Chapter 155 The World's Problems
"Grandpa!" Yuji Itadori shouted and suddenly sat up from the bed. He looked at the familiar scene in the room in a daze, and a big face came over from the side.
"You're awake." Gojo Satoru touched his chin, looked him up and down, and showed a thoughtful expression.
Yuji Itadori was a little confused, his memory was still stuck in his dream. In the dream, he saw his long-lost grandfather, who was looking at him, as if he wanted to say something to him. He hurried to chase after him, but his grandfather's figure suddenly floated backwards and disappeared in the blink of an eye. He once again experienced the anxiety and grief he felt when he saw his grandfather off in the hospital.
"How do you feel?" Gojo Satoru asked him carefully: "I actually ran into that guy when I went out. When he called me to pick you up, I thought I heard it wrong!"
"Teacher Gojo!" Yuji Itadori said quickly, "I met a man who said he could pull people's emotions out of their bodies. I don't know what he wants to do. You should stop him quickly..."
"Ah, didn't I say that?" Gojo Satoru was a little confused.
"What?" Yuji Itadori was even more confused. He couldn't read his reaction.
"In the previous battle I fought, that person's method was to imprint and manipulate emotions that did not belong to him on people's souls," Gojo Satoru recalled. "It was the first time I experienced the feeling of inferiority. It was really interesting."
Yuji Itadori's expression froze. After more than half a minute, he suddenly said "Oh" loudly. He said in shock, "Teacher, you mean, the person I met..."
"That's the head of the Kamo family that you guys have been discussing." Gojo Satoru raised a finger, shook it, and said with a smile: "I remember his name was Kamo Tsukuyuki. Hmm, a common name."
Someone outside pushed the door open and walked in. It was Nobara Kugisaki and Maki Zenin.
"This guy met a villain boss as soon as he went out," said Kugisaki Nobara with a look of disgust on her face, "You are really like the male protagonist in a shonen comic, passionate and kind, with superb physical fitness, and you are always involved with extremely dangerous people."
“Hahahahaha,” Gojo Satoru immediately laughed: “How could Yuji be the male protagonist? If there is a role, it should be me. Look at my handsome face as the male protagonist…”
Zenin Maki pushed up his glasses and said, "Teacher, you are too strong. You affect the balance of the plot. Usually, you have to be killed in the story, otherwise the hero won't grow. You are probably the kind of character that gives him infinite encouragement in his memories."
Gojo Satoru immediately collapsed: "How is this possible? I am the strongest..."
Yuji Itadori couldn't help but shouted: "Didn't you hear what I said? He took away people's emotions! Even if he is the head of the Kamo family, he can't, can't..." He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"And then?" Gojo Satoru's voice suddenly became calm. Yuji Itadori looked up at him blankly.
"Do you love your grandfather any less?" he asked.
"How is that possible?" Yuji Itadori became angry. He glared at him and said, "I can't possibly forget my grandfather!"
"That's it." Gojo Satoru looked very clear at this time: "This world is like this. Negative emotions give birth to cursed spirits. Look at those ordinary people, are they affected? You don't know what he is going to do, and I don't know either, but at least, he didn't directly take out that person's soul and use it to produce emotions."
Kugisaki Nobara frowned: "Teacher, that's a horror story."
Zenin Maki sighed, "People always ask less of the powerful. Earlier we were still trying to figure out what the relationship was between him and the cursed spirit next to him, but now there's still nothing we can do about it, right?"
Gojo Satoru looked thoughtful, and he pinched his chin with two fingers: "It's still very strange. They are obviously cursed spirits from a small village, why do they feel more closely connected than anyone else?"
Kugisaki Nobara was really speechless: "Teacher, you told us not to look at them with the eyes of curse spirits during that time... just treat them as another Otsutsuki senior. In fact, he is not the only one who stays with the curse spirits."
Zenin Maki sighed, "Senior is a special case, his situation is too coincidental. The reason why we think he is fine is because we have been with him for a while, we know him, and we know that Rika and him are emotional and will not betray him. As for the head of the Kamo family, we don't know him at all. If he was in any other identity, we would also doubt him from the beginning. This is out of consideration for stability. And that cursed spirit, it was born out of people's fear of the end of life and greed for the lives of others. It has devoured people, it is not good in itself, how can it lead to good results?"
