Chapter 198 The Second Player
With the long-missing Shoko Ieiri as the main perspective, the new chapter of the comic begins with Shoko Ieiri receiving a phone call on the streets of Shibuya one day after she completed her mission and returned home. A few simple conversations on the phone explained that she had previously learned from Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru about the defection of "Igarashi Yuki", and that she had been assigned a new mission, as well as the emphasis on the hunt for "Igarashi Yuki".
After the call was hung up, Ieichiro Shoko ran into "Igarashi Yuki" who was mentioned in the phone call on the street not long after she left.
He was wearing simple clothes and had a strange look. He was completely ignored in the crowd... If it weren't for those familiar green eyes, it would be hard to recognize that he was "Igarashi Yuuki" - at this moment, he looked more like a "curse" than a human.
After a simple "goodbye", his figure disappeared on the street. While biting her takoyaki, Ieiri Naoko silently put the phone in her pocket back.
"Igarashi Yuuki" who had disappeared in the crowd received another call - a call from Fushiguro Shigeki.
In the comics, in addition to the content of the phone call, these two pages also fully explain the reasons why "Igarashi Yuuki" did those things through his previous contacts and phone calls with Fushiguro Shijiro in just a few frames - the vague surveillance and exploration from the Director's Council that began a year ago, the casual treatment of the sorcerers who didn't care about life and death, and the unbearable transactions of all the corrupt termites...
The final fuse came from what Hanayamain Haruna did on that day. After she informed the general managerial department of all the thoughts and identity of "Igarashi Yuuki", in the mission that "Igarashi Yuuki" and Nanami Kento were on, there was another "level detection error". Several first-level cursed spirits and even quasi-special-level cursed spirits suddenly appeared; the "window" and auxiliary supervisors who seemed to be unaware of everything... and the cursers who suddenly appeared after the mission was over.
So after receiving a call from Fushiguro Shigeki that day, "Igarashi Yuuki" immediately went to look for those old guys - even though the information that Fushiguro Shigeki learned was also learned from Hanayamain Haruna.
Honestly speaking, he could do this...even Fushiguro Shinobu couldn't help but be amazed.
"I didn't expect you to survive... But this ending is quite happy." Fushiguro Shiji did not hide her schadenfreude and sarcasm towards the world of sorcery, and asked him, "Let me ask you a question, do you regret this outcome now?"
"No." "Igarashi Yuuki" answered: "I never regret any of my choices."
Fushiguro Shiori couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, I was right... You are more arrogant than anyone else. Are those guys who say you have a bad temper blind?"
"..." Igarashi Yuuki remained silent.
"Ah, those two little brats that were staying at my house, I threw them out when I ran out of money. Don't worry, I'll sell them for a good price."
"...I understand." Igarashi Yuuki said, "At that time... No, it has nothing to do with me no matter what. It's up to you."
After hanging up the call, he threw the phone away.
Fushiguro Shiji, who also hung up the phone, turned around and looked at Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru with a wicked smile: "Did you hear that? He has already sold those two brats to me, so if you want to take them away, you need to pay me."
"And - you've heard the answer to what you wanted to know, right? That guy never regretted anything."
The last two sentences in the phone call just now were the "consensus" between Saikai Haruto and Fushiguro Shigeki: when Gojo Satoru and Kagome Geto came to him and found Nanako and Mimiko, he would throw them both to them, and Saikai Haruto kept silent.
It turns out that the person behind the phone call at that time was not only Fushiguro Shinjiro, but also Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru... Saikai Haruto had a calm expression and felt nothing surprising.
After all, given Fushiguro Shinji's personality, how could he suddenly call him a second time in such a short time?
But he didn't say much on the phone.
Those "truths" have already been revealed in the comics. As for the rest...if Gojo Satoru and Kagome Suguru really want to know, they can just keep looking for it.
The "truth" that you discover yourself is more reliable than what you hear from other people.
...Well, although some of the "truth" about it will probably never be known to anyone again.
Coincidentally, Fushiguro Shigeki seemed to think the same way.
In the manga, for some reason, Fushiguro Shinobu also did not tell Gojo Satoru and Kaguru Kei the truth about "Igarashi Yuuki's massacre of the General Manager's Department" and the "true face" of Hanayamain Haruna. Instead, he just said some vague words and finally left a sentence: "If you want to know so much, then go check it yourself. Anyway, I don't know anything."
After Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru left, Fushiguro Shigeu took out a document containing all the contacts between "Hanayamain Haruna" and the General Manager's Office, with a depressed expression on his face.
"What the hell... Don't you know you have to pay more for any information you want these days?"
According to the data, Hanayamain Haruna's expression was sweet but with a murderous look in her eyes: "Whatever you want to know, about Igarashi Yuuki's spell, everything about him - I can tell you."
"Oh my, there is such a deep and terrifying murderous intent."
Although he cannot be considered a complete bystander, perhaps Fushiguro Shigehiro is the one who knows best, apart from Saikai Haruto, why Hanayamain Haruna has the "murderous intention" towards "Igarashi Yuuki".
The murderous intent was not sudden or impulsive, but could perhaps be described as "long-planned."
The earliest words... probably can be traced back to the first time that Hanayamain Haruna noticed the peculiarity and difference of "Igarashi Yuuki".
