Chapter 82: Day 82 of Cultivation
Chapter 82
"Is it her?"
"It's definitely her. That suture line on her forehead—it's usually inconvenient for ordinary people to see, so she'll choose to cover it up in some way."
Kong Shiyu held up several images pulled from public surveillance footage and listed several possibilities: "Hat, headscarf, hairstyle, fake skin... it's just a few of these."
Gojo Satoru glanced at several photos and seemed to be at ease, but in fact, he was the one who knew nothing about the information.
Among the temporary teammates formed because of a "Curry Chicken Hell Dinner", the one who knows the most is Kanako, and the second is probably the mustache man who acts as an intermediary for the curse master.
Kanako has the constraints and the "law of cause and effect" as an absolutely reliable guarantee, and the most important thing is that Gojo Satoru trusts his own judgment.
His train of thought went something like this: My six eyes have seen the many tight bonds she has established with Gojo Satoru. Should I trust an unknown curse master or myself?
He must believe in himself, he is the strongest!
Getting rid of a curser must have its own deeper meaning for me.
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Thinking about the many obstacles that would arise if the higher-ups knew about this, Gojo Satoru decided not to contact the High School for the time being.
He wants to go out and work on his own.
"Since you affectionately call her 'Stitching', would she really allow you to discover this obvious physical feature so easily?"
"I'm curious about this," Gojo Satoru pointedly asked Kong Shiyu, "What is your relationship with the suture?"
Seeing that the ambiguous blank spot was pointed out, Kong Shiyu placed the picture on the table and spread it out.
He responded calmly, "I've worked with her a few times before, and I've known her sporadically for two years."
Kanako mumbled, "So, to use the inappropriate term marital relationship, she was originally your bound original wife, and we are the new ones you met behind the scenes."
Gojo Satoru looked back and saw that it was Kanako who was talking while drinking yogurt with her mouth biting on the straw.
Kong Shiyu: "...quite a magical metaphor."
Gojo Satoru shrugged. "It's a normal plot. Keep going."
Kong Shiyu said with a half-smile, "At this point, I might as well reveal a little more about the market situation. Otherwise... I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to walk out of this room straight."
Kanako: "Don't worry, we promise to get your body out of here intact."
Kong Shiyu: “…” What a despairing joke.
After calming down, he continued.
"In my understanding, cursers and sorcerers are essentially the same group. Is that understandable?"
"They hold the same weapons and fight openly and secretly for their own interests... The two names are simply to distinguish between dogs kept at home and stray dogs outside the circle." Kong Shiyu explained frankly.
Kanako didn't like this metaphor: "Don't insult dogs like this. Dogs are our best friends."
"You are right, Miss." Kong Shiyu also gave her a respectful title.
"I've more or less slumped over the iron railings in the middle and reaped a lot of benefits, helping both the sorcerers inside the circle and the cursers outside it."
Kong Shiyu said: "It's really strange that Suture, as a curse master, doesn't care about the affairs of the upper echelons of the curse world."
"Sometimes pretending too much can have the opposite effect."
Fushiguro Shier squinted at him and said, "Speak human language."
Kong Shiyu sighed, "She's demanding and demanding. She's been putting on an air of dominance 24 hours a day, afraid no one would guess what big conspiracy she's hatching."
"This kind of person is the type I hate meeting the most. In comparison, Fushiguro is pretty good—" He didn't forget to criticize one and praise the other.
Fushiguro Shier gave a forced smile: "Haha."
Kong Shiyu: "If I continue to fight with her, my life will be in danger. I will follow Fushiguro and surrender to the enemy."
Gojo Satoru snapped his fingers at the perfect moment: "Good vision!"
Fushiguro Shijiro just frowned and said nothing.
Kanako's emphasis was unusual: "Wait, what do you think of her aura?"
Kong Shiyu carefully recalled what he had just said: "Uh... am I the only one who matters?"
With a "bang", Kanako slammed the table and stood up, shattering the entire square table.
Kong Shiyu remembered that this was the place he rented, not the Fushiguro family, and he had to pay compensation, so he closed his eyes and pressed the solar plexus.
Fushiguro Shinobu exposed him: "For the past ten years, he has been the main intermediary for the black market's bounty on Gojo Satoru."
Gojo Satoru's expression changed after hearing this... and became even more cheerful: "You're speaking quickly. Your vision and insight are truly exceptional!"
Kong Shiyu: "...Thank you for the compliment?"
