Gojo Satoru felt that he was very unlucky, because this morning, he had received a mission.
Those old immortals in the jujutsu world had actually told him to make a trip to the Shinomiya family.
They said that the eldest son of the Shinomiya family, Shinomiya Kou, seemed to have been cursed, and they wanted him to go remove the curse.
To be honest, Gojo Satoru originally had no intention of paying attention to this mission. After all, whether Shinomiya Kou lived or died had nothing to do with him. He was not familiar with Shinomiya Kou at all.
Honestly, at first, he wanted to disobey the order.
With his strength, those old immortals in the jujutsu world could not force him to carry out a mission anyway.
But at that moment, he learned something from Principal Masamichi Yaga.
Not long ago, the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family, a girl named Shinomiya Kaguya, had died in an accident.
And now Shinomiya Kou was suspected of being cursed.
Clearly, someone was specifically targeting the Shinomiya family. Someone who dared to do such a thing should not be a simple character.
But what did that have to do with him?
There were far too many people in the world who deserved to die. If others could die, why couldn't Shinomiya Kou?
So Gojo Satoru accepted this mission.
It was not because he was unwilling to let Shinomiya Kou die, but because he suddenly thought of something.
His students seemed to have been a little too lax recently.
Perhaps he could use this mission to train his students a bit.
After all, flowers raised in a greenhouse could not grow strong.
How could they see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain?
If the enemy was not strong, it would be just right for his students to gain some combat experience. If the enemy was strong, he could simply wait until his students were beaten half to death, then make a dashing entrance.
Not only could he save his students, he could also establish a tall and impressive image in front of them.
More importantly, he could make his students understand what failure meant, and those failures would ultimately turn into nourishment, helping them grow and bloom into the most splendid flowers.
Ah, he truly was a good teacher who spared no effort for his students.
Nowadays, teachers as responsible toward their students as he was were already few and far between.
Thinking of this, Gojo Satoru was very moved.
He really was amazing.
After making his decision, Gojo Satoru specifically chose his students, Megumi Fushiguro and Maki Zenin, to act together.
Meanwhile, he hid in the dark, paying attention to the enemy's every move and staying ready to support his students at any time.
Just as Gojo Satoru was thinking about how he should make a stylish entrance to look cool, he received a call from his student, Megumi Fushiguro.
"There's no curse."
Megumi Fushiguro's explanation was as simple as ever.
"Huh?"
"I'm saying there was never any curse. Shinomiya Kou met a powerful person at Totsuki Resort yesterday, was frightened, and got sick after returning."
Megumi Fushiguro said simply, "This guy had already accumulated illness over time, and this sickness became very serious. But he thought he had been cursed and hurriedly contacted us in a panic. From beginning to end, this whole matter was just a misunderstanding."
Hearing this, Gojo Satoru's face was covered in black lines.
Maki Zenin's voice also came through the phone.
"In the end, he just scared himself. Rich people like this are terrified of death. The moment something slightly unusual happens, they think they've been cursed."
"What a waste of manpower. They made us come here for nothing."
Gojo Satoru could not help clicking his tongue. He had even prepared several cool entrance poses.
And the result was this…
Rich people these days were really becoming more and more afraid of death.
If he had known earlier, he would not have come.
"Withdraw."
After saying this, Gojo Satoru decisively hung up the phone.
However, just as he was preparing to leave, within the sensory range of his Six Eyes, he suddenly saw a sneaky jujutsu sorcerer approaching the Shinomiya family.
Uh…
Where did this guy come from?
Gojo Satoru was utterly puzzled. Shinomiya Kou clearly had not been cursed, so why had this jujutsu sorcerer appeared?
Who had he come to the Shinomiya family for?
The Shinomiya family members, or his adorable students?
Out of curiosity, Gojo Satoru secretly came up behind this jujutsu sorcerer, captured him, and interrogated him.
Unexpectedly, this guy turned out to be spineless. He immediately confessed everything.
Including, but not limited to, his purpose for coming to the Shinomiya family this time and his true identity.
A jujutsu sorcerer of the Time Vessel Association, Igarashi Naoto.
Hearing the words "Time Vessel Association," Gojo Satoru's pupils contracted violently.
"Speaking of which, I have a very close friend from the past who is now in the Time Vessel Association. His name is Suguru Geto. Do you have any impression of him?"
"Vice Leader Suguru Geto?"
"Huh? Vice Leader?"
Gojo Satoru was somewhat surprised. He truly was surprised. His five fingers gripped Igarashi's head. With just a little force, he could lift off the other party's skull.
"If I remember correctly, Suguru Geto should be your leader. Why are you calling him Vice Leader?"
Igarashi Naoto said fearfully, "Vice Leader Suguru Geto was indeed once the leader of our Time Vessel Association, but not long afterward, he stepped down and passed the position to our current leader."
