Ms. Gojo thought she was dating an ordinary person's boyfriend.

Upon arriving at the college, the first thing he did was to visit Hua Yu and Lou Hu.

The two top-tier cursed spirits were imprisoned underground. The barrier had been reinforced to the highest level, and special personnel were stationed around it to guard it closely to prevent any further accidents.

Gojo tried to interrogate them.

But the cursed spirits have their own twisted pride.

Especially the leaky coral.

It firmly believes that the cursed spirits are the truly pure "humans," while the current humans are nothing more than inferior creatures made up of lies and hypocrisy.

No matter how long the interrogation lasted, no matter how much torture it endured, it gritted its teeth and refused to reveal any of its plans to Gojo Satoru, let alone the whereabouts of its companions.

Hana-Yu also remained deathly silent.

After a long and drawn-out interrogation, no truly useful information was obtained, but Gojo Satoru confirmed one thing: they were bound by restrictions that prevented the leakage of secrets.

Once any attempt is made to reveal certain key information, the restraints will immediately take effect and backfire.

Before fully understanding the specific rules of the binding, forcibly breaking through will only cause the two cursed spirits to die prematurely, completely severing the clues.

After a moment's consideration, Gojo Satoru temporarily suspended the interrogation and prepared to find another way to handle the situation.

He had just stepped out of the underground barrier imprisoning the cursed spirit when his cell phone rang urgently in his pocket.

It was an urgent message from the college.

The identity of the mysterious sorcerer who had appeared before has been confirmed once again.

Moreover, this time, the other party made no attempt to evade surveillance or conceal their appearance.

After reading the message on the screen, Gojo Satoru's expression paused almost imperceptibly for a moment.

He then put away his phone and went straight to the meeting venue.

The atmosphere at this meeting was more somber and serious than ever before.

Masamichi Yagami sat at the head of the table, with Kenjiro Nanami and Shoko Ieiri on either side. Kaguya An and Yoshinobu Rakuganji were also present. Across the long table sat high-ranking representatives from the General Directorate and the assistant supervisor in charge of intelligence gathering and image restoration.

When Gojo Satoru pushed open the door, all eyes immediately fell on him.

He seemed completely oblivious to the tense atmosphere, casually pulled out a chair, and sat down nonchalantly.

"Surely everyone's here."

No one responded to his slightly sarcastic remark.

The assistant supervisor in charge of image restoration swallowed hard, then bent down to operate the equipment, and the huge screen in front of the conference room quickly lit up.

The surveillance footage is from the area where the incident was previously caused by a real person.

Due to the intensity of the battle, nearby equipment was damaged, and the original footage was severely damaged. It took technicians a long time to barely complete the restoration.

More importantly, this time the mysterious sorcerer did not erase the image afterward as he had done in the past.

The video has started playing.

The initial images were very blurry, with terrifying tremors emanating from inside the building. After a brief, piercing noise, a tremendous impact suddenly erupted, and the solid walls, along with the doors and windows, were blown apart like pieces of paper.

A real person was thrown backwards out of the building.

It crashed into a large number of buildings, its body twisting and deforming in mid-air before finally crashing heavily into the ruins, raising clouds of dust.

Immediately afterwards, Sumi Kichikawa appeared on screen.

There was no attempt to conceal their face or their body.

The man in the picture is dressed in the most ordinary everyday clothes, his expression calm to the point of indifference. He walks out slowly and steadily along the path of the ruins left by the real person.

The human attempted to split its body and, in a frenzy, transformed nearby humans into distorted cyborgs, hoping to buy time to escape amidst the chaos. However, Sumi Kurikawa never gave it a chance to breathe.

The entire battle could hardly be described as a close contest.

The real person constantly changes the form of his soul and body, frantically escaping like a rat in a ditch by taking advantage of the terrain, while Sumi Kichikawa always firmly and absolutely suppresses it.

No matter how bizarre its changes may be, its next move always seems to have been completely anticipated by the other side.

Ultimately, the real person expanded their domain.

The moment the field was formed, the monitoring screen was subjected to strong magnetic field interference, resulting in large areas of snow-like noise.

