Chapter 269 Extra 2.1 Youlai after the time and space reversal

"——See you tomorrow."

With the last gentle words, time and space reversed and the light flowed.

The pulsating clock on the black-haired young man's chest caused everything in the world to start moving backwards, from the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons on December 24, 2017, all the way back to the day after he returned to school from the Star Plasma mission in 2006.

Gojo Satoru opened his eyes. Above him was a checkered ceiling, with wooden closets and huge French windows on the sides. He was back in his high school dormitory, and he had returned to his youthful appearance.

I didn’t expect it to actually flow back…!

Gojo Satoru lay on his back on the bed, his mind in a tangle of emotions. He sat up on his elbows, and caught a glimpse of a smear of black in the quilt.

Is that the liquid fox?

Gojo Satoru still remembers the scene when the clock was oscillating - blood, cursed power and the power of the time gate intertwined to give birth to a black liquid fox. Lai said he would give it to Jay as a gift.

Gojo Satoru recalled what happened just now and opened the quilt. Then he noticed that there was not only a liquid fox lying on the bed, but also a sleeping black-haired child curled up next to the liquid fox.

Gojo Satoru: “!!?”

Wait a minute! What is this?! Did Lai not only give birth to a little fox, but also a baby!

Gojo Satoru was greatly shocked.

——No, no, that's not right. This child gave him a very familiar feeling, just like... Lai himself.

...Is this Lai?

Even Gojo Satoru, who had experienced many storms, was stunned at this moment. He stood there like a petrified statue, and his usually smart and sharp mind did not react for a while.

I don't know how many seconds or minutes passed, but there was a knock on the door and Geto Suguru's voice came from outside.

"Satoru, are you there? There's something I want to talk to you about."

This voice finally brought Gojo Satoru back to his senses.

——

"That's it, anyway."

Gojo Satoru, Geto Summer and Naoko Ieiri gathered together. After talking with each other, they found out that they were all second-round players.

At this moment, they were all sitting around the door of Gojo Satoru's room.

After a brief exchange of information, their eyes simultaneously fell on the sleeping child on the soft bed.

The black-haired child, who was about two or three years old, was half curled up and sleeping peacefully. He was wearing a very ordinary, plain little outfit, and he was sleeping very deeply and soundly, with no intention of waking up for a while.

"Is this Lai?" Xia Yujie asked after hesitation.

"Yes, Lai. The feedback from the six eyes matches. Jay, you should be able to feel the familiar cursed energy, although it is very weak." Gojo Satoru took a long step and walked to the bed in two or three steps. He lowered his head and stared at the child. "But I never thought... that I would see Lai like this."

The black-haired young man in my memory has always been a gentle and determined mysterious demon and a kind god. Every move he makes exudes the charm of confidence, and that smile is always on his lips.

In Gojo Satoru's heart, he is an elder and a peer, a guide and an old friend, and a lighthouse that always supports the storms and brings the light of hope.

Since their first encounter at the shrine when they were children, Gojo Satoru has seen a black-haired young man with an ageless face. He has grown up little by little, but the other person has remained unchanged.

He had always thought that the black-haired young man would always look the same, from birth to death.

But now, he saw Youlai, whom he had never imagined.

Gojo Satoru's bedspread is decorated with dessert patterns. The giant cartoon donut pattern on the bed sheet looks like a cake base under Youlai's body, baking out a small, soft black-haired child.

The black liquid fox next to the child was yawning and about to fall into a deep sleep. The next second, it was lifted up by the scruff of the neck.

"No, your body temperature is too low, you can't stay close to Lai." Gojo Satoru threw him aside, but his movements were not rough, "Go sleep over there."

Nightmare Fox: “?”

The abandoned liquid fox looked a little dazed. It subconsciously wanted to get closer to Youlai and tried to run over there.

Gojo Satoru stood beside the bed as if facing a formidable enemy, staring at the liquid fox: "Hey, hey, even though you are derived from Lai, you don't have to be so clingy. Your parents have become children now, and can't take care of you anymore - you need to be taken care of now."

The black liquid fox tilted its head, with circles of mosquito coils in its red eyes. It didn't quite understand Gojo Satoru's words, because in its memory, the person it saw when it became conscious was Youlai.

But it couldn't beat Gojo Satoru. If Gojo Satoru didn't want it to get on the bed, it couldn't go either. It could only pace back and forth, looking aggrieved: "I'm hungry. I don't want to leave."

