Chapter 71 Youth Hostel

It turns out that Ryomen Sukuna has been in the underworld since he was a child.

Jiang Lai used the time magic to reverse the child's time in one direction, bringing him back to life and restoring him to his previous state.

Because the body and memory were reversed to one minute ago, the child standing there didn't understand what had just happened and looked a little dazed:

"Hey, wasn't there a snow pile just now? There are people here?"

The word "person" was uttered a little hesitantly, and the child saw clearly the black patterns on the body of the two men in front of him, and the four arms that were different from others.

More importantly, as a child, he was able to keenly sense the smell of blood and murderous intent.

There was a hint of fear in the child's eyes. Although he could not remember the pain of death because of the reversal of time, there was still some kind of alarm going off in his subconscious.

Ryomen Sukuna's eyes rolled back, and he snorted with laughter. At the same time, the sharp cursed blade slashed at the child again -

An invisible barrier blocked the cursed blade, silently neutralizing the murderous intent.

The young man in the navy blue kimono walked slowly to the child, rubbed the child's head, and then pushed him gently.

"Go back." Jiang Lai said.

The child took a few steps, said "goodbye" timidly, and then trotted away towards the village with houses.

Coincidentally, a farmer who seemed to be the father was about to leave the village. When he saw the child, he quickly hugged him. When he looked up and noticed two figures standing here, he shuddered and quickly left with the child in his arms.

"...How did you run around and attract a monster? One has no face, and the other has four arms... Hurry back to the ancestral temple to get rid of the bad luck!"

The farmer's voice was muttered in a low voice in the child's ear, but for [Existence], even from a distance, it can clearly hear the human whisper.

Jiang Lai smiled in his heart: I have become a faceless man. He immediately thought of Spirited Away.

"...The big brother with the mist on his face is a good person..." The child explained in a low voice and disappeared into the farm with the farmer.

Ryomen Sukuna didn't intend to chase after the kid to finish him off. His attack just now was done casually - kill if he wants to, stop if he wants to, as he pleases, without any particular purpose.

At this point, his attention shifted to a more interesting character for him.

Ryoumen Sukuna sat cross-legged in the snow, staring at the figure with interest.

The black-haired young man stood quietly to one side, watching the child disappear into the overlapping villages.

He was wearing a plain, patternless navy blue kimono. He looked very ordinary, but the quality of the fabric seemed to be exceptionally good.

Ryoumen Sukuna held his chin with one hand, and the other hand casually rested on his knee: "A nosy fellow... a young man from a big family who came out to gain experience? His abilities are quite interesting." His voice was slightly sarcastic, "You escaped on your own without servants and guards?"

Jiang Lai has been able to control his own magical power very well, and he is not a very arrogant person. Therefore, his true strength cannot be detected simply by judging from his appearance.

After hearing what Ryoumen Sukuna said, Jiang Lai slightly withdrew his gaze. He was a little surprised by the other party's guess - he actually guessed that he was a young man from a wealthy family who came out to gain experience?

If there's a mist covering his face, it would be more reasonable to guess that he's a monster.

...Or does it mean that the other person can see your face?

After thinking it over, Jiang Lai prepared to chat a little more to test the other party's situation. However, this did not mean that he would agree with the other party.

Jiang Lai glanced sideways calmly: "From this point of view, you are also a meddler."

He responded to the speculation with a light retort using the other party's words.

Ryoumen Sukuna half-closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Unpleasant."

He moved his fingers slightly, and the cursed blades, which were twice as heavy as before, came slashing across him!

The malicious curse shattered and tore the snowflakes that were falling slowly in front of him, but Jiang Lai didn't even blink, and didn't intend to move a step. He stared straight at the murderous aura coming towards him -

Those intersecting cursed blades slashed at the air one centimeter away from the black-haired young man, dissolving into the rock-solid barrier! At most, they just transmitted the waves and slightly blew up the long, soft ponytail that was loosely tied behind him.

Jiang Lai covered his lips with the book leisurely and chuckled: "Is this all you can do?"

He did not feel nervous at all. The [Existence] from a thousand years ago possessed almost endless power.

Now is Jiang Lai's heyday, while the Curse King in front of him is still a growing teenager.

——The outcome is already very clear.

When Ryoumen Sukuna heard this, the pair of eyes under his scarlet pupils opened and stared at the black-haired young man in front of him.

He stood up from the snow, flexed his wrists, and forced a smile, revealing his sharp canine teeth: "Really? See if you can make me serious."

"If you say the same thing, I'll return the favor to you." Jiang Lai nodded slightly, waved his sleeves while holding the book in his hand, and announced the start of the battle.

——

The result was the same as Jiang Lai expected. He could basically defeat the young Ryomen Sukuna.

Absolute spatial manipulation can trap and disrupt the opponent, making it difficult for those attacks to swing a few centimeters.

During the battle, Jiang Lai even used most of his mind to use space manipulation to protect the nearby villages to avoid harming innocent people.

The sign of the end was that Jiang Lai returned to the original position, put the book on the other person's shoulder with a smile, and said, "Let's stop fighting."

He originally wanted to imitate the other party and add words like "boring" or "try harder", but on second thought, he decided not to do this kind of operation to escalate the war.

What Jiang Lai was going to do when he went back a thousand years ago was not to fight with Ryomen Sukuna.

He was planning to go back in time and try to dig up another [existence] and explore the true origins of the Supervisory Board. Although this organization was nominally established in the second year after Gojo Satoru was born, it was able to develop so rapidly in a short period of time, and it must have had a rich early accumulation.

