Following Souji into the house, Gojo, the strongest contemporary Jujutsu Sorcerer, saw a dining table with several people eating, seated with women of flawless beauty.
Having almost no curiosity about beautiful women, the unrestrained Gojo, personality-wise, was probably the type of person who did as he pleased.
He had always considered himself the strongest in the world, and Gojo had always thought this way.
However, that concept was broken today.
'Incomprehensible!'
Six Eyes… this was Gojo's eyes. Those blue pupils seeming to stretch towards the horizon were the special ability eyes passed down through the Gojo Clan for generations.
Possessing various abilities, including but not limited to seeing if someone is a Jujutsu Sorcerer, seeing the Jujutsu itself and its traces, etc., this was also why Gojo could follow the Cursed Energy traces left by Ryuya.
Having always relied on the Six Eyes to see through the world, even Arima and Souji… he could see their essence: one was a half-human, half-ghoul hybrid, the other a human possessed by youkai power.
But today, Gojo found his Six Eyes had failed.
'How is this possible?'
Incomprehensible, unacceptable, unfathomable. He couldn't even see if the other's essence was human or something else.
The Ryuya in Satoru Gojo's eyes was just an ordinary life form. But how could that be?
Encountering such a situation for the first time, he clearly hadn't experienced this before.
"Have you eaten? Want some?"
Sitting at the head of the table looking at Gojo, Ryuya found this guy quite similar to his manga image, seeming like a fairly easy-going person.
"Ah? No, I haven't... Um... Can I eat?"
Looking somewhat ill at ease at the dinner on the table, Gojo could feel the other girls seemed uninterested in him, even a bit disgusted.
Quite confident in his own appearance, the usually supremely confident Satoru Gojo, due to the combination of the false Geto Suguru Incident, the disappearance of the countless Cursed Spirits, and being unable to see through Ryuya, acted somewhat reserved.
He didn't know their disgust is because his arrival had interrupted the Brunestud Sisters' chat with Ryuya and the others.
"It's fine. If you're hungry, eat. It's just some food."
Inviting Gojo to sit, Ryuya got straight to the point, "You want to ask about Geto Suguru, right?"
"Yes, I heard from Yuji about Geto Suguru, and I saw his figure in the recording."
"But according to my memory, he was clearly killed by my own hand..."
Having ideological disputes, having to kill his best friend with his own hands was a deeply painful memory for Gojo. Recalling that past was painful, he hadn't wanted to do it either.
"Geto Suguru is already dead. The Geto Suguru you saw was actually Kenjaku possessing his body."
Because Gojo didn't hand over Geto's body to a specialist like Shoko Ieiri for disposal after killing him, it allowed Kenjaku to possess the body.
Briefly explaining Kenjaku's existence to Gojo while eating and talking, after hearing Ryuya's explanation, Gojo finally understood what a grave mistake he had made.
"So all this is because of my carelessness? How..."
Sighing, he didn't doubt Ryuya's explanation at all.
In Gojo's view, logically and causally, this was his own fault. Clearly, his actions were the key that attracted Kenjaku.
"Don't blame yourself like that. It's not really your fault."
Smiling, Ryuya didn't think Gojo was at fault at all. After all, if it weren't Kenjaku, some other vile Jujutsu Sorcerer would appear. Encountering Jogo and the others today was ultimately just a coincidence of fate.
Yes, just a coincidence of fate.
Because of the Earth King and the Beast of the Apocalypse's characteristics, he was now essentially the Earth's default spokesperson in the real world.
In this place without Counter Forces, without planetary consciousness, Ryuya had actually been pondering one thing: where did the Counter Forces go?
After all, after the first simulation in Camelot ended, Ryuya had specifically researched the history of Britain.
Although the legends of the Sun-Crowned King had faded over the years, his legacy truly existed in the real world.
And the second simulation, Rashomon, went without saying… Souji and those youkai had lived to the modern world.
In other words, at least during the Camelot period, the Counter Forces Gaia and Alaya existed.
But now they had disappeared. This didn't conform to the world's laws, and there must be some reason for their disappearance.
Ghouls, Cursed Spirits, Vampires, Magi, Flame Hazes, and the power of the Clow Cards, etc.
Among the many supernatural forces in the real world, Ryuya most suspected the Clow Cards.
After all, Clow Reed's settings were too terrifying, as he could even change the world's rules with a single thought.
But the existence of the Clow Cards was too powerful, that should be saved for last.
For now, Ryuya wanted to gradually make contact with these supernatural forces in the real world and seek the true reason that changed the real world and caused the Counter Forces and planetary consciousness to disappear.
Coincidentally, he saw Cursed Spirits today, so he would start with them.
Chatting with Gojo for a while, combining the memories related to Kenjaku in his mind, Ryuya discovered that the origin of Jujutsu Sorcerers was actually a branch of Onmyoji and Sorcerers.
It is said that over a thousand years ago, before Rashomon was born, when humans were fewer, youkai and other existences were still prevalent in the world.
When humans died, youkai died, those evil souls would sometimes turn into Ghouls and other undead, but most would become nourishment for nature, combining with human fear and other factors to birth some Cursed Spirits.
Initially, Cursed Spirits were actually a category of youkai. But later, Onmyoji and some good-natured youkai, to maintain the world's balance, created Rashomon to seal the energy of those evil souls.
After that, the conditions for Cursed Spirits' birth became insufficient, and Jujutsu Sorcerers gradually became lumped together with Onmyoji.
Until the Bakumatsu Era over 200 years ago, when Ryuya completely slaughtered the Oni within Rashomon, Cursed Spirits could reappear, and Jujutsu Sorcerers rose again.
Therefore, the disappearance of the Counter Forces wasn't due to Jujutsu Sorcerers and Cursed Spirits and Ryuya needed to search for the remaining possibilities.
After dinner, seeing Gojo off, Ryuya was busy again explaining the identities of Arcueid and Altrouge to Kaguya and Haruno.
Rejecting his precious daughters' request to sleep together with hugs, Ryuya prepared to start his sixth simulation world tonight.
Although his strength was growing, he also realized the vastness of the worlds.
He no longer wanted to die in the simulated lives now, and ending things properly, like in the Fourth Holy Grail War in Snowfield City, was also good.
With this purpose, he slept alone tonight, opening a brand new simulation scenario.
It was...