"Are you hungry? Okay, I'll feed you later." Gojo Satoru took the initiative to speak, but he still stayed by the bed to prevent the wet fox from sticking to the child.

"Come over here." Xia Yujie bent down gently and picked up the liquid fox on the ground.

"That's right, Lai said this is a gift for you." Gojo Satoru pointed at the liquid fox and said to Geto Suguru.

"For me?" Xia Yujie was a little surprised, but he didn't dwell on it too much. He lowered his head and asked Liquid Fox the same question he had asked earlier, "What do you want to eat?"

The liquid fox climbed into the crook of Geto's arm, coiled its flexible body, and responded, "Rice. Delicious." After a pause, it said to Geto, "It's edible even if it's tied up."

Xia Yujie was slightly startled when he heard this. After a while, he finally understood what this sentence meant.

His heart was beating like a drum.

Xia Youjie originally thought that he had been bound since he was a teenager and would never be able to get rid of the Supervisory Committee. But now, in addition to the reversal of time and space, he has been given more opportunities to go back.

——This is a special gift Lai gave to himself.

A warm current surged in Xia Youjie's chest. He hugged the liquid fox a little tighter, with mixed feelings in his heart.

His eyes fell on the bed, and his expression became more complicated as he looked at the young black-haired child.

Gojo Satoru, who had lost the liquid fox, now entered another period of confusion.

...Lai is really young now. Should we be extra careful with such a young child?

Is the air conditioner in the house too low? Should I cover Lai with a blanket?

Gojo Satoru was a little at a loss as he had no experience in taking care of young children.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always been the one who is pampered, admired and respected, rather than the one who takes care of others.

He has an arrogant personality. Because he was born with six eyes and great strength, he did not have a clear understanding of his own strength when he was a child, and accidentally hurt several people.

Now, Gojo Satoru is able to control his power well, but he still rarely comes into contact with those weak people who need care. After all, it is still very tiring to be careful to restrain oneself all the time, so he usually stays away from them.

But right now, facing his friend in his childhood state, Gojo Satoru came very close. He seemed very curious and wanted to touch the child's cheek, but he hesitated because he was worried about hurting the child.

He had never been around children this young before. Or more precisely, he had never been around children this young that he was willing to be around.

Gojo Satoru blinked his glassy blue eyes slightly, and he moved closer, but didn't dare to get too close.

The strongest, who had always been arrogant and domineering, was now so restrained, like a white cat walking on tiptoe in circles on a steel wire.

Finally, Gojo Satoru pinched a corner of the thin blanket with his slender fingers, and moved at a speed of 0.5 times, carefully covering the black-haired child. But when he got close, he couldn't help but pause.

At this time, Geto Summer also came over. Facing Gojo Satoru who was standing still in mid-air, he was a little confused and couldn't help but say, "Why don't you cover yourself with the quilt, Satoru? What's wrong? Why are you hesitating here?"

"Hey, Jay, don't rush me! I'm right here." Gojo Satoru raised his voice to reply, but his movements were still very slow. His cautious movements were like facing a bubble that would burst at the slightest touch.

Ieiri Naoko walked over calmly, quickly and skillfully took the pillows beside her, stacked them, and lifted the child's head to place them underneath.

Then she pulled over Gojo Satoru's thin blanket that was still hanging in the air and covered the child on the bed, while covering the corners to ensure that no cold wind would come in.

"Ah, Glass!" Gojo Satoru, who looked like a high school student, widened his eyes.

"That's enough. If you keep doing that, you won't be able to cover yourself with the quilt in ten minutes." Jiari Naoko said calmly. She had seen through everything. "It's just a quilt. Do you still need to use your six eyes to measure and your brain to calculate the formula?"

"…I'm doing this for insurance! I've never taken care of a child before. After all, it's so small." Gojo Satoru pouted, raised his hand and gestured in the air, "It's very fragile, right?"

He lowered his eyelids, looked at the child still sleeping on the bed, and slowly lowered his voice: "I know that Lai's time-space reversal has a price. But he still acted so relaxed before, as if he didn't have to pay anything."

"..." Xia Yujie also fell silent. He knew clearly that the scene before him was a price to pay.

Lai used all his strength to reverse time and space, and he himself regressed to the original child.

A mysterious demon that was powerful, calm and elegant suddenly became such a weak being. He threw away everything he had done just to give his friends a chance to start over.

The air calmed down.

After a while, Xia Yujie slowly asked, "Rai, can you change back?"

