Chapter 133 The Second Player

Well... the ending of that day and that incident seemed to be that Gojo Satoru dragged him away. Hanayamain Haruna was very angry, but there was nothing she could do. Of course, Saikai Haruto still went to find her to compensate her and apologize.

It’s no wonder that there have been several posts on the forum recently joking about whether “the manga has changed from a passionate fighting series to a romantic comedy series”. In fact, the content of this episode has almost nothing to do with fighting, and most of it is just a few people’s arguments.

Xihai Qingdou's eyes wandered.

It’s not like they don’t have missions and classes, right? It’s just that classes are boring, and missions are always solved a little too quickly, but they have exorcised quite a few cursed spirits in the past few months… They are still doing real work, it’s just that it’s not shown in the comics.

So it’s not his fault—it’s all the manga’s fault.

Saikai Haruto nodded affirmatively.

The only pity is that the person he wants to find - Fushiguro Shiji, has not appeared in the comics yet, so he can't find him even if he wants to.

Although he might not be difficult to find - after all, that guy's nickname was "Magic Killer", and he was quite famous. Money allowed him to do many things, so naturally he could be found.

But "Igarashi Yuuki" is just an ordinary, innocent student at Jujutsu High School. There is no reason for him to be related to the "magician killer". Moreover, Fushiguro wants money, which is what he lacks the most. Not to mention asking him to give money to others, forget it!

——Although Geto and the others didn’t lie to him, being a sorcerer did pay well, but the bad luck debuff on “Igarashi Yuuki” was too strong. Every time he made money, it would slip away from him again for various reasons, and he couldn’t stop it…

In short, Xi Haiqing Dou is now just maintaining a balance in an infinite cycle of "make money - lose money - make money - lose money - make money". He has money but no money, and can only barely maintain a well-fed life.

You want him to give money to Fushiguro Shiori just like that? Haha, you are dreaming.

At worst, he could just... try his luck with Hanayamain Haruna.

Anyway, the players will definitely not be unhappy about it.

As for Gojo Satoru not allowing it... then he will just do it secretly. At worst he can just apologize after the incident - I'm sorry, but I'll do it again next time.

We are all friends anyway, who would have any bad intentions?

Time passed slowly and it was the end of July.

If it were any other normal high school, such as De Ming High School where Yuuki Igarashi had studied before, they would normally have a normal summer vacation of more than a month at this time, and would not go back to school until September.

However, for the Jujutsu High School, this is impossible.

The weather is hot during the summer vacation, and people are more likely to have more negative emotions, which is naturally the time when the number of curses increases dramatically.

As sorcerers, this period is naturally their busiest time - let alone long holidays, they may not even have normal weekends, 996 and 007 are the norm.

In the evening, a crescent moon hung quietly in the dark blue night sky. Four young men in black uniforms pushed open the door of a dessert shop that was about to close.

"Ah, I'm so tired... Is it finally over? No more tasks for today, right?"

A weak sound came out of his mouth, and Xi Haiqingdou lay on the table half dead, rubbing his face against the glass filled with ice water in his hand.

He looked up at Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru who were sitting opposite him, and then glanced at Ieiri Naoko who was sitting next to him. His green eyes had lost their seemingly infinite vitality and brightness. His eyes were empty, and there were obvious dark circles under his eyes. He looked as wilted as a leaf of grass that had been sunburned by the sun.

"What time is it?" he asked.

Gojo Satoru lazily leaned on the back of the chair, with his long legs spread out to fill the entire space under the table. His sitting posture was as uninhibited as usual. Although he looked a little listless, he was full of energy compared to Saikai Haruto.

He sent a mocking message to Saikai Haruto: "It's only eight o'clock, Yuuki, are you not good enough? We agreed to stay upright outside and not stagger around, why are you not good enough so soon?"

Although everyone in Jujutsu High School is usually laughing and joking, and can do all kinds of naughty and rule-breaking things, but once they go out, Saikai Haruto and Geto Gaguru always pretend to be "good boys", sitting more upright than the other. Gojo Satoru is not convinced - he is used to being free, and of course he understands those "messy" etiquette rules, but he is too lazy to follow them.

This was the first time he saw Saikai Haruto collapse and lie on the table in a store like he did today.

"Anyway, there's no one here. Didn't you always say there's no need to go through so much trouble?"

Xi Hai Qing Dou rolled his eyes at him unhappily: "Yes, yes, you have rested for so long, of course you are not tired, but I have been on a mission for three or four days in a row, it is not easy to hold on until now, okay?"

