Chapter 185 The Second Player

There was actually a bit of unpredictable meaning in Hanayamain Haruna's words, which surprised Saikai Haruto a bit.

"Will Haruna be happy?"

Nishimi Haruto sat up from the grass again and tilted his head in confusion. There was still some puzzlement in his eyes when he looked at Hanayamain Haruna. Although the black color of his pupils was much deeper and darker than the previous peridot green color, the color inside was still as clean and clear as before, and all emotions flowed brightly inside without any concealment.

"I don't know why you think this way, Haruna, but if you feel happy, that's good too."

There was a bright smile in his voice: "Although I think I have changed a lot, how can someone remain unchanged? I am not a monster. Even Wu said that I have become more haggard recently, and I don’t look like myself anymore... But Haruna-san said that, which also makes me feel happy."

"By the way, does Yuuki like me?"

Hanayamain Haruna pointed her left index finger at the teardrop mole under her eye and asked suddenly.

Saikai Haruto said "Huh?" in confusion, not understanding why the topic suddenly jumped to this point, but he still answered her honestly without any hesitation: "Sorry, I don't like Haruna-san."

After answering Hanayamain Haruna's question, he smiled apologetically at Hanayamain Haruna and explained, "I'm sorry, although Haruna is a very nice person, I don't have that kind of affection for her right now."

Hanayamain Haruna suddenly remembered that one day two years ago, Saikai Haruto had said to her, "I like Haruna" - it was the same question as two years ago, with completely opposite answers, and different yet similar expressions.

Hanayamain Haruna suddenly felt that his answer was "unexpected but reasonable", but this time she did not feel angry or ashamed. Instead, she looked at the sincere and frank look in those black eyes and could not help but laugh, and she looked very happy.

"I know," she said, her voice light and cheerful, "I don't like Yuuki either."

He has always been like this.

He is not like Geto Suguru, who has a thousand thoughts in his mind but always likes to keep things hidden and think about them by himself; nor is he like Gojo Satoru, who is carefree and heartless, and does not care about most things. He only focuses on the things he cares about and is overly self-centered.

Igarashi Yuuki's thoughts are equally meticulous and thoughtful, but he is also equally honest and straightforward. From the beginning, he has been carelessly showing his complete self under the sun and in front of everyone. He is too sincere. As long as someone asks, he will never hide anything from others, and he will not be so selfish as to focus only on himself. The distance between him and his companions is also exactly the same, intimate and defenseless.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that, even though both Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru are very strong, and Gojo Satoru can almost certainly be called the "strongest" now, "Igarashi Yuuki" is still considered to be the one who is as gentle yet firm as a rock, and who makes people feel the most secure.

He has been like this since Hanayamain Haruna first saw him, and he is still like this now.

Just like now.

The emotions in those eyes were so obvious, without any concealment or disguise, that Hanayamain Haruna could easily see his emotions at that moment - a little bit of confusion, a little bit of distress, and the rest was complete apology and sincere frankness - without the slightest embarrassment or shyness.

Although he said "I don't like it", he didn't look like he was rejecting Hanayamain Haruna's confession. Hanayamain Haruna thought that maybe he didn't think her question just now was a test of his confession, just like two years ago, the "like" he said didn't seem like the "heart-warming confession" she thought at first.

How could there be someone like Igarashi Yuuki in this world?

Hanayamain Haruna thought that this guy was really annoying.

But now, looking into his eyes, she felt very happy indeed.

Who doesn't like Yuuki Igarashi?

It really makes people want to...

Hanayamain Haruna suddenly narrowed her eyes, stretched out an arm across her body, covered her eyes with her palms, and then imitated Saikai Haruto's previous behavior and fell backwards unruly, lying directly on the grass, making it impossible to know the expression on her face or guess what she was thinking.

Xi Haiqing Dou watched her actions calmly, without expressing any opinions on her unladylike behavior, which seemed like her character suddenly became "ooc".

"Yeah, how can someone never change?" Hanayama Haruna's smile remained unchanged. She said, "But Yuuki hasn't changed at all. I think what Satoru said is wrong. Everyone is changing, but Yuuki hasn't changed at all. That's why I said that Yuuki is the strangest person. It turns out to be true."

She turned her head and looked at Saikai Haruto intently, saying in a serious tone, "I suddenly thought, could it be that you, Yuuki, are really some kind of monster?"

Saikai Haruto is right, how can someone remain unchanged?

But now, right in front of her, there was one.

Igarashi Yuuki is the unchanging one.

