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Chapter 86: The Boy at the Crossroads of Fate

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When seeing Yuji hanging upside down like a bat on the rooftop, Megumi almost forgot to breathe in an instant.

Relying on his body's agility and experience in crisis awareness, the boy rushed towards the window like a swift wind, bending his waist, and stretched out his palm towards Yuji.

"Fushiguro!"

Tiantian looked at the two boys at the window and was shocked. She shouted and rushed towards the window.

*ding*

At this most critical moment.

Everything was silent.

Time may be just a moment or a breath; the sound of the wind and the rustling of leaves outside the window all stopped.

Megumi's figure at the window turned into a silhouette. He stood at the window like a statue, with a look of fear and shock on his face.

The pages of the book on the desk blown by the wind are like a leaf frozen by the cold wind and frost, standing quietly and stiffly in the still time and air.

[System Task]

[Main Line: Night of Decisive Battle]

[Main Line Update]

[Side Line]

[Side Line: Boy at the Crossroads of Fate]

[Side Line Task: Please find out the cause of Itadori Yuji's change and solve Itadori Yuji's dilemma and heart knot.]

"..."

In the time when the world was frozen, Tiantian put down her outstretched right hand with lingering fear, the cold sweat on her forehead slowly slid down, and her heartbeat sounded like thunder.

Her first reaction was to walk quickly to the window, pass through and avoid the sculpture-like Megumi, and look out the window.

"..."

F*ck.

Seeing the scene under the window, Tiantian didn't know whether she was relieved or more horrified.

Yuji under the window did not fall headfirst and his head was smashed as imagined.

On the contrary.

His agile body was like a cheetah, with a strangely tilted waist. His right hand and left foot landed on the ground at the same time in a flexible and almost deformed posture, and his body was ready to run towards the exit of his yard.

Yuji's action was not self-destructive.

He seemed to want to run towards a certain destination.

"..."

Seeing this, Tiantian did not dare to waste any more time. She turned around and quickly returned to the room to try to find clues to the system side quest.

Yuji's change must have a causality with Sukuna's finger.

Otherwise, why did the two things collide so coincidentally?

She first observed the old man's body.

The old man looked peaceful, and there were no obvious scars on the external skin visible to the naked eye. Except for the hand that remained in a state of rigor mortis, the rest looked like just an ordinary corpse.

"System, can you analyze the cause of death of the old man? And the time of death."

Tiantian couldn't do such things as lifting the quilt of the old man's body and stripping the old man's clothes to check the body, so she could only ask the system for help.

[System: ...]

[System: Analyzing.]

Tiantian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after getting the system's consent.

This showed that the investigation of the cause of death of the old man was not within the scope of the side quest.

While the system was analyzing the body, Tiantian was not idle.

She first walked out of the door to check the two strange coffins at the staircase. After finding no special traces, she returned to the room and set her eyes on the notebook on the desk that was blown over by the wind.

"...excuse me."

It may be the boy's notebook, or it may be the old man's relics.

Tiantian walked forward and gently picked up the diary.

96

[Grandpa disappeared in the hospital. The nurse on duty said that grandpa left the hospital without saying hello to anyone. The police and I watched the surveillance video together... In the surveillance video, grandpa seemed to be supported by someone and walked out of the hospital slowly... but there was no one beside grandpa.]

97

[This incident was too sudden for me. I took a leave from school and had almost no sleep. The police officer and I kept looking for grandpa.]

98

[There is no news from grandpa, the surveillance is down. It has been two days, and he has not taken insulin these two days. What should I do? I am about to collapse.]

99

[A strange man with gray hair and human tattoos on his face found me... he said... my grandpa is with him... If you want grandpa to come back, you must do as he asks...]

[I told him I want to call the police]

[He said you can try]

[It depends on whether you call the police faster or your grandpa dies faster.]

[He has accomplices, I can't take risks with grandpa.]

910

[I did what they asked! Why! Grandpa still hasn't come back?]

[I almost knelt down and begged him! Grandpa hasn't taken insulin these days! His body still needs dialysis! How long are they going to delay?!]

[The man told me to bring the small box in the school playground to the teaching building on the night of the 15th, and he would let grandpa come back, and he also asked me for some insulin drugs and syringes.]

[Should I believe him?]

911

[Grandpa came back by himself.]

