Chapter 16 My heart is restless

, it’s spring again.

The Jujutsu High School is located in the suburbs of Tokyo. With the arrival of spring, everything is reviving and green, and the high school, which is planted with cherry trees, is covered with cherry blossoms in this season. The fully bloomed cherry blossoms are pink and beautiful, which can almost be regarded as a famous scenic spot of the high school.

Even though Nanami Kento had no interest in this kind of thing, he let Huihara Yuu take pictures of the scenery under the cherry tree.

But Kagura Mio just looked at the scene outside the window boredly, and pursed her lips a little bit in disinterest.

She hates spring the most.

First, she sneezed for a month due to pollen allergy, then she saw a field of pink cherry blossoms, and it was such a warm season -

such a beautiful season, it really didn't match a gloomy person like her at all!

As the breeze blew by, the huge cherry tree outside the window looked particularly vibrant. Countless cherry blossoms fell like a falling cherry blossom rain, and even the wind turned pink, which was exceptionally gentle and beautiful.

Cherry blossoms originally have no fragrance or smell, but Kagura Mio suddenly felt that they should have a sweet smell.

It is sweet, beautiful and full of vitality.

With a lot of thoughts in her mind, Kagura Mio was silent for a moment. She wanted to close the window a little irritably, but the moment she stretched out her hand, the breeze blew past it, and the cherry blossom petals fell on her hair like little elves.

The girl looked gentle and slender, with a deceptively pretty face, but for some reason she had lost a lot of weight recently. She had dark circles under her eyes and looked a little sickly.

She was obviously so impatient, but these tender and delicate little petals seemed to wrap around her, falling into her palms and hair, without any ambiguity.

Gojo Satoru just looked at the girl in front of him quietly.

As the person in the world who knows Kagura Mio's true nature best, how could Gojo Satoru not be aware of Kagura Mio's strange and subtle changes? At first, his smile was no longer as relaxed, and his smile did not reach his eyes when he was playing with everyone; later, his words became quite refined, and he seemed too lazy to talk nonsense with them - you know, if there was a chance, Kagura Mio would never give up on trash talking with Gojo Satoru; later, the focus of his eyes became unstable, and his whole body was easily vacant, and it seemed that he was still there, but he had been gone for a while.

If she knew what Gojo Satoru was thinking, Kagura Mio would probably wave her hands lazily and say it was okay.

She was just annoyed by her own technique.

Kagura Mio has known about her own bugs since she acquired the technique.

Her technique is powerful enough, but the bugs are also obvious enough.

But when she was a child, she wasn't as scared as she is now - after all, everyone has their gains and losses in their skills.

Gojo Satoru has the power of no lower limit, but the price is that he cannot use it for a long time and it will burn his brain; Geto Suguru has the skill of curse spirit manipulation, but he needs to eat the curse spirit jade which is so unpalatable.

So Kagura Mio thinks it's fair.

She was once afraid that she would lose control, but at that time she just restrained herself and believed that she could handle these problems. Even if she was afraid, it was only a little bit.

But now it's different.

She was truly, genuinely afraid that she might lose control.

Her body's instinct made her wonder if she had forgotten something important, but she just couldn't remember it at all. Because she lost control and Gojo Satoru learned the secret of the technique, Kagura Mio instinctively felt unsafe.

So she chose to restrain herself.

Not restraint, but suppression.

She would suppress all her emotions and worries, and use her strong self-control to suppress herself madly.

It's okay, Kagura Mio, you can do it.

She said this to herself.

You have done it many times, from childhood to adulthood...

Of course, Geto Suguru and Naoko Ieiri have no idea why Kagura Mio suddenly became like this. The two of them also talked to Gojo Satoru, but in the end the three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do, so the three of them maintained a superficial balance and tacitly said nothing.

But Gojo Satoru knew.

Of course he knew that Kagura Mio was worried about her own technique.

But he wasn't going to say it.

So Gojo Satoru just pretended nothing happened and took off the cherry blossom petals stuck on her hair before Kagura Mio could.

The young man said "Don't move" in a gentle voice. Kagura Mio stopped where she was a little awkwardly, saying nothing and obediently let Gojo Satoru take the flower petals.

The boy wanted to laugh when he saw the pretentious attitude of the girl in front of him, but he suppressed his laughter and carefully dealt with the petals in her hair.

The young man's six eyes, which were able to see through everything, were hidden behind his sunglasses. He stared at the girl in front of him without blinking, looking at her rare submissive expression, her nonchalant eyes, and her slender white neck. For a moment, he had some strange thoughts in his mind, which felt itchy and like something was scratching his heart. He seemed to be distracted.

His eyes were dark, his fingertips lingered on her ears, and his gaze fell on her fair profile.

For a moment, he wanted to put the cherry blossom back.

Letting it stay on her might make her seem less gloomy.

"Are you done?" Kagura Mio glanced at Gojo Satoru a little impatiently.

Gojo Satoru raised his eyebrows slightly: "How can it be so fast?"

The girl stared speechlessly at the boy who was approaching her, "Why are you so slow?"

Gojo Satoru looked at Kagura Mio who had no expression on her face, and suddenly an unprecedented feeling arose in his heart.

He lowered his head without hesitation, closing the distance between the two of them, looking at the girl's face up close, looking at her slightly shrunken pupils, looking at her plump and rosy lips as she uttered, "What are you going to do?!"

Gojo Satoru thought that, unlike her usual girlish appearance, Kagura Mio had a different kind of beauty when she stared at him.

