Chapter 164 The Second Player

After seeing off Amanouchi Riko and her guardian Kuroi Misato, Nishimi Haruto stretched and rubbed his shoulders.

"It's finally over...wait, it's over. There won't be any more surprises, right?"

He turned his head and looked uncertainly at several of his classmates - Gojo Satoru, Kagome Ken, Ieiri Shoko and Hanayamain Haruna.

Ieiri Naoko threw her hands up and said in a very indifferent manner: "This mission has nothing to do with me at all. I just came here to make up the numbers. I don't know anything."

That's true... Ieiri Shoko's technique is the "reversal technique", and most of the time she is in charge of the "treatment" position. She was completely clueless about this mission from the beginning, and only participated in two things in total - she was called by Hanayamain Haruna to help with the treatment; she was called by Geto Kagome to help with the treatment - and then she found out that he had already been treated by Saikai Haruto, and then she was dragged by them to find the "base" of the Bankei Cult in Tokyo, and she also took Tenuchi Riko for a simple check-up.

"The time for assimilation has already passed... and Tennai is already 'dead' in the intelligence, so it's over anyway, right?"

Gojo Satoru folded his hands behind his head, with a casual and nonchalant attitude.

"You guys don't let me kill those people from Panxing Sect..."

"After all, they are just ordinary people."

Xia Yujie's expression froze for a moment, and then returned to normal: "Just like Yuuki said, they are at most... cultists. ... Just a group of lost lambs. It's meaningless."

"This incident should be completely over - there shouldn't be any follow-up."

"I think Wu has been away from the normal world of ordinary people for too long, so he has become the type who wants to use sorcerers' methods to solve everything."

Xi Haiqingdou rolled his eyes unceremoniously and complained unhappily: "In the end, how come you are almost the same as him... It is obviously easier, faster and more convenient to solve the Panxing Cult's affairs with ordinary people's means. Isn't it easier to report them to the police directly for gambling and various illegal activities, as well as buying murder?"

"In the end, it's all because religious cults are legal in Japan... If religious groups were illegal like in other countries, the Panseikyo wouldn't have existed for so many years, let alone so many people - tsk, it really looks like a cult."

"This matter...is not that easy to resolve." Xia Yujie smiled bitterly, with a hint of sadness in his voice. He said calmly, "After all, I heard that many religious groups are related to politics and capital."

"It doesn't matter to us - we are just ordinary students, not big shots."

Saikai Haruto hit the nail on the head: "A sorcerer is only responsible for saving humans trapped by cursed spirits, not humans trapped by social problems, let alone saving the world. That should be the responsibility of other people in society, right? Those jobs are not related."

As he said this, he suddenly looked at Geto Suguru with suspicion: "Geto, you don't have any second-year thoughts like you can save all of humanity or the world, do you?"

Xia Yujie choked, and all his melancholy and depressed mood disappeared: "Of course I don't! You think too much, Yuuki."

"That's good...otherwise it would feel a bit too weird." Xihai Qingdou laughed.

Gojo Satoru's face was filled with exaggerated shock: "What, there is nothing? I don't believe it! Obviously, you have so many great truths every day--"

Saikai Haruto thought: "Ah, then it seems that Jay might actually be suitable to be a teacher..."

Gojo Satoru added, "Like Mr. Yega?"

"Alas--"

Saikai Haruto thought about the Yoshigamo version of Geto Suguru and shuddered: "It sounds a bit scary."

"That's simply too horrible." Gojo Satoru's expression was equally solemn and indescribable.

"I said you two are overthinking it, aren't you?" Xia Yujie said with a fake smile: "When did I ever say that I want to be a teacher in the future? By the way, be careful that I and Mr. Ye Moth complain about you two, you two are talking bad about him behind his back again."

"You are angry because we predicted it, right?"

Gojo Satoru and Saikai Haruto whispered something, and then said in unison: "Jay, you are really despicable--"

“…”

Xia Youjie tried to keep smiling: "If you say that again, I'll beat you up."

"Ah, by the way, how is Haruna?"

Xi Haiqing Dou stopped while he was ahead and tried to change the subject: "Are you worried about something?"

Hanayamain Haruna was still in a trance, as if her mind was elsewhere. Saikai Haruto waved his hand in front of her. It took her a while to come back to her senses. She suddenly asked, "Ah? Are you asking me?... Ah, it should be... over, right?"

The tone seems very uncertain.

It looks like the blow was really strong... No wonder, after all, I almost died. Although I didn't die, I still felt the pain, right? After all, this is indeed a real world, not some "holographic virtual game world".

After experiencing the feeling of "near death" once, Hanayamain Haruna's emotions changed visibly.

"Haruna-san, are you okay?"

Saikai Haruto asked very considerately, "Are there any sequelae? Uh, or rather, do you need comfort?"

In the eyes of "Igarashi Yuuki", Fushiguro Shiori and Hanayamain Haruna are "friends" - although because of Hanayamain Haruna's own request, Gojo Satoru and Kagome Toshi are still unaware of this except for him.

"No, I'm fine, I was just thinking about something else."

