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Chapter 76: vow to You

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"..."

Toge looked at Tiantian quietly without saying anything.

His somewhat sad and somewhat suspicious look was like a death sentence in Tiantian's eyes.

Seeing Toge like this, Tiantian's heart sank.

At the same time, she was not stupid. She could guess that she was trapped here because she swallowed Ryomen Sukuna's finger.

"Toge..."

Tiantian frowned and looked at Toge. She didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only repeat his name uselessly.

Did Tiantian regret it?

She could only say that this was the biggest opportunity and the most successful decision in her life, and she didn't regret it.

This was a gamble with a way out.

If she won, she could eliminate the disease for her mother and give her a long and healthy body.

If she lost, the worst thing would be to destroy her current body and return to China to accompany her mother.

After agreeing to the system's convenient clearance option, Tiantian had made sufficient plans. It would be best if she could successfully collect Sukuna's finger.

Even if she failed to collect them, or was killed by Sukuna halfway, she would die for her country.

This way, she could escape unscathed and ensure that Japan would not be harmed by Sukuna; she could also eliminate a finger to the maximum extent, so that Sukuna would lose the possibility of resurrection by one-twentieth in the following years.

However, now things were unexpected.

In the spiritual world that Tiantian saw, Sukuna appeared in her original body.

What did this mean?

She must have a good talk with the system.

However, she did not want to give up this opportunity until it reached the worst.

"...why did you do this?"

Toge stood by Tiantian's bed and spoke in a low voice.

When Tiantian was thinking, the boy silently clenched his fists, his eyes slightly red, and looked at her with anger and bewilderment.

Tiantian: "…"

She didn't know how to answer Toge for a while, but she didn't want to lie to him, so she could only frown and remain silent.

"...you did it voluntarily, right? Or did the cursed spirit force you?"

Seeing that Tiantian didn't speak, Toge asked.

This answer was not important, because the result had already been achieved; but even so, Toge still didn't give up and wanted to see her attitude.

But,

Although the question was asked like this.

But, could the cursed spirit really force Tiantian to eat Ryomen Sukuna's remains?

She had the ability to teleport them all to her cabin.

If she knew the harm of this finger, as long as she didn't want to eat it; she could teleport herself back to the cabin. It didn't make sense that she could teleport them but not herself.

Toge: "I don't understand... Are you really voluntary? What's the benefit to you? You swallowed Ryomen Sukuna's finger, exactly..." Why?

He couldn't say the rest of the words to Tiantian, and could only get stuck halfway through the words, staring at Tiantian with red eyes.

"..."

Tiantian looked at Toge and felt a little guilty and ashamed.

But there were some things Tiantian couldn't say. It was a signed agreement with the system. If it was exposed or violated, the system would destroy her and send her back to her country without saying anything.

Toge was different from Satoru.

She said vaguely to Satoru that Satoru was a smart man. As long as he knew that Tiantian would not pose a threat to them, he would not be so ruthless to pursue it to death.

But Toge.

Tiantian personally felt that he was a bit stubborn.

If Toge wanted to ask something, he would not give up until he got to the bottom of it.

"This matter is very complicated, but I can assure you that I will never pose a threat to you— or even the Japanese people."

Tiantian looked at Toge and spoke.

That was all she could say to him at the moment.

Tiantian was not bragging.

If one day in the future, she lost control before collecting all the fingers of Ryomen Sukuna, she would destroy the □□ and let everything go to waste, but she would not let the out-of-control Sukuna threaten the safety of these people.

After all, she had her own wishes and dreams, and there was no reason for others to pay for them.

Toge: "I didn't mean that!"

The boy suddenly became a little agitated.

He widened his purple eyes and looked at Tiantian angrily.

"You don't understand what this means at all. The process of Sukuna's incarnation is irreversible! If you do this, do you know that they will...!"

*click*

Accompanied by the sound of the door.

Toge's emotional voice stopped abruptly.

"!"

He seemed to be startled, and turned his head nervously to look in the direction of the door, his body tensed up in a defensive manner.

"Toge, didn't I say that no one can come in?"

Satoru walked in, but did not close the door; the man leaned sideways to leave a gap for one person to pass through, and then looked at Toge expressionlessly, his voice calm and serious.

"..."

Seeing Toge lowering his head and not speaking, Satoru raised his eyebrows, "Toge, you should know that if this matter is known by the top management, it will be difficult for everyone to explain; it will also make me lose a certain degree of right to speak on Tiantian's matter."

"Go back quickly while no one finds out. Leave her to me... Don't you trust your teacher?"

Toge: "..."

The boy was silent for a moment, looked at Satoru apologetically, and finally turned back to look at Tiantian with complicated and patient eyes.

He silently left the bed, lowered his head, walked out of the door without saying a word, and closed the door by the way.

*bam*

Accompanied by the sound of the door closing.

This room, which was neither big nor small, was quiet again.

"I'll go get a chair first."

Satoru said to Tiantian on the bed, and turned to go out.

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[Scream, I know you're awake.]

When Satoru went out, Tiantian looked grim and started talking to the system.

[System: ...]

[What's wrong with Ryomen Sukuna? Why does it have the face of my Chinese body? ]

Tiantian asked the system expressionlessly.

She had prepared for the worst.

As long as the system said the situation was out of control, she bit her tongue immediately.

Damn it, Ryomen Sukuna, a century-old poison, must not be airdropped to China.

[System: ...I'm sorry, I didn't know it would be like this.]

The system's voice was rarely low and ashamed, but then he immediately said anxiously, [But don't worry, as long as you control the number of fingers within three, Ryomen Sukuna will not touch your body. It is only touching the projection now! Although Ryomen Sukuna knows that you are using □□... but it definitely does not have the ability to locate the body!]

