Chapter 20: Cultivation Day 20
Chapter 20
The mission required crossing counties, which was a bit far. Although they could contact the responsible auxiliary supervisor in advance when traveling at the college, the three of them finally decided to take the tram.
The mission location was in a relatively remote place. During the final confirmation and preparation before departure, Kento Nanami took out the map and spread it on the table, comparing it carefully.
Then he pointed his finger at a small section of markings.
“It’s close to Weiyu County and there’s a direct train station.”
Kanako, who was packing her gear nearby, seemed to hear some key words. She quickly dropped her umbrella and leaned over to take a look. "Amitama County? Sounds so familiar! I think I've been there before!"
Huiyuan Yu asked, "Where did Kanako come from?"
Kanako originally wanted to say aliens, but after thinking about it, it seemed a little wrong.
She pushed the small glasses frame on her nose - this was one of the new equipment issued by Tokyo High School. The lenses had been specially processed and modified. After wearing them, ordinary people who could not see the curse could see the curse clearly.
"I used to be the queen of Seasoning City," Kanako said.
Huiyuan Xiong showed an expression of understanding and said, "The condiment market in Weiyu County... Oh! The condiment market is part of Weiyu County, what a coincidence!"
"It's not entirely a coincidence," Nanami Kento said. "The mission that Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru went on three months ago was near Seasoning City. Based on the timing, it was during that mission that they teamed up with Kanako to exorcise the cursed spirit and bring her back to the high school."
Kanako tilted her neck and listened attentively.
Nanami Kento: "Subsequent intelligence indicates that the technique of that quasi-first-level cursed spirit, which possesses exceptional potential, is unique and catalyzes conflicts and evil deeds between people. This has led to an extremely wide-ranging negative impact that has yet to be fully resolved to this day."
Huiyuan Xiong nodded and said excitedly: "As expected of Nanami!"
Haibara Yuu then said, "So, it's because ordinary people are still very scared and uneasy about the big event three months ago, which makes it easy for them to breed more curses."
"My blood is boiling all of a sudden. Let's get rid of the curse in one go this time!" Haibara Yu encouraged.
Kanako said with great vigor, "Great! You can eat them all!"
Huiyuan Xiong stood there for a few seconds in a very natural way: "Eh? Kanako-san, what did you say just now? Eat? Can cursed spirits be eaten?"
Nanami Kento: ...I have a bad feeling about this.
Kanako explained the principle seriously: "That's right, just take a few bites, chew a few times, and then use your powerful stomach to digest it."
Haibara Yu's eyes turned into one of admiration: "That sounds amazing, just like Senior Geto!"
Kanako: “Yes, that’s right!”
"I understand. Let's set off immediately." said Nanami Kento.
"Okay!" Kanako responded enthusiastically. She walked out of the room, glanced at the mottled sunlight under the shade of the trees, and skillfully opened her umbrella.
The next second, a piece of card hit her head with a thud.
Huiyuan Xiong was closest to the card that fell to the ground, so he picked it up and asked, "What is this?"
"Oh, it's Kanako-san's student ID..." Huihara Yu said, "But Kanako-san isn't old enough."
Kanako took it and looked at it. "Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu College, date of birth is May 21, 1997, expected enrollment date is 2012, name is... Huh!"
"What the hell is Gojo Kanako!?" Kanako threw the card in an instant.
"Haha, now Kanako-san is really Gojo-senpai's sister." Haibara Yu said as he picked up the card. "There's a note on the back."
Haibara Yu read from the note, "Gojo-senpai said that after he went home to investigate, he found out that Kanako is actually the daughter of his "mother's brother's wife's half-brother's sister's son's ex-father's daughter—so she's his distant cousin."
Nanami Kento's mind began to get confused: "...Whose who?"
System: [How can the relationship be so messy? It's even more confusing than Kanako having seven parents in one week!]
Kanako ignored the system's complaints and, unusually, kept her gaze fixed on the birth date line for a long time.
