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II: Lily of the Valley
Chapter 121: Flowing Red Leaves
Satoru Gojo said that for the first time he hated the word "work" so much.

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The sunset sank into the horizon, the last ray of day faded in the mountains, the stars filled the sky, and the roar of the train sounded in the quiet night.

After returning to the high school, it was already after dark.

The silent mountain forest was shrouded in a semicircular sky with sparse starlight, and ancient stone lanterns cast black shadows on the gravel-paved ground.

Rows of steps go up all the way, passing through the vermilion torii gate, and the shrine paved with stone bricks stretched all the way.

The cool breeze blew in the mountains on an autumn night, gently stirring the deep shadows of the trees.

A faint barking was heard.

A big black dog walked out of the shadows, its shiny black fur almost blending into the deep night. After seeing the person, it simply squatted on the ground, stuck out his tongue and whined at the two people, while its furry tail kept wagging.

Yayoi recognized it, it was Megumi's shikigami, Divine Dogs Kuro.

Within the hearing range, crickets echo loudly in the autumn night, and the branches and leaves were caressing in the wind. The quiet night was mixed with the shallow breathing of several people and the thumping of the heart. It was exceptionally warm in the cool autumn day.

It was quiet on the other side, as if there was no intention of breaking the silence of the night first.

The air was filled with the sound of dogs sticking out their tongues, and the loud chirping of crickets spread like ripples around.

Yayoi waved to the black dog, and the docile black dog walked up to her, wagging its tail and sticking out its tongue, and gently rubbed her palm with its furry head.

Divine Dogs' fur was clean and soft, and it was obvious that it had received special treatment from its owner.

Yayoi, who was addicted to petting the dog, paused when she felt two hot gazes. She turned around and saw the big white cat looking down at the dog.

Yayoi tried to argue, "I don't pet other cats."
This was a dog.

The vermilion torii gates cast long shadows on the shrine, the ancient stone lanterns gave off an eerie glow, and the rustling wind was particularly clear.

There was a strange silence in the air.

Staying up late was not only a taboo for women, it was also not a good thing for minors.

The students didn't plan to go to bed early tonight.

After a moment, Satoru spoke slowly.

"I know, no matter how good the cats and dogs are outside, they are still outside." Satoru blinked, his expression extremely understanding, "I am your only one."

The big white cat took advantage of his height and looked down at the student's dog. He looked at the dog squatting on the ground with a puzzled expression.

Yayoi: "...hmm."
Blaming others.

In the shadowy place, goosebumps fell all over the floor. After a rustling sound of clothing material passed by, someone finally let out a particularly loud vomiting sound.

The big black dog rubbed under Yayoi's hand a few times, then turned and walked into the shadows.

The ink-like black clouds were pushed aside, and the silver-white moonlight passed through the layers of clouds and mist, splashing onto the torii gate standing on the shrine.

The owner of the black dog put his palm against the dog's head and gently rubbed it a few times. The black dog's body instantly collapsed into a black and sticky shadow, and fell into Megumi's shadow.

The sea urchin with spiky hair said with a paralyzed face, "Good evening."

The boys and girls stood under the vermilion torii, with ink-like shadows extending on the soles of their feet. The expressions on their faces were very different, all expressing their goosebumps after being nauseating by the unscrupulous teacher at this moment.

The most vivid reaction was Nobara, who was very capable of making complaints. The girl crossed her arms and felt goosebumps.

Satoru held his newlywed wife in one hand and put the other hand in the pocket of his coat. He whistled lightly. The expression on his face was labeled as 'unflattering' in the eyes of the students, "Oh, I'm really sorry that you didn't sleep in the middle of the night and came out to greet us~"

Jujutsu community was full of single people. Except for the typical arranged marriages of the Big Three Sorcerer Families, the other sorcerers have a strong resentment towards sorcerers with lovers, and they would like to hold a torch to burn the lovers to death.

Just by looking at the faces of the students with different expressions, he could tell how deep this resentment was.

Panda scratched his face, "I'm getting goosebumps, Satoru."

"Salmon." Toge with half of his face hidden under his thick collar, nodded in agreement.

"Family member, please say something!" Nobara quickly reached out and grabbed Yuji's red hoodie, pulling him out of the shadows.

"Huh? Me?" The family member and classmate who were forcibly pulled out by the female classmate reacted as if he was trying to fish in class and were suddenly called upon by the teacher.

"Yuji, what do you want to say to sensei, ah, brother-in-law?" Satoru said with a smile.

The young man, who was relatively young in terms of age and experience, was led to do whatever the other wanted him to do. When he saw the news about the marriage, he was filled with complaints, sorrow and anger that were stuck in his throat.

