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Chapter 87: The Night of the Final Battle

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When Tiantian and Megumi arrived at Yuji's school, the entire school was visibly gloomy and filthy. The high-intensity resentment and the "spiritual pressure" that swept like a storm were simply daunting.

Before the two of them entered, they saw a girl with short hair and eyes crawling out of the window on the first floor.

The girl saw the two people opening the iron gate from a distance. Her pale face was filled with fear. She screamed and waved her hands vigorously, "Don't come over! Run! There are monsters inside!"

"..."

Seeing a living person, Tiantian did not hesitate. She walked towards the girl before Megumi, pulled her arm and pulled her to the safe area outside the iron gate.

"...?!"

The girl was still in shock, her eyes were hazy and confused, her legs were trembling, and she walked to Megumi's side with the help of Tiantian.

The boy looked at the girl anxiously, then looked at the dark teaching building, and asked quickly, "What happened inside? Did you see a boy with pink hair?"

"..."

Hearing the words "pink hair", the girl's pupils shrank, sweating, and her chest rose and fell rapidly.

"Pink hair... Itadori... Itadori..."

The girl murmured to herself, tears helplessly sliding down her cheeks.

She looked up and looked at Tiantian and Megumi desperately. The guilt and sadness in her pupils were like a container full of water that could not stop bubbling out.

"Don't worry, we are Itadori's friends and we are here to help him. We need you to provide information about the situation inside and Itadori's location."

Seeing that the girl was about to turn over, Tiantian stepped forward and comforted her calmly, patting her back gently with her palm.

"!!"

The girl's body trembled twice as Tiantian slapped her.

She looked up at Megumi and Tiantian, opened her mouth, and tried to sort out her words and emotions.

"...there is a monster... in... up there! On the top floor... When I was about to be attacked by the monster, Itadori suddenly appeared... he blocked me... I was too scared... so I ran away without looking back..."

At the end, the girl was overwhelmed with grief, and she couldn't control her emotions, and she cried hysterically.

"Wait... when did the monster appear?"

Megumi frowned, and asked the girl while sending a message on his mobile phone.

"Monster... monster..."

The girl's eyes rolled around in her pupils, "...yes...! I took apart a finger in the activity room! After the finger that looked like a mummy was taken apart, the monster appeared!"

At the end of the description, the bad memories came to her face, and the girl's voice almost broke out of her throat, like a wail.

Hearing this, Megumi's face completely darkened, and he couldn't even control his emotions, "What's wrong with you? Didn't your parents teach you not to pick up things on the road?"

Tiantian raised his hand to let Megumi shut up.

Now that the incident had happened, there was no point in teaching the girl here.

"First, go to the bus stop in front, and the police will come to pick you up, and we will go in to deal with it."

Tiantian gently pushed the girl and said to her.

The police were impossible, the so-called public officials were basically sorcerers, and saying this was just to give the girl psychological comfort.

"...?!"

The girl was confused, and she just wanted to say something to the two of them, and saw Tiantian and Megumi leave without looking back, heading towards the dark teaching building, moving forward without hesitation.

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The night wind blew quietly on the rooftop.

Yuji, shirtless, quietly and silently stepped on the remains of the cursed spirit, watching indifferently as the remnants disappeared like ashes.

"..."

The boy's pupils showed no joy or sadness. He gently extended his index finger and scratched the two obvious black marks under the corners of his eyes with the nails of his fingertips.

Scratched once, and scratched again.

Gradually, subcutaneous bruises appeared on the black mark under Yuji's right eye, followed by another bleeding wound.

"Well done, Itadori."

At the water tank above the rooftop, the silver-gray-haired cursed spirit held his cheeks with both hands, letting the wind blow his hair into disarray.

His voice was high-pitched, and he could hardly suppress his excitement.

"..."

Hearing Mahito's sweet praise like honey, Yuji turned back gloomily, and the pair of brown eyes that should have been warm and sunny were now only a cloud and dead silence.

Yuji did not respond to Mahito, he just looked at him with an uncertain look, his pupils moving, and I don't know what he was thinking.

"Oh?"

The cursed spirit who noticed Yuji's expression raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming a little incredible.

"Itadori, what's that expression on your face?"

At this point, Mahito seemed to have thought of something, and laughed happily, "When we first met, you were like a puppy wagging its tail with a disgusting smile on your face. Why? After not seeing you for a few days, why do you look like a rat in the gutter?"

At this point, Mahito jumped down from the water tank on the roof with great interest, put his hands in his pockets, and slowly approached Yuji.

"By the way..."

The cursed spirit slightly raised his head, with an innocent and cruel smile.

"Why do you look like a cat lurking in the dark, staring at a mouse? Could it be... you want to hunt me?"

