Chapter 114 : Satoru's Email, Suguru's Situation
Gojo Kyufuin stepped away, the jade hairpin in his dark hair lustrous and gentle, catching a glimmer of light. He disappeared around the street corner.
Little Sheep Jiang Lai withdrew his gaze, turning back to Nanami Kento, blinking as he asked: "Are Nanami and Kyufuin-san familiar?"
"Acquainted, but not very familiar." Nanami Kento nodded in reply. "Just that sometimes missions require it, so we borrow some materials from him."
"But don't we also have a library at the technical college?" Itadori Yuji asked curiously. "And I remember we get materials from auxiliary supervisors for our missions."
"The technical college has its own library, but the collection is also limited. Some curses involve obscure and strange beliefs and legends, and such ancient document materials aren't easy to find."
Nanami Kento explained, "Auxiliary supervisors provide basic mission intelligence, but after all, we're the ones carrying out the missions. Having more materials helps complete the mission."
"Actually, it was originally auxiliary supervisors who connected us with Kyufuin-san," Haibara Yu's eyes were large and bright, adding in a lively tone.
"There was this super troublesome mission before, and the [Window] couldn't give an accurate grade assessment of the cursed spirit, so we could only try to collect information ourselves. Fortunately, Kyufuin-san had materials about that region's beliefs, allowing us to successfully complete that mission."
"Can Gojo family items be freely lent to outsiders?" Fushiguro Megumi's expression was very calm as he pointed out a very important issue.
"Normally, items from the Three Great Families aren't allowed to be casually lent out, and the borrowing procedures are quite complex." Nanami Kento adjusted his glasses. "However, Kyufuin-san said that since he directly manages the Gojo family's library, he can provide us with convenience."
In other words, Gojo Kyufuin indeed collected and was familiar with various ancient books. Moreover, while the other seemed to have no actual power in the Gojo family, he could bypass many regulatory procedures to directly handle his own affairs.
Jiang Lai silently analyzed in his mind.
But this was also reasonable. According to the Thousand Year manga, this Gojo family Third Elder had existed since a thousand years ago.
Having stayed in the Gojo family for so long, even if he didn't openly compete for power on the surface, he must have deeply rooted his own influence and authority behind the scenes.
"He looks like a very nice, gentle noble gentleman, just his name is a bit tongue-twisting." Kugisaki Nobara touched her chin, saying, "Logically, addressing him by surname would be more polite, but it's easy to confuse him with Gojo-sensei... since they both have the surname Gojo and all."
"Initially we also called Kyufuin-san 'Gojo-san,' but Kyufuin-san himself said addressing him by his given name was fine." Haibara Yu scratched his head, smiling. "He said 'when called Gojo, the first reaction is naturally the family head. To avoid misunderstanding, if you don't mind, please call me by my given name.' So we've been calling him that."
Little Sheep Jiang Lai put the last bite of cake in his mouth. He didn't speak, just silently lowered his eyes, pondering in his heart.
The group didn't continue discussing this topic, instead switching to lighter conversation as they headed to the buffet restaurant again.
Though they had just experienced the cursed spirit domain, as jujutsu sorcerers, they were already accustomed to such turbulent lives.
Therefore, the group wasn't affected too much by this, continuing to focus enthusiastically on their current lives.
Even Fushiguro Megumi, who had the heaviest concerns, after being counseled by wolf Matsuda and spending time with his companions, had also dispelled that confused melancholy about regrets.
He showed a faint, restrained smile again, chatting intermittently with his friends about buffet delicacies.
Haibara Yu chose a particularly large buffet restaurant, making Itadori Yuji and the others cry out in delight. They happily selected various delicacies, filling an entire table.
Little Sheep Jiang Lai, having eaten mousse cake early, wasn't hungry during the buffet. After eating briefly, he comfortably leaned against his chair back, pretending to play with his phone.
Reliable adult Nanami reminded him to "rest his eyes," and after hearing Little Sheep respond cheerfully, didn't impose further restrictions.
Nanami Kento knew the brown-haired boy's health wasn't good, so he would silently monitor the other's physical condition, but wouldn't add extra limitations. Instead, he would wordlessly encourage the other to do what he wanted.
The programming books at home were all bought by Nanami Kento, filling the small bookshelf in Little Sheep Jiang Lai's bedroom.
Jiang Lai's face showed his usual smile as he nestled in the innermost seat. He didn't open games, but first privately chatted with his Detective Conan friends, especially Matsuda Jinpei who had appeared in the jujutsu world today.
Matsuda Jinpei seemed very enthusiastic. Probably every adult retained dreams of adventures in other worlds from their youth. Plus, Matsuda's naturally outgoing, troublemaking personality meant he wasn't afraid of danger. He even arranged with Jiang Lai to be called over to play again next time he was free.