[He was still wearing the hospital gown he wore when he left the hospital that day. He probably hadn't taken a shower for many days, so he smelled.]

[I quickly put hot water for grandpa to take a bath, changed his clothes, and gave him insulin.]

[Grandpa was very calm. When he came back, he ate a lot of food and even asked for wine. Although I was very happy, I was not so surprised that I didn't let grandpa drink.]

[Grandpa asked me what I had done for that man, and I told him the truth.]

[Grandpa told me to forget all this and stop working for that man.]

[Since grandpa is back, I will naturally stop working for that man.]

[Tomorrow I will take grandpa to the hospital and call the police. I will not let that man go.]

....

[Grandpa is very happy today.]

[I said I would sleep with grandpa at night. Although he scolded me as a child who had not been weaned, grandpa did not refuse.]

911

[I got up very early this morning.]

[I turned around and touched my grandpa's hand.]

[My grandpa's hand was cold.]

....

[My grandpa is dead.]

913

[It's all my fault. If it weren't for my physique, my grandpa wouldn't have been targeted and wouldn't have died so miserably.]

[This is not the right way to die.]

[Why is fate so cruel to me?]

914

[I'm going to get that finger. This kind of thing that hurts people can't exist in this world anymore.]

[If I eat that finger, I'll commit suicide. Let me bear all the happiness and misfortune alone.]

[I'm really tired. I want to go find my grandpa.]

[I really want to sleep on my grandpa's lap like when I was a child, with the sound of cicadas, the summer breeze, and ice watermelon beside me.]

....

[I made two coffins according to the tutorials on the internet, and they turned out surprisingly well]

[If the police saw my diary, they could still bury my grandpa and I in these two coffins according to my last wish.]

915

[The finger in the box is gone.]

[The only people who have touched the box are my seniors.]

[Senior... doesn't look like...]

[The finger should have been taken away by my senior. At this time, my senior should be in the activity room... I'm going to find her.]

The diary had no gorgeous words, nor did it express feelings freely, but in this increasingly messy and stiff brushstrokes, Tiantian saw the weeping and blood-curdling wail of every word.

Although he was only a high school student, Itadori Yuji had the determination to sacrifice his life for the country.

If it was the fifteen or sixteen years old her, she might not be able to do this.

The gray-haired man, as expected... was the cursed spirit she met last time.

After all, there was no one else who looked like that donkey except him.

What did this thing force Yuji to do?

What did Yuji do for him before?

*ding*

Tiantian was not given more time to think.

With a system message in her brain, the world that had been paused started flowing again.

"Itadori! Don't do stupid things—"

Megumi was shocked. He was lying on the window and his expression was stunned before he finished shouting.

Yuji rolled on the ground like a big rat, then ran away in a flash. Even paparazzi without cameras couldn't beat him.

"F*ck! Itadori! What's wrong with you?"

The unknown tough guy downstairs was frightened by the sudden appearance of Yuji and jumped three feet high, almost falling into the gutter.

"Why are you running?!"

Megumi was anxious and weird, with his hands on the window frame and yelling at Yuji's back.

Running so fast, there must be something wrong.

"Fushiguro! Go to school!"

Tiantian turned around and ran to the door while shouting.

Megumi was stunned, "How do you know?"

"Why do you care how I know? Hurry over there! Go through the door! Jump out of the window!"

It was such a critical moment. Tiantian didn't have time to talk to Megumi in detail. She could only make a direct decision. Then she immediately ran out of the door, bypassed the two coffins at the staircase and chased down.

"...d*mn it!"

Megumi closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, supported his hands on the window frame, and jumped down.

"Ahhhhh!!"

From a distance, before Tiantian went downstairs, he heard the passionate curse between Megumi and the tough senior.

"Are you loan sharks? I warn you! Lending to minors is illegal!"

Fushiguro Megumi was angry.

"Are you sick? How do you know whether Itadori Yuji has borrowed loan sharks?! Get out of the way!"

Tiantian rushed downstairs and waved her hand to push the stubborn senior aside, "If you have time, call a funeral home for your classmate! His grandfather is gone!"

The tough senior was stunned, "You... killed his grandfather..."

Megumi: "..."

Tiantian: "For f*ck sake! Why bother with him! Hurry up and chase Itadori!"

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