Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Intersection
"Teacher, you won't forget the promise you made with..." Natsume picked up Madara and whispered in his ear.
Normally, he would have taken the cat teacher away and flatly rejected Gojo Satoru's invitation. But he had just agreed to help Saionji-san cover up. Natsume had a feeling that if he refused Gojo Satoru's relentless pursuit, it would likely backfire and expose Saionji-san.
Madara moved his ears: "How could it be, I am trying to get information about the sorcerer, right?"
Natsume was speechless: "You obviously just want to have a big meal."
"Hmph." Madara shook his head proudly. It was because Natsume had limited pocket money, which was not enough to fill his stomach. Now there was a sucker to be exploited, so he would be a fool not to do so.
It seems that the cat teacher has made up his mind. Natsume sighed: "If you want to go, you have to notify me first... You have to change the appointment?"
"Well, that's easy~" Madara casually summoned a green little monster from the bushes, "Then you go to the Bai Mo Coffee Shop on the nearby street, find the person with the strongest spiritual pressure, and tell her that we won't be going there later."
Natsume finally breathed a sigh of relief, finally he didn't have to keep Saionji waiting in vain.
"Are you notifying your companions? The person who just helped you to eliminate the cursed spirit," Gojo Satoru, who had been left aside by the two for a long time, suddenly interrupted with a smile.
Natsume's eyes widened slightly: "...How did you know?"
"Emmm," Gojo Satoru rubbed his chin, "Although the residue is very weak, there is indeed another person's spiritual power here." Since discovering the new world, he has been adding relevant information. Gojo Satoru dares to guarantee that he should be the one who understands spiritual power the most among the sorcerers.
"Yes, there was a companion of mine here just now," Natsume responded immediately, "but he doesn't like meeting strangers, so he left early." In order to help Saionji-san conceal his identity, Natsume deliberately used male referential pronouns.
"What a shame," Gojo Satoru shrugged. "I was thinking if anyone was nearby, I might as well call them out and go with us."
Ban licked his paw slowly: "It's better if there is one less person to compete with me for food."
"Let's go," Gojo Satoru said, holding up his phone. "I've already booked a table at the izakaya. The red bean paste buns aren't from the Nanatsujiya you mentioned, but I've asked my students to buy some from Tokyo's most famous pastry shop and bring them over. It's time for a deep conversation~"
Natsume held his forehead, hoping that the teacher would not talk too much when drunk.
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Saionji Gyoon sat in a secluded spot in the corner of the cafe, not by the window, so there was no danger of being seen by passers-by. There were decorative potted plants next to her, blocking the view of people inside the store.
She ordered a mocha and a tiramisu, and waited calmly for Natsume and Madara to arrive.
Fortunately, the person she met today was Natsume. Although the boy looked indifferent and aloof, he was actually a gentle and soft-hearted person. She had understood this fact in a series of contacts in the past. If anyone knew her identity, it would be the safest person, it must be Natsume. As for the big monster following him, with Natsume around, he would probably not spread it around.
Yuyin stirred her coffee and thought.
After waiting for a while, Yuyin suddenly felt a faint demonic aura. She peeked out from the booth and saw a green-skinned monster, obviously a plant spirit, staggering around the store, looking around.
When the other person noticed her, he flinched at first, then approached cautiously and said, "Are you the person that master is looking for? That master asked me to tell you that he and another master are busy and can't come. Please forgive me."
Is there something urgent? No, if that were all, Natsume could have just stopped by to tell her in person. There must be a reason why he couldn't come. Thinking of her request for him to keep it a secret, Yuyin asked the little monster, "Did they leave with the sorcerer? What did the sorcerer look like?"
The little monster touched his head and said, "Yes, I saw the two adults leaving with that blindfolded and scary man."
Tamane was speechless when she heard the answer. Could it be such a coincidence that it was actually Senior Gojo who came? However, considering that the person who wanted to retrieve the Sukuna Finger, it was not surprising that the person who came was him. After all, there were only a few sorcerers in Tokyo who were capable of fighting against the Sukuna Finger.
"Do you know where they went?" Yuyin asked with concern, hoping that she would not run into them as soon as she went out.
The little monster tried hard to recall, then shook his head: "I don't know the specific place, I just heard them say they were going to an izakaya..."
Yuyin glanced at her watch. It wasn't even dark yet. Only Gojo Satoru and the big, alcohol-loving monster would be able to go to the izakaya at this hour. She waved her hand to indicate she understood and sent the little monster away.
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"Here, minors can't drink."
In the private room of the izakaya, Gojo Satoru pushed the juice drink in front of Natsume.
"Thank you." Natsume took the juice and nodded in thanks. On the other side, taking advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders around, Madara jumped onto the dining table and licked the wine in the cup openly.
