"Enma… and Shinigami…"
"Bringing back souls?"
The young girl mumbled the man's words, her first reaction being that he was joking with her.
How could there be Shinigami in the world?
Let alone Great King Enma, who rules the world after death.
But immediately after, Mei Mei's expression changed.
'No…'
She had indeed heard of techniques similar to summoning jutsu, which could call the souls of the dead from the Pure Land to the world of the living.
Since souls truly existed after death, then the existence of a world after death was also a matter of course.
Realizing this, Mei Mei's eyes widened, and she stared blankly at the two men before her.
"Are you really Shinigami… you're not lying to me?"
"What good would it do me to lie to a little girl like you?" Kenma asked in return.
Seeing their serious expressions, it didn't seem like they were lying.
Moreover, in the girl's intuition, or perhaps the subconscious ability to read people she had developed over the years, she clearly understood that the man's self-introduction was by no means a lie.
The girl's lips trembled, and her mind was instantly thrown into a daze.
A layer of confusion appeared in her eyes, as if she were replaying her short life before her very eyes.
It was also as if she were reminiscing about the regrets and unwillingness of her past life.
It was unknown how much time had passed, or if it was just an instant. It wasn't until her memories of her life reached the present day that Mei Mei suddenly came back to her senses.
"So… you're here to take me back to the Pure Land?"
As if she had regained her senses, she touched her face and couldn't help but show a bitter smile.
"To have Great King Enma come in person, it seems I'm really not ordinary…"
Seeing the girl in this state, how could Kenma not see what was on her mind.
"You seem to have misunderstood. I didn't come for you on this trip."
Kenma recalled the plot from the depths of his mind and waved his hand, saying, "It's not your time to die yet."
Hearing this, Mei Mei was stunned. Her eyes grew brighter, and a look of surprise and joy appeared on her face.
"Really? You… you're really not here for me?"
"Of course not."
Kenma paused.
"But if you want to leave the human world with me, I won't refuse."
As for the girl mistaking him for Great King Enma who ruled the world after death… this had happened before when he had taken in Whitebeard and the others.
Explaining it clearly was too much trouble, and Kenma couldn't be bothered to repeat himself.
'A misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. So be it.'
"No, no, I'd rather wait until after I'm dead."
Hearing Kenma's words, Mei Mei quickly shook her head.
She was still young, she hadn't lived enough, and the money she had earned hadn't even warmed her hands yet. How could she be willing to die so early.
"Is that so? What a pity."
Under the girl's trembling gaze, Kenma said this, though it was unclear what was so pitiful.
She didn't dare to ask.
Looking at Mei Mei's trembling state, Kenma smiled to himself. Seeing her so young, he suddenly asked, "Mei Mei, how old are you now?"
"Eighteen."
Mei Mei's voice was weak, not knowing why this Great King Enma would suddenly ask her such a question.
'Could it be that he wants to cut short my remaining lifespan?'
Kenma asked again, "That Gojo Satoru you mentioned, how old is he now?"
"Sixteen, a second-year in high school."
After finishing, Mei Mei opened her mouth and asked through gritted teeth, "Could it be that you… Your Majesty is here for him?"
'Second-year in high school…' A thought struck Kenma, and the image of a well-built man flashed through his mind.
'What a strange time. I wonder if he's dead yet.'
Just as he was about to speak, his gaze suddenly shifted to the entrance.
Shisui's expression became stern. He shielded Kenma, and his scarlet Sharingan lit up, staring at the doorway.
Bang!
The door of the coffee shop was violently pushed open. The voice arrived before the figure.
"Mei Mei, I'm here to save you!"
Hearing this familiar, flippant tone, Mei Mei quickly turned her head.
She saw a white-haired high school student swaggering in from outside, wearing a black uniform and round sunglasses, his demeanor exuding a flamboyant personality.
At the same time, another man's voice sounded.
"Satoru, from the looks of it, Miss Mei Mei is fine."
This voice was noticeably gentler, but it also revealed the owner's composure.
"Of course. Mei Mei is very strong."
Behind the white-haired high school student followed a man with long black hair. The man had slender eyes and also wore a black uniform, his hands in his pockets. He was also a confident person.
"Gojo… Geto…"
Mei Mei murmured their names.
After the two entered the shop, they first looked over Mei Mei. Seeing that she was alright, they then turned their gazes to the two strange men.
The reflection of the two men appeared on the sunglasses, and the pair of azure eyes under the lenses suddenly shrank.
The black-haired man also widened his slender eyes, his expression growing more and more solemn.
"Satoru, from the looks of it… we've run into some extraordinary people."
"I can see that."
The white-haired high school student stared fixedly at Kenma and the other through his sunglasses.
The man with the red eyes was clearly no ordinary person, his demeanor exuding the aura of a powerful individual.
Setting this person aside, what surprised him even more was the thick-eyebrowed man being protected by the red-eyed man.
The feeling he got from him was even more unusual.
A kind of… heart-stopping fear that he had never experienced before in his life.
"You two, what on earth are you and where are you from? And why did you kidnap Mei Mei?"
Kenma gently patted Shisui in front of him, signaling him to relax.
His gaze turned to the two who had suddenly appeared.
"Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, right?"
The moment the two had entered the door, Kenma had recognized them.
The wielder of the Six Eyes, the Limitless technique, hailed as the strongest of his time, Gojo Satoru.
And, the one who controlled the Cursed Spirit Manipulation technique, Geto Suguru.
Although the two of them now were only second-year high school students.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Kenma, and this is my companion, Shisui. We are both Shinigami who have come to this world of the living."
"As for Mei Mei, I didn't kidnap her. I just wanted to ask her for some information."
Kenma's expression relaxed, and he extended a hand towards the two.
"I think you two are quite impressive. Would you like to come and work for me after you die?"
Faced with Kenma's self-introduction, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru exchanged a look, both seeing the solemnity in each other's eyes.
Especially Gojo Satoru. His eyes were special and could see a lot of information.
He could perceive not only the colors and light that ordinary people could see, but also things that ordinary people couldn't, like magnetic fields and pheromones.
From the two men before him, his eyes were constantly telling him that there was a serious sense of dissonance.
It was as if… two incomparably huge prehistoric beasts had curled themselves up inside their current human skins, and their every move revealed something strange.
He could say with certainty that the two men before him were not simply humans or Cursed Spirits.
The same was true for Geto Suguru. When he looked at the two men, the Cursed Spirits inside him trembled, as if they had encountered something that terrified them to their very core.
'Definitely not human!'
Even if the two men in front of him said they were human, he would never believe it.
After the initial shock, Gojo Satoru quickly recovered.
"Enma?"
The corners of his mouth turned up, and he once again revealed a wanton and arrogant smile.
"Speaking of which, people often say I have god-like power, but I've never seen what a god looks like."
"But, since you now call yourselves a Shinigami and Enma from the underworld… come, fight me."
"Let me see just how powerful a so-called god is!"
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