"No need to thank me. Anyone who can recognize the reality so early, understand and spread my unique and powerful charm deserves this reward." Gojo Satoru was praising himself shamelessly.
Kanako made a note in her notebook and muttered, "I am the only one who is supreme, I am the only one who is supreme... How dare she steal my line..."
Kong Shiyu: It’s terrible. The person I temporarily relied on all had some serious illness.
He felt a little regretful, but when he thought of the nightmare curry last night, his stomach trembled and he quickly gritted his teeth and gave up the idea.
Don’t let your efforts go to waste!
*
Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.
The boy with short pink spiky hair stood quietly at the door of the teaching building.
In recent years, the educational policy of kindergartens has been to focus on cultivating children's independence, so special emphasis has been placed on allowing children to go to and from school on their own.
However, due to the parents' concerns and expectations, a large number of parents will wait on the road not far from the kindergarten.
The pink-haired boy watched his classmates throw themselves into the arms of adults one after another, and he couldn't help feeling a sense of loss.
"Mr. Yuji, are you going home alone today?" The caregiver came over and squatted down to talk to him.
"No, Mom said she would come to pick me up." Little classmate Yu Zhang said firmly, "Mom must have encountered too many traffic lights on the way. I will wait for Mom a little longer and then go home soon."
After hearing his explanation, the caregiver didn't say anything more.
It happened that a parent nearby came to ask her about the situation, and the caregiver had to deal with that matter first, so she left the little student Yuji alone there in a daze.
Yuji-san held his head high and chest out, standing straight, as if he were a soldier ready to receive orders at any time.
A voice came from nowhere and said, "Hello."
Yuji replied politely: "Oh, hello."
He looked around but couldn't find the source of the sound. Suddenly, there was a noise in the bushes, and a black-haired boy of the same age as him, wearing a yellow bowler hat, came out.
"What's your name? Are you waiting for someone?" The black-haired boy asked two questions right away.
"My name is Yuji Itadori, and I'm waiting for my mom."
Yuji Itadori stared at the boy, and the more he looked, the more he found it amazing: "Why haven't I seen you before?"
The black-haired boy said, "...My class is quite far from yours, so we might not have the chance to meet."
Yuji Itadori shook his head: "No, I know all the kids in the school, and they are all my friends!"
Fushiguro Megumi fell into thought: "..."
Yuji Itadori kept asking, "Who are you? Why did you come out of the tree?"
Careless, he is a super social expert.
Kanako's voice came from the earphone hidden under the brim of Fushiguro Megumi's hat: "Don't be afraid, just go for it! Bring out your potential as a social terrorist, and listen to me from now on, just say-"
Fushiguro Megumi calmly replied, "I am a sea urchin."
?
He regretted it after he said it. What kind of pseudonym did Kanako give him?
Yuji Itadori had no doubt about his identity, but instead had a pair of starry eyes.
"Is it because of the sea urchin hairstyle that he's called Sea Urchin? Wow, that's so cool!"
Fushiguro Megumi had no choice but to go along with his understanding and continue: "Yes, this hairstyle looks more like a sea urchin, so I am a sea urchin spirit."
He pointed forward. "Your hair isn't as sharp as mine, so you're just a regular crab sashimi."
Itadori Yujin touched his hair and laughed out loud: "Hahahaha, so funny!!"
"I tell you, in those bushes there was—"
Their naturally cheerful personalities seem to give them endless things to talk about. Once they get to know someone, they will cling to their new acquaintances and become the leaders of the conversation.
Megumi Fushiguro doesn't dislike Yuji Itadori's personality. He tends to be a listener and rarely initiates topics.
Most of the time, he would only reply a few words when necessary.
At the same time, Megumi Fushiguro gradually became distracted while Yuji Itadori was concentrating on describing the story.
Because he remembered that Yuji Itadori was part of the plan.
He always couldn't help but pay attention to the implementation of the other part of the plan.
"Hiren."
At this moment, a gentle female voice came from not far away. Itadori Yuji was stunned for a moment, then turned around happily and waved in response: "Mom!"
Megumi Fushiguro clenched her fists and pursed her lips.
Yuji Itadori's mother, named Kaori Itadori, is the biggest suspect of the "Suture" curser targeted by their temporary cooperation team.
There are no visible suture-related features on her forehead, which shows that she is well protected.
"Mom, this is a friend I just met. He is a sea urchin spirit." Yuji Itadori introduced excitedly.
