Notes:
Vera here ️
Well, here I bring you one more update of this fic, which I hope you like it ️
Without further ado, here is an interesting talk between Yuta and Shoko, as well as a visit to the past.
Now, enjoy the reading ✨️
Sorry if there are any errors in the translation, I just finished translating this at 6:15 a.m. from Mexico
Chapter 21. A Conversation Between Cigarettes
"Do you want a cigarette?" asked Shoko, offering a cigarette to Okkotsu, as they watched those two resume their training in the garden after having played a little with that ball.
Satoru was teaching Yoshio the technique of "Falling Blossom Emotion" Which was supposed to be taught only among members of the three great clans.
The albino was helping his son concentrate his cursed energy around his body, but it seemed that the boy was having too much trouble understanding his father's instructions.
Instead, both Shoko and Yuta had stayed at the kiosk, leaning against the railing watching that scene between father and son, since Ijichi and Katsumoto, once they finished eating and catching up with the case of the sorcerer killer, got up to do some paperwork and incidentally, some work that Yuta sent them to find out.
So Shoko and Yuta had stayed in the kiosk, watching everything around them while the servants cleaned and cleared the table from the place where the banquet had been served.
"No thank you very much, Shoko-san" said Yuta, kindly refusing the cigarette "I am avoiding smoking for my own sake, but mostly because it is a condition imposed on me by Maki if I want her to allow me to continue seeing our children" he added.
"I understand" Shoko lit the cigarette she had offered Yuta and placed it on the railing on her right side "Still, let me light one on your behalf" she said with a soft smile, "It's really good to have you back Okkotsu kun"
"Thank you, I guess it was time to go home after seven years" said Yuta looking at that action, which he supposed was a ritual of that doctor to not feel lonely when smoking.
Shoko immediately took out another cigarette from the pack in her pocket, put it in her mouth and lit it with the lighter next to her.
"Speaking of your children..." She extinguished the lighter with a click, inhaling deeply from the cigarette before continuing.
"I read that they were born premature, is that true?" Shoko exhaled the smoke calmly as she leaned against the railing, staring at the guest sorcerer.
The doctor asked this question since she had lost track of them seven years ago.
Yuta took a breath, inhaling that smoke passively.
"Yes, when I met them they told me that they were born early and from the report that Katsumoto gave me, I read that they were born at 33 weeks" he sighed thinking about that event, which in Mai's words, had been a very difficult birth for her but especially for Maki.
"Then your children can be considered a miracle, since some babies don't make it, especially premature twins" Shoko took one more drag of those cigars.
"And yes, they can be considered as two small miracles that survived so much during my absence…" Yuta replied, his eyes lowered.
But a small smile had formed on his face as he remembered them at that moment. With their big smiles and their cute laughter, as well as the way they held his hand.
"Anyway, I am proud and happy that they survived and I am grateful to heaven to have met them" Yuta looked at that doctor "Although I wish things were... different..." he let the air out sadly.
"Really, I'm glad to hear that and I hope with all my heart that things for you will be different and favorable from now on" Shoko smiled a little at that answer and smoked some more, "And tell me Okkotsu, what did you feel when you met them? I want to guess that they are very restless children or well, one of them must be more restless than the other one, isn't it?"
Yuta took his cell phone out of his pocket. He quickly searched for the photo the three of them had taken at the festival.
And very excited, he showed that picture to the doctor.
"It's the two of them" he handed her his cell phone and pointed to his daughter, "And yes, from the little I have spend time with them, I can confirm that Yurika is the most restless, but Yuudai" then pointed to his son, "He is a very quiet boy"
Shoko smiled as she zoomed in on that photo, while holding her cigarette between her lips.
"Yes, they both look like you" she replied with a slight smile, as she returned the cell phone and held her cigarette between her fingers, "Especially your son, he's practically a copy of you"
Yuta scratched the back of his neck and let out a nervous chuckle, it was the first time he was told something like that, which he felt as if it was a compliment.
"Hehe, thank you Ieiri san"
Shoko smoked some more "You know Okkotsu? I confess that I would have liked to have accompanied Maki throughout her pregnancy and I would also have liked to help take care of those little ones. And more than that I always bet that they would be a girl and a boy"
"Did you bet? Was there a bet that they would be my children?" the special grade sorcerer asked curiously.
Shoko nodded
"Yes, I bet with Utahime at the time that those two would be a girl and a boy and Utahime always believed they would be two girls" she smoked some more "She really would have been the happiest to meet them. I even remember when she revealed to me that Maki was pregnant" she smiled a little, "she would have loved them with all her heart"
A few tears formed in her eyes as she remembered that time Utahime told her about Maki's pregnancy.
