Under the cover of night.
Chingetsu left the village chief's house, holding Nanako's hand in one hand and carrying Mimiko in the other arm.
As for what the villagers would think when they saw the two bodies the next day, that was not among Chingetsu's concerns.
Chapter 71: Kento Nanami Is the Bar's Poster Girl? (Sob, sob, please subscribe.) The lodging house was brightly lit that night.
Inside the bathroom, Nanako was wiping the water off her younger sister's back. "Sis, why is big brother so good to us?"
Mimiko huddled in a corner of the bathroom, rubbing her wet hair. Although Chingetsu had rescued her,
her prolonged imprisonment had already robbed her of her trust in people.
Nanako looked at the bruises and pinch marks on Mimiko's body, a trace of hatred flashing through her eyes. Then, as though something had occurred to her,
her gaze softened again.
Whatever Chingetsu's purpose was,
he was the one who had saved them from the abyss of despair. In the darkness of an endless night,
Chingetsu's arrival had been like a beam of light, dispelling the gloomy shadows. On the sofa at one end of the room,
Chingetsu was handling the adoption paperwork. In this world,
there was nothing money could not solve. And the one thing Gojo Chingetsu had no shortage of
was money.
While Chingetsu was busy dealing with matters concerning the sisters, in an abandoned cemetery somewhere in Sendai City,
"Shiki, I've found the flesh and blood you wanted. When will you deliver on what you promised me?" Kimura €€suke stared sinisterly at the hideous Shiki.
He made no effort to hide his disgust for Shiki, who did not care either. The two were merely partners.
Kimura €€suke provided flesh and blood, and he worked for his food. "Kimura, you're too impatient."
Shiki leisurely took out an arm, put it in his mouth, and chewed.
"Gojo Chingetsu may be powerful, but he's still only human." "As long as he's human, he'll get tired."
"So, once we exhaust Gojo Chingetsu's stamina, killing him will naturally be easy." Shiki lowered the arm he had gnawed into a bloody mess and gave Kimura €€suke a sinister smile.
"Don't forget what my ability is." The earth beneath Shiki's feet writhed.
A sharp skeletal claw pierced the soil. Then came a second, a third... Shiki wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Do you think I ate all those people simply to satisfy my appetite?"
"Kimura, watch closely. This is my White Bone Kingdom, and I am the king of this realm!" At that moment, Shiki's bearing became utterly arrogant.
These skeletons had all been reassembled from the bones of the humans he had eaten. Enhanced by Shiki's Cursed Technique,
these skeletons possessed at least the abilities of a Grade 4 Sorcerer. Some of them
had even reached Grade 3. However,
these skeletons were also extremely precious to Shiki, and he rarely deployed them. This time, his willingness to unleash his skeletal army
was partly to put Kimura €€suke in his place.
The other reason was that he needed large quantities of flesh and blood to evolve his Cursed Technique. Both had their own schemes and were merely taking what they needed.
As for the Gojo Chingetsu whom Kimura €€suke had mentioned, Shiki paid him no mind.
In his view, Gojo Chingetsu's strength was merely something Kimura €€suke had fabricated, an excuse invented to conceal his own incompetence.
How powerful could a Jujutsu Sorcerer possibly be? In the end, he was still flesh and blood.
Shiki was supremely confident in his White Bone Kingdom.
Once his skeletal army marched, even a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer would meet a bitter end. "Kimura, just wait until I bring you Gojo Chingetsu's head. Heh heh heh."
With a sinister laugh, Shiki vanished into the darkness.
What he needed to do now was set up his arrangements around Chingetsu's bar. When the time came and his skeletal army emerged,
even if Gojo Chingetsu possessed extraordinary strength, he could only wait to be slaughtered. Chingetsu knew nothing of Shiki's plans.
At that moment, he had brought the two little girls to a store to pick out clothes. There was no telling how long Nanako and Mimiko had been locked in that iron cage.
At any rate, as far as Chingetsu was concerned,
given that village chief's character, it would have been fortunate enough if he had not abused the sisters every day, let alone given them things like new clothes.
Upon entering the clean, brightly lit clothing store,
Nanako and Mimiko were visibly self-conscious and reluctant. The sisters huddled behind Chingetsu without a word.
