Ze Zenin left the meeting room and strode after Shoko.
In the long corridor of Jujutsu High, Shoko noticed someone coming up beside her and smiled.
"It's been twelve years. Aren't you going to catch up with Geto?"
Ze Zenin curled his lip. "Why does that make it sound like we're a couple of old inmates?"
Shoko couldn't help laughing at his words. Resting a hand on his shoulder, she said, "Try being a little more serious. I'm not used to you joking around like this."
"Keeping a straight face all day gets exhausting." Ze Zenin smiled faintly.
"Besides, too much has changed in Jujutsu Society lately. Ancient powerhouses have been reincarnated through the culling game..."
"Tengen disappeared from the Tombs of the Star Corridor... Kenjaku probably took him away and absorbed him."
By the time Ze Zenin, Suguru Geto, and the others returned to Jujutsu High, ten minutes had passed. On their way back, they had learned that the Tombs of the Star Corridor had been destroyed and Tengen had disappeared.
Although Ze Zenin was a little surprised, he didn't dwell on it. After all, Tengen would ultimately meet the same end-
Either Tengen would automatically merge with a hundred million people once the culling game naturally whittled its players down to those on Xuan'an's side, though that was unlikely to happen.
Or Xuan'an, as the last player remaining, would forcibly end the culling game, triggering Tengen's merger with a hundred million people.
That was precisely what Kenjaku wanted. He had schemed for a thousand years to bring about this very situation.
He truly lived up to his reputation as a schemer who had survived a thousand years. He knew that, of the four Special Grades currently in the country, only Yuta Okkotsu would prioritize guarding the Tombs of