Chapter 21: Fight to the Death

Chapter 21: Fight until death

To be honest, even Kagura Mio had never thought that Geto Suguru would defect.

The sound from the receiver came through the air, and Kagura Mio's innate musical talent allowed her to clearly hear the words in the receiver without having to think. The sound waves in the air seemed to explode in her mind. Kagura Mio's eyes widened instantly. She stared at the phone with disbelief, and then looked at Gojo Satoru.

The boy's beautiful blue eyes were actually trembling slightly. There was a hint of dazedness in his pupils.

He continued to ask instinctively, "What?" On the phone, Ye Mo Masamichi looked at the investigation report in his hand and sighed, "Jie tied up everyone in the village and threw them into a huge pit. He was almost dying when we found him. In addition, the buildings in the entire village were burned down, and all the finances were lost. He has completely defected. The higher-ups estimated the degree of danger to Jie and finally decided to sentence him to death. You two will carry out the execution."

Kagura Mio's breathing stagnated slightly, "How many people died?"

Ye Mo Masamichi said, "No one died. But he took all the money--"

"That's okay, that's okay. He just robbed the money. It fits our style." Kagura Mio said casually, then reacted quickly and immediately changed his words, "Robbing money is wrong."

Gojo Satoru blinked a little with difficulty and remained silent.

Suddenly, he spoke, looked at Kagura Mio, and asked Yega Masamichi: "Doesn't he want to be a sorcerer anymore?"

Yega Masamichi was speechless for a moment.

He heard the most noisy student in the past ask in a tone that was almost puzzled and angry: "Why?"

Why?

Ye Mo Zheng Dao didn't know the reason either.

He didn't know why Geto Suguru suddenly became like this, obviously, obviously -

"Because he no longer agrees with his own ideas." Kagura Mio said softly.

She looked at Gojo Satoru and answered Yaga Masamichi, "Teacher, because he can no longer convince himself to protect humanity with his past ideas. Jie has lost the meaning of his existence, so he chose to exile himself."

"But fortunately, he still has a chance to turn back."

Thinking of the boy who ate ice cream with her not long ago, Kagura Mio felt a heavy fog in her chest, which made it hard for her to breathe and made her extremely uncomfortable.

The two decided to set off immediately after receiving a mission from the High School to investigate the incident involving Takeshi Suguru. Gojo Satoru rarely asked Kagura Mio whether they should deal with the problem separately. Kagura Mio casually picked up a tissue and wiped the cold sweat off Gojo Satoru's face.

She said, "Wu, just do whatever you want to do."

The girl looked at him with gentle and indifferent eyes, as if she could calm all the confusion in his heart.

Gojo Satoru clenched his hands tightly and buried his head in Kagura Mio's neck.

Kagura Mio felt Gojo Satoru's sweat dripping on her shoulders. She calmly rubbed his hair and hugged him back.

Everyone at the high school was quite incredulous about Geto Suguru's defection.

Kagura Mio rarely went online in a small group of people, and found that Mingming managed her small treasury quite well. Upon closer inspection, she was almost becoming one of the richest women in Tokyo.

Looking at the group chat again, everyone was almost silent until Huihara Yu asked tentatively: [Then Getsu-senpai won't be coming back? 】

Ieiri Naoko replied:【What else? Could it be that he was faking his defection? 】

Haihara Yu: [Gatsuyu-senpai...how could he...]

Yeah, how could Gatsuyu-senpai?

Almost everyone thought so, including Kagura Mio.

She totally didn't understand and couldn't imagine that Geto Suguru would do such a thing. But the fact is that Geto Suguru chose to defect.

She thought he was just tired, she thought he just wanted to rest, she never thought that the young man who always talked about righteousness would go down such a path.

She doesn't understand.

With her palms placed on her chest, Kagura Mio instinctively activated her own technique.

The ritual that was enough to calm everything around made Katsuo Furukawa, who was driving for her, also become much gentler. Only Kagura Mio, while feeling the gentle cursed energy emitted by her own ritual, asked herself softly: "

Will you also take that path, Kagura Mio?"

