's silence, he turned his gaze to Yuta Otsutsukota and asked another question: "How is the situation with that special-grade cursed spirit called Masato?"
Yuta scratched his face a little embarrassedly: "I think I was a little too strong at that time. I'm afraid he will need some time to recover."
"Not bad, Yuta!" Gojo Satoru stood up from his chair and slapped Yuta Otsutsuki on the shoulder, his tone full of praise.
Ye Mo Zhengdao nodded and said solemnly, "Let's hold off for now. The current Jujutsu Directors' Council is no longer the one-man show they once were. Their power is limited, and they can't cause any major disturbances." He paused, scanning the crowd, and added, "Once we've dealt with the matter with Mechamaru, we'll slowly settle accounts with them."
Shiori nodded and looked at Mingming who was sitting opposite her and asked, "Senior Mingming, can you give me some information about the curse master group we captured before?"
Mingming said slowly: "My information is never free, as long as the payment is in place."
Gojo Satoru's voice immediately interrupted, and he waved his phone: "I've already transferred the money, can you check it?"
Mingming looked down at the text message on her phone. After confirming that the money had arrived, she took out a document from her bag and handed it to Shiori.
Shiori stared at the information in her hand for a moment, "...Mingming-senpai, you actually carried it with you all this time?"
Mingming: "Because I know someone will pay for this information."
162.
After Shiori got the information from Mingming, she immediately contacted Takuma Ino and made an appointment to capture the target together on the weekend.
To quickly locate her target, she first summoned a searching staff, then donned a bamboo dragonfly and took off from the air with Ino Takuma. They quickly located the curse caster who could remove the remaining cursed energy. Following this clue, they successfully tracked down the curse caster who had posted on the forum.
When they first found the curse master, Ino Takuma looked him up and down, muttering, "What Gojo-san said before wasn't quite right. This guy looks so much older than Nanami-san, and yet he managed to sneak into a high school as a student."
Shiori held the curser, who had just tried to escape, tightly with her short knife, and retorted with a frown, "It's obvious that this person is not a student."
The curse master froze in place, not daring to move. The edge of the dagger was against his throat. If Shiori behind him exerted even a little force, he would die on the spot.
He explained with a trembling voice: "I, I'm not a student. I just used the excuse of business to sneak into the school and post messages..."
"Anyway, no matter what, the mission was finally completed successfully!" Ino Takuma stretched and breathed a sigh of relief.
So after school on Monday, Ino Takuma cleared his throat at the podium and said loudly, "Due to family reasons, I'm transferring to another school. Thank you all for your help during this time. I will remember you all!"
Shiori rested her chin on one hand, watching him quietly from her seat. Masayuki Hori, standing in front of her, turned to her with a puzzled look and asked, "If I remember correctly, Ino-san only came to class for one day, right?"
"You idiot." Shiori glanced at the person who was still giving a passionate speech on the podium, then stood up and walked to the classroom door. She turned around and called to Hori Masayuki, "Let's go. We're going to the club activities."
As for why she didn't join the passionate speeches on stage, the answer was simple: she had no intention of dropping out.
After all, she had just accepted Hori Masayuki's invitation to join the drama club, and she wanted to play for a few more days before leaving Romance Academy.
Of course, her main job is still a high school teacher, so her attendance rate at Romance Academy cannot be guaranteed. She can only come and play when she is free.
163.
After the club activities ended, Shiori saw Gojo Satoru at the school gate, who had promised to pick her up after school, and immediately walked towards him quickly.
When she got closer, she found Gojo Satoru staring at his phone with a bad look on his face. Shiori leaned over curiously to see what he was looking at - wasn't this the forum in the Spellcaster Safety Committee app?
"Has anyone read the updated 'Blessing Return' volume 0 on 'JUMP'?"
OP: Even though only a few chapters have been updated, I'm already hooked! The brother-sister duo of Puppy Special and Reliable Senior are just too good to be true. Who understands?
1L: After reading it, to be honest, I feel that it would be more appropriate to change the name of this comic to "Special Class Kaisen".
