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I: The Flowers Are Not Sleeping
Chapter 37: Song Theory
I'm waiting for you here.

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Yayoi woke up very early today, and the white furball was still sleeping under the quilt. When she woke up, most of his body was lying on her. No wonder she had a dream about ghosts pressing on her bed last night.

Yayoi quietly stuffed the furball into the bed and got out of bed to wash up.

Golden sunlight leaked into the dim room through the gaps in the curtains. The white cat lying on the bed shook his fluffy tail and buried his face impatiently in the quilt.

A few sparrows landed on the windowsill. The sparrows that came here to spend the winter seemed to be much bolder than other sparrows.

Most birds that lived in inhabited places would flap their wings without hesitation when they realize that humans were approaching, taking advantage of their ability to fly to stay away from the two-legged creatures that were much larger than them.

However, the sparrows that came to the window of Yayoi's room changed the habits of their predecessors. Since last winter, there was a little red feather in this room, and the sparrows often came to knock on the glass window of her room in the winter morning.

Winter was a cold season, and it's also a difficult season for animals to find food. The sparrows that could not find food would gather in groups in front of the window of Yayoi's room, knock on the glass window of her room, and make a crisp chirping sound to asked her for some food.

Heavy thuds sounded outside the window one after another.

Satoru was so annoyed in the cat's nest that he jumped out of the cat's nest with a 'meow', put his furry paws on the glass window, quickly opened the window, and meowed to the sparrow that woke him up from his sleep.

The sparrows were so frightened by him that they staggered around, flapped their wings and flew away, leaving behind a trail of dark feathers on the windowsill.

Yayoi happened to walk into the room and saw Satoru lying on the window sill with his furry white tail raised like a flag, meowing at the sparrows outside the window.

Yayoi ran to the window, stretched out her hand, passed through the armpits of the cat's front paws, and took the oversized cat down. The cat was obviously still angry, waved his paws at the sparrows running away outside the window and shouted a series of angry meows.

"Did they disturb you to sleep?" Yayoi hugged Gojo the Cat. The sparrows outside the window had fled away, but Satoru still looked angry.

The sleep time of Satoru was pitifully less than that of Tangerine. Tangerine seemed to be napping all day long, often lying on the wall with its eyes narrowed. However, Yayoi rarely saw Satoru napping, even cats need to spend a period of time preparing for sleepiness before falling asleep.

Gojo the Cat was different from Tangerine. In terms of daily living habits, Gojo the Cat was infinitely close to humans.

When Tangerine was adopted, Yayoi specially prepared a cat's nest, but Tangerine sniffed around the comfortable cat's nest and lost interest in the cat's nest, so it hid in a cardboard box in the corner of the room.

A cat was a creature that would only make a nest in a place that it thought was safe and comfortable. Forcing it to make a nest in a cat's nest would only be counterproductive.

In the winter, the temperature dropped, and the fat accumulated on Tangerine's body played a very good role in keeping warm. Yayoi still added a cotton pad to keep Tangerine warm. Tangerine did not refuse, and it lay down purring in the carton leisurely in the winter.

Gojo the Cat didn't like cardboard boxes and didn't like sleeping in the living room. On the first day he moved into the house, he made it clear that he wanted to sleep in the room and in the bed with comfortable bedding and cotton mats.

So the plush control little redhead made the bed for him every night before he went to bed, but the next morning, the furball ran to Yayoi's bed, pulling the mobile heating source with his four paws, and slept soundly.

In order to keep the bed clean, Yayoi bathed Gojo the Cat more often than Tangerine. Occasionally, when Tangerine passed by the bathroom with a small dried fish in its mouth, the ecstatic meows came from the bathroom one after another, and the earwax in the cat's ears was shaken out.

Tangerine: I don't think this shameless cat has a serious illness.

Gojo the Cat sheds a lot of hair. Before taking a bath, Yayoi specially used a comb to comb out the waste hair. The cat was like a walking dandelion, and the combed hair was piled up in the corner of the room. It could just fit into the pillowcase of a small pillow.

