Chapter 184 t5: What to eat tonight...

The breeze brushed across his cheeks, and spots of light shining through the layers of overlapping leaves swayed on his eyelashes. Lying on his back on the ground, Gojo Satoru slowly opened his eyes, and his clear blue eyes reflected everything in front of him.

All his memories came flooding back like a tide. Never before had Gojo Satoru remembered the past so clearly.

Too much information poured in all at once, and even Gojo Satoru couldn't help but pause for a moment - but only for a moment.

He quickly took in all the past memories that had come to his mind, and his racing heartbeat returned to calm.

Then, Gojo Satoru noticed the person in the navy blue kimono sitting next to him leaning against the tree.

The other person seemed to have woken up a long time ago. He held a book in one hand and placed it on the side of his cheek. He looked at himself with a smile in his brown eyes and lowered his eyelids.

“……” Gojo Satoru looked into those warm eyes, and the corners of his lips involuntarily lifted slightly.

The effect of the Forked Tower is that people trapped in it do not need to eat or drink, and they only need sunlight and rain like plants.

This additional effect is to prevent people from triggering their self-protection mechanisms and escaping from the illusion when they reach their physiological limits.

So at this moment, Gojo Satoru did not feel any physical discomfort at all, and was still the same as when he first arrived.

The gentle breeze swayed the flowers in the grass, and Gojo Satoru felt calm and peaceful.

There is nothing more joyful than waking up to find that there is still hope in the world, the tragedy is over, and friends are still by your side.

The next second, he saw the other person raise his hand holding the book, and a shadow suddenly covered the air.

Gojo Satoru: “?!”

Before he could react, the flat book fell on his face with a "bang"!

Jiang Lai: "Are you awake?"

Gojo Satoru: “It hurts, it hurts—!”

He lifted up the book covering his face with one hand, revealing a clearly exaggerated big cat's aggrieved expression, and deliberately said in a long tone, "That's too much, Lai, we haven't seen each other for a long time. How could you be so cruel as soon as we met, and you used this thing that can break the limit again!"

"...I didn't use any force at all." Jiang Lai's eyes were half-mooned, complaining about Gojo Satoru's exaggerated performance, "This level of light tapping won't even leave a mark."

Gojo Satoru lay on the ground with his hands behind his head and his long legs stretched out: "Ah - how could the face of the super-invincible handsome and hot teacher be injured? Even a small scratch would be a huge loss to the entire world of curse arts."

He joked to his friend, his tone light, "No matter how you think about it, it must be Lai's fault~"

Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows slightly, reached out and picked up his old book, and answered casually:

"I can't help it. Who made me so 'familiar' and 'delusional' and always like to tell those boring stories that no one believes. It's really all my fault."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

Gojo Satoru sat up swiftly from the ground, picked up the black eye mask that had fallen to the side, and said seriously:

"What time is it now? Oh, we should look for the tower itself - and what are we going to eat tonight."

Jiang Lai: As expected, he is the best, bringing up three diversion topics in a row! .jpg

He raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Are you not going to talk about what happened just now? How can the face of the super handsome and spicy teacher be injured?"

"Lai didn't use any force at all, so I won't get hurt. A tap of this degree won't even leave a mark. I know Lai didn't use any force, and he just did it to wake me up."

Gojo Satoru waved his hands and said in a very natural tone, "——So what are we having for dinner tonight?"

Jiang Lai: "Tonight we're going to have matcha glutinous rice balls that can only be bought across the entire city. I'll go buy them by myself in the early morning and take care of the fingers that might be left there. Then you wait here."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

Gojo Satoru: "Hahaha, you just love to joke around. If you want to eat it, I will definitely buy it. If you take the aerial route, you can buy it very quickly by teleporting. It is absolutely guaranteed to be fresh."

Jiang Lai lowered his head and flipped through the pages of the book without answering.

Gojo Satoru paused for a moment, raised his head to the sky, and changed his tone: "Hey, it's all the fault of this broken tower. It actually blocked my memory of you. We will tear down this broken tower later, and tear it down completely."

"Don't worry, forgetting about your friends or anything like that will never happen in the real world. After all, you still owe me 1.8 billion~"

Jiang Lai was about to complain after hearing the last sentence when he heard the next sentence from the other party.

"But - well, those words are still... sorry."

The last whisper slipped out from between his lips, and the white-haired man looked at Jiang Lai with his glass-like eyes, his clear and sincere eyes.

It was rare to hear Gojo Satoru answer like this. Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said:

"I'm not going to enter the fantasy world again, am I? Really, I can actually hear you say this, it's a bit like magical realism."

"Huh? What? What kind of image do you have of me in your mind?"

"I was just kidding." Jiang Lai curled his lips, then said calmly, "I was indeed a little sad when I heard those words, but I understand, so there's no need to apologize. I know that was not your intention."

