Chapter 25: A wife, children and a warm bed

"So, has Mr. Gojo been abandoned by Kagura-senpai?"

In the izakaya, Haibara Yu drank the grapefruit juice in front of him and said the most hurtful fact with a rather silly look.

Everyone present paused for a moment.

As the first person to know the news, Ieiri Shoko did not react much. She just drank the Yamazaki sake in front of her indifferently; Nanami Kento glanced at Haibara Yu with a cautious look; An Utahime pulled her sleeves and looked at Gojo beside her with a gloating look; Meimei took out her mobile phone and lazily flipped through the text message that Kagura Mio left for her as the full agent; Ijichi Jie Gao showed an extremely unlucky fear and even glanced at Gojo Satoru - he didn't want Gojo to be angry and take it out on him! ! !

However, Gojo Satoru, who was at the center of public opinion, was only wearing a bandage, with the corners of his kitten-like mouth slightly raised, and it was impossible to tell whether he was in a good or bad mood.

"Well, well, my dearest Mio Mio-chan just went out to take a break~ She's been working too much lately and has no time to have fun~ She'll be back soon~"

Iori Utahime sneered: "Are you sure she didn't run away because she couldn't stand you?"

Gojo Satoru pursed his lips and said in a rather annoying manner: "Of course not. Mio Mio and I have known each other for so many years, how could she not stand me? But you, Utahime, is there really anyone who can stand you? After all, Utahime is really, very, weak, eh~~!"

There was even a tilde in his tone of voice, and he looked as if he was not affected at all. He hit Iori Utahime seriously: "But it's understandable~ After all, there are too many single people among the sorcerers, and it's normal for Utahime to not know about the beautiful bond that makes dokidoki's heart beat fast~"

Iori Utahime held the wine glass in her hand, her face flushed with anger or drunk, and she looked pretty bad anyway.

She frowned: "Gojo!"

Gojo smiled playfully at Angeki and lowered his head to dig the buttered potatoes in the bowl.

He took two casual bites and stopped eating. Instead, he looked up at the trembling Ijichi Jiegao not far away and showed a "kind" smile: "What's wrong, Ijichi? Is there anything you want to report to the great Mr. Gojo?"

The strongest pressure made Ijichi Jiegao tremble.

He instantly wilted like a chicken with its neck strangled: "No, no, Mr. Gojo."

Gojo Satoru smiled with satisfaction: "That's good~ Otherwise I would probably think that you want to go to Sendai with our lovely Mr. Katsuo Furukawa to become the new assistant supervisor~"

Ijichi Jiegao: "?!"

After taking a look at the shivering Ijichi, Ieiri Shoko sighed softly.

Time flies, and she is no longer the girl with short hair.

Unconsciously, she started to grow her hair long, the dark circles under her eyes became deeper, and she spoke less and less. The only thing that remained unchanged was probably her love of smoking and drinking.

"Five." She called him, reminding him to stop.

Gojo Satoru's smile froze for a moment.

He stared at Ieiri Nozomi for two seconds, then shrugged indifferently and continued to eat his buttered potatoes.

It's so strange that his favorite butter potatoes don't taste good at all now.

Has Matsuda's craftsmanship deteriorated? Woo woo, hate it!

Haibara Yu, who had no idea that he had stepped on Gojo Satoru's big mistake, just scratched his head cheerfully, and then secretly looked at Gojo Satoru through the gap between the clinking wine glasses.

The man who was said to be the strongest was stabbing the buttered potatoes in front of him with a fork. It was clearly the same food as usual, and clearly his favorite food, but he seemed to have no intention of eating it. He just kept poking at it with his fork.

The lukewarm light shone on his face, and the sound of glasses clinking rang in his ears, but that man seemed to be silent and playful

. However, Haibara Yu just felt that Gojo Satoru seemed a little lonely.

It all started the day after Kagura Mio's 25th birthday.

Gojo Satoru had just woken up from his big bed in the hotel, feeling satisfied. Before he opened his eyes, he subconsciously reached out to grab the people around him, but his long arms hit nothing - there was no one around him.

Instinctively feeling that something was wrong, Gojo Satoru instantly opened his eyes and climbed out of bed.