2L: I agree with the above. It seems to have nothing to do with us little people.
3L: But after reading the comics, I suddenly understood how hard Gojo-san worked... I got angry with Gojo-san because of the mission before, and now I feel really sorry.
4L, 5L...: 3L+1
OP: Off topic, who understands the couple I'm into? ? ? They're really good.
Gojo Satoru: You can just go to bed. They are clearly like mother and son.
OP: Holy crap, it's Gojo Satoru himself! Luckily I'm anonymous...
Shizhi looked at his reply, speechless: "Like mother and son?"
Gojo Satoru looked at her gloomily: "It's because so many people on the Internet are shipping you and Yuta as a couple."
"There's nothing I can do about it. The current updates to the comics don't reflect any of our relationship at all." Shiori spread her hands helplessly.
"I'm so angry." Gojo Satoru clicked his tongue.
Shiori pulled him straight to the boutique not far from the school gate, pointed at the blind boxes on the shelf, and said excitedly: "Help me pick one quickly! I want to open your doll!"
On the shelves are the newly released Tuo Tuo blind boxes of "Blessing Returns", and their round shape looks particularly cute.
Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow and asked in amusement, "I'm already right next to you, and you still want to take my doll?"
"It's different~completely different." Shiori waved her hand.
"Why not just buy them all?" Gojo Satoru pointed at the entire box. "The rest can be distributed among the students."
Shiori touched her chin and thought for a while: "You're right!" Then she happily picked up the whole box and went to pay.
When she came back, Shiori saw Gojo Satoru busy on his phone again. She leaned over to take a look and asked in surprise, "Why did you even change your Instagram name?"
Gojo Satoru’s Instagram account was originally called GOJO. He usually only posted photos of himself checking in at dessert shops and never showed his face.
Now, not only has he changed his profile picture to a collage of his and Shiori's comic characters, he has also changed his name to the abbreviation of their comic names. He even personally took part in the comment section to analyze the plot sweetness between him and Shiori one by one.
To protect the privacy of real-life magicians, the names of the characters in the manga have been changed. Gojo Satoru was changed to Gojo Smoky. When Shiori first saw the update, she hugged her pillow and laughed for a full five minutes. Luckily, her name was just missing a character, becoming a poem.
Gojo Satoru put away his phone and said confidently, "We're the official couple! These people are completely obsessed with the wrong couple. Of course I have to help them find the right path."
Shiori smiled and leaned over, kissing him on the side of his face: "Okay, okay, let's open the blind box first."
She casually picked up the first blind box and just as she opened the package, Gojo Satoru came over and asked expectantly, "Is it me? Is it me?"
Shiori took the lump out, handed it to him with her eyes closed, and asked, "Is this Satoru?"
Gojo Satoru took a closer look, his tone immediately collapsing, and he said aggrievedly: "...It's Yuta! I'm going to make a scene!"
In order to comfort the big cat with a bad temper, Shiori opened all the remaining blind boxes. Finally, when she opened the last one, she got a box of five cigarettes.
She even deliberately wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead and handed the toy to him like a treasure: "Look! It's the super cute Wu!"
Gojo Satoru poked the round, chubby Gojo Smoky Tuo Tuo in front of him, who had a bandaged eye and said unconvincedly, "How can it be as cute as me?"
"Excuse me..." At this time, a brown-haired girl timidly walked up to the two of them and asked Shiori, "Can I trade with you? This one in my hand is also a five-pack, and I want to exchange it for Nekotsu Yuji's."
Shiori nodded and handed over the cat cane Yuujin that she had just unpacked: "Sure, I'll trade with you."
The girl thanked her gratefully and left quickly with the Tuotuo she had received in exchange.
Shiori held the newly acquired Gojo cigarette in her hand and walked towards Gojo Satoru with a smile: "Look! I now have two super cute Gojos~"
Gojo Satoru reached out and held her in his arms, nuzzling her, and corrected her: "It should be three~"
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