Suguru Geto's eyes widened, and he looked incredulously at the two girls confined in the cell.
A moment later, Suguru Geto rubbed his forehead, a slight headache coming on.
"What is going on here?"
Suguru Geto tried to maintain a calm tone.
"What is going on?"
The middle-aged man behind Suguru Geto spoke up.
"These two are the culprits behind the strange incidents that have been constantly happening in the village."
The man said it as if it were a matter of course.
'No.'
Suguru Geto refuted in his heart, but due to the principle of Jujutsu secrecy, he did not say it aloud.
"These two brats are crazy; they keep saying inexplicable things, and they used incredible power to attack the villagers…"
The middle-aged man behind Suguru Geto became more and more agitated as he spoke, as if the people in the cell were not two young girls.
But some heinous criminals.
'No.'
Suguru Geto kept refuting the villager's words in his heart.
"It wasn't us! It was clearly them…"
"Shut up! You two monsters!"
A girl covered in injuries tried to retort but was roughly interrupted by a fat woman nearby.
Hearing the girl's voice, Suguru Geto opened his eyes and looked at the girl in the cell.
The two girls huddled together, curled up in the cage, their bodies trembling slightly, their eyes filled with fear and helplessness.
A strong emotion surged in Suguru Geto's heart; he couldn't understand why these two girls were being persecuted by the villagers in such a way.
One of the two oil lamps in the room, the one near the door, seemed to be swayed by the wind from the door crack, starting to flicker erratically.
The flickering light seemed as if it would go out any second.
Along with it, Suguru Geto's heart also wavered.
Suguru Geto's perception of Jujutsu Sorcerers and non-Jujutsu Sorcerers was constantly changing.
He slowly approached the cage, wanting to see more clearly.
As he got closer to the cage, the girl trembled even more violently, and Suguru Geto could hear faint whimpers.
Suguru Geto's brows furrowed slightly; he felt a pang of heartache and anger.
When he turned around, Suguru Geto had already regained his smile.
"You two, let's step outside for a moment."
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man and the fat woman led Suguru Geto out of the cell.
Suguru Geto's hand trembled slightly, as if he was making some kind of decision.
Although Suguru Geto's heart had not been as severely shaken as it originally was, thanks to Eichi's intervention.
However, the intense mental blows from recent missions had pushed Suguru Geto to the brink of eruption.
The Righteous Path he had always adhered to was constantly holding him back.
"Do you want to vent?"
Eichi's voice came from behind him.
Suguru Geto turned around upon hearing this; for some reason, he felt a sense of relief in his heart.
"Why are you here?"
Suguru Geto asked softly.
"I heard there were Curse Users attacking villagers nearby, so I came to check it out on my way, and it turns out…"
Eichi glanced at the cell.
"You saw it too."
Eichi shrugged.
"What do you plan to do?"
Suguru Geto asked after a moment of silence.
His eyes concealed a simmering rage.
It seemed as if these flames of anger were about to burn all the villagers here to ashes in the next moment.
At the same time, a trace of doubt arose in his heart.
He couldn't understand why Eichi, having arrived before him, hadn't rescued the two girls.
"What do you want to do?"
Eichi retorted.
"…"
'I want to kill them all.'
Suguru Geto remained silent, not speaking the words in his heart.
"Vent it out."
Eichi gently placed his hand on Suguru Geto's shoulder.
"The police will be here in an hour. Before that, you can do whatever you want, just don't kill anyone. After all, they still have to atone for their sins in prison for the rest of their lives."
Suguru Geto looked at Eichi in surprise.
Eichi's image in his mind was similar to his own, a person who also adhered to the Righteous Path and great righteousness.
"Do you remember our conversation at the café three years ago?"
Eichi smiled as he looked at Suguru Geto.
"…The anime convention one?"
Suguru Geto remembered that conversation.
At the time, they had all laughed at Gojo Satoru for crying and throwing a tantrum after getting a cavity.
"Exactly. Do you remember what I told you then? Not all weak people are worth protecting; some people disappearing would make the world a better place."
After saying that, Eichi looked at the two villagers who were still leading the way to the village chief's house.
"…Is that so."
Suguru Geto suddenly smiled, feeling a sense of relief, but also some powerlessness.
He recalled their conversation on the rooftop five years ago when they were still in junior High School.
"Geto, you have the Aptitude to become a Devil King."
That's what Eichi had said to Suguru Geto back then.
Recalling the changes in his own heart over the past year, and what he had just intended to do, Suguru Geto suddenly felt as if everything about him had been seen through by Eichi.
"Want to vent?"
Suguru Geto stopped, his gaze dark as he looked at the two people in front of him, and then at the village.
Soon after, countless terrified screams emanated from the village.
On the TV broadcast van outside the village, several reporters were excitedly writing articles.
Feudal village, dungeon, child abuse… these keywords appeared in their minds, and they piled one BUFF after another onto this incident.
Eichi didn't say much about this.
After all, he intended to send all the villagers who participated in the persecution to prison for half their lives, so the higher the social attention, the better.
Dee-woo, dee-woo~
The sound of sirens quickly reached the small town.
The superintendent leading the police car was startled by the frantic villagers as soon as he entered the village.
The superintendent immediately ordered the accompanying patrol officers to control these villagers who were suspected of having mental problems.
Then he called the hospital and the psychiatric hospital.
The next day, a report about a young man from a charity organization visiting a rural area, exposing feudal customs and suspected cult activities in a mountain village, appeared in major newspapers.
Photos of Suguru Geto, pixelated, also began to appear online.
After examinations confirmed they had no mental issues, the village chief and some villagers who participated in the persecution were all arrested and imprisoned.
Meanwhile, Jujutsu Headquarters had originally planned to hold Suguru Geto accountable for using Cursed Spirits to "attack" the villagers.
However, the incident was classified too quickly, making it difficult for them to intervene.
After all, they also cared about their reputation; punishing Suguru Geto now would make them accomplices of those "feudal" villagers, wouldn't it?
The next day, Suguru Geto, who hadn't slept all night, returned to High School.
At Eichi's suggestion, Suguru Geto submitted an application for an off-campus internship to Yaga Masamichi.
Yaga Masamichi briefly questioned him a few times before agreeing to Suguru Geto's temporary departure from High School to go to Foreign countries.
Amidst the gossipy gazes of tourists at the airport.
Suguru Geto struggled to pry off Gojo Satoru, who was clinging to him and shouting, "Don't go, how will I live without you?"
He then boarded the plane bound for the Eastern Great Country with the sisters Mimiko and Nanako.
Suguru Geto and the two girls would meet up with his teammates in the Eastern Great Country, and then begin his journey around the world.
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