The people who returned at the entrance were none other than Suou Mikoto and Anna. Unlike the clean and tidy Anna, Suou had an extra bruise on his arm, and his clothes and hair had also become somewhat messy, which unexpectedly gave him a ruffian-cool vibe.
When Kushina Anna saw Hanyu Yuan, her eyes suddenly widened: “Yuan?”
Looking at the little girl in front of her with white hair, red eyes, and a red gothic lolita-style dress, Hanyu Yuan opened his arms: “Anna, long time no see.”
The next second, Anna directly threw herself into Hanyu Yuan’s arms. The little girl who looked cold on the surface actually loved to act spoiled around familiar people.
“I missed you so much, Yuan.”
Hanyu Yuan hugged the little girl in his arms: “I missed you too. Anna seems to have grown a bit taller during this time.”
“I grew one centimeter taller!” Anna gestured with her hand.
Totsuka Tatara, standing beside them, laughed: “Actually, it was zero point eight-seven centimeters, Anna just rounded it up.”
Children around this age quite yearn to grow taller because they want to become adults.
Hanyu Yuan, who majored in psychology, knew this very well. He pulled out one hand to pat the head of the little girl in his arms: “Children grow fast. The previous measurement was zero point seven-eight centimeters, so now it should already be a full centimeter.”
“Yuan, you really…” Totsuka Tatara couldn’t help laughing.
Kusanagi Izumo chimed in with a laugh: “Yuan always has a cold expression, but he’s also the one who dotes on people the most.”
Anna blushed slightly with embarrassment and buried her face deeper into Hanyu Yuan’s arms.
Looking at such a harmonious scene in the bar, the red-haired man at the door slightly hooked the corner of his lips.
Hanyu Yuan held Anna and looked at Suou: “Suou, did you get into a fight with the people from Scepter 4?”
He was very smart; within just a few seconds, he deduced the process from the cause and effect.
Sure enough, Suou nodded, slightly frowning: “They wanted to take the necklace you gave me to study it.”
“Don’t be angry.” Seeing that he had the intention of getting angry again, Hanyu Yuan placated him, then reached out his hand: “Give me the necklace for a moment, I’ll recharge it.”
This necklace was developed by the Special Abilities Support Division at Hanyu Yuan’s suggestion back then. It can store and release ability power. Due to technical issues, there are still very few of them to this day, and each one is extremely precious. However, the ability needs to be recharged regularly, otherwise, once the energy runs out, it becomes useless.
Precisely because of this necklace, Hanyu Yuan once owed the Special Abilities Support Division a favor. However, that was all in the past.
Hearing this, Suou reached his hand behind his neck to take off the dark red gemstone necklace that he didn’t even take off when sleeping, and handed it to Hanyu Yuan.
Then, he uttered the words he wanted to say when he first saw Hanyu Yuan: “Yuan, welcome back.”
On the sofa, Suou had already put on the freshly recharged necklace again. He glanced at Hanyu Yuan, who was calmly drinking tea: “You’re working as a teacher now, right?”
They all knew about Hanyu Yuan’s desire to become a teacher, but Suou currently only knew that Hanyu Yuan had made some kind of transaction with the Special Abilities Support Division and finally successfully went to be a teacher. As for the specific circumstances, he wasn’t clear.
Hanyu Yuan did not plan to tell them about being tricked, after all, HOMRA was always united internally. If they knew he was tricked, they might go to the Armed Detective Agency and the Special Abilities Support Division to find payback for him.
However, being tricked didn’t really matter in Hanyu Yuan’s eyes; it was only for a year, and moreover, it truly was far away from his original place. Just like what he told Dazai Osamu, he wouldn’t get angry over such a thing.
“Right,” Hanyu Yuan nodded.
Everyone in HOMRA was still quite happy that Hanyu Yuan could do the job he wanted to do. Anna looked up at Hanyu Yuan: “Which school does Yuan teach at? Can I go?”
If she could become Yuan’s student, it would definitely be very blissful. No one knew better than Anna how gentle Hanyu Yuan was.
Remembering that the place he went to was actually Jujutsu High, Hanyu Yuan, who wasn’t used to lying, coughed once and vaguely answered: “It’s still a bit early for Anna’s current age to enter the school I teach at. Let’s talk about it when you grow up a bit more.”
After finishing, he took a red crystal ball out of his bag and seamlessly changed the subject: “Speaking of growing up, to celebrate Anna growing taller, this is a gift for you.”
“How come I remember Yuan just said these were all souvenirs?” Totsuka Tatara smiled and teased.
Hanyu Yuan remained as calm as ever: “Just changing the reason.”
“It’s pretty! It’s red!” Anna took the crystal ball and hugged it in her hands very preciously.
Seeing that they seemed to all have gifts, Suou turned his head. Without speaking, he just silently looked at Hanyu Yuan like that.
“This is Suou’s.” Hanyu Yuan took an e-cigarette specially bought for the occasion out of his bag and handed it to Suou.
“How is it an e-cigarette?” Suou pressed his lips together, staring somewhat disdainfully at the black e-cigarette. Although he said that, he still quickly took it and placed it in his breast pocket like a treasure.
“Smoke less, it’s good for your health.” Hanyu Yuan gave a very down-to-earth answer: “This is a specially made e-cigarette from the Special Abilities Support Division, and it has the effect of helping with smoking cessation.”
Kusanagi Izumo nodded approvingly: “Suou, you really should quit smoking. With Yuan’s necklace around, you don’t need cigarettes to calm your mood either.”
Suou didn’t expect that he was just accepting a gift and it would end up like this. Although he still had a poker face, the air pressure around his body could clearly be seen dropping.
Alas, the people around him were all his closest people; even as the King of the Red Clan, he could only dare to be angry without daring to speak out.