Yuji's eyes subconsciously fell on the hands held by the two people. Yayoi's hand was much smaller than Satoru's, and it was easily wrapped in Satoru's hand.

When he was a child, he also held his sister's hand and stayed on her back for a long time. At that time, his sister's hand was bigger than his, and there was always warmth in her palm.

He suddenly thought of the rumors he heard when he was in junior high school.

Yayoi was a beauty, and she was a single beauty. The profession of teacher had always been a standard profession in the minds of many men to find their ideal partner. However, for so many years, she had been a single red-haired woman and hads no emotional experience at all.

Among the weird rumors on campus, his sister, who was missing a string in her head, was an ice beauty, and her favorite type was boys with blue eyes and white hair.

His eyes fell on the young man's white hair curled up in the bright moonlight, and the words he blurted out finally became, "Sister, she really likes Gojo-sensei."

The rumors did not deceive him.

Yayoi paused and spoke slowly, "I never said that before."
She didn't express it directly or explicitly that she liked Satoru.

"It's already obvious." Yuji couldn't help complaining.

His sister had always been in a daze, and she was also in a daze emotionally. Her behavior had shown it, but she was actually still in a daze.

Thinking of this, even as a vegetable farmer who had been given the advantage, Yuji couldn't help feeling that Satoru had not had an easy life in recent years.

"Is it really obvious?" Yayoi asked cautiously.
For Satoru, it may not have happened overnight, but she definitely found out that she wanted this cat after she got married.

Yayoi's eyes fell on Satoru. The white cat's mood became extremely good visible to the naked eye. The curvature of the corners of his mouth was very conspicuous. If he had a tail, it would definitely be curled up.

"It's super obvious!" Maki couldn't help but complain, "Speaking of which, what do you like about this blindfolded idiot? The only thing worth looking at is his face."

"That's too much, Maki." Satoru defended himself in a very aggrieved manner, "Sensei is a good man."

"Who believes it?" Maki curled her lips with an expression of disgust.

"Next, Junpei!" Maki, the eldest sister of Tokyo Jujutsu Tech, yelled with great anger.

"Huh? Me, me... me?" Junpei, who was suddenly called, pointed at himself and then looked at the people around him.

"It's you!" Maki's eyes were sharp.

Junpei paused, his eyes fell on Satoru, and then looked at Yayoi next to him. After the news of Yayoi's marriage reached the ears of his mother, Nagi, there was a sound of a can falling to the ground on the phone. He knew that his mother was shocked and stunned, and he also knew that his mother had been drinking.

Getting married or something didn't seem like something Yayoi-san would do.

It's definitely Gojo-sensei.

But if the other person was Gojo-sensei, it didn't feel like a big surprise. The two of them were surprisingly suitable.

The sensitive big boy thought about it and finally choked out a sentence, "Happy wedding!"

The moonlight cut through the dark night and poured onto the childish faces of boys and girls. At such an awkward age, it was awkward and straightforward to say wedding blessings, especially when one of the two people getting married was an unscrupulous teacher who was criticized crazily.

The ripples in his heart expanded, and gentle warmth filled his heart.

The autumn wind seemed to be as soft as warm spring, and Yayoi pursed her lips and couldn't help but laugh.

It seemed that this was the first time Satoru received blessings from others, and the person was a little stunned. But Yayoi knew that his heart felt like it was being soaked in warm water.

He was not suitable to be a teacher, but he was also suitable to be a teacher. Choosing to become a teacher was the thing he would regret least in his life.

The white cat had an inexplicable feeling in his heart that our children were just growing up. Although these children usually disliked and complained about him, they could not hide that they still felt sorry for the teacher.

"Sensei..." The white cat sniffed, wearing a blindfold made people feel that he was moved to tears.

"These are not important." Nobara interrupted Satoru's next statement bluntly.

Gojo the Cat found that the expressions on his students' faces changed at a speed comparable to that of Sichuan opera's actors. Even Yuji, the only one in the school besides Yuta who respected him, had a particularly gloomy expression.

"Hand over the return gift!!!"

The expressions of the boys and girls were particularly ferocious, and they rushed toward the white cat under the torii gate as fiercely as an evil spirit attacking its prey. Their concerted chants echoed in the empty and bright night sky, and were particularly loud.

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The teacher who had a partner without permission almost had his pants stripped off by the students who were still single, causing a fuss most of the night. After appeasing the single and resentful students, it was already late at night.

The underage students were forced back to their dormitories by Satoru, saying, "Children can't stay up late."

Bright lights shine in the smooth glass windows, the ancient eaves tile roofs were submerged in the ink-stained night, and the delicate moonlight spilled onto the floor under the eaves.

The night was very quiet, so quiet that one could still hear the voices of boys and girls echoing in the night sky.

