Curse back: As a swordsman, what's wrong with a happy ending?

Chapter 261 "I'm here to see you."

Da da.

Yuji Itadori heard light footsteps coming from behind him.

Probably the sound of Martin boots hitting the bluestone pavement.

He remained kneeling with his hands clasped together.

A bunch of white chrysanthemums appeared from the side and were gently placed on the altar in front of the tombstone.

Then, the man seemed to stop and stand in silence.

Yuji Itadori said softly: "...Teacher Su."

"Ah."

The man stood beside Yuji Itadori, clasped his hands together, and lowered his head in response.

He continued slowly: "I'm sorry, Hisahito, your mother's body has long been occupied by the rope--"

"Um..." Yuji Itadori interrupted him slightly, "...I know. Thank you, Teacher Su."

Su Ze then said no more.

The two of them observed a moment of silence.

"...Is it okay to bury Miss Yuji in the cemetery of the technical high school?" Su Ze put down his hand and looked up at the words and photos on the stone tablet.

"Well - here, I can come to see my mother often." Yuji Itadori answered in a calm voice with a peaceful expression.

Su Ze nodded slightly, then patted his shoulder, turned around and walked away from sight.

Yuji Itadori raised his head, big tears emerging from the corners of his eyes and falling. He raised his hands to cover his eyes and clenched his teeth tightly to prevent himself from crying out loud.

But tiny whimpers still came from the throat.

Not far behind the tombstone, behind the thickest pine tree, Su Ze leaned against the trunk with his arms folded.

He looked up at the sky, the dense leaves blocked most of the sunlight. Then he closed his eyes and sighed softly.

……

Exchange competition, second day.

To be precise, it was already the third day. Because of an unexpected incident on the first day (the key point was that a certain white-haired guy had severely damaged the venue), we paused for a day.

It wasn't until today, the third day of the exchange competition, that everything got back on track.

"Oh, "Baseball"!" Yuji Itadori looked at the note he pulled out and read it out harmlessly.

“Baseball--?!” Ye Mo Zhengdao suddenly flashed to the right side of Yuji, his face full of surprise.

"Great..." Leyanji Jiashen suddenly appeared to the left side of Yuji, with disbelief in his wrinkled face.

"Oh!" Mr. Gojo, who had planned this in advance, slammed the table and said, "Then let's announce today's game - Baseball! !

"Burn your youth! The top 1 seeded players in Koshien—"

Ye Moth Zheng Dao solved the case instantly and looked at the swaggering white-haired man: "Wu!!"

Sensei Gojo slipped away the moment the race schedule was announced.

"...He had planned this a long time ago, right?" Zenin Maki took the piece of paper from Yuji's hand. The words on it were, as expected, crooked, as if they were written by an elementary school student.

"Hehe, it looks like you're going to lose the game~" Chanin Shinyi approached.

Zenin Maki clicked his tongue.

Miwa was a little excited: "Baseball! Join us——"

"Baseball?... It seems like I'm thinking about the days when I was in junior high school." Kenki Kamo sat on the steps nearby and muttered to himself.

Nishimiya Tao glanced at him. The latter's face was wrapped in bandages with only one eye exposed.

She looked worried, "…No, I say, Kamo-kun should just rest first."

(Note 1: Influenced by the long-term publicity of the National High School Baseball League, the three words "Koshien" have almost become synonymous with Japanese high school baseball.

Generally, it refers to the college baseball selection tournament (i.e., the spring tournament) or the national college baseball player selection tournament (i.e., the summer tournament).

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An hour later, in an open space at the technical college.

It was temporarily requisitioned as a baseball field.

"Oh, right!" Mr. Gojo, who was wearing sunglasses, seemed to suddenly remember something.

The students from both teams, who had already changed into baseball uniforms, looked at him.

Zenin Maki gritted her teeth and said, "If you say now that 'there are not enough clubs' and the game needs to be changed... I will beat you up."

"Salmon, salmon." Senior Goujuan opened his mouth.

Wild Rose looked serious and nodded heavily in agreement.

"Don't worry, don't worry~" Gojo teacher waved his hand, "I have something else to say--"

He smiled slyly, "Everyone, look over here~"

Zenin Shinyi, who was fiddling with the "Xiawan brand ball serving machine", was stunned and then stopped what she was doing.

"What are you doing? If you don't check it carefully, the mechanical ball (actually it's a ball machine) will malfunction soon--" She was a little dissatisfied, rubbed her hair and walked a few steps forward.

Gojo Satoru had an exaggerated expression, gesticulating and saying, "Hehe... Now, let me introduce you to——"

Zenin Maki had already started yawning, with tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.

Megumi Fushiguro had a blank expression on her face as she listened quietly to this unreliable speech.

Gojo Satoru continued to keep the secret, adding a lot of extravagant prefixes, "The one that everyone has known about for a long time but has never met before—"

Wild Rose began to fix her bangs, and Goujuan poked Panda's belly.

Toudou approached Brother Yuji to express his strong brotherly love.

Gojo Satoru finally finished speaking, "He is——"

The people in front of him had already started to slack off in various ways.

"The manipulator behind the puppet "Mechamaru" - the genius who carries the "Heaven and Curse Binding" - Yuki, Yoshi, Yoshi! !"

Sensei Gojo opened his arms and spoke these words loudly and quickly.

The air was suddenly quiet.

The students, who had been noisy until a moment ago, suddenly fell silent.

Members of both sides were stunned almost at the same time.

If most people in Tokyo were confused and puzzled, those in Kyoto were completely shocked.

Behind Gojo Satoru, a young man slowly walked out of the small wooden house where the staff was resting.

“Eh…?” It was Chanin Shinyi who spoke first.

It was rare for Kenji Kamo to open his eyes.

Nishimiya Tao opened her jaw as wide as possible.

Toudou paused his "brotherly activities" for a moment.

"...Everyone, nice to meet you." Yukichi, who was also wearing a baseball uniform, smiled slightly.

In the crowd, the baseball in Miss Miwa's hand suddenly fell. She widened her eyes and said in a daze, "...Yo, Kokichi?"

The baseball rolled forward and hit my toes with a click.

The boy bent down and gently picked up the baseball, holding the brim of his hat with one hand and handed it to her.

"Sanlun, long time no see."

With a smile on his face, he and Kokichi handed the baseball to Kasumi Miwa.

The latter was stunned for a moment.

Wild Rose smelled something wrong: "Hey hey hey hey hey——" She looked around hoping to get evidence.

However, to the left of Miss Kugisaki is the always cold-faced Megumi Fushiguro... although there are some different emotions in his eyes at this moment.

On the right is the simple and optimistic Yuji. He has no idea about "Heaven and Curse", and is simply excited about his friends returning to the team.

Kyoto is quite exciting.

Chanyuan Zhenyi unconsciously exerted force on his hands, and with a "crack", he broke the rod of the ball machine.

——"Mechanical Maru Ball-serving Machine" died before it could accomplish its mission.

Nishimiya Tao's jaw was about to dislocate.

Miwa was almost in disbelief. He stared blankly at the handsome boy in front of him and murmured, "Yo, Kokichi...?"

The tears in the corners of her eyes sparkled in the sunlight.

"Yeah, Miwa--" Yukichi responded with a smile, the scar on his cheek didn't look disfiguring.

"——I'm here to see you."

He smiled and said in a soothing voice.