Chapter 28: Cultivation Day 28
Chapter 28
Kanako reviewed the notes she had in her mind.
"Restraint" is a widely used factor in the world of curses. Its essence can be understood as an oath in exchange for a price. This setting has been complained about by Kanako countless times, and it is very similar to the setting of constraints and oaths in "All O Hunter".
However, thanks to Kanako's extensive reading experience, she easily grasped the essence of "restraint" and made the following summary that anyone with no basic knowledge can easily understand.
"A person's bondage is a pact they make with themselves: to lose something in exchange for something else," Kanako said. "It's like transferring all the flesh from your left hand to your right. That way, your left hand becomes weak, while your right becomes incredibly strong."
The disclosure of a sorcerer's spells is also a form of "personal restraint," and its most widespread application. Kanako was tempted to complain about this: why would sorcerers introduce their abilities mid-fight? It's like a shonen manga where they proactively explain the setting, fearing the reader won't understand.
After explaining the settings, one can upgrade one's own skills to a higher level. Kanako couldn't help but imagine the final chapter of the comic, where the protagonist faced the villain and shouted for nearly two hours about the skills he had acquired during the upgrade.
Then after shouting for more than half an hour, he successfully died of thirst.
or……
The protagonist: "Listen carefully, Great Demon, my technique is revealed to be——"
"Who wants to listen to you? Take my ultimate move of dark power!" The villain Dabo interrupted the protagonist's chanting, and without summoning soldiers to deliberately give away heads, he directly used a big move to send the protagonist away.
Villain wins!
"To sum up, I think restraints are not a very practical thing." Kanako said seriously.
Ieiri Shoko: "...Why did a CG scene from the ending of Dragon Quest BE suddenly appear before my eyes?"
Gojo Satoru: “…It’s an illusion.”
"Then how do you understand the bond between two people?" Gojo Satoru asked again.
"The restraints of two people are even less reliable than those of one person!" Kanako answered almost instantly.
She recalled that when she met the fake Geto Suguru from this world, the special cursed spirit Hanamika proposed using restraints to guarantee that neither side would lie. Even the fake Geto Suguru with a hypocritical face deliberately found an excuse to politely reject the proposal.
From this we can see that...the constraints established between the two parties are very unreliable.
"The cost of binding one person is already determined in advance, but the cost of binding two people is unknown." Kanako pouted. "The cost depends entirely on how much damage the other party wants to cause me. If they hate me, I'm doomed."
"I really don't understand why there is a need for these two parties to be bound..." Kanako frowned in dissatisfaction.
"That makes sense. Kanako-chan is like a wild animal rolling in the mud. She must always be wary of strange adults." Ieiri Shoko stroked her fur.
Kanako stared straight at Ieiri Naoko, suppressing the excitement in her heart, and ran over to grab her white coat: "Sister Naoko!"
Ieiri Naoko nodded: "Well, I like this name... Have we met before?"
Kanako kept her mouth shut: "I saw it three seconds ago, so it counts as seeing it!"
Gojo Satoru, who was excluded, spoke silently: "I brought her to you, Glass, but not to ask you to completely deny her 'restraint' for her——"
Ieiri Shoko just remembered him and added, "You should call Shoko Sister, and call that guy over there Uncle Gojo Satoru, got it?"
Kanako: “Great!”
Gojo Satoru: "???"
"Come to think of it, Kanako-chan has always viewed the concept of 'restraint' from the perspective of being victimized and paying a heavy price." Ieiri Shoko put her hands in her pockets and leaned against the wall. "Kanako-chan's remarks just now are related to your experience, right?"
She slowly explained the reason behind this: "Maybe it's because I've encountered some bad things recently, and I'm naturally wary of bad people. When I mention something related to bad people, I automatically associate it with bad people."
"To put it simply: the sense of self-preservation, transformed from a sense of crisis, is very strong."
"Don't always focus on the bad guys." Ieiri Shoko thought for a moment and asked, "Is there anything Kanako likes?"
"Does rice count?" Kanako answered in a second.
Ieiri Shoko: "Sure. You like rice, and bad people also eat rice. Is rice inherently a bad thing?"