Hanyu Yuan looked at Izumo and calmly stated: “Izumo, you should quit smoking too.”
Who knows how this second-largest heavy smoker in HOMRA dared to stand on the moral high ground to lecture Suou.
“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough!” Kusanagi Izumo didn’t expect the fire to burn onto himself, and immediately coughed with a guilty conscience.
In the evening, Hanyu Yuan came to the place where he used to live in HOMRA. Just as Izumo said, they had always been cleaning it, so this place was still exactly the same as before Hanyu Yuan left.
Hanyu Yuan was discovered by the Special Abilities Support Division when he was sixteen, and soon after, because of the necklace, an exchange of interests took him to Yokohama.
He had been very busy for the past few years and rarely returned to stay at HOMRA for long periods. However, this room had always been kept for him.
He remembered that the last time he came back for an extended stay was because Anna prophesied that Tatara might die. Fortunately, the matter was resolved, otherwise Hanyu Yuan felt that even he would have felt sorrow.
“Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring!”
His phone suddenly rang. Hanyu Yuan took it out and saw that it was a call from the busybody Sakaguchi Ango.
Ever since his undercover mission ended, Sakaguchi Ango’s status in the Special Abilities Support Division had risen steadily, and his tasks had also increased geometrically.
Dazai had previously complained to him that Ango’s frequency of coming to Lupin bar had decreased. There was even a dangerous remark that he would blow up the Special Abilities Support Division sooner or later.
Putting away his wandering thoughts, Hanyu Yuan answered the call: “This is Hanyu Yuan.”
“Yuan, it’s Ango,” Ango replied, even though they both actually knew each other’s identities: “How have you been doing recently staying at Jujutsu High?”
His question reminded Hanyu Yuan of another matter: “Did you pull the strings when Dazai contacted the Special Abilities Support Division?”
This sentence contained no questioning, but it still made Sakaguchi Ango feel slightly guilty: “Commander Taneda himself also intended to discuss some matters with Dazai, so he had me pull the strings. Sorry Yuan, I didn’t know beforehand that they were going to…”
Going to join forces to trick you.
“It’s fine. One is your superior, and the other is Dazai. Since they had any plans, you couldn’t have done anything about it anyway. Besides, didn’t you give me a warning after you found out?” Hanyu Yuan shook his head.
Sakaguchi Ango had later sent him an obscure warning message saying “schools can come in many forms.”
It was just that by that time, Hanyu Yuan had already fallen into the trap and couldn’t run away.
“By the way, Dazai is extremely dissatisfied with your recent absence from Lupin bar,” Hanyu Yuan casually reminded: “You’d better do something about it.”
“I will,” Sakaguchi Ango on the other end of the phone replied prudently, then let out a bitter laugh: “But many things truly require my ability to be done.”
Sakaguchi Ango’s ability was “Discourse on Decadence,” which can read memories on objects. It was a very useful ability with a unique function. No wonder the Special Abilities Support Division would fleece him alone.
“Don’t talk about me, talk about yourself.” Sakaguchi Ango didn’t want to talk about the frustrating matters in his own work either, turning to ask Hanyu Yuan: “Jujutsu High only requires you to be responsible for five people currently, right? How is it? Are you getting used to it?”
Hanyu Yuan nodded: “Still quite used to it. The students have quite strong personalities and opinions.”
As a friend of many years, Sakaguchi Ango knew Hanyu Yuan very well. Hearing him say that, he immediately understood: “Very mischievous? Terrible tempers?”
“They’re all good kids,” Hanyu Yuan defined.
“In your eyes, as long as they don’t break laws or discipline, they’re all good kids, right?” Sakaguchi Ango吐槽ed insightfully: “Speaking of which, how is that Six Eyes from the Gojo family in this batch?”
He muttered on: “Commander Taneda actually attaches quite a bit of importance to this kid, saying he might be a breakthrough for the Special Abilities Support Division to make inroads into the jujutsu world. Then he sent people to secretly steal things belonging to that Gojo guy back every day for me to inspect with my ability, acting completely like some kind of pervert.”
A faint smile appeared in Hanyu Yuan’s eyes: “Then what did you find out?”
“I found out that Gojo guy is quite rebellious, at least not like the Three Great Families of the jujutsu world we usually come into contact with. No wonder Commander Taneda thinks he’s a breakthrough.”
After he finished speaking, Hanyu Yuan affirmatively replied: “He will be that breakthrough.”
Gojo Satoru’s personality was fundamentally out of tune with the Three Great Families. And among the current Three Great Families, no one had the strength to make him change his personality. Therefore, barring any accidents, after he took power, he would inevitably carry out reforms.
At that time, the Special Abilities Support Division representing the government would be his best choice.
Hearing Hanyu Yuan say this, Sakaguchi Ango immediately took it seriously. He knew that as a genius in psychology, Hanyu Yuan’s judgment in this aspect generally would not go wrong.
“If you have any needs…” After thinking about it, Sakaguchi Ango still said: “The Special Abilities Support Division would be very happy to cooperate with you again. In fact, they have always wanted to recruit a transcendent like you.”
Hanyu Yuan knew clearly what he could provide to the Special Abilities Support Division an undercover pipeline that had already penetrated the internal jujutsu world, and an extremely powerful ability.
However, he currently had no needs for the Special Abilities Support Division to help with; in other words, the other party couldn’t provide him with benefits.
This was also why, although the intentions of the Special Abilities Support Division were transparent to everyone, they had been delaying recruiting him. They knew that unless he had a need, Hanyu Yuan would not be moved by any external benefits.
However, Hanyu Yuan still didn’t directly reject Ango’s words. He had a premonition during this year, he might really reach a transaction with the Special Abilities Support Division.