[As you watched Yuki Tsukumo walk away, filled with profound disappointment and indignation, you felt not the slightest ripple inside. Deep down, you even vaguely felt that this could not have worked out better.]
[In this world where lethal danger lurked at every turn, being regarded as a "fellow traveler" and constantly watched by a Special Grade Sorcerer with exceptionally keen instincts and no restraints on her actions was undoubtedly a double-edged sword that could bring disaster upon you at any moment.]
[And now, she had personally extinguished all her expectations of you. A Special Grade who no longer harbored any illusions about you and regarded you as thoroughly "mediocre" would never turn her scrutinizing gaze upon you again.]
[Likewise, without her special attention, you would naturally no longer inadvertently arouse unnecessary suspicion from the higher-ups or other observers lurking in the shadows because of her flamboyant actions.]
[Disappointment might just be the most perfect camouflage in this world.]
[You pushed up the glasses on the bridge of your nose, watched the autumn leaves drifting down outside the window, then turned back to your dull but reassuring daily teaching.]
[Apart from Yuki Tsukumo's unexpected visit, which was neither a major nor a minor incident, the remainder of 2014 passed uneventfully.]
[Deep in your memories, this year should originally have marked the point when Kento Nanami returned to Jujutsu Society, exhausted and resigned after four years of being worn down in the ordinary working world.]
[But now, thanks to the chain reactions set off by the flap of your butterfly wings, the blond young man who would originally have fallen into despair over Yu Haibara's death was instead steadily working on the front lines of cursed spirit exorcism as one of Jujutsu High's exceptionally reliable combatants.]
[The course of fate had