There have been more and more curses recently, and there are only so many sorcerers in the world of curse. Not to mention first-level sorcerers, even special-level sorcerers have to run around doing tasks - no, that's not right, special-level sorcerers are even busier than first-level ones - isn't that what they call "the more capable you are, the more work you do"?

"Huh? Why do you have so many missions, Yuuki?"

Gojo Satoru straightened his posture a little, narrowed his eyes, and showed a little doubt on his face: "Something seems a little wrong? Jie and I don't have that many tasks. Where is Naoko?"

He turned his head slightly to look at Geto and Nakano for agreement. Geto nodded slightly, frowning slightly: "I have been very busy these past two days, but not to the point where I have been on missions for three or four days in a row... Yuki, do you have so many missions?"

Ieiri Naoko: "Yeah, even I had a break yesterday... Yuuki, have you not had any break these past few days?"

Ieiri Shoko is one of the rare sorcerers who can reverse the technique to not only heal herself, but also others. She can probably be said to be one of the very few rare nurses in the current sorcery world. Even though she is not a top-grade sorcerer like Gojo Satoru and others, she is also very busy - sometimes, Ieiri Shoko is even busier than them.

But even if everyone is busy, there are still only a few who are as busy as Saikai Haruto who "works non-stop for three days". But there are so many missions, and their abilities are very strong - there are only a few special-level ones in the world of sorcery, and they can be counted on one hand, and as a result, there are three of them in the Jujutsu High School. Even special-level cursed spirits can be exorcised by one person, and there are not many missions that require all of them to go out together to complete.

In order to exorcise the cursed spirits as efficiently as possible, they naturally had to carry out their tasks separately. They rarely even got together, and only saw each other once or twice a day, morning and evening. If someone was "on a business trip" to another city to exorcise the cursed spirits, it was normal not to see each other for a day or two. In this way, it was naturally difficult to know the situation of others. Today, everyone finally met by chance, and the others realized that Xi Haiqing Dou actually had so many tasks accumulated?

You have to know that he is "Heaven and Curse Bound". Let's not talk about the cursed power, but his physical strength is naturally far superior to others. On weekdays, he is the only one who is sleepy, so how can he be tired? Even if he is fighting with Gojo Satoru and Geto, and both of them are tired, "Igarashi Yuuki" is not necessarily tired.

Being so tired as today that you want to collapse and fall asleep, or feeling so listless that you don't even want to move, is truly rare among the rare, and it is extremely rare.

Gojo Satoru's expression suddenly became serious: "Hey, Yuuki, are those idiots from the Directors' Council causing you trouble?"

Countless conspiracy theories emerged in his mind. Gojo Satoru thought for a long time and suddenly said to himself: "But that's not right. You are the one who forgets to set up the account the least among the three of us. It doesn't make sense, right?"

"Ah, this..."

Xi Haiqingdou lay on the table, looking up and blinking, then slowly raised one arm and smiled: "Satoru, don't think too much. Well, actually, I took those missions myself..."

He muttered quietly: "I didn't expect those tasks to be so troublesome. Tsk, I was almost exhausted to death."

-Yes, the "culprit" who caused him to work as 007 for four consecutive days and almost exhausted himself to death was actually himself. There was no other "conspiracy" at all.

“Huh?”

Gojo Satoru's sunglasses fell down from his nose: "Did you catch it yourself?"

Xia Yujie's mouth twitched: "Are you crazy again?"

——The word "again" simply expresses the sophistication and bitterness.

Ieiri Naoko asked bluntly: "Yuuki, how is your brain?"

"I just wanted to use my free time to take a full day off... I thought that with my physical condition, there wouldn't be any problems, and the missions weren't that difficult."

Xi Haiqing Dou said weakly, "I didn't expect those missions to be so troublesome... and I'm so unlucky."

He had great difficulty in saying the last few words.

Originally, he planned to take on all the tasks at once, take a few full days off, and test his physical limits.

It was a pity that he overestimated himself. In fact, the mission itself was not difficult, but very, very troublesome and time-consuming. Working on the mission for more than ten or twenty hours a day without sleep was difficult for even the "Heaven and Curse" to bear.

