I, in a Jujutsu Kaisen Manga, Take the Detective Conan World by Storm

Walking out of this dessert shop, the entire commercial street in view was utterly chaotic, showing the aftermath of the commotion left by Gojo Satoru's arrival.

Although Gojo Satoru hadn't done anything yet, as the strongest (strongest cursed user), wherever he walked would bring people an incomparable deterrent effect.

At this moment, Gojo Satoru's traces had completely disappeared, and even his cursed energy aura couldn't be sensed. Jiang Lai didn't know where the other had gone.

The news on the high-rise electronic screens was still reporting the evacuation situation. Jiang Lai no longer focused his attention on that and quickened his pace to leave this area.

Jiang Lai's phone could still be used at this time, but the date and time displayed were from the real world outside, and naturally so was the network.

This meant he couldn't use his phone to search for intelligence information in the Crossroads Tower world.

So he turned a corner ahead and, instead of following the evacuating crowd, entered an internet café on the side.

Taking advantage of the evacuation of people from the entire street, Jiang Lai planned to use this world's electronic devices to search for relevant information.

Like the dessert shop earlier, this internet café had also been evacuated in great haste. All equipment remained running, and the door was only half-closed.

Jiang Lai first used the surface web of ordinary civilian society to search for information and discovered that the reported so-called "terrorist attacks" here were extremely numerous.

Most were just evacuations with no casualties, but there were also several instances of explosions covering entire areas, or large-scale loss of consciousness among people for unknown reasons.

"......" Jiang Lai remained silent. He didn't know whether these were actually done by Gojo Satoru.

Although Gojo Satoru had been treated as a divine child and raised from childhood due to the Six Eyes, maintaining a certain detachment from the human world, he had never been someone who truly disregarded life.

In fact, in the real world, Gojo Satoru had always played the role of protector.

But... if the other had truly crossed that line of rules he had drawn for himself, he could indeed reach such extremes.

All things beneath are worthless, all living beings are ants.

Killing one person, killing a group of people, was no different from destroying ants. Jujutsu sorcerers were all madmen, and the strongest could naturally become the most thoroughly mad one, becoming an extreme.

But if things reached this point, it would become very difficult to handle. Jiang Lai took a deep breath. But he still felt that Gojo Satoru's actions had reasons and weren't simply wanton recklessness.

Jiang Lai's gaze quickly swept over the information on those screens, then he used his technical skills to switch networks and delve into the dark web containing jujutsu world-related information.

......To see how the jujutsu world evaluated things.

The information here was much clearer and more direct than the ordinary civilian information networks. Searching for information related to Gojo Satoru, the first result was a maximum bounty notice.

【Wanted Bounty

Name: Gojo Satoru

Identity: Special Grade Cursed User

Defection Time: Winter 2017

Danger Level: Extremely Dangerous (Highest Level)

Signature Events: Hakone Church Annihilation Case; Osaka Train Station Incident】

The signature events listed at the end, Jiang Lai had seen in the civilian network news earlier.

The former involved the complete leveling of the entire Hakone church area, while the latter was the loss of consciousness among the entire train station crowd. Both were particularly shocking major events.

Jiang Lai's gaze moved away. He quickly caught the most important information in this text: the defection time.

It was noted that Gojo Satoru became the strongest cursed user in winter 2017. If following the usual timeline, this should be after the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

Although it wasn't clear where this crossroads began, Jiang Lai keenly perceived that the final straw that broke the camel's back was right here.

Could it be related to the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons event? More precisely, related to Geto Suguru?

But logically speaking, Gojo Satoru wasn't the type who would lose his way after killing a close friend with his own hands. In the original world, he had personally killed Geto Suguru in the end. His will might waver, but it wouldn't change.

Regardless, let's gather information first.

Jiang Lai immediately began searching for Geto Suguru. After hitting enter, the first result that came up was surprisingly also a bounty notice.

【Wanted Bounty

Name: Geto Suguru

Identity: Special Grade Cursed User

Defection Time: 2007

Danger Level: Very Dangerous

Signature Events: 2007 Village Annihilation Incident; Time Vessel Association Activities; Night Parade of a Hundred Demons】

Seeing this, Jiang Lai was slightly stunned, understanding the meaning of this bounty still being posted here: Geto Suguru was still alive!

Not only alive, but also a cursed user just like in the original.

This wasn't a world of faction reversal.

Good grief, with both Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru as cursed users, what was the jujutsu world even playing at? They might as well just give up and go to sleep! If these two special grades wanted to, they could team up and destroy the world.

Jiang Lai twitched the corner of his mouth, his thoughts running wild for a moment before focusing again.

Wait. If these two had reached an understanding, when he asked about Geto Suguru and Shoko earlier, Gojo Satoru shouldn't have reacted that way.

Which meant... although both were cursed users, they apparently weren't together. They weren't in the same faction.

Jiang Lai frowned slightly, somewhat unable to understand.

Then why exactly did Gojo Satoru run off to the cursed user side?

