[Spell Return] Beast of Despair

72.

—July 2018, Tokyo, Suburban Park—

"With all due respect, the two of them are not lovers, are they?"

Yeszhi asked, the slightly rising ending sound made her words sound like she was laughing.As for whether this is a smile of emotion or a laugh of mockery, only Yuzhi himself knows the deep meaning in it.

Of course she knew that her guess was quite bloody, so she wasn't surprised when she heard the negative answer, but she shrugged habitually.

"Then why is she looking at him and smiling?"

This was something she couldn't figure out.

"I heard that they were close friends in the past." Gojo Satoru's father said, "Is this enough to explain your doubts?"

Yezhi nodded with a smile, and clipped the photo in the notepad, so as not to mess up the corners if it was thrown around.

One of the things she hates the most is that the corners of the paper are turned up.As long as she saw the raised corners, she would feel quite uncomfortable.

After finishing all the things that should be said and asked, and after repeating the farewell words again, Yezhi did not leave immediately in a hurry, but waited for a few seconds at the same place.After making sure that he really had nothing to say to her, she bowed and stepped out of the gazebo.

The flowing wind was blowing over her, and although it still carried the strong summer heat, it was much better than the heavy air that stagnated in the gazebo.

She pushed back a strand of hair that fell by her ear, thinking maybe it was time to tie up her short, messy hair, it would cool her down a lot.Just then, the phone rang.She hurriedly stopped fiddling with her hair and took out her cell phone from her pocket, feeling a little flustered for a while.

This call was also from Gojo—it was Gojo Satoru.

He was inexplicably a little uneasy, and always felt that Gojo Satoru called because he knew about her meeting with his father.After all, this time node is really too coincidental.

It turned out that she was thinking too much. How could Teacher Wutiao, who had just finished her teaching work, know so much.He would call simply because he had something to say to her.

"Are you busy now? If not, can you come to the high school? Just now, Principal Ye Moth found the naginata you lost before under the floor of the school dojo."

Gojo Satoru said so.And the "before" in his words actually dates back to the distant high school era.

Hearing what he said, Ye Zhi also remembered it.

It was probably when she was a sophomore in high school, she carefully forgot a magic naginata in the school dojo.By the time I realized this, it was already the next night.Even though it wasn't a particularly expensive spell or a useful weapon, it was her only naginata, so she hurried back to school from the dormitory, trying to retrieve the lost naginata.

As a result, she searched the dojo for several hours with a poorly powered flashlight, but she couldn't find any trace of the naginata. For this reason, she was laughed at by Gojo Satoru who passed by halfway through the night.

Did it fall under the floor?No wonder she couldn't find it then.

Yezhi no longer wanted to explore why a naginata fell into such a strange place, and continued to walk slowly, his words sounded lazy.

"I'm not busy, but I'm very tired, and I really don't have the energy to go to the college." She kicked away a small stone blocking her feet, "Can I go there tomorrow?"

Gojo Satoru's murmur came from the other end of the phone.He didn't give a definite answer, just asked if she was at home or somewhere else.

"Well... I'm on my way home."

When he said these words, Yezhi had just stepped out of the gate of the park.Now, she is still nine subway stops and five bus stops away from her home.It sounds like it's a bit far away, but she's already on her way home.

"Oh——I see." Even if he couldn't see Gojo Satoru's face, he knew that he must have nodded when he said this, "Then I'll send the naginata to your house, how about it?"

Shizhi pursed his lips, wanting to say that this idea is not very good, but felt that it was the worst choice to bluntly refuse, so he had to tease in a strange way:

"So Mr. Wujo is still working as a part-time courier recently?"

"Yes."

Not only did he not deny it, he seemed quite proud.

73.

—April 2015, Wakayama, Kii Oshima—

On the way home, he heard Daisuke yawning all the way, and the high-frequency "ha——" sound made him feel sleepy.She really wanted her brother to stop yawning, but she didn't know what to say, so she continued to endure.

Moreover, when she thought of the possible behavior of her family members when they saw Gojo Satoru, she felt a headache, and she didn't care about Daisuke's yawning.

The house of the Yae family is at the end of this road.With every step, the dark roof draws closer.It makes no sense to think about what will happen if this road goes on forever and never reaches the end.

But when she had this weird thought, the gate of Yae's house had already been erected in front of her.She heard Daisuke yawn long and lazily again, saying that he forgot to bring the key of the door of the house when he went out, and asked her if she had it.

"Did not bring."

