Chapter 35 Jiang Lai: The mysterious demon in action
The continuous cluster of buildings seemed extremely heavy in the gradually thinning sunlight. It was the Zenin family, one of the three great families.
The armored guards stood like standing tombstones, silently nailed to the spot.
As the sun sets, two figures gradually walk out on the road in the distance. The white-haired man has his hands in his pockets and walks in a casual and nonchalant manner, with an air of nonchalance.
The black-haired person on the side walked more steadily, with her loosely tied bun swaying slightly with her steps.
They walked side by side towards the gate of the Zenin family.
The guard at the door took a step forward as they approached, pretending to stop them, and said in a voice as hard as stone: "Show me your proof, please."
"Huh? No one came to greet us?" The white-haired man, Gojo Satoru, asked, "Please, you guys need our help, why don't you show some respect and welcome us in?"
The black-haired Kasyu Takeshi next to him had a gentle expression and handed over a rectangular hard card with a seal on it: "We are here to carry out a mission. This is the card issued when you receive the mission."
The leading guard took it, checked its authenticity with his personal instrument, and then continued in a flat voice:
"Mission: To train the appropriate age students of the Zen temple. Executors: Gojo Satoru and Kaguru Kei, second-year students of the Tokyo Metropolitan Jutsu High School. Requirements: Only two people are allowed in."
"Yes, yes, so where are the people on your side?" Gojo Satoru raised his head slightly and looked forward.
"The head of the family and the elders are waiting for you two in the reception room." The leading guard half bowed and said calmly, "Someone will take you there."
"Okay." Gojo Satoru nodded slightly, then suddenly changed the subject, a sly flash in his blue eyes, "--By the way, only two people are allowed in, which means non-humans are not allowed in, right?"
"Uh, sorry, what?" The leading guard was stunned for a second, obviously not understanding the meaning of Gojo Satoru's words.
"For the sake of courtesy and to avoid causing any disturbance, I'll explain this in advance." Xia Yujie narrowed his eyes and smiled. He raised his hand and pointed, "Look behind you."
The guard turned his head subconsciously.
——On the top of the outer wall of the Zenin family in the back, a silent black figure was sitting! The enchanting silver-white-gold fox full-face mask perfectly covered the face.
The rising evening breeze blew up the corners of his navy blue clothes, and the ink-colored spells flowed naturally. He was lowering his head, his eyes seemed to fall on the book in his hand, and the atmosphere was as quiet as water.
For a moment, there was only silence.
"What, what is this!?" A crack appeared on the guard's stone-hard face, and he took a half step back in disbelief, "How did this guy get into the barrier?!"
"The outer barrier is to block unrecorded humans and cursed spirits." Xia Yujie said with a smile, "But He is neither of them."
The guard looked stunned and didn't seem to understand.
"Why, you can't think of it? Then I'll tell you the answer." Gojo Satoru raised his lips, his beautiful blue eyes looked at the guard through his sunglasses, and said arrogantly, "This is the one who signed a contract with this six-eyed... my monster."
His tone was brisk, but the amount of information contained in it was extremely heavy, bombarding everyone present.
——
"Hmm? Monster?" The blond teenage boy raised his eyes when he heard the servant's report.
He rested one hand on the table, the gold edges on the cuffs of his kimono were faintly visible, the pattern was a complex and orderly family crest. The delicate fabric was clearly distinguished from the clothes of the servants around him, who were either crawling on the ground or standing with their heads bowed.
——Zenin Naoya, the eldest son of the Zenin family. He is one year younger than Gojo Satoru. He is sharp-tongued, arrogant, and admires the strong. In addition, he has a very feudal patriarchal mentality and a very contemptuous personality.
He has a pair of upturned green fox eyes, and his appearance is more inherited from his mother, so he looks pretty good. He originally had black hair, but later when he was in his rebellious period, he dyed it blonde at home.
At this moment, upon hearing that the duo of high school experts from outside had brought along a person who was said to be a "monster", Zenin Naoya snorted coldly:
"What kind of monster? It must be Gojo Satoru's gang deliberately teasing us! You really believe this? How stupid."
"But, but it is said that it really looks like it, because the barrier that blocks humans and cursed spirits can't stop it..." the servant whispered.
"No matter how similar it is, it's definitely fake!" Zenin Naoya sneered, "Gojo Satoru must have used some tricks, or that [monster] is a cursed spirit released by the cursed spirit master after entering the barrier - but the technique is so that you can't recognize it as a cursed spirit."
"But Master, what's the point of this?" asked a bolder and more talkative servant beside him. "Why do they do this?"
