Chapter 30: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

December 24th.

Shinjuku District, Tokyo.

Standing in the busy Kabukicho, Ijichi Jiegao felt for the first time the oppressive feeling of the impending war.

This was the first time he had faced a major accident since entering the world of sorcery, not to mention that it happened in Kabukicho - the prosperous and bustling Shinjuku district in Tokyo, the most noisy, luxurious and bizarre place at night in Asia's first city, and the battle alarm was about to be sounded tonight.

Shinjuku at night is as brightly lit as day. High-rise buildings are lined up one after another, people and cars are flowing continuously, and the latest advertisements are constantly flashing on electronic screens. The crowd flows like water, and no one knows that tonight will be a sleepless night.

All they knew was that

there were countless police officers and many people in black uniforms on the streets evacuating the crowd and preparing for shelter.

Yidi Zhijie stood on the overpass, observing the surrounding environment and sending messages to the group.

This is the group chat established by Yaga Masamichi after Geto Suguru declared war.

They once held an important meeting, and both the strongest Gojo Satoru and auxiliary supervisors like Ijichi attended the meeting. Everyone in Tokyo was ready for the battle. Even though the strongest Mr. Gojo was there, a strange sense of foreboding still lingered in Ijichi Jiegao's heart.

The reason is simple—

Miss Kagura is missing.

The day Geto Suguru declared war ended, Kagura Mio and Gojo Satoru disappeared from everyone's sight. Later, only Gojo Satoru was seen, and Kagura Mio was nowhere to be found.

I was in a meeting when I asked this question.

Facing the serious face of Yaga Masamichi, Gojo Satoru said in a light tone with a completely innocent look: "I don't know, Mio may have her own things to do. As you know, she had a quarrel with me recently and didn't pay much attention to me."

"······Satoru."

Yaga Masamichi had a very serious expression under his sunglasses, "Are you sure you really don't know where Mio is?"

"I told you I don't know~"

Gojo Satoru smiled and stuck out his chin, motioning everyone to look at the report on Geto Suguru posted on the whiteboard, "I suggest that everyone should study Geto carefully. Many new friends here don't know him."

What he said makes sense.

Geto Suguru has disappeared for ten years and has been living as the leader of the Pansei Cult. Many newcomers in the world of sorcery know very little about him.

Ye Mo Zhengdao glanced at Ming Ming and said, "Ms. Ming, please tell us."

The people who provided the information this time were Ming Ming and Huiyuan Xiong.

The reason is simple. The underground bar set up by Kagura Mio has long become a holy place for information exchange in the world of curse. It is the center of desire and intelligence. Countless intelligence related to Geto Suguru was obtained from here.

During the years when Kagura Mio disappeared, Meimei was in charge of the agency, and Haibara Yu became Meimei's agent because of his kindness and reliability, but the situation today is different - it is really hurtful to ask Haibara Yu to analyze the senior he admired most in the past and to oppose him.

Mingming looked at the printed report in his hand, and his gaze lingered on Gojo Satoru's face for a moment.

Does he really not know where Kagura Mio is?

She doesn't believe it.

That guy was probably hidden by the frightened man?

To be honest, Mingming's guess was completely correct -

now, apart from Gojo Satoru, the only person who knew the whereabouts of Kagura Mio was Katsuo Furukawa.

It is impossible for Gojo Satoru to monitor Kagura Mio in real time, so this task is given to Katsuo Furukawa.

At this moment, Katsuo Furukawa was driving from Jujutsu High School to the Shinjuku battlefield.

The reason he was here was entirely because of Kagura Mio.

For some unknown reason, that guy insisted that he bring her to the technical college.

Actually, Katsuo Furukawa originally wanted to refuse, but Kagura Mio argued with him: "Satoru doesn't let me go out because he's afraid that I'll go to Shinjuku and fight. I'm going to a technical high school, I won't run around, really - if Satoru asks you about it, just put all the blame on me. There can't be no one left in the technical high school."

"······"

Katsuo Furukawa agreed at that time.

