Twenty-five seconds later.
As the Rainbow Dragon squirmed and trembled, spiraling on the ground,
it suddenly opened its mouth in pain, spitting out two people consecutively.
Seeing that Shoko's skin was only slightly corroded by the curse,
and she was otherwise unharmed,
Mirai and Geto exchanged glances.
Both of them let out a sigh of relief.
She managed to resist using Reverse Cursed Technique to poison the Rainbow Dragon,
and held on until now.
She deserved praise.
The Rainbow Dragon, a First Grade Cursed Spirit with maxed-out tanking abilities, was also well-preserved.
Everyone was happy, everyone was happy.
"Idiot!!!"
Shoko, crying uncontrollably, tackled Satoru to the ground!
She lay on Satoru in a duck-sitting position,
her head pressed against his chest.
"Didn't you promise you wouldn't leave me?!"
"Uh… well… Gomen~"
Knowing he was in the wrong,
Gojo Satoru's expression turned serious.
He didn't argue.
He silently embraced the trembling girl in his arms.
"Don't…"
"Huh?"
"Next time…"
"Don't let go again~"
Shoko sobbed,
lightly patting Satoru's chest to show her displeasure.
Clutching Shoko's soft, weak hand,
Gojo Satoru, uncharacteristically serious, made a promise:
"Gomen~"
"Next time, I definitely won't let go again!"
Aside.
Mirai and Geto exchanged a knowing glance.
Both wore smiles like doting aunts who had witnessed something sweet.
To avoid disturbing the rare tender moment between the childhood sweethearts,
Mirai decisively went all out!
He summoned Rekseus for a body possession.
Then,
his figure flashed rapidly above the Rainbow Dragon's head!
A-grade precision combined with Six Eyes.
He unleashed a punch!
Directly knocking it unconscious on the spot without causing any harm!
Seeing this,
Suguru Geto immediately used Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
A whirlpool-shaped black hole, similar to Miroku's from Inuyasha, appeared in his palm.
It condensed the Rainbow Dragon's massive body into a perfectly round, lustrous black orb the size of a fist.
After all this was done,
Mirai and Geto smoothly exited the scene,
leaving the time and space within the hotel entirely to Satoru and Shoko.
Outside the hotel.
He habitually looked around.
Seeing that the "curtain" was still in effect,
and no one was disturbing them,
Suguru Geto took out the Rainbow Dragon Orb from his pocket.
Just as he was about to swallow it,
Mirai stopped him.
"Mirai, what's wrong?"
Suguru Geto looked on in confusion as Mirai pulled out a sealed jar of bright yellow, jelly-like substance from his shadow.
It seemed to be something like honey or maltose.
"Didn't Geto say before that the Cursed Spirit Orb tasted as disgusting as a rag smeared with excrement?"
"Why not try this?"
"It's very sweet, w"
"Huh??"
With that,
while Suguru Geto was still stunned,
Mirai had already opened the jar.
He smeared the Cursed Spirit Orb with a thick, unknown liquid.
He even got Suguru Geto's hands full,
and left sticky trails on the ground.
When he came to his senses,
a faint floral scent mixed with a hint of milk wafted to his nose.
Suguru Geto had never experienced such a gentle, intoxicatingly sweet aroma.
His eyes slowly closed.
He felt as if he had returned to infancy,
carefree, nestled in his mother's soft embrace, sucking on her milk.
"Try eating it now, Geto."
Mirai's voice pulled Suguru Geto back to reality from his childhood fantasy.
He looked at the thick liquid overflowing from his hand, his mouth twitching slightly.
Then,
Suguru Geto's expression habitually became one of nausea.
He swallowed the honey-coated Rainbow Dragon Orb in one bite.
Disgust… confusion??
Shock!!
Enjoyment =w=
Under Mirai's curious gaze,
Suguru Geto's facial expressions were like a rollercoaster ride.
In just one second, he seemed to have experienced a world-shattering change!
In his imagination,
the disgusting taste of the Cursed Spirit Orb, like a pile of excrement, was gone.
In reality,
Suguru Geto's mouth was filled with thickness, warmth, and sweetness.