"Let's have fun! They are just so bad. The guards outside actually let them in. They are such a bunch of rubbish. No wonder they can only stand there like a stone every day." His words were full of sarcasm. "They are fooled by that bastard Gojo."
Of course, he didn't dare to say these words directly in front of Gojo Satoru - because Gojo Satoru would really beat him up.
The Zenin family is sealed off all year round, and Zenin Naoya rarely sees people outside his family.
However, as one of the three longest-lasting families, the Zenin family occasionally interacts with the other three families, the Gojo family and the Kamo family.
Zenin Naoya met Gojo Satoru several times when he was young, but he was basically beaten in each of these meetings - Naoya was unwilling to admit that he was the one who spoke badly first.
All in all, although Zenoya Zeno has a hidden admiration for the strong, because Gojo Satoru casts a shadow on his childhood, he currently has only one idol in his heart - that is Shinjiro, whom he bumped into in the corridor when he was ten years old.
At that time, they only met by chance, but his strong and cold aura deeply shocked Naoya who originally wanted to laugh at him.
From then on, Jin became the object of Zenin Naoya's inner longing.
Unfortunately, Jin left the Zenin family soon after that and Zenin Naoya never saw him again.
After recalling the past for a moment, Zenin Naoya felt even worse. He stood up and walked out: "I want to see what the Gojo Satoru guy is doing. How dare he deceive our Zenin family!"
"Ah, wait... Master!"
"Master! No, Master, the master of the family has not allowed it—"
Zenin Naoya ignored the servant who called out to him from behind and walked out with big strides, ready to rush directly to the reception room where the head of the family and the elders were sitting, wanting to see what the two people from the high school were doing.
Monster? How is that possible! It must be some newly acquired cursed spirit that Gojo Satoru's accomplice used to deceive people.
He narrowed his upward eyes slightly, pressed the corners of his lips into a straight line, and his steps made a sound when he landed.
The servants chasing behind him didn't dare to really stop Zenin Naoya, they could only beg beside him. Zenin Naoya felt that the other party's yelling was annoying, so he simply rushed forward with a spell, leaving the servant far behind.
He headed all the way to the living room, where naturally there were servants and guards standing quietly waiting.
The people in charge here are stricter than those in Zenin Naoya's house, and they will not relax the rules just because of Naoya's status.
They stopped Zenin Naoya with expressionless faces and said that if he made any noise, they would "ask him to leave".
"..." Zenin Naoya pursed his lips. At this moment, he was no match for them. So he quickly adjusted his thinking and nodded, "Okay, I won't go in. I'll wait outside. Your responsibility is just to prevent people from entering, but you don't say that you can't let people wait outside, right?"
The guards hesitated for a few seconds and put down their hands: "Please do as you please, Master Naoya. Just remain quiet." They still stood guard in front of the main gate.
Zenin Naoya walked around the area several times and finally stopped at the window. The blinds inside half blocked his view and he could only get a vague glimpse.
The blond boy squinted his eyes and tried to look inside through the gap in the blinds.
Those wearing family kimonos are our family... On the other side, the one wearing the pure black uniform of the technical high school, the one with black hair is Geto Suguru, and the one with white hair is that Gojo Satoru guy... There seems to be another figure next to him, but it is not clear.
Zenin Naoya wiped the mist off the window with his hand and looked again intently.
The man's navy blue sleeves were covered with strange symbols. Zenoin Naoya didn't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see the ink-colored writing move a few times.
He could barely see the man from his current perspective, and could only vaguely glimpse the old-fashioned book above his sleeves... Was he reading this? How could he be so casual during a meeting at Zenin's house? ?
Zenin Naoya exhaled and raised the corners of his eyes.
When they come out, he wants to see what the extra thing is.
——
In the living room.
In fact, Jiang Lai was indeed staring at the book in his hand - that is, looking at his mobile phone.
This kind of meeting was really long and boring, Jiang Lai had no interest in listening to it. Gojo Satoru beside him had already propped up his head with one hand on his chin, his white eyelashes had not moved for a long time, and he must have fallen asleep.
Only Geto Suguru was still smiling with narrowed eyes, and he seemed to be listening carefully to the speeches of the people opposite him.
However, Jiang Lai thought that maybe Xia Youjie was also sleeping, because his eyes were too small and he was squinting and smiling, so it was impossible to tell whether he was open or closed (bushi).
His thoughts wandered for a second, then returned to the phone (book) in his hand.