Listening to the system's explanation, Tiantian was unexpectedly calm.

She felt that she had gained all her calmness at this point in her life.

Perhaps she should have scolded the system domineeringly, despised the experience of the system's garbage, or had a burst of energy and jumped directly into the spiritual world to beat up the system; and threatened it by the way to let it know how powerful it is.

She did not do so.

[System: ...]

Tiantian stared at the ceiling and spoke suddenly.

[I have known you, and until now, except for beating you up at the beginning, I have never offended you. Besides, you teased me first that time, and I thought it was reasonable for me to beat you up.]

[After that, I completed all your tasks with all my heart and trust you very much. Do you agree with what I said?]

[System: ...]

[System: ...agree.]

[Tiantian: ...I will ask you this once, and I won’t ask you again.]

[As long as Ryomen Sukuna's fingers are controlled within three fingers, it will not affect China, nor will it threaten Japan— you didn't lie to me about this, did you?]

When the system heard this, it was so anxious that it almost cried.

[System: You... you believe me, I definitely didn't lie to you about this!]

"..."

Tiantian took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes.

[System, I don't want us to go to the worst... You really, really can't play tricks on me, and don't put me in an unjust position.]

To be honest, in the process of getting along with the system later, and experiencing the system's various magical equipment and hundreds of billions of subsidies, she didn't hate this system as much as she did at the beginning.

[Neither of us wants to die together, right?]

Tiantian asked.

[System: ...I'm sorry, I won't lie to you...]

For the first time, its voice made Tiantian feel that it was a little pitiful and helpless.

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Satoru dragged a chair back from the door and sat in front of Tiantian's bed.

"First of all, I want to thank you, Meifeng, you have protected everyone's safety very well."

The beginning was not a question.

Satoru showed a big smile and talked to Tiantian in a relaxed voice.

"..."

Tiantian pursed her lips. Her intuition told her that now was not a good time to discuss merits and rewards, so she lay quietly on the bed and listened to Satoru.

Sure enough, Satoru did not give Tiantian a chance to speak, and began to explain on his own.

"Two of the three people sent by Meifeng returned to Yokohama, and one was taken away by the Russian embassy. Well... it is said that they are very important superpowers in the other country, so they seem to have activated special diplomatic immunity..."

Speaking of this, Satoru seemed to think of something funny, and showed Tiantian a big white tooth with interest.

"However, Russia said that they will lock up Dostoyevova or something like that in an independent sanatorium in Siberia, and will not let him out to make trouble again~"

Tiantian: "..."

Fuck, the Russians were exiled to Siberia by the Russians.

"Speaking of you— Meifeng."

Satoru changed the subject, pulled down the black cloth on his eyes, revealing his icy eyes, and looked at Tiantian seriously.

His voice changed from relaxed to serious, seamlessly switching.

"I'm not kidding you now."

The man's voice was a little cold.

"You did this, even if you find your relatives in China in the future, you can't go back."

"Meifeng, you are not a coward. I can tell you very clearly now, being incarnated by Ryomen Sukuna is no different from being possessed by round bullet. Even if it is one-twentieth of the level, it is enough to cause a city-level disaster.."

Tiantian: "I know."

From the beginning when she took this task, she did not plan for this body to survive.

Satoru: "You know?"

The man narrowed his eyes, put his hands on his legs, and moved closer to Tiantian.

"You know? How did you know that Sukuna could take on human flesh? How did you know that you had the potential to take on human flesh? This is probably not that simple, Meifeng? What is the purpose of doing all this?"

"Three fingers."

Tiantian made up his mind, looked at Satoru calmly, and spoke.

Satoru: "..."

He didn't react for a moment, looking at Tiantian strangely.

"Sensei, let me eat three fingers, I can guarantee that I have a 90% chance of letting three fingers be buried forever in the long river of Japanese history."

Satoru was silent for a moment, narrowed his eyes, "Do you know what it means to disappear forever?"

"I know."

Tiantian said neither servile nor arrogant.

"Sensei, you are a person who can judge people very well. You can tell whether I am lying or bragging. So far, I have not broken a single promise I made to you. I brought my classmate back safely, and I also collected the finger in my own way. And this time, I will not break my promise. Can you believe me?"

Tiantian looked at Satoru's uncertain face seriously, and her voice was very sincere.

"I will definitely do what I promised you, and I will not pose a threat to any of you. There are some things I can't say, but letting me swallow fingers is a matter of good for the jujutsu society at the least and for the whole of Japan at the most."

"Even if I am really a treacherous bastard, I believe that you have the ability to kill me, sensei."

"..."

Satoru stared at Tiantian and slowly frowned.

At that moment, what he said to Tiantian felt very strange.

From beginning to end, the idea expressed by Meifeng seemed to be to eat three fingers and then die for justice.

In her explanation, there was no consideration for her own survival.

All she said was "it will not harm you", "it will not pose a threat to you", "don't worry", and other words.

Three fingers.

The reason that could not be explained in detail.

It was as if Liu Tiantian was restricted by something, but she was happy with it.

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"I want to know... what will happen to you after eating three fingers?"

Satoru retracted his scrutinizing eyes, slowly closed his eyes, rubbed his temples with his fingers, and asked in a tired voice.

Tiantian: "..."

She was silent at first, and then she spoke to Satoru—

"I swear in the name of my mother— the three fingers will definitely disappear, and I... will definitely be fine."

"..."

Satoru slowly opened his eyes and looked at Tiantian with his lips tightly pursed.

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