Jiang Lai: Truly worthy of Matsuda!!
Hearing about this, Kurosawa Akira silently sent a message: [Brother Jiang Lai, our research institute just completed a major project recently, and we're currently in an adjustment and rest period with basically no major work, just sitting in the office every day.]
He didn't say anything directly, but Jiang Lai quickly understood his thoughts and replied: [Another new breakthrough? Akira is amazing! If you're not busy recently, I'll trouble Akira to help next time.]
[No problem, Brother Jiang Lai.] Kurosawa Akira replied quickly, followed by a cute image of a gray-green eyed, silver-scaled little snake nodding, apparently drawn by himself.
Jiang Lai: Looks like Akira was already prepared to appear, even drawing fan art!
Morofushi Hiromitsu seemed to have taken on a big case recently and was quite busy. Jiang Lai didn't disturb him, just reported that he was safe.
After chatting with his Detective Conan friends, Jiang Lai opened the manga website to browse recent manga updates.
This manga update was still very timely, perfectly covering this mission, ending with the scene of Gojo Kyufuin's jade hairpin silhouette departing.
From the manga, Jiang Lai saw Mahito's situation. He had indeed provoked Ryomen Sukuna and was mercilessly struck down.
Jiang Lai generally browsed through the manga, then opened the new series' Chinese forum.
[Little Sheep's new spirits are so cute! Unfortunately, during the training period before, we only saw distant silhouettes and couldn't see the specific appearances of those spirits. They seem to be original jujutsu spirits outside the game.
This mission finally showed one up close: a devil-horned wolf-dog. The pose with the cigarette dangling and head held high looks so cool! Feels like he should totally have gangster boss sunglasses haha]
Reading this, Jiang Lai couldn't help curving his lips, thinking: Worthy of the all-seeing forum users, they so keenly saw through Matsuda's true form, sunglasses!
But probably precisely because the sunglasses were his true form, the original body had to stay in the Detective Conan world, not appearing in the jujutsu world image.
Jiang Lai joked to himself mentally.
【Love the new big dog!
Both handsome and reliable. Though he seems to have a carefree attitude, his later life mentor demeanor inexplicably gives people a very convincing feeling~】
After all, Matsuda was a very capable police officer. Jiang Lai thought. So even with casual behavior, he always had that protective aura.
【The later appearance of God Lai was also so handsome!! What thing dares to impersonate God Lai? Fakes can't compare to the real thing. God Lai's presence is incomparable!! (screaming with voice breaking)
God Lai looks cool in any art style ww
The previous god-loving-the-world attitude was great, and now the amnesiac boss's indifferent, domineering attitude is also great. One person, multiple ways to enjoy, multiple harvests. Worthy of my oshi!!】
【Above commenter perfectly explained the official money-making strategy of one person, multiple harvests (dog head) hahahaha】
【Cough, seriously... when I saw this mission's cursed spirit had illusion skills, I felt something bad was coming, and sure enough there was a big knife!!
Wuwu Fushiguro-kun, wuwu God Lai, worthy of the dark Jujutsu Kaisen. Every scenario doesn't forget to stab and kill someone (referring to killing me outside the screen)
Back then there wasn't time to tell you my name, now telling you my name is meaningless.
Even so, facing the gradually departing figure, still can't help squeezing out weak breath from between lips and teeth, as if giving this thousand-year stubbornness a resting place…】
【It hurts, too painful QAQ, what is this thousand-year boomerang that even broke through dimensional walls to stab me!! (coughing up three liters of blood)】
【Looking on the bright side, the Fushiguro-Itadori-Kugisaki trio crossed a thousand years and finally reunited! No longer is there just empty tiger lily flowers falling on chairs, but a truly passionate young man standing before them.
"We've been waiting for you..."
"Sorry for the wait...!!"
That scene moved me so much wuwu, frantically screenshotting. The trio is the best! Hope the new series won't blade them anymore (crying)]
【But it's better for God Lai to take the finger than for Mahito and the Supervisory Committee to have it. Despite the changing times, I still believe in God Lai!】
【Ryomen Sukuna also appeared. Sukuna-sama in the new series seems to be playing riddle master (dog head)
The master, the only character who never lost memories over a thousand years, used the information gap to harshly mock Yuji-chan hehe】
【Riddle master, that's hilarious haha!
But Itadori Yuji's understanding of death at that time also revealed his identity. Yuji should be the good side of death, which is why he feels familiar with the word death and pursues proper death.】
【That Gojo family member with pale blue eyes appeared again later! His fan blocking was also very handsome!
Seriously, the name Gojo Kyufuin is really tongue-twisting 2333, but he's quite good-looking, and his low ponytail is simply braided with a jade hairpin!!
