Chapter 126: Bad Brother and Good Brother
Yuji Itadori subconsciously turned his head following Ryomen Sukuna's guidance and looked at the black-haired figure standing beside him.
The moment he saw Jiang Lai's face, Yuji Itadori was startled at first, then he turned to Ryomen Sukuna again, raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Hey, what are you doing again? I don't have the interest to play with you, I have training tomorrow."
Obviously, Yuji Itadori regarded the black-haired figure as another trick of Ryomen Sukuna and did not take it as real.
"Unruly little brat." Ryomen Sukuna snorted coldly, and with a slash of his finger blade he cut through the air, directly cutting the cherry-pink-haired boy in half!
The human body was split in half, blood spurted out, and a bloody scene that was more than 20% forbidden was played out on the spot. Then, the corpse of the cherry-pink-haired boy disappeared, and a complete Itadori Yuji appeared again on the scene.
——Ryomen Sukuna killed the opponent in the field and resurrected him.
Yuji Itadori reappeared and fell down in the blood, then quickly jumped up. He didn't show any fear on his face, and still had the same determined and angry look as before, and shouted at Ryoumen Sukuna: "You bastard——"
His unfinished words were interrupted. Ryomen Sukuna seemed to have lost his patience. He teleported next to Yuji Itadori and kicked him towards the black-haired young man!
After being kicked hard, Yuji Itadori staggered forward a few steps. With his good motor nerves, he tried his best to stabilize his body, but he still inevitably fell forward -
Jiang Lai stretched out his hand lightly and held the cherry-pink-haired boy who was rushing towards him.
"Thank you..." The polite Itadori Yuji thanked him subconsciously, and then realized that what he was touching was not an illusion, but a real existence, "Wait?!"
The moment Yuji Itadori used the force to stand firmly, Jiang Lai let go of the hand that was supporting him. He stood silently and looked at Yuji Itadori who had a surprised expression on his face.
Ryomen Sukuna, who was hugging his chest with his arms behind his back, narrowed his eyes slightly and his eyes moved on Jiang Lai's hand for a moment.
Jiang Lai knew what he was looking at - when he was holding Yuji Itadori just now, he did not perform the space ritual.
But he knew that this was the reasonable thing to do, and it could correspond to the first time he supported Yuji Itadori on that winter night.
The character I am currently playing has confused memory but still has some intuitive consciousness, so I pay special attention to Yuji Itadori and others.
Ryoumen Sukuna was probably using Itadori Yuji to test him, to see if he would behave in an illogical way, and then infer his true state. Jiang Lai knew this very well.
"It's you—" Yuji Itadori took two steps back. When he came to his senses, his eyes widened like an underage tiger. "Why are you here?!"
Yuji Itadori has complicated feelings towards the person in front of him. His sixth sense tells him that the black-haired young man is not a bad person, and he even has an inexplicable natural sense of closeness towards him.
However, the other party's current status as a special cursed spirit made it difficult for him to completely let down his guard. Moreover, the other party seemed to have some relationship with Ryomen Sukuna...
By the way, after the incident at Urasakura Junior High School ended, Nanami Kento told me that the black-haired young man looked very similar to Gojo's former friend. Are they the same person?
In a brief moment, Jiang Lai saw a variety of expressions passing through Yuji Itadori's face.
Jiang Lai chuckled and responded to Yuzhang's previous question: "I don't know why I'm here. But I know I won't stay here for long."
"Get out as soon as possible." Ryomen Sukuna added this lazily, his scarlet eyes filled with impatience, and his kimono swayed slightly with the movement of his furisode.
Yuji Itadori glanced at Ryomen Sukuna, then looked back at Jiang Lai. He opened his mouth, his golden orange eyes fixed on Jiang Lai, and after hesitating for two or three seconds, he finally spoke:
"Ah... I don't know why, but you seem a little familiar to me."
It seemed difficult to express the meaning simply by saying this, so Yuji Itadori scratched his head and added:
"I don't mean the familiarity brought by these encounters, but... In fact, as early as that winter night when I was chasing the Curse Spirit Swallowing Noon, I had a little bit of an obvious feeling."
"—Have we met earlier?"
Yuji Itadori is an intuitive person and he expresses his doubts directly.
Of course I have seen it before, Jiang Lai thought. In the vast scene of falling stars and burning brilliance thousands of years ago, they met and parted.
However, these words cannot be said at this moment, and Jiang Lai does not intend to say anything more before Yuji Itadori remembers.
The other party is a very responsible person. If he knew the specific details of a thousand years ago, he might blame himself for the casualties - even though it was not his original intention, but he was manipulated by Brain Flower.
So, Jiang Lai lowered his eyes, raised them again, and said calmly: "I don't know." He said, "It's just that there is indeed some familiarity - you and Sukuna give me the same feeling."
"Eh?" Yuji Itadori was stunned at first, then nodded and said, "Oh, after all, I am now the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna, so maybe our auras are mixed."
Ryomen Sukuna on Ox Bone Mountain laughed silently with contempt. He supported his head with one hand, as if he was watching an interesting show.
Then, Yuji Itadori said again: "By the way, you--" He wanted to ask something, but paused, as if he didn't know how to organize his words.
The black-haired young man looked at him calmly, waiting for Yuji Itadori's next words.
After a while, Yuji Itadori finally said with a tangled voice: "You, have no memory of the past at all? I heard that you seem to be very similar to Gojo-sensei's past friend."
