flstandardbreds Chapter 529: Chat
Chapter 529: Chat
On the evening of January 2019, 1, at 5:5, outside the crowd, beside a river bank, the drooping leaves of the willow trees swayed in the wind, and the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the sparkling river.
"You're coming so slowly." Ieiri Naoko stared at the birds flying over the water, and said, "I thought you guys couldn't walk anymore."
"What the hell." Gojo Satoru leaned on a railing not far from Ieiri Glass and said lazily, "In order to respond to everyone's enthusiasm, we also need to spend some time."
"Really? Now that the worlds have merged, I don't know what the point of serializing this kind of comic is."
"Well." Xiayou Jie stood on the other side of Jiaru Nishiko and said with a smile, "If we don't have this thing, we won't be able to talk to Lily in this life."
After all, if it weren't for the comic, she wouldn't have bothered with them at all. And now, at least she was familiar with them.
"Really?" Jiarui Naoko lowered her head and took out a box of beautifully packaged colorful slim ladies' cigarettes from the pocket of her windbreaker. The tin box printed with intricate and colorful patterns was opened with a "bang".
"It's been a long time." Gojo Satoru glanced at him, his short white hair blown by the wind. He looked up and said with emotion, "Glass, haven't you quit smoking?"
"Well, I gave up a long time ago." Jiarui Naoko lifted her eyelids and glanced at him, revealing the empty interior. The only thing left inside was the faint smell of cigarettes. "Twelve years ago."
Twelve years ago, in 2006, after the end of that long summer, she sat in a cafe after the early autumn rain, staring at the yellowing leaves, and smoked her last cigarette.
"I haven't seen you smoke in these years." Xia Youjie asked, "But I didn't expect that you would carry a cigarette box with you."
"I just take it out and read it when I feel upset." Ieiri Naoko explained calmly, "I definitely mean it when I say I want to quit."
“Are you under a lot of pressure right now?”
“A little bit of everything.”
Gojo Satoru raised his eyebrows and looked at the profile of a person not far away who was talking to Fushiguro Shigeki and was smiling because of something he didn't know what they were talking about.
Xia Youjie also saw that scene and subconsciously laughed along with him. With a smile on his face, he teased, "Nano, you're not nervous because you don't know what to say when you meet."
"If it's just something like this, it can only be called a happy worry at best." Ieiri Shoko said, "No, I'm not nervous about this."
"what is that?"
She said she was under a lot of pressure, but her face showed no signs of anxiety or irritation at all. This was the impression she always gave people.
But today, after a few seconds of silence, she sighed and said, "I met that person today."
"Who?"
"Ryomen Sukuna." Ieiri Shoko recalled the scene just now and said, "It was right here, just an hour and a half ago, in front of that store."
"...Ryomen Sukuna?" A look of surprise flashed in Xiayou Jie's eyes. He turned his head and asked Ieiri Naoko, "Didn't he die a long time ago?"
Died nineteen years ago, died in that battle, died at the hands of the so-called "God".
"Well, although his appearance and facial features are different, and his voice is different, and it's not exactly the same as what I remember, I am definitely him..." She said confidently, "There's someone following him, it's his follower, Li Mei."
"Have you been reincarnated?"
"I don't know." Ieiri Naoko put her hands back into her pockets, her dark brown hair drooping down to her cheeks, her expression unclear, "I didn't detect any unusual fluctuations of cursed energy from them. Even Yuki Kujuku and Yuta Otsutsuko who went to help in the store didn't notice them."
"Either they have really become ordinary people, or they are deliberately hiding their aura." She paused for a moment before continuing her analysis, "I am more inclined to the latter."
"Do you think he came here on purpose?" After a moment's silence, Xia Youjie narrowed his eyes and asked, "To find Lily?"
"That should be it." Ieiri Naoko said, "In addition to talking about things related to drink mixing, he also left a warning."
".....warn?"
"Let me think about it." Jiali Naoko's hand knocked on the rusty handrail on the railing, and the heavy steel pipe made a dull sound when her knuckles hit it. "The original words seemed to be--"
"But I'll give you a piece of advice. Run your store well and don't waste food. Otherwise, if I get in a bad mood one day, I might come over and kill you."
"Ryomen Sukuna left after saying this," said Ieiri Shoko. "This was a free drink, but he took two sips and threw it away, and said something like this. It's really meaningless."
"......Glass." Xia Yujie pressed his forehead, his tone a little difficult, "Did Lily make this herself?"
"Yeah." Ieiri Naoko said, confused. "What's the problem?"
Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru: “….”
"Nothing." Gojo Satoru said cheerfully, "I just remembered that you haven't tried the new drink invented by Lily yet, it's delicious, you can try it later."
Ieiri Naoko: “?”
"Anyway," Gojo Satoru wisely changed the subject and asked, "Glass, besides coming here to buy a cup of milk tea, did he do anything else out of the ordinary?"
"Well, that's not the case." Ieiri Naoko shrugged. "He didn't kill a few passers-by for fun, nor did he use magic to raze the surroundings to the ground. He didn't even rip off his clothes and run around naked."
"However, this guy was the Curse King who killed countless people in the past. To be on the safe side, it would be better for us to verify his whereabouts first." Xia Yujie said.
"Well, as to why he suddenly appeared, how he found this place, and what his purpose was," said Ieiri Shoko, "you'd better go and check it out."
"It's at a time like this." She looked back at the shop that was still receiving customers and said, "I hope he really just comes here for a cup of milk tea."