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Faced with Mahito's friendly greeting, the black-haired young man showed no particular reaction, only slowly blinking his eyes as a response.

The humanoid cursed spirit with stitches on his face was quite familiar as he walked a few steps toward them, though he still cautiously maintained some distance, smiling as he said:

"When we first met at the train station, it was not long after you were born, right? I'd never seen you before that."

There was a hint of probing in his words.

Following the principle of "the more you say, the more mistakes you make; the less you say, the fewer mistakes," Jiang Lai only looked up indifferently without directly replying to anything.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous~" Mahito curved his lips, smiling brilliantly. "When I was first born, I had about the same mental state as you. We're the same kind, don't worry."

Jiang Lai: I think our mental states are quite different.jpg

He pondered countermeasures in his mind.

According to his previous plan, he intended to use his original body's advantages to infiltrate the cursed spirit side to gather clues, so contact with the special grade cursed spirit Mahito was inevitable.

It's just that all this couldn't be too obvious or aggressive, or it would arouse suspicion.

Therefore, at this moment he pretended to go along with Mahito's words, showing a slightly relaxed appearance.

Mahito continued in a leisurely tone: "But speaking of which, I remember you at the train station were quite different from now. Is it some special possession, or..."

There was a small trap here. Jiang Lai's state then and now had nothing to do with that kind of possession mode where cursed spirits take over bodies.

Jiang Lai didn't believe that Mahito, as a special grade cursed spirit, couldn't tell this difference. The other party was very likely deliberately bringing up this question to test his current cognitive state or to probe the reason for that mixed state of human and cursed spirit.

With thoughts flowing, Jiang Lai half-lowered his eyelids and replied very plainly: "I don't know either."

"?" Mahito's expression froze slightly, obviously somewhat surprised to hear such a response.

"I only know that I was born from [people's regret over the passage of past time and fear of uncertainty about future events]." Jiang Lai said. "As for other things, I'm not very clear about them."

He didn't plan to get too tangled up in explaining his state, so he directly replied like this and deliberately showed signs of unconsciously revealing some weakness, namely confusion in memory and cognition.

He planned to go with this kind of character setting.

"..." Light flowed in Mahito's heterochromatic pupils. He pondered for half a second, then smiled again: "So after you gained consciousness, you've been more or less like this, right?"

Jiang Lai nodded.

"Looking at it this way, your growth seems quite different from ours. Usually, cursed spirits' growth has to start from a cursed womb." Mahito smiled cheerfully. "Or perhaps you already went through that stage long ago, but something happened afterward, causing your memory and state to become..."

The black-haired young man in front of him still had that indifferent expression, but his demeanor seemed to follow his words, showing a few traces of thought and confusion.

That thin ice-like outer shell was instinctive self-protection, beneath which was a bewildered childlike state with confused cognition and memory.

Mahito took a few more steps forward, raising his hand and waving it, looking quite friendly:

"Alright, it doesn't matter. How about this, since you're wandering around randomly by yourself anyway, why don't you come with us? We can help you look for your previous memories." His voice was cheerful.

"You guys?" The black-haired brown-eyed young man slowly replied.

"A few other special grade cursed spirit companions." Mahito's heterochromatic eyes blinked. "We're all the same."

He actually didn't mention the Supervisory Committee. Jiang Lai thought. He originally thought the other party would say something about it.

It seemed the other party hadn't completely let down his guard either, or perhaps felt that mentioning other organizations would make him uneasy, so he didn't speak of it.

Jiang Lai knew Mahito's personality wasn't truly warm and kind. His essential character was quite malicious, with a naive cruelty toward humans and deliberate malice, and toward unfamiliar cursed spirits, he also had a toy-viewing mentality.

However, he was very good at acting, and this current appearance of enthusiasm and kindness was performed.

At this moment, Mahito's attitude toward him was probably because he found him interesting, and as a special grade cursed spirit with sufficient strength, so he planned to start with a friendly attitude and try to recruit him.

Jiang Lai wasn't in a hurry to agree. Being too eager to agree would easily arouse suspicion during subsequent probing.

Moreover, he couldn't just go to the cursed spirit group like this, since he still needed to leave space to use his Little Sheep disguise to explore human society.

He needed to be in a free state, not a constrained state within a group.

Therefore, Jiang Lai's expression remained normal. After staying quiet for two seconds, he spoke plainly again: "Let me think about it."

"Then you think it over~" Mahito also controlled his attitude well, not being forceful or overly enthusiastic. He waved his finger and said: "Next time we meet, if there's a chance, I'll introduce you to other cursed spirit family members."

"Alright." Jiang Lai nodded slightly. He mentally checked off his plan.

With this topic concluded, Mahito flicked his tongue and switched topics: "Oh, speaking of which, meeting here today, I suppose you're also here to look for something?"

Here it was, the key content. Jiang Lai paused in his heart, showing slight confusion on his face: "I just felt there was something, so I followed my instincts here."