再加上他身上還有一個不讓人省心的“絕處逢生”的buff在，沒有困境它也能給他制造出困境來，原本十分鐘就能完成的任務，因為意外能硬生生讓他拖到半小時——也好在雖然有意外發生，時間是拖長了，但他還是圓滿将任務完成了、沒出現纰漏就是了。

現在好了，他是将任務都清完了，也可以休息了，但任務被他撈走，咒靈再多也沒有到永遠源源不斷的時候，其他人也輕松了不少……大家也都可以短暫的“休息”一下了。

——也就是說，只有他一個人受傷的世界達成了。

“哈哈哈哈哈哈，我還以為悠希你應該對你的運氣早就習慣了呢？”

五條悟先是愣了一下，而後爆笑出聲：“笑死我了，你這家夥，不會一連接了幾十個任務吧？我說怎麽說東京這邊任務一下子少了那麽多呢，現在大家都可以休息了……原來是你在做好事麽？你是什麽聖人啊？所以你能休息多久？”

“悠希你……”夏油傑的表情也是一言難盡極了，他張了張嘴：“……沒必要那麽拼吧？”

“做了件好事啊，悠希。”

家入硝子眼中笑意滿溢，不吝贊揚：“啊，這次我難得贊同五條。”

“三天吧——也就這個周末多一天啦。”

西海晴鬥翻了個白眼。

“我也沒想到我能那麽倒黴，碰到一個咒靈結果能直接跟捅了咒靈窩似的，一下子帶出來一連串的咒靈……”

西海晴鬥無語極了：“誰知道那些咒靈到底是怎麽回事啊，腦子不好使地全都湊在一起，害得我差點翻車——咒靈什麽時候哪裏來的群聚的習慣啊？”

“你不是也沒有翻車麽？”

夏油傑笑得一派悲天憫人：“每次你都是這麽說，但是哪次不都是好好的。咒靈雖然沒有群聚的習慣，但是它們為了悠希你改變習慣、突破自我不是也不是一天兩天的事情了麽？我還以為悠希你應該已經習慣了才對。”

雖然這麽說着，但是西海晴鬥看得分明，他眼中分明還藏着一抹狡黠的、幸災樂禍的笑意，一看就是不是認真安慰他的。

——這家夥分明是嘲笑吧？

西海晴鬥氣得牙癢癢——要不是實在累得不行，他高低得爬起來和夏油傑好好“玩鬧”那麽一下，可惜現在也只有力氣給他翻了好大一個白眼。

家入硝子也沒忍住“噗嗤”一聲笑出聲：“夏油你……”

夏油傑眨了眨眼睛，一臉無辜：“怎麽了，我說得不對麽？”

——不知怎麽回事，他臉上這表情神态看得西海晴鬥莫名熟悉……但一時間怎麽也想不出來是哪裏熟悉。

“不不不，傑你說得對極了！”

五條悟笑得不行：“悠希可不是收到咒靈的歡迎麽，二級咒靈進化成一級、一級當場突然進化成特級，還有不知道從哪一連串撈出來的咒靈……它們可不是一直盯着悠希，為了他突破自我、改變咒靈習性嘛！”

“不過不是我說，傑你這個表情，噗哈哈哈，學悠希也學得太像了吧？不行了不行了，你們兩個這是在照鏡子麽？哈哈哈哈！”

五條悟捶着桌子，笑得眼淚都要出來了——夏油傑現在的臉上的表情和五十岚悠希平時臉上的表情簡直像了個十足十，尤其本尊也在旁邊的時候，兩個人雖然長相毫不相幹，但表情神态卻是簡直如同一個模子印出來的似的，看在五條悟眼裏別提有多好笑了。

“悟你可別污蔑人。”夏油傑的表情更無辜了：“我哪裏有學悠希？”

這下不僅是表情了，就連語氣都學了個十成十。

……想起來了，這家夥是在報複他上次學他吧？但是那都過去快一個星期了吧？夏油傑這家夥未免也太能記仇、報複心也太強了吧？！

不知道哪來的力氣，西海晴鬥惡從膽邊生，擡頭一腦袋朝着夏油傑撞了過去：“喂喂喂，傑你也太能記仇了吧？還是說傑你這麽喜歡我，才能學我學得這麽像……哇，好感動！”

“噫，離我遠點！”

夏油傑瞬間變臉，嫌棄地一巴掌把西海晴鬥推了回去：“我可是直男。”

西海晴鬥像只不倒翁似的順勢躺回椅子上，冷呵一聲：“傑你這是gay者見gay！我也是直男，直男怎麽了就不能靠一下麽？”

家入硝子翻了個白眼，往旁邊坐了坐：“呵，男同離我遠點！”

西海晴鬥慘叫：“哇，硝子你居然不相信我——”

“哎呀，要是春奈同學也在就好了，她一定會相信我的清白的。”他真情意切地嘆氣。

“春奈還要等明天才能回來吧？”