Yayoi combed out a bunch of fur from the furball and was shocked. She picked up the fur and looked left and right. She saw that the furball was still furry, and he didn't look like he was going bald due to excessive hair loss.

"Isn't your fur always falling out?" Yayoi held up Gojo the Cat, the redhead was shocked. jpg

At that time, her mother, Haruna, looked at Yayoi, who had her hands full of cat hair after giving Gojo the Cat a bath. Gojo the Cat was taken out of the bathroom by her daughter and the cat's hair was wet on his body.

"What a shy cat." Mom sighed with a smile with her eyes curved.

Yayoi looked at the cat hair on her body, "He sheds so much hair."

The strange thing was that after losing so much cat hair, it didn't look like there was any loss at all.

Gojo the Cat clung to Yayoi's shoulder, inexplicably feeling that something had passed away in him, and he seemed a little hopeless.

"I'll leave Tangerine to mom." She didn't know why, the white furball didn't like Yayoi bathing Tangerine, at least she couldn't bathe Tangerine in front of the white kitty.

"Hai, hai." Haruna rolled up her sleeves and went to give Tangerine a bath.

Time returned to the present, the white fluff was so angry that his tail was thrashing around. When Yayoi took him down from the window sill, he was still meowing angrily.

"Don't get angry, don't get angry. If you get too angry, your hair will fall off."

Yayoi tried her best to soothe the angry white furball, saying "don't be angry" while stroking him.

Maybe it's because cats like to be petted, but Satoru's breath really subsided a lot when he was petted, and he made a comfortable purring sound after being petted.

Gojo the Cat: Meow.

I'm not a real cat!!!

Yayoi carried Gojo the Cat downstairs, and Tangerine, who was sleeping in the room, just woke up. It yawned in a paper box specially padded with cotton mats, raised its tail, walked out of the paper box slowly, and sat on the tatami slowly. It began to comb its hair.

"Good morning, Tangerine." Yayoi laid the white furball on the cushion.

The new year was coming soon. Before the annual vacation, Yayoi originally planned to take Tangerine to a pet hospital in Tokyo for a physical examination to ensure that Tangerine was healthy and could live a peaceful and stable life as a cat master.

After the white kitty moved in, Satoru didn't come to take his cat away for a long time. He must had really been busy taking off.

Yayoi decided to replace Satoru and take Gojo the Cat to the pet hospital for a physical examination.

Because the two cats were too big, it was impossible to carry them all to the Tokyo Pet Hospital like the last time when she carried the little sea urchin and Tangerine.

Between the two cats, one cat would always be stuffed into the cat bag. Even if Satoru was killed, he would not want to be the cat stuffed into the cat bag, so of course, the cat stuffed into the cat bag was Tangerine.

Tangerine: ???

Tangerine: Meow-!!!

Before going out, Yayoi saw the sparrows poking their heads on the branches, so she ran downstairs to get bread crumbs and sprinkled them on the windowsill. After cleaning herself, she carried Tangerine on her back and went out with Gojo the Cat in her arms.

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Suguru was a little annoyed.

Suguru had been working overtime for a week in a row. He kept staying up late on business trips, his salary had not been increased, and he had no insurance. His work and rest were reversed and he stayed up late, and his vacation days were far away, so Suguru had been feeling a little annoyed recently.

There were a total of three special grade sorcerers in the magic world. Excluding the non-working Yuki Tsukumo, Satoru was cursed and turned into a cat. Now there was only one special grade sorcerer who could work, Suguru.

And he also had to support Satoru, that dog-man, so he could do the work of two people.

To be honest, you had transformed into a cat, why were you still such a dog?

One day when he returned to the high school, the student's thick dark circles shocked the teacher Masamichi Yaga. Suguru didn't say anything. He just wanted to catch up on his sleep. After staying up for a few days, he fell asleep. One day, Suguru woke up with another task stuck on his face.

Suguru: "..."

The underage high school boy looked at his teacher with a deep look in his small eyes.

'Can I skip work?'

Yaga stood on the podium with a paralyzed face, silently telling him - of course not.