He didn't know whether he felt a subtle pity for the woman in front of him, thinking that her life was really oppressive and pitiful; or whether he also felt that there had to be someone holding the line in the technical college, so he finally agreed.

But thinking about it now, Katsuo Furukawa just felt that she was crazy: Who on earth could withstand Mr. Gojo's rage?

He let out a long sigh and looked at the time.

The technical college is located in the suburbs outside Tokyo, and it takes some time to get to the city. The black wheels rolled over the mountain road, and Katsuo Furukawa suddenly felt a strange sense of oppression for no reason.

It felt like something was pressing on his chest, heavy, painful and unbearable, leaving him speechless for a moment.

He didn't know what happened or why, but he subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror—

a layer of tent rose above the technical college!

At that moment, Katsuo Furukawa understood everything:

Geto Suguru's target was Yuta Otsutsukota, and the technical high school would never let Yuta Otsutsukota go to the battlefield; and Zenin Maki, who was bound by heaven and curse, was regarded as a monkey by Geto Suguru and must be killed on sight, so she did not go to Shinjuku, and the two children stayed in the technical high school.

Almost all the manpower were sent to Shinjuku and Kyoto. This was almost a strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Geto Suguru's real target has always been -

Yuta Otsutsukota in the high school!

I think Miss Kagura also thought of this, so she went to the high school battlefield without hesitation.

Katsuo Furukawa stepped on the brakes instantly.

The curtain in front of him fell down bit by bit. He looked at the dark barrier and the setting sun that was about to merge together. Katsuo Furukawa suddenly fell silent.

He could see that Miss Kagura was not in good health.

Although it may sound like bragging, Katsuo Furukawa can actually be considered a sorcerer - his spell power level is good, and his techniques are also okay, at least level two.

The reason why I became an assistant supervisor was because I was afraid of death.

The sorcerer has too many things to do and dies too easily. He is a person who is attached to the secular world - he loves money, home, his wife and children, and his own beautiful life.

So he didn't want to be a sorcerer.

But now -

the high school is almost like a virtual existence, the city gates are wide open, and it is not certain whether Miss Kagura alone can stop the determined Geto Suguru.

If he really wants to go on a killing spree...

everyone might die.

Katsuo Furukawa wondered what he should do.

At best he is a level 2 player, even if he goes he will just be a noob and give kills to Geto Suguru, otherwise he wouldn't go.

But the danger is right in front of him. Does he really want to face the catastrophe in the college without caring about it?

The scene of the first time I met Kagura Mio and the other two eleven years ago is still in front of my eyes.

At that time, Miss Kagura was still a girl. Her tone and eyes were very calm. It could be seen that she came from a famous family in Kyoto - the noble and elegant temperament in her was too obvious.

But even such a person, after Katsuo Furukawa saw her coming out of the Yagiyama Zoological Park, her entire mental state was close to the critical point of collapse.

He didn't know what she had been through, but if it were him, he definitely wouldn't do it.

But later, he watched helplessly as the girl in front of him forced herself to work in the world of sorcery for so many years.

As Kagura Mio's assistant supervisor, Katsuo Furukawa is the person who knows Kagura Mio's character best.

She is always the same, cowardly in her own heart, afraid of her own abilities, and repressed by her own existence, but she is also always brave, fearless, and tenacious in facing her destiny.

Katsuo Furukawa actually recalled the expression on Kagura Mio's face when she sat on the beach and said to him, "This is my destiny" two years ago.

He often tells his daughter to play with lovely friends and stay away from bad friends because bad company attracts bad people.

Katsuo Furukawa, who is already a father, suddenly realized one thing:

to some extent, he was also influenced by Miss Kagura.

At least this time, he had a little courage to face death.

The car turned around and Katsuo Furukawa drove towards the technical college.

He stepped on the accelerator all the way and rushed into the black barrier at the fastest speed in his life, a hundred times faster than going home to see his daughter after get off work.

The moment the front of the car successfully rushed into the technical high school before the barrier fell, Katsuo Furukawa felt the pressure of a special-grade sorcerer.

