Chapter 49 "What does it mean to leave?"

The Xia Yujie here did not massacre his entire village and kill his own family like in the original novel, and his mental state is relatively stable. However, his determination to pursue "righteousness" has become more resolute to a certain extent.

It is most likely related to the thinking of the Supervisory Commission that took over his management since he was young. Jiang Lai thought. Some of what Xia Yujie said just now should be influenced by the Supervisory Commission.

Therefore, the formation of Geto's thoughts was not achieved overnight, but was accumulated slowly under the premise of having a basic foundation.

In any case, once the other party has made the final decision in his heart, words of persuasion are no longer useful. No matter how reasonable your words are, the other party will only be firm in what he has firmed.

Therefore, Jiang Lai said nothing more.

Let Geto follow his own ideas and try and make mistakes. He thought. Before the second round begins, he should accumulate as much experience as possible.

Jiang Lai believed that the existence of the second round was, on the one hand, the result of all the previous intelligence analysis; on the other hand, it was related to a vague intuitive feeling in his heart - [clock]. He once again recited this term in his heart.

On the side, the boy with a ball-shaped hair stood beside Jiang Lai, watching the sunset in the sky with him. After the mountains blocked the last ray of light, Xia Yujie patted his sleeves and said, "I'm leaving."

Jiang Lai turned his head away. He paused for two seconds, but finally said a few words: "Although you have made up your mind, however, once you embark on this path, the development of many things may not be under your free control."

After hearing Jiang Lai's words, Xia Youjie was stunned for a moment. He turned sideways and then laughed softly: "...I don't have much freedom myself."

These words passed by lightly and quickly like a dragonfly skimming the water, but left behind a series of expanding ripples.

This sentence...? Jiang Lai's heart skipped a beat. Was it an unconscious confession, a complaint or a request for help that Geto himself didn't realize?

Whether it's the pattern on his forehead or something else, in short, besides being himself, Kayu Kei must be under some kind of constraints.

The boy with the ball-shaped hair retracted his gaze, waved his hands, and walked away with a slightly swaying figure. He walked very steadily, but his back looked languid and lonely.

Xia Yujie walked towards the darkness and merged into the boundless night.

——

It was several days later when Jiang Lai returned to the technical college.

Because the process of adopting Mimiko and Nanako is complicated, it requires repeated confirmation and signing of agreements. During this period, Jiang Lai also used his hacking skills to make a lot of well-founded false evidence ()

In theory, in real life, Japan rarely practices the adoption system in principle, and children without relatives are usually sent to welfare institutions for collective adoption.

But in Zhuhui, due to the frequent cases of missing persons, the number of orphans has increased, so the adoption system has been liberalized a lot.

However, these few days alone are not enough to complete the adoption process, and the village incident has not been completely resolved - in short, there are still some steps to take to adopt Nanako and Mimiko.

After dealing with the initial part, Jiang Lai planned to hand over the subsequent content to a dedicated person at the college.

Therefore, after returning to the technical college, he briefly explained the situation to the administrator there, handed over the materials, and asked him to pass them on to Principal Yemo.

Then, Jiang Lai walked back to the dormitory and prepared to meet Gojo Satoru.

Coincidentally, when he stepped into the dormitory corridor, the white-haired boy just opened the dormitory door and walked out yawning.

"Enlightenment." Jiang Lai stopped and handed over the small bag of black sesame cookies in his hand. "One for you and Xiaozi - this is from Jiejun."

"You're back? You're in Tokyo, how come you came back later than me? I didn't expect that the village has local specialties?" Gojo Satoru took it and said casually with a raised tone, "Thank you very much! I also brought you some things from Osaka, they are all in the house."

"Come on, let's go eat first. Didn't we agree to have steak together when we get back?" Gojo Satoru laughed and took a few steps forward. "Where's Jay?"

Jiang Lai paused and replied, "He didn't come back."

"He hasn't come back yet?" Gojo Satoru blinked, resting his left hand on his chin. "Oh, I see. He went to Mr. Yega to submit his mission report. It's okay, no rush. Let's wait for him to come back and then we can set off."

