Chapter 132
Gojo Satoru generously signed each page of the notebook for Riko Tennen and her friends abcde... filling up almost half of the notebook.
Anyway, even if I sign more, it'll still be more than I did at the bookstore before, right? Five handsome guys signed it all with ease.
After finishing his own name, Gojo Satoru handed the paper and pen to Hagoromo Kazuma, asking him to write his name next to his own.
Kazuma Hatake had just finished writing two signatures when he was interrupted by the big star, Satoru, who shook his head and began to teach people how to write signatures.
"It's not like you're writing your name on your own exam paper, why be so formal? Be wilder, be wilder."
"Hmm...it's a bit difficult to imitate..."
Kazuma Hatori painstakingly began to copy his own name, which he could no longer recognize, following the example of Satoru. Every stroke became extremely difficult.
Xia Youjie, feeling exhausted, covered his face in exasperation.
Don't spoil him too much, Yizhen, that guy will really get arrogant!
As Yuuto Kazuma signed his name next to each of Gojo Satoru's names, Tennichi Riko carefully put the notebook in her arms.
"I really wanted to keep it as a family heirloom... but unfortunately I have to share it with my friends... oh right, the school!"
Riko was startled and hurriedly packed her schoolbag while asking Misato Kuroi, "What time is it now?"
Xia Youjie quickly raised his hand to stop her: "Wait, are you still going to school now? It's too dangerous, Xiao Lizi. You should go back to the vocational college for safety..."
"I want to go!" Riko Tenten pursed her lips and glared at Natsumi Yukichi. "Even if there are only two days left... I still want to go!"
Xia Youjie stared at her for a moment, then reluctantly turned aside to let her pass.
"Will you refer to yourself as 'this concubine' at school as well?"
Gojo Satoru covered his mouth and chuckled.
"It must be really difficult to make friends using this kind of way of speaking, right?"
Riko Tenchi: "..."
Riko glared angrily at the two people, her face gradually turning bright red.
"I can speak normally at school now!!"
Although it was indeed dangerous to let Riko attend classes at this critical moment when her identity had already been exposed, it was tantamount to sentencing her to death in two days. If she didn't say goodbye to her friends during this time, she would never have another chance.
"It's okay, it's not a big deal."
Gojo Satoru clenched his fist and nudged Natsumi Yuuki's shoulder, who looked worried.
"With the three of us being so strong, are you afraid we can't protect a mere little girl?"
Xia Youjie chuckled: "You're not even that much older than her... and you still call her a little girl."
Gojo Satoru stuck out his tongue and made a face at him, then made a special call to Ms. Moth to explain the situation—fortunately, the latter also agreed to the decision.
“Although I also think that returning to the high school and staying until the day of assimilation is the best policy,” said Masamichi Yagami, “this is an order from Lord Tengen, and we need to comply with all of Riko Tengen’s requests during this period.”
"Even if it's just being willful, consider it fulfilling the little girl's last wish... I can only ask you all to work harder, Wu, Yizhen and Jie."
Gojo Satoru hung up the phone and shrugged at the people waiting beside him.
"—That's what he said."
Just in case, they followed Riko Tennen to the vicinity of the Renji Girls' Academy Junior High School so they could arrive quickly if anything unexpected happened.
I originally wanted to stay with Riko, but she firmly forbade me from entering the school, saying that "your appearance would cause a sensation."
In a school full of young people, Gojo Satoru and Hato Kazuma were indeed two unspeakable detonators, their destructive power so great that their mere appearance would make tomorrow's front page headlines.
[Shocking! A super popular and mysteriously disappeared superstar has suddenly appeared at a girls' school!]
Just imagining it is definitely not enough!
Given Tian Tian Li Zi's firm refusal, the group had no choice but to settle for second best, with Xia You Jie releasing a circle of low-level cursed spirits around Tian Tian Li Zi.
Even if visual sharing is not possible, one can still detect the abnormality through the reaction after being exorcised.
