Chapter 100 Awakening
world of science.
During the lunch break, several colleagues from the Explosives Division of the Police Department who had a good relationship with each other made an appointment to have lunch at a nearby small restaurant.
"The Thousand Years of the Curse series has concluded. The last few episodes are so exciting." A colleague with a buzz cut chatted and said with emotion, "I was busy recently and didn't have time to watch it. I finished it in one go yesterday."
Then he said, "I remember that Matsuda and Hagiwara were particularly following this manga. Do you follow it every time? The endings of recent manga seem to be very confusing."
Matsuda Jinpei silently raised his face, with a layer of light dark circles under his eyes.
Colleague with a crew cut: "...It seems like you're always chasing updates and can't sleep at night."
Matsuda Jinpei exhaled, then picked up a large piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing it hard and swallowing it, he said muffledly:
"I hate every comic strip artist equally."
Hagihara Kenji placed the glasses of lemonade in front of each person and continued:
"How should I put it? My recent experience of following the latest episodes is like wanting to drink a glass of soda water in the middle of summer, but I'm also worried that after drinking it, I'll die right where I am."
"Ah?" The colleague with the buzz cut was confused, "Died on the spot?"
"That is to say, I am both looking forward to the sequel and afraid of it~" Hagiwara Kenji lowered his eyes, smiled, and replied with a sigh.
"The situation inside looks dangerous. Although I know that I am just making up for the past, who knows if the plot will suddenly take a sharp turn and make important characters... well, forget it, I'd better not say anything unlucky."
"Anyway, now that I've seen the end of this chapter, I can finally feel relieved." Matsuda Jinpei recalled, "Rai's sleeping place is very safe, but I don't know if it would be bad for the body to sleep in the same position for a long time - oh, but maybe that's not scientific."
"Isn't that character Lai designed to be a demigod? He should be fine." The police colleague with a buzz cut half-jokingly said, "Come to think of it, it feels like you guys are really following the comics, almost like you're caring about real friends."
"Ahem, after all, only by truly putting yourself in their shoes can you better analyze the plot and guess what will happen next."
Apart from the initial cough caused by being scorned, Jinpei Matsuda remained expressionless and spoke seriously and naturally.
——The fact that the real friends traveled to the cursed world was a secret, and those who knew about it had already agreed not to reveal it to avoid unnecessary trouble.
"Aren't there also dream boys and girls who fall in love with characters on the Internet? To extend the analogy, we are dream friends. It's like thinking of being friends with the characters in the comics."
Kenji Hagiwara added the second half of the sentence with a smile, making all the concerns more reasonable.
"Oh, is that so? I don't know much about this." The colleague with a crew cut took a sip of the lemonade on the table. "But if you describe it this way, I seem to have seen a dream brother on the Internet before - the kind who fantasizes that he is the younger brother of a comic character."
"And that netizen seems to be very rich. You can tell just by looking at the surroundings he has displayed."
A colleague with a buzz cut said with emotion: "In addition, he is very combative - of course, he does not use vulgar language or talk nonsense. His words and sentences are polite and logical, and he will express his... well, dream brother's speech very rationally and calmly."
Jinpei Matsuda & Kenji Hagiwara: "..." It sounds familiar.
"I also follow him because he often sends his own analysis of comics and various consultations on his own purchases - maybe you will be interested too."
The colleague with a crew cut said this as he turned on his phone, then turned the screen around and showed it to the two people in front of him:
"Look, this is the one [Click me to view the 300 rules of the Good Brother's Handbook]——"
The avatar below the long string of nicknames is a cool green-eyed, silver-haired cat with colorful Q-version chemical reagent bottles next to it.
Matsuda Jinpei & Hagiwara Kenji: ...It's you, Xiao Zhao, who loves brothers!!
——
On the other side, the world of spells.
Jiang Lai gradually regained consciousness and felt the light of the sunlight flickering across his eyelids.
His eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he slowly opened his eyes, adjusting to the morning sunlight that filled the room.
There is a sheep wallpaper on the wall of the room, and next to the cute brown alarm clock on the bedside table is a mobile phone in a plastic case.
Jiang Lai took a moment to react before finally coming to his senses.
In a dream, he went back a thousand years. After wandering for a long time, he returned to the room where he fell asleep a thousand years later.
At this moment, he is using his mobile phone to switch forms, wearing a sheep vest as a first-year junior high school student, and living in the home of his temporary guardian, Nanami Kento.
They had just solved the problem of Sakura Middle School inexplicably attracting cursed spirits not long ago, and they also met the real person.
The incident ended with the light green fragment of the divine power being accidentally taken away by Ryomen Sukuna who appeared in the palm of Yuji Itadori.
Yuji Itadori... another good brother in the conceptual sense that I haven't seen for a thousand years. Now he is right next to my room.
I'd like to see you.
Jiang Lai rubbed his cheeks, got up, tidied the house briefly, walked out of the room to wash up first to make himself more awake.
He seemed to wake up early, and the doors of Nanami Kento and Itadori Yuji's rooms were still closed.
Jiang Lai washed himself quietly, brushed his teeth and washed his face quickly, then quietly returned to his room.
It's just right, I can take this time to read some comics and read forums. Jiang Lai thought, and picked up the phone on the bedside table.
Looking at the situation from a bird's eye view, the comics should reveal more information.
He opened the official website of the new series and found that all the contents of the chapter [Thousands of Years] had been updated.
Jiang Lai turned the pages back from where he last saw them. He flipped through the parts he personally experienced faster, only looking briefly to see if there were any key points he had missed, and focused most of his attention on the latter parts.