The next second, Jiang Lai suddenly remembered something very important.

During the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons that year, Geto Suguru had actively suggested letting Gojo Satoru kill him. Because he didn't want to continue being a puppet of the Supervisory Committee, didn't want to become an undying tool after the Sun Flower totem was completed.

But in the end, Gojo Satoru didn't kill him. And due to an accident, the binding Geto Suguru had signed with the Supervisory Committee as a youth took effect, and he was controlled and teleported to the high school for a massacre.

At that time, he himself had sacrificed the clock at his heart, reversing space-time to make everything flow backward.

This event must have left quite a profound impression on Gojo Satoru.

As the strongest, Gojo Satoru rarely had weak emotions, but perhaps deep in his heart, he would still fear that scene from back then.

The result of not acting was that his close friend Suguru was controlled and became an undying tool, the high school students and staff faced a bloodbath, and he himself missed both the salvation of death and the salvation of life.

If there had been no space-time reversal, all of the above would have become reality.

And in this Crossroads Tower world, there was no existence of Jiang Lai.

Although the story was missing Jiang Lai and other details would also change, since this was Gojo Satoru's crossroads world, some key nodes should still occur.

The [Crossroads] Tower, skilled at weaving illusions, must be adept at excavating the gray emotions in Gojo Satoru's subconscious.

Jiang Lai stared at the computer screen, squinting his eyes, his heart heavy.

Perhaps what happened here was exactly this, thus becoming the final straw that broke the camel's back, leading Gojo Satoru onto the path of a cursed user.

With the Supervisory Committee and the jujutsu world's upper echelons colluding together, only the cursed user path was the true way to break through enemies.

The current information was still incomplete, mostly speculation. In any case, let's check on Ieiri Shoko's situation.

Jiang Lai then entered Ieiri Shoko's name in the search box. This time what appeared wasn't a bounty notice but normal, simple character information.

It stated that Ieiri Shoko was a reverse cursed technique practitioner and a doctor at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

It looked the same as in the real world.

Jiang Lai blinked, then his gaze caught the image beside it.

The woman with brownish-red long hair had thick dark circles under her eyes and a languid appearance, the same as in his memory. However, there was a large, jarring scar on her right cheek.

Jiang Lai was stunned for a second: Why would there be a scar? Shoko was a skilled reverse cursed technique practitioner; she could completely heal herself.

Unless the scar was caused by special cursed energy that couldn't be simply removed with reverse cursed technique. Therefore, it could only remain on her face.

"......" Jiang Lai was silent for a moment. He sensed that something bad had happened on Ieiri Shoko's side too.

Speaking of which, was Yuikawa Kurisu still here? If so, then wouldn't Haibara also...

Moreover, if this was a "world without Jiang Lai," the Gojo Satoru of that time might have actually attacked Yuikawa Kurisu, leading to some unavoidable misunderstandings.

Jiang Lai pressed his lips into a straight line, gradually sensing Gojo Satoru's predicament in this Crossroads Tower.

In this crossroads illusion, he probably wasn't living well. He was the strongest, but was always losing.

Those delicate emotions wouldn't crush someone all at once, but would silently drown them bit by bit.

Jiang Lai exhaled lightly. He exited the network, cleared all records, and used his technical skills to replace the internet café's surveillance footage as well.

After carefully covering all traces, Jiang Lai left this internet café and returned to the main road.

After all, the information gathered through the network was still limited, mostly Jiang Lai's own speculation combined with facts. He wasn't sure if it was really the case.

Even if it was an illusory world, Jiang Lai hoped his friend could suffer less pain.

Next, let's set off for the high school. He didn't know who was serving as a teacher at Jujutsu High in the absence of both Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru.

Maybe Nanami Kento? It seemed like it could only be him.

Additionally, regarding Itadori Yuji's situation in this Crossroads Tower... if Gojo Satoru wasn't there, the death sentence executor would probably be Okkotsu Yuta. The jujutsu world would recall him from abroad.

Thoughts flashed through Jiang Lai's mind as he quickly deduced the people who might be stationed at the high school: Nanami Kento, Okkotsu Yuta.

These two, when unfamiliar, both seemed like characters who wouldn't be easy to converse with. Jiang Lai rested one hand on his chin, thinking. They would maintain calm vigilance toward strangers.

Going directly to the high school now, he probably wouldn't be able to get much information from them. It would be better to understand their situation from the side first, then try to make contact.

So for the first step, who should he find to chat with?

Jiang Lai was screening through possible candidates in his mind when a sudden thought flashed through like lightning:

Speaking of which, could the ability given to him by the great elder [Origin] still be used here?

Although this was a world that blocked information about himself, other settings hadn't changed much.

The Crossroads Tower couldn't reset everything. Outside the plot, it most likely used the settings from the real world.

If so, perhaps in the crossroads world, he could still link to Ryomen Sukuna's innate domain here.

Whether they knew each other or not, this didn't prevent Jiang Lai from going to chat and learn about the current internal situation at the high school.

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