Because he stayed up too late yesterday, and also because he wanted to have closer physical contact with Kagura Mio, Gojo Satoru went to bed without wearing a shirt yesterday.

He got out of bed without even having time to pull on a shirt, and walked towards the living room - empty - in his thin hotel slippers.

He didn't believe it and opened the doors one by one until he had searched the entire room and made sure that none of Kagura Mio's luggage was there. Then he sat down on the sofa dejectedly, frowning and thinking.

The precisely calculated Six Eyes had long told him that Kagura Mio's cursed power was no longer here, but he just didn't believe it -

why?

Why did Kagura Mio suddenly disappear?

He thought that his eight-year-long plan had already paid off for Mio, and she had no way out, but facts told him that his wife had run away.

Gojo Satoru frowned, looking a little confused at first, and then slowly raised the corners of his mouth, as if something extremely interesting had happened.

"Huh? Kagura Mio, you dare to run away after I fell asleep?"

But it doesn't matter -

Kagura Mio can't escape from his grasp.

Gojo Satoru snorted, rummaged on the ground with interest to find his cell phone, swiped the screen and called Katsuo Furukawa, until Katsuo Furukawa's somewhat anxious voice came from the other side: "Mr. Gojo, it's bad, Miss Kagura has disappeared."

Huh?

The smile on Gojo Satoru’s face disappeared completely, and his eyes became dangerous: “...you run pretty fast?”

Was this guy born in the year of the rabbit in his previous life?

No, this guy was born in the year of the horse... No wonder he runs so fast.

Gojo Satoru sneered.

After hanging up the phone with Katsuo Furukawa, Gojo Satoru sat back on the bed, pinching his brows, with only countless unsolved mysteries left in his mind: He didn't know why Kagura Mio ran away.

Obviously, it shouldn't happen.

The feeling he had for Kagura Mio was no longer the intimate and companionate one they had when they were children, but a man's possession of a woman from the spirit to the body, from head to toe, from the inside out. He wants to get her, not only her body, but also her soul.

Therefore, Wujo Wu should proceed step by step.

Of course he knew that Kagura Mio liked him. Who else could she like besides him?

He also knew that Kagura Mio had some concerns, so he arranged an eight-year drama, wanting to trap her in his net like hunting, and catch her in one fell swoop. Gojo Satoru thought this was very reasonable -

From the time they met until they were seventeen, their relationship was dominated by Kagura Mio. Her attitude towards him was always to flirt with him when she had nothing to do, but she never took it too seriously - how could this be possible? How could Gojo Satoru accept that she didn't like him that much?

So he changed his strategy, from being a childhood sweetheart who was just a comrade-in-arms of Kagura Mio and whom he could only flirt with, to being able to arouse her emotions to a certain extent and make her voluntarily become his lover, but she ran away at the last minute?

Gojo Satoru didn't understand.

The only possibility is that there was something wrong with Kagura Mio's technique.

No, that's not right. If there really was something wrong with the technique, why didn't Kagura Mio tell him?

The white-haired man narrowed his eyes dangerously due to the dissatisfaction in his heart.

Ah, as expected, what annoyed him the most was that Mio Mio didn't trust him enough.

He smacked his lips and muttered slowly: "Well, worthy of being Mio Mio, she can even run away..."

"But - where do you think you can run to?"

Gojo Satoru lay back and let himself lie on the soft bed, his pale blue eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of interest and danger.

"I will find you, Mio Mio."

"Aren't you afraid that he will turn the whole country upside down to find you?" The voice of Naoko Ieiri, with a hint of death due to working too much overtime, came from the other end of the phone receiver.

Kagura Mio sat on the medium-high fence of the seaside stands with her legs crossed. Half of her body was exposed, but she looked relaxed and contented, not afraid at all that she would fall at any time.

The slightly salty scent of sea water blew along the sea breeze onto Kagura Mio's face. She lazily tied up her flying hair, and her tone was somewhat rare and free and easy: "Then let him find it. I'm going abroad anyway."

It is almost impossible for Gojo Satoru to stay abroad for a long time.

Lord Tengen used his own energy to set up a barrier in Japan. Almost all the cursed spirits in the world were born in Japan or were attracted to Japan. Therefore, Japan has always been the main battlefield of the curse world. As the strongest person in modern times, Gojo Satoru cannot possibly stay abroad for a long time, so if you want to hide from him, the best place is abroad.