Kanako immediately responded, "No! It's the bad guys' own fault that they're bad!"
"Well, answer directly. Kanako-chan's example was based entirely on the possibility that bad people would eat rice. That only leads to the conclusion that rice is bad," Ieiri Shoko said patiently. "In fact, there's nothing wrong with rice itself."
Kanako said affirmatively, "Of course, rice is a good thing."
Ieiri Shoko: "So - why not switch angles and explore the potential of the 'binding' between the two parties?"
"To sum it up in a well-known truth, nothing in itself has good or bad attributes; it depends on the type of person using it," Gojo Satoru continued.
Finally, it was Gojo Satoru's turn to talk about the point he wanted to make. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Naoko also has the potential to be a teacher."
Ieiri Naoko looked at him speechlessly. "You just realized it? If you had realized it earlier, you would have found that everyone in the entire high school, except you, has a talent for teaching."
"After all, even you have been the class teacher for several years." Jialiu Glass smiled sarcastically, as if she had regained the feeling of teasing each other when they were classmates.
"Okay, let's talk about the 'binding' problem from another angle. It's actually very simple to think about-" Gojo Satoru snapped his fingers, freeing Kanako from her state of solitary meditation.
"Kanako, do you believe in me, Sensei?"
Kanako's dead eyes: "You are not my teacher, don't talk nonsense."
"You believe it, right? Teacher, I believe in you too." Gojo Satoru spread out the palms of his hands, suspended them in the air, and raised them to the same height.
"A relationship built on complete trust between two parties, where both parties cherish each other, means that even if the constraints are violated, the other party won't be willing to pay a high price. This is one reason."
At this moment, Gojo Satoru's hands simulated the two ends of a scale. He continued, "The ability you gain in exchange for your 'Personal Binding' must only affect you, but the price doesn't necessarily need to be borne alone. This is the second point."
With a clapping sound, Gojo Satoru clapped his hands together and said, "What conclusion can we draw from these two situations?"
This sentence was too complex and tedious, so Kanako didn't need a response. He directly stated the core of the matter: "Kanako, in order to ensure that you can freely change history after returning, you need to set a condition: 'You cannot tell anyone about your time travel.'"
"Also, to assist you in establishing the bondage and to pay for your use of the special technique to travel through the world, once the bondage is established, I will lose all memory of this event." Gojo Satoru removed his black eyepatch, his pale blue eyes darkening. "If you're ready, let's begin."
There was a small sealing cage in the cabinet of the infirmary. Gojo Satoru lifted the cover, and Kanako recognized at a glance that it was the appearance of [February Station] after being beaten up by her. It had turned into a ghost huddled in the corner, weak, pitiful and helpless.
System: […They’ve actually found it!!! When did Gojo Satoru capture this cursed spirit?]
Kanako's expression became very strange for a moment, and she said with a complicated look on her face, "Damn it, Gojo Satoru's current actions are too much like those of a reliable adult. How is it possible... Is it really true that Gojo Satoru, who will become a reliable adult, is not OOC!?"
"Hey, interrupting your wonderful speech." Ieiri Naoko raised her hand. "So, what does the bondage between you have to do with me?"
Gojo Satoru dragged out the last word: "I'm a witness~"
Ieiri Glass continued to ask: "So?"
Gojo Satoru: "What I mean is, if something happens to me one day, Glass will take over as the one who is bound by the conditions."
Ieiri Naoko paused for a moment before saying, "Are you serious?"
Gojo Satoru: "Of course."
Ieiri Shoko: "I mean, do you think there will be a day when you 'accidentally get into trouble'?"
Gojo Satoru shrugged noncommittally, his silence telling the whole story.
"...I understand." Ieiri Naoko sighed with deep emotion. "I'm truly defeated by you. Suddenly, you act like you're going to change the past and the future. It's something you're capable of."
"Wait!" Kanako raised her arms and shouted, "There's another problem! This cursed spirit is still a curse, not our companion!"
In the sealed cage, the cursed spirit [February Station] trembled.
"You see, I need to make sure that it listens to me completely, or even a hundred times. As soon as I say to start the spell, it will be activated." Kanako stretched her fingers to the bridge of her nose and pushed up her non-existent glasses.
