Reappearance

An hour later, outside the elementary school.

Lin Yi met Kiyotaka Ijichi, who had come to verify the lead. With the Cursed Spirit Suguru Geto had released serving as camouflage, Ijichi confirmed that the information Lin Yi had provided was accurate and took out his phone to make a call.

"Then there's nothing else for me to do, right, Mr. Ijichi?"

"Yes, Mr. Lin Ichiro. I'll transfer the specific payment into your personal account."

"That's wonderful, Mr. Ijichi. I'll be taking my leave, then."

Lin Yi left decisively, leaving the assistant supervisor Kiyotaka Ijichi waiting outside the campus. Lin Yi circled around two blocks and arrived at a café, where Suguru Geto, whom he had sent away earlier, was waiting for him.

"Yi, you really are cautious."

"That's Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of the modern era—the man with the Six Eyes. Before I master Domain Expansion and the Reversed Cursed Technique, I'm not confident about facing him."

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Lin Yi did not mind Suguru Geto's teasing.

Satoru Gojo's strength was beyond question. Throughout the entire story, the only reason he lost was because he had lived in luxury since childhood and never known the hardships of the poor. He got careless and was bisected by Sukuna's no-windup, binding-vow-funded spatial slash. Put his mechanics and stats into the Fate setting, and as long as he was not fighting monsters and freaks, he could clear a Holy Grail War.

The Six Eyes, which passively observed all information from every angle without blind spots, paired with the Limitless that automatically filtered and defended against attacks—if he had really stayed in the classroom building, Satoru Gojo would have noticed him the moment he landed. Then he would not have been facing Yuta Okkotsu, but Satoru Gojo.

"Yi, you know as much about Gojo as I do. How strange. Why didn't an outstanding jujutsu sorcerer like you enter Jujutsu High and become classmates with Gojo, Shoko, and me? If you had..."

As he listened to Lin Yi speak of Satoru Gojo's strength, Suguru Geto wore a proud smile. But as he spoke, he remembered that crushing defeat from their student days, and his expression turned lonely.

Lin Yi did not know what to say. He could hardly tell him that he had only arrived in Japan at the beginning of this year.

The two fell silent. One played with the Cursed Spirit he had sent out to keep watch, while the other played on his phone. The awkward atmosphere was not broken until the Cursed Spirit in Suguru Geto's hand stirred.

"Gojo is here. I'll go talk to him. Yi, it's up to you now."

"Quit nagging. Go have a good talk with Satoru Gojo. What happened before still isn't over, after all. Miguel and Larue told you, right? Someone other than you has their eyes on Jujutsu High."

"Yeah, I nearly forgot about that. Leave it to me, Yi."

Lin Yi remained seated in the café for another fifteen minutes. Only after making sure the timing was about right did he prepare to get up and leave.

"Sir, you haven't paid your bill yet."

"Huh?"

Meanwhile, outside the elementary school that had reported a Cursed Spirit attack, Satoru Gojo, the strongest of the modern era, had already gotten out of the car with his three students: Yuta Okkotsu, Maki Zenin, and the unlucky girl Yuko Takagi.

Having learned from the previous incident, Satoru Gojo had personally led the team this time. He did not believe that anyone foolish enough to cause trouble for his students would dare show up again.

"Then I'll be off, kids. Be careful, okay? Don't die~"

Satoru Gojo chanted the incantation and lowered the barrier technique, Curtain. Leaving his three students with a tall, dashing back and a wickedly playful remark, he stepped out through the barrier.

Naturally, he would observe every move his students made from outside the barrier, ready to act at any moment. But Suguru Geto appeared just as Satoru Gojo stepped out of the Curtain.

"Yo, Gojo. Long time no see."

Standing beneath the sunlight, Suguru Geto smiled as he greeted Satoru Gojo, who had stepped out of the barrier. His tone and expression made it seem like an ordinary meeting—no cheering, no surprise—but Satoru Gojo knew clearly that this was the first time he had seen his best friend Suguru Geto in ten years, since that bitter summer of their third year as students.

All the memories he shared with Suguru Geto during their student days surfaced in Satoru Gojo's mind one by one.

"Geto?"

A kilometer away from the elementary school, Lin Yi watched Suguru Geto greet Satoru Gojo through a pair of binoculars he had constructed from cursed energy. Then he withdrew his gaze and dispelled the binoculars so Satoru Gojo would not notice them.

