I, in a Jujutsu Kaisen Manga, Take the Detective Conan World by Storm Chapter 46 : Before Departure & The Past Timeline's Pagoda T

Gojo Satoru's mission was to Osaka, departing much earlier than them. They had just finished the al delivered by school staff when the assistant supervisor ca to pick him up.

He muttered sothing under his breath, casually packed his things, and before leaving, coolly tossed out: "I'm off, see you later!"

Geto Suguru smiled with narrowed eyes and waved, Jiang Lai also looked up to say "goodbye," but Gojo Satoru showed no intention of looking back, having already strided away with his long legs covering a considerable distance.

Ieiri Shoko had a lollipop in her mouth, saying indistinctly: "Satoru always just tosses out a line and leaves, you don't need to respond since he never looks back anyway."

Geto Suguru lowered his previously waving hand, looking down as he said gently: "I'm used to responding every ti." He said, "Just in case it's the last ti, there won't be any regret about not having a chance to say goodbye."

Hearing this, Jiang Lai's fingers paused slightly.

Ieiri Shoko pulled out her lollipop, propping her cheek with one hand: "Then just don't let there be a [last ti] situation, right? Though, this kind of thing is hard to predict."

Their topic didn't linger on this point, quickly returning to the most ordinary casual conversation.

During this ti, Jiang Lai opened his phone to compile and organize information about the Supervisory Committee in digital format. He now had a relatively clear understanding of this organization.

In summary, this was a villainous institution disguised with a righteous facade, its core mbers difficult to identify and seemingly possessing special life conditions. To defeat them might require working from the inside.

He slowly pondered, organizing his summary in a mo app, while leaving the targeted plans temporarily blank for now.

After lunch ti ended, Geto Suguru began contacting the assistant supervisor responsible for transportation, but the agreed eting point wasn't at Tokyo Jujutsu High's main gate.

"I want to go ho first to pack." Geto Suguru said, "It's been over two weeks since I last went back."

Asazawa Apartnts? Jiang Lai still rembered. In the main tiline, Geto Suguru's ho was upstairs from the room he had rented.

"Then let's go." Jiang Lai nodded, following along.

They traveled by car through the city streets toward Asazawa Apartnts.

The bustling crowds flowed by every day, but in a few years, new and old faces would change with the passage of ti.

This small apartnt building wasn't much different from the one in the future main tiline, standing in its place under the sunlight, just that it looked newer now.

Not until this mont did Jiang Lai have a sense of being in a different era, standing before a familiar building but in a different ti.

Geto Suguru walked ahead naturally, noticing that Jiang Lai hadn't followed, so he specifically stopped to wait: "What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing." Jiang Lai quickly snapped back to attention, catching up with a few steps and smiling, "I just think this apartnt building has a nice location. Living here would be comfortable and convenient."

"Mm." Geto Suguru recalled, his expression becoming much gentler, "There's also a small park nearby. When I was little, I often went there with my parents on weekends."

He paused here: "But that was a long ti ago."

Jiang Lai knew about Geto Suguru's family situation in this new series. He didn't want to probe painful mories, so he didn't dig for information or ask more, just quietly walked beside him.

Perhaps because he was walking on the path ho, the tal railings and concrete stairs, these everyday environnts tugged at mories, Geto Suguru continued speaking gently: "When my parents disappeared, I was in my first year of junior high. It was a hot sumr."

Just as the landlady had said, his parents' accident happened not long after he started junior high. Jiang Lai listened quietly.

"I ca ho from school as usual, kept waiting, waited until dark but they never ca ho." Geto Suguru continued, "Their phones wouldn't connect either, and their workplaces said they had left normally after work."

"Later I reported it to the police, but their investigation found nothing. Two living people just vanished on the road from their companies to ho."

Geto Suguru reached his fourth-floor apartnt door, taking out keys to unlock it, the bronze key had a [Geto] label attached.

"For those few days, I was still foolishly thinking [maybe they just got lost], turning on all the lights at ho, hugging my school bag and waiting by the door, but later I gradually understood that they probably would never co back."

Jiang Lai paused for a few seconds, saying quietly: "I'm very sorry to hear about this... My condolences."

"Actually it's okay, since this happened a long ti ago." Geto Suguru turned his head with a slight smile, his eyes downcast, "It's just that occasionally when I rember, I still feel regret, that day when they left, I forgot to say goodbye to my parents."

So now, Geto Suguru habitually said goodbye every ti he parted, just like today when Satoru departed.

Jiang Lai thought inwardly. He had originally thought it was because Geto Suguru had so premonition of parting from his best friend that he responded that way.

This conversation naturally stopped after they entered the apartnt. The boy with the bun hairstyle began looking for cleaning tools to tidy the house, and Jiang Lai also helped with the cleaning.

After a simple cleaning, there was a knock at the door. Geto Suguru went to open it, and outside was a kindly-looking elderly woman.

Jiang Lai was cleaning inside and just curiously poked his head out for a glance, imdiately recognizing this as the landlady from the main tiline. However, ten years ago, she looked much more robust.

