He did not have enough cash on him to pay the bill.
"Honestly, what an unreliable senior."
Kento Nanami looked at Satoru Gojo beside him, who acted as though nothing had happened and was even in the mood to whistle. Three thick black lines immediately formed on his forehead.
"Unreliable seniors really are shit."
Under Yu Haibara's grateful gaze, Kento Nanami took out his wallet. "Come on, you need to smile more, Nanami!"
"Come on, give us a smile! Cheese!"
Satoru Gojo showed not a trace of embarrassment. Instead, he produced a camera from somewhere and snapped away at Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara.
Ring, ring!
Satoru Gojo's phone rang at an inopportune moment.
"The old man again. Nothing good ever happens when I answer his calls." Despite his complaints, Satoru Gojo pressed the answer button.
"Satoru Gojo, you brat! Don't you know to answer your phone promptly?!" Masamichi Yaga's gruff voice came from the other end.
"What does it matter? Don't get hung up on the details. Besides, I answered, didn't I?"
"Satoru, you've got the nerve to talk back? You've been like this ever since you enrolled! Do you know how many messes I've cleaned up for you?!"
"Take things a little more seriously, you little bastard!" Masamichi Yaga scolded Satoru Gojo furiously.
"All right, all right, just tell me what you need, sir. It's not often I get to enjoy a meal with my juniors and bond with them."
Satoru Gojo shrugged.
Two minutes later, Satoru Gojo hung up. "Good luck, my adorable juniors!"
Satoru Gojo leaned toward Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara with a mysterious air.
"You now have a chance to exorcise cursed spirits with your handsome senior. Interested?" Kento Nanami turned his head away.
Heaven knew what outrageous stunt Satoru Gojo would pull. After all, he had known Satoru Gojo for more than a day or two.
He could trust Satoru Gojo at a critical moment, but he would never respect him the way he respected Chingetsu. Yu Haibara, on the other hand, seemed very interested.
Soon, a black sedan pulled up outside the sushi restaurant. "Let's go! Time for a mission with your handsome senior!"
Satoru Gojo spoke without caring whether Kento Nanami agreed.
"After this mission, I'll teach you an offensive technique called Black Flash," Satoru Gojo said mysteriously.
"Trust me, once you master this technique, fighting above your grade will be routine. Well? Tempted?"
Kento Nanami's expression shifted slightly at Satoru Gojo's words.
Yu Haibara went straight to the sedan, opened the door, and got in.
"What are we waiting for? Gojo, Nanami, I can't wait!" The sedan stopped in front of a hospital.
It was called a hospital, but a luxurious private clinic would have been more accurate. Hospitals were places where curses readily bred.
So cursed spirit incidents in hospitals were perfectly normal.
"The intel says a lot of people have gone missing at this hospital. Cursed residue was only discovered afterward. That's not good news, because we still don't know what the other party's objective is."
Outside the hospital gates, Satoru Gojo shared the mission intel with Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara.
Chapter 75: A desperate situation! The terrifying Stitched Corpse Cursed Spirit
Although Satoru Gojo's tone was relaxed, nevertheless-
Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara still could not help feeling a little nervous. After all, this could be considered their first mission to exorcise cursed spirits.
"The enemy we're facing is no ordinary opponent. Or rather, cursed spirits might not be the only thing we're facing." Satoru Gojo crouched down and traced something on the ground with his slender fingers.
Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara were drawn to the movements of Satoru Gojo's fingers.
"Look, this is the hospital's layout. I've already memorized it." With a few strokes, Satoru Gojo sketched the hospital's layout.
"The hospital's layout is fairly complicated. And there's another thing I mentioned earlier: someone deliberately erased the cursed residue."
"That means you might also encounter curse users." You???
Kento Nanami keenly picked up on Satoru Gojo's choice of words. "You're not taking part in this mission?"
Kento Nanami voiced his question. "Of course not. I'll just spectate from the sidelines."
"If I stepped in, the fight would be over in less than a minute," Satoru Gojo answered with complete confidence.
Kento Nanami looked helpless. Yet he had to admit it.
If Satoru Gojo stepped in, this mission really might end within a minute of encountering the enemy. "Unreliable jujutsu sorcerers are shit..."
Kento Nanami then looked at the excited Yu Haibara.
An airheaded classmate, "030," and a frivolous senior. This combination was rather bizarre.
"Relax, Nanami. This is just a trial." Satoru Gojo unwrapped a piece of candy and popped it into his mouth.
"Go ahead and show what you can do. Your handsome senior will be watching you closely from the shadows." Satoru Gojo waved and turned away, leaving Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara with a dashing view of his retreating figure. "Huh? Isn't this Gojo's mission?"
Yu Haibara finally caught on. Kento Nanami felt somewhat relieved.
It seemed his classmate's head was not entirely filled with rice balls.
"I get it! Gojo must have given us this opportunity because he wants to train us. He's really put a lot of thought into this!"
Kento Nanami: I take back what I just thought. His head really is full of rice balls. Complaints aside,
They still had a mission to carry out. In truth, deep down,
Kento Nanami was also filled with anticipation for this mission. Fighting was the fastest way to grow.
As jujutsu sorcerers,
Both of them had physical abilities far beyond those of ordinary people. With swift, nimble movements,
The two leaped over the hospital's high perimeter wall.
After surveying the hospital grounds, Kento Nanami said,
"According to the intel, the last place cursed residue appeared was near the hospital basement." "Haibara, stay close."
Yu Haibara nodded.
Yu Haibara had considerable faith in his classmate, Kento Nanami.
Kento Nanami drew the curse-patterned short blade from behind his waist and looked toward the hospital's largest building. That was where the hospital basement was located.
The aura there also made Kento Nanami faintly uneasy. "Nice reaction. That's Nanami for you."
From the rooftop of a distant building, Satoru Gojo observed Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara's movements. "Let's go, Haibara. Stay alert at all times."
Kento Nanami slowly rose.
The two arrived in front of the hospital's main building.
Someone had locked the entrance. Yu Haibara tried it.
It would not budge. "Let me."
A sharp gleam flashed in Kento Nanami's eyes.
The curse-patterned short blade in his hand radiated a hazy blue glow. He raised it and brought it down.
Like tofu meeting a knife, the sturdy iron door was sliced cleanly in half. Kento Nanami pushed the iron door open.
Their footsteps echoed through the silent hospital corridor.
A bloody smell drifted into their nostrils on the draft.
Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara exchanged a glance, each seeing the gravity in the other's eyes. A rustling sound reached them.
Several fly head cursed spirits, not even Grade 4, poked their heads out of the darkness.
They were all weak, insignificant cursed spirits with virtually no fighting ability.
Without spending much time on them, the two casually exorcised the fly head cursed spirits as they headed toward the basement.
"The smell is getting stronger. Looks like we found the right place."
"I'll scout ahead. Haibara, I'm leaving my back to you." Kento Nanami looked at the stairs at the basement entrance, his expression somewhat grave. "You can count on me!"
Yu Haibara gave him a thumbs-up.
"As long as I'm still standing, no one will be able to hurt you."
Kento Nanami hesitated no longer and took the lead down the basement stairs. After descending a stretch of steps, just as he was approaching a turn,
An even stronger stench of blood hit him. Kento Nanami's expression changed slightly, and he approached cautiously. At the turn in the stairway,
Kento Nanami saw large pools of blood. The blood had yet to dry.
Limbs and damaged organs of all kinds lay scattered across the short stretch of stairs. The entire scene was utterly gruesome.
"Nanami, what's wrong?"
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