"Suguru Geto stepped down?"
This answer greatly surprised Gojo Satoru. Based on his understanding of Suguru Geto, he did not seem like the kind of person who would willingly give up his position.
What exactly had happened that made Suguru Geto step down?
Could it be that the new leader of the Time Vessel Association was very strong?
"Who is your leader?" Gojo Satoru asked curiously.
"I don't know."
"You don't know?"
"Yes. We do not know what the new leader's name is, nor do we know his origins. We only know that the leader is strong. Absurdly strong."
When Igarashi Naoto mentioned this leader, fear came from deep within his bones.
"This leader relied only on terrifying pressure to suppress all of us until we could not raise our heads, including Vice Leader Suguru Geto. The leader's strength is no less than that of the legendary great onmyoji, Abe no Seimei."
"Oh-ho, so that's how it is."
Gojo Satoru narrowed his eyes. Suguru Geto was his friend, and he understood Suguru Geto's strength very well. He was a proper Special Grade jujutsu sorcerer.
Although Geto was not his opponent, if Gojo wanted to defeat him, he would still need to put in some effort.
As for suppressing Suguru Geto with sheer aura until he could not raise his head?
Sorry, but even he could not do that.
So, was this new leader of the Time Vessel Association even stronger than him?
That was impossible, right? After all…
He was the strongest.
But looking at Igarashi Naoto's appearance, he did not seem to be lying. This gave Gojo Satoru a strong interest in the Time Vessel Association's new leader. He asked where the new leader of the Time Vessel Association was.
"I don't know."
Igarashi Naoto shook his head and said, "Although we are members of the Time Vessel Association, before receiving the leader's summons, we have no way to meet the leader."
After that, Gojo Satoru asked several more questions and gained a certain understanding of this new leader.
First, this new leader was very strong, but his origins were unknown. He had suddenly appeared during a Time Vessel Association gathering, challenged the leader at the time, Suguru Geto, and intended to take the Time Vessel Association for himself.
Then, in full view of everyone, he defeated Suguru Geto with a mere wave of his hand and intimidated the entire Time Vessel Association.
After that, Suguru Geto stepped down and became the Vice Leader.
All the higher-ups witnessed this event and held the new leader's methods and abilities in extreme awe.
After taking over the Time Vessel Association, the new leader began strongly supporting the group and passed down many methods, causing the strength of the Time Vessel Association to undergo tremendous changes.
In addition, the new leader also possessed a mysterious cursed tool.
This tool was a notebook.
No matter who it was, as long as their name was written in the notebook, they would die.
Whether yokai or cursed spirit, whether human or jujutsu sorcerer, as long as their name was recorded in it, they would die.
Not only could the notebook kill people, it could even design the person's cause of death. It was extremely terrifying.
But the new leader was very generous. Whenever someone made a contribution to the Time Vessel Association, he would tear a blank page from the notebook and bestow it upon the meritorious person.
This blank page also had the effect of killing people, but its power seemed somewhat weakened.
It could only kill ordinary people, not jujutsu sorcerers or existences like yokai.
Aside from that, the new leader also seemed to possess the ability to turn ordinary people into jujutsu sorcerers.
Even the stupidest person, or someone without any aptitude, could be transformed under the new leader's guidance, turning decay into something miraculous and becoming a genuine jujutsu sorcerer.
Beyond that, the new leader seemed to have some grand plan.
Although he had taken over the Time Vessel Association and strengthened it, he had not exposed the group to public attention. Instead, he had allowed the Time Vessel Association to develop in the shadows.
The current Time Vessel Association had already become a colossal existence. Whether in politics, business, or even the police force, they had their people.
In addition, there were also many of their people within the jujutsu world.
To put it bluntly, if the Time Vessel Association wished, they could launch a coup at any time and place the person they chose in the position of prime minister.
It could be said that the current Time Vessel Association had already completely controlled this country.
Yet even so, the leader of the Time Vessel Association still had no intention of exposing himself. Instead, he continued accumulating strength and had even extended his reach overseas.
"How terrifying. The Time Vessel Association."
After listening to Igarashi Naoto's account, Gojo Satoru not only did not feel afraid, he became excited instead.
Such a powerful enemy existed, and yet he had known nothing about it.
There were only two possibilities.
First, Igarashi Naoto was lying, and the Time Vessel Association was not that powerful at all.
Second, Igarashi Naoto was not lying. The Time Vessel Association truly was powerful enough to hide the truth from the world, which was why Gojo had not heard any news at all.
Because the Time Vessel Association had intentionally or unintentionally blocked information in this area, preventing jujutsu sorcerers like them from knowing.
His intuition told him that the second possibility was very likely.
In that case, he would directly overturn this colossal entity hiding in the shadows.
He wanted to see, between himself and that new leader,
who was truly the strongest.