As for Suguru Geto's reunion with Satoru Gojo, Lin Yi could only scratch his head.

These two were seriously something else. They had spent ten years in Tokyo without running into each other even once. No wonder Kenjaku, with his brain occupying Suguru Geto's body, could freeze Satoru Gojo in place just by greeting him.

So it turned out that Suguru Geto had long imagined more than once how he would reunite with Satoru Gojo. Kenjaku had merely recreated it for him.

"Teacher, oh teacher. You've already experienced the test version of reuniting with your best friend. When the official version of the Shibuya Incident launches on October 31 next year, don't mess it up."

After making that quip, Lin Yi finally strolled toward the elementary school. Next, it was his turn to play the villain for a while.

The scene returned to the elementary school.

Reuniting with his best friend did make Satoru Gojo happy, but once that initial joy passed, he realized that Suguru Geto must have had some purpose in appearing here. His expression immediately turned cold.

"Showing up here at a time like this means it's a trap. Geto, what are you planning to do to my students?"

"Don't think of me as so evil, Gojo. I told you before, all I want is an era that belongs to jujutsu sorcerers. How could I possibly lay a hand on the future of jujutsu sorcerers? We haven't seen each other in a long time. Care to take a walk with me?"

Satoru Gojo uneasily glanced back at the Curtain he had placed behind him, but Suguru Geto had already walked over openly and thrown an arm around Satoru Gojo's neck.

Only he would dare do something like that despite their opposing positions, utterly unafraid of Satoru Gojo's retaliation.

"Relax, Gojo. The Cursed Spirits I put inside can be handled by your students. Consider it this former Jujutsu High upperclassman testing this year's first-years for you. Besides, there are misunderstandings between us that need clearing up, regarding the earlier attack on the first-years. Also, the two students who disappeared in this school are real."

Hearing that, Satoru Gojo's expression finally grew a little more serious. Looking at his best friend standing so close, he ultimately chose not to strike.

He allowed Suguru Geto to lead him away, creating an opportunity for Lin Yi to enter the Curtain.

Inside the school's classroom building, Maki Zenin took the lead. Wielding a cursed tool naginata, she easily exorcised the Cursed Spirits Suguru Geto had left in the building.

Seeing that this Cursed Spirit exorcism mission offered no challenge at all, Maki Zenin could not help getting annoyed. A mission like this could not improve her strength. She did not even need to spare attention for Yuta Okkotsu and Yuko Takagi following behind her, simply exorcising every Cursed Spirit she encountered in the building.

"Seriously, what is that idiot Gojo doing? Did this mission really need three people? Either one of you could handle it alone, couldn't you?"

With another slash, she cut down the Cursed Spirit blocking her path. Maki Zenin had now reached the floor where the principal's office was located and began complaining about her unreliable homeroom teacher, Satoru Gojo.

"Um, Maki, isn't it a little rude to talk about Gojo-sensei like that?"

"Yuko, do you have a crush on idiot Gojo's face or something? Why are you defending him so much?"

"N-no! Gojo-sensei is a very kind person."

Seeing the deep blush her words had brought to Yuko Takagi's face, Maki Zenin found it painful to look at. When she looked at Yuta Okkotsu beside her, the inarticulate Yuta was so intimidated by Maki Zenin's glare that he did not dare say a word.

"Give me your student IDs. Let me see them."

"Student IDs?"

"Your student IDs record your rankings as jujutsu sorcerers. Cursed Spirits at this level shouldn't all need me to deal with them, right? You deal with them, rescue the missing students, and we're done. Hurry up!"

Prompted by Maki Zenin, the two handed over their student IDs. Maki Zenin looked at the special-grade and grade-one jujutsu sorcerer rankings written on them, then looked at Yuta Okkotsu and Yuko Takagi, two classmates who could barely squeeze out a word between them, and her mood worsened further.

At that moment, footsteps sounded from the end of the corridor that Maki Zenin had cleared of Cursed Spirits.

Maki Zenin whipped around, gripping her weapon in alert, and saw a familiar figure in the darkness.

Lin Yi, transformed into the Heavenly Tyrant—Kamen Rider Joker form—appeared before Jujutsu High once again!

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