"There is indeed something." Mahito spoke frankly. "Just be careful. This kind of thing has certain risks if not handled by the right person."

Jiang Lai caught several clues from the other party's words. He didn't speak, waiting for the other party's next sentence.

"Not everyone can withstand such enormous energy, even just by touching it." Mahito leisurely said a few more sentences, his heterochromatic eyes curving: "So friend, let me handle it this time. I have some experience."

Jiang Lai found it somewhat amusing in his heart. After all that buildup, the other party just wanted an outsider like himself to stay out of it?

However, regarding the enormous and risky energy, perhaps what the other party said was true.

If not, the cursed spirits that had gathered during this time would have already absorbed and devoured that unknown thing. The fact that this thing remained safe and sound indicated that other cursed spirits couldn't handle it.

Based on Jiang Lai's previous speculation, combined with the information he had just heard from Mahito, the thing in Satozakura School that attracted cursed spirits was most likely a divine nature fragment related to [Existence].

[Existence] was, after all, another kind of high-level character. Even damaged divine nature fragments couldn't be defiled by just anyone. Therefore, the energy was enormous and couldn't be touched casually.

It was just unclear why that fragment had only suddenly started attracting cursed spirits now... Additionally, it was unclear which [Existence] this divine nature fragment belonged to. In any case, it wasn't his own.

Jiang Lai could sense that his own divine nature as [Existence], though damaged and ineffective, was still dormant within his body and wouldn't split into fragments and fly to various places.

While Jiang Lai's thoughts were flowing, the young man with blue three-strand braids somehow produced a brown pocket-sized woven bag from his hand.

The small woven item looked extremely plain and simple, yet gave Jiang Lai an inexplicable sense of awkwardness.

He watched from afar, his gaze lightly sweeping over it, his expression not revealing his inner thoughts.

Jiang Lai determined that the woven bag Mahito produced was no ordinary item, probably specially prepared for whatever was in Satozakura School. In other words, this pocket woven bag could contain and collect divine nature fragments.

...Which meant this was an item targeting [Existence]?

It seemed the Supervisory Committee was well-prepared. Jiang Lai's eyes focused. Always monitoring for anomalies to collect divine nature fragments? What was that woven item?

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Just then, the corridor window suddenly shattered, and a fat fish-shaped cursed spirit crashed in!

What drew the instant attention of both Mahito and Jiang Lai wasn't this intruding fish-shaped cursed spirit, but the footsteps and approaching cursed energy coming from the corridor.

Two figures leaped up from not far away, moving nimbly and quickly. They were the jujutsu sorcerers Nanami Kento and Itadori Yuji!!

They didn't directly exorcise that fish-shaped cursed spirit but used it instead.

The two followed the cursed spirit that had come following its instincts and successfully found this location in the school!

Mahito narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the two approaching people, chuckling softly: "How annoying, some unnecessary extra guys have come."

He put away the woven bag, freeing both hands, ready for battle at any time.

From this sentence, Jiang Lai determined: In this new series, Mahito and Itadori Yuji's group had never met before. This was their first encounter.

The approaching Itadori Yuji focused almost all his attention on Jiang Lai standing to one side. He widened his golden eyes slightly, exclaiming in shock: "It's you?!"

"..." The black-haired young man's expression remained indifferent, only slightly raising his eyelids to gaze across the not-too-far, not-too-close distance.

Hearing the call from the boy beside him, Nanami Kento also focused his gaze over for an instant.

This was troublesome. Nanami Kento gripped the spotted curse-wrapped short blade in his hand, thinking silently to himself. He hadn't expected this incident to have two special grades at the scene.

If there was only one, they could still try to fight against it. But two special grades... this was beyond their current level to handle.

Nanami Kento's calm gaze swept over the two special grade cursed spirits standing at the end of the corridor. From their positioning and posture, he determined that they knew each other but probably weren't familiar. This was good news.

Otherwise, two special grades with practiced cooperation would make the difficulty go up another level.

The reliable adult adjusted the task priorities in his mind based on the actual situation, moving [Investigate and Resolve the Source of the Problem] down a position and adding [Priority Protection of Student Itadori's Safety] at the top.

Beside him, Itadori Yuji stared intently at Jiang Lai with a complex expression. He still remembered the conversation he heard yesterday, where Sukuna had mentioned the other party. Was this guy Sukuna's accomplice?

While Itadori Yuji's thoughts were flowing, Jiang Lai was also silently looking back at him.

He had anticipated meeting the other party, just hadn't expected everything to come so quickly.

Jiang Lai's gaze swept over the traces of two crescent marks beneath Itadori Yuji's eyes, yet Sukuna inside Itadori was unusually quiet at the moment, showing no signs of coming out.

This was quite different from Jiang Lai's speculation.

He slightly lowered his eyelids, his fingers moving slightly.

...He hoped Sukuna-sama wasn't brewing something. Please don't be holding back some big event.