"Ah, it's Suguru who's back... I thought so, I heard sounds from upstairs while I was downstairs." She said with a smile.

"Hello, Nakamura-san." Geto Suguru replied politely and gently, "Sorry, I might have made too much noise cleaning."

"Oh, it's not about that." Landlady Nakamura waved her hand, looking sowhat embarrassed, "I wanted to ask Suguru for a favor, my light bulb broke last night..."

"Oh, I'll co down and help you replace it." Geto Suguru nodded in agreent, imdiately putting down his cleaning tools.

"Thank you so much, Suguru. Good thing you ca back, otherwise I'd have to find soone to fix it." Nakamura-san's wrinkles creased with her smile as she chattered, "How do you seem even thinner than the last ti you ca back? Perfect timing, I baked so black sesa cookies at ho, take so with you."

"Then thank you, Nakamura-san, I'll share them with my friends."

The two voices gradually faded away. Jiang Lai's gaze swept across the floor mirror in the room, landing on the pagoda tree wooden pendant at his waist.

Right, there was still this matter.

Jiang Lai's thoughts flowed.

He didn't know when exactly he would make his temporal jump this ti, but it definitely wouldn't be too long. Given this, as a precaution, he should lay this groundwork now.

Just like when he had given this to Gojo Satoru to carry during the Star Plasma Vessel mission.

For his future self to encounter Toji when renting the downstairs room, his current self needed to place the pendant containing Fushiguro Toji's soul into the picture fra downstairs.

Because this pendant contained a soul entity, essentially it overlapped with the soul entity, no longer belonging to this world.

Therefore, this object wasn't affected by temporal restarts and cycle loops. After he placed it here, it would remain here.

This was also why Fushiguro Toji could witness the temporal overlap.

With these thoughts flowing, Jiang Lai untied the pagoda tree wooden pendant from his waist, planning to go downstairs and place it in the picture fra.

But he needed to find a reason to go there.

Jiang Lai found a toolbox in the room, planning to use delivering tools as an excuse to go downstairs to find them.

However, when he carried the toolbox downstairs, he realized this action was unnecessary, the downstairs door was half-open, but no one was there. They had probably gone to the nearby convenience store to buy light bulbs.

For Jiang Lai, this was actually more convenient, otherwise placing the pendant right under their noses would be too obvious and would require more explanation.

Thinking this, he seized the opportunity, slipping into the room, imdiately locating the decorative painting, removing it at money-counting speed, pulling out the red cord, and placing just the pagoda tree pendant inside.

Then Jiang Lai put everything back in place, being careful not to leave traces on the floor, closing the door to maintain the sa angle as before, and returning to the fourth floor via the stairs.

At the sa ti, he silently considered what would follow.

When Fushiguro Toji awakened in December 2017, the house would probably have rumors of being haunted, a situation that would continue until he ca to rent it in winter 2018.

During this ti, it would probably interfere with renting the place out... Jiang Lai thought. When he returned to the main tiline later, he'd secretly give the landlord extra money as compensation.

After staying at Asazawa Apartnts for so ti, the assistant supervisor ca to pick them up. They were about to drive to their mission destination, that relatively remote village.

Geto Suguru carried small bags of black sesa cookies he'd gotten from Nakamura-san, dividing them into three small bags.

Before getting in the car, he handed one to Jiang Lai: "Here." He smiled, "Try so, just to satisfy your taste buds." He knew Jiang Lai had no need for sustenance.

Jiang Lai was sowhat surprised, pointing to the cookie bags in Geto Suguru's hands: "You only have three bags total? If you give one, how will the three of you divide them?"

"The remaining two bags, one for Satoru, one for Shoko." Geto Suguru distributed them as he spoke, "As for , it's not necessary." He said gently, "I already tasted them at Nakamura-san's place."

"Alright." Jiang Lai reached out to accept it, "I thought you were leaving yourself out of consideration again."

"Why [again]?" Geto Suguru's lips curved slightly, getting in the car with Jiang Lai and continuing the conversation, "Did Satoru complain to you about sothing?"

"Satoru told that every mission report is handled by you, and you also include the first and second years together. You always think about and care for others, but don't put yourself in the [needs care] category. This makes you very tired and worries others."

"I believe the first half is sothing Satoru would say, but the second half..." Geto Suguru smiled, "Those are Lai's words, right? Thank you for your concern."

Jiang Lai blinked: "How did you figure that out so quickly?"

"Because Satoru wouldn't say such directly caring words... Haha, for him, that would be quite embarrassing." Geto Suguru said half-jokingly, "I probably won't hear him say such things in my lifeti."

"Hard to say." Jiang Lai said, "The future Satoru might grow into an adult who's cheerfully shaless and can calmly say all kinds of embarrassing things."

"Uh, living long enough to see anything?" Geto Suguru placed one hand under his chin.

"Yes, live a bit longer, and you can see everything." Jiang Lai's eyebrows curved with his smile, adding silently in his heart.

Or perhaps it was just like Suguru's habit of saying goodbye, because of past regrets, all the words that couldn't be said in the past would be spoken in the future.