Chapter 88 The Years and the Miracle Itself.

world of science.

The annual club day of Teitan High School is coming soon. At this moment, all the clubs are very active and are ready to have a big fight.

Kudo Shinichi is a member of the soccer club, but also has a place in the anime club and is known as the "Best Advisor".

Therefore, at this moment, he was sitting in the meeting room of the animation club, listening to other students around him discussing how to plan this event.

"It was always a maid cafe every year, so this year we're going to be innovative and have a different theme!"

The club leader suggested enthusiastically, "The new series of Curse Return is very popular recently, why don't we use this as the theme?"

"Okay, and we can divide the on-site decoration into three areas: the past, the past, and the present!"

The deputy minister with double ponytails beside him spoke enthusiastically, muttering, "Speaking of the recent Chisai Chiaki, Sukuna-san is really too hellish..."

My little brother. Hearing this, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but recall the conversation he had with Kurosawa Akira before.

Both Kudo Shinichi and Kurosawa Akira have experienced the process of being unnatural children.

When they were still in elementary school, they were classmates at Teitan Elementary School.

Except for the beginning, when Conan's Kudo Shinichi was extremely suspicious and nervous for a while because of Xiao Zhao's face that was very similar to Gin, they got along well and had a good relationship in the days that followed.

Therefore, after the organization was destroyed and both of them took the antidote and grew up, they would still meet up on weekdays and have meals together when they were free.

While eating and chatting, the two talked about Jiang Lai who was cursed back to the world and the latest updates of the comics.

Kurosawa Akira held the chopsticks, staring at the table in front of him with his grey-green eyes, and said in his usual cold voice:

"I didn't expect that Brother Jiang Lai actually has another brother... Well, first of all, I'm not a brother complex, but from an objective perspective, I think Ryomen Sukuna is an unqualified brother."

"Oh, to be exact, I don't think he is Jiang Lai's brother. The so-called brothers in the conceptual sense of existence are certainly not as reasonable as my legal adoption and long-term companionship."

"Secondly, I'm not a brother complex, I just think that the comments about Brother Rai and Brother Sukuna on the Internet are rumors, and rumors are of course not good, so I will rationally and objectively criticize them one by one."

"Sukuna is definitely not Brother Rai's younger brother. A qualified and perfect younger brother should be like me. Finally, I really am not a brother complex."

Kudo Shinichi: “…”

The detective put down his chopsticks, his mind started working, he fell into deep thought, and then solved the case.

——There is only one truth, Zhao, you are a brother complex, don't deny it anymore!!

His distraction from reminiscing about the past lasted only a moment, and then Kudo Shinichi's attention returned to the anime club meeting.

The club students in front of me were still discussing excitedly:

"Apart from those hellish scenes, the plot in the latest update is really dokidoki! It's like, it hurts and makes your heart beat at the same time..."

"Did you guys see this morning's update? The night party of Raishen at Gojo a thousand years ago, the moonlit night in front of the window, it was full of atmosphere——!"

"Wow, of course I remember it! When I saw it here, I was really struck by the beauty of the two Ikemyuns. I took screenshots of all those official pictures!"

"I bought a lot of paper comic books of these chapters, one for reading, one for collection, and two for cutting posters. I also ordered a few mobile phone screen-sized manuscripts to use as lock screens~"

“You’re such a great cook…!”

When this topic was brought up, all the clubs with the same hobby started discussing it heatedly.

"This film really involves the concept of reincarnation. The cursed spirit manipulator and the reverse ritual user mentioned by Gojo must be Geta and Nozomi, the three-person team from a thousand years ago!"

"There are also ten types of shadow magic training - I feel it is Hui-kun. I wonder if Norose and Yuujin will show up later."

"I really want to see the awakening of past life memories, but it's a bit heartbreaking. Mr. Lai, who was so powerful a thousand years ago, gradually weakened and became a fallen god... Wu Jun is not only a witness, but also a participant. If his past life memories really awaken, it will be very sad."