This strategy proved quite effective. After waiting for a short while by the currently unused swimming pool, Xia Youjie suddenly stood up.
"Hurry, two cursed spirits have been exorcised; they were curse masters."
Gojo Satoru's expression immediately turned serious—Hatori Kazuma's earlier guess about hiring a curse master to launch an attack had indeed come true.
Which classroom?
Led by Misato Kuroi, Satoru Gojo, Kazuma Hato, and Suguru Natsume ran tirelessly through the corridors of the teaching building.
"This is a music class; it should be in the music room or the chapel!"
Gojo Satoru: "A chapel??"
Misato Kuroi: "This is a church school; where we have classes is entirely up to the teachers!"
"Ha... then let's do it this way. Go to the chapel, whose architecture is so obvious that you don't even need to give directions. Kazuma, let Ms. Kuroi lead the way to the music room. I'll deal with the unidentified curse master."
"receive!"
After quickly deciding on their routes to split up, Xia Youjie immediately left the group and headed to the location where the cursed spirit had been exorcised.
"The music room is this way, follow me!"
—Miri Kuroi led Kazuma Hatake and Satoru Gojo toward the music room, pointing to a church-like building outside the window along the way.
"That's a chapel, please!"
"Okay!"
Gojo Satoru immediately used one hand to support himself on the windowsill and flipped out, his movements nimble and fluid, like a beautiful, agile snow leopard.
Kazuma Hatake followed Misato Kuroi as they ran towards the music room, watching her struggle to open the classroom door, breathless—
"Young Miss!"
The place was deserted; Riko was in the chapel!
After resting against the door frame for a moment and calming her heavy breathing, Misato Kuroi turned and headed out of the school building toward the chapel.
"It's alright, Wu went over there."
Kazuma Hatori, who was standing beside her, comforted her, "He won't let anything happen to Tenchi..."
"ah--!!!"
Just then, a burst of cheers and screams erupted from the church not far away—the place Gojo Satoru had just gone to.
"It really is Gojo Satoru!!!"
"Lord Wu! Autograph!! Please give me an autograph!"
"Go-chan!! Go-chan is even more handsome up close!"
"Am I dreaming?!"
"He looks so handsome when he smiles!!! Can we take a picture together? Just one!!"
The cheers coming from over there were so loud that Kazuma Hatori abruptly stopped in his tracks as he rushed toward the chapel.
“…”
Suddenly, I don't really want to go anymore...
Kazuma Hatori still feels lingering fear when he recalls being surrounded by a huge crowd in the bookstore and having his hands tremble while signing autographs.
Just as Kazuma Hatori was struggling with whether or not to rescue Satoru from his predicament, Misato Kuroi gestured for him to look at the courtyard path outside the window—where stood a strange figure wearing a bizarre paper bag on his head.
"I've never seen this man at school; it's suspicious."
Upon realizing he didn't have to go to the chapel, Hagoromo Kazuma breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ran towards it.
"Then let's take care of him first."
To avoid being recognized by the students in the chapel, Kazuma Hatake deliberately took a detour and turned his back to them.
As he spun [Karma Twins] open and transformed it into a double-bladed form, he caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye of Gojo Satoru grabbing Tennatsu Riko and rushing out of the chapel, jumping onto the roof, and taking a different route.
Her movements were nimble and light, but her back view had a slightly disheveled, fleeing feel to it. It's unclear whether she did this to avoid overly enthusiastic fans or because walking on the rooftop was a faster way to get there.
"Oh? Judging from your uniform, you're from a vocational college..."
The commotion behind him grew louder, probably because fans had chased after him—Hatori Kazuma was startled and had no time to listen to the henchman's opening remarks. He swung his hand and threw a sharp flying blade.
!
"Varied……!"
As the space he was in rapidly shattered, the man with the strange paper bag on his head didn't even utter a complete exclamation before turning into a muddy shadow, quickly merging into the ground and gradually dissipating.