"What should I do?"

"Isn't it enough to knock on the door? Don't forget this most basic common sense."

Yeshi's tone sounded like a complaint, but he still took the initiative to knock on the door.She knocked extra hard so that the thud-dump sound would not reach other corners of the house.

After waiting for a few seconds, she heard footsteps behind the door.

With a creak, the bell poked its head out from behind the door.

She was on vacation at home, completely unaware that her elder sister had also returned home.She stared blankly at Yeshi and Gojo Satoru outside the door for a while, then finally came to her senses, smiled and pushed the door open.

"Did my sister bring Mr. Wutiao to meet the parents? Then I'll call Daddy over. He must hurry up and let him meet the man who stole his beloved daughter!"

Lingyin said gloatingly, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. It was too late for Zhizhi to stop her, so he had to let her go.

Now that I have returned home after a long time, let's meet Grandpa first, even if he has no consciousness or intelligence for a long time.

So he took Wujo Satoru to the main house where grandpa was.While walking on the promenade, she happened to meet one of her uncles.Probably because we haven't seen each other for so long, I didn't recognize him for a while.It took a while to realize that this was Shi Gu's father.

I also realized that I would not recognize him, neither because I haven't seen him for a long time, nor because there are too many traces of time on his face.It's because his eyes are too strange, so strange that Shi Zhi doesn't know what words to use to describe it.

But those were undisguised, naked eyes, as if they were full of greed and satisfaction.It reminds me that they are people who have been poisoned by the ideals of their ancestors.As for what kind of reality they were poisoned by, it is impossible to know.

All she knew was that she didn't like this look.She could sense that they were not looking at Gojo Satoru, or at her marriage partner.They are just staring at a target, trying to hit the heart in vain, so that they can get the reward they dream of-getting rid of the status of "banished Yae family".

So disgusting.

Yezhi lowered his head, pulled Gojo Satoru and left immediately, forgetting to even say hello.Fortunately, she didn't meet any uncle during this journey, otherwise she would definitely not be able to bear it.

Gently pushing away the thin paper barrier, Shizhi quickly dragged Gojo Satoru into this dim room.The moment she closed the door, she felt that she was finally away from that terrible sight, but she still couldn't breathe.

She wanted to open the heavy curtains in this room, or turn on the lights, but unfortunately she couldn't do these things—it would disturb Grandpa's rest.So I had to stand beside the nursing bed filled with the rotten smell of death and continue to live in this dimness.

After sorting out the words in his mind, he slowly explained the situation of grandpa to Gojo Satoru.She thought Gojo Satoru would be very curious about why this old man whom she called "the old man with few days" in high school can still persist until now, but he seems to have quickly accepted this fact, and Didn't say much.

This made Shizhi not know what to say next, so he could only stand silently.She felt Gojo Satoru's fingertips twitching in her palm.

"Yes, why are your hands so cold? You can't even cover them."

Unexpectedly, it was such a sentence that broke the silence.

Shizhi raised his eyes and looked at Gojo Satoru in surprise. He really didn't expect him to be seriously depressed at this moment. Obviously, he was really distressed by the fact that his hands couldn't be warmed.

She blinked, as if trying to understand something.

"Gojo Satoru, didn't you listen to me carefully just now?"

It's rare to be called by your full name once, so it's strange not to feel nervous.Gojo Satoru straightened his back slightly, squinted his eyes and tilted his head, his expression was just rightly dazed.

"Uh uh -what did you just say?"

"Sure enough, you're not listening carefully!"

Obviously it was such an annoying thing, but Yezhi couldn't be angry with him at all, so he patted the back of his hand pretending to be annoyed, trying to take his hand away from his palm, but he held it tightly It's so tight that I can't pull it out no matter how hard I try, it's almost like being shackled.

She couldn't help but burst out laughing, the laughter covered all the bad emotions since she stepped into this house.Between tugging, her fingertips finally felt a little warm.

It seems that Gojo Satoru will not let go of her hand.

So Zhi gave up on the spot, and no longer persisted, and simply let him continue to cover his hands, obviously treating him as a super-large hot water bottle.

In fact, she knew that Gojo Satoru had heard what she was saying just now—they never failed to listen carefully to each other's words.But he deliberately expressed that he was not listening, and he must have done it on purpose.That being the case, I will not expose him.

She swayed Wujo Satoru's arm lightly, this small movement made her look like a naughty child.

"Since I have met grandpa, let me take you to meet my father now. He will definitely like you."