Chapter 197: I understand. Lai is also my brother (……

Yuji Itadori walked out of the cursed house.

After Gojo Satoru finished talking to him, he waved goodbye. He said he had to go down the mountain to pick up a kid, so he would go back to the high school the next day, so Yuji Itadori didn't have to wait for him and could just go back to the dormitory first.

The cherry-pink-haired boy walked slowly. The moonlight was clear and the mist was diffuse, dimly shrouding the forest path.

Yuji Itadori's mind was still on the content of his conversation with Mr. Gojo, and his attention was not focused.

Unconsciously, when he regained consciousness, he found that he had walked to the talisman house on the other side of the high school.

That is the room where Zhang Xiang is staying at this moment.

Although there was still some distance between them, it seemed that Zhang Xiang had already sensed the aura of Yuji Itadori's cursed power. His voice came from the cursed talisman room: "Yuji? Why haven't you rested yet so late?"

"By the way, I just heard a loud noise in the distance. Are you okay?"

"...I'm fine." Yuji Itadori hesitated, took a few steps forward, and walked to the door of the room. "Just now, Sukuna came out."

"That Sukuna guy?!" Zhang Xiang lowered his voice, "Don't be afraid, Hisahito. He is a bad tenant, and you are the real landlord."

After staying in the human world, Zhang Xiang also learned a lot of words used by humans.

"I'm not worried about Sukuna. I just..." Yuji Itadori paused again. He remembered what Gojo Satoru said, that the truth about one's identity can only be told to the person one trusts the most.

Is Zhang Xiang a cursed spirit worthy of trust? They have only known each other for a short time.

However, Yuuji had saved him and his peers before, and also informed him of the news about that person in advance. The most important thing is that Yuji Itadori felt the incomparable sincerity and love from Yuuji.

Xuan Xiang said that he was the eldest son of the Cursed Fetus Nine Phases Diagram and his elder brother.

Yuji Itadori let out a breath, and finally said, "I remembered something that happened a long time ago, and I also remembered the question you once asked me."

Zhang Xiang guessed very cleverly: "Is it about that black-haired young man?"

"Yes." Itadori Yuji nodded, straightened his lips, and revealed, "He is indeed... my brother. He has been one thousand years ago."

His words revealed two points. Yuji Itadori didn't know which point the prime minister would ask about.

However, to his surprise, the prime minister did not ask any further questions, but directly asked, "Really?"

Zhang Xiang's voice sounded quite happy. He was really happy for Yuji Itadori. "Congratulations, Yuji! You found your brother."

“……” Yuji Itadori pinched his cheek with his right index finger, feeling a little at a loss.

Xuan Xiang continued speaking, his tone seemed deeply moved, "It seems that he is indeed a good brother - since he is really your brother, then I will definitely treat him well as my own brother."

Hearing this, Yuji Itadori was stunned for a moment, coughed and reminded: "Well, actually, he should be older than you."

"That's right." The Prime Minister first confirmed, then said seriously, "But I'm the eldest brother, Hisahito."

The Prime Minister quickly added, "Don't worry, Hisahito. I will take care of him as a younger brother while taking care of his identity as an older brother."

Yuji Itadori: “?”

Wait, so what is the relationship between these two?

In the end, Yuji Itadori was unable to understand this relationship, but he knew what the ex-speaker meant, which was that when they met again in the future, he would form a united front with that person.

That's enough.

After chatting with Yuuji for a few more words, Yuji returned to the dormitory. However, as expected, he suffered from insomnia again.

After tossing and turning in bed several times, Yuji Itadori simply got out of bed and walked to the desk in the dormitory room in two or three steps.

A stack of letter paper was placed next to the clean desk. Yuji Itadori took it out, held the pen in one hand, and his eyes fell on the blank paper.

He originally wanted to write down the memories, but then he thought that this seemed a little dangerous, after all, Ryomen Sukuna was still in his body and could see what he wrote at any time.

And what if the regulatory authorities see his diary, wouldn’t he be exposed?

Gojo-sensei said that you should keep your relationship with the other person a secret and only tell people you absolutely trust.

So Yuji Itadori stopped moving, holding the ballpoint pen in his hand, and stared at the letter paper spread out on the table in a daze for a moment.

After a while, he finally picked up the pen.

If I can't record my experiences, I'll just write down what I want to say. Yuji Itadori lowered his golden orange eyes.

I can't recognize that person, nor can I tell him the truth, so I'll just record everything I want to say in an obscure way.

One day in the future, I will deliver all these whispered words.

Thinking of this, Yuji Itadori no longer hesitated. His heart was already surging with emotions like waves, so he picked up the pen and began to write carefully, word by word.

【To you:

Hello! I'm fine, and I hope you are too.

This may seem like a strange sentence to start with, but it’s the first sentence that came to my mind.

If one day, the first sentence causes you trouble in understanding, I apologize in advance! I'm sorry.