She always felt that she could resonate with Geto Suguru to some extent, so she thought she could help Geto Suguru in part. This was the first time she realized her arrogance, and the first time she really doubted whether she would take a path of no return.

Is Geto Suguru's present her future?

He failed to protect his heart, so would she also be unable to protect her own technique? Would she one day become Gojo Satoru's enemy and need to stand opposite him?

Kagura Mio doesn't know.

The irritable and depressed mood surged up again, and the mood that had just been healed by Gojo Satoru's words a few days ago fell to the bottom again. It was at this time that Kagura Mio received a call from the senior management of Kyoto School.

The other party asked very seriously as soon as he opened his mouth: "What's the matter with Geto Suguru?"

Kagura Mio took a breath lightly, suppressed her temper and said: "I don't know, I'm confirming it now."

However, the other party didn't seem to intend to let her go: "You are right next to him, how could you not know with your psychic skills?"

"I won't use skills on my classmates."

"So this is your responsibility. I told you before that you should be cautious and vigilant, but you never took it to heart..."

Katsuo Furukawa's car speed was not fast. Kagura Mio looked at the scene outside the window that kept changing, and her heart was in a mess.

“······The tasks assigned to you are never completed·····”

So annoying. So annoying.

Why do you keep chattering, why do you keep asking for accountability, why -

"Now the responsibility for what happened to Geto Suguru is on you. You must bear the consequences. You must kill Geto Suguru..."

"Hey, let me talk." Kagura Mio took a deep breath, her tone was quite bad.

She ruthlessly exposed the facts, as if she was mercilessly warning herself: "It would be better if you just gave us a break instead of arguing about our problems now. You also know that Geto Suguru has defected. If you force me again, I will join Gojo Satoru and Suguru Suguru."

She told herself that she couldn't do this.

"You really know your influence on me."

Gojo Satoru was sitting in the back seat of the car.

It was a rare moment for him not to slump in the seat. He sat upright with his long legs crossed, holding the phone in one hand, his head leaning against the window, his eyes watching the scene changing back and forth outside the window through his sunglasses, and he frowned his aching brows.

Kagura Mio told him everything she had just said, so her response to Gojo Satoru was just a faint sentence: "You are obviously sad too."

Gojo Satoru: "..."

He was silent, and suddenly asked Kagura Mio: "Mio, is there anything in the world that is constant?"

"No, of course not." Before Kagura Mio could speak, Gojo Satoru spoke first.

The boy's tone was flat and indifferent: "I know, Miomio."

"But isn't that the rule? Although I allow loopholes in the rules, I am the one who makes the rules. In this game, I have always had the final say."

The boy's sudden sense of oppression made Kagura Mio a little confused for a moment: "What--?"

"Nothing." Gojo Satoru showed a somewhat crazy smile, "See you later, Miomio."

The car stopped, and Gojo Satoru kicked open the car door without waiting for the assistant supervisor. He walked quite fast because of his long legs, not to mention that he was looking for something to do and had no intention of taking care of others.

He kicked open the door of the conference room and saw the top leaders of the sorcery world, led by Yoshinobu Rakuganji, sitting in the conference room. The relevant information of Geto Suguru was displayed on the big screen.

Surprisingly, there was also one for Kagura Mio.

Someone recognized him, stood up to stop him, and said, "Gojo, what are you doing--"

But Gojo Satoru had no intention of paying attention to him. Seeing that the other party was about to rush over to stop him, he threw out a low-power "Ao" and casually glanced at the information of Geto Suguru and Mio Kagura. His eyes stayed on the words "death penalty" of Geto Suguru and "punishment to be referenced" of Mio Kagura for a second, and then he suddenly laughed.

"It's really funny. The guy who didn't kill anyone was sentenced to death because of the danger, and the idiot who did nothing is punished. I'm serious, if you pay more attention, you will know that they don't deserve such a crime."

Rakuganji Yoshinobu, who was sitting in the center, leaned on his crutches with both hands, and his voice sounded a little old: "Still deciding--"

"Still deciding?" Gojo Satoru repeated arrogantly, laughing, "I don't think you are doing a serious thing."