Kanako couldn't help but recall the conversation she had with Gojo Satoru a week ago. At that time, Gojo Satoru still hadn't given up on seducing Kanako (buhi), saying, "Look, if you round it off, you have white hair and I have white hair too. We're the only ones in the whole high school who look the most alike. We're both problem students and the future strongest, so it makes sense that we're brother and sister, right?"
Kanako was firm: "No, you are all my wings."
Gojo Satoru inadvertently dropped a black card: "But the Gojo family is rich and can reimburse all your meal expenses."
Kanako immediately changed her tone: "Dear Onii-chan!!!"
Gojo Satoru: “Hey!”
System: [...Where are your principles? Where is your dignity?]
Ahem, none of this matters.
The most important thing is... Kanako has always understood that this small white card is the identity certificate that Gojo Satoru provided for her to stay in this world.
All those messed up relatives, and their birth and origins are all fabricated. The last name is Gojo probably because... among all people, he is the only one who is most suitable for operation?
At the same time, he was able to afford to raise a Yato and prevent Kanako's identity from being exploited by bad people.
Wait, there seems to be something very important.
"May 21, 1997... isn't that just four days from now?" Kanako stared at the birthday she had made up, and solemnly announced, "In four days, I'll be nine years old!"
Huihara Yu said excitedly: "Congratulations, Kanako-san!"
Nanami Kento pushed one person with each hand and led the two forward without stopping.
"So I have to hurry up and finish my get off work early... If I finish early, maybe I can still make it back to the college in time for my birthday."
*
In the afternoon, the tram on the other side slowly pulled into the station.
Because the college is located in a remote area in the suburbs and deliberately avoids rush hours in the morning and evening, there is less traffic at the station.
Kanako looked intently at the passers-by, and the unprecedented feeling made her extremely curious.
This was her first time going out wearing glasses that could "see cursed energy." The streets and even people's bodies were all stained with tiny curses.
According to the common sense in the world of curses that she had learned, as long as humans existed, the curse would never completely disappear.
Some weak negative emotions and pressures sometimes gather into tiny, life-safe curses that linger in every corner of the world.
Therefore, the curse can never be completely removed.
The job of the sorcerers is to exorcise as many high-level cursed spirits as possible that are harmful to humans.
Just as Kanako was pondering this fact, Haibara Yu, who was sitting on her right, suddenly thought of something and laughed out loud.
"Kanako-san looks like my sister when she wears glasses," said Haibara Yu.
Kanako asked curiously, "Does Haibara have a younger sister? Is she her biological child?"
Huiyuan Xiong: "She's my biological daughter... No, that sounds weird. Anyway, she's my blood-related sister with the same father and mother."
Huiyuan Yu drew a rough outline out of thin air, his expression proud. "She's in junior high school, a few years older than Kanako-san, and her academic performance is top-notch! She's very dedicated and hardworking in everything she does. Every time I think of her, I feel incredibly lucky to be her brother!"
Haibara Yu always speaks with full of passion and enthusiasm. In addition, he has a cheerful personality and likes to chat. In Kanako's impression, he is the person who is most like an ordinary big brother.
Kanako pondered, "Does Haibara's sister also like to eat?"
"You guessed it right!" Huiyuan Xiong clapped his hands. "My sister also has a big appetite. I can invite her and Kanako to a buffet someday."
Nanami Kento, who was sitting to Kanako's left with his eyes closed, said silently, "That buffet will definitely go bankrupt."
System: […Every word you speak is the supreme truth!]
"Hahahaha." Huiyuan Xiong said with a smile, "She's been preparing for the high school entrance exam recently, and she studies until very late every night. She's a little nearsighted. In the photos she sent me recently, she's wearing glasses. They look very similar to Kanako's."
So this is the similarity.
Seeing the train approaching the station in the distance, Kanako walked with the other three to the waiting line and casually asked, "Which high school will she go to? Or is she going to a technical college?"
Kanako didn't think too much about it. She liked to be close to people who were good to her, so if she had a brother like Haibara Yuu with whom she had a good relationship, she would definitely want to go to the same school with her brother.
