Unlike Ena's words the meeting place wasn't as private as it looked, a small table in the middle of a garden was waiting for them.In his 50's Mayto had already15 years of experience within the council, he joined it hoping to protect what he thought was precious to him, without anything in return, for him her safety was above any kind of reward and Ena knew it, even though she wasn't supposed to enjoy the idea of another man committing such sacrifice for her son's lover, she showed great respect and admiration toward him, he reminded her of her deceased husband somehow.
"Ma'm" a servant said asking if she would want some tea "Thanks, my dear, would you care for a cup Mayto?" "No thanks and I wouldn't take a seep if I were you, what I am about to show you isn't something easy to stomach" he responded calmly with a serious note, and frowning eyes. "Layling could you leave us alone please?" "Yes ma'm" the young woman said before vanishing into thin air, joining the other spirits that watches over the entry of the bubble that she and Mayto are.
The drained temple is a special domain that took shape after a horrendous storyabout a cures' user who would have absorbed the life out of the people working at the temple, right in front of a young man's eyes, that young man was the heir of the temple, he was supposed to be the next protector of it. As an act of vengeance and repentance for his inability to protect the temple, he confronted the curse user and defied him within his domain, domain that he was able to cut through any dimension thanks to his eyes and limitless ability, after finding the dimension where his long-lost family was imprisoned, he decided to join them, granting them the peace they deserved in a special domain he created. Thankfully, this domain was able to endure and pass from generation to generation so that the purpose of the people's temple would perdure, and Ena was the last heir to it, at least before another generation takes it on.
. "At my age there is nothing you haven't seen young man" she said with a confident smile, smile that she genuinely erased after being showed pictures of the worst crime scenes ever. ."Disgusting, how could he?" the old woman said starring with controlled anger at the teenagers and children that were being exposed to large amounts of cursed energy, and then have the bodies deformed.
. "That's not it, in addition to that he was able to build a pharmaceutical company, and use it as a front to make all kind of experiments on human beings"
. "In brief he is taking back kanjaku's experiments by infusing cursed and unstable energy within every single creature that he puts his hands on, how? It was only a stupide finger"
. "Apparently the world that Okuno has chosen was reigned by the war, he must have been able to absorb enough negative energy to regain consciousness and probably merge with whatever body that found it"
. "But what is his objective? He doesn't seem to act like Kenjaku would, he doesn't seem to do that just for the knowledge or experiences, and unlike Sukuna I doubt that his does that for the pleasure, his actions seemed to be aligned to achieve some kind of objective"
. "What kind of objective a curse could have?" Mayto thought
A question that Gojo himself would think of while diving into that long tunnel.
. "Now, what would his motive be?", he thought while trying to find him in the other world. His sixth sense could intercept all kinds of conversations, all kind of faces but most importantly all kind of energies, and weirdly he could sense his presence nowhere and everywhere.
. "That bastard, he must have spread all kind of small curses around the country so that I wouldn't be able to intercept him, impressive for a brainless curse" he thought smirking again
. "Well, guess finding Yujin and the others would make up for a better plan" he thought
. "But tell me what hotel are you staying at?"
. "Well, we..." Kugisaki started
. "Let me guess, the millennial hotel" Loid interfered
. "Wow, sensei, you might be some kind of a psychic or something"
. "Well, when you were younger you did say that if you ever stayed in a hotel one day, it would be the same one that your parents where your parents met"
. "Wow sensei you have got a sharp memory, don't you?"
. "Well, how could I forget about it, you were talking about it nonstop whenever we would mention Ostania" Loid added, which made Kugisaki laugh trying to imagine the excited version of Fushiguro.
. "Talking about a hotel, I think we should be heading back now, we have got meetings after meetings tomorrow, better sleep well"
. "It is a shame though Loid's cooking is absolutely exquisite, are you sure you don't want to stay for dinner?"
. "Maybe another time ma'm,, but we really appreciate the invite" Kugisaki responded with a fake smile
. "Please call me Yor"
. "Alright Yor, then maybe we could catch up another time"
. "That would be lovely"
. "Yujin" Fushiguro called, but no answer
. "Let me get him back, Anya is probably taking him hostage" Loid joked before opening the door.
. "Any.." he said before finding Anya sleeping into Yujin's arms who himself was asleep, surprised he froze and Fushiguro took the initiative to wake Yujin up without bothering the little princess's sleep.
But the moment Yujin opened his eyes, Anya started feeling uneasy, she started feeling scared, as if she was having a nightmare.
. "Mmmm...Megumi?" Yujin asked as he was barely opening his eyes, before waking up completely after feeling a small little hand holding on tight to his blue shirt, as a reflex he used his right arm to caress the back of her head and reassure her, Anya's grip loosened up, before feeling relaxed again. That reaction drowned a smile on Yujin's face.
. "Here gently" he said as he sat up with Anya in his arms
. "I'll take her from here" Loid said before taking her in his arms.
After putting the little princess to bed with her little cheetah to keep her company, Loid suggested to see his so-called students off at the entry of the building.
"Well, it was a pleasure seeing you after so many years" he said, to then proceed to clap the tip of his shoe on the ground
"Let's meet at the café near your hotel, at 10 a.m" he meant
. "Right pleasure shared" they responded with a nod, which made Loid thinking that they shouldn't be so obvious. On another note, Loid couldn't shake the scenario that he just witnessed, his brain started automatically connecting the dots that concluded into such results.
. "Agent Henry says that 3 people from another world would be summoned and used to achieve this half human half monster's army that some higher ups like Desmond are dying to sell and make more money if any kind of war started again.
. "Could they be?" he thought as he paused again in the middle of the stairs, thinking at how gripped Anya was to him, just like he used to be with his mother whenever he would hear the missiles and bombs making exploding.*
. "No way, they come from another world, what an absurd theory" he thought again as he started escalating the stairs again
On their way to the hotel, Nobara asked Yujin who was clearly focused on what he saw when he and Anya were asleep, the image of her being trapped and not wanting to move an inch, surrounded by cursed energy that wouldn't allow him to even touch her, was making him anxiously frown.
. "You sensed something in her, didn't you?" she asked
. "Well...