Then he spoke in an enigmatic manner, "I now fully understand what Gojo Satoru meant by the other perspective of 'restraint.' Based on unconditional trust, I have a candidate who can obtain the [February Station] technique, firmly controlling the technique for time travel within my grasp..."
She gave a devilish smile: "Hmph, the plan worked."
The air fell into an eerie silence, and the system couldn't help but ask, "Who is it? Who is it? There are only three of you here, and after the process of elimination, there's not a single one left!"
Kanako just laughed: [Hehe.]
system:【? 】
Kanako still had a smile on her face: [Hehe.]
system:【……! ! ! 】
Kanako waved her hand and pointed at the sealing cage: [I found a super good container for you, all!]
[From now on, you can fly around me freely anytime, anywhere! And everyone here, except me, can hear your wonderful complaints!] Kanako picked up the cage and threw it into the air in front of her like a Master Ball.
[It's decided to be you——Come out, everyone!]
A burst of white mist appeared out of nowhere and gradually dissipated, and there was nothing in the torn seal cage.
The system, which has not yet adapted to its new body, is floating unsteadily in the air... Although its current appearance is completely a ball of white floating object, it still sticks to its original intention and calls itself a system!
It's Kanako's system!
The system was furious and frantic: "Do you know how much of a 'binding' price I paid to cover this cursed spirit?! I used to have the ability to travel to other worlds. After you complete your mission, maybe you could go to a world like 'Poseidon' or 'Fire Ninja'. Now those options are gone!"
System: [You may have to stay in this world of spells from now on! ]
"Isn't this great?" Kanako said. "Whether it's the Grand Line or Konoha Village, these things are interesting because they're in the manga. Comics and reality are always different!"
"My story, Kanako, should happen in the right place. Otherwise, you wouldn't have appeared in my ears and brought me to this world, right?"
System: [That does seem to make sense...]
"It's done, all ready." Kanako patted the system's transparent head and said, "Uncle Gojo Satoru, Sister Glass, I'm going back first."
Gojo Satoru: "You really screamed?"
Kanako: "When I return, I will say goodbye to this future. You must deal with the villains well, and I will redouble my efforts!"
The system diligently used its cursed power to release the technique, and a black vortex immediately enveloped Kanako's head.
Kanako smiled, a little reluctantly.
No, there was something she was reluctant about... But she suddenly felt a tightness in her chest. Why...
"Don't cry just because you can't tell anyone about your time travel, okay?" Gojo Satoru said, unable to read the air.
Kanako retorted, "Who would cry?!"
Gojo Satoru smiled and said, "I'm talking about you. You little brat who hasn't even been to school yet needs to learn to rely on the adults over there."
"Just relax. No matter which world you go to, your companions will not disappear."
At that moment, the tightness in my chest disappeared.
Kanako entered the whirlpool with a warm heart, and her vision was soon occupied by the endless darkness.
She saw a small point of light not far away and quickly turned around to head towards the only bright light. Kanako encouraged herself and prepared herself. She tensed all her nerves and muscles at the same time and stretched out her hand.
There seemed to be two vague voices ringing in her ears. Kanako recognized that one of them was from Xiaojie, and the other one was not very clear.
It seemed to be a female voice, and she said: "I also want to go to various places with everyone..."
"I want to..."
Bang!
In the silent darkness, only a faint light flickered. With a slight roar, Fushiguro Shigeki pulled the trigger at Nariko.
At a moment when no one noticed, a tiny black vortex appeared and disappeared in half a second. The air on the bullet's trajectory seemed to be sucked away in an instant, and in an instant, the bullet stopped in mid-air.
Almost at the same time as she left the whirlpool, Kanako saw that Geto Suguru was "attacked by a bullet" and rushed over quickly. She reached out and grabbed the bullet, crushed it expressionlessly, and rolled it back and forth. A dull sound of clicking came from her palm.
Then, throw it on the ground.
Fushiguro Shigeki was stunned for a moment: ...?
Where did this person come from?
【Author’s words】
Shen Er: There is a cheat!
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