Jiang Lai had just finished reading the official website update, which showed Geto Suguru returning to the classroom to get a letter - just like what was later shown on the playground, what was pulled out of the envelope was a piece of white paper with ink stains.
In the picture, the boy with a bun holding the paper for a long time before folding it and putting it away. The camera focused on the details of his hand, without showing Geto's expression at the time.
Afterwards, the comic depicts what happened on the playground, which is basically the same as what Jiang Lai experienced.
However, the name [Komiyama Yuu] did not appear in it, only Jiang Lai's sentence [You look a bit like an acquaintance of mine before].
Because the two worlds are not interconnected, and the world consciousness will not allow people to discover the mutual observation between the two sides, the relevant clues will be blurred.
Jiang Lai had guessed this a long time ago, and he blurted out Komiyayama Yu's name naturally at that time.
The official comic has been updated up to this Zenin family mission, and ends with Jiang Lai's own cross-dressing.
The color comics have a particularly strong rendering power, fully showing the weirdness of the silver-platinum-and-gold fox mask and the mysterious feeling of the flowing ink coat!
This is the end of the update, but not the end of the pictures, the last page is a promotion - the latest released Q version blind box peripherals of Curse Return, the most complete version with both the original and new series characters!
Jiang Lai saw himself in it - the modern windbreaker image in the main story, probably taken from the outfit in the sukiyaki restaurant at that time.
He even saw Yuukawa Kuriyasu...it really is the most complete version of the characters.
Finally, Jiang Lai's eyes fell on the blackened hidden silhouette.
He didn't know why, but he felt that the outline was a little familiar, especially the extra thing half floating next to it. It looked a bit like his own book (cell phone)...? Could it be that the hidden version was his past self?
Forget it, let's just check the forum first to see if there are any clues. Amid the buzzing narration of the Zen temple elders, he opened the discussion thread for the latest plot of the new series.
[That letter from Getsuyu is so weird... Woohoo, if someone sends me a piece of white paper with stains from someone unknown, I'll be scared to death QAQ]
【Upstairs, to be precise, we don't know who the sender is. But with Getsu's behavior, he should know, right? I'm just guessing that this is a hint from the regulator to Jay. After all, this is the only difference in Getsu's experience in the new series.
Combined with the question he asked Gojo Satoru, "Do you think people should be divided into different classes?", I think this may reveal some of the ideas of the regulatory agency.
Combined with what was said in the previous intelligence report, the missing people in society are largely related to the regulatory agencies. So is there a possibility that Iris is monitoring everywhere, and then conducting a level assessment under some rules they have formulated, and then carrying out some kind of operation. 】
[!! Hey guys, what the person above said seems possible? I don’t know why, uh, I have a feeling that I can identify the quality of pork…]
[Isn’t that dog Jiechuan also suspicious? That low-level green tea made me so angry!! I almost held back the question above, but fortunately Lai Shen took action]
[However, the dialogue between Raishen and Yukawa is hilarious. The first part, "You look a bit like someone I know, but he's already gone", is a threat, right? Hahaha! !
The series of fights that followed were so cool, Lai Shen was protecting his own white-haired kitten and threatening the green tea dog next door, so cool! 】
[It feels like Jiechuan's green tea is fake... Later when he was talking to Lai Shen, he was normal for a moment.
It feels a bit like that bad dog who loves to perform and takes pleasure in other people's emotions has also set his sights on Lai Shen... a bit perverted. 】
[That scene was really a bit scary. Jiechuan's eyes were painted reddish under the light, and he didn't look like a shy dog at all! ]
[Ahem, think about the unknown green tea "acquaintance" mentioned by Raishen, and the cursed spirits such as the real person and Sukuna that he met before, that is to say - Raishen, isn't he, a little attractive to bt? ]
[Reasonable, to the point. The more twisted the BT is, the more they like this kind of extreme god...
God, I love you!! prprprhum hum hum Lai Shen come to my house! Let me be your dog, your cat! Crazy, completely crazy Monday to Sunday!! 】
【？ You upstairs, I'm dying of laughter. The first half was normal, but why did it suddenly become crazy literary in the second half? I can see that Lai Shen has attracted bt hhh】
[Wow, but Raishen is so gentle, I like him so much^ I cried a lot when I was walking and talking with Geto T^T...Jie, talk to your friends more! Grow up with their company or something like that]
【Come to think of it, the Zen family in the new series feels a bit strange, even more extreme than the original. In modern society, there are still people who are in seclusion.】
[I agree and give it a plus. But thanks to Zenin-ya, I had the opportunity to see Lailai from Yokai PA... It was so beautiful]
【Report——Family members!! Someone in the next post has drawn a hidden model from the blind box! It is the silver-faced and gold-patterned fox mask of Lai Shen!!
