Chapter 17 Decision

　　"Haibara, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I'm done packing, let's go."

　　Kojima Kei replied.

　　"Not long at all~"

　　Huiyuan Xiong said with a smile.

　　Geto Suguru heard Kei Kojima's voice, mixed with Haibara Yu's voice, but he could hear it clearly.

　　At some point, he was standing at the door, his hand on the doorknob, quietly listening to the movements in the corridor.

　　If he opens the door now, there is still time to meet them. Haibara Yu will definitely respond enthusiastically and ask him if he wants to go to the training ground together.

　　But Kei Kojima's expression must be a little uncomfortable. He will probably lower his head and dare not look directly at himself. He will only hide behind Haibara Yu and greet himself in a low voice.

　　The person in the dream would not treat him with this attitude. If I have to say, the attitude of junior classmate Huibara towards him might be closer.

　　Always so enthusiastic and always looking at me with admiration.

　　but……

　　That's not the case.

　　What Geto Suguru can be sure of is that the person in his dream is definitely not Haibara Yu.

　　But could it be Kei Kojima? He was a little unsure.

　　It's just the same name.

　　In his dream, there is a person named "Kui", but in Kojima Kei's world, there is a person named "Jet" who hurt him.

　　Maybe there are such coincidences in the world.

　　Or maybe the person in the dream was not called "Kui" at all, but he projected his attention to Kei Kojima in reality into the dream.

　　Geto Xia Yu put his hand on the door handle and hesitated to turn it.

　　He has always been decisive and rarely shows such hesitation.

　　Ever since Kei Kojima started school, he has often had this kind of emotion.

　　Wu was right, he paid too much attention to this junior named "Kui".

　　He didn't dislike cowards, but he didn't like them either.

　　Kei Kojima has been afraid of himself since the first day he met him, and now he knows the reason.

　　This is a shadow in other people's hearts. As a qualified senior, after knowing that the junior has such a secret, he should not continue to get close to him. It may be better to maintain a safe distance for each other.

　　The footsteps in the corridor grew farther and farther away.

　　Geto Xia Yu let go of the door handle.

　　Dreams are not reality. Perhaps he has been too tired recently and has some illusions.

　　It should be adjusted soon.

　　Geto Xia Yu washed his face to make himself more awake.

　　It’s better to keep your distance.

　　Kei Kojima was the first to notice the change.

　　There was no longer that burning gaze behind him staring at him in the dark. Even if he looked over, Geto Suguru would never look back at him, and sometimes he would even avoid him. He seemed to have applied for a lot of missions outside recently, and Gojo Satoru became his partner. As a result, the frequency of their appearances at the Jujutsu High School became lower.

　　Kei Kojima didn't have time to think about why it turned out like this, but he liked the result very much.

　　As long as Geto Suguru doesn't appear in front of him, Kei Kojima won't even see him for a week.

　　Except for Ieiri Nozomi, the second-grade students basically do not need to attend the courses arranged by the school.

　　They only need to say hello to the Ye Moth Orthodoxy, and they can practice on their own and go on missions frequently.

　　It was only after three days that the slow-witted Huihara Yu realized that he had rarely seen the two seniors recently.

　　He has Geto Suguru's contact information, and occasionally calls or sends messages to ask about the difficulties he has encountered in his recent practice. Geto Suguru is a very patient and gentle senior, and he always answers his questions in detail.

　　Such a good senior, Haibara Yu didn't know why his classmate Kei Kojima would try his best to avoid Senior Takeru whenever he met him, and even... something like that happened last time.

　　Whenever he meets Senior Takeshita, Kei Kojima wants to leave immediately, with a look on his face that says "I don't want to be with this person."

　　Maybe there are some hidden secrets that he doesn't know.

　　After the last quarrel, Nanami Kento stopped Haibara Yu and tactfully advised him not to participate in the profit sharing between Kojima Kei and the two seniors.

　　"Kojima arrived two months earlier than us. He and the two seniors might have had something we don't know about, so it's best not to interfere."

　　Nanami Kento paused for a moment, then decided to remind this stubborn colleague again:

　　"Last time I saw Kojima apologize to Takeru-senpai, and he left crying. The hidden story here might be a little deeper than we thought."

　　Huiyuan Xiong opened his mouth wide: "...crying!"

　　What Nanami Kento didn't tell Haibara Yu was that every time they were both together, he had observed that Geto Suguru's gaze would always stay on him for a long time when Kei Kojima couldn't see him.

