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

They had always shared intelligence, so Geto Suguru knew about Jiang Lai's Little Sheep disguise, but this was the first time seeing him face to face.

Geto Suguru's gaze focused on the brown-haired boy before him, looking through that middle schooler shell to the thousand-year-old soul within.

He still maintained his fortune teller appearance, speaking lightly with atmospheric lowered voice: "Young and lovely little customer, would you like to divine your uncertain fate?"

"Hey hey, why don't you ask me first?" Gojo Satoru beside him jokingly interrupted, waving his hand. "I'm such a tall, handsome guy, aren't I much more eye-catching than him?"

Geto Suguru remained calm: "Women and children first. Which of you is the child?"

"I'm the child." Gojo Satoru said matter-of-factly.

Geto Suguru: "......"

Geto Suguru: "Anyone over five feet three inches, line up at the back."

Gojo Satoru: "It's fine, I can crouch down~"

Geto Suguru: "......"

Geto Suguru naturally continued: "Fine, since you're so persistent, then this customer, let me divine for you."

He placed one hand on the crystal ball on the wooden table, impressively brushing over it lightly.

His wide sleeves were blown by the evening wind, the complex patterns on them rippling with strange luster. A summoned cursed spirit appeared behind him, making the scene temperature drop further, creating a mystical divination atmosphere.

Gojo Satoru tilted his head slightly, watching Geto Suguru's actions, curiously grinning: "How is it, impressive-looking fortune teller? What did you divine?"

Geto Suguru calmly lowered his hand: "I saw the fate that's about to befall you."

"Oh, really? True or false?" His lip corners lifted, leaning closer. "What is it?"

Geto Suguru squinted his eyes in a fox smile: "That if you keep acting crazy, you'll get beaten up."

Gojo Satoru: "?"

He leaned back tactically, his tone light: "Hey hey, that's really too much. If we're talking about it, you acted crazy way more times than me back in the day."

"The past is past, too long ago to mention." Geto Suguru raised his brow slightly, speaking methodically. "As for now, count how many spam ads you've sent me yourself?"

Gojo Satoru laughed it off, his ending tone rising in reply: "Since the past is past, recent things shouldn't be mentioned either~"

Jiang Lai, who had been silent beside them, now quietly raised his hand, blinking: "Old matters can be left alone, but old debts must still be remembered. Suguru told me earlier to remind him to get revenge for all the pranks you've pulled."

"How could this be, child? Though your body clearly stands beside me, your heart faces the ravine-filled opposite side. Are you my devout believer, or a messenger from hell?"

Gojo Satoru dramatically recited movie dialogue, very smoothly playing with references and memes.

"Cough, alright, enough joking around, serious business is important." Finally, Geto Suguru made a pause gesture, being the first to show adult self-discipline.

Geto Suguru had also been someone who played enthusiastically with Satoru during school, but after experiencing the undercover Supervisory Committee situation, his personality had become much more stable now.

Currently, with no one nearby and having confirmed safety in advance, they could interact so naturally.

But their free communication time was also limited. After all, this was a mobile area, and people might come by at any moment.

When there were many eyes around, it would be inconvenient for intelligence exchange.

Now, while most people went to the center to watch the concentrated fireworks show, they could have a good chat here.

Jiang Lai spoke first: "About the 'ice and snow curse' rumors in this area, I gathered some intelligence online on the way here. This strange incident occurs at Mount Shichi, the high mountain in the distance behind this fireworks festival venue."

"Regardless of spring, summer, autumn, or winter, this mountain's temperature stays below freezing with permanent snow that never melts. Even during hot summers, it produces massive blizzards."

"Exactly. This is what locals call the 'ice and snow curse.'" Geto Suguru confirmed this, then continued: "I set up this fortune-telling stall here and locked onto several locals during divination, gathering more information through casual conversation."

"Mount Shichi was initially the same as surrounding mountains, until ten years ago when locals noticed this mountain range's winter never ended and persisted for a long time."

"Initially, locals felt novelty while seeing it as a good business opportunity, launching tourism promotions. However, most people who came to tour Mount Shichi never made it out of the mountain and froze to death inside."

"Froze to death?" Gojo Satoru raised his brow. "In today's society, people who come well-prepared for tourism can still freeze to death in the mountains?"

"That's exactly the problem." Geto Suguru nodded. "People who entered Mount Shichi and luckily made it out said that after entering the mountain and walking in for a while, their outer clothing and various warming equipment became useless, as if they were naked in harsh winter."

"Because of this, many people froze to death before they could get out. Mount Shichi became shrouded in cursed gloom, and no one dared enter it."

Here, Gojo Satoru added: "Before coming here, I specifically checked the online electronic jujutsu mission archives. The jujutsu world also sent people to investigate Mount Shichi, but gained nothing."

"There are indeed curses locally, but those were born from locals' fear of Mount Shichi, not the cursed spirit causing Mount Shichi's harsh winter."

"It does sound very strange." Jiang Lai pondered. "Could it be the effect of some special Special Grade cursed tool, or formation arrangement?"