'Sensei, I am so tired.'

Suguru looked accusingly.

Yaga: "..."

Suguru continued to condemn again and again, and there was still grievance in the condemnation.

Even though Yaga had the face of a Showa leader, in fact, underneath the tough appearance was the tenderness of a tough guy who liked to make felt dolls, so he sighed and sent Shoko out with him.

Shoko: "..."

It's not my business, right?

Although she said she was reluctant, she went anyway. As soon as the two of them arrived at the pet hospital, Shoko knew what to do when she saw Suguru, who had dark circles under his eyes as thick as the national treasure of a country after crossing the Sea of Japan. When the matter was over, she sympathetically gave her classmate a Reverse Technique to eliminate fatigue.

After Suguru thanked her, the two high school students with heavy dark circles sat side by side on chairs in the corridor of the pet hospital, frequently attracting the attention of many passers-by and cats and dogs.

"You have dark circles under your eyes, you are like a panda." Smoking is not allowed in the hospital. Although this was not a hospital for treating patients, Shoko still controlled the urge to smoke and took out a lollipop from her pocket.

She didn't like sweets, but lollipops could suppress her craving for cigarettes.

"Is the curse on Gojo still showing no signs of being lifted?" Shoko asked, holding a lollipop in her mouth and resting her chin.

Logically speaking, even if there was the ability to curse Satoru, the curse would not have any excessive effect. Satoru had only changed his body into a cat, but his brain circuit was still human, and his jutsus could also be used. This showed that the curse had limited effect on Satoru.

Moreover, Shoko had examined Satoru's body and found that compared to an ordinary cat, Satoru's body after becoming a cat was also very different.

Cats had barbs on their tongues, but Satoru's tongue was the same as a human's, and his gastrointestinal and digestive system capabilities were basically the same as humans. Apart from the fact that he couldn't speak human words and could only meow, this curse could basically be said to be useless.

But the Big Three Families and the higher-ups would not believe that much. They would only believe the part they want to believe and selectively ignore the rest.

Satoru had received too much attention from the Big Three Families and higher-ups in the magic world since he was a child. In recent years, because of his existence, the Gojo family's voice had become stronger and stronger. The other two families and the higher-ups had expressed dissatisfaction. In addition, Satoru never paid attention to those insignificant things. Not to mention the other two families and the higher-ups, the Gojo family themselves had already complained a lot.

It didn't matter if this turned into a pussycat situation, but the higher-ups would definitely cause trouble for you and took the advantage of your illness to kill you. This was a common sense.

In the past, when they were alone, they could do whatever they wanted. Even though the Six Eyes had turned into a cat, he was still the strongest cat and could kill a group of them without even taking a breath. But now Satoru was surrounded by Suguru, Shoko, and there's a teacher who could beat him up.

Besides, Satoru was not a crazy murderer. Even though this guy was really a little crazy sometimes and liked to ignore people, he also had a bottom line.

The consequences of murder were not only borne by one of the two parties. The one who lost his life was his own life, and the one who was deprived of it was left with a shadow as thick as ink and blood that could not be washed away from his hands.

Before coming to the pet hospital, Yaga specifically talked to Suguru about something. Their teacher had the rough face of a showa-era leader, and he had already talked privately with Satoru, who had turned into a pussycat.

'Thank you for your hard work, Suguru.'

'Satoru, this kid... has always had a hard time.'

Extreme wisdom must be damaged, beyond the mature mind of ordinary people, and a brain that could withstand the huge information flow brought by the Six Eyes. Six Eyes bring the strongest strength in the future of jujutsu, and the super detection ability that could understand almost everything, and at the same time, it would shift the gaze to the shadow behind the shiny external object.

Of course Satoru knew what his teacher meant behind his back, and he understood the truth, but he just wasn't happy with it. Why should the rotten oranges at the top be restricting him?

Recalling the reluctance of the cat, Yaga suddenly remembered Satoru before high school. Yaga and Satoru had known each other very early. When Satoru was a little boy, he had known this naughty cat. From the moment they met, this d*mn brat had a cold face and looked bitter and resentful.