Gojo Satoru laughed and said, "Haha, you're welcome. Don't look at me like this. I'm a teacher with both virtue and talent. Young man, you're still a high school student, right? What's your name?"
Natsume took a sip of his drink and introduced himself, "Natsume Takashi."
"What a nice name~" Gojo Satoru praised, finishing off a piece of tempura and reaching out to touch the cat's back. "It's truly remarkable that a young man can subdue a great monster~"
Madara swiftly swung his right claw and slapped Gojo Satoru's hand away: "Idiot, I'm not being subdued. Didn't you hear me? I'm a teacher, a teacher!"
Although Ban seemed furious, he was actually frightened. When he slapped the opponent with his claws just now, he didn't touch the opponent's body at all. What kind of ability is this?
"Oh? Since we're both teachers, we're in the same field. Let's exchange ideas." Gojo Satoru didn't care at all about being rejected by the cat. He turned around and started eating his dessert. Pointing at the black-haired boy next to him who was even quieter than Natsume, he said, "This is my student, Fushiguro Megumi."
Fushiguro Megumi nodded slightly. He had gotten used to being treated like a delivery boy by his teacher over the past six months.
"By the way, Kei also knows about the world fusion~" Gojo Satoru suddenly said after finishing a dessert in a few bites.
Natsume looked at Fushiguro Megumi in surprise, and the black-haired boy replied calmly, "Yes."
After hearing this, Madara finally raised his head from his wine glass, walked around Fushiguro Megumi a few times, and looked at him carefully, saying, "Then I am really becoming more and more confused about the characteristics of people who know about the fusion of worlds."
While Natsume was in class, Madara liked to run around, so he soon discovered that a strange creature called a curse spirit had appeared in the world. When he asked other little monsters, all of them were accustomed to the existence of curse spirits, as if they had been coexisting with curse spirits since ancient times, and were somewhat surprised at the ignorance of Madara, a big monster.
In the end, Madara explored the surroundings openly and secretly, and it seemed that apart from him, only Natsume and the demon hunter Natori Shuichi found the existence of the cursed spirit abnormal. Even Natori Shuichi's Shikigami did not notice anything unusual.
Only then did Madara realize that this matter was unusual, and after studying the cursed spirits and the world of curses, he concluded that they had merged with another completely different world.
It's clear that Gojo Satoru and Fushiguro Megumi, the two they're currently encountering, are the ones who've noticed this anomaly in the world of jutsu. So what's their commonality? Are they both powerful (he and Gojo Satoru)? Are they both beautiful young men with great potential (Natsume and Fushiguro)? There must be some other limiting factor, right?
Gojo Satoru said with a grin, "Maybe he's a powerful person or a future powerful person. The Deba Shizuka I met last time is from your world of monsters, right? He also knows about this."
Gojo Satoru was immediately aware of the sudden appearance of this strange creature, the monster, in the world. His six eyes could absorb information from all aspects.
Furthermore, he discovered that, aside from a few close to him, even the old-timers in the Sorcerer's Association had noticed something was amiss, believing that youkai had always existed. He had absolutely no interest in youkai, but the impact of his suspected fusion with the youkai world on his reforms of the sorcery world was what concerned Gojo Satoru the most.
He had previously accidentally met Chang Jingsi, the leader of the demon hunters, and the two reached a preliminary cooperation agreement, providing each other with information about the other's world, sharing what they had, and agreeing not to interfere in certain key matters.
However, the monster world seems to have no unified leader. Monsters and exorcists alike form their own small circles, unlike the curse world which has an association to put pressure on them. Gojo Satoru also understood this, and when he met the combination of the young boy and the big monster today, he pulled them over on a whim.
"Mr. Deba?" Hearing the familiar name, Natsume asked, "Mr. Gojo, are you acquainted with Mr. Deba?"
"So you two know each other?" Gojo Satoru said nonchalantly, "I met him not long ago and chatted with him for a while. I learned a lot about youkai."
"Hiccup—he was the one who took the initiative to find you," Madara drank several glasses of wine, his face starting to redden, "That's just his style, he always takes the initiative in everything."
"Teacher Neko, drink less," Natsume quickly snatched the wine glass and handed over a plate of grilled fish, "Eat something first."
Gojo Satoru followed suit and turned to Fushiguro Megumi, shouting, "Megumi, look at how others take care of the teacher, I want to do the same~"
Megumi Fushiguro looked speechlessly at the teacher who was deliberately showing off, and helplessly pushed a plate of skewers in front of him: "Don't you like sweets? They are already in your hands."
He had just completed today's exorcism mission when he was immediately ordered here by Gojo Satoru.
"I don't care, I don't care. The thought is what matters most~"
Megumi Fushiguro and Takashi Natsume looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
Thank you for your hard work, both of them seemed to be saying to each other with their eyes.
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