Chapter 191 The Second Player

The moment he received the call from Fushiguro Nori, Saikai Haruto knew that after waiting for so long, the time he had been waiting for had finally come.

Although he didn't know where Fushiguro Shiori got the information from, Saikai Haruto didn't care. He just needed to know that it was very useful information for him. It didn't matter even if Fushiguro Shiori got the information from the players.

The contact between Hanayamain Haruna and the Jujutsu General Administration Department was originally a very insignificant matter. After all, as the "goddess" of the Zenin family, isn't it normal for her to have a relationship with and be on good terms with the people in the General Administration Department?

So no one would notice that it was Haruna Hanayamain who exposed the identity of "Yuuki Igarashi".

The Jujutsu General Administration held an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with "Igarashi Yuki".

"The product of the fusion of the Heavenly Curse and the Special Curse Spirit" sounds like a shocking news. Whether to imprison him or execute him directly, it is a reasonable thing to do.

But before that - they had to have an urgent, momentous meeting to discuss this together.

——This is the "opportunity" that Saikai Haruto is truly waiting for.

This is a good opportunity to "catch all" the corrupt high-level people in the magic world.

Honestly speaking, he had been displeased with this rubbish Directors' Council for a long time - a group of old men with not much strength who were more arrogant than the other all day long, doing nothing but issuing various orders and tasks. It was obvious that each of them was as bad as they could be in private, but they still acted as if they had to be grateful to them... Xihai Qingdou was so angry that he almost laughed.

If he were to say, at least half of the blame for the "corruption" in the world of sorcery should be placed on the Directors' Meeting.

In this case, he might as well just clean up all the things he dislikes. Anyway, he doesn't need to maintain any plot now. This can be regarded as a "big gift" from him to the world of sorcery, or to Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru.

Anyway, they themselves said, "All sorcerers are crazy." "Igarashi Yuuki" is of course also a sorcerer now, so what's wrong with him going crazy for a while?

Saikai Haruto knew about Hanayamain Haruna's connection with the Jujutsu Directorate from the beginning and allowed it to happen, or rather, he also facilitated it. Of course, he did not use the names of "Igarashi Yuuki" or "Saikai Haruto".

I'm really sorry for taking advantage of Haruna and the General Administration Office. Haruto Nishimi apologized insincerely in his heart, but then he thought again and felt justified: These were their own choices!

From the seemingly good-tempered concessions and indifference at the beginning, to the "small-scale" protests in the middle, but overall, Xi Haiqing Dou did not cause any losses to the Directors' Association at all, nor did he give any effective warnings to their actions.

Thus, the dangerous and terrifying "Special Grade" was transformed into a good-tempered, harmless clay persimmon that could be manipulated at will.

But treating the tiger like a kitten must have been the worst decision they ever made.

No matter what you do, you have to pretend to gather everyone together, organize a boring meeting first, and then make a decision.

When Xi Haiqing Dou opened the door and came out of the overly quiet conference room, he realized that it had started snowing outside without him knowing when.

His body was clean without a trace of blood, but he was surrounded by an extremely strong smell of blood. His shoes left obvious bloody footprints on the ground, indicating that something was not going on in the conference room.

Xi Hai Qing Dou raised his head and watched the tiny, pure white snowflakes falling from the sky and landing on his nose, bringing a slightly cool breath.

The glaring red color and the rusty, fishy smell that had been lingering in front of my eyes and in my nose seemed to have faded a lot.

“It’s snowing… Is this the first snow in Tokyo this year?”

What a perfect snowfall. Such clean new snow should be able to cover up all the dirt, right?

Xi Hai Qing Dou blinked slowly, and the scarlet color in his eyes faded a little, but the complex blue-black lines on his cheeks and arms were still visible.

But this time, it's not that it can't fade away in a short time, but that it will never fade away again.

"It's really nice weather today." Xi Haiqing Dou concluded.

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared into the air.

Behind him, looking inside through the wide-open door of the conference room from the direction of the light, the conference room, which was half dark and half bright, was in a mess.

Whether it was the ceiling, the floor, or the surrounding walls, glass windows, or curtains, they were all stained with thick blood and scratches from various weapons. The lights on the ceiling were completely broken, the conference table and chairs were in pieces, only half of them were left, and the scraps were scattered in every corner, and there were corpses lying all over the ground.

Bright red blood formed a pool on the ground that was still spreading and flowing everywhere, and tiny granular dust floated quietly in the light beams formed by the sunlight shining into the conference room from the windows and doors.

There was dead silence and devastation everywhere.

*

“It’s snowing.”

