Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Silent Rainy Night
When Saionji Gyoin took a taxi back to the school gate, it was already completely dark.
There were layers of dark clouds and the rain was falling continuously.
Yuyin went out in a hurry and of course did not bring an umbrella. Or perhaps the situation when she received Fushiguro Megumi's call for help was too urgent, so she brought almost nothing with her except the talisman she carried with her.
When it was time to say it was okay and leave, Yuyin thought in a trance that she had almost finished the test except for the last big question.
Quietly using her spiritual power to block out the rain, Yuyin got out of the taxi and glanced at the tightly closed school gate. It was obvious that it was already past the closing time, and many of her things were still in the classroom. There would be no classes for two days after the final exams, and the results would be released and the first semester student meeting and graduation ceremony would be held three days later. Instead of making a special trip tomorrow, she might as well climb over the wall today to pack her things and take them away.
“Beep beep!”
Just as Yuyin was thinking about where to climb over the wall, she heard a car horn from behind, and the headlights hit her position, casting a long shadow on the ground.
She turned around and raised her hand to block out the light, only to find a car parked not far behind her. The slender figure was very familiar. It was the car that Tobe asked to give her a ride when she asked for leave in the afternoon.
Then, a more familiar figure stepped out from the back seat of the car, opened an umbrella, and walked quickly towards her.
In less than a moment, an umbrella was over her head.
"I knew you wouldn't remember to buy an umbrella..."
Atobe Keigo was about to scold her for not holding an umbrella in the rain, but when his eyes fell on her, he noticed that her hair and coat were not wet, so he stopped talking. He coughed lightly and said, "Even if you have a solution, it's raining so hard, and you don't have an umbrella, it will attract too much attention."
"Thank you, Keigo."
Yuyin noticed that he tilted most of the umbrella towards him. Although the umbrella was very large, due to such "biased" behavior of Atobe, the rain still wet one of his shoulders. He couldn't help but put his hand on the umbrella handle and pushed it a little.
"But why are you here, Keigo?"
It's been so long since the end of the exam, and there's no tennis club training during these two days, so no matter how you think about it, Tezuka should have already gone home.
"Ahem," Atobe Keigo cleared his throat and looked out at the rainy night. He was too embarrassed to admit that he was waiting for her here. "I saw you were in a hurry and didn't take anything, so I helped you... I didn't know when you would be back, so I waited for you at the school gate. All your things are in the car now. Go check if you've forgotten anything."
"Have you been waiting for me here?"
Yuyin was stunned. Since she returned to her original world, she had always been used to walking alone. Her parents were not at home, and she never thought that someone would be waiting for her. Especially today, she had been out and back for almost two or three hours, and it was already past the normal dinner time.
"I wanted to call you and ask when you'd be back, but I was afraid you were fighting that thing and would disturb you, so I didn't call..."
Atobe Keigo gave a rambling explanation, then said confidently, "You are my bodyguard now. Didn't we agree before that after the exam, if you have nothing else to do, you can live in my house? You haven't forgotten, have you?"
"Of course I didn't forget," Yuyin couldn't help but laugh, patting Atobe's shoulder and motioning for the two to get in the car before talking. On the way, she didn't forget to praise Atobe a few words, "If there was a competition in the mission entrustment industry, I would definitely vote for you, Jingwu, for the Best Employer Award."
It is only because of her employer, Jibu, on this long-term protection mission that she can now come and go freely. If it were any other rich young man as the person to be protected, it would be considered good if he was not criticized for his diligence and hard work. Yuyin, who had also been on similar missions before, actually felt deeply about this.
"Yeah, as long as you understand."
Atobe narrowed his eyes slightly, looking very happy.
When he arrived at the car, he first opened the door for Yuyin, and waited for her to get in before he folded his umbrella and stepped in.
After Yuyin entered the car, she found a seat in the back seat and sat down. This car was the one that Tomoe had asked her to take this afternoon. She was already somewhat familiar with the interior space. Although it was not as spacious as a real RV, it was obviously modified according to the owner's preferences. Similar to an RV, there was a table and chairs in the back seat, as well as a refrigerator, food warmer and other equipment.
The back seat and the front of the cab are separated, so when they need to communicate, they just need to press the device, which also makes it convenient for them to chat at the moment.
As soon as Yuyin sat down, Jibe took out desserts, cold drinks and hot food from the refrigerator and warming cabinet and placed them on the table. "Eat something first. I've asked Yamaki to prepare dinner at home."
When Yuyin saw the food, her eyes lit up. She had fought a great battle today and had consumed a lot of her spiritual and physical strength. She was starving at the moment and had been feeling extremely hungry for a long time. The only reason she was able to resist pouncing on the food was because of the good self-cultivation she had cultivated in her daily life.
"Thank you," she took her plate and took the opportunity to show concern for Atobe, "Keigo, you haven't eaten either, come join us~"
Atobe didn't try to make excuses, even though he had already eaten a little while waiting for her to come back. "Have you resolved your issue...? You won't be called out again in the next few days, right?"
"Ah, solved."
Originally, Fushiguro Megumi asked her for help because of the special-grade cursed spirit that was newly born in the juvenile detention center, but she didn't expect that what gave her a headache later was the matter of Ryomen Sukuna and Itadori Yuji.
Yuyin prefers to solve problems quickly and efficiently, such as using force to kill the enemy directly rather than competing with the enemy in wits. Perhaps it is a bad habit she has developed over several worlds. After all, there is always a leader/boss/senior/brother above her who is both powerful and intelligent. It is often not her turn to use her brain. Over time, she is too lazy to waste time on this. Today, it is a rare opportunity for her to compete with others in wits, and the opponent is the cursed king Ryomen Sukuna from a thousand years ago.