Although Fushiguro was not clear about their initial situation, he had already noticed something from the moment he first saw Hanayamain Haruna and Saikai Haruto standing beside her - although Hanayamain Haruna seemed to care about him and indeed cared about him, she was also vaguely concerned about Saikai Haruto's existence - although that special "care" might not even be noticed by herself at that time.
But the earliest seeds of "murderous intent" may have been planted at that time.
And as for "fermentation"...it was probably after he almost killed me?
Tsk - it's such a pity that I didn't really kill her at that time. Fushiguro Shiji couldn't help but think again.
...Anyway, after he almost killed her, Hanayama Haruna started to act a little abnormal. She became more and more weird, and sometimes Fushiguro couldn't help but wonder if she was cursed. Even he couldn't understand what she was thinking.
However, unlike the others who were "attracted" to Hanayamain Haruna, Fushiguro Shigeki has always been aware of the changes in her - although he doesn't know where the changes came from, maybe it can be regarded as a kind of "conscious depravity"? ... It sounds really disgusting.
But he still didn't say it.
Fortunately, perhaps Hanayamain Haruna still had a huge psychological shadow on him, and she soon disappeared from his side again. Maybe this can be considered good news?
...He would actually be happy about this one day... Damn, it made him feel even more disgusted.
But at the same time, Fushiguro Shiori discovered that Hanayamain Haruna's attitude towards Saikai Haruto had changed from "care", "attraction", to a mixture of "hatred" and "murderous intent" without knowing when.
How should I put it...Although he couldn't see through what was in Hanayamain Haruna's mind, it was easy for a veteran like Fushiguro Shige to guess her complicated mentality towards Saikai Haruto.
Even if we put aside our subjective opinions, from any objective perspective, "Igarashi Yuuki" can be said to be a guy who has almost no character flaws and is a "perfect person" in the secular and cursed definitions. No matter from which aspect, he has a very attractive side.
Especially for Hanayama Haruna, who was gradually losing herself at that time, trapped, confused and irritable in the darkness like a trapped beast, it was natural for her to care about Igarashi Yuuki, who was almost always in the "sunlight". And this kind of care, in addition to the "good" side, also has the "bad" side - it is a contradictory and dark thought unique to human beings, which is normal, and Fushiguro can see it easily and clearly.
As for when those things were combined into "murderous intent"... maybe after she became more and more crazy? Anyway, after Hanayamain Haruna went crazy enough to set up some messed up church, Fushiguro Jinji felt that the woman was really crazy.
But these things... have nothing to do with him anyway. He just ate them because he was full, so why should he tell Igarashi Yuuki or Gojo Satoru about it?
Just watch it for fun when you're bored. No matter what the result is, it should be quite interesting.
No one knew what Fushiguro Shigeki was thinking, so Gojo Satoru and Kagome Geto, who had "missed" the "truth", actually started to investigate the "General Manager's Office".
Gojo Satoru's insistence on "investigation" and Geto Suguru's provision of "clues of thought".
They couldn't find "Yuuki Igarashi", and because these things happened without any signs and the reasons were unclear, even if they had "broken up", they didn't think of simply pretending that nothing had happened - what does their breakup have to do with finding out the reason?
In the comic, the scene jumps, and the teenagers ten years later open a video from more than ten years ago.
The content of the video is very simple, about "Igarashi Yuuki" suddenly appearing in the conference room, all the conversations with the members of the General Manager's Office, the communication between Hanayamain Haruna and the General Manager's Office, and finally him slaughtering the conference room, with his last look upwards through the video in the direction of the camera.
Then the video was turned off with a "click" sound, and the figures of Geto Suguru and Ieiri Shoko appeared in front of the video, and Gojo Satoru who was sleeping on the chair next to him was also woken up.
The comic ends with the students curiously asking about the content of the video, while Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, who look like teachers, begin to work in unscrupulous harmony to deceive the students - the light and shadow are warm and bright, both sides are laughing, and it looks particularly warm and beautiful.
【Ah, it’s actually a he! What the hell is this he? ? ? Ahhhh J-man, explain to me where 501 has been in the past ten years! ! ! !】
[I’m going to make a scene, I’m going to make a scene, I’m really going to make a scene, okay? This is a world where everyone is happy but Yuuki is happy, right? Explain it to me clearly, do wtw and xyj know the truth? ! Explain it to me clearly!! When did you see this video? This is really important to me!!! And about Haruka’s matter——do they know about it now? ! ]
【Ahhhhh you rubbish troublemaker - what are you doing, what are you doing, you know everything, tell them - you know but you won’t say it, what the fuck is this cosmic evildoer, ouch I’m so angry I’m going to vomit blood】
[I cried my ass off…So in the end, 501 went to find Nozomi to say their final and proper farewell, right? Wuwuwu Yuuki, my Yuuki, even after losing everything, he was still smiling in the end. Goka, you two are super invincible idiot DKs!! Stupid teacher!!! Even after knowing the truth, I still can’t accept it!!]
[So this is why no one has mentioned Yuuki's name in all these years... Ahhhh, he's been gone for ten years, no one dares to mention his name anymore, wuwuwu]
[I guess most people don't remember Yuuki's existence by now, right? Everyone is fine now, but Yuuki is gone... What kind of world is this where you're the only one gone? Wuwuwu, why are you so mean to me?! I'm so upset. Wuwuwuwu]
...What a pair of deceitful teachers.
...So he almost took down the director's office, but ten years later, these two both became teachers? ? ! What kind of weird train of thought is this? !
Xihai Qingdou was rarely depressed.