"In the end, the god couldn't hold on any longer and was about to fall asleep, but he was still so gentle and played a night escape game with Wu, and concealed his own physical condition..."

The long-haired girl whispered, "And I said goodbye to Wu-kun properly. The promise made under the stars is beautiful and illusory. Can we really meet again? Will it still be you and me under the moonlight today? Oh no, tissue, tissue!"

"Hey, hey! Don't cry, Yuko-chan!!"

The classmates around immediately took out tissues and handed over handkerchiefs to comfort their friend who was crying as he was talking.

"… Sorry, everyone, my tear glands are quite developed…"

"Relax, relax. We'll meet in the future, right? We've even agreed to tell stories. Isn't this a perfect match for Xiao Wu's part at the beginning of Yesterday?"

The deputy minister patted the other person on the shoulder and suddenly paused, as if he suddenly realized something.

"Hey, wait, so, do we have to wait a thousand years before we meet again? Can Raijin sleep that long?"

When analyzing the plot, everyone's eyes were focused on the "best consultant" present - the great detective Kudo Shinichi.

Kudo Shinichi crossed his hands, his sapphire eyes full of thought, and replied:

"It shouldn't end so soon. The Lei of a thousand years ago was very powerful. He wouldn't stay asleep for too long just to revive a child with ten kinds of shadow magic."

"I think this chapter is not over yet, there is more to come. After all, there are still some clues that have not been revealed, right?"

"However, if we take the words they agreed to when they parted as foreshadowing, perhaps they never really met again during the Heian-kyō era."

Kudo Shinichi knows that the plots in the comics are all real events experienced by his good friend Jiang Lai. His analysis of the words at this moment is based on the influence of world consciousness mentioned by Jiang Lai.

——But of course, he couldn't really say the above. Therefore, he still explained the foreshadowing in the comics to his classmates in the anime club.

"Eh, what?" The people around were a little stunned, "A real meeting?"

"In the Heian-kyō era, there was no electronic communication, and letters were difficult to deliver, so maybe it was just one-sided [hearing about the other person]. But this can't be considered a true reunion, right?"

Kudo Shinichi put down his hand and said, "Perhaps in the later part of the long history, the two of them will eventually pass by each other by accident, or they will only have a brief encounter without much conversation."

"——That's why [asking him to tell me some interesting stories next time we meet] was not realized until the Yesterday and the Past Arc."

"...It sounds reasonable, so the second half of the Thousand Years chapter is about the knife, right?" The director of the animation club covered his chest, "It's already starting to hurt! No, the theme of this cafe must make everyone else feel pain too--"

"Everyone, let's think about how to organize a hellish event for this club day!"

The minister slammed the table suddenly, as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and his fighting spirit was high.

“Huh???” No one reacted for a moment.

"It's decided!" The minister took out a marker, wrote a few words on a blank piece of paper, and then held it up to show the club members.

"——For this club day, let's set the theme goal as [The coffee is delicious, but the decorations around it make me feel so upset that I can't drink it and I'll use up all the tissues to wipe my tears]! How do you think?"

"…A strange light novel style theme target is born!!"

——

The other side. Curse back to the world.

Jiang Lai, who had no time to look at his phone, had no idea what was happening in the other world.

At this moment, he just followed his instinct and walked towards the place where he sensed his birth.

The soy milk-colored moon hung in the sky, and its warm light gently enveloped everything on the earth. Under such moonlight, the feeling of sleepiness surged more and more.

This is a little bad. Jiang Lai's mind was wavering. Don't just lie down and sleep anywhere.

If that happens, passers-by will definitely be frightened, and it might even be mistaken for an incorrupt corpse and placed in the town's ancestral hall.

A chaotic stream of thoughts flashed through his mind, and when his body staggered, Jiang Lai felt the wind brushing past his ears, and then he fell into a warm embrace.

The lotus pink kimono was as gorgeous as ever, and the rosy-faced Jifashi [Nativity] appeared before him. His seemingly frail arms were surprisingly strong, and at this moment, he was holding Jiang Lai firmly.