"I just mentioned these things just now, just to... well, tease you or something." Jiang Lai covered his lips with the book to hide the smile, "I won't really care about these details."

"It really is a thousand-year-old monster with a bad taste."

Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows in response. His brown eyes were warm, he put down the book and said slowly:

"Anyway—welcome back, Satoru."

Gojo Satoru's expression was bright, and his profile looked even more delicate under the light and shadow. He curled his lips and said, "After all, we are in the same boat."

The island wind, carrying the salty and humid smell of the sea, blows across the lawn full of colorful wildflowers. True friendship needs no words, it can be conveyed from the heart.

The white-haired man looked forward and returned to the previous topic: "I do have one of Ryomen Sukuna's fingers left here."

"Really?" Jiang Lai was not surprised.

After all, the Tower of Crossroads was constructed based on Gojo Satoru's memories. As early as when he received Satoru's finger from that virtual world, he guessed that Gojo Satoru in reality also had similar operations.

"After all, depriving young people of their youth is an act that is against the will of heaven." Gojo Satoru shook his black eye mask in his hand, "So I simply hid a finger and delayed Hisahito's execution indefinitely."

"It just so happens that I also have a finger of Ryomen Sukuna here." Jiang Lai nodded, "In this case, even if Sukuna finds a physical body and uses part of the physical body to make up for one finger, it still can't match the strength level of 20 fingers."

In the original novel, Ryomen Sukuna absorbed 19 fingers and devoured the head of his former body to make up for the power of the last finger.

In this regard, Jiang Lai didn't know whether he should be grateful that Naohua could find Sukuna's uncorrupted body from thousands of years ago, or complain that Ryomen Sukuna actually ate his former head.

Now in this new series, Gojo Satoru hid a finger of Ryomen Sukuna, and Jiang Lai put a finger in Kyubey's backpack, leaving two fingers empty.

But correspondingly, Ryoumen Sukuna also has a light green [Source] fragment of the divine nature in his hand.

They will most likely do a barter transaction in the future, Jiang Lai thought.

"By the way, the first-year students and I got a cursed tool for separating things from the Zenin family." Jiang Lai added, "When the time is right, we can separate Yuji and Sukuna."

"Separated cursed tools? That sounds good." Gojo Satoru agreed. "Once things are almost done, we'll kick that guy Sukuna from Yuujin's body."

Taking Ryomen Sukuna out of the container and releasing it into the world is something that most people would never dare to think about.

Especially those high-level sorcerers, they fear the return of the King of Curses the most, so they always urge the execution to be carried out.

However, the strongest Rokugan doesn't care about these, and he is not worried about the appearance of Ryomen Sukuna.

——In fact, he had already prepared for a battle with Sukuna from the very beginning, so it was reflected in the Tower of Crossroads.

Both of them are top-notch players, so it is hard to say who will win or lose.

But Gojo Satoru now knows that he is not alone, he has friends who can accompany him.

Therefore, even if the day of the battle really comes, he has complete confidence that he can win in the end.

"Come to think of it, about the information you sent me via email earlier," Gojo Satoru suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked, "the part about [existence]... is it true or false?"

He raised his eyebrows slightly, with a curious look on his face, "I've never heard you mention it before. I always thought it was incredible."

"It was just that the time was not right before." Jiang Lai couldn't explain the Möbius ring that went against perfection, so he once again used a nonchalant attitude and used the Riddler's reply to evade the issue, "I can't say too much."

Fortunately, Gojo Satoru didn't want to delve into it. His focus was on something else: "So that guy - that Ryoumen Sukuna guy, is he really your brother? Your biological brother?"

"We are not biological children, and there is no blood relationship. We are just brothers in a conceptual sense." Jiang Lai coughed, "Besides him, there is also Yuji. Compared to Sukuna's stinky brother, I still like Yuji more."

"I never thought that Sukuna is such a bad brother." Gojo Satoru nodded with a smile, and put one hand on Jiang Lai's shoulder, "So he will listen to you, a good brother?"

"...Do you think it's possible?" Jiang Lai shook the book helplessly, "That guy is still thinking about eating me - literally, cooking ingredients."

At this point, Jiang Lai paused for a moment and then said, "However, a thousand years ago, I was able to maintain my human form thanks to the damaged godhead he dug out."

"Even though, in essence, he didn't do it to save me, but for his own hellish purpose."

"The Sukuna family is not trustworthy." Gojo Satoru frowned and said, "Be careful about his dealings."

"I know." Jiang Lai nodded and replied calmly, "He is not suitable to be a person to fight side by side, but under special circumstances, it is still feasible to form a united front against the enemy."

"The Regulator is a very troublesome enemy. To face it, we can try our best to rally our forces to our side."