No one said anything at first. They didn't know how much power Lai had overdrawn and what would happen in the future.

Gojo Satoru could see clearly with his six eyes that the white mist that had lingered in the other person's heart had now completely dissipated.

All those extraordinary miracles had dissipated, and now all that remained was a young child who looked nothing short of ordinary.

Maybe he can turn back into the great demon he once was, maybe not. But no matter what -

Gojo Satoru said, "I will raise him."

At this time in technical high school, Gojo Satoru still has the appearance of a teenager with a youthful look in his eyes.

But when his blue eyes became firm, it seemed as if all his immaturity was dispelled in an instant.

"Whether he is still a mysterious and indescribable monster or an ordinary child in the human world, I will take care of him and raise him up," said Gojo Satoru.

——Just as Lai had accompanied him in his growth, he will also accompany Lai in his growth now.

"I think we will not be absent from this process," said Xia Yujie calmly.

Beside her, Ieiri Naoko also nodded and smiled, and then she changed the subject and said, "By the way, how are you going to explain the new child? And, will he remember you and us now?"

"It just so happens that we have a mission today, so I'll just say I picked it up during the mission." Gojo Satoru nodded confidently, "As for Lai - it doesn't matter. Even if he returns to his childhood and doesn't remember me, he will definitely feel that I'm very familiar and close to him. It's not a big problem!"

All of Gojo Satoru's plans seemed to be going very smoothly. He completed the mission perfectly, pretended to pick up a child from the mission perfectly, and faced Yega Masamichi perfectly.

"It's fate that I picked him up. I want to raise him!"

Ye Mo Zheng Dao was very skeptical about picking up the child. He frowned, rubbed his temples, sighed and said:

"I have always been tolerant of you, Wu, but that doesn't mean I will condone you stealing a child... Although I don't know how you suddenly decided to raise a child, the child is not a pet, so send it back to the owner."

"Hey, Mr. Yemo, how could I steal a child? I just picked him up and I've confirmed that he has no family." Gojo Satoru held the black-haired child in his arms and defended himself with certainty.

Then, he continued to talk, rationalizing his behavior: "He was so close to me and held me tightly, so I brought him home to raise. Really, I didn't want to raise a child, so who made it fate that brought us together?"

"Really?" Yega Masamichi raised his eyebrows suspiciously, still skeptical. He looked at Geto Suguru and Naoko Ieiri beside him, "Is that so?"

Kagome still had that squinting, foxy grin on his face, and Ieiri Naoko looked calm, and they both nodded and gave affirmative answers.

While they were talking, the black-haired child who had been sleeping moved his body and his eyelashes trembled slightly, finally showing signs of waking up.

Everyone's movements seemed to be paused at the same time, and their eyes were fixed on Youlai.

The black-haired child opened his eyes, and at first he was a little confused. Feeling that he was being hugged, he raised his head, blinked his beautiful brown eyes as clear and bright as an antelope, and looked at the white-haired boy who was hugging him.

"Are you awake?" Gojo Satoru, wearing sunglasses, looked in high spirits. He gave a brilliant smile to the child in his arms.

"..." Youlai was stunned. He couldn't understand the words of the person who was hugging him. He looked around and found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment and people.

"Hurry up and tell Mr. Yega that you like me very much and insist that I raise him, right?" Gojo Satoru laughed. He lifted the child up with his hands steadily and powerfully, his eyes bright.

Youlai still didn't understand what the other person was saying. He thought the other person was very beautiful, but he had never seen such pure white hair without any impurities before.

Youlai's impression of beautiful white hair was all about the ghosts that ate children in the stories he heard. At his age, he couldn't fully distinguish between stories and reality.

Plus those sunglasses that look a bit fierce...

Even the handsome white-haired ghost lifted him up. In the story, ghosts eat children by throwing them up.

In fact, Youlai is already half sensible. His parents are police officers and cannot be with him all the time. Sometimes his parents' colleagues or neighbors take care of him. So Youlai will not cry and shout for his parents.

If he had been taken care of by someone else, Youlai wouldn't have been so nervous. But now everything was strange.

Faced with a completely unfamiliar environment, completely unfamiliar people, words that she could not understand at all, and a character that looked like a pretty ghost eating children, Youlai endured it for a moment with difficulty, but finally she could not help it, and she pouted and burst into tears.

Gojo Satoru: “Huh!??”

Teacher Ye Moth: "...Satoru!! Send the child back to where you stole him from!!"

(To be continued)