Aikawa Kaze ignored Maki's suspicious gaze.
These were basic adult skills. Don't @ him; he had nothing to do with it.
They were all adults. How could they possibly be influenced so easily?
This only proved that Ijichi had been that sort of person all along.
Maki said nothing more. She simply watched Ijichi put away her heavily edited list with a bashful smile, a complicated look in her eyes.
On missions with Gojo Sensei, Maki had gotten used to seeing Ijichi apologizing to him and his other superiors, looking miserable and meek. This was a guy who bowed even when he was on the phone.
And yet this very same man had just pulled a bait and switch, muddied the waters, shifted the blame, and walked away with all the benefits...
Maki, who had also learned quite a bit about the country across the sea, felt she had underestimated the talents of the world. An inexplicable sense of respect even rose within her.
Was this what "among any three people, one can be my teacher" meant?
After that, everyone tacitly stopped discussing business and settled down to enjoy the hot springs.
In the changing room, when Aikawa Kaze saw Junpei Yoshino dragging his feet over changing, he immediately realized that Junpei still had other marks from being bullied, and naturally healed those as well.
Yuta Okkotsu was rather surprised by this.
"You can heal scars?"
"Of course. Why wouldn't I be able to?"
Aikawa Kaze found Yuta Okkotsu's question strange. Reverse Cursed Technique could heal wounds, severed limbs, and even missing internal organs. Wouldn't it be stranger if it couldn't heal scars?
"Is my technique not refined enough?"
Hearing that, Yuta Okkotsu couldn't help holding out his arm. There was a faint scar on the inside of his wrist.