夏油傑順暢地接上話題：“她今天上午還在和我說，如果順利的話，說不定明天就能回來了。”

花山院春奈不像是五條悟，來到了咒術高專随便浪，五條家愛回不回；她還是要定期回到禪院家還有春日神社的——畢竟她還是禪院家的“神女”，以及春日神社的巫女，有職稱的那種。

最近幾天她也是有事回了京都，所以現在才沒有出現在和他們一起。

“真的假的？”五條悟差點從椅子上跳了起來，砸了咂嘴：“唉，春奈不在的這幾天過得也太快了吧？她怎麽這麽快就回來了？”

看上去似乎還很遺憾的樣子。

“喂喂喂，我說五條，春奈也沒有對你做什麽吧？你有這麽不喜歡她麽？”

家入硝子簡直沒眼看：“你這家夥居然還是春奈的未婚夫……居然連春奈什麽時候回來都不知道麽，真是讓人火大。”

“哈？我又不在意她，幹嘛要管她什麽時候離開和回來啊。”

五條悟混不在意：“反正這個婚約又不是我想要的，是春奈不想現在解開，說要等到十八歲了再解。”

“悟他也不是讨厭春奈同學啦，只是他總覺得和春奈同學相處不自在而已。”

西海晴鬥替五條悟解圍，好在經過了這幾個月，大家也都适應了五條悟對于花山院春奈別別扭扭的态度，而且就連花山院春奈本人都沒說什麽，不怎麽在意的樣子，他們也就更不好說些什麽了。

“不過春奈同學明天就能回來了麽？”

他摸了摸下巴，若有所思：“說起來，我還以為她是後天才會回來來着？是已經把事情解決完了麽？”

“喂，悠希，你不會又要背着我和春奈一起出去玩吧？”

五條悟“唰”地看了過來，眼神警惕極了，像極了一只霸道護食的貓：“我不同意！”

“诶？但是我已經答應春奈同學了，後天給她接風來着。”

西海晴鬥無辜眨眼：“正好我後天也該輪到我休息了……所以抱歉啦悟。下次一定啦。”

家入硝子調侃：“我說，悠希你不會是因為後天和春奈有約會，所以這幾天才這麽努力接任務空出假期的吧？”

“哈啊？總之我不同意！這樣就更不能同意了！”

五條悟的白眼都快翻上天了，家入硝子莫名覺得他的語氣簡直像是妻子質問在外偷腥丈夫似的——她抖了抖雞皮疙瘩，趕緊把這個奇奇怪怪的想法甩出了腦海的黑洞裏。

不過五條悟也知道他的抗議十有八九是沒用的——西海晴鬥已經答應、做好了決定的事情，是從來都不會再反悔的。于是他又問：“你們約了哪裏做什麽？”

“诶，‘約會’麽？我喜歡這個詞語。”西海晴鬥笑容明亮，“不過地點什麽的是春奈同學定的，她說不能提前告訴我……不過反正也不會有什麽危險啦。”

“不過空出假期倒不是因為春奈同學的原因，是因為我還要去打工來着。大後天剛好也能空出來，去做一天的兼職賺錢。”

西海晴鬥掰着手指頭數：“如果我再不去的話，老板說不定要辭退我了。”

五條悟、夏油傑和家入硝子聞言瞬間向他投去了同情的目光。

“五十岚悠希不是缺錢就是在缺錢的路上”這件事在咒術高專——不，甚至在咒術界，都是有不少人知道的一件事。

賺到的錢在一周內必然因為各種原因失去，總之這家夥身上的錢永遠不會有多的。

所以雖然一開始說是放棄了“兼職打工”，但沒過一個月西海晴鬥又重新開啓了有事沒事打打工的日常。

哪怕有五條悟不信邪地經常塞錢給他、還試圖天天和他捆綁在一起觀察他到底是怎麽“破財”的，在西海晴鬥窮運buff的籠罩下也不得不服氣，承認“五十岚悠希”就是有千百萬種稀奇古怪的“破財”方式。

不過倒是可以放心大膽地向他借錢——反正這家夥祓除咒靈賺錢的速度也是一等一的快。

“花山院春奈那家夥，搞得那麽神秘……不會是要讓你幹什麽壞事吧？”

Gojo Satoru rolled his eyes and smiled slyly: "Hey, Yuuki, since Haruna is coming back tomorrow, anyway, Gon, Nazo and I can all have a day off tomorrow, how about letting Haruna move up the time she made with you to tomorrow, and we can all go on a date together tomorrow?"