Flashback
Seven years ago.
Both women were enjoying a meal and drinks at their favorite bar, a place they used to go whenever the doctor visited Kyoto.
Shoko noticed that Utahime was very thoughtful, she seemed quite worried. Although in reality, that teacher had reason to be worried at that moment.
"So Utahime, what's that important thing you wanted to tell me?" asked Shoko after they both finished their first round of beers.
Both were seated facing each other, while the atmosphere of the restaurant, bathed in warm lighting, was charged with sentimentality.
The Kyoto teacher, who had shed her traditional attire that day and was wearing jeans and the jersey of her favorite baseball team, let the air out in an anguished sigh. But no words came out of her mouth.
"Is it something very bad that you want to tell me?" asked Shoko when she noticed her friend's silence.
"I don't know if naming it as a bad thing is the right thing to do?"
"Well, I won't know how bad or how good it is until you tell me" said the doctor, putting some food in her mouth.
"It's that…" Utahime's shoulders tensed –"This I'm going to tell you is something ultra important and at the same time is something that can affect several people..." her hands gripped her glass of beer tightly –"Mostly because this is something that I don't want anyone from the Tokyo school to find out yet..." She stared at her friend- "And it's something that I don't want anyone from the headquarters or the clans to know..."
"Ok, this is already scaring me... Utahime, what's going on?" Shoko answered a bit worried.
"But before I tell you…" Utahime took her best friend's right hand, she was cold both from her nerves and her drink "Promise me that you won't reveal it to anyone neither in Tokyo nor in Kyoto, please Shoko... I need you to keep this secret I'm going to tell you, but at the same time I need your help..." she had a big long face. She looked sad when she said all that.
"I promise" Shoko put her hand on her best friend's hand to give her warmth and support "And even more if you are the one who is asking me this way. Just as I promise to do everything in my power to help you"
"Thank you very much... and well... it happens...that" Utahime kept a moment of silence. She needed a breather.
Shoko brought her glass of beer to her lips for one more sip. And she would indeed need it for the news her best friend was about to give her.
Utahime blurted out the truth. "Maki is pregnant..."
That answer left Shoko's mouth hanging open. She felt like the beer would fall out of her mouth.
"Pregnant? Maki is pregnant by Okkotsu?" she repeated in astonishment.
Utahime nodded her head. Her lips pressed tightly together to keep from crying.
"Oh..." Shoko was a little puzzled and it took her a second to respond, "You said she's pregnant?"
"Yes, that's what I said... Maki is pregnant!" repeated Utahime trying to contain her emotions. Her face was tense.
"Did Okkotsu leave the country for this reason? Is this why the two of them broke up?" asked Shoko, trying to process what she had heard.
Utahime shook her head and answered somewhat annoyed. "Maki and Okkotsu never ended their relationship…"
She continued explaining to her best friend.
"According to what both Mai and Maki told me, Yuta didn't even find out about the pregnancy, because that jerk Gojo took him out of the country in a hurry!" her voice sounded charged with fury, as her finger tapped hard on the table.
"And from the way this whole separation happened, I have a feeling that idiot separated them for some deeper reason... like he was up to something else" Utahime growled in frustration "I hate how that fucker always does things his way"
At the time, Shoko did not fully understand her friend's statement. But some time later she would discover that Satoru also separated them out of envy for their relationship.
The doctor drank a little more of her beer to clear her throat "Yes, this is a serious case. And even more so since Maki barely came of age and with a baby on the way, it won't be easy, especially if she is alone..." She took out a cigarette from her pack, lit it and began to smoke. Her nerves needed that addiction.
"Two..." Utahime answered regretfully.
"Huh? Two what?" Shoko asked with the cigarette in her mouth.
Utahime lowered her shoulders, drank from her beer and quickly pulled out the ultrasound that Maki had taken to show her.
"Maki is actually expecting two babies…" she slid that ultrasound onto the table.
The color drained from Shoko's face. That news had really shocked her.
She took that echo with her free hand while with the other she held her cigarette. To which she took another breath.
Then she focused her eyes on that echo, which she checked carefully, raising it a little against the light above their heads.
That image was one he would never get out of her head.
"Clearly there are two babies coming" she blew the smoke toward that echo.
