As Qingxiao rounded the corner, he ran straight into Satoru Gojo, who had just returned from a field assignment.
"Oi, oi, oi, aren't you supposed to be fast? What took you so long?"
Holding his sunglasses, Satoru Gojo rested a hand on his shoulder and raised an eyebrow at him.
"I thought you'd have been waiting here half an hour ago."
"I went to see Tengen about something." Qingxiao leaned against the wall, brushing over it in a flat tone without giving the specific reason.
Satoru Gojo clicked his tongue, looking utterly baffled.
"You made a special trip to see that shut-in? To play chess? Got that much free time?"
"Cut the crap."
Qingxiao looked up at him, his expression growing a little more serious.
"The Curtains are up in Shibuya. The two barriers require us to go to one each. They want to divide and conquer."
Qingxiao tried hard to recall the plot of the Shibuya Incident, but he had only watched Satoru Gojo getting sealed by Kenjaku's honey trap and Toji Fushiguro's "You got it."
He knew absolutely nothing about the other key plot points.
"Kenjaku has a Special Grade Cursed Tool, the Prison Realm."
Qingxiao stared into Satoru Gojo's eyes and said each word distinctly. "You understand what I'm saying?"
Satoru Gojo's fingers stopped spinning his sunglasses for half a second.
Of course he knew what the Prison Realm meant. He did not ask where the information had come from, merely replying lazily,
"I get you."
Qingxiao nodded slightly, feeling a little more at ease.
Even in the worst case, if something really did go wrong, he had a way to undo the seal. It would just be more trouble.
He did not think Kenjaku could truly trap this informed Satoru Gojo before him.
"You know the