Chapter 127 : Detective Conan World Spectators and Unimaginable Scenes
Needless to say, hearing those words and seeing the black-haired young man actually start walking around in his domain like an uncle taking a stroll, Ryomen Sukuna rarely failed to control his emotional fluctuations, his face turning as black as the bottom of a pot.
Jiang Lai sensed Ryomen Sukuna's gaze, paused slightly, and said friendly: "Want to take a walk together?"
Ryomen Sukuna replied with a cold laugh: "Are you sick?"
Jiang Lai: "No."
This sentence was said with extraordinary sincerity, as if he was really seriously answering rather than retorting to Ryomen Sukuna's mockery.
After half a second, under Ryomen Sukuna's murderous gaze, Jiang Lai smiled again, curving his lips:
"I don't know why... but seeing you dislike me yet unable to defeat me is somewhat interesting."
Ryomen Sukuna: "..."
The King of Curses' response was a fierce attacking assault, sharp killing intent cursed blades splitting the blood water as they struck!
Ryomen Sukuna leaped up and came forward to fight Jiang Lai again without courtesy!
But since they were evenly matched and Jiang Lai wasn't negatively affected by the domain, they still couldn't produce any results, essentially just circling and moving around the Innate Domain.
Jiang Lai: Good, a two-person rotation dance, huh.jpg
Getting the thousand-year-old gentleman to exercise together with him, what great merit!
Jiang Lai silently gave himself a thumbs up in his heart, indicating he had done another good deed today.
Meanwhile, in the Detective Conan world.
The manga had finished updating the storyline involving Mahito, Geto Suguru, and Jiang Lai.
Matsuda Jinpei flipped through the manga volume in his hands.
The manga was from a God's-eye view, selecting certain scenes to show Mahito plotting to harm the black-haired young man, Geto Suguru worried in his heart but unable to show emotions on the surface, and Jiang Lai with confused memories, unaware and unknowing.
Setting up a heart-wrenching storyline.
However, knowing the truth and Jiang Lai's counter-scheming abilities, Matsuda Jinpei wasn't nervous at all. He even took a light sip of coffee and sighed: "This cursed spirit is probably going to exit the stage."
His mood had changed from the previous extreme tension to current calm composure, even watching his otherworldly friend's series of advancement achievements with some pride.
Worthy of being our friend Jiang Lai!
Beside him, Morofushi Hiromitsu nodded in agreement, his voice gentle: "This cursed spirit was born not long ago after all, hasn't participated in much acting and being acted upon. Presumably it can't compare to Jiang Lai and will inevitably be schemed against in the end."
"No, this can't be called being schemed against by Brother Jiang Lai." Kurosawa Akira sat upright, "Mahito is reaping what he sowed, harming others ultimately harms oneself. Brother Jiang Lai is slaying demons and monsters, overcoming obstacles with technical acting skills. I stan our god Lai who is so kind and unpretentious, his only malice was forced by this unjust fate!"
Matsuda Jinpei: "???"
Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help but lean back tactically: "No, wait, Akira, what's wrong with you? Talk normally!!"
Kurosawa Akira slightly curved his lips, his tense face showing a ripple of emotion, his gray-green eyes blinking lightly: "Nothing, I'm just trying a different way of speaking to see if it has more atmosphere."
Matsuda Jinpei: "Thanks for asking, didn't feel the atmosphere, but did feel frightened."
He covered his forehead, "Your usual personality suddenly producing that kind of horrifying language, I almost thought you had some laboratory accident."
Morofushi Hiromitsu also seemed to need half a second to react before saying: "Be careful with experimental safety, especially various pharmaceutical experiments."
"Don't worry, our experiments are all standard with strict procedures." Kurosawa Akira nodded slightly, his expression returning to its usual cool indifference.
He reached out to take the manga volume from Matsuda Jinpei's hands and flipped backward.
The manga had excellent pacing, gradually revealing Mahito's trap-setting plans while subtly showing the black-haired young man's hidden vigilance and preparations.
Beneath the black-haired young man's seemingly trusting surface of walking into a trap, certain blade edges with barely visible arcs lurked.
The Geto Suguru in the manga seemed to have chosen a secretive form of protection, appearing ready to betray at the last moment.
Kurosawa Akira said: "I estimate that in parts not drawn in the manga, Brother Jiang Lai and Geto Suguru have already communicated with each other."
"This little fox," Matsuda Jinpei's attention was elsewhere. He leaned forward, pointing at the liquid fox in the manga and raising his eyebrows with a smile, "Always saying it's hungry and such, even hugging Jiang Lai's sleeves to nibble and devour them, really..."
Kurosawa Akira nodded deeply in agreement: "Shameless."
At the same time, Matsuda Jinpei's words also expressed: "Pretty cute."
Their contradictory simultaneous statements made the air fall into strange silence.
Morofushi Hiromitsu laughed: "It seems your evaluations aren't very consistent. But the situation over there is different from ours. Jiang Lai's clothes are made of cursed energy, so when the Nightmare Fox nibbles the clothes, they'll be quickly replenished, so it won't really cause Jiang Lai any trouble."
Kurosawa Akira thought for a few seconds, coughed, and said quietly: "...If the clothes couldn't be replenished, it probably wouldn't be a shonen manga anymore. Could that even be broadcast?"
The air fell into even more strange silence.
Breaking the silence was Matsuda Jinpei, who slapped the table: "Wait, why are we discussing this topic! The focus should still be on Jiang Lai's experiences. I'll continue turning pages."
He took back the manga volume and continued flipping backward.