"Although in my medical opinion, I can make out two placentas…"
"Two babies! And it's her first pregnancy!" Utahime grimaced at the situation and the smell of tobacco, "What did it cost them to be abstinent or at least ask you for condoms?" she said in a mixture of annoyance and anguish. She sounded like a mother upset by what her daughter had done.
The doctor took one more puff on her cigarette: "Maybe they were too horny to think about condoms at that moment. Or unless this one broke. The odds are 50-50" she explained.
Utahime let out a noise of annoyance that later turned into a wail, "Even so, she's too young to have two babies! What the hell is she going to do with two babies? Two little ones who won't have a father! Two little ones who will be in too much danger if their mother's clan finds out!"
Shoko looked at her friend quite calmly, it seemed that she had already assimilated that news.
"Although realistically, the probability that one of those two would get pregnant with twins was quite high, considering that they themselves are twins" she looked at that echo once again, even smiled at the sight of those two little ones, "And to achieve it the first time and without medical treatment, is to some extent like a medical miracle"
"Whether it's a miracle or not, I feel she's quite young to have this responsibility, she's only 18 years old!" Utahime put her hands to her face. She looked quite distressed.
"Well?" Shoko left the cigarette in the ashtray on the table, allowing it to burn slowly while she continued to manipulate the ultrasound in her hands.
"How many months pregnant is Maki? Has she already made a decision about whether to keep them or abort them?"She asked seriously, staring at her friend "In the end, it is up to her to decide as the adult she is about what she is going to do with all this"
Utahime recovered her posture, leaned back in her seat and looked up at the lamp above their heads, where the smoke of that cigarette was disappearing.
"This ultrasound is from two weeks ago. So by now Maki must be more than a twelve weeks pregnant" she put her hands on her belly, "You can even see her little bulging belly" she said exemplifying with her hands, moving up and down on her belly.
"And Maki then…" Utahime replied as she lowered her shoulders in a deep exhalation, "she has decided to have them…"
"If that was her decision then we can only support her, can't we?" Shoko smiled a little and took a sip of her beer.
"That's right, there is no other choice and that's why I called you Shoko" she leaned over her place.
"Because I wanted to ask you if you know any gynecologist who can take care of her pregnancy, but above all we also want to keep it as secret as possible so that neither the headquarters nor the Zenin clan discover them, but above all we want to hide it from the latter" She seemed quite serious- "We must hide all traces of those babies so they do not want to claim them as theirs or want to eliminate them..." she sighed, her hands traveled to the sides of her head.
"That last one sounds like it's going to be quite a problem, especially since we're talking about one of the three big clans" said Shoko, lowering her shoulders and looking at her best friend, who was quite sorry and seemed quite worried about what was going on.
Utahime took a swig of her beer, her cheeks barely red from how drunk she was just getting.
"I feel like a bad teacher..."
"And why do you say that?" asked Shoko surprised with that answer. She knew that she was not yet drunk enough to say such things.
"Because I feel it was my responsibility to take care of all of them!" her hands clenched into fists on the table, "I feel it was my duty to advise them, to guide them on the right path. And now, with Maki pregnant and Okkotsu out of the country because of that bastard pf Satoru... I feel I have failed them as a teacher.."
Shoko looked sympathetically at her friend, as they were sitting across from each other, she took both of her friend's hands to comfort her.
"You are not a bad teacher at all. On the contrary, you are a good teacher and it shows that both Mai and Maki trusted you enough to tell you all this" she squeezed her hands tightly, "it shows that they consider you someone they can trust no matter what"
Utahime let out a few tears at those words.
"Thank you Shoko... yet I feel it is my duty as a woman and as a sorceress to help them with this situation…"
Shoko let go of both her hands, "And how have you thought of helping them?" she asked before taking one last puff on her cigarette before it finished burning.
Utahime dried her tears with the back of her right hand "Well..." She took a long and deep breath to try to calm herself.
"For that reason I have also thought of bringing Maki to live with me here in Kyoto while the babies are born and since I want to support her in everything, the first thing is to look for a doctor who can take care of her and more than that a twin pregnancy is not easy" she stared at her best friend "That's why I want to know if you know someone"
Shoko had a big smile on her face "I have an acquaintance who could monitor her entire pregnancy, as well as help us keep the secret, especially now that you are about to become a grandmother"
"HEY, I'M NOT THAT OLD!" Utahime replied in a pout.
"You're not, but you're behaving as if you were the mother of those two" Shoko looked as her cigarette was about to burn off in that ashtray. "And I'll bet you anything that you're worrying more than their real mother would…"
Utahime smiled slightly, "You're right... I love all my students as if they were my children..."