But at that moment, what he thought was:

Fortunately I made it in time.

At least don't let the people who protect us fight alone.

Of course he knew that this could result in death, but -

"I can't let Miss Kagura face this alone."

On the other side.

Gojo Satoru stood on the street in Shinjuku.

This is a place he has been to many times before, but Shinjuku at this moment is completely different from before.

Because of the black curtain, it was clearly evening but it looked like night all around, and all the uneasy factors were brewing in it.

The streets of Shinjuku have never been so quiet. Gojo Satoru supported his chin with one hand, and his fingertips pinched his cheek to create a slightly round curve.

Why does it feel...something's not right?

As he thought about it, he felt something was strange due to his sixth sense.

Doesn’t that guy Jay plan to fight him? Just waste this opportunity? No -

"Mr. Gojo." Ijichi Jiegao looked a little scared, but he still mustered up the courage to say, "Although it's not a good time to say this, but the matter of the previous commission to investigate Otsutsuki-san -"

Otsutsuki Yuta!

At this moment, Gojo Satoru seemed to have suddenly figured something out. He strode forward, grabbed Panda and Gojuanji by the neck, and dragged the two of them at high speed, drew a magic circle, and sent them both to the technical high school.

"Geto Suguru is in the technical high school now. I will rush there immediately after I get rid of his men. You two should go find Yuta and Maki first."

He looked at the two students in front of him, his tone calm and serious, "Defend your defense to the death."

This is his trust and expectation for the students he likes.

“Well, next—”

Gojo Satoru turned his gaze towards the group of curse masters standing on the curse spirits.

"It's you guys."

Miguel was standing on the cursed spirit. He is a curse master from Africa, with dark complexion, tall and strong build.

At this time, he was wearing a tight white top, with a strange rope wrapped around his waist, and the cursed energy emanating from his body was a bit strange.

Miguel smiled and looked down at Gojo Satoru: "Then let me see your strength, Gojo Satoru--"

Gojo Satoru was about to look back, but his eyes trembled.

That was -

Kagura Mio was standing in front of Geto Suguru. The same classmate she had just met a few days ago was looking at her from afar as an opponent for the first time.

She caught Zenin Maki who was knocked out, and stood in front of Furukawa Katsuo and Otsutsukota. The resonant sound in her hand was like a gentle silk thread that wrapped around the flying high-level personnel and led them back to a safe place.

The cursed power belonging to her was majestically lingering around everyone. This eldest daughter of a noble family, who was described by everyone as being as cold and noble as the bright moon in the world of curse, had never been the gentle and submissive Yamato Nadeshiko.

She is Kagura Mio, the Kagura Mio who is willing to risk everything to pursue her own path.

So when she faced her peers who had gone to a dead end because of losing hope, she just smiled gently, and then raised her hand calmly, like a moth flying behind it -

"You probably haven't seen this trick before."

"Ninety-nine Parts: Synchronicity."

She used her own technique without hesitation, burning her life like a nightingale crying blood.

This is her destiny, the life she chose.

The 99.9% resonance made Gojo Satoru feel Kagura Mio's pain at this moment.

It was also at this moment that Gojo Satoru completely understood the problem with Kagura Mio's body. All the suspense was waiting to be revealed, but now he had no time to think about these things -

he acted decisively, and tore off his bandages with his slender fingers. He had a smiling look on his face, but his tone was cold, carrying with him a rare anger and indifference.

"Alright, alright, let's end this quickly."

His six blue eyes were as sharp as a knife in the air. The next second, cursed power surged out of his body like a backwash of the sea tide, and the space trembled at this moment.

A vicious arc flashed across the corner of his mouth: "Take the power of my lovely Mio--"

At this moment, Miguel felt the red light that was enough to illuminate the world, and the power of the reversal of the technique directly destroyed a building here-the oppressive feeling of the special-grade sorcerer was fully displayed at this moment.

"Hey, that big guy."

"Oh my, let me tell you--"

Gojo Satoru pulled a sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth:

"Childhood sweethearts + pure love are the strongest."