Oh, and maybe add those rubbish high-level people in the magic world.
Seeing Itadori wake up, Megumi Fushiguro was very happy and wanted to contact Mr. Ijichi and Senior Gojo to tell them the good news, but Tamane stopped him.
Instead of allowing the trashy senior management to continue secretly persecuting Yuji, it would be better to take this opportunity to let Yuji fake his death and steal some time for intensive training. This is what she said to Megumi Fushiguro, but for the specific matters, he needs to contact Senior Gojo, and perhaps Senior Nozomi to forge it.
However, she didn't need to tell Jingwu in detail about these dirty things in the world of curse.
After thinking for a moment, she changed the subject to something that concerned both of them, "Jingwu, you handed in your paper early this afternoon, right? Is that okay?"
This afternoon, because she didn't know what happened on the contact side, she initially just reported going to the bathroom, and then hurriedly told the teacher that she was not feeling well and wanted to hand in the paper early and leave.
When she ran to the school gate, Tezuka's car had already stopped in front of her. Her cell phone rang. When she answered it, it was Tezuka who told her that if she had an emergency, she could ask his driver to give her a ride.
Yuyin looked back with her phone in hand and saw a figure standing by the window on the floor of the teaching building where they were taking the exam in the distance. It was Keigo Atobe who was talking to her.
You are not allowed to carry or turn on your cell phone in the examination room. The only possibility that Tobe was able to get the phone and talk to her was that he had also handed in his paper early.
The place that Megumi Fushiguro mentioned, Shuei Juvenile Institute in West Tokyo, is not close to Hyotei, and it is impossible for Tamane to fly there instantly without engraving the teleportation array talisman in advance. She originally planned to take a taxi after leaving school, but now Atobe asked the driver to give her a ride, which naturally saves time.
However, before the vehicle reached the gate of Shuei Juvenile Institution, it encountered a police roadblock and ordered them to change route. This is a common evacuation method used in the world of Jujutsu in emergencies. Yuon knew that the incident had escalated, so she asked the driver to change route and stop nearby. After instructing the Atobe family driver to return, she walked around the police and entered the juvenile institution to meet up with Fushiguro Megumi.
"As for the test paper, I finished it a long time ago, I just handed it in early."
Keigo Atobe said that the final exam was a small matter. If submitting the paper early in Japan was not considered a challenge to authority and was not encouraged, he might not care about this unspoken rule as a first-year student and would have submitted the paper early at will. After two years, Atobe has learned to save face for the teacher. He checks the paper several times after finishing each exam and will not submit the paper early unless it is necessary.
"That's great," Yuyin said enviously. "I haven't finished the last big question yet. It looks like I'm going to fail this test and won't get a high score."
Atobe Keigo looked at her helplessly: "This is all because you are deliberately hiding your incompetence."
Don't think he didn't notice. It was obvious that Yuyin could answer all the questions in the exam and could even get full marks like him, but she deliberately dragged her feet and finished them at the speed of a normal test taker. Sometimes she would deliberately make one or two mistakes in the difficult questions to create the illusion that she didn't know the answers, so as to give the teacher the impression that she was an ordinary student who got better grades because of her hard work and diligence.
If he had not casually flipped through the school's previous years' examination papers during his investigation a few months ago, Tebe would not have discovered the truth.
And as for the Waterloo she mentioned, if she didn't answer that question, at most she would drop from second to third in the class, provided that the student who was originally third answered all the last questions correctly.
Yu Yin forked a piece of cake, quickly finished it, and said, "It seems that my disguise was a failure."
She now hopes that other people in the school are not as sharp as Atobe, especially in the future. As Atobe's bodyguard, it is impossible for her to keep a low profile given Atobe's flamboyant style.
"Well, it's not such a failure," Keigo Atobe couldn't help but recall the time when school just started in April. He really had no impression of Tamane at that time. "If you hadn't sat next to me, and by chance you had that encounter at the street tennis court and the tennis park..." He would not have investigated Tamane.
Upon hearing this, Yuyin couldn't help but say, "Looking at it this way, I find that Jingwu, you're a bit unlucky."
"Huh? What?" Atobe was confused.
"Look, with such a large population on this island nation, some people will never encounter a monster or cursed spirit in their entire lives. After all, monsters are easy to deal with, but a common person would be doomed if they encountered a cursed spirit once," Yuyin listed some examples for him. "But as for you, Keigo, not to mention the incident at Tennis Park, you also had both Aoandon and a cursed spirit appear at the same time in Karuizawa, and you even encountered a criminal with supernatural powers at the Matsudaira family banquet. It seems like you've really had a bad year, Keigo."
If you don't put things together, you won't realize it. But when you list them one by one, even Keigo Atobe feels that he is a little unlucky. He lowered his head and took a sip of coffee, covering up and said: "Well, why do you think my family hired a bodyguard? So you, the bodyguard, must be more conscientious in your duties in the future. You can't leave your post, but at least report your whereabouts to me." Don't let him worry while waiting.
"I understand, I will definitely stick to my post in the future. Even if I really have to leave for something, I will report to you, Boss~" Yuyin saluted in a funny way.
"It's Jingwu, not BOSS. That's too unglamorous a title."
"Oh, I was just kidding."
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On a quiet rainy night, the stretch limousine carried the two of them all the way to the Atobe family residence.
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Author's note: I've modified the start time of the Tennis National Championships in the previous article. I'm still planning to stick to the original date of August 17th (the matches before the National Championships will be moved up a bit).
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