Chapter 121 The Second Player

"What's wrong, Takeshi?" Saikai Haruto frowned.

"Nothing." Xia Yujie hesitated for a moment and still did not ask the question. Instead, he smiled as always and shook his head slightly.

Gojo Satoru was still trying to spit out Saikai Haruto's candy with his tongue open.

"Puh! This tastes so sour, how can it be called candy? This is clearly sour beans! Nitro and Jie, don't you think it's sour?"

Then he rummaged around in his pockets for a long time, trying to pull out some chocolate candy or something like that: "Is it really that magical? Everything I eat in ten minutes will taste like this candy? Damn it, where's my chocolate?"

"It's quite sour...but it's also a very novel experience." Ieiri Shoko answered frankly.

Xia Yujie was absent-minded and answered ambiguously: "Well, I think it's okay?"

"As expected, Geto-san has great taste." Saikai Haruto smiled brightly, "This is a specially made candy. I have another box. If Geto-san likes it, I'll give it to you. It's rare for someone to feel the same way as I do!"

"What? Jay, you actually like this? Is this true? This is horrible. Jay, is there really nothing wrong with your taste buds?"

Gojo Satoru, unwilling to be lonely, put his hand on Geto's shoulder.

"…Thank you very much, Igarashi."

Xia Yujie hesitated, but still smiled and reached out to take it.

"Everyone has their own preferences, Wu, just like you like sweets, but I don't like them that much."

After shaking Gojo Satoru's hand off his shoulder, he glanced at Saikai Haruto again, then lowered his eyelashes slightly and continued to think about the thought just now.

This idea was a bit absurd and strange, and it came so suddenly that even he found it unbelievable, but Xia Yujie suddenly felt that this was not impossible.

Based on his understanding of Saikai Haruto, he is not the kind of person who would suddenly play a prank on others - "Igarashi Yuuki" is not the kind of person like Gojo Satoru, who would suddenly take out such sour candy. Although it is consistent with what he said about "changing your mood", Geto Suguru intuitively feels that this is not the reason - or not just that.

——However, Igarashi didn’t seem to want to tell the reason.

...Wait, let's try it.

By the time they came out of the orphanage and finished reporting the results of the incident, only a dozen minutes had passed since they went in.

Although this mission was not successfully completed - the situation of the cursed spirits inside was accidentally misjudged, and the young female teacher stayed in the orphanage to protect the two children and died inside before Gojo Satoru and the others arrived; and there seemed to be some inside story inside the orphanage.

But there are always flaws in everything. At least the two children survived, which is a blessing in disguise.

After returning, Xi Hai Qing Dou and his friends reported the whole thing to Ye Ga Zheng Dao, who was obviously doubting his life - no matter how you look at it, Xi Hai Qing Dou's luck was really unlucky and a bit weird.

"Igarashi, have you ever been hit by a curse that would make a person's luck very bad?"

Yega Masamichi asked doubtfully, and after receiving a negative answer from Xihai Qingdou, he shook his head, "No, maybe this is just an ordinary coincidence."

“…What kind of coincidences can happen one after another to make people suffer like this?” Gojo Satoru complained.

Ye Mo Zheng Dao insisted on not believing it - after all, it was impossible for him to let the student go on missions alone in the future just because of his illusory luck problem, right?

By the way, that night, Saikai Haruto received another thank you from Geto Suguru - Geto Suguru didn't say the reason, and Saikai Haruto didn't ask why. The two looked at each other with a relaxed smile on their faces, and there was a tacit understanding between them.

——Then he was caught by Gojo Satoru.

"What are you doing?"

The white-haired boy took off the sunglasses on his nose, widened his beautiful blue eyes, and looked at them with an extremely surprised and complicated look. Xi Hai Qingdou thought about the complexity of that look - it could probably be perfectly described as "You two are having an affair behind my back without taking me with you."

Saikai Haruto, Kagome Takeru: "..."

Although both of them felt that there was nothing that needed to be explained, the result was that they were both questioned for a week, "Are you two keeping some little secret from me?" Gojo Satoru asked them for a week but still could not get anything out of them. He ended the question reluctantly, but he would still stare at them with a resentful look from time to time.

Even when they were at the account house, Nozomi was almost led astray by Gojo Satoru. She looked at the two of them with strange eyes from time to time. No one knew what was in her brain.

