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Chapter 509: The first fireworks rain in 2019

"five four three two one."

Gojo Satoru pointed at the dark sky in the distance, turned around, looked at me with eyes as blue as the sky and said, "The fireworks you asked for."

There was a "bang" sound.

I saw a beam of white light sliding rapidly upward in a straight line in the east, leaving a long tail and drawing a huge mark in the sky.

Light instantly shot out from all directions, gathering together colorful rays of light.

One after another, fireworks bloomed in the sky and fell like rain.

Reflected in his eyes, it was like a rainbow leaping out of the clear sky.

It's really beautiful.

It’s the first day of 2019

This is the first fireworks rain of 2019.

I looked up at the sky and saw the colorful lights all over it. I should have felt happy.

But I don't know why, but I felt a sense of relief accompanied by a sense of confusion and loss.

It's like going back to when I graduated from high school.

Because of the difficult questions, the hard study, and the heavy workload, I really want to end it all.

But when that day really comes, I will want to stay where I am.

Really...why do I feel this way?

"Aren't you happy?" Gojo Kiri stood side by side with me, pointed at the last bunch of fireworks, and asked, "These are the fireworks you've been wanting to see."

"Happy..." I nodded slowly and said, "How can I not be happy?"

"Looking at the expression on your face, it doesn't seem like you're saying that." He puffed his lips, "I always feel like you're saying that in your heart."

"Ah - I have no choice but to be forced to spend the New Year with these strangers. I am so pitiful."

"I didn't think about that at all just now." Hearing his words, I immediately came to my senses, glared at him angrily, and said, "I'm not pitiful."

"Then..." He chuckled and said, "Happy New Year?"

"Although you must have heard many people say this to you in the past 19 years, I think you should hear it again."

"But..." He shook his head, stood under the moonlight, and said with a smile, "I still want to give this blessing to you."

"Congratulations, Suzuki Yuri, you have successfully crossed over 2018 and entered 2019. Your life will be smooth sailing in the future."

"I know this without you telling me."

*

After watching the fireworks, I sat around the campfire and chatted with a few people around me.

I hugged my knees, staring at the blazing flames that showed no sign of dying down, and was stunned for a rare moment.

The gray bird never flew away, but kept walking around the edge.

Sometimes it shook its head, sometimes it flapped its wings, and sometimes it walked up to Wu Tiao Wu and the others and waved its claws with a look of disgust, which was quite human.

Come to think of it, it looks quite similar to the bird on the balcony that always stole the tomatoes grown by my mother when I was a child.

Could this bird be the one that was born? When they talk, will they also talk about my family in the bird language they use? And -

"When do you plan to return to Tokyo?" Just as all kinds of strange ideas flashed through my mind, I suddenly heard Xia Yujie ask, "What time is the flight?"

"…Probably tomorrow afternoon."

"Then do you have any free time after you go back?"

"Free time?" I was stunned, and then I remembered the school's holiday arrangements. I said in a daze, "It seems that I don't have anything to do..."

The winter break will only be over in half a month, and then it will be spring break.

After all, it is a school and major that is ranked so highly, so logically, I should focus all my attention on studying.

But I don’t know if it was because I was gifted or the undergraduate content was too simple, but I didn’t even study seriously, but I had already memorized all the knowledge points without any teacher.

The assigned homework was completed eight hundred years ago, Li Zi is still working as her assistant in the studio, and my parents haven't said when they will be back. My classmates in the same school are scattered all over the world and have basically returned to their hometowns. I am still in Tokyo and I don't know them very well.

For a moment, I really didn't know what to do.

"Well... since you still have some free time." Xia Yujie said, "How about meeting my other colleagues after returning to Tokyo?"

"Eh?" I was stunned and asked, "Are they the teachers who played Naoko Ieiri, Megumi Fushiguro, Yuji Itadori, Kento Nanami, etc.?"

"Yes." He nodded and said, "After hearing the news about you, they all wanted to meet you."

"You heard about me...you want to see me?"

Why does this sound so strange?

"Oh, it's like this." He paused and explained to me, "I told them about my previous encounter with you."

"Because we are rehearsing a play, we need people who have a deep understanding of the manga Jujutsu Kaisen to discuss with them. However, since this anime was just serialized this year, most people have not reached this level yet..."

"So, your presence becomes crucial."

"Oh, oh, oh." I nodded in sudden enlightenment and said, "So that's how it is..."

"But, teacher." I held my curled fingers and asked in a low voice with some embarrassment, "Do I really have to see you?"

"How about forget it."

"You... don't want to see them?" Xia Youjie's expression immediately became a little stagnant. He paused and asked, "Don't you like them or what..."

"No, no, no." I quickly explained to him, "It's not that I don't like it."

"It's just... I met so many teachers at once... I felt a little..."

To be honest, I actually have a bit of social phobia. Being introduced to new friends’ social circles and then meeting more new friends is actually quite a challenge for me.

I start to feel tired when I think about starting a new round of communication with complete strangers, getting to know their personalities, and then saying polite words to each other.

In fact, at my age, the ideal situation would be to have a lot of old friends who are familiar with each other and get along well with each other.

However, apart from Li Zi, I never seemed to have the idea of ​​making new friends. Although I was popular in school, everyone's impression of me always seemed to be "she is a good person" rather than "she is my friend".

"Ah... I understand." Wu Tiao Wu, who had sat on the other side of the campfire at some point, clapped his hands as if a light bulb had suddenly flashed on his head, and said, "What you need is a friend who can break into your house and rob you."

"Huh...huh? What?" I asked, a little dumbfounded. "A friend who breaks into a house and robs people?"

“It’s just like us.” He pointed at himself and said nonchalantly, “Even if you block and delete me, I can still crawl back and be your friend.”

"Well, isn't it a bit like a home invasion?"

I:"……"

What? It doesn't look like anything at all, okay? What a lame joke you are playing, Mr. Gojo.