"It sounds like it's a real hassle..." Gojo Satoru put one hand on his chin, then waved it casually, saying cheerfully, "But okay, you have the final say."

"Let's go, let's find the Forked Road Tower first and destroy it completely." Jiang Lai said, "This is the focus right now."

“There’s no need to look for it.” Gojo Satoru put on the blindfold and lifted up a corner of the edge, revealing the dazzling six eyes that contained infinite power.

"After this illusion was created and shattered, it is probably in a cooling-off period where it cannot protect itself. I can directly destroy this nameless island and clean up the surrounding sea area as well."

The last words were a little light, but they carried a surge of pressure.

Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Then, Gojo Satoru next to him smiled sideways: "Eh? Are you serious? I'm joking. After all, there are still many cute animals on this island. And if the island is really sunk, it will be too conspicuous."

"..." Jiang Lai paused, as if he didn't continue the topic, but also as if he was responding, and said, "I now feel more and more that my choice in the Forked Road Tower was the right one."

"What do you mean?" Gojo Satoru asked briskly.

"It means that I tried to suppress your madness at that time and not let you get too immersed in it." Jiang Lai tapped Gojo Satoru's right shoulder with a book, "After you get out, you should be a little more sober and restrain yourself."

"I know—" Gojo Satoru put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked forward, "In order not to alert the enemy and lower the vigilance of the top management to dig out the secrets of the Supervisory Commission, I have restrained myself from slaughtering the rotten oranges for so many years."

"Hmm..." Jiang Lai coughed and responded with a smile, "Well done? It deserves praise."

Jiang Lai: I feel more and more that the father-son relationship is so touching! .jpg

Just at this moment, Gojo Satoru turned to face Jiang Lai for a moment, making Jiang Lai almost think that he had just spoken his inner thoughts.

Jiang Lai: "...Ahem, what's wrong?"

Gojo Satoru looked past Jiang Lai and gazed at the colorful flowers behind him: "This is the center of the island. Logically, the formation of the [Fork in the Road] Tower should be set up here."

He raised one hand, made a finger-snapping gesture, and said, "Lai, you set up a space barrier, and I'll clean up this place."

"No problem." Jiang Lai waved his hand and surrounded the area with a space spell.

The purpose of this barrier is not only to protect other creatures on the island, but also to avoid attracting the attention of the Supervisory Committee and lest the Brains notice that the Four Sides Guard Tower is being destroyed.

The only one who can trap the strongest is the strongest himself. Real illusion is the most effective means of the Tower of Crossroads.

When this plot is broken, nothing can stop the Strongest.

The tower of [Fork in the Road] was suddenly shattered by the huge power of the curse, and no trace of it was left!

There is dust and flying debris inside the space barrier, while outside the space barrier there are thriving plants and colorful flowers, the contrast is very sharp.

Jiang Lai looked at the scene inside the barrier where all the grass roots were burned and the ground collapsed. He was silent for a moment: "You used the virtual style [茈]? You wouldn't use such a big move."

"Ah, because I really hate this broken tower. Whether it's the illusion it creates or the memory-blocking operation, it's very annoying." Gojo Satoru raised his delicate eyebrows slightly, showing a little sharpness, "So I used a little more cursed power."

The strongest man is not a good-tempered person, so he will not be polite when he takes action.

Jiang Lai shook the book lightly and said with a half-helpless smile: "Well, at least it's solved. Let's go, I wonder if Otsutsuki is still outside."

"Hey, is Yuta here too?"

"Yes, Otsutsuki came with me. But there was a barrier outside the island at that time, so he couldn't get in, so I went in first to find you." Jiang Lai shook his hand, restoring the appearance of the book to its original appearance as a mobile phone, and looked down, "The current time is... um, seven days later?"

He was a little surprised; he didn't expect so much time had passed.

"It seems that Yuta has been waiting for a long time," Gojo Satoru said, "You can contact him first and ask."

Jiang Lai called Yuta Okkotsu and the call was picked up almost immediately.

"Senior, are you okay?" Okkotsu Yuta's voice was full of concern.

"Well, I have found Wu and successfully destroyed the Tower of Forked Road. Now I am ready to leave the island with him." Jiang Lai first talked about the most important content.

Then, he smiled and continued, "Sorry to have kept you waiting, Otsutsuki. I was delayed here for a while."

"Just don't worry. These days, I've just been having a paranoid attack with the strongest Curse Master."

Otsutsukota: “???”

Gojo Satoru beside him leaned back upon hearing this tactic, lifted his eye patch, and his beautiful blue eyes widened:

"Wait, Len! You said you didn't care about this!"

"That's right." Jiang Lai's navy blue sleeves swayed, and he chuckled, "But I didn't say I won't play tricks in the future."