"You'd make an excellent mother" Shoko took her best friend's hand."And you're already proving it, just by wanting to help those two. And I know you'll come up with a plan for everything to come once those two little ones are born. But for now, we must support them as much as we can, just as we must keep this secret from everyone"
Utahime smiled at that comment and at the support Shoko was giving her, she knew she could trust her.
Although deep down Utahime longed to have a child of her own. But right now, she just wanted to help those two.
"Thank you so much for everything Shoko. With you by my side I know we can help them and by the way, save those two babies from the clutches of the sede and their clan"
"You are not alone in this. You have me as the great-aunt of these two babies to support you in this new stage" Shoko replied with a serene smile.
The teacher took that ultrasound and looked at it carefully.
"And speaking of these two babies, I say they will be two girls just like Maki and Mai" she said tenderly.
Shoko finished drinking his beer.
"Do you think so?"
"I believe it, in fact I even dare to bet a round of beers and a big plate of edamame and Karaage that they will be girls" said Utahime taking a big gulp of her beer, almost finishing it in one gulp.
Shoko smiled at the bet, she liked to see her friend more animated. She got up, sat next to Utahime and rested her head on her shoulder. While together they watched the ultrasound.
"I bet it will be a boy and a girl"
"A boy and a girl?" Utahime raised an eyebrow at Shoko's answer.
"Yes. Something tells me it's a girl and a boy" she point to those two on the ultrasound.
"Don't cheat with your medical knowledge!" Utahime wagged her index finger as if drawing her attention. "Even so, whether they are two girls or two boys or a girl and a boy, I will take care of them those two as well as Maki and Mai" she looked with a slight smile at that echo.
Shoko laughed at that comment and then looked admiringly at her best friend. "I know you will be the best grandmother in the world for those two"
"And I know you'll be there to remind me of it" Utahime replied with a big smile, before sinking into a cute beer-induced giggle, "I'm going to be a grandmother!"
Utahime looked really happy about all that. Too bad that happiness would not last long, just like that cigarette, which was quickly consumed.
Back to the present.
Shoko sighed. Watching as the cigarette she had placed next to her was completely consumed, like those fleeting moments of happiness.
Whenever she smoked, she would light one more cigarette and put it next to her to remember the good times and especially to remember the former Utahime. The one who hated the smell of cigarettes. The one who was her best friend.
"She definitely would have been happy with those two little ones" she said, taking a last drag on the cigarette between her fingers. "I know it sounds heartbreaking, but I still hold out hope that she'll get her memory back and we'll collect on that bet"
Yuta smiled when he heard what the doctor had told him. "There is still hope. And more than I also have to thank Utahime sensei for everything he did for Maki and my children"
"And more than hope dies last" Shoko replied looking towards Gojo and Yoshio, who were now again playing with the ball.
Even so, Yuta had to take the opportunity to ask some more questions he had about everything that had happened seven years ago.
"Ieiri san can I ask you something?"
"Sure, go ahead Okkotsu" she inhaled what little was left of her cigarette.
"May I ask what else happened with you and the others seven years ago after the attack against Utahime sensei?" He questioned looking at the doctor – "I noticed that Satoru didn't seem to want to bring up that topic during the meal either"
Shoko let out the smoke from her cigarette. She took a breath and answered that without looking away from Okkotsu.
"It happens that after everything that happened with Utahime and after we found out that she was pregnant, Satoru entered into a kind of obsession for wanting to control everything around him, that obsession reached the point of taking command over director Yaga at that time. He became so manic that it led him to suspect that maybe everyone was against him. Including me"
"But why did he do that?" Yuta questioned with too much uncertainty.
"Tell me Okkotsu" Shoko stubbed out what was left of her cigarette on the railing, "Wouldn't you have done the same if Maki had been the one to go into a coma after a brutal attack like that?" she said without taking her eyes off the guest.
Okkotsu was silent on that question. The answer was simple; he would have done the same.
Shoko continued explaining, "When love becomes an obsession and you put others aside, you become a danger not only to those around you but also to yourself. Satoru was about to commit more crazy things" she paused a little, "That is until Tsukumo san intervened.
Yuta raised an eyebrow when he heard that. He had decided to act surprised. "Tsukumo intervened in all this?"
"She was the only one who could convince Satoru to put his feet on the ground and not commit any more idiocies"
"How did that happen, did the two of them talk about something important?" Yuta asked with too much interest.
Shoko took another cigarette out of her pack.