Satoru was in a particularly good mood tonight, which could be seen with the naked eye. The curve of the corner of his mouth did not drop all night. After coming out of the bathroom, with a towel hanging around his neck, he collapsed into a cat cake on the bed, feeling so comfortable that he could not help but feel happy.

The wet white fur was covered with moisture, and the whole cat went limp.

Yayoi waved to him, "Come here."

Satoru rolled over and climbed out of bed, opened his arms and threw himself on Yayoi, hugging his wife's waist and rubbing her comfortably.

The mottled moonlight passed through the gaps between the layers of treetops, and fell on the grass in scattered light and shadow.

The night wind in early autumn stirred up bursts of rustling sounds, and the yellowed leaves swayed down.

Satoru's wet hair rubbed against Yayoi's neck, causing a slightly cool and numb feeling on her skin. He hummed as he rubbed it.

The mattress was very soft, and after his hair stopped dripping, Yayoi put down the towel in his hand, took out the hair dryer, and dried his hair. However, Satoru did not stop acting coquettishly, and still hugged the person without letting go, rubbing and humming.

Satoru smiled so hard that his eyebrows arched, and an uncontrollable smile escaped from the corners of his lips.

Yayoi curved her lips, revealing a smile as gentle as melting spring snow.

"Yayoi, Yayoi, Yayoi, Yayoi—"
He picked up his wife like a child and put her on his lap. His voice was low and soft, and he called his wife's name repeatedly in a cheerful tone like a child.

"I'm very happy, super happy!" A smile that couldn't be concealed appeared in his pale blue eyes, "I'm so happy to be married."

"I know." Yayoi held his cheeks with both hands and kissed his forehead.

Satoru blinked after receiving a kiss from his wife, his blue eyes twinkling.

"And you know what?" Yayoi said, "You and your students are super cute."

Yayoi smiled with crooked eyebrows, and the tiny lights dimmed in her amber eyes, which were warm, like the ripples of a lake in spring.

Children of this age were extremely stubborn in some aspects. They would openly express their dislike of Satoru, they would brazenly complain about the unreliability of their teachers, and they would threaten to send unreliable teachers to the police station, but still send wedding blessings to their teacher in the most awkward way.

Ah, although their teacher was still unreliable, so what? That was their teacher, and his characteristic was unreliability.

"I know." His pale blue eyes formed a cat-eye look, and his eyes overflowed with unconcealable joy, "Gojo-sensei is the cutest teacher, and they are the cutest students."

At first, what he wanted was very simple, just friends who could reform the jujutsu world with him, but being a teacher seemed to bring some unexpected surprises, and all his students were so cute.

In the jujutsu society, there were countless weird things, and his students were also famous weirdos. Any one of them in the jujutsu community was a weird thing among the weird things, such as the Heavenly Restrictions, mutated cursed corpse, "Sukuna's vessel", all the treasures were gathered under his hands.

Why was this happening?

Probably because, as a teacher, he was also a weirdo.

It was obviously a small thing, but it still made him want to laugh.

The sorcerers who work with curses, but in a world where curses were rampant, they grow up with such a gentle appearance, and the divergent life trajectories are unexpectedly but logically intertwined.

"Because I am the strongest teacher."
Satoru couldn't help but laugh, he hugged his wife, humming and laughing at the same time.

The mobile phone placed on the table vibrated twice, and the screen lit up.

Six Eyes' eyesight was very good, and on the lit screen, he clearly saw that it was the message from Shoko and Suguru.

[—Happy wedding.]

The big cat lying on Yayoi's shoulder curved his mouth in a gentle curve. He sat up straight and kissed Yayoi's forehead with a loud smack.

Yayoi touched the forehead where he kissed her, with a lovely blush on her face.

The big white cat purred and nuzzled towards her, smacking her lips again to kiss her. His intention was not to be too obvious, but Yayoi's hand covered his face.

Gojo the Cat: ???

"We have to work tomorrow, so go to bed early." Yayoi's eyes were serious.

Satoru opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but Yayoi interrupted him forcefully.

"Stop being passive at work, the cutest Gojo-sensei." Yayoi pushed the person onto the pillow and pulled the quilt to cover him tightly.

Satoru didn't make any sound for a long while. The big white cat, who was forced into bed by his wife, held his head against the ceiling and fell into silence.

With a 'click' sound, the light in the bedroom was turned off, and there was a rustling sound of the quilt being rubbed.

Yayoi kissed him gently on the forehead and lay down beside him, "Good night kiss, good night."

Tide-like darkness flooded into his sight, and only shallow breathing remained in the silence.

Satoru Gojo, the people's teacher, said that it was the first time he hated the word "work" so much.

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• Omake •

#The next day
Gojo theCat: Ijichi!!!
Ijichi: ???


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