Ah, how did the official make it so quickly?! It seems that they got the update drawings of the one-eyed cat a long time ago! 】
[Fuck, the hidden version was drawn so quickly? I rushed——]
Jiang Lai paused slightly when he saw this, and was a little surprised at the hidden version.
He had previously guessed that it was himself from the past chapter of yesterday based on the half-floating shadow of the book, but he never expected that it was himself in the costume of a youkai from the Zenin family this time.
Jiang Lai: This is done too fast... Is the factory going crazy from the emergency processing?
[Report again - the one drawn from the next post is the super hidden one among the hidden ones!! The hidden one itself is the Rai Shen from the past chapter, and for this Yokai Rai, the official said it was only produced on an expedited basis, and then only one was released!! Woohoo why am I not so lucky, I'm so jealous]
Jiang Lai was stunned for another second, and then he suddenly realized: Good guy, no wonder it was done, it turns out that there was only one monster PA launched.
But this is too little. I wonder which lucky audience member won this.
His mind was distracted for only a short moment, and then he retracted his attention and focused on several analysts in the forum.
Jiang Lai felt that the analysis of the regulatory agency mentioned in the article made some sense. The source of Xia Yujie's strange letter was most likely the regulatory agency.
And the problem of "different ranks" of Geto Suguru probably also comes from there.
——In fact, Jiang Lai once briefly guessed that the person who was affected was Yuukawa Kurigashi, but then he denied it. Because the current Geto Suguru has not experienced the asteroid incident, his thinking is not so easily shaken.
The only organization that had the weight of words that could make Geto Suguru question and think was the Irisobana organization that had taken over his organization since junior high school.
Jiang Lai thought, what do they want to do by dividing people into different classes?
In any case, this division is not actually fair. His inner thoughts flowed. It was just a personalized assessment under their rules.
From this perspective, at present, Geto Summer Oil should be the person who knows the most about this organization. However, he may not necessarily tell you what he knows.
On the one hand, it was because Geto was used to thinking for himself and rarely confided in others. On the other hand, there might be some restrictions that prevented him from saying too much.
While Jiang Lai was thinking, a loud hammer sound from the opposite side suddenly pulled him out of his own world!
Gojo Satoru, who was sleeping next to him, was also awakened by the sound. His brows furrowed, and his eyelashes trembled and then slowly lifted. From the side, one could see the pair of extremely beautiful blue eyes behind the sunglasses.
He put his hand down with a big movement and hammered it on the table with a "bang". He seemed a little grumpy after waking up.
The man from the Zenin family who was hammering across from him shuddered and subconsciously explained in a low voice, "Well... hammering once after a meeting is over is a traditional closing procedure."
At one side, Geto Xia Yu raised his hand and gently held Gojo Satoru, then raised his eyes and smiled, "Okay, then this meeting is officially over. The training process for this mission will begin tomorrow."
"Thank you for your hard work." The head of the family, Zenin Naohito, nodded, "Someone will take you to the compartment where you will rest for the next few days."
"Okay." Xia Yujie nodded and answered smoothly. He stood up with everyone else and subtly pulled Gojo Satoru, who was feeling lazy and paralyzed and didn't want to move after waking up.
Jiang Lai also stood up and remained silent as usual.
As he walked out of the meeting room, he caught a glimpse of a figure dressed differently from a servant. However, due to the limited vision of the mask and the movement of the crowd, he could not see who it was.
However, Jiang Lai didn't care too much. He just instinctively paid attention to and analyzed the environment around him.
Gojo Satoru walked out of the conference room casually, yawning openly as he walked forward. Kagome Kaoru had a helpless smile on his face, but he didn't say much.
Jiang Lai floated quietly beside them, without communicating with them. He maintained his posture and maintained the image of a mysterious demon.
Although Jiang Lai is nominally a monster who has signed a contract with Gojo Satoru, the Zenin family still arranged a separate room for him.
Jiang Lai doesn't need sleep, so when night falls, he plans to go out for a walk.
It would be impolite to wander around like this, but Gojo Satoru said: Don't be polite to the Zen temple family. Being polite to others will only limit your own happiness. Just rush in!
Jiang Lai thought about it and felt that it made sense. He had come here to collect intelligence and see if he could come across any secrets that he shouldn't. If that was the case, he shouldn't be so reserved.
Besides, his current identity as a mysterious demon also makes it convenient for him to travel around.