By the time the images were barely restored, Sumi Kichikawa had already entered the core of the domain.

No one could see clearly what he actually did.

All they could see was that the domain suddenly began to collapse after a dozen seconds.

The techniques and rules that constitute the field are like a foundation that has been lost, peeling away irreversibly from the inside, layer by layer.

The realm of the real person has completely collapsed.

Immediately afterwards, it was effortlessly exorcised by Sumire Kichikawa, leaving it no chance to escape.

There was a brief disturbance in the sky on the screen.

The clouds churned violently, and the light changed strangely in an instant. Due to the damaged image, no one present could accurately determine what the phenomenon meant.

The final frame freezes on the profile of Sumi Kikawa, who is slightly tilting her head back and looking up at the sky.

The conference room was deathly silent.

An unregistered and troublesome top-tier cursed spirit was completely crushed from start to finish.

They did not get bogged down in a fierce battle, did not call for reinforcements, and did not encounter any real danger throughout the entire process.

Shoko Ieiri, sitting in her chair, couldn't help but turn her head and give Satoru Gojo a deep look.

Gojo Satoru rested his chin on one hand, his eyes behind his sunglasses gazing calmly at the face frozen on the screen. His expression was relaxed, as if he were watching a movie that had nothing to do with him, and one could even vaguely sense that he was in a good mood.

Shoko silently withdrew her gaze, her feelings a complex mix of emotions that were difficult to describe.

How can someone so ridiculously strong be called an "ordinary person" by Gojo Satoru?

Is it that Gojo Satoru's romantic filter is too thick, or is Sumi Kichikawa just too good at hiding it?

However, the management team clearly did not consider this an accident that could be easily overlooked.

Soon, another detailed document was retrieved and projected onto the screen.

Sikawa Cheng.

Pediatrician.

There is no registered sorcerer sequence, no traceable family background in the sorcery world, and no record of any spell types.

She had worked in a regular hospital for a long time, her daily resume was clear and flawless, and her social relationships showed no obvious abnormalities. Nanami Kento had even personally entered that hospital to carry out a mission before, but he never found anything wrong with Kikkawa Sumi.

However, when intelligence personnel re-examined the unusual events of recent years, they came to a chilling conclusion: Sumi Kichikawa's activity trajectory indirectly overlapped with the disappearances of several unregistered special-grade cursed spirits in time.

Taken individually, each instance seems to be explained as a coincidence.

But when all the coincidences fit together perfectly, it becomes very difficult to convince anyone.

The conclusion reached by the supervisory department was very clear—

Sumi Kawakawa possesses at least top-tier combat strength.

A person with top-tier combat power who has been able to perfectly hide for so many years, remaining completely undetected by the vast world of sorcery, is far more dangerous and uncontrollable than those top-tier sorcerers who operate openly.

Nanami Kento's brows furrowed tightly.

He still remembers that hospital clearly, and he remembers what Sumi Kichikawa looked like back then.

The other person really seemed to be just a gentle, ordinary doctor, and even patiently comforted the injured child.

However, the overwhelming and terrifying power depicted in the surveillance footage could not possibly be faked.

"The Directorate General's opinion is to prioritize recruitment."

The representative from the director's office opened the document in front of him, speaking in a businesslike tone that revealed an air of superiority and rigidity.

"We require Sumi Kikawa to register her techniques and related abilities, cooperate with the investigation, and accept supervision from the Directorate General. If we cannot confirm her stance or subdue her, we must take action before the situation gets out of control."

Gojo Satoru was still lazily leaning back in his chair.

Only when he heard the last four words, "preemptive action," did his gaze slowly, very slowly fall on the representative.

The representative subconsciously avoided his extremely oppressive gaze, cleared his throat, and had the assistant supervisor pull up a new set of data.

Inside, there were various pieces of evidence showing that Sumi Kichikawa and Satoru Gojo knew each other and had private contact.

"Gojo Satoru."

The representative from the General Manager's Office raised his objection in a deep voice:

"Did you already know Sumi Kichikawa's true identity?"

"Have you been consciously covering for him all along?"

"And did the Gojo family and the High School use their authority to secretly prevent the intelligence agencies from investigating him?"