"That's unclear." Gojo Satoru shrugged, his words slightly heavy. "After all, if this really is where Kuroi slumbers, then the Supervisory Committee definitely coordinated with the higher-ups long ago."

"Those rotten oranges are best at sabotaging their own people. They'd definitely obstruct investigations and quietly shelve this matter." Gojo Satoru made no effort to hide his disgust for the higher-ups in his words.

"Besides that, there's another possibility." Geto Suguru crossed his hands, his expression somewhat grave, his words low and slow. "That would be herself."

"Herself?"

"If we theorize that Miss Kuroi really is in this Mount Shichi." Geto Suguru said. "What's causing this 'ice and snow curse' phenomenon, besides cursed spirits, special cursed tools and formations, could also be unconscious technique release from the sorcerer herself."

Gojo Satoru raised his brow: "Hey, wait, Suguru. Though the Star Plasma Vessel mission was so long ago, it's not like we'd forget. Kuroi wasn't a jujutsu sorcerer, she was just an ordinary person bodyguard with combat skills."

"I know she wasn't a jujutsu sorcerer then, but later might be different." Geto Suguru lowered his eyelids, exhaling. "Mahito can use Idle Transfiguration to transform brains into sorcerer brains, thus activating jujutsu sorcerer abilities."

"From the information I've gathered at the Supervisory Committee, it was born very early, existing even during the Star Plasma Vessel incident."

This point somewhat shocked Jiang Lai. He hadn't expected Mahito's birth time in the new series to be so much earlier than the original work.

Gojo Satoru's brow furrowed slightly under his blindfold. He also rarely set aside his usual leisurely attitude, speaking seriously:

"Even if Kuroi was modified to have a sorcerer brain and could use her own technique, she couldn't possibly maintain external output day after day for ten years. Besides me, no one can keep this up constantly."

Gojo Satoru's words weren't boastful but factual. There wasn't a single person in the world who could continuously auto-activate techniques non-stop like him.

After all, there was only one Six Eyes in the world. He was unique.

Moreover, a technique covering an entire mountain must maintain maximum power output. Such cursed energy output was impossible for anyone to sustain.

"That's right." Geto Suguru nodded. "But behind it, there's still the Supervisory Committee manipulating things. The Supervisory Committee has internal equipment for transformation and transmission devices that can continuously maintain unconscious Miss Kuroi's technique at full activation."

"......"

This bold speculation made everyone present fall silent.

Geto Suguru's deduction wasn't unreasonable. In fact, it was very likely the correct answer.

Because he was the person with the most contact with the Supervisory Committee, best able to reveal problems from their perspective.

"Why would those bastards expend so much energy treating Kuroi this way?" Gojo Satoru clicked his tongue.

Jiang Lai paused, then answered: "Maybe it's a binding vow the Supervisory Committee made with Riko. For example, the Supervisory Committee promised to keep Kuroi alive, using this to make Amanai Riko work for them."

"But living people are too variable, and Kuroi definitely wouldn't want to constrain Riko because of herself. So after activating Kuroi's technique, the Supervisory Committee directly used her technique as a prison to keep her in slumber."

"This operation not only ensures containing Kuroi but also constantly urges Star Plasma Vessel Amanai Riko to work for them. Because they could stop transmission at any time, causing unconsciously full-powered Kuroi to die from cursed energy depletion. Riko can't resist them."

Jiang Lai calmly deduced further cruel truths.

"......"

Both Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru fell silent, their expressions not good. The Star Plasma Vessel incident was already regrettable back then, and now the regret was being so cruelly magnified that no one could remain calm.

However, Geto Suguru still maintained rationality, pressing his lips: "If our speculation is correct, then there's a very troublesome point. The Supervisory Committee must be constantly monitoring Miss Kuroi's situation. We can't achieve silent rescue."

Their current situation development still prioritized concealment.

For example, with the previous Four Guardian Towers, they had already secretly removed three through covert operations. But to completely lift that contract, there was one more, the most troublesome and most likely to alert the Supervisory Committee, at the Zenin family.

So they weren't in a hurry to handle it, simply leaving that one to deal with last.

Conveniently, with this contract still existing, the Supervisory Committee wouldn't notice the Four Guardian Towers' destruction. After all, the towers' characteristics made them inconvenient for real-time checking and unnecessary to check constantly (Special Grade cursed spirit guardianship, remote formation islands, on Yuji's body).

Jiang Lai's group could continue delaying some time, gaining more advantageous intelligence for their side before the real decisive battle began.

So similarly, this rescue of Kuroi Misato should also try not to expose their enemy-ally situation as much as possible.

Jiang Lai tilted his head slightly, thought for a moment, then looked up: "Since we can't achieve covert rescue, then there's no need to pursue silence. Let's change our thinking approach and make it more dramatic."

"You mean...?"

Jiang Lai blinked: "I mean, you two should just fight directly, fight intensely enough to level that mountain, then you can 'accidentally' discover Miss Kuroi inside."

Here, Jiang Lai also joked: "Anyway, you two need to settle accounts originally. Now you can fight it out together. A perfect two-birds-with-one-stone solution."

If they can't provide covert assistance, then let's fight openly and fairly!