But -

she has lost a lot of weight.

He didn't even need six eyes to sense her thinness.

He originally wanted to tease her, but when he thought of her thinness and abnormality, alarm bells suddenly went off in his heart, and he felt unable to say anything for a moment.

Gojo Satoru put his arm around Kagura Mio's shoulders a little irritably, and with his other hand he hooked her hair painlessly, and asked her tentatively: "Mio, what's wrong with you?"

But she ignored him.

Why ignore him?

Why not tell him her fear?

Why doesn’t pain find him? Is it possible that he is not worthy of her trust? Or is he not worthy of her wholehearted devotion?

Kagura Mio took a deep breath.

She smiled and looked at Gojo Satoru, gentle and beautiful: "Nothing, Satoru."

"I want to eat Japanese sweets, please go buy some with me."

Gojo Satoru did not refuse.

He just obediently let the girl take his hand and go out.

He obviously wanted to say something, but when he saw that her smile did not reach her eyes, he ended up saying only the two words "Mio Mio".

Kagura Mio turned around.

Gojo Satoru remained silent.

For the first time, he realized that

he was losing Kagura Mio.

She had things she didn't want to say to him.

She was rejecting him.

But Gojo Satoru absolutely could not tolerate such a thing happening.

Facing those eyes that he had seen since he was a child, the Six-Eyed Son of God could no longer utter anything.

He finally understood the self-restraint and pain behind her cunning eyes, but he could do nothing.

Isn't he the strongest? Why can't he do it?

No, Gojo thought.

Maybe he can do it.

He would do whatever it took to keep her alive.

Gojo Satoru and Kagura Mio have been bound together since childhood, and he will do anything for this.

They are the sun and the moon, a contrast, and a part of each other that cannot be lost.

After receiving the task from Tennen Riko, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru didn't take it seriously at first - but Gojo Satoru keenly noticed the loophole in Yaga Masamichi's words.

"To put it simply, the world of curse arts needs the existence of 'Lord Tengen' to maintain stability. Tengen needs 'Astral Plasma' to assimilate in order to maintain the stability of his own life. And Tennen Riko is the Astral Plasma, and we need to escort her to Tengen to be assimilated." "

But Mr. Yaga probably means that the two of us can handle it ourselves." Gojo Satoru recalled the scene at that time while calling Kagura Mio, "I don't have any ideas about assimilation, but if the Astral Plasma herself doesn't want to be assimilated, I probably will let her go." "

But seriously, what if the world of curse arts collapses."

"Then we will build a new order." Kagura Mio replied indifferently on the other end of the phone.

At this moment, she was sitting on the Shinkansen to Kyoto. A few seats behind her was an assistant supervisor sent by the Kyoto school's top management to supervise her.

"Ah~ I think so too." Gojo Satoru stood bored not far downstairs of the hotel, looking at the room that suddenly exploded, thinking that the war had already started at Geto Suguru's place.

"After all, with you, me, and Jie, the three of us are enough to establish the strongest order." Gojo Satoru smiled and discredited Geto Suguru, "But isn't Jie too rude? This squinty-eyed weirdo with bangs is really something. Teacher Yega clearly told us not to make a big fuss--"

With countless knives pointing at him, the young man defended himself against the attacks in front of him with no shame.

He yawned lazily, took off his sunglasses with one hand, and stared at the towering enemy in front of him with his bright and beautiful blue eyes, and couldn't help laughing.

"Another small fry. Oh, it's always this kind of opponent. No wonder Jie has to make a big fuss. It's really--boring!"

The boy's eyes lit up slightly, and the magic power ignited at his fingertips.

He looked at Byrne, the strongest fighter of the so-called Curse Master Group Q, and a arrogant smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Just you?"

"Because you have a girlfriend?" Tennen Riko accidentally glanced at Gojo Satoru's phone screen and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Are you sure you are not dreaming?"

In fact, she had just said it casually, but Gojo Satoru was actually silent for a moment.

The boy who had been so arrogant suddenly fell silent, causing Tenriko to instinctively sense that something was wrong.

Her eyes widened: "Huh? You can't really have--"

"Heh." Gojo Satoru sneered, put the phone back into his pocket, and glanced down at Tennuriko who was piling sand on the beach, "Guess..."

It all started when Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru successfully rescued Tennuriko who was being attacked. The girl wanted to go to school on the last day, and they both agreed according to the arrangement of their superiors. As a result, they were attacked. The maid Kuroi who took care of Tenchi Riko was attacked and taken away. At Tenchi Riko's request, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru took her to Okinawa to rescue the maid Kuroi. Then the four of them met in Okinawa and are now sitting on the beach.

Tennenori swore that she didn't mean it, but the arrogant and conceited boy in front of her with white hair seemed to be quite worried. Although he was playing, she always felt that he was thinking about something.

She joked, "Are you thinking about your girlfriend?" but Gojo Satoru replied with disdain, "You don't have a boyfriend?"

It was early summer and the sun in Okinawa was particularly hot. The humid and slightly salty sea breeze blew on her face, but Tenriko didn't feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, she enjoyed this simple and happy freedom.

Only now—

she really was! Very angry!

Gojo Satoru! This person! So annoying!

She said without even thinking: "So what if you have a girlfriend? She doesn't seem to want to pay attention to you when you're like this!"

Gojo Satoru: "..."

The sea breeze in Okinawa is so annoying. Why is it so prickly?