Yaga knew very well that the child of the Big Three Families and Six Eyes, who had a vicious insight ability, had almost no childhood at all.

Until Satoru entered Jujutsu High, this guy became disgusting, but at least he had some appearance of an ordinary person.

He still remembered that when Satoru and Suguru met for the first time, Satoru bluntly said that his bangs were weird, and that mouth filled him with hatred. The two of them started fighting on the spot, and he finally kicked them out of the classroom and stood hand in hand in the playground.

After all, boys' adolescence was also the time when they were the most hated.

Yaga was looking out the window at the 8 or 9 o'clock sun, pursed his lips, even though this was too disgusting.

Suguru scratched his forehead and smiled.

Of course he knew, otherwise would he honestly help Satoru with the top of the tank? If the opponent was not Satoru, he would just kick the tank to him.

'Then how did you convince Satoru to go to Yayoi's house?'

Suguru asked.

'Just study the Heavenly Restriction.'

Yaga's face was full of seriousness.

'After all, it is very rare to exchange all the cursed energy of the body for a powerful body.'

'However, the feeling she gave me was not as simple as being bound by Heavenly Restriction.

Yaga frowned.

'Well, Satoru is also very interested in her, isn't he?'

Satoru's strong person radar told him that this redhead was very strong. Even though she had no cursed energy, what did the lack of cursed energy had to do with the redhead being strong? These two things, as long as they were strong, were worthy of his special treatment.

'Satoru most likely knew my intention. It would be better to do less than to do more, so he still accepted my suggestion.'

Of course, the premise was that the higher-ups didn't cause trouble and everyone took a step back, which was better for everyone.

'I will beat him when he comes back.'

Suguru smiled.

Yaga: "..."

Whatever you want.

"Satoru sent me an email yesterday and told me that it probably won't last long and it will probably be completely lifted in the next two days." Suguru said, "There probably won't be any big problems on his side. Let's deal with the immediate matter first."

After Suguru finished speaking, he glanced around the pet hospital. There were nurses holding pets, and owners passing by with their pets. The hospital was neat, clean, and orderly, but it still couldn't hide the scene in the eyes of the conjurer.

A cursed spirit that looked like a green lizard crawled out from underneath silently, crawled on the tiled floor a few times and then crawled back to the ground.

Suguru's eyes darkened. The intensity of this aura was... a second-level cursed spirit.

What was going on in this hospital?

"I collected some files before coming here." Shoko threw the phone to Suguru. "This hospital was built in 1994. It used to be a large apartment specially rented out. The owner of the apartment was a descendant of a wealthy businessman who fell into decline in the Showa era. His property was almost lost in his father's generation, and only this apartment was inherited by his generation."

"The owner of the apartment made a living by collecting rent and was living a good life. But one day, after a female high school student from a nearby university was strangled to death in the apartment, the tenants of this apartment died frequently. "

"Frequent, death?" Suguru muttered these two words and looked down at the files in the email on the phone screen.

The strange thing was that the tenants were almost all killed by strangulation. Although the tools used to strangle people were different, some were hemp ropes, some were mobile phone charging cables, and some were twisted sheets, but in the final analysis they were all strangled to death.

"By the way, this case has not been solved yet." Shoko calmly said.

Murders occurred all year round and the murderer was not caught and solved. Naturally, there were fewer and fewer tenants in this apartment. In 1997, the owner had to sell the land of this apartment on the market. The next year it was sold out. After buying it, the person who bought the land demolished the apartment and built a pet hospital on the land. It was only built in the past two years.

—Curse the wandering land.

Suguru pinched his eyebrows.

Unfortunately, there was also a special thing stored in this hospital.

There was a local custom of using objects to ward off evil spirits, using more sinister curses to impose seals on the surface to ward off evil spirits. Although it was said to ward off evil spirits, it was just a bad habit. After a long time, the seal loosened and it became a lure for the cursed spirits. bait.