"I don't know all the details, but I do know that they had a very heated talk" she put the cigar in her mouth and reached for her lighter, "Having two special class sorcerers locked in the same room will always feel like the collision of two galaxies...that time we were all afraid that those two would end up causing a black hole "
Shoko lit up her cigarette "That's how it felt that time when those two talked behind closed doors for hours. Satoru has never wanted to tell me the details of that talk, but I guess from the agreement they reached, it must have been some kind of equally binding vow. I'm glad your friends and children were able to get out of here, though. If they had stayed, they most likely would have suffered too much"
Yuta seemed to be left with that same doubt about the talk between Yuki and Gojo and what they agreed on to let his friends go free.
"I guess it must have been a very difficult thing for everyone, wasn't it?"
Shoko shook her shoulders a little "Yes it was. It was very complicated for all of us and more so when you are asked the question Are you staying or going? Even knowing the implications that each decision could have on your life from now on" she smoked some more.
She blew the smoke upwards.
"With all your friends and colleagues there was no other option, they had to leave because that was the deal with Tsukumo. But instead, there were others who stayed by choice" he said, while looking in the distance at Ijichi, who at that moment was instructing other servants.
From the kiosk it was possible to see part of the interior of this luxurious residence.
"Forgive me for asking, but why did you and Mr. Ijichi stay at headquarters? Wasn't it easier to leave like everyone else did?" Yuta asked with curiosity disguised as seriousness.
Shoko relaxed her shoulders while her arms were still leaning on the railing.
"We did it for our friends" she looked at Yuta, "In my case I didn't want to leave Utahime and her son. Just as Ijichi didn't want to leave me alone. This is because we both have someone to protect" she repeated the words that Satoru had said."So only the two of us are left with the three of them" she sighed with a touch of nostalgia, "While everyone else left."
"And have you heard even a little from all your colleagues after these seven years?"
"I heard from Nanami that he married a baker and now lives happily in Malaysia, Yaga retired and took Panda and all his puppets with him to the countryside, Kusakabe didn't hesitate to leave so I suspect he must have made a simple life out there, Ino also left on Nanami's recommendation, and in Mei Mei's case, curiously she ran away when all this chaos started... so practically everyone else left and only Ijichi and I were left... the assistant who knows everything about this world and the doctor who can only cure this staff..." She smoked- "So if the two of us left, the world of Gojo and Utahime would collapse..."
Yuta sighed at that answer. He didn't imagine that everyone had someone to protect and Shoko simply stayed for Utahime and her son, while Ijichi stayed for her.
Shoko exhaled the smoke from her cigarette "And how do you feel about all this Okkotsu?"
Yuta tensed his shoulders as he continued to watch Gojo and Yoshio play in the distance "I'm confused, actually. There is so much to process..."
"I know that what you are seeing and hearing is not easy, just as I know that it is not easy for you to forgive us for all that we have put you, Maki and your children through..." Shoko also looked at her friend and her nephew. "But maybe, just maybe... this can be a new beginning for everyone..."
Yuta kept silent at such an answer, he really felt that he could not fully forgive them.
They both kept a few minutes of silence, which was broken by Shoko once he was about to finish his second cigarette.
"By the way Okkotsu, can I ask you something now?"
"Go ahead, Ieiri san"
She smoked."Being in Kyoto, haven't you run into Mei Mei or Tsukumo? We haven't really heard from them for seven years..."
Shoko had her suspicions about those two women. Especially because nothing was known about them.
Yuta lied, shaking his head.
"I haven't seen either of them"
Shoko exhaled, noticing how this sorcerer seemed to be telling the truth.
"I understand..." She smoke once more "Anyway, Okkotsu be careful"
"What should I be careful about?" asked Yuta, somewhat confused.
"I'm talking about the case you are solving..."
"From the Sorcerer Killer?" Yuta asked quietly.
"Yes, I'm talking about that case. Something tells me that you must be very careful with who you ally yourself with to catch that murderer... and more than this world of sorcery, allies can turn out to be your real enemies..." She said, staring at that familiar scene.
Those words left Yuta very thoughtful. It was not the first person who had said that to him. And perhaps now he could understand more clearly that he also had to take care of the headquarters. Especially of Gojo.
Both continued observing in silence from the kiosk what was happening in that garden. Where Gojo was still playing with Yoshio, until Utahime appeared from one of the exits of the residence, accompanied by some servants.
The woman still looked a little sleepy, but her son ran to embrace her.
That scene Okkotsu saw in front of his eyes really made him jealous combined with pure fury.
