The Goofy Spring Breeze Blows Everywhere, Geto's Sister is Truly Impressive Ch. 74

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System: [Your imagination is way too over-the-top, Satoru Gojo!!]

Suguru hesitated for a second, then replied softly, "My sister coughed up blood. That proves her body really is weak."

Satoru: "."
You mean the kind of "weak" where she coughs blood and then gives a thumbs-up while advertising milk?

Satoru: "Also, when she flew up into the air to catch me just now, she scaled the building in like, three moves flat—"

Suguru: "That's because she's sickly, so she had to take a more efficient route. Scaling the building in three steps makes total sense."

Satoru: "?"

—That sounds logical, but if you actually think about it, none of it makes any sense! (vigorously shaking)

The air went quiet for a second. Then Satoru continued, "With that kind of strength and speed, my first thought was 'Heavenly Restriction'—but the cursed energy in your sister's body isn't nearly that thin."

He looked at Suguru. "I think maybe your sister's Heavenly Restriction is a special case. Like trading a weak body for high combat power... even if that sounds kinda contradictory."

"......"

At this moment, Suguru couldn't deny the high combat power part.

Everything that had just happened was real, and he trusted his best friend's observation and reasoning.

But still——

"I think I still need to protect and take care of my sister," Suguru said seriously, lowering his eyes. "She's sickly and fragile."

Even if she could scale walls like a pro, leap like an acrobat, and punch like a truck, she still needed his care!

"......" Satoru rested a hand on his best friend's shoulder and half-jokingly said, "Man, was your sister filter like, welded into your eyes at birth?"

"What filter...!" Suguru paused for a beat before answering, "It's not a filter. It's responsibility. It means something."

The teachings and expectations from his parents, all the times he'd seen his sister in the hospital growing up, the principles and values he'd learned from textbooks...

All that responsibility, hope, and well-wishing had been heavily placed on his shoulders.

"I'm strong. I need to carry the weight of that meaning," Suguru said gently.

"Alright, meaning." Satoru wasn't wearing his sunglasses right now. His pale blue eyes were only half-lifted, and he tilted his head lazily as he spoke. "Just feels like, if you're carrying so much, and one day you suddenly snap, things might spiral out of control real fast."

Suguru's phoenix eyes lifted slightly as he glanced over at his best friend.

"Sometimes the way you get fixated on certain ideas really blows my mind," Satoru said, rubbing his chin with a thoughtful tone.

"I mean, I don't know why, but I'm kinda glad you're this obsessed with your sister's physical and mental health instead of, like, big-picture jujutsu world issues. 'Cause it honestly feels like that would go bad fast."

Suguru: "?"

Suguru(#): "Hey, Satoru! Don't make it sound like I'm gonna go rogue in the next two seconds."

Satoru laughed and let go of his shoulder: "Just saying things, y'know."

The topic about his sister was shelved for now. The very next second, Satoru's expression shifted slightly, like he just remembered something. His face grew a bit more serious. "Oh, right."

"What?" Suguru turned toward him.

"When I was in midair earlier, I ran into an unregistered special-grade cursed spirit," Satoru said. "Super weird one—the whole thing was made of paper. Like, literal paper sheets."

Suguru furrowed his brows and slowly formed a question mark.

Nearby, Chihori had just returned from Shoko's side and happened to catch that last part. She leaned in, "Paper? Like a humanoid with blue hair, stitch-face, and mismatched eyes?"

"Huh? Yeah, that's the one." Satoru looked surprised and curious. "How do you know that, Chihori-chan?"

Chihori: "Oh, I know that! That's Xiangpiaopiao Mahito!"

No wonder that guy had said, 'I'll find a chance to kill all of you', and then just totally disappeared.

At first, Chihori thought maybe the guy had gone into retreat to level up or was getting therapy from stress or something, but now it seemed like he just hadn't escaped Squash's paper form mode yet.

—After all, that skill of Squash's had no fixed duration. And "no fixed" was a very flexible concept!

Shoko also walked over. "A special-grade cursed spirit? Turned into a paper cutout and just kept floating in the sky? That's super weird."

Chihori (fake tears in her eyes): "...As expected of Xiangpiaopiao. Is he seriously trying to orbit the earth three times? So moving!"

Still floating—Paper Cutout Version Mahito: Just wait, the second I get down there I'm killing all of you!!.jpg

System: [At this speed, he'll finish orbiting the earth three times by the year of the monkey. (lights cigarette.jpg)]

System: ["Shock! The cursed spirit alliance leader has been absent this whole time. The real reason is...!"]

"...Wait a sec, Sister," Suguru locked onto the key point. "Why do you know that special-grade cursed spirit?"

Special-grade cursed spirits were extremely dangerous—especially the ones with intelligence. There was no way they'd have goodwill toward humans. Any attempt to make contact or befriend one could only mean bad intentions—

"Met him before," Chihori said after thinking for a moment. "It was that time we went shopping together. We ran into him on the way home."

Thinking about Mahito again, Chihori also remembered the recent incident involving the vine monster special-grade curse.

The sudden birth of a special-grade cursed spirit (which happened in an instant—probably not a cursed womb, but more like it had swallowed a special-grade cursed object, like one of Sukuna's fingers).

The incomplete Domain expansion range (around the woods next to the Dog Cocky Cat company building, near Naoya Zen'in, or close to Chihori).

And finally, the appearance of Hanami, who silently took the vine monster away.

Maybe none of it was a coincidence, Chihori thought. She didn't know what their goal was, but—

Maybe Brain-chan and the cursed spirit alliance had started moving earlier than in the original timeline. Chihori never overly relied on the original plot—she knew that real-life events were always subject to change.

Brain-chan had always been planning a massive revolution. Everything Suguru went through in the original story... there was a chance it had been manipulated from the shadows by that thing, just to get its hands on a body that could control curses.

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