"Jiejun is not at the college."

Gojo Satoru was slightly startled: "Not in the high school?"

"He won't come back." Jiang Lai added the last sentence, his warm brown eyes staring calmly at the person in front of him.

Gojo Satoru paused. Confusion and confusion were evident on his face. He repeated, "...I won't come back. What do you mean?"

"Literally." Jiang Lai sighed and said, "In short, Jiejun chose a new path. He plans to try it out by himself, so he won't come back."

"..." Gojo Satoru's blue eyes widened slightly, as if he didn't understand, "What?"

"Xia Youjie has left the technical high school." Jiang Lai hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not use the word "defection".

"No, no, wait, wait, wait." Gojo Satoru murmured subconsciously, and then reacted. He took a sudden step forward and inevitably raised his voice, "What do you mean by leaving?! Where did Jay go?"

Jiang Lai looked back at Gojo Satoru in front of him, his expression still calm: "He left, but he didn't know where to go. Jiejun said that useless people should pave the way for useful people and create a world with only sorcerers. So he went to pursue his own [righteousness]."

The air was quiet for a moment.

"Creation, a world where only sorcerers exist?" The white-haired boy was stunned for two seconds.

After a moment of silence, he smiled in a particularly exaggerated manner. He waved his hands in a rather unrestrained manner:

"Haha, I get it. You and Jay are deliberately colluding to play a prank, right? Really - I'm convinced by you. Can I treat you to ten meals? Don't play this game anymore."

Jiang Lai blinked slowly, his expression still the same as before: "Understand."

He called out the other person's name in a low voice, without saying much, but his expression said it all.

This voice seemed to reveal the answer to the mystery. Gojo Satoru froze in his tracks, lowered his head slowly, and fell silent again.

In fact, it's not that he can't see the serious look on the dark blue figure's face. But, emotionally, he can't accept the information coming from Lai no matter what.

Jiang Lai waited quietly for two or three seconds, then handed over the small bag of black sesame cookies in his hand again: "Jie Jun asked me to bring this to you and Xiaozi before he left. Take it."

“……” Gojo Satoru did not respond. He stood there stiffly, like a silent stone tablet.

After a half-second pause, the white-haired boy's voice gurgled from his throat: "...What do you mean?"

As if the ice suddenly broke and the snow collapsed, he suddenly raised his head: "What's the point of not coming back? What's the point of pursuing justice? We clearly agreed before I left, that we would have a dinner together when I came back, and I was going to eat all the food - what's the point of running away from the battlefield!! If you don't want to eat, you don't have to eat. If you don't want to have a dinner, you don't have to have a dinner. You can just say it...!!"

The last words of Gojo Satoru fell on the final agreement, as if he was deliberately focusing on that small point.

Because in this way, you can put aside other things and not consider them, and turn those so-called "greater principles" that are incomprehensible and irreconcilable into trivial matters that cause conflicts among friends in daily life.

——Although such self-deception is essentially useless.

After venting his anger by yelling out those words, Gojo Satoru clenched his fists, and his beautiful blue eyes pierced straight through his sunglasses: "...Are you lying? I'm really angry. I don't like this kind of joke, you can stop it."

"You were there, Lai. You set out with him. You were at the scene... Jay couldn't just leave like that, could he?" The white-haired boy stepped forward, as if grasping at the last straw. "You were there, Lai. If he wanted to leave, you would definitely catch him. Right?"

Jiang Lai shook his head slightly: "I don't have one."

"You can tell me! Contact me no matter what, I'll go find Jie! What on earth is he thinking?" Gojo Satoru took off his sunglasses, revealing his rosy eyes. "Just delay until I get there—"

"He has made up his mind, and no one can change it." Jiang Lai said, "That's why I didn't stop him, because it's meaningless. Even if you go, it will be the same."