"What's wrong with you, [Time and Space]?" The eldest sister (eldest brother) with a princess-cut hairstyle asked in a gentle voice with a hint of surprise and worry, "Your power..."

Jiang Lai half-lowered his eyes, and surrounded by the familiar aura that belonged to his same existence, his body, which had just tried hard to cheer itself up, relaxed.

He said softly, "I'm sorry, I think I overused my abilities a bit, and now I feel a little sleepy - could you take me somewhere to sleep?"

"..."[Birth] was stunned at first, and then he understood what had happened from the words of the person in front of him.

He pursed his lips, knitted his eyebrows, and said, "Fool, don't give so much for mankind, it's not necessary. Just follow me from now on and live happily and freely outside the human world."

"Thank you," Jiang Lai smiled, his voice slow and sincere, "but I'm sorry, I might want to continue walking in the world."

[Birth] Her beautiful peach blossom eyes drooped, stared at him for a few seconds, and finally sighed.

He raised his hand and patted the black-haired young man on the back, puzzled and helpless, "I really don't understand you... Forget it, I'll take you to the [Source] first."

He changed his posture, half hugged Jiang Lai, and said softly: "If you are sleepy, just go to sleep peacefully, we are all here."

The gentle temperament of the eldest sister (eldest brother) comforted him. Jiang Lai raised his warm brown eyes slightly and responded with a warm smile: "Then please."

After he finished replying, he could no longer control the sleepiness that had already burst out of his body, and he followed his instinct to fall into a deep sleep.

The wind blew through the woods, like a whistle to sleep.

…

It is said that [existence] does not dream. But this time, Jiang Lai had a vague dream.

Nothing concrete or logical seemed to happen in the dream. I only vaguely remembered a vast expanse of brilliant starry sky.

The shining stars turned into meteor showers, dragging long tails and falling from the sky one by one. The magnificent scene when they burned was extremely spectacular.

But it seems that this otherworldly beauty can only be seen once, because the falling stars in the dream are like white fireworks, which dim and disappear in the wind after burning out.

After burning out, the dream starry sky turned into a deep dark blue, like a pool of water, an eye, or a black hole.

Jiang Lai woke up in the infinitely extending and gradually fading black and blue.

He didn't know how long he slept this time. When he regained consciousness, he felt the sunlight warming his cheeks, the breeze playfully ruffling his long hair, and the unique fragrance of the grass in the woods after the rain lingered around his nose.

Jiang Lai opened his eyes.

An ancient and kind voice came to my ears, and the language was still indecipherable, but my brain could understand the following sentence:

"Are you awake, kid?"

"Yeah, I'm awake." Jiang Lai smiled. At this moment, he was in a hammock woven with ancient tree branches.

After waking up, Jiang Lai stretched his waist, sat up sideways, and said seriously, "I rested well, thank you."

"Don't be so polite, we are a family."

"I still have to say thank you." Jiang Lai smiled and asked, "What time is it now? How long have I slept?"

"If you were to keep track of time the way humans do, you would have been dormant for more than a decade."

Ten years? Jiang Lai was slightly stunned, but quickly accepted it. It was not too long, nor too short.

Now, it is probably the time when Shuki is in adolescence, Longhair Gojo has grown into a young man, and the name of Ryoumen Sukuna "King of Curses" is widely circulated.

In addition, there is a noose... Thinking of this, Jiang Lai frowned slightly.

If the traveler that the villagers in the insect village were talking about was Naohua, then Naohua seemed to have started preparing something a long time ago.

However, in the Heian-kyō era, where curses and evil spirits were rampant, sorcerers and curse masters were everywhere, and communications were extremely underdeveloped, it was difficult to find someone in such a vast land.

What's more, Jiang Lai didn't know what the noose and Tianyuan of this era looked like, or any other specific information.

It seems that in order to capture the figure of the noose, we must make further preparations, start from the other party's possible interest, and observe first. Jiang Lai's mind was filled with thoughts.

