Infinitely close to the Limitless Technique!
As if.
There was not even a sign of it activating.
Gojo Satoru was kicked flying with a blank look on his face without showing anything at all.
Now even the other people of the Gojo Clan grew nervous.
This should not have happened!
Although when they trained Gojo Satoru, they had considered his age and did not focus on physical combat, instead training him through knowledge, Cursed Technique, and other practical operations.
But since they had already put Gojo Satoru himself on display, that meant he absolutely had the strength to face a Jujutsu Sorcerer alone and fight back.
At the very least, he should have been able to stall until other members of the Gojo Clan came to support him.
That was how it should have been!
Gojo Satoru himself thought the same.
After today, he would be allowed to go outside.
But before he even ran into an enemy, he was kicked away by someone his own age first.
What kind of move was that!
What happened to being a genius?
What happened to the Limitless Technique!
But the guests from the other major families did not think that much.
After all, they had never seen what the Limitless Technique actually was.
The more urgent problem right now was something else.
The future head of the Gojo Clan had been kicked by some poor-looking brat from who knew where, who looked like he had not eaten his fill in 800 years.
How was this matter supposed to end?
Gintoki, who had already caused trouble, looked at Gojo Satoru sitting limply on the ground, and his heart did not ripple at all.
Would he feel guilty for stealing food from a kid?
No, not at all.
Seeing the beautiful food still placed in front of him, Gintoki’s heart felt great.
It would only hurt if it got stolen!
He waved his hand like he was driving away a small animal.
“Shoo, shoo. Aren’t you the bocchan? The kingdom your dad built is already enough for you to waste. Isn’t there still a whole pile over there? Anyway, no one’s going to eat it. Even if you eat 1 table and dump another 1 table, it’s still enough. Before you turn into the kind of villain who thinks food eaten by other people tastes better and insists on snatching it, hurry up and fix yourself after realizing your mistake.”
He was suddenly convicted.
Gojo Satoru climbed up from the ground, nimbly slipped into the gap between Gintoki and Toji, and actually went up to steal the food.
“This was mine to begin with. If you want me to agree that it’s your family’s dining table, then you at least have to pay something. This isn’t something you can solve by spinning 3 times and barking 1 time.”
“A bocchan really is a bocchan. Fine, fine, thanks for the meal after eating your stuff. Do I need to write you a 500-word essay of thanks? I ate good stuff I’d never eaten before, and it really opened Gin-san’s eyes. Hmph, but it’s just ordinary sushi and ordinary crab, right? There isn’t even sushi stacked on sushi at all.”
“What are you saying? Apologize to sushi, straight-haired bastard!”
“I was born with fresh straight hair. You’re jealous, right?”
“Gin-san can punch you now, right? I can already punch you now, right!”
The children mixed together and fought over food in a state that the adult world could not understand.
The Gojo Clan members, who knew exactly how hard their family’s little ancestor was to handle, actually stopped in their tracks.
Eating more food was a good thing.
At least in this atmosphere, they had no way to drag Gojo Satoru back and return to the atmosphere from earlier.
When the adults of the Zenin Clan attended the banquet, they deliberately ignored the fact that most of the children gathered over there were from their family.
Just pretend they did not see it.
They did not see it.
After all, Zenin Naoya could be considered to have connected with Gojo Satoru, so everything was going smoothly.
They could not control the extra ones.
Amid the children’s noise, the banquet quickly returned to its earlier atmosphere under the adults’ forced smiles.
Even though Gojo Satoru had already pulled himself away, the topic still revolved around him.
This had nothing to do with Satoru’s own will.
It was the fate carried by the symbol of the jujutsu world—the Six Eyes.
After that short yet brilliant night, Gintoki was locked in solitary confinement on the 2nd day.
Returning to the earlier text, the Zenin Clan was an ancient and traditional family.
Whether it was Zenin Naoya, who received elite education, or Zenin Toji, who was left to drift freely, every move they made was stained with an elegant and classical air.
This was not something that could be completely cast aside just by drawing a line in one’s heart.
It was something soaked into them by the Zenin Clan itself over long years.
It was like sweet ozoni, salty miso soup, and tamagoyaki absolutely having to be sweet.
A habit carved into their DNA.
Gintoki looked completely out of place.
His art style was so strange it was as if he had been lost by the Zenin Clan 800 years ago, only recently found again, a wild child who had wandered outside for many years.
Forget temperament, not a single thing from the Zenin Clan had been carved into his DNA.
If he went outside and said he was from the Zenin Clan, others would feel shocked.
Gintoki quietly squatted in the little black room, eating cold rice.
Nobuaki spoke to him from outside.
“Gintoki…”
After slowly saying that name, the surroundings fell into a strange silence.
There was only the sound of Gintoki going “nom nom” as he shoveled rice into his mouth.
“Stop eating!”
“You thought for ages just because you wanted to abuse Gin-san’s stomach a little? I’m already in despair over the Zenin Clan’s food. If you want the kids at home to not embarrass you outside, you should first reflect on what kind of life you’re giving them! After all these years, have you worked hard? Has the food kept up? If I can’t eat it, then I just can’t eat it!”
Zenin Nobuaki was shamefully convinced.
Yes, the Zenin Clan simply did not treat blood relatives who had not inherited a Cursed Technique as blood relatives.
Since Zenin Nobuaki himself only had Cursed Energy but no Cursed Technique, and was working for the Zenin Clan, he actually knew this very well in his heart.
But.
For hundreds and thousands of years, the Zenin Clan had continued on like this.
Even if you expanded it to the entire jujutsu world, it was all exactly the same.
The higher-ups monopolized by family inheritance and great clans had always been like this.
His expression softened, as if he were saying it to Gintoki, and also as if he were only talking in his sleep.
“The bottom-level people oppressed by the Zenin Clan are oppressed because they’re powerless. Gintoki, you’re a good kid. Leave this land.” This land was full of Curses, squeezing people dry for hundreds and thousands of years.
Squeeze, squeeze, twist, twist.
A family that prayed to the heavens in extreme madness, trading everything for a single trace of miracle.
Leave this place.
It was already hopeless from the roots, so…
“I won’t leave.” After Gintoki finished eating the packed leftovers, he pushed the empty lunchbox aside, lay sideways on the ground, and said to Nobuaki in a relaxed tone, “Whether it’s the world or society, none of that matters. I only care about 1 thing, and that’s the thing I want to protect. From start to finish, it has never changed.”
“Gintoki…” Nobuaki wiped his nose in emotion.
Seriously, he was an ossan, yet he had almost been moved to tears by a brat’s words.
Was this purity that struck straight at the heart?
He really hoped Gintoki would never change.
But come to think of it, he was not that old, right!
It was all Gintoki’s fault.
Calling him “ossan” over and over had made his mentality turn old.
Zenin Nobuaki was deeply moved, and then he did not hand the key in his pocket to Gintoki.
“Then stay here for now.”
“Hey—!! In a normal situation, weren’t you supposed to be moved beyond words and hurry up to open Gin-san’s prison door? You bastard ossan!”
“You won’t lose any flesh staying here for 1 day. If I open the door, both of us are finished. Sacrifice 1 you, bring happiness to thousands of families.”
“Where are these thousands of families coming from!!”
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