Especially the younger sister, Mimiko.
Apart from Chingetsu, she did not even dare meet anyone's eyes. "Sigh..."
Chingetsu could not help giving a wry smile.
Although a moment of compassion had prompted him to save the Hasaba sisters, he had never expected
looking after two little girls to be this troublesome.
Now the clothing store's clerk was looking at him as though he were a pervert. Even with Chingetsu's well-developed composure and self-control,
he still could not help feeling a little embarrassed.
"Sorry for the trouble, but please help the two little girls behind me pick out some suitable clothes." Chingetsu paused, then added,
"Money is no object."
Chingetsu took his wallet straight out of his trench coat, pulled out a stack of bills, and placed it on the store counter. "Of course, sir. This way, please."
A smile immediately appeared on the young clerk's face. "Go on, Nanako."
Nanako tugged at Chingetsu's trouser leg, her adorable eyes fixed on his. "Don't worry. I won't abandon you or Mimiko."
Only after receiving Chingetsu's promise
did Nanako reluctantly take her sister's hand and follow the clerk toward the fitting rooms. She kept looking back every few steps, making the clerk's gaze toward Chingetsu grow increasingly strange.
"Children really are a handful."
Chingetsu found a sofa and sat down, beginning to recall the plot involving Nanako and Mimiko. As he remembered it,
Nanako and Mimiko were both girls with a talent for Jujutsu. Nanako's Cursed Technique seemed to have something to do with cell phones.
She could use a phone's camera function to manipulate the people in the photographs in certain ways. It was somewhat similar to Nobara's €€€€ Technique.
As for Mimiko's Cursed Technique,
if he remembered correctly,
it should have been a technique involving ropes. But Chingetsu did not particularly care about any of that.
After all, he had not saved the sisters to train them into combat-oriented Jujutsu Sorcerers. With Nanami off at Jujutsu High, the Dawn Bar had lost a poster girl.
So,
saving Mimiko and Nanako was meant to revive the Dawn Bar's poster girl project. While Chingetsu was still pondering, the clerk had already led the sisters out of the fitting rooms. He had to admit that both sisters were exceptionally pretty.
Especially with their outfits properly coordinated, they looked all the more endearing.
Mimiko's fine, jet-black hair fell over her shoulders, and paired with a white dress, it made her look even softer and prettier. In particular, the little dimples evenly set on either cheek appeared faintly whenever she smiled, making her utterly adorable.
It was plain to see that Mimiko loved her new clothes. Then there was Nanako.
In Gojo Chingetsu's memory, Nanako, as the older sister, was a strong and outgoing person.
But now, Nanako seemed somewhat shy, constantly twisting her little hands together. Finally, she stepped out from behind the clerk and came before Chingetsu.
Chingetsu's eyes lit up.
She's a natural-born poster girl!
At that moment, Nanako looked like a limited-edition doll displayed in a shop window.
Her skin was porcelain-white, and her milky-white hair rested quietly on her shoulders. Her neatly arranged bangs covered her pale forehead.
The shadows of her long, curled eyelashes fell lightly over her eyelids.
Her clear eyes curved gently into bright crescents, and her flower-soft lips lifted into a perfect arc. Deep within, Chingetsu suddenly felt the joy of having stumbled upon a treasure.
P.S. Sob, sob, a hundred subscriptions. I'm so sad, so pitiful. But even with a hundred subscriptions, I'll keep writing. I don't want to enter the palace to keep the emperor company QAQ.
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Chapter 72: A Cursed Spirit Suddenly Appears (Please subscribe)
While Chingetsu was still excited about discovering new poster girls,
Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara's first meal out together was not going so smoothly. According to Yu Haibara,
if not for Kento Nanami's performance during the entrance assessment,
he would never have had a chance to pass such a demanding entrance test. To properly thank Kento Nanami,
Yu Haibara had decided to take him to a sushi restaurant he considered the most sacred of all. After agreeing on a time with Kento Nanami,
he went ahead to reserve seats at the restaurant.
"I wonder if Nanami likes mackerel sushi. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water." Yu Haibara was in a very good mood.
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