"A shikigami?!"
Seeing a body melt away for the first time, Kuroi Misato's eyes widened. "Is he dead?"
"No, it's a little different from a shikigami."
Xia Youjie, having dealt with his enemies, also arrived. While making a phone call to Wujiao Wu, he quickly explained the situation to all three of them.
"Hey, Wu? Xiao Lizi has a 30 million bounty on her head. She's listed on the black web for curse masters. The deadline is 11 a.m. the day after tomorrow."
"No wonder a curse master came to kill Tian Tian, so that's what happened."
Wu Tiao understood, and heard Xia Youjie say "but" after that, but then nothing more.
"What's wrong?" Gojo Satoru pressed. "Stop beating around the bush."
Xia Youjie remained silent for a moment, then repeated what he had said.
“That old curse master told me that when they received the mission, they were told that the guards—that is, among us—would have an undercover agent assisting them.”
Upon hearing this, Kazuma Hatori's face remained expressionless, but he inwardly paused.
He immediately deduced that this was a message deliberately released by the assassin contacted by Kong Shiyu.
The purpose was to make them suspicious of each other—aside from Satoru, who came from one of the three main families, he and Natsume were not from the same family and were therefore suspected of the same thing.
Just then, his phone vibrated in his pocket, a notification that he had received an email.
Gojo Satoru: “…”
On the other end of the phone, Gojo Satoru's eyebrows nearly shot to the sky upon hearing the news.
"Huh?? You actually spread such ridiculous fake news? Only an idiot would believe that!"
Xia Youjie chuckled, agreeing that it was indeed nonsense.
"Yes, that's why I was a little hesitant to tell you."
But when he ended the call and turned around, he was met with the tip of one of [Ye Shuang's] blades.
"...!"
In Xia Youjie's view, Yuqu Kazuma was holding a phone in one hand and raising his other hand horizontally, aiming steadily at Xia Youjie's brow.
Misato Kuroi lay on the ground, already knocked unconscious.
"Wait, Kazuma, you..."
When Xia Youjie was stunned, the smile that had just appeared on his lips had not yet disappeared.
“I’m sorry,” Kazuma Hatake said calmly, looking into his dark eyes, “I received orders.”
—To be precise, it was an arrangement, as stated in the email, aimed at exposing his identity.
[You've been kidnapped and taken hostage; members of the Panxing Cult have been arranged to meet you.]
Was this also a plan devised by Kong Shiyu? Even if he didn't follow it, his identity would be exposed on the spot.
The purpose is not to sow discord, but to kill each other.
At that moment, a group of people in white robes coming from outside the school gate called out in unison the name of Kazuma Hatori.
“Your Holiness, the time has come.”
Xia Youjie looked to the side and saw that all the guys wearing wide white robes had large hoods and their pulled-up collars covered the lower half of their faces.
When the group of white-robed figures bowed to Yuzuru Kazuma, and then two of them swiftly bound Kuroi Misato with rope and took her away, Xia Youjie finally dared to believe that the news he had just heard from the curse master was actually true!
"Are you the Holy Son?"
Xia Youjie's tone was extremely surprised, and the space behind him rippled violently, but the cursed spirit still did not crawl out from the ink-like crack.
The fact that they didn't lay a hand on him... suggests that their level of trust reached over 80%.
"Yes, it's the real deal."
Kazuma Hatori quickly assessed the current situation in his mind and responded in a calm tone.
"[Kidnapping Misato Kuroi] was the order I just received. If you want to rescue her, exchange her for Riko Tenne."
Even if he could kill everyone in the Starlight Cult here and announce on the spot that he had joined the High School camp, he would never have an easy chance to get close to that [Cult Leader].
Surrounded by the white-robed figures, Hagoromo Kazuma withdrew his [Karma Double] and gave Natsumi a final reminder.
"If you agree to the exchange, I will tell you the agreed location later."
The word "I" was emphasized.
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