Suguru Geto

"Mr. Ichiro, thank you so much! Delia said she slept very well last night."

Lin Yi stood at the entrance of the villa where the client, Saito and her daughter, lived, accepting the mother and daughter's sincere thanks. A professional smile hung on his face, but his heart felt entirely different.

"Mrs. Saito, please forgive me for not exorcising the evil spirit harassing Miss Saito over the past few days. It was a Cursed Spirit wandering around the Tokyo area. Tracking it was troublesome, but lying in wait was simple. That was why I was certain I could resolve Miss Saito's problem within a week. Miss Saito, you won't need to worry about being harassed by evil spirits again."

Because next, it'll be my turn to get harassed!

Lin Yi grumbled inwardly, though the formulaic smile remained on his face. His roguishly handsome yet somewhat serious features, coupled with his tall, upright build, were enough to make the lovely Saito Delia's heart flutter.

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"That would be wonderful, Mr. Ichiro. You've worked very hard. This is our payment."

"Thank you. Then I'll take my leave."

Lin Yi accepted the palm-sized storage box Mrs. Saito handed him, tucked it into his clothes, and did not linger. He turned, mounted his motorcycle, and sped away.

He did not return home. Instead, he headed straight for Haneda Airport.

After what happened last night, Lin Yi had returned home and booked a flight back to his country overnight. He had brought along the bank card containing his savings from the past three months. Once he collected today's payment, he was going to run.

The only reason he had approached the sorcerer Kento Nanami before was that he believed Nanami could not see through his disguise. Rather than fumbling around blindly at the stock exchange, it was more convenient to have Kento Nanami, a professional manager, invest for him. At least he knew the man.

But he had not expected to remember the Jujutsu Kaisen timeline incorrectly, leading to last night's accident. Based on Lin Yi's understanding of Suguru Geto, once Geto learned from his two adopted daughters that Shinjuku had an unregistered, underground sorcerer like him hiding there, he would definitely come knocking and pester him—threatening or tempting him into joining his so-called sorcerer-supremacist camp.

Lin Yi had absolutely no interest in an invitation from a lunatic like Suguru Geto. Although Japan's unique circumstances made it a vortex that drew in cursed energy from all over the world, meaning that other countries and regions might be filled with cursed energy emitted by humans but rarely gave birth to Cursed Spirits or sorcerers—

—returning home meant he would not be able to take commissions as freely as he did here, and he would not even have a legal identity. Still, it was not as if he had no options. If worst came to worst, he could turn himself in to the state. With the strength of a Grade 1 Sorcerer, he could surely secure an iron rice bowl in some relevant department until retirement.

As for Suguru Geto, Lin Yi was not exactly afraid of him.

Although Geto was one of the four Special-Grade Sorcerers currently recognized by the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society, in terms of actual ability, he was like Lin Yi: unable to use the Reversed Cursed Technique to heal himself and unable to pull an opponent into a Domain Expansion that manifested his mental landscape.

The reason he had been judged Special Grade was because of his technique: Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

It was a technique with limitless growth potential, capable of turning wild Cursed Spirits into one's own shikigami. Thanks to its scalability, Suguru Geto could become an army all by himself.

Recalling Suguru Geto's storyline in Jujutsu Kaisen and combining it with the current timeline, Lin Yi could roughly determine that Geto currently possessed somewhere between four and six thousand Cursed Spirits ranging from Grade 4 to Special Grade.

The standard for evaluating a Special-Grade Sorcerer was not how many techniques they possessed, but whether they had the destructive power to overthrow or destroy a country in a short period of time.

Suguru Geto, whose Cursed Spirit Manipulation had limitless late-stage growth, possessed precisely that kind of destructive power. Release his Cursed Spirits, unleash a Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, and he could turn an entire city into a dead city overnight.

He had no interest in getting tangled up with Suguru Geto, lest he draw the attention of that freak, Satoru Gojo, the strongest modern sorcerer.