"It's the first snow of the year, it's beautiful. I heard that seeing fresh snow brings good luck, so how about Haruna, do you want to go out and see the snow together?"

"Ah - I didn't expect the new snow to fall so early this year. It's only mid-December."

"Hey, are you going out to see the snow with Haruna? Then I want to go too - after all, I am Haruna's official fiancé."

Xia Yujie smiled with a fake smile: "Really? But Haruna won't acknowledge your identity now."

Gojo Satoru refused to give in: "Huh? That's better than having no identity at all, right?"

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru glared at each other, and there seemed to be sparks crackling in their eyes.

"Haruna, you come and tell me—"

"Haruna, you be the judge—"

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were about to talk to Hanayamain Haruna, but when they turned around, their words stopped at the same time - while the two of them were concentrating on arguing, Hanayamain Haruna had already taken the opportunity to sneak away without them noticing.

The air was silent for a moment, and Xia Yujie suddenly spoke: "You have some self-awareness, right, Wu? Even if you cling to me now, it will only make me feel annoyed. Wasn't it you who said you didn't like Haruna at the beginning?"

"If you want to let go, it should be you, Jay, right?" Gojo Satoru said coldly, "Haruna never told you that she liked you, right? Aren't you the one who kept clinging to her?"

Once a good friend, today's rival.

The atmosphere between the two people was unprecedentedly cold and suffocating, as if a war without the smoke of gunpowder was about to unfold in this space.

Hanayama Haruna never paid any attention to their behavior. As long as they didn't bother her, it didn't matter what they did behind her back. Even if they were the protagonists, she would probably just stand aside and applaud out of curiosity.

However, this time, what broke the frozen atmosphere between the two people was not Hanayamain Haruna or anyone else, but two sudden cell phone ringtones.

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru simultaneously lowered their heads and took out their cell phones.

"Warning* On December 2, 2007 at 2:00 a.m., Yuuki Igarashi, a 3rd-year student at the technical high school, appeared at a special meeting of the Jujutsu Directorate. 17 members of the Directorate died and 6 were seriously injured. It has been confirmed that Yuuki Igarashi was responsible."

"Warning: Yuuki Igarashi has fled. According to Articles ■, ■, and ■ of the Spellcaster's Regulations, he is subject to execution. Anyone who finds him should report it immediately or he will be killed on the spot."

On the white mobile phone screen, the tadpole-sized black characters appeared particularly distorted, and the blue light clearly reflected two miserable faces with extremely similar expressions.

"ha?"

"Yuuki?"

"How is that possible?!"

"This is impossible!"

The voices of Gojo Satoru and Kasugano Geto rang out in unison.

"Igarashi Yuuki killed 17 members of the Jujutsu Directorate, seriously injured 6 people and then fled"... How could this be true?!

"Are you kidding? Or are you dreaming?"

Gojo Satoru adjusted his black sunglasses that had slipped down from his nose. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead. His face turned pale. "Is today actually April 1st?"

"…Don't joke around at this time, Satoru. Something must have happened to Yuuki."

Xia Yujie's face was not much better than his. He took a deep breath, cold sweat on his forehead, and his brain was spinning rapidly: "Something must have happened at the Directors' Council. What did they do to Yuuki? Yuuki is not someone who would do such a thing without reason... We must find him first."

"I know this without you telling me." Gojo Satoru clenched the phone in his hand and gritted his teeth, "How could Yuki do such a thing?!"

Are you kidding me?! How is that possible! That’s… Igarashi Yuuki?!

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru looked at each other and saw the same determination in each other's eyes.

——No matter what the truth is, no matter what, they must find him before everyone else.

*

While Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were arguing, Hanayamain Haruna was standing alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, admiring the scenery outside.

Tiny snowflakes were falling from the sky. Looking out from where she was, it seemed as if the sky was very close. The land, people, and buildings beneath her feet all became as small as ants.

"So boring..."

Hanayamain Haruna held her chin with one hand and looked out the window boredly until another person's voice suddenly sounded in this empty space.

"I found you. Haruna-san, good afternoon."

The voice suddenly sounded, the tone was clear and lively, and it seemed to carry a hint of smile.

Hanayamain Haruna turned her head without any surprise.

——It’s Igarashi Yuuki.

He was wearing the same neat and tidy black college uniform as always, and holding a beautiful white rose in his hand that he had gotten from somewhere. However, his face and arms were covered with dark blue lines, and a faint smell of blood that had not yet completely dissipated filled his body, making him look particularly ferocious and terrifying - but he still had a faint smile on his face.

...a sense of disharmony.

In an instant, Hanayamain Haruna felt a strong sense of disharmony from him that she had never felt before.