Hanayamain Haruna came back to her senses, ignored the question that Saikai Haruto asked, and smiled faintly: "It's great that everyone is okay... I was worried that something might happen to everyone, but luckily Yuuki came back in time."

"Of course we are fine - but you - are you really not injured in the head?"

Gojo Satoru's words were as choking as ever. He looked at Hanayamain Haruna with a suspicious look in his eyes: "Why do I feel that, Haruna, you are a little different from before."

"Or is it that the spell 'Senluo Wanxiang' can also transform a person's personality?"

It's a very strange feeling.

Hanayamain Haruna has become even weirder than before.

But if you really want to explain what's so strange... Gojo Satoru can't explain it clearly.

The "Six Eyes" could see that some changes had taken place in her cursed energy, but it was said that the curse "Senra Wanxiang" itself was quite special, and probably had an evolutionary aspect... Each stage would cause some changes in the cursed energy, so Gojo Satoru was not surprised.

Under normal circumstances, Hanayamain Haruna would have quarreled with Gojo Satoru a long time ago, but this time she did not argue with Gojo Satoru like before. Instead, her attitude became much colder.

"Really? What's the difference?"

The smile on her face was faint, and her voice was a little vague: "I just... figured out some things. You think too much."

See... Hanayamain Haruna is indeed very strange.

Gojo Satoru blinked and stared at Hanayamain Haruna for a few more seconds.

It's that kind of... indescribable strangeness.

Is it strange? The changes that happened to Hanayamain Haruna...

Xi Haiqing Dou also blinked and glanced at Hanayamain Haruna secretly, his eyes slightly lowered and a thoughtful arc appeared on his lips.

"Maybe I'm tired... a lot of things happened today."

Before Gojo Satoru could speak, Geto Xiayu spoke up and said, "Okay, Satoru, don't think too much... Come to think of it, are you really not going to go back and take another shower?"

He glanced at Gojo Satoru meaningfully - although he was trying to change the subject, this was also his true feelings - after Gojo Satoru finished fighting with Fushiguro Shinji and Saikai Haruto, he went straight to the base of the Bankei Cult and saw off Amanouchi Riko and Kuroi Misato. He was still wearing the high school uniform that was chopped to pieces and stained with blood by Fushiguro Shinji... Of course, he didn't even take the time to take a shower.

Fortunately, the uniform was black, so the reddish-brown bloodstains were not noticeable, otherwise all the passers-by would have been scared and called the police.

He didn't feel anything at first, but after hearing what Geto said, Gojo Satoru felt more and more uncomfortable, so he instantly forgot about Hanayamain Haruna.

"Jay, you and I are the same, aren't you?"

He stretched out his hand and put it on Xia Yujie without any hesitation: "Everyone is just like that."

Let alone him, didn’t Geto Suguru also not change?

"Come to think of it, it seems that only Yuuki changed her clothes, so she is clean now, right?"

Xia Yujie raised his eyebrows and looked at Xi Haiqing Dou. His intention to divert disaster water to the east was too obvious.

Gojo Satoru's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned his attention to Saikai Haruto: "That's right! Yuuki——"

"…My clothes were all torn apart during the fight. I can't run around topless, can I? That's too shameless. If I have to change clothes, wouldn't it be normal to take a shower at the same time? Hey, I warn you two, don't get on me—"

Seeing that things were not going well, Xi Hai Qing Dou quickly ran away, trying his best to avoid their clutches - he was really scared, his body was clean and he didn't want to be touched by these two dirty guys! !

"I really can't stand these guys anymore..."

Looking at the three childish DKs who had given up, Ieiri Glass couldn't help but complain: "Are they really not five-year-old children? No, they are only three years old at most, not more, right?"

"But..." She looked up at the sky and couldn't help but sigh: "Today's moonlight is really beautiful."

They said that although they encountered many accidents during this mission... Although they made it sound easy, seeing the obvious bloodstains on their clothes, it was not difficult to guess how dangerous the so-called "accidents" were - after all, this was the first time in more than a year that she and several of her classmates saw the three of them all seriously injured.

But fortunately, it was completed successfully in the end.

Although I feel like some changes have taken place in them...but it shouldn't be a problem, right?

Hanayamain Haruna beside her was in a particularly unstable mood, Gojo Satoru was so crazy that he looked like a super invincible villain, Geto Suguru had a look of dejected calmness, and although that guy Igarashi Yuuki looked the same as before, he seemed to be the one who had changed the most, and all of it was reflected in his appearance - a pair of bright peridot green eyes suddenly turned black, with only a faint hint of green left, and the baby face was still the same, but there was a bit of evil in it... Even his temperament had changed a little.

If his smile hadn't been the same bright and sunny as before, with his dimples and fangs still there, Ieiri Shoko would have almost not recognized him and would have thought he was Yuuki Igarashi's twin brother.

I don’t know whether these changes are good or bad?

But... there shouldn't be any problem, right? It should return to its original state, right?

After all... they are the "strongest".

No matter what happens, it should be solved smoothly like today. Just like in the past.

Ieiri Naoko sighed silently and clenched her hands slightly.

——For no reason, the moonlight was so beautiful and everything seemed to be the same as before, but she had a feeling that everything was about to change, and she didn't know whether it was for good or bad.