Itadori Kaori smiled gently: "Hello, Yuhito's friend."
"Why are you wearing such a big mask?"
Fushiguro Megumi lied, "I'm prone to allergies, and my family told me that dust is harmful to my skin, so they told me to wear it all the time."
Knowing in advance that the harmless woman in front of her was most likely a curser who had harmed countless people, Megumi Fushiguro's heart instantly rose to her throat.
The voice in the headset became the system, more nervous than Fushiguro Megumi: [How about…how about changing the subject? Buy some time.]
The question is how to keep her.
The capture operation must be completed in a short period of time, otherwise there is a risk of escape.
Yuji Kaori nodded slightly to show her understanding. She took her son's hand and said, "Let's go home?"
Before Fushiguro Megumi could say anything, Itadori Yujin interrupted his mother: "Emily will be lonely if she stays at school alone without going home."
"Can I wait until his parents arrive before I leave?"
"There will be a teacher to take care of him." Kaori Itadori didn't sound like she wanted to wait.
"Wait!" Megumi Fushiguro racked her brains to think of some conversation skills.
"Whenever I see you, auntie, it reminds me of my mom," he said.
Itadori Kaori smiled: "Really? It seems that your mother is also a very good mother--"
Megumi Fushiguro: "She died shortly after I was born."
Yuji Kaori's smile froze, and she added, "I'm sorry to hear that."
At this time, the chat master Yuji Itadori drooped his eyes sadly: "You and your father must be very sad."
Megumi Fushiguro didn't hesitate: "My father died many years before I was born."
Fushiguro Shijiru in the headset: “?”
Yuji Itadori became even sadder: "QAQ I'm sorry!! I said the wrong thing again!"
"Kaori Itadori": So how can a father who has been dead for many years have a son? Does this make sense?
Fushiguro Megumi continued, like a student trying to fill out a word count for an essay: "Especially my father... My father is a rotten man. I hate him so much that I don't even want to call him father."
"But I just had a question that I can't figure out. Could you please help me solve it?"
"You say." Kaori Itadori's expression gradually calmed down.
Fushiguro Megumi looked directly into her calm eyes and asked, "If he is a bad guy, is it possible for him to be a good father?"
"Even if he has caused so much harm to this society and this world, and has already done so many evil things..."
“Is there even a slight chance that he can correct his mistakes and ultimately succeed as a responsible father? — I really want to know the answer to this question.”
Megumi Fushiguro slowly loosened her clenched fists.
Kaori Itadori looked into his eyes quietly.
Yuji Itadori made a puzzled sound.
After a moment, Fushiguro Megumi received a reminder from the headset and said, "As a bad guy (curse master), is it possible for you to be a good mother?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed towards Yuji Itadori without saying a word.
The pink-haired boy was knocked to the ground with a bewildered look on his face and rolled to the side of the road. He struggled to get up, but instead of investigating Fushiguro Megumi's reasons, he immediately looked at his mother.
In just a few seconds, the gravel road under Kaori Itadori's feet broke and sank downwards. She raised her arms slightly, but did nothing.
Or it was done, but failed to produce the corresponding effect.
Everything was unusually quiet.
Until Gojo Satoru, holding a Soul-Releasing Sword in his hand, passed in front of Itadori Kaori, breaking the existing situation.
"Your name is Yuji, right?"
Stopping in front of the boy and half-crouching, Gojo Satoru said while playing with the knife, "I'm the parent of the sea urchin, Clam (because the flesh is white). Hello, would you like to visit us?"
It is difficult for children to do two things at once, so Yuji Itadori chose to forget that he was knocked down for no reason and that his mother made strange movements.
He asked innocently, "Is your house in the water?"
"That's right, we can also have dinner together. Tonight's dinner is very sumptuous, it's hot pot." Gojo Satoru announced loudly.
"Our family also includes a kelp spirit, a professionally trained chef, and more. It's guaranteed to be fun."
Yuji Itadori went to ask his mother for her opinion.
Until this moment, Kaori Itadori still hasn't stopped acting.
She said calmly, "No, it's really too expensive for you..."
"This is a notification, not a discussion."
The little note with famous quotes that Gojo Satoru stole from Kanako finally found a use for it.
"Then it's decided. Let's go to our house together."
Gojo Satoru: "Youjin, do you know there's a dish called brain flower in hot pot?"
【Author’s words】
Aunt Juan has a private purpose for raising such a large Japanese knotweed. I will explain it to you, Bobo.
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