"Although the scent of the curse is everywhere, I just can't find the location of the Cursed Spirit," Genji complained.
After the three of them entered the apartment, they surveyed the first five floors at an extremely fast speed, but found no trace of any Cursed Spirit. Thus, the group arrived at the sixth floor, where the scent of the curse was the strongest. Just as Genji passed a room, a sound suddenly came from inside.
"Hmm," although the sound was very quiet, it was still keenly noticed by Genji. He immediately signaled the other two to stand in front of the door.
"I'm going to open the door," Genji warned the two, and then pulled the door open.
"Little Genji, time to eat." Genji came back to his senses and found himself in a room. Posters were plastered on the walls, and a few books and homework were messily placed on the desk. At the same time, the screen on the computer was still stuck on a game interface.
"Where is this? Some kind of hallucination?"
"Bang!" Just as Genji was confused, the room door was kicked open violently. A girl with a ponytail, looking full of energy, appeared at the door.
"How many times have I called you to eat! Hurry up and go downstairs." The girl said to Genji with her hands on her hips.
"Who are you?"
Seeing that Genji was still stunned in place, the girl stepped forward and touched Genji's forehead.
"You don't have a fever. How come you don't even recognize your great sister?"
At this moment, the girl's gaze swept across the computer, a look of realization appeared on her face, and then she said angrily:
"Staying up late playing games again!" Seeing that Genji was still standing there blankly, the girl grabbed his hand and dragged him downstairs.
"Let's eat first, then go back to sleep."
As soon as the two arrived at the dining table, they each received a knock on the head. A gentle woman with her hair tied in front of her said to the two:
"How many times have I told you to wash your hands before coming to the table? Go wash your hands quickly. Today, there is the stewed meat that you, Little Genji, love. It will be out of the pot soon." After speaking, the woman returned to the kitchen.
"Little Genji, did you stay up late again? Honestly, how many times have I told you? Hurry up and wash your hands, or I won't care if you make your mother angry later." A man on the sofa put down the newspaper in his hand and said to the two.
The man's face was 70% similar to Genji's, but he was more mature than Genji, and there was a touch of the vicissitudes of life on his face.
"Got it, Dad, you're so long-winded," the girl retorted unceremoniously, "As if it wasn't you who broke Mom's cosmetics last time and blamed it on us."
Having been "broken" by the girl's words, Hayashi Gyu didn't know where to put his hands, looking a bit embarrassed.
Hayashi Rin saw that her father stopped speaking, so she pulled Genji towards the bathroom.
Even until they sat at the dining table, Genji still didn't understand what had happened.
"What's wrong, Little Genji? No appetite?"
"I was just... what was I doing?" Genji felt like he had forgotten something.
"You finally made yourself stupid by staying up late." ( ｡ ớ ₃ ờ )ھ
Hayashi Rin would not miss any opportunity to mock her stupid younger brother.
"No need for the female gorilla to talk so much," Genji replied calmly.
"Sigh, this temper of mine."
"Alright, eat properly!" Just as Hayashi Rin intended to let Genji see what "education of love" was, On Yukirin interrupted the two. She then asked Genji with shining eyes:
"Little Genji, how are you getting along with that female classmate in your class? When are you going to bring her home for Mom to see?"
"Let's talk about it after I get into university. Isn't it too early to talk about this now? Besides, my study time is already very tight." Looking at his mother, whose eyes seemed to be shining, Genji decisively found an excuse and refused.
"Disappointed~" Just like that, the family ate happily, and the last trace of incongruity in Genji's heart quietly faded, as if everything should have been like this.
...
On the other side, Geto Suguru was seriously injured, walking forward while leaning weakly against the wall.
"What a fascinating power. Next time, next time I will definitely..." Before he finished speaking, Geto Suguru stopped, then smiled with relief and sat down against the wall.
"You're late, Satoru. It's already over. How is my family?" Standing at the entrance of the alley was exactly Gojo Satoru.
"Basically, they all ran away."
"Then I can rest assured. By the way, you sent those students here just to let me kill them and then stimulate Yuta Okkotsu's fighting spirit, right? You're really cold-hearted," Geto Suguru said to Gojo Satoru with some sarcasm.
'No, it shouldn't be like this.' There was a voice in Geto Suguru's heart reminding him that it shouldn't be like this.
"Because I believe in your principles, Suguru. You wouldn't kill young Jujutsu Sorcerers for no reason."
"Oh, do we still have such a thing as trust between us?"
"Any last words?"
"I don't resent the people at Tokyo Jujutsu High, it's just that this world cannot make me smile from the bottom of my heart."
Gojo Satoru walked up silently and said softly to Geto Suguru:
"Welcome back, Suguru."
"Seriously, say something cursed at the end."
Hearing Gojo Satoru's words, Geto Suguru was stunned for a moment, then laughed bitterly, unable to laugh or cry. At this moment, the two seemed to have returned to the days at Tokyo Jujutsu High, back to the days before that bitter summer.
'No, how could we end up like this! Where is Genji? Where is Shoko? Where are they!' Geto Suguru roared, and his consciousness returned to the scene at the beginning.
...
Corpses, corpses, and more corpses. Enemies, friends, acquaintances, strangers. Shoko stayed in the morgue, dissecting various corpses, as if time had stopped in this small morgue.
'Speaking of which, I haven't seen Gojo for a while. Whatever.' Shoko thought wildly while taking a cigarette out of the pocket of her white lab coat.
"Hoo," the cigarette entered her lungs, bringing a slight stimulation that helped Shoko recover some spirit. She tied up the hair she had grown over the years, "Let's continue working."
...
On Gojo Satoru's side, relying on the powerful observation ability brought by the Six Eyes, Gojo Satoru noticed the suddenly enhanced Forbidden Technique aura in the room the moment Genji opened the door, as well as the light that suddenly appeared in the room. However, before he could give a warning, the group was enveloped in white light.
The white light dissipated, and he found himself back at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Unlike the others, perhaps due to the protection of Infinity, he did not lose his ability to move freely, and his thinking was not affected.
Just as he was looking around, he suddenly discovered Geto Suguru, who had lost an arm and was leaning against the wall, covered in wounds, sitting on the ground.
"Suguru!" Just as Gojo Satoru rushed over quickly, he was surprised to find that another version of himself was also there. Both looked more mature than they are now. But Gojo Satoru didn't care about that now, because he clearly felt that the other version of himself was there to kill Geto Suguru.
"Hey, stop! What are you doing!"
It was as if there was an invisible wall in front of him, blocking Gojo Satoru from Geto Suguru and the other Gojo Satoru. He could only watch helplessly as the other version of himself said something to Geto Suguru, and then, under Gojo Satoru's unbelievable gaze, he personally ended Geto Suguru's life!
"No!"
"This is our destiny, the absolute strong, and the absolute loneliness born from it."
Suddenly, the other 'Gojo Satoru' looked back at him, eyes empty, the originally beautiful Six Eyes were now gray.
"How long are you going to play this game of house?"
"Bastard!"
Gojo Satoru punched angrily, but before his fist could touch him, the scene in front of him suddenly shattered like a mirror. When Gojo Satoru came back to his senses, he found that the hellish scene in front of him was repeating again. Gojo Satoru could only watch helplessly as he killed Geto Suguru over and over again.