Come to think of it, it seems that the original novel has shown that there seem to be two Sukuna in Noseso's thousand-year plan?

The two seem to have reached some kind of agreement thousands of years ago. It is unclear whether this will also happen in the new series.

If so, you might be able to learn or witness some information about noose from Ryomen Sukuna.

He thought, I hope comics can have more of a bird's-eye view, revealing some of the stories happening in places that I cannot see.

It should be summer now, with lush branches and vibrant life. Surrounded by mountains, this place is seldom visited by humans.

Jiang Lai sat on a vine hammock woven from an ancient tree, his legs hanging naturally, swaying as he gazed into the distance. His inner thoughts came to a temporary pause.

It was at this moment that he heard [Yuan]'s gentle voice again: "What are you going to do next? Are you going out again?"

"Hmm? Next?" Jiang Lai thought for a moment, "Actually, I haven't thought of the specific plan yet, but I do plan to go out."

He planned to find clues about the noose from Ryomen Sukuna while he was still in the Heian-kyō era. He wanted to know what happened to Gojo and Shuki a thousand years ago, even if he couldn't meet them in person, it would be fine to hear about them from afar.

His heart was always concerned with his friends and his journey home after the happy ending.

"Will you still do what you did before? The consequences of the accumulated sins may not just be a sleep. "

"I'm not reckless. I have my own principles. As for the evil, I can also feel it."

Jiang Lai looked cheerful. "However, I would rather do the things at hand than to calculate the consequences. The results are indeed important, but the process is also worth paying attention to."

“As for whether it is a blessing or a curse, I believe in subjective initiative and the interdependence of blessing and curse. It may seem like a curse, but from another perspective, it may be the blessing that I and more people want to pursue.”

"It seems that you love humans very much."

"Hmm, [pamper]? Probably not the word." Jiang Lai blinked, and he covered his mouth with the book. "Although the way I was born and the abilities I possess are different from those of the general public, I have always felt that I am also a member of the vast majority of people."

“Walking in the world is not like being a god descending to earth, because I already belong to the world.”

The ancient tree [source] seemed to laugh, and every one of its leaves was trembling. The ancient voice slowed down:

"I see. You are kind but principled, gentle but resolute, and treat people equally regardless of their strength. It seems that you have the potential to become a true god."

"...True God?" Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment.

"We are [existence] now, but in fact [existence] is at most a kind of quasi-god, and you have the potential to become a true god." The ancient tree said with an elder's smile, "——I am looking forward to witnessing your future. "

Real gods? Jiang Lai said to himself with a half-moon eye. In fact, in the future, let alone gods, he seems to have degenerated into a mixture of human and cursed spirit in the comics.

He replied: "Well...actually I'm not that interested in gods or anything like that."

Jiang Lai raised his brown eyes, "It's too lonely to be high up there. I don't want to be a true god who's alone above the nine heavens."

"No." Gu Shu's voice still contained a kind smile, and he spoke slowly, "The real gods are never in the sky, but among the people."

"——If you want to become a god, you must first be a human being."

A gust of wind suddenly blew up, a summer morning breeze swirling, carrying moisture from the grass-covered earth and the faint smoke from distant villages, blowing through the scarred tops of the ancient trees and the dark blue hem of the black-haired young man's clothes.

"..." Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment, then he paused for a second, thought about it, and suddenly laughed, "If that's the case, then the answer is - aren't humans themselves full of miracles?"

The real god in the world is the self of all living beings.

The lush leaves of the ancient tree trembled again, and He seemed to smile again. But this time, He did not say anything more.

Jiang Lai jumped lightly from the vine hammock and landed steadily on the ground.

He raised his warm brown eyes and looked ahead, feeling extremely light. The morning sun rose slowly in the east, and the clouds and mists filled the sky with golden waves.

Jiang Lai thought silently in his heart: I am who I am, and I have always been, and I will eventually return to being an ordinary person after this vast journey of laughter and tears.

——And the millions of ordinary people are the incomparable miracles themselves.