While Sherlock and that damned Cursed Spirit were fighting for their lives inside the curtain, Ijichi was desperately calling Satoru Gojo outside.
The curtain used to confine Sherlock was simply too large, so large that even Ijichi could see it clearly from a distance. Moreover, this mission did not require a curtain, so the instant that enormous curtain appeared, Ijichi knew something had gone wrong.
He immediately took out his phone and called Satoru Gojo. After receiving Ijichi's call, Gojo's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
The Old Orange-Peels had screwed Sherlock over on several previous missions: a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit on his grading mission, a Special Grade Cursed Spirit on his rescue mission, and now something had gone wrong on his goddamn Grade 1 promotion mission too!
Most importantly, this promotion mission had only been given to Sherlock after he and the Gojo Clan had reviewed it twice and confirmed that there were no problems.
When Satoru Gojo heard Ijichi's description of the scene, the instant he heard about that enormous curtain, he even felt the urge to kill.
The reason was simple. Curtains were usually not very large, and their main purpose was actually to restrict Cursed Spirits' movements. Setting up a curtain of that size required a long period of preparation in itself.
In other words, if the situation there had been normal and had not been aimed at Sherlock, Sherlock would have been perfectly capable of walking straight out of the curtain and then summoning him or Suguru Geto.
Yet Sherlock still had not summoned him, and Satoru Gojo had only learned about this through Ijichi's call. He deduced almost instantly that this was definitely a "trap" targeting Sherlock!
With a dark expression, Satoru Gojo teleported straight out of the teachers'