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

The relaxing moments of mutual teasing were indispensable seasonings in life. Tonight's witnessed and acquired information was quite heavy, so after the two adjusted the atmosphere, they entered a resting state again.

Jiang Lai switched back to his brown-haired boy state and fell asleep peacefully.

They still had to travel tomorrow, so naturally they needed to rest at night. According to their speculation, contact from the higher-ups wouldn't come too late. At the latest by tomorrow afternoon, the higher-ups would definitely choose to agree to those money-swindling options and contact Gojo Satoru.

Sure enough, at noon the next day, Gojo Satoru received an email from the higher-ups.

The email was mostly official platitudes and nonsense. Gojo Satoru, who had always disliked such things, skimmed through it, skipping over the higher-ups' flowery language with implicit criticism, and directly focused on the parts containing key information.

"Oh... as expected, the higher-ups agreed to the payment~" Gojo Satoru held his phone in one hand, turning the screen toward Little Sheep Jiang Lai beside him, smiling: "Look~ Is this amount of money correct?"

Jiang Lai looked up.

At the time, he had rattled off a string of fee items casually, so naturally he had long forgotten the specific amounts.

Now seeing the payment amount accurate to the individual digit, he raised his eyebrow slightly, guessing this was the sum he had randomly made up at the time.

"The higher-ups are really stingy," Little Sheep Jiang Lai complained, "to actually be precise down to the individual digit. Couldn't they round up to a whole number?"

"Don't expect to scrape anything from those rotten oranges. They're like rats in gutters, clutching their wealth and power tightly."

Gojo Satoru's tone was casual. Then he smiled again: "But Lai, you were able to swindle so much money from these iron roosters, that's super amazing!"

"The higher-ups temporarily transferred it to my bank card. I'll transfer it to your current account later." Gojo Satoru operated on his phone screen.

However, Jiang Lai stopped his next payment action.

"No need." Jiang Lai waved his hand. "Leave it with you. I plan to reserve this money for building momentum before the decisive battle or preparing supplies. It's more reasonable and easier for you to handle these things than for me with my current youth identity."

"Oh, planning ahead, good habit." Gojo Satoru raised his eyebrow slightly, then nodded in agreement: "Fine. I'll pay attention and handle it in advance."

Gojo Satoru, with his abundant private wealth, wasn't short of money, but in this situation, he didn't say anything like "we don't need this money, I can handle it myself."

Because his own money and the money they obtained together from the higher-ups were different concepts. The latter meant they were a unified whole.

Gojo Satoru exited the transfer page and instead logged into the anonymous auction website specifically for jujutsu sorcerers, setting reminders for auction dates in the coming period, preparing to search for suitable cursed tools and such.

At this moment, Gojo Satoru and Jiang Lai were preparing to return to Tokyo. The reason it was "preparing" was because Gojo Satoru was still purchasing sweet dessert souvenirs from various dessert shops in Wakkanai City.

Because he needed to drive recently, Gojo Satoru wasn't wearing his usual black blindfold, but instead wore a pair of finely crafted high-end sunglasses, looking very cool and handsome.

The white-haired man with a perfect face was the focus of people's attention wherever he went. Especially after choosing the sunglasses look from his Tokyo Jujutsu High days, he looked even more youthful.

During this dessert shopping journey, he encountered quite a few girls trying to strike up conversations.

In response, Gojo Satoru lightly pushed Little Sheep Jiang Lai beside him and replied with a grin: "Sorry, I already have a child. Look, this is my good eldest son."

Jiang Lai: "......"

Although speechless inside, on the surface, he, wearing the shell of a brown-haired boy, still cooperated with his good friend by showing an innocent and naive smile to the girls trying to strike up conversations.

"Ah, sorry, I really couldn't tell..." the girl said apologetically.

"It's normal." Gojo Satoru nodded, his tone light: "After all, I look young and he looks old, so we don't look like father and son~"

Jiang Lai's response was to silently step on the other's foot, but unfortunately Gojo Satoru had sensed it early and changed his step position with cat-like agility.

These were just minor episodes during their return journey.

After Gojo Satoru purchased sweet gift boxes that almost filled the entire trunk, he unhurriedly returned to Tokyo.

On the road, Jiang Lai opened his phone and incidentally glanced at the manga.

The manga updates continued to combine with the real-time developments in the jujutsu world, having already finished all the content before their return journey.

The manga's paneling was very clever, with no conflict between the disguise and true identity storylines.

The earlier livestream money-making was the disguise, while the later hotel cursed energy fusion part became Jiang Lai.

The paneling described this part as if Little Sheep had notified God Lai, who then rushed to the hotel to enter the dream world with Gojo Satoru to contact Riko.

Since these were plot points Jiang Lai had personally experienced, he flipped through them relatively quickly. Only when he saw the situation from the god's eye view perspective on the other side did he gradually slow down.

In the manga, scenes from the higher-ups' side were depicted.

Faced with the sudden situation at Mount Shichi and being swindled out of a large sum of money, the higher-ups convened an emergency secret meeting for discussion. The seating arrangement at the scene was somewhat peculiar, with a certain seat clearly set apart.

However, today that seat was empty.

Inexplicably, Jiang Lai intuitively felt that was the Supervisory Committee's seat, even quite possibly Brain-kun's personal seat.

Now, having received news of Mount Shichi's unsealing, Brain-kun was probably also having a headache due to the change in plans.