Saikai Haruto, Kagome Takeru: "..."

In short, it's outrageous.

Although this indirectly led to a "break in the ice" in their relationship and brought them one step closer.

Later, as compensation for the damage to some of the buildings caused by the bombardment of a "Cang", Gojo Satoru paid money to help the orphanage renovate the entire orphanage.

As for the deceased female teacher, matters related to her were handed over to other people to deal with, and this had nothing to do with them, the students.

Another week of peace and tranquility passed, and Saikai Haruto no longer went out to work on weekends - his salary had arrived, and although he was still not rich, there was no chance of "going broke" in the Jujutsu High School, so naturally he saved a small sum of money.

Finally, the weekend came and there was no task to complete, so Xi Haiqing Dou thought about taking Nicole out to buy new cat food. Cats are always picky, and Nicole is even more so. She would naturally want to change the cat food if there is something wrong with it.

Before he even left the house, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru came over together. With Gojo Satoru offering to treat them, his actions naturally became a "threesome".

The three boys walked side by side on the street. Gojo Satoru squeezed between Saikai Haruto and Geto Suguru, with his arms on each of their shoulders. Saikai Haruto said silently, "Satoru, don't you think we look a little weird like this?"

He always feels that the way passers-by look at them seems a little strange?

It shouldn't be his illusion.

Xia Yujie nodded without hesitation: "I think Yuuki is right."

"What's so strange about that? I think it's because we're so handsome that we attract all the attention of passers-by. There's nothing to be ashamed of." Gojo Satoru said, "I think this is great, isn't it?"

He puffed out his chest proudly, as if he really thought it was good.

Haruto Nishimi and Geto Suguru looked at each other, and both saw the familiar helplessness in each other's eyes.

Gojo Satoru was very angry: "Hey, Jie and Yuuki, are you two hiding some little secret from me again?"

"No, Wu, you're overthinking it."

"No, don't let your imagination run wild."

The two spoke in unison, almost at the same time.

As expected, Gojo Satoru exploded again: "Ha, I knew it, you two must be hiding some secret from me again, right?!"

He's here again.

Xia Yujie looked around and said, "...Ah, I see there seems to be a pet store up ahead. Yuuki, are you going to buy some new cat litter for Nicole?"

Xi Haiqingdou nodded without hesitation: "Ah, it's time to change it. By the way, there is also cat food. Thank you for reminding me, Jay, let's go together?"

Gojo Satoru grabbed one of them with one hand to prevent them from running away, and protested loudly: "Hey, hey, hey, you two, stop changing the subject and tell me the truth!"

"...By the way, Wu, have you ever felt that something seems to be missing recently?"

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Xia Youjie had no choice but to stop, smiling casually and talking about a new topic.

"Are you going to change the subject?" Gojo Satoru looked at him suspiciously. "I don't feel that way. Are you wrong, Jay? Isn't everything exactly the same as before? Or did you lose something?"

Although it was just a random topic, Xia Yujie still felt like something was missing, so he thought about it again and thought:

"I don't think I lost anything. But, Satoru, do you really not feel that way?"

...But why did he feel that perhaps there was something missing from both of them?

Gojo Satoru was bewildered: "Not at all, is it because Naoko is not here? But Naoko is not here very often, and she doesn't like to go out, right?"

Saikai Haruto: "That's because the weather is too hot right now. As a girl, Naoko is afraid of the sun being too strong, right?"

Xia Yujie frowned and whispered to himself, "How strange, what on earth is this?"

"Jack, you really didn't lose something and didn't find it?"

Xi Hai Qing Dou patted his shoulder to comfort him, "If you can't remember it, forget it. Maybe it's something unimportant. Otherwise, when you get back, you can check the room to see if there's anything missing."

"Let's go, Jie, Yuxi, I'm dying of heat—"

Gojo Satoru, who was walking in front, complained loudly.

"Maybe?"

Xia Yujie's thoughts were naturally diverted, and he retracted his thoughts, smiled and nodded: "Yuuki, you are right."

Putting the matter behind them, the two teenagers naturally strode after them.

It wasn't until Monday came and he saw a familiar figure in the classroom that he hadn't seen for a long time. Suddenly, Xia Yujie remembered what he felt was "missing" before -

There were so many things going on in the past two weeks that he and Gojo Satoru completely forgot about Hanayamain Haruna, with whom they used to hang out and meet every week.