Jujutsu Kaisen: My spells have no limit

Akasaka Guest House, rooftop.

Xia Youjie wasn't wearing the Gojo Kasaya that his close friend Gojo Satoru had used as a meal replacement. Instead, he was dressed in casual black clothes, his long hair loose, which his two adopted daughters, Kasaba Nanako and Kasaba Mimiko, were taking care of.

He himself was holding a book and reading, bathed in the morning sunlight, looking so peaceful and serene.

"Lord Natsuyu, Gojo Satoru, what exactly is he to you?" asked Mimiko Kasaba, who had long, straight black hair and wore a black sailor uniform.

During the ten years that Xia Youjie raised them, they would always hear Xia Youjie talk about his student days and the story of Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer in modern times. But they were always curious about the relationship between Xia Youjie and Gojo Satoru.

It wasn't until recently, when Lin Yi helped Xia Youjie subdue a top-tier cursed spirit, that the two of them took the opportunity, while styling Xia Youjie's hair, to ask the questions that had been on their minds.

Nanako Kaba also lay on Xia Youjie's lap, waiting for his answer.

"A close friend is someone you can entrust to someone you cherish. If one day something happens to your Natsuyu-sama or Gojo Satoru, Gojo Satoru or your Natsuyu-sama would entrust their students and you family members to each other."

Lin Yi happened to come over to pick up the magical artifacts that he had asked Xia Youjie to customize for him. As soon as he got to the rooftop, he heard the questions from the Jiachang sisters, Xia Youjie's adopted daughters, and couldn't help but ask them to answer.

"Oh my, Ichi-chan, you really know a lot about the relationship between me and Satoru. Mimiko, Nanako, the relationship between Satoru and me is just like what you said, except that we had a fight and haven't seen each other for a long time since."

Upon seeing Lin Yi's visit, Xia Youjie also greeted him with a warm smile and took over the conversation.

Xia Youjie found Lin Yi's summary of his relationship with Gojo Satoru very helpful.

Lin Yi remained noncommittal about this. As for the ill-fated couple, Gojo Satoru and Natsumi Yuki, Lin Yi could only say that if either of them were a woman, they wouldn't have gone astray.

In Lin Yi's view, the relationship between Gojo Satoru and Xia Youjie is like that of a Japanese version of Magneto and Professor X. The two have been fighting for most of their lives, and if either of them is in real trouble, the other will be the first to come to their aid.

"There's no need to explain the past between you and Gojo Satoru to me here. What about the things I asked you to do before?"

"Here it is."

Xia Youjie raised his hand and a dark shadow appeared behind him. The cursed spirit Choubao emerged from it, opened its mouth and spat out a white Colt python revolver that flew towards Lin Yi, who caught it with his hand.

"As Ichi-chan said, it can draw magical energy from the air and add it to the bullets. However, given the effect of your spell, Ichi-chan, I think we shouldn't need to replenish the bullets. You don't need to take the money, after all, you helped me a lot before, giving me an extra Super Grade Spell Spirit."

"Even if you had ten more of these top-tier cursed spirits, it wouldn't waste much of Gojo Satoru's time."

Lin Yi checked the gun in his hand and then placed it in the holster on the left side of the lining, making it a perfect pair with the black M1911 spell pistol he had obtained from the Spellcasting Academy on the right side of the lining.

Looking at the two pistols, one black and one white, inside the lining, Lin Yi felt he could name them Ebony and Ivory, dye his hair silver, put on a bright red trench coat, and use construction techniques to create a greatsword to attach to his back. His Ichiro Commercial Detective Agency could then change its signboard to Devil May Cry.

Anyway, it's related to my major.

"I know, these cursed spirits I have aren't enough to convince Satoru to agree with my point of view, so Ichi-chan, I'll have to trouble you again this time. I heard you became the assistant supervisor of the Cursed Arts Academy, congratulations."

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you, so what are you planning to do?"

Hearing Xia Youjie reveal his contact with the Spellcasting Academy during this period, Lin Yi remained calm. He knew very well that the other party had informants both within the Spellcasting Academy and the Spellcasting world; otherwise, he wouldn't have known about the transfer student Yi Gu You Tai, who possessed a special-grade Vengeful Spirit, so quickly.

Therefore, Lin Yi was asking a question he already knew the answer to.

"The Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Rika Kimoto, is the shikigami of Yuuta Otsukoshi, a first-year transfer student at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School this year. I'd like to know more about her, Ichi-chan, can you help me?"

"After you understand, what can you do? Your Spirit Manipulation Technique can only subdue spirits that have no master-servant relationship. Shikigami are also spirits in essence. If you want to subdue this special-grade resentment spirit on this student named Otsuku Yuta, there are only two ways: one, help him break the relationship with this special-grade resentment spirit; two, kill him and then subdue him with your Spirit Manipulation Technique."

"Ha, Ichi-chan, you really know my techniques well. But there's a third way: if Otsuku Yuta also becomes part of our family, then I won't have to do all those unnecessary things. Don't you agree, Ichi-chan?"

Lin Yi put his hands in his pockets and looked at Xia Youjie, who was giving him a peaceful smile and was completely unguarded.

At such a distance, if he were to launch a zero-frame attack in his Kamen Rider form as the Tyrant, even if Xia Youjie managed to defend against it, he would still suffer a great loss.

Looking at Xia Youjie's sincere smile, Lin Yi really couldn't bring himself to harm him. To be fair, Xia Youjie's intentions were good. In order to prevent sorcerers from continuing to die in the daily routine of exorcising cursed spirits, and to prevent them from being treated unfairly, there were only two ways.

First, make sure that no one in the world has any magical power, so that no magical spirits will be born.

Second, it allows everyone in the world to become a sorcerer, even the weakest sorcerer, because they can draw upon the magical power generated from their own negative emotions, preventing the magical power from overflowing and thus eliminating the breeding ground for magical spirits.

It was only because of Xia Youjie's crushing defeat during his student days, coupled with his later experience as a top-level sorcerer who witnessed the darkness of human nature while exorcising cursed spirits, that Xia Youjie went to extremes.

However, Xia Youjie still maintains his kindness towards sorcerers.

Thinking about all this, Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh.

"You bastard, didn't you ever think you might fail? Whether it's persuading Otsuyuta to join you, killing Otsuyuta, or helping him break the curse between him and the shikigami, the Super-Grade Vengeful Spirit, you might not be able to do it, and you might even lose your life."

"That's still better than living in a world full of monkeys."

"You bastard, we just started to change our opinion of you, how dare you curse Lord Xia You like this?"

"Shut up! Children shouldn't interrupt when adults are talking."

Lin Yi glanced at the Jiachang sisters beside Xia Youjie, then looked at Xia Youjie and remained silent for a long time.

"I'll lend a hand with letting you understand Etotsu Yuta, but I also have the right to intervene. Don't forget, this is a 'bond' we've formed."

"Of course, I knew Ichi-chan was a very kind person."

"It's not about kindness, Xia Youjie. You have to pay the price for what you've done. I just want you to pay the price properly, it's that simple."

Lin Yi waved his hand and turned to leave.

Xia Youjie stared at Lin Yi's departing figure, speechless for a long time. Finally, he said, "If my life can bring about an era where sorcerers are not oppressed, then take it."