How was he supposed to use a phone without buttons?
Gojo couldn't resist taking a look at how this "phone" worked, but the instant his gaze landed on its glowing screen, he paused.
He saw the time displayed on it-23:17.
Below that was a string of numbers that was clearly a date-November 11.
His gaze lingered, and he rubbed his chin.
...November?
His eyes flickered, and he asked casually.
"By the way, it'll be New Year's soon, right?"
Then he saw White Noroi's expression turn relaxed and cheerful as he replied happily.
"Yeah, just over a month until New Year's~"
This would be his first New Year's since coming back to life!
He had to have a good time! He was going to set off firecrackers with Tiger!~
Gojo and Geto watched the perfectly natural delight on White Noroi's face, without the slightest hint of anything amiss, and couldn't help exchanging a glance.
It was March right now!
Was the time difference really that big? Then could it be...
Gojo immediately asked another casual question. "What year is next year again?"
Then he saw White Noroi look up at him strangely, as though looking at an idiot, his voice full of sympathy and concern-
"Has all that overtime fried your brain? It's 2018 this year, so obviously next year is 2019."
Twenty... eighteen?
-Twelve years later?!
Gojo and Geto both silently swallowed.
Manga and novels they'd read with time-travel plots, like Inuyasha, instinctively sprang to mind...
No way. Had they actually run into the real thing?
Gojo glanced again at the "phone" in White Noroi's hand, something he'd never seen before, then thought of the Cursed Tool maker's strange age on that document earlier, along with the cursed residue from his own cursed energy...
He couldn't help exchanging a