Jiang Lai guessed that maybe Zhisuo (Naohua) had already started planning all this.

Before the two Sukuna got angry, Jiang Lai lifted the book from the other's shoulder, put it away, and slowly took half a step back.

The opponent twisted his neck, let out a light click, and stopped attacking again.

His two main arms were folded together, and the black lines were interlaced and disappeared. "If you didn't have six eyes, I would have thought it was the guy from the Gojo family who looked different from the rumors. He went out for nothing—" Then he changed the subject and said, "Oh, but that guy is not as strong as you."

Gojo family? Was the Gojo family very famous at this time? he thought.

By the way, I still don’t know how the background of this new series of Heian-kyō is set. I’ll check it out on my phone later.

There should be some differences between this and the historical Heian-kyō and the Heian-kyō in the original novel, such as some of the timelines.

Then, Jiang Lai nodded slightly and said lightly: "I'll take it as a compliment." He accepted the evaluation.

At the same time, he confirmed his previous guess in his mind.

It seems that Ryomen Sukuna can see his own face, which is why he was able to point out the problem with his eyes.

But why could the other person see him? Jiang Lai's heart was wavering with guesses, and he scanned the person in front of him.

At present, Ryoumen Sukuna is still considered a human being, and should be no different from ordinary people.

A mystery emerged, but there was no answer for the time being. Jiang Lai changed his plan and decided to stay by the other party's side for a while before finding the answer.

As if he had noticed Jiang Lai's gaze, Ryomen Sukuna frowned unhappily. He stared at Jiang Lai and let out a low laugh:

"But... you'd better stay strong and make sure I don't catch up with you."

It sounded a bit like a threat. Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows slightly: "You said this in this situation, aren't you afraid that I will kill you in advance?"

"You can try." Ryoumen Sukuna's attitude was still arrogant and he continued to laugh, "Although I don't know what you are, but it seems that you can't kill people."

——Ryomen Sukuna is not just a character with strong fighting ability, he also has keen observation skills.

Jiang Lai paused for a moment, but his expression remained unchanged. In fact, when he was fighting just now, he was also perceiving himself, and he noticed some deeper rules from the movements of his hands.

As a [being] related to time and space, he wanders outside the human world and is more like a part of nature.

When you enter the world and walk among the people, you must use your abilities to correct accidental deaths and wrong births with an absolutely objective attitude - it can be understood that your work is to correct some deaths and births that do not match the Book of Life and Death, and to give or take away time for those people.

Therefore, he cannot make connections at will, especially cannot kill people at will, because killing people will interfere with the cause and effect line, and the dead person's negative energy will be accumulated and transferred to himself.

Therefore, Jiang Lai's attacks just now were mostly aimed at besieging the enemy, with no intention of killing him - Ryomen Sukuna had too much evil power on his body, from small murders to big ones, and Jiang Lai had no intention of taking it over.

However, despite this, Jiang Lai's response was still calm: "I just don't want to do it for the time being. It's a bit boring. You are not to the extent that I can deal with you wholeheartedly."

Stabbed by the words again, Ryoumen Sukuna's bloodshot eyes darkened, and then he smiled: "Not bad, not bad, I think you are very interesting - but don't let your guard down." He did not hide his malice and murderous intent.

Jiang Lai didn't care about it at all. He took a few steps forward naturally and suddenly changed the subject: "Where are you going now?"

Ryomen Sukuna has already stood up, and it seems that he has no intention of lying down and sleeping anymore.

——To be honest, Jiang Lai thought that he was quite miraculous. He could sleep shirtless on the roadside in the middle of winter and was not hurt at all even when he was buried in the snow. This level of cold resistance was, in a sense, beyond human beings.

"Where am I going?" Ryoumen Sukuna raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised by the other person's words. He said sarcastically, "Why, you're going to 'wait' for me at the destination?"

"Forget it, no need to answer." Jiang Lai then gave up asking and didn't intend to waste any more words.

After all, although he knew the names of the places of this era, he had little idea of ​​their exact locations, so it was useless to ask.

And there was no need for him to know where Ryoumen Sukuna was going, since he was planning to wander around him before finding the answer to the mystery. For now, he just had to follow Ryoumen Sukuna.

By the way, I can also use space magic to disrupt and restrain the opponent's murderous behavior, which in a sense can also save a lot of lives. Jiang Lai thought silently in his heart.

Ryomen Sukuna seemed to have lost interest in continuing the conversation, so he turned around and walked towards another road.

Jiang Lai walked lightly and slowly behind him.

After walking a distance, Ryomen Sukuna stopped and turned his head halfway: "It seems that you are really bored."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Lai blinked lightly, "We are just going the same way."

"On the same path?" Ryoumen Sukuna gnashed his teeth, seeming to be quite disdainful of this answer.

However, he did not argue with Jiang Lai here, probably because he felt that there was no point in arguing or fighting since he could not win.

Therefore, the four-armed boy with cherry pink short hair paused for a few seconds, then took a big step forward.

Jiang Lai continued to follow the other person, flipping through the book in his hand. He was about to check the [Thousand Years] intelligence on his mobile phone.

Just at this moment, he felt a sharp curse power coming from the air!

Jiang Lai sighed inwardly and dodged the attack by slightly turning his body. Just as he was about to say "this attack is meaningless", he felt the touch of hair falling down.

——The cursed blade cut through the headband he had created, and his long, cleanly tied hair instantly spread out and fluttered in the winter wind.

Jiang Lai: “…” He brushed back his long hair that was blown by the wind and looked up speechlessly.

Ryoumen Sukuna snorted and said, "Didn't I tell you not to let your guard down?"