That thing was bought through underground auction channels a few years ago, and then was placed in the hospital to ward off evil spirits. Recently, someone accidentally saw it and took photos. The photos flowed into the jujutsu world, and the sealing runes on it attracted the attention of people in the jujutsu world.

"We've searched everywhere in the hospital." Suguru muttered to himself, "Where is it placed?"

"Maybe there is another place you are not looking for." Shoko suddenly said.

Suguru looked at Shoko subconsciously.

Shoko calmly took out a lollipop from her pocket and said, "Operation room."

Suguru paused and said, "It's not easy to get in that place."

Although it's only a hospital that specialized in treating cats and dogs, a place like the operation room was strictly managed and was not a place where you could just go in casually like a toilet.

"We don't have a cat." Suguru sighed.

Even if you had a cat, you may not be able to get in.

Shoko threw the lollipop with the wrapper off into her mouth and raised her eyes, "Who said that?"

Suguru: "..."

Suguru's body shaken due to shock, and a bad idea ran into his mind like a wild horse running wildly, and he couldn't hold it back.

Suguru, who had wild horses running wild in his mind, was brought back to reality by a sound of meowing. The cats in the pet hospital didn't know what kind of restlessness they were in. They kept meowing. The one closest to Suguru was held by the little nurse. The short-haired cat he was holding was pulling hard on the little nurse's shoulders, meowing in a certain direction with wild eyes.

Suguru: "..."

What's going on?

All the cats on this floor of the hospital were meowing, and the surrounding area was suddenly flooded with meows.

"Oh, be good, Ellie." The little nurse lowered her voice and tried to calm the short-haired cat, but the cat still meowed ungratefully in a certain direction.

"Geto, look if that's the little redhead." Shoko poked Suguru on the shoulder.

Suguru followed his classmate's gaze and saw, as expected, a head of bright red hair, Tangerine, who was carried in a cat bag by its red-haired owner, and a fluffy white cat tail.

Suguru: "..."

Suguru looked along the meows of the cats and found that the kittens were meowing in the direction of the little redhead.

According to the nurse, most of the meowing cats were female cats, and the tails of the male cats were already standing up. The scene was like a handsome school boy from a campus romance soap opera, and the girls were crazy and the boys were angry.

Suguru: "..."

Wasn't it? Was Yayoi's fat orange cat so popular among their kind?

Feeling the sight behind her, Yayoi turned around subconsciously. The white cat in her arms had beautiful blue eyes and was wearing a pair of small round sunglasses. It was more attractive than other cats. The lustrous cat hair and the cat's unique behavior which were reserved.

For a moment, the little female cats meowed louder.

Suguru: "..."

No f*cks to say.

As expected of you, Satoru.

Suguru: "..."

He remembered that Yayoi had sent a message to Satoru's mobile phone last night, saying that she was taking the white kitty to the pet hospital for a physical examination. At that time, he sent a message back saying OK, thank you for your help.

This made Yayoi think that Satoru was possessed by evil spirits. How could he be so polite when he was like an immoral cat?

Suguru didn't pay attention at that time, but now he felt that it came at the right time.

"Geto?" Yayoi hugged Gojo the Pussycat, and asked doubtfully.

Suguru smiled gently and said hello to the little redhead, "Are you here to give the cat a physical examination?"

Yayoi nodded, "Do you have a cat?"

Suguru smiled and said, "No, I'll wait for you here."

To be precise, he was waiting for Yayoi to bring Satoru over.

Yayoi: ???

Then he looked at the white furball, who gave him a wink, and Suguru gave him a bright smile in return, so bright that Satoru thought he had been stimulated.

Suguru smiled brightly and inexplicably asked Satoru to pull the cold from behind. Then he said to the nurse who helped register the cat, "Ms. Nurse, I want to perform a sterilization operation on this cat."

Then he could go into the operating room.

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• Omake •

Suguru Geto: Just go, the organization will remember you.

Gojo the Cat: Miaw—!!!

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[0] "Suguru, who had wild horses running wild in his mind..."

Well just think that's so many "d*mn, d*mn, d*mn" or "f*ck, f*ck, f*ck" or "what the f*ck" or any curse word you like.


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