[Although Suguru Geto never actually refused, his whole face plainly said three words: I don't understand.]
[Even his trademark foxlike eyes widened a little.]
[You grabbed his wrist just like that and half dragged him toward the long stone steps leading out of Jujutsu High.]
[Only when the training field behind you had vanished entirely beneath the shade of the trees did he finally recover his stride and catch up, taking the initiative.]
["By the way, who exactly was that blonde woman just now?"]
[In the end, Suguru Geto could not suppress his curiosity. He tilted his head slightly and asked you.]
[His eyes held a perceptiveness unique to sorcerers. "The cursed residue on her, and that laid-back yet incredibly imposing air... no matter how you look at it, she wasn't an ordinary person."]
[You kept walking, looking straight at the stone steps ahead, and answered as calmly as if discussing which way the wind was blowing today. "Your instincts are sharp. Of course she isn't ordinary. She's Yuki Tsukumo, the only woman among the Special Grade Sorcerers, like you two, who's spent years outside the higher-ups' jurisdiction."]
[At that name, Suguru Geto's advancing foot stopped dead, and he froze in place.]
[He had never imagined that Yuki Tsukumo, who almost never appeared in Japan's Jujutsu Society and existed in legend on the strength of the title "Special Grade" alone, would turn up at Jujutsu High today without warning.]
["Why would she suddenly come here?" Coming to his senses, Suguru Geto hurried two steps to catch up and asked with a slight frown.]
[Then his sharp mind rapidly pieced together the scene from earlier. "Come to think of it, the atmosphere over there looked pretty serious. And judging by the way she and Satoru were acting... you obviously told them