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"Back to China?"

Atsuya Kusakabe looked at Xia Jie speechlessly. He had long heard about Gojo Satoru's troublesome students, but he had not expected Xia Jie to bring him trouble the very first time they met.

"Why do you suddenly want to go to China?" Atsuya Kusakabe asked, feeling a headache coming on.

"I'm Chinese by descent. I want to take this break to go back and see my relatives," Xia Jie explained.

Seeing that Xia Jie did not seem to be lying, Atsuya Kusakabe could not think of any reason to refuse him.

He glanced at Gojo Satoru, then waved Xia Jie off. "You won't be a second-year until after spring break. You're not my student yet! Ask Gojo Satoru directly about this!"

With that, Atsuya Kusakabe left without looking back, leaving Gojo Satoru and Xia Jie staring at each other.

"Don't mind him! Mr. Kusakabe has always been like that!" Gojo Satoru explained on Atsuya Kusakabe's behalf.

Xia Jie silently nodded, unsurprised by Atsuya Kusakabe's display of not wanting to get involved.

In the original story, he had always been quite adaptable—the type who avoided trouble whenever he could.

"What made you think of going to China?" Gojo Satoru asked.

Xia Jie's excuse about visiting relatives would not fool Gojo Satoru.

He knew Xia Jie's background. If Xia Jie truly intended to return home to visit family, then he would most likely be going back to the Jiang Clan in China.

That would be a bit too much of a joke!

If the student he had carefully nurtured simply packed up and returned to China, never to come back... anyone could imagine how Jujutsu High would react!

Even if he was Gojo Satoru, he could not suppress something like that!

"I heard from Okkotsu that he was going abroad, and the thought of returning to China suddenly came to me. I want to see the place where my father and mother once lived," Xia Jie said with lowered eyes. "That thought has only grown stronger and stronger, lingering in my mind."

"I also want to bring my father back to his hometown and bury him with my mother, to fulfill his final wish!"

Xia Jie's words were filled with deep longing for the past and for the family he had lost four years ago, moving even Gojo Satoru.

"All right, Xia Jie," Gojo Satoru said. "I'll talk to the Higher-Ups about it!"

"But the Higher-Ups already suspect that you have something to do with Demon Child. If you hadn't appeared harmless enough, they might have called you in for a lecture long ago!"

"And now you want to go back to China... I'm afraid the Higher-Ups won't agree so easily!"

After saying goodbye to Gojo Satoru, Xia Jie returned to his residence.

Lying on his bed, Xia Jie considered whether Gojo Satoru would succeed.

Because of his Chinese heritage, many people at Jujutsu High probably disliked him, and Xia Jie knew that perfectly well. After all, when he had first entered Jujutsu High, someone had been eager to sentence him to death.

Later, when Masamichi Yaga reminded him about his Cursed Technique, Xia Jie had even wondered whether he might suffer an assassination attempt by the Higher-Ups.

Fortunately, whether because he had been cautious enough or because the Higher-Ups still feared Gojo Satoru, that had never happened.

But now that he had brought up returning to China, it was hard to say what attitude the Higher-Ups would take or what actions they might make.

Those who disliked him would most likely jump out to obstruct him. Even those who had not cared about his Chinese heritage might worry deep down that he would leave and never return.

Xia Jie also knew that this was not a suitable time to bring up returning home.

But if he raised it at another time, would the Higher-Ups agree?

Obviously not.

Since that was the case, he might as well raise the matter while Gojo Satoru could still protect him.

Otherwise, once spring break ended and Atsuya Kusakabe began teaching, he might no longer have this opportunity.

As for returning home after the Shibuya Incident... by then, the situation in Japan's Jujutsu Society would only be more tense. Jujutsu High would be even less likely to let him go.

And out of morality and conscience, Xia Jie would not choose such a critical time to return home. No matter what, he had to rescue Gojo Satoru from the Prison Realm first.

Or... he could tell Gojo Satoru about Suguru Geto and Brain in advance, so that he could guard against the Shibuya Incident?

That thought surfaced in Xia Jie's mind.

It was not impossible, but its effect might be extremely limited.

Brain and the Cursed Spirits' plan was a straightforward scheme: they used innocent humans to draw Gojo Satoru out.

Even if he told Gojo Satoru, Gojo Satoru would still have to go during the Shibuya Incident, and he would still be at risk of being sealed.

Of course, if Gojo Satoru knew about Kenjaku's existence in advance, perhaps he would not be so easily sealed by the Prison Realm.

But Brain had planned for a thousand years. If he had no backup plan, that would be far too unreasonable.

That was why Xia Jie lacked confidence.

Still, there were six months left until the Shibuya Incident. He had plenty of time to consider how to tell Gojo Satoru about Kenjaku and prevent Gojo Satoru from being sealed by the Prison Realm.

He also needed another contingency plan: if Gojo Satoru was sealed, he had to find a way to help break the seal.

Xia Jie opened the system and checked the Legend Points currently accumulated by Parasite Spirit:

[Parasite Spirit: 2.856 million/1.5 million]

After his first book, Parasite Spirit, was completed, recommendations from video followers and web novel platforms had added more than a million Legend Points over the past few days, but the growth rate had completely slowed down.

Xia Jie estimated that once L.Q adapted the work into a comic, Parasite Spirit's Legend Points would likely surge again. But he felt that the Shibuya Incident might arrive before he lived to see that day.

Fortunately, Parasite Spirit had already been materialized, so Xia Jie was no longer as fixated on those Legend Points he might gain.

Judging by the Legend Points obtained from Parasite Spirit, the Legend Points Imaginary Cursed Spirits could gather through books would likely reach around three million.

If Panda had not livestreamed with him and brought a huge wave of popularity to his videos, gathering those Legend Points would probably not have been so easy.

In the future... Panda would most likely not continue fooling around with him.

Second-year studies were more demanding, and Panda had already become a Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer with the ability to independently exorcise Cursed Spirits. Jujutsu High would not let him remain idle.

Fortunately, Xia Jie had already built up some popularity. Publishing another new book would make accumulating Legend Points much easier.

Xia Jie had mostly worked out the concept for his next book. Unlike his first book, Parasite Spirit, it would not materialize only one Parasite Spirit. Instead, he would use it to create more Imaginary Cursed Spirits, perhaps even an Imaginary Cursed Spirit capable of erasing Cursed Techniques.

But an erasure-type Cursed Technique was simply too overpowered. Based on the feedback from his Cursed Technique, Xia Jie knew that creating such a Cursed Technique required at least eight million Legend Points.

By imposing multiple Binding Vows, the Legend Points required for the erasure Cursed Technique had been reduced to six million.

That was still an unattainable number, but Xia Jie had thought of a solution—Cursed Spirit Puzzle.

Perhaps he could summon several Cursed Spirits into the real world in the form of puzzle pieces, then fuse them together into the Imaginary Cursed Spirit he wanted.

As for whether it would work, Xia Jie was not very confident, but he could at least give it a try.

Xia Jie opened the editor on his computer and began writing the contents of his new book: "In this filthy world of five corruptions, hell is empty, vicious ghosts revive, and the human world is like a prison. Ghosts have appeared in this world... so where are the gods?"

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