The higher-ups gathered to discuss follow-up matters. When discussing the Mount Shichi issue, one higher-up spoke: "I've already notified that side. They said to call Six Eyes back first and arrange some matters to delay time."

Reading this, Jiang Lai raised his eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised by this statement.

...Why do this? What's the purpose of delaying time?

Jiang Lai's heart stirred with speculation. He felt that perhaps Brain-kun was also preparing to launch his grand plan.

The breaking of Mount Shichi's seal was an accident, and the early appearance of that guy occupying [Kuroi Misato]'s body might bring a series of chain reactions.

Therefore, Brain-kun had to advance the start of his plan.

In the original work, Brain-kun had orchestrated the Culling Game event. The new series had no Shibuya Incident, so naturally no Culling Game either. These major events from the original work hadn't occurred in the new series.

But not occurring didn't mean Brain-kun hadn't prepared.

The sealing and activation of those Heian-kyo period sorcerers and cursed spirits were things Brain-kun had been preparing for a thousand years. In the new series, it probably wouldn't be surprising either, just that the planned content had added [Existence]-related elements.

So, Brain-kun having the higher-ups find matters to temporarily drag out Gojo Satoru was most likely because he planned to activate some scheme, and to successfully activate it, he needed to temporarily avoid Gojo Satoru.

Jiang Lai pondered. He didn't know where Brain-kun currently was or what his next step would be, but he wasn't worried, nor did he agonize over this point.

If Brain-kun wanted to reopen barriers similar to the Culling Game in the new series and sound the horn for decisive battle, then they would oblige. From the current perspective, their side held a slight information advantage.

In the manga, the higher-ups' conversation ended there. It didn't reveal what method they planned to use to stall Gojo Satoru.

Jiang Lai exited the manga and opened the forum page, habitually logging in to take a look.

The new series forum remained very lively, with various posts wailing about the knives involving Kuroi Misato and Amanai Riko, crying about [Birth], indignantly denouncing the inhuman Supervisory Committee, plus some serious plot analysis posts.

After scanning through them all, Jiang Lai pondered for a moment, then opened the app for contacting his Detective Conan world friends.

His Detective Conan friends had already keenly sensed the approaching decisive battle from recent manga updates, so they left messages in the group early on, asking with concern if there was anything they could help with.

Jiang Lai thought about his Little Sheep technique [Electronic Spirits], which was how his Detective Conan friends could cross dimensional walls to come here. Speaking of this, he still remembered the evolution setting.

But he'd never had time to experiment before... After returning to Tokyo this time, he could ask Choso for help, rapidly raising the spirit level through combat training with Choso, a special-grade cursed spirit, to achieve evolution possibility.

Speaking of sharing joys and sorrows, Jiang Lai naturally didn't leave out his friends from another world.

His united front had always extended to the Detective Conan world, and not just his Detective Conan friends, but even more manga readers.

Manga readers from the Detective Conan world couldn't help him directly, but from the perspective of influence projected from another dimension, their will was also very important.

Jiang Lai's expression gradually became determined. After considering his words, he typed in the group.

[#Good Luck Lai Coming#: Thank you all for your concern! (Dancing puppy.gif) We are indeed preparing for the decisive battle. The Mount Shichi incident was a catalyst.]

[#Good Luck Lai Coming#: Currently nothing's wrong on my end, no need to worry. But there is indeed something I need your help with.]

Kurosawa Akira, who was online, quickly replied.

[#Akira Doing Serious Research#: Just say whatever you need, Brother Jiang Lai. I'm here.]

Matsuda Jinpei followed with the next line.

[#Sunglasses Working Overtime Again#: When did you become so polite, Jiang Lai? Hurry up, type.]

Hagiwara Kenji was also online and seemed to be right next to Matsuda Jinpei, immediately sending a teasing comment.

[#Akina Mountain Racing God#: Little Jinpei sends messages so fiercely, but his real appearance is very nervous. Really not honest.]

[#Sunglasses Working Overtime Again#: ...Hey! Hagi!!]

Morofushi Hiromitsu reliably pulled the topic back on track.

[#Big Cat's Whiskers#: What aspect of help is it? Let's discuss together and plan the best solution.]

Jiang Lai looked at the lively interactions in the group, his eyes crinkling with a smile. He exhaled lightly and typed the following content at a steady pace.

[#Good Luck Lai Coming#: Before the decisive battle, I'd like to ask you to help build momentum.]

[#Good Luck Lai Coming#: No need to be too exaggerated. Just guide the forum masses to believe these two points: "People in the jujutsu world, through the Mount Shichi livestream incident combined with previous social disappearance cases, should all realize there are enemies lurking behind the scenes besides cursed spirits" and "God Lai and his group have been prepared early on, so following the plan will definitely proceed without accidents."]

The Detective Conan world couldn't directly influence the jujutsu world, but dimensional consciousness condensed to a certain degree could cross world differences and project certain influence based on existing reasonable foundations.

Just like Jiang Lai's previous mastery of skills and techniques.

At this moment, on the eve of decisive battle, Jiang Lai planned to use the power of Detective Conan world forum masses to accelerate the process of jujutsu world people clearly recognizing the darkness behind the scenes, laying more foundation for a united front.

Incidentally, it would also accumulate some luck value for his side's forces. Luck was also an important component of victory.

With a united front spanning two worlds, there was no reason not to win, right? Jiang Lai's brown eyes were bright as he thought with determination.