ほろ苦い . [g. satoru x reader]

九

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After we left the temple, other than the blood manipulator guy and Yuki. I kept my eye on my watch.

"Ah, Ichimiya-san. You've been concentrating on your watch for a while now. Is there something else you need to do?" Itadori turned to me with a concerned face.

"We should probably wait for a few minutes," I whispered.

"Huh? What's that?"

"Wait for me for two minutes. We're having someone in our gang," I repeated, taking a different route.

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"Ah, Minato-chan! I guess I'm right about you not being affected by the culling game, huh?" I smiled at a woman who was a few inches taller than me.

We stood outside my apartment door and gave her a small envelope.

"What are you even doing in this culling game? Man, I had to teleport to the other side of the world just to help you, though," she sighs.

"Eh, I just want you here as a lookout and backup, really."

"Seriously? Back up? Me?" Minato grumbled.

"Sorry, if I'm leaving you out of the fun, but things have gotten worse. Especially the things to come," I explained.

"Whatever. So what's in this thing?" She raised the envelope and eyed me.

"Information about the culling game and other stuff before you came here. I wrote it down for you so I won't have to repeat it and well, do something while you're that one bystander," I shrugged.

"Fine, I'll take it. If you survive this crap, you better give me curry," Minato waved at me and disappeared.

I smiled and turned back.

"Now, where were we?"

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((this part is not official, I might change it sometime))

A few days have passed and things have gotten worse every hour.

I wasn't expecting a report from Minato until I received a call regarding a girl with a ponytail and glasses abolishing the entire Zen'in clan a day after I got her in.

She mentioned that they're pulling out a high bounty on my head.

I exhaled a cloud of smoke and crushed the cigarette butt and moved out.

Fushiguro and the others said they're moving out to search for Angel girl. I told them to contact me if they managed to track her down.

I spent the last few days scouting for any serious situations, but the place has gone quiet. Too quiet.

As I passed by a tunnel, an explosion blew behind me and came out Kamo Noritoshi. The one in Geto's head.

"Found you."

"Eh, you'd just run away like a coward if I try to hit you, anyway. Sorry, fool," I shrugged.

"After all that chasing? Not so sure if you really would walk away. I'd give you the Prison Realm if I surrender," he bargained.

"As they say, not all things come for free. You're also using the wrong bargaining chip. Think ahead, coward."

"So you decline? Very well. I'll take the very person you hold on to all these years," He chuckled.

I stop between a step and deadpanned.

"Bingo. So I see you've decided, no?" Kamo asked.

"Perhaps? Perhaps not. I'm just gonna fall back to my knees and crawl my way back up," I snickered.

"I'll take that as a yes?"

I snapped as he summoned curses around me. I would've sworn there were hundreds - no, thousands - of them surrounding me.

"End of Time: The Succumb of the Devil."

A screeching hum covered my ears while shadowy blades struck the curses in a second.

Kamo Noritoshi held a black spear that struggled to reach his throat.

"Huh?"

He reaches his pocket with his free hand and examined it. "I see you've taken the Prison Realm." I slid the cube into my scarf tightly.

"I wish, I could fight you. But it looks like I have other matters to attend to. Let's do it next time, shall we?" And then, I disappeared into the void.

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"Tch! Of course, he'd run around with a fake one," I grumbled.

My phone rang and received a call from Minato. "Huh. Are these the kids you're talking about? One with slightly pink hair and the other black with a gloomy face?"

"What about it?"

"They're joining this gambling club thing. It seems like their upperclassman, Panda, has been participating here for some time now," she said.

"You're in the location, right? I'll meet you there soon. I need to talk to those two."

"I'll keep watch, then."

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