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To Inumaki, the lovely boy with gorgeous amethyst eyes.
41. Mei Mei's Interest
"Tsukigami Maguro-chan, isn't it?"
The woman has been watching Maguro for a while now. Since the start of the competition, first thing Maguro does is sought out Inumaki Toge, the Cursed Speech User. After Gojo explained to her that Inumaki has probably gone into hiding and won't be seeing him in action for a while, Maguro sat herself down comfortably and begun to dig in.
Really dig in.
She would get a donut, stuff it into her mouth slowly as if to test herself if she could eat the donut in one mouthful, then bobs her head in silent tribute to herself. Mei Mei would even go as far as to say Maguro looked every bit so pleased with herself on her achievement with the donut.
Then Gojo's hand would extend backwards.
Maguro seemed to get the gist of the reason pretty quickly, as she handed him one stick of dango she has on her fully laden table.
Her teacher immediately snapped his neck to give Utahime a wide grin, wriggling his eyebrows at the dango in his hand and waving it to her face. He wanted to boast to Utahime that he had someone to feed him in the monitoring room during this competition, while she doesn't. Utahime seethes quietly in her seat.
Maguro really digs into the refreshment snacks provided at the back of the monitoring room, and she didn't hold back on anything edible. She had tried everything on that table and piled her plate with what she, Ieiri-sensei and Gojo-sensei likes.
Tsukigami Maguro looked towards the other seat near her. It was a lovely lady with long silvery hair in braids, looking like a boss. She was the one who had called her.
And she radiated this unknown energy that tells of the vast power she wields as a sorceress.
Stunned that someone like her would speak to a mere student like her, Maguro nodded her head mutely and quickly swallowed the dango in her mouth.
"Mei Mei," Gojo said, chewing on his dango on one side of his cheeks. "Don't scare my student."
That peaked Mei Mei's interest. "Oh?" she said, raising her eyebrows in delight. "So, this is the one that has a Reverse Cursed Technique skill?"
"The only female student I have that could do that, yes," Gojo said proudly, feeling his ego engorged to a size like a hot air balloon. It's very rare to come across someone so young and able to use the Reverse Cursed Technique flawlessly like Ieiri. Of course he would feel proud. "And I have two students that could do this. Utahime you have none, neeeee?"
As expected, Utahime exploded.
While Utahime bickers with the grinning Gojo Satoru, Maguro turned back to the braid hair lady.
"Y-Yes. I'm Maguro," the last Tsukigami said to her with her head bow. "Nice to meet you, Mei Mei-senpai."
Mei Mei smiled at her and picked a random topic to talk about. She wanted to know more about the Tsukigami girl, more so on the family's rather old but remained secret skills and jujutsu techniques. It was exclusively reserved for the Tsukigami to learn and use, but it's been so long. Those techniques are wasted to keep around in old scrolls.
If she's good enough to Maguro, perhaps she could get to borrow them for a while and learn. But first, she needs to lower down the girl's guard.
The long, blue tinted haired woman asked her, "Why do you tie your hair up in that way? You're a 2nd year, aren't you?"
"Oh, this?" Maguro said, grabbing onto her braided bun of a hair resting snugly beneath her nape and smiled awkwardly. "My previous school is quite strict on hairstyles at school. I thought this school would too. But I guess I just got used to keeping it like this."
Mei Mei gave her a smirk. "You can do anything you want in this school, so long as you learn the techniques here properly and practice again and again and again till you're perfect at it."
Maguro pursed her lips and nodded, not knowing what else to say. Mei Mei sensed her reluctance to speak more and reached out to touch her hair. "Keep your hair down," she said in a gentler voice. "You'll look cuter that way."
Mei Mei wanted to grin widely when she realizes just how sweet Maguro is, especially more so when she realize Maguro takes praise in the form of shy blushes.
But when she saw Ieiri Shoko staring at her with a cold smile, Mei Mei averted her gaze elsewhere.
For a moment, Mei Mei forgotten how scary Ieiri could be. Wonder what makes her-
Oh.
Yes.
Maguro is Ieiri Shoko's student. That'll explain the two powerful figures backing her up here in the form of Gojo Satoru and Ieiri Shoko. It'll be hard to get Maguro to be alone then.
It was then the burly Principle of Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College. It's a little rare to see him picking sweet titbits from the snack table. As far as Mei Mei knows, the principle rarely indulges in sweet things.
Then he turned around and marched towards Maguro, dropping off a pile of mochi and glazed apple strudel that just came out of the oven.
"Heard you liked this," Principle Yaga coughed out. "Got the school canteen to make them. Finish them. Don't waste."
In the midst of Maguro's squeals of delight, Mei Mei realizes that Maguro didn't just have two powerful figures backing her up.
She has three.
Realizing that it will almost be impossible to get close to Maguro without either of these three suspecting anything selfish on her part, Mei Mei gave an empty snort to herself and started digging into the glazed donuts.