——After all, most of the powerful monsters that are unknown to the public have a free-spirited personality, are not bound by rules, and are not limited by space. They are like a gust of wind or a mist, unpredictable.
So, with the bright moon hanging on the branches, the stars twinkling, and the lights going out one after another, Jiang Lai jumped onto the wall from the backyard of the room, using his own magic to jump continuously in the air, and jumped onto the roof of the ancient building.
It is late at night.
Wearing a navy blue kimono that blends perfectly into the darkness, Jiang Lai switched the silver-white fox mask to black and gold to blend in with the night.
His footsteps were very light, and he made almost no sound when walking on the roof. With the advantage of the relatively high viewing angle, Jiang Lai's eyes wandered around the Zen temple.
Because the barrier was very complete, the Zenin family did not set up too many guards, but it was customary to have people in charge of night patrols.
Jiang Lai was not restricted by the barrier, so he only needed to avoid the night watchmen. Most of them walked in a disciplined manner along the prescribed route and rarely looked up at the sky.
The buildings of the Zen House are not always connected. Some of them are quite far apart, so you need to calculate and edit the floating footholds in the middle.
Jiang Lai felt slightly tired after continuously manipulating the air with spell codes, so he temporarily settled down in a relatively remote courtyard.
However, when he was on tiptoe, his eyes moved and a child's figure flashed through his eyelids -
The little girl with short dark green hair was searching and stroking something on the ground. When she noticed a figure suddenly intruding, she subconsciously stiffened her body and stared at him vigilantly!
Jiang Lai was also very surprised at this time, because the building looked rather shabby and the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, like an abandoned house or a warehouse used to store useless things.
Jiang Lai thought there was no one here, so he stayed here temporarily, but he didn't expect there was a young girl here.
Why is he still awake at this late hour? What is he looking for? Many questions flashed through his mind in an instant, and Jiang Lai stood still.
The little girl with short dark green hair pursed her lips. Although she was very young, her voice was very clear: "...Who are you?"
The little girl, young Zenin Maki, was actually very nervous, but she tried to stay calm because her sister, Zenin Mayi, was sleeping in the room behind.
Zenin Maki and Zenin Mai are twin sisters. When they were born, one had no cursed energy and could not see curses, while the other had too little cursed energy and her spells were useless to her.
They were considered as unknown twins and suffered discrimination in this family that respected cursed magic and favored boys over girls.
Because of this, they are both very precocious, with abilities and thinking that are not for children of their age.
*After their mother passed away due to illness, they lived in this relatively remote place. Every day they had to learn various etiquette norms or do various chores at home, which were very hard for children of this age.
Their mother once gave each of them a bracelet. It wasn't an expensive item, but the cheap crystal glass beads carried memories of the past, so they would wear them every day.
Before going to bed tonight, Zenin Mayi suddenly found that the bracelet on her wrist was missing. Tears welled up in her eyes at that moment. As her elder sister, Maki finally comforted her and coaxed her to sleep before she went to the yard to look for it.
If I can't find it... I'll look for it on the road tomorrow, thought Maki. I hope it's not picked up as garbage by someone.
As she bent over and pushed aside the grass to look for it, another figure suddenly fell into the yard, causing her to tense up immediately, like a hedgehog with its spikes erected.
When asked "Who are you?", Jiang Lai did not rush to speak, nor did he make any extra movements. He just put his hands together and let his wide sleeves with talisman patterns hang down naturally.
He is still observing the situation.
His eyes swept across the ground. At this moment, the dark clouds were dispersing, and the moon was casting a bright and soft light. Something bright flashed in the grass - Jiang Lai captured it sharply.
...Is the thing in that place what the girl is looking for?
After thinking about it, Jiang Lai stood still and raised his hand slightly.
At this moment, a gust of evening breeze blew up. The breeze rustled the treetops, and the grass swayed and crawled to the ground. The dust and sand in the evening breeze blew into the eyes of young Zenin Maki. She subconsciously raised her hands to rub her eyes, and physiological tears welled up.
Her heart was still tense. She rubbed her eyes briefly and then quickly tried to open them. With her still blurry vision, she looked at the figure that suddenly appeared.
A beautiful crystal glass bracelet was floating gently in front of her eyes.
“……?!”
Zenin Maki was stunned. She subconsciously stretched out her hand and the chain fell steadily into her palm.
After pausing for a second, she suddenly raised her head.
——Bathed in the moonlight, the figure wearing a black and gold fox mask in the distance disappeared into the night as silently as when it came.
The only thing left there was a leaf blown down by the evening breeze, swaying gently in the field of vision.
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