Jiang Lai tilted his head slightly and said calmly: "Six Eyes."
Such a title seems unfamiliar, and Six Eyes is more like a material representation rather than a personal reference.
Yuji Itadori looked at Jiang Lai without waiting for any further response from the black-haired young man in front of him.
He let out a sigh of relief, as if he had finally gotten over it. "Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask anything. I'm very sorry if this has caused any trouble."
The moment the words fell, a sharp curse blade passed through the air diagonally, and was bounced away by the air code with a "ding-dong" sound!
Jiang Lai and Yuji Itadori's gaze shifted to the side in an instant!
Ryoumen Sukuna on Niugu Mountain retracted his hand that was about to attack and said casually, "Enough of the chat. It's really noisy in my territory."
"Hey, it was you who dragged me in here!" Yuji Itadori turned towards Ryomen Sukuna and made a fist gesture.
"Don't be ungrateful, kid. I gave you a chance to chat, didn't I?"
Ryoumen Sukuna snorted and said with a hint of sarcasm, "But kid, as a sorcerer, you actually have to maintain such a friendly attitude towards a special-grade cursed spirit? It seems that your position is not that firm."
"..." Yuji Itadori hesitated for half a second and replied, "Not all cursed spirits are as evil as you."
"That's a nice compliment!" Ryoumen Sukuna laughed, obviously taking this as some kind of praise.
Then, his voice sank and he said viciously, "But how can you be sure that the special cursed spirit standing in front of you is innocent? You know, cursed spirits are a collection of negative emotions, and they naturally have an uncontrollable murderous intent towards humans."
Yuji Itadori could not question this point, because this was indeed where he was struggling and hesitant.
When he was studying at the Jujutsu High School, he knew that the murderous intent of cursed spirits towards humans was instinctive.
"You will kill your companions, kid." Ryoumen Sukuna said deliberately, "It's all your fault. You always want to protect others, but you always hurt them."
He crossed his legs, raised the corners of his lips, and swept his scarlet eyes towards Jiang Lai again, and then said: "The teacher of the cherry-pink-haired kid in front of you is a top-grade magician who has exorcised hundreds of top-grade cursed spirits with his own hands - maybe you will be no exception in the future. Cursed spirits and humans are opposites, don't you know?"
Jiang Lai remained calm, only lowering his eyes slightly.
His mind was working quickly, and he knew that Ryomen Sukuna had tested him enough, so he just barely believed that his memory was indeed confused, and then he started to add fuel to the fire as usual.
This conversation directly pointed out the conflicting identities, and the originally relatively relaxed atmosphere between Jiang Lai and Yuji Itadori seemed to become tense again in an instant.
A peaceful rest in the realm of life.
Then, the boy's clear voice echoed in the space.
Yuji Itadori's eyes were firm: "I will judge for myself what is right and wrong, who is right and who is wrong - there is no need for you, Sukuna, to interfere."
He turned to Jiang Lai, his expression more serious than before, with a certain warmth and sharpness coexisting in it:
"Although I don't know what happened to you, I will try my best to find a solution. Of course, don't try to hurt my companions, or I will attack you without hesitation!"
"I will not regard you as a trusted companion just because I am familiar with you, nor will I regard you as an enemy who must be exorcised just because of your identity."
Yuji Itadori clenched his fist and placed it on his chest. "I will feel and explore the facts."
The words were beautifully said, and the boy's youthful demeanor was even more eye-catching. Jiang Lai's warm brown eyes couldn't help but lightly smile.
But in the next moment, Yuji Itadori's figure suddenly disappeared and was suddenly swallowed by the blood under his feet!
Ryoumen Sukuna had a look of disgust on his face and waved his hands: "Annoying little brat, so boring." He directly kicked the other party out of his own domain.
Then, he jumped down from the Ox Bone Mountain again, with the blue and black bow suspenders flying behind him.
Ryoumen Sukuna raised his eyebrows and stared at Jiang Lai, and raised his voice: "Why don't you get out?"
"It's not time yet." Jiang Lai realized that Ryomen Sukuna couldn't kick out this outsider who accidentally entered like he kicked out Itadori Yuji.
He looked calm, and in his heart he was actually happy to see both Sukuna looking unhappy.
Jiang Lai still remembered that he was planning to explore and find fragments in Sukuna's territory, but he couldn't be too obvious. It would be better to do something casually and take a look around here.
So he quickly took out his mobile phone and glanced at the signal on it - it was unexpectedly perfect, but reasonable.
Jiang Lai: As expected of the real protagonist, the mobile phone, there is network and signal everywhere! .jpg
If I come back next time, I can watch a movie here in Sukuna. He had wild thoughts.
When Ryoumen Sukuna saw Jiang Lai taking out his cell phone, his eyebrows raised slightly.
As a thousand-year-old widower (bushi), Ryomen Sukuna was trapped in the body of Yuji Itadori as soon as he came to the modern era and had no direct contact with these electronic technologies.
Although he also saw the outside world through Yuji Itadori, Ryomen Sukuna still didn't know much about it. Seeing Jiang Lai take out his cell phone, he became slightly interested but also instinctively alerted.
Jiang Lai turned on his phone and said calmly, "Since I can't leave on my own initiative for the time being, and you can't kick me out, I'm free anyway, so I'll do something in the human world here."
"——Today's 10,000 steps of health punching should be done in your natural environment."