Yuji was not moved by Mahito's exaggerated tone.

He calmly looked at the cursed spirit with sutures all over his face, and his heart was strangely calm.

"My grandpa is dead."

Yuji said.

After he finished speaking, he looked at Mahito quietly, waiting for his reaction.

"?"

Mahito opened his eyes wide, stared at the boy, and also did not speak.

Yuji: "..."

Mahito: "..."

Mahito: "Then what? Why don’t you continue talking?"

Mahito looked like "I’m listening, you continue talking", cold and contemptuous to the point of chilling people’s body and mind.

In his eyes, the death of Yuji’s grandpa was no different from stepping on an ant on the roadside.

"Isn’t it the same for humans? Many are born, and they die quickly. It’s normal."

Mahito scratched his ears as if it had nothing to do with him, smiling the whole time.

Yuji was silent for a long time, raised his head and stared at Mahito: "Human? But you... aren’t you a human?"

"?"

Mahito blinked his eyes when he heard it.

Then he opened his mouth and laughed like thunder.

"Hahahahaha!"

Mahito laughed while holding his stomach in a funny way, wiping away the tears that didn’t exist in the first place with his fingers.

"What? Itadori, do you still think I am a human being?"

Mahito: "How is that possible?"

Mahito opened his arms, and the evening breeze gently stroked his bound long hair.

"Fragile, greedy, and unclean."

"A high-speed iron box can easily take their lives."

Mahito's dark blue approval surged in the darkness, "Every creature has to go through selection, from the Cretaceous to today, from dinosaurs to Homo sapiens. Genes have never changed, only evolution and elimination."

"..."

Yuji's face was gloomy.

The boy slowly walked towards Mahito.

"Mr. Mahito."

Yuji smiled bitterly.

At this point, he didn't know what he was expecting.

These were the last words he wanted to say to Mahito.

"When you asked me for insulin, I really thanked you very much... It's strange, isn't it? If it weren't for you, my grandpa wouldn't have suffered these injuries."

"But no matter what, at that time, the false kindness you inadvertently revealed was indeed the motivation for me to survive and persevere."

Yuji's voice fell softly.

When he raised his head, his face was distorted.

"I'm sorry... I still can't let you go."

Mahito's eyes widened slightly, and he saw Yuji slowly walking towards him. The two scars under the boy's eyelids slowly moved, as if something was about to break out.

*blam*

The door of the rooftop was suddenly pushed open.

"Wait!!"

At the last moment, Tiantian came to the rooftop and yelled in the direction of Yuji.

"..."

The boy, who seemed to be possessed by a demon, suddenly stopped moving. The strange voice was like a thunder, striking a lightning bolt in front of his eyes, briefly piercing the pain and hatred that blinded his eyes.

Yuji: "…"

He turned his head and looked in the direction of the rooftop exit, where a girl of the same age as him stood.

"...?"

The boy sobered up a little.

He had seen her.

Earlier today, near the station, he saw this girl and a boy while dragging his contaminated body and walking along the sweet spiritual energy.

At that time, he resisted the desire to kill and devour, and quietly moved away from them.

"Is it you? Wait... it's very dangerous here, why are you here?"

Perhaps the situation in front of him was beyond Yuji's expectations, making him a little confused and bewildered for a while, and the boy was a little slurred.

She did not reply to the boy immediately.

"!!"

Tiantian turned around and stared at Mahito viciously.

"I don't expect your brain that lit a fire in the sewer to say any truthful words, but I heard your cruel and violent remarks just now clearly."

Mahito: "...?"

The cursed spirit frowned, and seemed a little surprised by her appearance, "It's you."

He remembered this human clearly.

The strange ability, and the pretense of spreading smoke in the sewer, scared him.

It's rare to have such a little curiosity about human things, but encountering such a thing, it's really disgusting.

"Humans are fragile? Should they step down?"

Tiantian stared at Mahito, mocking him coldly.

"Without humans, there would be no cursed spirits. You despise humans, but you act so high and mighty. Today, I can tell you clearly that in terms of seniority, all humans on this earth are your wild fathers."

While mocking, she walked towards Mahito and Yuji calmly.

"What do you think you are? A collection of human malice? It’s funny. What’s the difference between you and the soup in the septic tank? Aren’t they all rejected by humans? If humans are really eliminated by new species one day, it won’t be your turn, the cursed spirits, because you are just a low-profile version of humans, and you will never escape the cycle of inferiority and greed in the depths of your soul."

With every word Tiantian uttered, the cursed spirits looked uglier.

At the end, Mahito was basically broken by the description of the septic tank, and his face was full of murderous intent.

"You... seem to have gone a little too far..."

Mahito smiled, his canine teeth showing, and all his attention was focused on Tiantian.

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