"…How can it be meaningless?! Why did you let him go! Jay must have been in a daze, he——"

"He is awake. You should accept this, Wu." Jiang Lai's voice was soft, and his brown eyes were always watching calmly. "You can also feel that Jie is not in good shape recently, right? He has been thinking about it for a long time, and this time he has made up his mind."

After hearing this, Gojo Satoru seemed to have his voice muted. He opened his lips, but no sound came out. After a few seconds, or maybe dozens of seconds, he said:

"…I know. I don't know."

This sentence sounded somewhat contradictory. After taking a breath, the white-haired young man continued to speak.

He clenched his sunglasses tightly, and the expensive custom sunglasses creaked under the pressure. Gojo Satoru said in a low voice: "I know he is not in good condition. I can see it. But I don't know what he is thinking. He doesn't say... He didn't tell me."

"But he doesn't tell me - if he doesn't tell me, how can I know what he's thinking? Why doesn't he tell me?!"

Gojo Satoru made a sound, and the sunglasses in his hand were finally broken by the strength of his fingers.

"You didn't insist on asking, did you?" Jiang Lai replied softly, "You didn't tell him that you are his best friend, that you can handle things together, that you will work with him to find a solution and eventually find a suitable answer. You didn't say these words, did you?"

"..." Gojo Satoru's lips moved, his glassy blue eyes surging with intense emotions. He turned his face away, as if replying from inside a cardboard box, "...I didn't say that."

"But we have always been best friends, and he knows that. He knows it without having to explain it specifically." The white-haired boy did not stop, he continued to speak slowly from his throat, "Why doesn't he tell me what he is thinking? Why?"

Jiang Lai paused for a few seconds and soothed him, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. In fact, Xia Yu's worries have been there for a long time. He is used to digesting things on his own, and there may be external factors affecting him."

For example, the Regulatory Commission. In Jiang Lai's speculation, this organization occupies a large proportion of Xia Yujie's concerns.

Gojo Satoru took a deep breath and raised his eyes. "I don't know what happened to him. What kind of bullshit idea is it to create a world with only sorcerers? It's simply impossible! - I want to find him."

He looked at Jiang Lai in silence for two seconds, then couldn't help but blurt out, "...Why didn't you stop him, Lai?"

"You have to experience it once before you know what kind of road is the right one." Jiang Lai said, "If he is determined to go, then let him try it out."

"This kind of thing... How is he going to create a world with only sorcerers?! Kill all the ordinary people?? If this kind of thing is carried out, there is no going back -"

"I can't stop him now, it's too late." The black-haired and brown-eyed young man said calmly, "But, maybe if it happens again, you can."

"..." Gojo Satoru showed a brief look of confusion on his face. He did not understand what Jiang Lai said.

Gojo Satoru wanted to ask a few more questions, but at that moment, heavy and hurried footsteps were heard outside the dormitory corridor.

This immediately attracted the attention of both of them.

——The person who came striding in from the door was Ye Mo Zheng Dao with a stern look on his face.

Jiang Lai originally thought that he came to ask about Nanako and Mimiko, after all, he had just asked the person in charge to hand him the information.

But then, he keenly sensed the emotional fluctuations in Yega Zhengdao, and they were obviously not positive emotions.

...What happened? He was stunned.

Gojo Satoru's eyes fell on Yaga Masamichi who was approaching with big strides. He was just about to say that he wanted to leave the school to find Geto Suguru when the man walking in front of him spoke.

"The villagers in the village where Jay went on the mission..." He paused here, took a deep breath and said, "All the villagers were killed. After a residual examination, traces of Jay's cursed power were found at the scene."

Upon hearing this, Gojo Satoru and Jiang Lai both widened their eyes in disbelief.

Wait, how could this happen——? Jiang Lai was the most shocked.

A few days ago, Xia Youjie and he parted at the edge of the village. At that time, Xia You seemed to have given up the idea of ​​massacring the whole village, but he half helplessly and half firmly expressed his determination to pursue his own justice.

It doesn't make sense for Xia Youjie to turn back and kill people. Jiang Lai's fingers moved slightly in his sleeves. And the most important people are still in the police station... Why did such a thing happen in the village? ?