He was not ready to participate in Jujutsu Kaisen's main storyline yet. For now, he would avoid it if he could.

As for the Reversed Cursed Technique and Domain Expansion he wanted to comprehend, he would see whether he could lie low first before considering them.

But the more Lin Yi feared something, the more it came for him.

Before his motorcycle had even reached the highway, Lin Yi's instincts sounded a warning.

Without a moment's thought, Lin Yi instinctively switched his technique, Two-Stage Reversal, into its sorcerer form. As cursed energy surged through his body, he saw a Cursed Spirit suddenly descend from the sky ahead of him.

The Cursed Spirit was covered in light green fur. Its limbs resembled those of an ape, its legs were folded beneath it as it floated above the ground, and its face looked rather like an elephant's.

Moreover, judging by the cursed energy radiating from it, Lin Yi knew this Cursed Spirit was far stronger than the thing he had casually blasted to death last night. It was a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit!

"ZOMBA!"

As the Cursed Spirit blocking Lin Yi's path spoke, it raised its left hand. A basketball-sized shockwave rose beneath Lin Yi's motorcycle.

Lin Yi sensed the danger the instant the Cursed Spirit attacked. With a simple cursed-energy reinforcement, he leaped high from the motorcycle seat. Unfortunately, the motorcycle he had paid for in full less than three months ago was turned into a pile of scrap metal just like that.

Damn it!

Seeing his beloved bike reduced to scrap made Lin Yi even angrier. He had already decided to avoid someone he could not afford to provoke, yet they still would not leave him alone?

The more Lin Yi thought about it, the angrier he became. He spread and clenched his five fingers, and the immense cursed energy pouring from his body began to construct a spear infused with cursed energy from nothing, following his memory. He hurled it at the elephant-trunked Cursed Spirit below.

The spear tore through the air with a piercing shriek and shot straight toward the elephant-trunked Cursed Spirit below.

The elephant-trunked Cursed Spirit neither dodged nor defended. Just as Lin Yi's spear was about to strike it, its body transformed into a mass of liquid and flew into the sky. The spear embedded itself in the road, and the resulting explosion was enough to make road maintenance workers scream their lungs out. Fortunately, there were few vehicles or pedestrians passing by at this hour, and no public cameras.

Lin Yi landed steadily and watched the direction in which the elephant-trunked Cursed Spirit had moved.

A powerful wind swept down from the sky, and a gigantic four-winged pelican-like monster bird, visible even to ordinary people, descended from above. On its back sat a man clad in five-striped kasaya over a black Japanese monk's robe, resting his cheek on one hand as he sat cross-legged.

His gentle features made him look like a bodhisattva. He had narrow eyes and brows, conspicuous large earlobes, half his long hair tied into a bun while the rest fell down his back, with a lock of loach-like bangs fixed over his left forehead.

Judging by that face alone, Nine to Five: Handsome Monk Falls for Me should have cast this guy as the male lead. He was absolutely the kind of clean-cut handsome man who could make Satomi Ishihara turn an act into reality.

With such distinctive attire, Lin Yi knew there was only one person in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen who dressed like that: former third-year student of Tokyo Jujutsu High, current curse user, and the gatekeeper of the four Special-Grade Sorcerers—Suguru Geto!

The pelican monster bird landed, and Suguru Geto slid down from its back. The monster bird opened its enormous beak, and the sisters Mimiko Hasaba and Nanako Hasaba, who had briefly clashed with Lin Yi last night, jumped out as well.

Like children who had been bullied and run home to get an adult to stand up for them, the sisters ran to Suguru Geto's side and pointed at Lin Yi.

"Lord Geto, this is the guy who scared Mimiko and me last night."

Suguru Geto approached Lin Yi with a gentle smile on his face.

"Last night, when Mimiko and Nanako told me about it, I thought they had run into another monkey who only knew how to throw its weight around. So Mr. Lin Ichiro is actually such a powerful sorcerer. Hello, my name is Suguru Geto, leader of the Time Vessel Association."

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