Chapter 103: Two Months Later.
"What's wrong? Why are you out so slow?"
Kento Nanami stood at the school gate, waiting for Tatsuro to emerge.
"It's nothing, I just went to wash my face," Tatsuro said with a smile.
"Mm, you haven't had breakfast, right?" Kento Nanami took an unopened loaf of bread from his briefcase. "This bread is for you, consider it a reward."
"Thank you."
Tatsuro accepted the bread; he truly hadn't eaten breakfast that morning. He had been called over by Gojo Satoru very early.
Unwrapping the bread, he asked, "Mr. Nanami, you're Gojo-sensei's junior, right?"
"Yes, I'm one year younger than Mr. Gojo. After finishing at Jujutsu High, I entered the workforce," Kento Nanami said, adjusting his glasses.
"Work? Don't tell me the salary for jujutsu sorcerers wasn't high back then?" Tatsuro asked, puzzled. After all, in his view, being a jujutsu sorcerer was the kind of profession where you had lots of money but no life to spend it.
"No."
Kento Nanami sighed and said, "It's because through my studies at Jujutsu High, I came to realize that jujutsu sorcerers are dogshit. Then, after working in society for so many years, I came to realize that labor is dogshit. I am now surrounded by these two piles of dogshit."
"..."
"Mr. Nanami, you're really quite realistic," Tatsuro commented, looking at the filled bread in his hand.
"Life is like that, for me. I am an adult, you are a child. I have an obligation to protect you. Yet, I chose to believe you could protect yourself, right until you nearly died. I will reflect on whether my expectations of you were a kind of curse. In short, I don't like being with you."
"But I will strive to correct the mistakes in you. After all... I am an adult."
"Hmph, a reliable adult, huh," Tatsuro grumbled inwardly. He took a large bite of the bread in his hand and said, "Thank you for today, Mr. Nanami."
"It's nothing. Let's exchange phone numbers. You're already very tired today; go back and get a good sleep. The subsequent handover work still needs an adult to handle."
"Okay."
After exchanging phone numbers, Tatsuro went back with Kiyotaka Ijichi.
Clunk—
Tatsuro sat in the special car heading back to school. Kiyotaka Ijichi, who was driving, glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "Mr. Nanami just said to give his share of the mission payment to you, Sorcerer Tatsuro."
"Huh?"
Tatsuro was puzzled for a moment as the car started moving.
Kento Nanami, standing at the school gate, waved at the departing Tatsuro and said, "How could an adult snatch something belonging to a child?"
Watching Nanami wave, Tatsuro was silent for a moment, then a wry smile appeared.
So this is the adult among adults, Kento Nanami...
Beneath a stern and demanding expression lies a gentle heart. How much despair must one experience to forge such a personality? Honestly, compared to him, Gojo-sensei is just a child who never grew up.
Forever 18?
Sitting in the car, Tatsuro idly opened his system panel.
[Host: Tatsuro]
[Cursed Energy: 2000, Second-Grade Sorcerer]
[Stamina: 22]
[Dojutsu: Three-Tomoe Sharingan]
[Ninjutsu: Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, Summoning Technique, Substitution Technique, Rasengan, Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall, Lightning Release: Lightning Tiger Annihilation, Fang Passing Fang.]
[Taijutsu: Self-Defense Arts, Military Fist, Sanda, Jeet Kune Do, Two Months' Sky Sword Style, Painful Sky Leg, Konoha Strong Whirlwind.]
He recalled Suguru Geto's words to him.
"If I die... can you help take care of Mimiko and Nanako?"
What a truly awful person. He had already calculated his own death and still dumped these two girls on me.
Affection versus his cause, did he ultimately choose his cause?
Although it greatly troubled Tatsuro, he had agreed. After all, if he hadn't agreed, he wouldn't have been able to get out. Dozens of cursed spirits had him surrounded, with Special Grade Sorcerer Suguru Geto standing right there.
Not even a mosquito could have flown out.
Looking at the scenery flashing past the window, he sighed helplessly.
The following days were also spent in training and on missions. Apart from having to deal with the persistent Nanako and Mimiko when buying groceries, everything else was quite good.
His second-grade sorcerer certificate arrived after a week. The first thing Tatsuro did upon receiving it was to show it off. Then he was caught by Maki, a fourth-grade sorcerer, and got a sound beating...
They even had a party that night.
On the tenth day, Gojo-sensei gave him a mission to exorcise cursed spirits. But they were just low-grade cursed spirits, not even qualifying for the system to issue a mission.
On the eleventh day, Inumaki Toge, with his "mediocre" aptitude, also entered 'Sage Mode.' However, there was a slight accident; it was the Mount Myoboku Toad Sage Mode. Lady Katsuyu's conclusion was that he had used too much toad oil.
Inumaki Toge looked speechlessly at the yellow eye shadow and frog-like pupils in his phone's reflection. Tatsuro's sage markings were at least just a few black lines. Was he on his way to becoming a frog?
Although he didn't like it very much, his opinion changed after using 'Sage Art: Cursed Speech.' It was too awesome!
What was even more surprising was that 'Cursed Speech' changed from a passive skill to an active one; he could speak freely now.
That day, he said everything he hadn't said for over a decade. The originally mute heartthrob instantly transformed into a chatterbox.
And theoretically, 'Sage Mode' could be maintained indefinitely, as long as the sage energy within the body wasn't depleted, this state could persist.
However, the significance of training lay in how quickly one could enter 'Sage Mode.' Generally, after entering 'Sage Mode,' Tatsuro would use up all his sage energy, then continue to absorb natural energy.
On the fifteenth day, Megumi, who had been searching for shikigami, finally returned. He challenged Tatsuro and was ruthlessly thrashed.
The next day, he left a note saying he was going out to find shikigami and left.
On the twentieth day, Nanako and Mimiko, who usually ambushed him when he bought groceries, never appeared again. It seemed they were preparing for the so-called 'Night Parade of a Hundred Demons' to annihilate all humans in Japan.
A month later, Tatsuro's Sage Mode activation time had shortened from two hours to half an hour. Lady Katsuyu praised him as a genius.
On the thirty-fifth day, he was assigned by Gojo-sensei to exorcise a cursed spirit with Zenin Maki. The cursed spirit was too weak and was dispatched by Maki in a few slashes.
Two months later.
Suguru Geto seemed to have vanished; there was no news of him. It was only known that incidents of cursed spirits harming people had drastically decreased.
At this moment, in some religious establishment in Japan.
Suguru Geto, holding a black orb, looked with disdain at two departing "monkeys" and said, "Monkeys who don't understand jujutsu."
"You're showing your true colors, Lord Geto."
A sudden voice startled Suguru Geto.
A woman said, "All the executives have arrived. Please proceed to the meeting room."
"Is that so. Then I can't let the monkey stench spread to everyone."
Suguru Geto took out a bottle of disinfectant from his kasaya, sprayed himself a few times, and after sniffing, said with a happy expression, "How delightful. It's been so long since everyone was gathered. I've been preparing for this day for decades."
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