Chapter 117: I'll Come Back for You When I Become a Grade 1 Sorcerer!
Since he was already so benevolent, even if he waived the labor costs, the material costs absolutely couldn't be omitted.
After all, to forge a Special Grade Cursed Tool, the raw materials used could not possibly be ordinary steel, and even technologically produced alloys wouldn't do.
Asking for only 80 million in material costs was already very conservative and absolutely honest dealing.
If Miwa Kasumi couldn't come up with that much money immediately, it wasn't impossible for her to sell herself to pay the debt...
Of course, such a thing was out of the question.
Emiya was just thinking of forging a replacement blade for the weapon-losing Miwa Kasumi; anyway, it didn't take him much time, so he just considered it something done on the side.
However, Miwa Kasumi was indeed a bit easily frightened. Even after Emiya later said that the 80 million yen was just a joke, it still took a long time to comfort her before she fully recovered.
Perhaps the poor child had never seen that much money in her life, so she couldn't quite handle it all at once.
To be honest, Emiya hadn't actually seen that much cash either, nor did he have that much in savings. He just didn't care that much about such things.
After Emiya simultaneously gave the naming rights of the blade to her, Miwa Kasumi's mind seemed to have crashed again for quite some time, before she finally fully accepted this sudden happiness.
She gave the weapon in her hand a highly fitting name—Emiya Maru!
The name was a bit odd, but no matter how much Emiya tried to argue, she had no intention of changing it.
Furthermore, Miwa Kasumi said more than one strange thing next, like that she would definitely come back for him after she became a Grade 1 Sorcerer or something...
In any case, Emiya didn't pay too much attention to it; he was just glad that she liked the new weapon.
Then, on the second day, Gojo Satoru really succeeded in persuading everyone to continue and hold the Exchange Event, and by his own power, he changed the original individual duels into a baseball game.
When Emiya asked him why he switched the competition to a sports game, Gojo Satoru's answer was that, compared to head-to-head combat, this would better relax the students' minds and quickly warm up the feelings between everyone.
Regardless of what the two old principals, Gakuganji Yoshinobu and Yaga Masamichi, thought, Emiya felt that Gojo Satoru was very right, so he resolutely supported the decision.
The original baseball game required at least nine players per team to proceed normally. However, with Gojo Satoru's perfect balancing and mediation, he successfully compensated for the lack of numbers by allowing the use of limited Cursed Technique releases.
Thus, the famous scene of Ultimate Mechamaru being modified into a pitching machine came to be.
Gojo Satoru's prophecy that this sport would promote camaraderie was also quite successful. The reason was that Zen'in Maki, taking advantage of Todo Aoi's inattention, directly threw the baseball at his face, successfully eliciting unanimous cheers from all the students.
Aside from Itadori Yuji, who was hugging Todo Aoi, and the somewhat embarrassed Miwa Kasumi, the students from both schools erupted in unprecedented, unified cheers on this matter.
"He's really not well-liked, this guy..."
Regarding this, even Emiya thought that Todo Aoi probably needed to find the reasons more within himself.
After standing there and watching the students' baseball game for a while, Emiya noticed that someone seemed to be missing from the scene, so he began to look around the field and successfully found the two principals sitting side-by-side on chairs not far away.
These two elders of the Jujutsu world, who should have been at odds, were peacefully together at this moment, their eyes simultaneously fixed on the ant colony marching neatly on the ground.
He had just said that the external invaders had helped the students' relationships break through, but now it seemed... the intimacy of these two old principals was even higher than that of the students?
"Emiya Shirou... That is your name, right?
Is the ability to forge multiple Cursed Tools, and even Special Grade Cursed Tools, your [Innate Technique]?
If that is indeed the case, it would be best to keep a low profile, so as not to let the higher-ups notice your ability... Although it is likely too late to stop it, delaying it for some time is always better."
Seeing Emiya approach, Gakuganji Yoshinobu suddenly spoke these words.
This was not hard to understand. Just as a Cursed Technique like Yaga Masamichi's, which could create living Cursed Corpses, would be targeted by those Sorcerers, Emiya, who could mass-produce Cursed Tools, was naturally bound to be targeted.
Didn't they even refuse to let Ieiri Shoko, who could heal others with [Reverse Cursed Technique], go?
If that were not an unchangeable talent but a transmissible technique, the consequences would be even worse.
And in the Jujutsu world, it is quite difficult to create even one Cursed Tool, and Special Grade Cursed Tools are strictly limited, with no special methods to increase their number... How could those people let go of someone who could mass-produce them?
Emiya understood this logic easily, but he found it somewhat difficult to comprehend why Gakuganji Yoshinobu would bother to warn him about these things.
Hadn't the other party been trying to find a way to kill Itadori Yuji just before?
"You don't seem to genuinely dislike the Tokyo School and the students here... So why are you so intent on killing Itadori?" Emiya tried to ask.
"Because it's not a matter of liking or disliking. According to the rules of the Jujutsu world, Itadori is not even allowed to exist. The only reason he is still alive is because of Gojo's self-indulgence.
You cannot break the rules of the collective for the sake of an individual.
Moreover, keeping Itadori alive might get many people killed."
Setting aside the earlier points, the last sentence was precisely what many Sorcerers genuinely worried about.
They feared that the King of Curses from a thousand years ago, Ryoumen Sukuna, would truly resurrect through Itadori Yuji's body, causing an irreversible disaster, as this was entirely possible.
"But that child has only been saving others so far, hasn't he?
To erase all possibility and even the life of a person just because of a 'might' will never be the right thing to do, no matter what."
To assume someone will definitely kill just because they possess extraordinary power—where is the necessary cause-and-effect relationship in that?
"That's also what I want to say, Principal Gakuganji."
Yaga Masamichi, who was sitting beside him, suddenly added, "Gojo and I both agree that the boy will surely become the one to carve out the future for the Jujutsu world, but honestly, I don't know if my judgment about Itadori is correct.
How about you... watch over him with me?
If we're going to regret, let's regret when something truly happens."
It was clear that the original relationship between Gakuganji Yoshinobu and Yaga Masamichi was definitely better than it appeared. It was only due to their positions in different factions that their friendship could not be displayed openly.
After realizing this, Emiya naturally had no need to remain there any longer, trusting that Principal Yaga could persuade the other party.
"Ah, Emiya-kun, so you were here?"
Just then, Gojo Satoru, who had also arrived from the training field, waved his hand at Emiya, then quickly walked over and stomped on the ant colony that was marching neatly on the ground.
"Todo-kun has lost his ability to play, so you'll temporarily take his place."
The moment he finished speaking, Gojo Satoru grabbed Emiya's arm and walked away without another word, and in passing, stomped on the other end of the ant colony.
Although the ant colony on the ground didn't seem truly affected, the faces of the two principals immediately darkened.
"Yaga, you better figure out how to manage Gojo first."
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