Xi Haiqing Dou was led by her to change the topic. Following her words, he also put on a serious expression and seriously recalled and thought about his memory: "No, I think I should still be an ordinary human being and not a monster... From my memory, I have been an ordinary child since I was a child, and I have never encountered anything special or wrong. If I am a monster, I shouldn't grow up like a human child, right? And monsters shouldn't have such bad luck as me."

Hanayamain Haruna was so amused by his serious words that she couldn't help laughing.

"If you, Yuuki, are an ordinary person, then there are no special people in this world, right?"

"There is no difference between me and other people. We are all the same. If you look at it from another perspective, everyone is also special."

"Huh? That's not what I meant."

"I know what you mean, Haruna-san, but even if I have a spell, aren't spell casters the same as ordinary people? Even if I have a spell, I'm still just an ordinary human being. I've always felt this way, whether it was before I met you or now."

Xi Haiqing Dou looked down at her with a calm and faint smile on his face.

Hanayamain Haruna was silent for a moment, and looked at him as if she was meeting him for the first time.

"...So Yuuki, have you always thought this way?" She opened her mouth, but her mind went blank for two seconds. She didn't know what to say, so she just found a random question to ask him, "Did Wu and Jie know about this a long time ago?"

"They should know, right?" Saikai Haruto said hesitantly, "Although I haven't told them like today, my thoughts have always been the same, and Naoko knows it too... Wu and Jie are so smart, they should have seen it a long time ago."

Hanayamain Haruna nodded randomly.

If even Ieyu Nozomi knows about it, there is no reason why Gojo Satoru and Kagome Ken wouldn't know about it.

"But I guess the Director's Council and those old guys don't know about it, right?"

Regardless of the attitude of the sorcerers in the sorcery world towards ordinary people who do not have sorcery, they have always had a consensus: sorcerers are different from ordinary people. For example, Saikai Haruto seems to take it for granted that "sorcerers are no different from ordinary people", but in the community of sorcerers, this idea can be said to be "unbelievable" and "inconceivable".

Even ordinary sorcerers who did not grow up in the world of sorcery and entered it later rarely have such thoughts after entering the world of sorcery.

"If they knew that there are top-level sorcerers who think sorcerers are the same as ordinary people, they would probably fly into a rage on the spot." Hanayamain Haruna said in a half-joking tone.

However, Xi Haiqing Dou knew that what she said was the truth - if it was an ordinary sorcerer who had such an idea, the old guys at the top of the pyramid of the sorcerer world in the Jujutsu Directorate would at most laugh at it with contempt. But Xi Haiqing Dou happened to be a "special-grade sorcerer" - there were only four special-grade sorcerers in the entire sorcerer world who actually had such an idea, which would only make them feel annoyed and provoked.

After all, Xi Hai Qing Dou has always been their most sharp and handy "knife", how could they have such an idea? If even the special-level sorcerers have such an idea, then what will the first-level sorcerers, second-level sorcerers and even the "windows" think about it?

Xi Haiqingdou's answer was quite lame: "It doesn't matter. I have always thought this way. As for what they think, it has nothing to do with me. If they want me to change my mind, I can't do it. Anyway, they have been disliking me for a long time."

But to be honest, those shameless old guys in the Jujutsu Directorate of the Jujutsu world made him feel that "it's great that my brain doesn't need to rust again" in this world... Those shameless old guys had the dark and calculating taste that Xi Haiqing Dou was familiar with. Although he couldn't say that he "missed" them, sometimes competing with those guys who had brains was a rare pleasure for him to use his brain.

Not to mention, his character in this world is "no deep thoughts, doing things frankly and straightforwardly." Sometimes he does things that he rarely did before, such as using the most straightforward words to choke people and "breaking thousands of plans with one force," which is also quite interesting... It makes him feel a different kind of fun.

All in all...it's quite fun.

Xihai Qingdou's thoughts couldn't help but drift for a moment.

"I thought Haruna and Naoko would be able to guess it. After all, my thoughts and attitudes have never changed."

That's true... Hanayamain Haruna thought about it and found speechless that, just as Saikai Haruto said, Saikai Haruto's attitude towards ordinary people and sorcerers has never changed since Hanayamain Haruna met him - whether he is treating ordinary people, auxiliary supervisors, "windows", or members of the Director's Council, he always has a similar attitude.

Even she, now when looking at "sorcerers" and "ordinary people", will unconsciously change into two different attitudes.

Why hadn't she noticed this before?