"Not everyone is suitable to be a sorcerer, Kanako." For some reason, it was Nanami Kento who answered her first.
"Yes!" Huiyuan Xiong confirmed Nanami's words, "Although she can also see curses and is a qualified person, but, out of selfish reasons, I still don't want her to become a sorcerer."
"Is it because she's my sister?" Kanako asked, remembering the many pictures of victims of cursed spirit incidents she saw on Irishoko's desk.
"Yes, because she's my sister," Huihara Yu said. "My selfish motive is... as her brother, I even dream about her happy smile when she was admitted to the University of Tokyo, but I really can't imagine what kind of expression she'll have after she embarks on the path of a sorcerer..."
Haibara Yu did not continue to delve into this topic. He did not like to think too much, and the door of the carriage in front of him was slowly opening.
Kanako couldn't think of what to say for a moment.
She chose a seat on the train and sat contentedly between two first-year high school students who looked like older brothers to her.
As the scenery outside the window kept changing, at one point, Kanako had a flash of inspiration: "According to the calendar, the 17th and 18th are Wednesday and Thursday respectively, which is the time I should spend with you."
"So today I am Haibara's sister!" Kanako said, "Don't worry, with a sister like me, even if you become a sorcerer, you will be happy and happy all the way!"
Haibara Yu's eyes lit up: "That sounds super cool, Kanako-san!"
Nanami Kento raised his lips slightly and shook his head: "I really can't stand you guys..."
*
Geto Suguru has a secret that he hasn't told Kanako.
One night, when he was studying the system instructions, he happened to see that Kanako's age on the panel had jumped from "8" to "9" at some point.
Kanako doesn't know the date of her birth, but the rigorous automatic information collection system has already known it for her.
He thought about it for a few minutes, and finally decided to choose a time nearby where everyone in the academy was free, and set that day as Kanako's birthday in this world. He then told the date to Gojo Satoru and asked him to send someone to prepare an identity certificate to fool the high-level officials in the sorcery world.
Since Gojo Satoru knew about it, then Kaname Nozomi must have also become an insider. The three of them hit it off and secretly prepared a surprise birthday party on the 21st.
On the 21st, they waited from day to night, from sunrise to moonrise, but there was no news of the first-year students and Kanako returning from their mission.
In the early morning of the 22nd, Haibara Yu and Nanami Kento returned to the high school.
“…Where’s Kanako?” someone asked, but no one answered.
The ice cream cake slowly melted in the air. No one lit the nine candles on the cake. Only a few lights were left shining in the empty lounge. After a long time, they finally got... an updated information about the "window".
[Record: In May 2007, the special-grade imaginary cursed spirit "February Station" (tentative name) appeared. Upon investigation, it was found to be inconsistent with the information of the second-grade cursed spirit initially identified by "Window".]
[Due to recent staff shortages, two first-year students from Tokyo Jujutsu High School were originally dispatched, but they were later rescued.]
【I have lost contact with Gojo Kanako.】
Geto Xiayou clenched his fists and called on the system in his heart with the last glimmer of hope.
[Unable to detect the main body of the ceiling cultivation system. The system is currently on standby...]
"How... could it be..." Geto Suguru's mentality was a little broken.
The Kikufuku that Ieiri Shoko took from Gojo Satoru was still in Kanako's dormitory, not opened and eaten. The rabbit doll that Yega Masamichi gave her was lying alone in the quilt, not in the warm embrace of its owner.
She just disappeared in the early summer of that year as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth.
【Author’s words】
College: The child is lost!!! (Fearful)
Stay calm! The only slight regret (the fake sword) is that Kanako accidentally traveled to the original storyline, but she will come back!
There is a sentence in the copy: [Traveling everywhere, raised by all kinds of weird people]. Considering that it will take some opportunities to solve the problem of Geto Suguru's defection (because there are too many inducements), let Kanako go to train for a unit first, and then solve it all at once after she comes back!
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