The latter part was Jiang Lai meeting Choso, and Geto Suguru and Jiang Lai finally counter-scheming Mahito. At the final crisis moment, Geto Suguru grabbed Jiang Lai.
The man-bun young man's micro-expressions under the moonlight were depicted very precisely in the manga. After his lips moved, he spoke with full emotion: "...This time, I pulled you back."
"One thousand years, long time no see."
However, this scene ended focusing on the black-haired young man's backward glance.
Hearing Geto Suguru's words, his expression showed slight confused ripples.
"Sorry, what are you talking about?"
Matsuda Jinpei leaned back against the sofa back and sighed: "Ah, it looks like this misunderstanding content update is again only cutting us innocent masses on this side. I believe Jiang Lai will definitely explain things clearly to Geto Suguru."
He already had a premonition of what kind of crying feast was happening on the forums.
Thinking this, Matsuda Jinpei casually picked up his phone and glanced at the new Jujutsu series manga forum.
【#Help, the one-eyed cat is sending sinister blades again!! Everyone run quickly, run!!# (hot)】
【#Click into this thread to see one person's mad breakdown, the thousand-year blade not only pierced through Geto Suguru but also pierced through me# (hot)】
【#No one was harmed in this manga storyline, trust me, come look, so sweet it brings tears to your eyes# (new)】
【#Manga fanart thread, including warm thousand-year reunion, blade-like meeting without recognition, dark transformation injury and comfort, plus some things that need very forgiving people to view#】
Matsuda Jinpei generally scanned the titles and understood in his heart: As expected, just as he had guessed, the unsuspecting forum netizens were being stabbed by blades again on scene!
The last time he saw such wailing and crying on the forums was last time.
"Jiang Lai's reply was probably some kind of prank, right? I remember when he chatted with us before this action, he mentioned that Satoru asked him to go find Suguru and pull a little prank while at it."
Morofushi Hiromitsu guessed very accurately, "However, such jokes should be reversed immediately, otherwise the mental impact would be too great."
Matsuda Jinpei continued flipping pages. On the next page, the scene suddenly shifted to a bloody sea domain with cattle bone mountains.
The black-haired young man stood in the domain, making eye contact with Ryomen Sukuna on the cattle bone mountain.
What followed was Ryomen Sukuna pulling out Itadori Yuji, a conceptually meaningful brotherly reunion scene.
Kurosawa Akira's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his cool face showing some sullen displeasure, then after reading, he slowly relaxed:
"Ryomen Sukuna is still completely unqualified, Itadori Yuji is not bad though. Of course, neither of them matches my brother-caring virtue. Brother Jiang Lai's favorite little brother is definitely me. However, I'm not a brother complex, I'm just stating facts."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Explaining is covering up, Akira, we all see through you!"
This manga also came with bonus mini-comics, showing the black-haired young man's healthy 10,000-step check-in in Sukuna's Innate Domain. The Q-version art style looked particularly amusing but also particularly cute.
Morofushi Hiromitsu's eyes curved upward as he smiled: "This part is probably real too, truly like Jiang Lai. Let's check his social media private circle later, maybe there are healthy check-in photos from the Innate Domain."
Matsuda Jinpei crossed his legs: "Not bad, maintaining exercise habits is good, giving Jiang Lai a like."
He continued casually scrolling down the forum page, seeing later topics that included discussions about the bonus content.
【#Why is there walking exercise even in manga!! Good, I'll follow God Lai and exercise!! One reply equals 100 steps, no upper limit#】
【#God Lai's 10,000-step check-in trend thread, starting tomorrow, upload exercise app 10,000-step check-in screenshots, endorsing healthy God Lai#】
【#Ah...I see, so this is true jujutsu walking#】
As Matsuda Jinpei looked at the forum and started laughing, Kurosawa Akira seemed to suddenly remember something and spoke.
"By the way, a couple days ago, Gin contacted me."
This keyword made Matsuda Jinpei immediately put down his phone, and Morofushi Hiromitsu also focused and turned his face over. Their police instincts made them concentrate.
Although Gin had provided some help in the latter half back then, adding fuel to the fire for the already mad organization's downfall, he was still nominally a wanted criminal.
Though various national organizations currently turned a blind eye, since his merit and fault issues weren't easy to clarify.
Plus, Gin had long ago gone to Europe to live freely and firmly established his own power there. Moving against him would be very difficult, and no organization wanted to take the lead.
"What did he contact you about?" Morofushi Hiromitsu asked, inevitably somewhat wary of past troubles resurfacing.
"Some cooperation, don't worry, it's legal trade. He wants a batch of high-efficiency medical supplies specially developed by our research institute."
Kurosawa Akira crossed his hands and said: "But I'm not short of money and don't particularly care about such things, so for this medical trade, I added an additional condition."
"What condition?" Morofushi Hiromitsu spoke steadily.
Beside him, Matsuda Jinpei picked up his water cup, planning to moisten his dry throat, then continue listening.
Kurosawa Akira said seriously: "I said, giving him that batch of goods is fine."
"But as exchange, besides the cost, he has to help me with popularity voting planning for the new Jujutsu series Lai in Europe, responsible for vote promotion and canvassing."
"Pfft!" Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of water. He looked over with an indescribable shocked expression, "Vote promotion and canvassing...did Gin agree?!"
Kurosawa Akira sighed lightly, showing performative melancholy of uncertain authenticity, thought for a moment, and said: "Not yet. I don't know why he's not replying to me. I'll ask again later."
Morofushi Hiromitsu thought for a few seconds, his mind stuttered, thought for a few more seconds, his mind stuttered again.
...Is this an imaginable scene?!?