Chapter 147 : The One Most Thoroughly Fooled by God Lai Is
Jiang Lai opened his phone. The new manga series was updating very diligently, having already completed the Zenin family arc.
He quickly browsed through it, reviewing the events he'd experienced in his mind.
In the manga, besides the content he'd personally experienced while wearing a disguise, there was also a portion showing scenes of Zenin Naobito and Gojo Kyufuin who were outside.
Jiang Lai focused his attention on this god's-eye view meeting.
Zenin Naobito's outing this time was to attend the Big Three Families' quarterly exchange meeting that lasted three to four days.
Although the Zenin family practiced isolationism, they would naturally still attend meetings that represented the great families' reputation.
The meeting location this time was at the Gojo family estate.
After the meeting ended, Third Elder Gojo Kyufuin politely escorted Zenin Naobito away from the Gojo family grounds.
The Zenin family's retainers were all waiting at the post station by the main gate, with no other servants around the two men.
Seeing this, Jiang Lai wasn't surprised. He knew this environment was created intentionally, the two must have planned to communicate privately to arrange their servants this way.
Since Lady Zenin had said in the study that the person Zenin Naobito went to find was Gojo Kyufuin, this meeting presumably wasn't a coincidence but had been planned long ago.
Jiang Lai turned to the next page.
In the manga, Zenin Naobito looked straight ahead and said abruptly: "Why did you suddenly make this decision?"
Gojo Kyufuin wore a gentle smile on his face as he replied: "It's not exactly sudden. I suppose you don't need pleasantries, so I'll speak frankly, it's because of boredom."
"Boredom?" Zenin Naobito, with his flying eyebrows and beard, gripped his ever-present red gourd in one hand and took a gulp: "That sounds really..."
"For someone like me who doesn't age, time isn't the killer, boredom is." Gojo Kyufuin said.
"So you changed your stance because of this?" Zenin Naobito glanced at him: "Where do you find the entertainment?"
Gojo Kyufuin turned his face, his narrow light blue eyes gentle as jade, and at the same time he answered:
"Chaos brings death, death brings truth, the words before death are the most beautiful and pleasing heartfelt words."
The long-haired man with his hair bound by a jade hairpin spoke cruel and strange words in the gentlest tone. He gently peeled away that layer of disguise, revealing some truth to the outside.
Seeing this, Jiang Lai was silent for a second, thinking: As expected, the perverted comrade arrives late but surely arrives.jpg
So this guy was a new type of pervert who liked hearing people's heartfelt words before death? In a sense, he was a final words listening enthusiast.
This was probably why Gojo Satoru had told him before that Kyufuin would go care for those who were dying, whether it was painful moans, relieved sighs, or intermittent final words, Gojo Kyufuin felt pleased in his heart.
That gentle surface was to better penetrate the hearts of the dying, gaining their trust so they would reveal their true inner words to the "gentle" Kyufuin at their final moments.
If it was simply enjoying final words and providing end-of-life care, that would be understandable, but the key point was that to achieve his goal of listening to final words, Gojo Kyufuin might operate some things behind the scenes...
Jiang Lai keenly perceived much more.
After all, there wouldn't be too many naturally dying people around, so if he got addicted, he'd need to artificially create some "accidents."
This person's technique was [Conversion], he might secretly transfer others' lifespans to himself.
It was just that his trace elimination was very thorough, so others wouldn't notice.
Or perhaps someone had noticed, but in feudal great families, those of low birth and weak ability weren't considered human, so they tacitly allowed Third Elder Kyufuin's behavior.
Jiang Lai's thoughts flowed for a moment before quickly returning to the conversation between the two in the manga.
Zenin Naobito's words mentioned Gojo Kyufuin's change of stance... what did this change of stance refer to?
He rested his index finger on his chin, thinking.
Based on what he understood from the thousand-year arc manga, Gojo Kyufuin's initial stance should have been with Brain-kun.
So the meaning here was that Gojo Kyufuin planned to betray them?
Because after a thousand years, society under the Supervisory Committee's manipulation had become too "orderly", and Gojo Kyufuin didn't like order.
This reasoning fit with what Kyufuin had just said about "chaos brings death." The purpose of betrayal was to escalate the situation and make the jujutsu world chaotic.
It was possible, but there were still some doubts.
Jiang Lai's brow furrowed slightly as he pondered.
Actually, if Gojo Kyufuin's goal was truly just to listen to more dying heartfelt words, continuing to cooperate with Brain-kun would be most suitable.
Because the Supervisory Committee had the concept of "feed," which meant they had regular batches of deaths and the final words that Gojo Kyufuin enjoyed.
So why did Gojo Kyufuin still plan to betray them?
Through the fragmentary words in the manga, Jiang Lai vaguely deduced and sensed something. He felt that the Gojo Kyufuin in the manga hadn't told the truth.