A kind of Jiangnan beauty (gesturing), gentle, elegant, distant noble Young Master. But I always inexplicably hallucinate some white-cut-black vibes, probably because of the squinty eyes (?)】
【This person says he loves ancient books and is searching for ancient books. Speaking of old books, my first thought is of God Lai's book (falling into contemplation)
Could Kyufuin's real purpose be God Lai's book? As a member of the Supervisory Committee, thinking it's a space-time derivative?
God Lai and he haven't met face-to-face, right? But he might have heard about God Lai's appearance from elsewhere, knowing God Lai has such an ancient book. After all, he's a guy who's lived a thousand years】
【Who knows, maybe he really loves books? From Nanami and their discussion, Gojo Kyufuin is very familiar with various ancient book contents. He probably has real skills.
As a face-control person, I'm applying a good person filter to Kyufuin (starts painting.jpg)】
【Above commenter is hilarious, but beautiful villains are also very appealing! And I share the same feeling as a certain forum friend above, always feeling this person has white-cut-black vibes.
The former God Lai gave me a feeling of spring breeze-like gentleness that loves all the world, but this Kyufuin gives me a feeling of abyss beneath gentleness... very inexplicable intuition hh】
【White-cut-black can also be a good person! Just that kind of squinty-eyed monster in the good guy group (gesturing) But about his acquaintance with Kenjaku a thousand years ago, the details of that situation aren't clear.】
【The reminder to Little Sheep was reasonable yet a bit strange. Currently there's too little information to analyze well.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, probably just a simple reminder, telling middle school first-year Little Sheep not to be fooled by trafficking scams hh
But speaking of which, isn't the Supervisory Committee the biggest fraud group!! (tactical lean back)
Suguru's painful childhood experience of being deceived should be printed and posted on streets and alleys to tell everyone this is a negative example of not downloading anti-fraud apps!】
【There it is, the omnipresent national anti-fraud app! Last time I saw this in the Chinese forum was last time】
【My focus is on the later part, where Kyufuin tells people not to call him by his surname but by his given name.
Though the reason about Gojo Satoru being too representative is indeed reasonable, it feels like there's also a bit of... his sense of family identity with the Gojo surname isn't that strong.】
Reading this, Jiang Lai paused his browsing and pondered for a while.
Not much sense of family identity... that seemed somewhat accurate.
After all, people who lived too long either became increasingly stubborn and rigid, or increasingly indifferent to everything around them.
From the fact that Gojo Kyufuin didn't seize power and didn't particularly protect the Gojo family, perhaps he was the latter type, relatively indifferent to the Gojo family without substantial family pride or sense of belonging.
Or perhaps there were some hidden stories behind it.
Thinking of this, Jiang Lai stopped browsing the latest plot discussion threads, exited the forum page, and returned to the desktop to open his email.
He planned to chat more with Gojo Satoru, asking if the other had more intelligence about Gojo Kyufuin.
Before opening his phone email, Jiang Lai thought about whether there was anything else to discuss together.
Regarding today's encounter with the cursed spirit, from the manga's revelations, Nanami Kento had already separately informed Gojo Satoru, so he didn't need to mention it again.
As for Ryomen Sukuna's comments about death, after wolf Matsuda Jinpei's final addition, Itadori Yuji and the others would probably also contact Gojo-sensei to tell Gojo Satoru about those conversations.
After hearing this, Gojo Satoru would probably associate it with [Existence]-related matters and then ask him about it. Then he could discuss more content related to this with Gojo Satoru.
Planning this way, Jiang Lai entered his password to unlock and opened his phone email, seeing a new email notification from Gojo Satoru, raising an eyebrow slightly.
Eh? He had already sent him a message? Had Itadori Yuji and the others already informed Gojo Satoru about those words?
Clearly he hadn't seen the Fushiguro-Itadori-Kugisaki group looking at their phones, everyone was currently eating enthusiastically.
Speaking of which, he didn't know where exactly Gojo Satoru was currently. Overseas should have time differences; maybe it was nighttime over there.
Thinking casually, Jiang Lai opened that new email to read the content.
[Suguru seems to be in some trouble.
About two months ago, he told me not to contact him recently, so I stopped sending him messages. But since then, Suguru hasn't replied to me either, and I haven't seen him.
A few days ago I changed numbers and casually sent him a disguised weird promotional message. It's still unread even now. Originally I wanted to pull a little prank~ shrugs
Seriously, what is that guy Suguru doing? No news for such a long time, even a simple period would be fine.
I'm rarely this patient, but now I'm running out of patience too.
The situation overseas is a bit troublesome, can't explain in one email. I can only say I can't return temporarily and probably need some more time. So annoying annoying annoying annoying—
Originally didn't want to bother you because your situation is also complicated. But for this kind of thing, there doesn't seem to be anyone else to rely on.
Well... anyway, if you have any news about Suguru, reply to me?]