From the comics, he learned Shuji's real name - Fushiguro Megumi. He also understood why he appeared in the deep forest near the Gojo Family Shrine in the "Yesterday and the Past" chapter.
One's own timeline is present → yesterday and the past → thousands of years, while other people's timelines are thousands of years → yesterday and the past → present.
The two different timelines merged together perfectly, forming an unexplainable Möbius strip.
The past and the future are closely intertwined.
As expected, this is a reincarnation story that is closely tied to the word "return". Jiang Lai sighed silently in his heart.
He ran his fingertips across the characters on the screen, as if he could transcend time and interact with them again, making up for the loss.
Now that the story from a thousand years ago has been completed, they will eventually remember it one day, Jiang Lai thought.
Then he continued to turn the pages.
The perspective of the comic changes later in the story, from Gojo and his friends to other characters.
The girl in a lotus pink kimono who happened to be wandering in the outskirts of Heian-kyō opened her beautiful peach blossom eyes wide.
In the vast and beautiful meteor shower, there was no joy of appreciation on my face, only astonishment and shock.
He seemed to be able to sense what was truly burning behind such a miracle in the world.
"[Time and Space]..." He murmured, and subconsciously reached out his hand, but then realized that it was a futile action.
It was actually too late to rush over now, but He pursed His lips, quickened His pace, and flew all the way to Heiankyo.
The battle to defeat the King of Curses is underway in Heian-kyō Castle, and almost all sorcerers have gathered at Ryomen Sukuna's side.
[Birth] Avoiding the crowd, he rushed directly to the now deserted temple. The sleeves of his lotus-pink kimono fluttered, and a few young leaves swirled and fell at his feet.
In this lush forest, [Death] had a blank and dazed look on his face. He took two or three steps forward and placed his palms lightly on the tree nearest to him.
"..." He said nothing and raised his face slightly.
The moonlight flowed in his beautiful peach blossom eyes, like rippling water ripples.
But in the end, He did not let the rippling moonlight in His eyes flow out.
But when he turned around and left, he left behind an iris the color of a tear.
"..." Jiang Lai felt a little complicated when he saw this. He didn't know that his elder sister (elder brother) happened to be nearby.
——I wish I had said goodbye to each other sincerely last time we separated.
He exhaled and continued looking back.
Then the screen turned and the scene changed.
In the comic, the Nativity with a princess-cut hairstyle stands in the center, with a huge black and white ink painting of irises hanging behind it.
Next to him stood a man in simple clothes.
The black-haired man with an ordinary face last appeared when he was doing a deal with Ryomen Sukuna - it was a noose (brain flower) from a thousand years ago!
Jiang Lai stared at the brain flower in the comic, and his fingers tightened slightly. I don't know how the two of them came into contact.
"We believe in you. You are the darlings of nature and the embodiment of heaven. We, your loyal servants, will give you everything we have," Noose said with a respectful attitude, half leaning forward. "As long as we find the lost [time and space] power condensate and worship it, we can speed up recovery with the power of faith."
[Incarnation] had a very cold expression. He did not say much, and did not refute or confirm the "lost [time and space] power condensate" in the words of the noose.
Jiang Lai thought to himself: Since his elder sister (eldest brother) has been to the scene, he might know that he is sleeping in the forest created by [Source], and is not actually lost in the vast world.
But for safety reasons, He probably won't tell anyone else this.
Therefore, according to his own understanding, Noose still believes that after too much [time and space] power was consumed, the remaining part condensed into objects and was lost somewhere in the human world.
In the comic, [Nansheng] looks straight ahead and says, "Although I never understand... but I will always respect his choice. Since my brother likes humans in the world, I will take care of humans for him during his absence."
Nosuo raised his eyes, waiting for the next words from the Jifa-style figure in front of him.
"Apart from human political struggles, create a simple organization." He said calmly, "It does not need to be in the open, just hide in the dark. Use the iris as a totem, and punish evil and promote good according to the judgment of the world. I will use my power to provide partial assistance."
"Then, when he comes back—I'll give this back to him."
[The Birth] lowered his eyes, his long and dense eyelashes like a small fan, and he blinked gently: "By participating in the world in this way, he won't have to do everything himself... maybe he won't be hurt so badly again."
"I understand." Nosuo had a perfect smile on his face, and he saluted with perfection. "We will carry out your instructions devoutly. I am willing to make a promise to abide by [let the iris become the symbol of the organization and do good deeds in the world according to the rules]."
Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes. From the perspective of the future, he keenly noticed the loophole in this restraint: the noose only said that it would do good things, but did not say that it would not do evil things.
[Birth], who had almost no contact with humans, did not seem to think much about this.
He relaxed his expression slightly, turned around, his eyes flickered, and he opened his thin lips slightly before speaking:
"As for the transformation of the power of faith you mentioned - this is not something that can be done simply by talking about it. How do you practice this?"
"If it were me, I really wouldn't be able to transform faith into power that suits you." Xu Suo admitted it straightforwardly, but he quickly changed the subject, "But, of course, this is not an exaggeration."
He turned halfway and gestured backwards. Another figure walked slowly in from outside the door.
The man in Gojo family clothing had his long hair tied low behind his head. When he came to a short distance in front of him, he stopped and saluted, then raised his head, revealing his narrow, light blue eyes.
At the same time, the second half of Noseso's words came out: "His technique is [Transformation]."
The comic ends here.
Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes as he browsed his phone. A variety of thoughts were swirling in his mind, and two points stood out clearly:
① As expected, the Gojo family has close ties with the regulatory agency, and the technique called [Conversion] is very important.
② Judging from the words of [birth], this is the organization left to me by my eldest sister (eldest brother), so I should be the true successor of the Iris Organization.