"I don't understand the relationship between you two, but I think it's pretty cool." Ieiri Naoko said while stirring the wine in the glass with a stirring stick, "After all, I think it's good to be able to make that guy lose face."

Kagura Mio said, "I don't intend to force him to start some vulgar love script where I run away and he chases me and I can't escape even if I have wings. I will do this just because, at this stage, I can only do this."

Ieiri Naoko was silent for a moment, and then said, "Is it related to your ritual?"

Before Kagura Mio answered, Ieiri Naoko said again, "Forget it, I'm not interested in this thing, you don't have to tell me."

Her tone was light: "It's just that if you want to come back that day, just tell me."

Kagura Mio smiled, with a little melancholy in her tone: "Noko, I really like you."

Ieiri Naoko paused: "It's rare for you to be honest, Kagura Mio."

Kagura Mio nodded: "Yes, Naoko, it's rare."

"So I will remember it." Ieiri Shoko said, "Come back and treat me to a meal."

Kagura Mio said, "Okay."

After hanging up the phone with Ieiri Shoko, she turned her head and looked at Furukawa Katsuo, who was standing next to a black car in a black suit and making a phone call.

As if receiving a signal from Kagura Mio, Katsuo Furukawa dealt with the person on the other end of the phone in a sophisticated manner while making a gesture to Kagura Mio.

It was not until Katsuo Furukawa finished the call that he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, panting: "Ms. Kagura, you have to give me more. Mr. Gojo's pressure is really..."

Kagura Mio took out a card from her pocket and gave it to Katsuo Furukawa.

"It's a card from a UAE bank. It's not bound to a Japanese tax identification code, so it's hard to be tracked. Unless you tell him the account password in person, Gojo Satoru won't know it."

Katsuo Furukawa took the bank card handed over by Kagura Mio in a daze, and looked at his superior in front of him, who could almost be said to have watched her grow from a girl to a woman, and was a little speechless for a moment.

Kagura Mio let out a light breath. The rolling waves were covered with patches of white, and the scene before her eyes where the blue sea and sky met was vast and free, a freedom she had almost never felt before. She felt the cursed energy flowing through her body, and thought about the fact that her spell suitability had soared to 99.9% because of last night's absurd experience. She let out a long, unrepressed sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry to bother you over the years,"

she said to Katsuo Furukawa.

She knew that Gojo Satoru had transferred Katsuo Furukawa to monitor her, but under this surveillance, Katsuo Furukawa also gave her a lot of freedom to take advantage of loopholes between the top management and Gojo Satoru.

Katsuo Furukawa was stunned.

Then he laughed: "Because Miss Kagura gave a lot. My daughter always wants to buy all kinds of dolls. Secondly, I don’t like to go to work. If it weren’t for supporting the family, who would want to be this profession?"

You know, he was originally trained as a sorcerer, but because he was afraid of death, he ran to be an assistant supervisor. He was exiled to Sendai, thinking it was a pure land, but he was rescued by Gojo Satoru.

Kagura Mio smiled but said nothing. How much does the doll cost?

"And..."

Katsuo Furukawa said softly, "Sometimes, I think that Miss Kagura must have a hard time. If she were my daughter, I would never let her be a sorcerer."

Kagura Mio stared at Katsuo Furukawa for two seconds and said, "But this is my destiny."

She climbed down from the railing with one hand, took her ID and plane ticket from Katsuo Furukawa, and waved at him: "I'll call you when I come back."

"By then, I might be reunited with my wife and children in Sendai. My life dream is to have a wife, children and a warm bed." Katsuo Furukawa wrote to Kagura Mio, "I really don't want to go back to Tokyo."

Kagura Mio shrugged and never looked back.

However, she did not expect that when she returned to Japan two years later, the first person she contacted was not Katsuo Furukawa.

At that time, she was standing in front of the classroom door of Miyagi Prefecture's First Junior High School.

She kicked open the door of the classroom and raised her eyebrows at the delinquents who were surrounding the cabinet and mocking a black-haired boy.

"Tsk, kids should just study hard."

"Why are you still bullying others?"

She turned her gaze to the black-haired boy who was being bullied.

"Don't you agree, Yuta Otsutsukoshi?"