There are many things I want to say to you, but many of them cannot even be expressed in writing.

After much thought, I decided to share my life with you. I hope that one day in the future, you will also be a part of my daily life.

The weather has warmed up recently, so it's not too cold to train on the playground anymore. We practice with the second-year seniors, and we learn a lot every time (Maki's taijutsu is amazing!).

The school added several dishes to the lunch menu, even pizza. But it was stopped after a few days, and the healthy meal of three meats, one vegetable and one soup continued.

…

……】

After picking up the pen, Yuji Itadori seemed unable to stop. His wrist trembled as he wrote line after line until the ballpoint pen in his hand became dull.

Only when he stopped writing did he feel the soreness in his fingers and wrists.

Before he knew it, he had written several pages.

Yuji Itadori lowered his eyes to look at what he had written, rubbed his cheek with one hand, and thought to himself:

Although I didn't face that person directly, I was thinking about him in my heart, and I wrote a lot of stories about the daily life of a teenager as if I was chatting with my brother.

There are so many trivial matters, I wonder if the other party will pay attention to them.

——However, Yuji Itadori had a natural intuition in his heart that he felt that the other party would read it. Maybe not only would he read it, but he would also read it very seriously.

Recalling the smile of the black-haired young man a thousand years ago, Yuji Itadori blinked lightly and felt extremely calm and at ease.

He likes to see the other person smile.

Yuji Itadori picked up the ballpoint pen and finished with the last bit of ink.

[I don’t know how long it will take for you to see these words. Maybe it will be very short, maybe it will be very long.

I hope I can meet you before I am executed, but if there is no chance, it doesn’t matter.

I'm not sad, and neither should you. A meaningful and valuable death is not a regret.

No matter how time and the world change, no matter what happens, I sincerely hope that you can still smile knowingly when you see this (you look very beautiful when you smile).

I wish you all the best in the future! 】

After finishing writing the letter, Yuji Itadori blew on it to dry the remaining ink.

He shook the paper and made sure the writing was dry before folding it neatly and placing it in a wooden box next to him.

The small wooden box was originally given as a gift when buying a book, and Yuji Itadori had never used it. But now it has come in handy to hold his full thoughts.

Before we can truly meet, I should write down everything I want to say, Yuji Itadori thought. That way I won't have any regrets for the unsaid words.

——

The next day, it was sunny when the sun just rose, but it suddenly started to rain heavily in the morning, so the outdoor training was suspended and we temporarily studied in the classroom.

Having hardly slept the whole night before and now staring at the textbook, Yuji Itadori felt sleepy in waves, causing his eyelids to droop.

Suddenly, a book knocked against his desk from the side, and Yuji Itadori was startled and looked over subconsciously.

Kugizaki Norose raised her eyebrows and said, "I say, Yuji, don't you have anything you want to talk to me and Fushiguro about?"

On the other side, Megumi Fushiguro had already put down her textbook and was silently staring at the cherry-pink-haired boy.

Yuji Itadori didn't react for a moment, and asked with his beady eyes: "Hey? What do you want to talk about?"

"It happened last night - or rather this morning, I don't remember the exact time, but that's not the point." Kugizaki Norose clasped her hands in front of her chest and said, "Did you gain anything from talking to Gojo-sensei?"

"You didn't come to see me last night, and you didn't say anything this morning." Megumi Fushiguro added silently.

Only then did Yuji Itadori remember the scene when he said goodbye to his classmates before leaving last night.

Yuji Itadori knew that Norose Kugizaki and Megumi Fushiguro were not trying to force him to reveal the secret. There was an imperceptible concern in their eyes.

So he smiled and glanced around to make sure there was no one else. Then he said hesitantly, "I also remember what happened a thousand years ago. I didn't meet you back then because - I'm not a human."

Fushiguro Megumi: “?”

Nagizaki No Rose: “?”

Yuji Itadori: "Then, I also met that person a thousand years ago. That person is actually... my brother."

Fushiguro Megumi: “?”

Nagizaki No Rose: “?”

Yuji Itadori: "Teacher Gojo said he would be careful in the future. He promised me that if he met that person again, he would tell me about his situation. But I can't recognize him openly now."

The black-haired boy and the brown-haired girl were stunned and both seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

After a long while, Kugizaki Norose said, "To be honest, the first two sentences were a bit shocking. But after listening to them, I can understand the last sentence."

Fushiguro Megumi nodded and continued, "It is indeed necessary to keep it secret. The enemy is still there, and his identity is very sensitive, so it is not appropriate to recognize him."

At this point, Kugizaki No Rose could not help but ask: "You said you were not a human a thousand years ago, then what were you then? A monster? I remember that there were still many monsters in the Heian-kyō era."

"No." Yuji Itadori scratched the back of his head and smiled heartily, "I'm a stone."

Kugizaki No Rose & Fushiguro Megumi: "???"

Thousands of words can be summed up in one sentence——

"ah?"