　　There was an emotion in her eyes that he couldn't understand.

　　The emotional entanglement here is probably not a simple relationship between senior and junior students.

　　Obviously, in this, Haibara Yu is just an outsider.

　　Although Haibara Yu has a straightforward personality, he is not unable to understand what people say. After that, he never mentions Geto Suguru's name in front of Kojima Kei.

　　Time passed quickly, and soon it was the day for Kei Kojima's individual exam.

　　The day before the exam.

　　On the training ground, Kei Kojima slashed his sword into the cursed corpse.

　　"Bang!"

　　The humanoid cursed skeleton with empty eyes trembled all over. The cursed power transmitted from the tip of the knife poured into its body. The surface began to decay, and fragments fell off sparsely. Suddenly, it exploded from the middle and turned into a pile of debris.

　　Ye Mo Zheng Dao pressed the stopwatch and glanced at the time:

　　"Ten minutes and thirty-four seconds. Thirty seconds faster than last time. So-so."

　　Kojima Kei wiped the sweat from his forehead:

　　"yes."

　　During this week, in order to prepare for the exam to remove cursed spirits individually, Kei Kojima's special training was to shorten the time it takes to complete the ritual as much as possible.

　　This is the biggest drawback of Kei Kojima's technique. Even after it has been simplified, it is still much slower than others to complete the technique.

　　Without the cover of his teammates, Kei Kojima would not have had time to hide in a corner and slowly complete the technique.

　　When Kei Kojima first entered school, Masamichi Yaga knew his key problem, and in daily training, he began to let him do two things at the same time, so that he could not interrupt the performance of the technique even when being attacked.

　　This was the fighting method he conceived after Rina Kojima left the world of sorcery, in order to help those sorcerers who were unable to cast spells quickly. He even specially designed a cursed skeleton with special functions.

　　After three months, we are finally seeing some results.

　　"Don't take tomorrow's test lightly."

　　Ye Moth Zhengdao instructed:

　　"Even though there are support personnel here, if he takes action, your results will be invalidated. You don't want to be the only fourth-level sorcerer in the first grade, do you?"

　　Halfway through his words, the phone suddenly rang. Yega Masamichi glanced at the caller ID, waved to Kojima Kei, told him to continue training, and walked aside to answer the phone.

　　These days, many of the cursed corpses of the moth's righteous path have been destroyed.

　　Although Ye Mo Zhengdao said not to worry about it, these are consumables, Kei Kojima still felt a little embarrassed.

　　If we fail this time, wouldn’t all of Teacher Ye Mo’s efforts be in vain?

　　Although Teacher Ye Mo is so busy at work, he has been by my side most of the time this week, supervising my training and adjusting the functions of the Curse Corpse at all times.

　　Haibara Yu and Kojima Kei swept up the debris. While sorting out the cursed corpses, Haibara Yu secretly said to Kojima Kei:

　　"The last time I went to Mr. Yega's warehouse to move some cursed corpses, there were so many puppets and animal-shaped cursed corpses in there. They looked so real, I was shocked... I heard that they were all sewn by Mr. Yega himself, but you can't tell at all. She really has a skillful hand."

　　Unfortunately, Haibara Xiong was not suitable for talking in a low voice, and his voice was so loud that he almost whispered into Ye Mo Zhengdao's ear.

　　Seeing that Ye Mo Zheng Dao had a serious expression on his face and was walking towards him after finishing his phone call, Kei Kojima quickly pulled Haibara Yu's sleeve and told him to stop talking.

　　Yaga Masamichi seemed to be in a heavy mood and did not notice the interaction between the students. He looked at Kojima Kei and said in a deep voice:

　　"Kyu...I just received a notice that your exam tomorrow has been cancelled at the last minute."

　　Kojima Kei said "Ah":

　　"...Cancelled? Postponed? Or..."

　　"—It's cancelled. There's no announcement of the next exam date. For now, you can only operate as a fourth-level sorcerer."

　　Ye Moth Zhengdao frowned, thought for a moment and finally said:

　　"Hmm... there's one more thing I need to tell you in advance. The final evaluation results of the last exam are out, and they think your technique is more suitable for rear-line treatment than combat. In other words, your role in the future will be the same as Ieiri Shoko's."

　　Kojima Kei murmured to himself:

　　"But... I'm not a therapist..."

　　His mother told him that the technique of their clan was to make the time invested in things slip away quickly, causing them to age and decay.

　　Why is the result of the examination treatment?