He raised the information in his hand and watched the information in front of them being sucked away and shattered along with his cursed power, and then said indifferently in the shocked eyes of everyone: "Suguru Geto's death sentence, Kagura Mio's pending sentence, you essentially want me to do something to them, right? What, you find that there are too many uncontrollable people, so you eliminate them one by one? Is this how you deal with problems?"

Rakuganji Yoshinobu: "Gojo, don't be so arrogant."

No, Gojo Satoru didn't think he was arrogant at all.

It was at this moment that he truly began to get tired of the so-called rules and regulations. He accepted that he was no longer the rumored genius boy, but the real and genuine "strongest".

So he raised his chin and said mercilessly: "Do you really think that I dare not kill you?"

"Want to try it? Eh? How about taking a gamble?"

"You really... pissed me off."

On the other side.

The assistant director said that Geto Suguru's cursed power last appeared in Shinjuku.

Kagura Mio was walking on the streets of Shinjuku with an uncertain mood, and finally saw Geto Suguru dressed in black at the entrance of Shinjuku Station.

"Ah, wanted criminal," she said.

Geto Suguru laughed: "Ah, are you here to arrest me?"

Kagura Mio nodded and pretended to be calm: "Rationally speaking, you don't have to defect. You don't have many people. At most, they robbed some money. I won't kill you. Emotionally speaking, I think you did the right thing. The robbing was very effective."

Geto Suguru laughed: "It's really you."

"But do you really want to do this?" Kagura Mio looked at Geto Suguru seriously, as if she was looking for him to confirm something, "Can the human heart really become like this?"

Geto Suguru slightly lifted the bangs in front of his eyes.

He no longer wears his hair in a bun, but now wears it half-tied.

"Yes, Mio. People's hearts will become like this."

Kagura Mio's heart suddenly felt like it fell into an ice cellar.

She watched Geto Xiayou come like a gust of wind, and go like a gust of wind. She hurriedly grabbed his departing back, pulled his sleeve, and stared at him with a puzzled look, "Why?"

Why did it turn out like this? Is it true that people cannot resist their own evil thoughts?

However, Geto Xiayou did not understand what she meant.

He just took a deep breath and said in the same tone as always: "It's unfortunate, but it's because there are geniuses like you and Wu in the world..."

that all these pains exist.

He said, "Mio, you really are a powerful and terrifying monster."

Kagura Mio, you really are a powerful and terrifying monster.

Kagura Mio felt like she couldn't breathe, her brain went blank, and all the air in her lungs was sucked out. She felt like a fish without water, unable to survive in this world. She just squatted down instinctively, holding onto the roadside railing and breathing in and out frantically.

So that’s it.

It turns out that even someone as powerful as Geto Suguru, even his companion Geto Suguru, all acknowledge one thing -

the truth hidden deep in her heart, the truth feared by the higher-ups -

Kagura Mio, will eventually be destroyed.

She had no way to truly control her own technique. Her body is the perfect vessel for the ritual.

She will continue to live like this until one day -

her consciousness disappears, her body returns to the ritual, and then she will wait for Gojo Satoru to kill her.

This is their destined ending.

Kagura Mio felt her mind was blank. Suddenly, something seemed to stir under the skin, like an instinctive fear spreading from the blood. She knew nothing. She didn't know how much time had passed or what she was doing. The white mist in her mind reappeared again. She seemed to have lost part of her memory and no longer had any reason, until something soft touched her cheek and someone pinched it lightly.

She stared blankly at Gojo Satoru in front of her.

The boy held a tissue in his hand and gently wiped the tears from her face just like she wiped his sweat.

Gojo Satoru stared at Kagura Mio and said word by word: "Mio, I won't run away. So, you don't run away either."

Kagura Mio stared into Gojo Satoru's eyes, and suddenly laughed sadly and madly, "Satoru, you are really a lunatic."

Gojo Satoru also laughed, "What about you?"

Kagura Mio did not answer directly, "A lunatic will not admit that he is a lunatic."

"Yeah." Gojo Satoru said softly.

He realized he had lost.

In this love game, this farce of life, he has always been following her and being led by her.

But Mio Mio, you are not suitable to be a guide right now.

What's more...

the strongest will never be willing to be inferior to others.