Just seeing how Satoru hugged his wife from behind and how he kissed her with too much love, while their son ran around them and hugged them, made him jealous... jealous that he could not make a life like that for seven years with Maki and his children, who unfortunately only saw him as a friend...
That scene turned his stomach, even his hands balled into fists at his sides.
"Sometimes I think the best thing would have been simply not to know anything or to lose my memory so as not to suffer in this way..." he said between his teeth.
Shoko sighed when she heard what the guest said as they watched that scene. "Okkotsu..." she named him in a thin voice.
The sorcerer turned his head slightly toward her.
"I know how you feel and believe me, it seems unfair to me too that you don't have your family at this moment... especially because this idiot didn't know how to act in a good way..." She explained, looking again at her friend from a distance.
"Even so" she returned her gaze to Yuta, "I wish with all my heart that from now on you can enjoy the company of your children and you can watch them grow up, and I also wish that you can make up for lost time with your children and Maki..." it seemed more of a blessing than a curse.
"Thank you..."
Shoko continued to look at the guest with seriousness as she kept talking.
"And also keep in mind that..." she moistened her lips a little. "Sometimes not having a memory or not knowing the truth brings more consequences than advantages... because that "life" you were led to believe can turn into a nightmare when you wake up..." She stared at Utahime.
Okkotsu understood what that doctor meant by those words.
He knew that in the event Utahime regained her memory... she might suffer with that reality in which she lived deluded for seven years.
Shoko continued talking. "And when you see Maki again, tell her for me that I always prayed to heaven for her and her babies. And more than that now that I know she survived, tell her that I am proud of her, just as Utahime would be very proud of her for being the woman she is today"
Yuta nodded his head.
"I'll tell her" he said with a smile.
"Thank you Okkotsu..." she sighed. "Likewise, don't hesitate to talk to me if you need help with any medical terms for this case or just need to talk to someone" she smiled slightly, "Or even if you need help about something medical for your children"
"Thank you very much, Ieiri san. If I need any consultation, I will call you" Yuta answered kindly.
"I hope to meet your Twins someday"
"I know they would get along very well. They are both very good children" replied Yuta, all proud of his sons.
"By the way Okkotsu"
"Yes?"
"Have your children already developed or shown any cursed technique? Or are they children with cursed energy?" the doctor asked curiously.
Yuta pursed his lips a little. He promised not to talk too much about them in that place. But at that moment he felt he could trust that woman.
"They have no cursed technique yet and for the moment, they can only see and perceive small curses only"
Shoko analyzed this.
"Well, for their age and their particular mix of genes, if they are blessed children, perhaps they will soon develop their cursed technique"
"What if that doesn't happen?" Yuta asked worriedly.
The doctor gave him a serene smile.
"If it didn't happen, then they could live a "normal" life... although something tells me that your children could have interesting techniques and even more that they are a combination of two great clans"
Yuta was taken aback by those words. Part of him wanted his children to be normal children. But, on the other hand, he felt that what Shoko said was true. One way or another, his children were descendants of two great clans... and perhaps he would soon be the leader of one of them.
Yuta was so lost in his thoughts that Yoshio's voice brought him out of them.
"Uncle Yuta, come with us!" Yoshio was heard to shout in the direction of the guest sorcerer.
Okkotsu sighed, he had a strange feeling as he watched Gojo and Yoshio in the distance, at that moment he knew that he would not return to Kyoto in the next few days, and more so that there was still another equally important issue to discuss with Satoru.
Notes:
I hope you liked it.
And tell me what did you think of this chapter, do you think Utahime would have loved Yurika and Yuudai very much as a grandmother?
Can you imagine Maki and Utahime pregnant at the same time? It definitely would have been a nice timeline ️ both living together under the same roof and expecting the children of the strongest sorcerers.
It would have been nice if Yoshio had lived with Yurika and Yuudai since they were babies ️ Well, that could be a plot for another fic.
Now I have two questions for you;
do you trust Shoko? And more importantly, do you still trust Gojo?
Because next chapter he and Yuta will have one last talk, one where I will make them doubt this albino's good intentions.
Anyway, I will be reading your comments and theories.
I know that many of you already want to read about the Twins and Maki. And in one more chapter they will be back.
As I said, this fic is going to be a long one so the father-son interactions that Yuta deserves so much with Yurika and Yuudai will come very soon ️🙏 just be patient.
Anyway, we keep reading ️ and more that next week we will have the final chapter of the manga. I'm both excited and scared at the same time, how do you think this manga will end?
Well, we'll keep reading soon