The taste of natural honey completely dominated all his taste buds.
The intense contrast between before and after
made Suguru Geto feel like his worldview was about to shatter!
At this moment,
his mouth was sweet.
His heart was bitter.
So, all the "excrement" he had eaten all these years was for nothing??
As soon as he thought of this,
Suguru Geto's expression began to crumble again.
Mirai was also confused by his reaction.
He stepped forward and shook Suguru Geto, who was already deep in self-doubt and whose worldview had completely collapsed.
"Geto, how is it?"
With a broken expression, half-smiling, half-crying, Suguru Geto looked at Mirai.
"It really works TT"
"The disgusting taste of the Cursed Spirit is completely gone TT"
"That's a good thing, isn't it~"
"Then why do you still look unhappy??"
"I… I… I can't handle it, Mirai!"
As if broken by a three-hundred-pound sugar mommy,
Suguru Geto's face was covered in tears of regret.
"Now that I know the flaw of Cursed Spirit Manipulation can be overcome so simply…"
"Doesn't that make all the suffering I endured before a joke?!"
"Well~" Mirai patted Suguru Geto's shoulder comfortingly.
"After all, Cursed Spirits are supernatural entities with physical forms."
"It's not hard to understand that the taste of the orbs they condense can be masked by material."
As his words fell,
Suguru Geto immediately shut down.
He squatted alone in a corner of the hotel, drawing circles.
His intense resentment towards his past ignorant and foolish actions was almost radiating from him.
Seeing this,
Mirai smiled faintly and shook his head.
Now,
being able to successfully help Geto overcome the flaw of Cursed Spirit Manipulation was already a perfect outcome.
As for the mental hurdle that remained,
he could only cross it himself.
[Wuwuwu——Master, please favor me!]
Suddenly,
a cold, mechanical female voice, devoid of emotional fluctuations, rang out.
This was Mirai's phone ringtone.
He pulled out a full-screen phone from his pocket, its body white and gold, adorned with intricate, mysterious patterns of purple, gold, and crimson.
Mirai glanced at the caller ID—Takayanagi Mieko.
He cleared his throat slightly.
Mirai smiled.
He answered the phone.
"Moshi moshi~"
"Auntie Mieko, are you missing me w"
"Young Master Mirai!"
"Madam Yukino, she…"
On the other end of the phone,
Takayanagi Mieko's voice had lost its usual soft and charming tone.
It was filled with panic and urgency!
Even laced with a hint of a sob!
A moment later,
he hung up the phone.
Mirai's face showed no discernible emotion.
The gentle and sensitive Suguru Geto immediately noticed Mirai's abnormality.
He instantly stopped his self-pity.
He stepped forward and asked with concern:
"Mirai, what happened?"
"Playtime is over, Geto."
Mirai said solemnly, offering no explanation.
He turned and stepped into the hotel.
Upon hearing this,
Suguru Geto wanted to catch up and ask for the reason.
But he suddenly froze in place!
Because,
he saw glistening specks shimmering at the corner of Mirai's eye.
Were those… tears?!
…Boom!!!
Above the Zen'in Family mansion,
a sudden explosion boomed!
A massive, beautiful Shikigami with a human torso and beast body
instantly appeared in the sight of the Zen'in Family servants.
It stood elegantly in the air.
It was Agathos, who had returned home by replicating Limitless to compress space,
thereby achieving ultra-long-distance teleportation.
She was not only carrying Mirai on her beast body,
but also had three human-like figures bound to her tail.
Before the Zen'in Family servants could welcome their family head's return,
at Mirai's signal, Agathos's figure flashed again, disappearing from everyone's sight… Ever since Mirai and Satoru enrolled in Tokyo Jujutsu High together,
he had directly brought Yukino Mifuyu from the Gojo Family to live with Takayanagi Mieko.
In recent years,
Yukino Mifuyu, who was already frail,
had seen her health steadily decline.
Only by entrusting her to Takayanagi Mieko's personal care could Mirai feel at ease.
Because of Mirai's connecting relationship,
the two women had long become close friends who talked about everything.
They even slept pressed against each other every night.