Or rather, he'd only revealed part of it but hadn't completely shared his true thoughts.
Beneath that layer of "boredom" as a reason, he was still hiding some of his own thoughts, but currently no one could glimpse what those hidden thoughts were.
Jiang Lai exhaled and temporarily noted this point in his heart, planning to investigate it more carefully later.
Currently, although he learned from the manga that Zenin Naobito and Gojo Kyufuin seemed to be allied, he couldn't act rashly.
Gojo Kyufuin was someone who had lived for a thousand years, a thousand-year-old fox playing ghost stories.
Speaking of which, he remembered that in the later parts of the thousand-year arc manga, there were scenes drawn of Gojo Kyufuin meeting with [Birth].
That meant Gojo Kyufuin knew [Birth]. Jiang Lai's fingertips rubbed against the back of his phone as thoughts flowed in his mind.
If he truly had betrayed, could he obtain some information about [Birth] from him? However, this point would have to wait until more intelligence was gathered before testing.
Jiang Lai planned in his heart and continued flipping through.
The scenes suddenly shifted, returning to inside the Zenin family, no longer showing the god's-eye view conversation between the two.
Jiang Lai couldn't learn from the manga what agreement the two had reached, but it should be cooperation-related details.
It seems the Zenin family's secret moves this time were significant. Jiang Lai thought. Lady Zenin contacted him, Zenin Naobito contacted Gojo Kyufuin, and Naoya, who was put into a cursed corpse, entered Jujutsu High and connected with Yaga Masamichi.
The Zenin family really didn't move until they moved to the extreme. Jiang Lai gripped his phone. Indeed, one couldn't underestimate these great families that had lasted a thousand years.
The manga later returned to familiar parts, finally switching back to Fushiguro, Itadori, and Kugisaki at Jujutsu High.
After returning to Jujutsu High, Fushiguro, Itadori, and Kugisaki didn't rush to use that separating scissors cursed tool, but carefully stored and preserved it.
Jiang Lai wasn't surprised by this.
After all, Ryomen Sukuna's fingers hadn't been completely gathered, and safety wasn't guaranteed, so naturally they couldn't act blindly.
He exited the official website, reported his safety to his Detective Conan friends, and contacted Little Akira saying he had successfully negotiated a deal with Lady Zenin.
Then he opened the long-absent Chinese forum to take a look.
【Hey now, poor Colorful Cloud Pig Pig, played around by the scheming Little Sheep, this could totally be made into a public service announcement about gaming addiction!】
【Grass, poster above, don't use weird materials for public service announcements!】
【Seriously, getting the cursed tool was so thrilling, Lady Zenin is so beautiful, gentle, powerful and wise! It's just that her entrance was really scary, Fushiguro even broke out in sweat on his forehead】
【The key point in this part is God Lai's appearance!! Ah ah finally saw my God Lai again (wiping tears while crawling healthily) hehe... God Lai, my God Lai... Last time I saw God Lai was on my bed】
【Poster above, you're dreaming here (dog head)】
【Family! Look at their conversation, there are key points in the dialogue part, Lady Zenin pointed out that among the visitors there was God Lai's person, and God Lai tacitly agreed!
There were only a few visitors, Fushiguro, Itadori and Kugisaki definitely aren't God Lai's people, so it must be Little Sheep! Who would have thought Little Sheep was actually under God Lai's command?】
【Hiss, speaking of which, does anyone remember that when God Lai first appeared at the beginning, he was on the phone? Could it be that God Lai was calling Little Sheep at that time??】
【Possible! But not necessarily. I think since there's the setting of Little Sheep being under God Lai's command, there's definitely more than just Watanabe on God Lai's side, there might be others too.】
【Huh? What's going on here? Wasn't it said before that God Lai had amnesia?】
【Amnesia doesn't mean losing intelligence. God Lai is so sharp, even with amnesia he would definitely have noticed something early and made secret arrangements and preparations.】
【But looking at his conversation with Mahito at that time, it didn't seem like he was prepared in advance... wait, could it be that he was acting at that time???】
【Bold guess, maybe God Lai didn't lose his memory at all, he even fooled Gojo (eating melon.jpg)
Little Sheep might have been deliberately placed by God Lai on Gojo's mission side to let Little Sheep connect with Jujutsu High, for safety and to deceive enemies, even friends can't be told, he must act!】
【I'm dying of laughter, if God Lai truly didn't lose his memory, then Gojo kitty and Geto fox are so pitiful, being fooled around while genuinely suffering! God Lai is so despicable hahaha】
【Tapping electronic wooden fish, I laughed but you can't deduct my merit points hahaha】
Seeing this, Jiang Lai smiled with slightly curved eyebrows, thinking: No, I didn't fool Satoru and Suguru, because we're acting together to fool them... and in a sense, you all too.
In the end, the ones most thoroughly fooled are actually the forum crowd (mercilessly)