Gojo Satoru laughed: "Don't you understand? That's right!" He said: "Even someone who can be understood can't beat me. He may have his own skills."
"You really just casually ignored this question!" The two girls had similar facial expressions on their faces.
"By the way, Yuji, how do you feel?" Gojo Satoru turned around and asked another student on the bed, "Having your love taken away by one hand, this kind of experience is something no one has ever had, how does it feel?"
Yuji Itadori was silent for a moment, "For a moment I felt very empty, as if the memories of the past were very far away from me. However, when you mentioned my grandfather, those memories immediately came to my mind again. I, I miss my grandfather again..."
"That's not bad." Gojo Satoru said with a smile. His eyes were hidden behind two round lenses, so no one could see the deep thoughts in them.
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"The world is like the tide, and the mortal world is a furnace. People's emotions are like the waves, turning over and over, always ups and downs." Kamo Yuexing was in a special area. A bright red silk thread fell from his hand and into the endless river. He was not with Cang, but stood here alone, watching this wonderful scene. In front of him, invisible things formed into the shape of the ocean, moving constantly.
"What do you want to do?" someone asked him.
"Don't you want to know what I'm going to do with human's positive emotions?" Kamo Yuexing lowered his eyes, his expression becoming increasingly blurred. He was tall, and after losing his thinness, he had a flexible and elegant temperament. He said, "Don't you think it's strange?" He turned his head and said, "Has no one ever thought about it? If people's negative emotions can condense into cursed spirits, then where do their positive emotions go?"
The person he was talking to remained silent.
"This world is incomplete, like a cracked Tai Chi with only one black side," he turned his gaze back and said, "People live in it, and only negative emotions are collected and turned into curse spirits, which are inherently malicious towards humans. These rules are written into the underlying operating rules of the world, and a small pathological cycle is formed in it. The less hope people see, the more desperate they become, thus forming a special soil for breeding curse spirits."
"It's like a half-finished product, served up only halfway. Humans suffer from the pain of the cursed spirits, but in fact, it's all the flaws of the world itself." When he said these words, his eyes were calm and cold, as if he was narrating some knowledge that was the truth. He said firmly: "If this problem is not solved, the only way for humans to escape the entanglement of the cursed spirits is to become extinct one day."
He did not talk about the differences and contradictions between sorcerers and ordinary people, nor did he blame the nature of the human race itself. Instead, he directly said - there is something wrong with the world.
"But you can't feel it. The sorcerers can't feel it." He said, "If you stay in the stinking pile for a long time, you won't feel that it stinks here. You don't know what is normal. There is day after night, and there should be holidays after work. If one link is missing between heaven and earth, sun and moon, man and woman, life and death, it is sick. This world needs to be healed."
"Is this what you think?" After a long silence, the other person seemed to finally understand what he said and asked, "You are collecting people's positive emotions. What do you want to do with it? Are you sure you can succeed?"
Kamo Tsukiyuki said softly, "If you just want to do it, then give it a try. If you fail, what will it cost me? Am I still the type to save the world?" He even laughed after he finished speaking, "I don't like to shoulder missions, especially those that I have imagined out of thin air."
Those who listen don't know how to speak. His views and his mentality are not something that people around him can come up with. But he also felt that what he said made sense. His final answer also shows his accommodating attitude. Such a person looks at things from a perspective that is free from shackles and has a self-consistent spirit. If he wants to do something, he rarely fails.
Even if he fails, he won't go crazy. This made the man feel deeply moved. He said calmly, "I'll just assume that what you said is true. Anyway, I don't know what to do with this world of spells now. You can mess around with it if you want. You probably have your own intentions for telling me this. I'll wait and see."
"And besides these——"
"I like your point of view!" After a pause, he returned to his usual tone and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about the first part, which is too true. This world of magic itself has problems. No wonder I feel that life is getting harder and harder. The attitude behind it is not to take everything on yourself. Only such people can live more transparently and without any burden!"
He then asked many more questions, mostly about the plans that Kamo Tsukiyuki was preparing to make. But Kamo Tsukuyuki didn't say too much, just said that he would know when the critical point came. The relationship between the two of them hasn't reached that stage yet. Finally, he was leaving this place.
Before leaving, perhaps it was Kamo Tsukiyuki's words that touched him and reminded him of something, he sighed, and his words broke in the air: "If only one of my friends had the same idea as you that year..."
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