Chapter 65: Relaxation?

A day has passed since the destruction of the town. It was a little past noon. The bright sun could have been seen if the sky wasn't pouring down snow. Mute could be seen wearing a hoodie with the hood up walking through thick snow, his footsteps leaving a trail behind him.

Mute was walking on a sidewalk. The streets were barren from the intense snow. Mute was the only person around. Mute kept on walking until he ended up at a shaggy-looking building. Mute looked at the building as hundreds of thoughts ran through his head...

Geto really made me walk all the way out here, during the pouring snow, Geto wanted to meet in a restaurant called, " Hōritsu " Apparently it's a restaurant where criminals meet. And seeing how sketchy this building looks, I can say confidently this is the place. I walk up the stairs before entering the building.

I instantly walk into a checking desk. A young teenage girl with blonde hair is working at it. Several closed wooden doors are to my left and right, with a single door behind the woman. The woman looks at me before politely grinning and talking.

" You look new. So, please let me explain the rules. To your left and right are doors. Each door leads to a different room, and depending on which door you enter, is the type of person you want to meet. So, please tell me who you are trying to meet? "

I walk closer to the desk before leaning over the desk and speaking to the girl. 

" I'm here to meet Geto. "

The girl's eyes widen before a single bead of sweat rolls down her face. She quickly points behind her using her thumb, and she coughs before speaking.

" I-It's the door behind me, Geto is in that room, and if I'm not mistaken, you are Mute correct? "

I just nod my head before walking past the checking desk, heading towards the closed wooden door. As I approach the door, I notice the doorknob turn before the door wildly swings open, revealing Geto with a huge grin on his face. 

He locks eyes with me before speaking. 

"It's nice for you to finally join me, Mute. I feared that you would get lost. But please come into this room. Our conversation will be private once we enter there. "

Geto turns around before walking into the room, I feel the receptionist's eyes staring at me as I follow Geto into the room, I close the door behind me before a single wooden table comes into my view, the table is almost completely surrounded by a bench with red cushions, Geto sits down on the bench gesturing for me to sit down.

I quickly sit down before Geto lets out a loud yawn and asks me a question.

" Do you drink Mute? "

Hmm, I used to drink a lot in my past life. I just give him a thumbs up before a grin appears on his face and he snaps his fingers creating a cursed spirit next to him. The cursed spirit is a black tortoise with two heads and only three eyes. For being a tortoise the cursed spirit is surprisingly fast as his body flickers before reappearing with two bottles of champagne on its back and two glass tulip-shaped cups on its two heads. 

Geto reaches down and grabs the cups before sliding one to me, and grabs onto the two champagne bottles placing them on the table, Geto happily grabs onto the champagne bottle before popping it open and pouring it into the cup, I quickly follow his lead pouring champagne into my cup as well. 

I grab onto my cup before I clink it with Geto's. I drink the cup before Geto speaks to me with a grin on his face.

" I think it's time to explain to each other our plans thoroughly. You already know my final goal is to kill all non-sorcerers, yet I don't know what you want. So, why do you work with me?"

That's a good question, but truthfully, I don't really have a wise answer. The main reason I'm working with Geto is to have protection against the Jujutsu world. Even though I am one of the four strongest sorcerers in the world, if Gojo and first-grade sorcerers teamed up against me, I'd surely lose. 

I ponder to myself a little longer before I respond to Geto. 

" My goal is quite simple. I'm here for survival, and I believe working with you is the best chance for me to survive. Even if I went to work with Gojo, I'm sure the Jujutsu higher-ups would still try to kill me. "

And I'm sure Gojo wouldn't forgive me for trying to kill Shoko. Geto looks at me. His mind is clearly full of thoughts. He starts tapping the wooden table with his index finger until he stops, and speaks again. 

" I see, but don't worry, I promise to protect you if you promise to follow me through hell. You see I came here to discuss a plan I have, I'm sure you know that we get our information from a student in Kyoto named Mechamaru, well recently, he told me about a student named Yuta Okkotsu, you see Yuta is different from the other students, he has a vengeful spirit under his control. "

A vengeful spirit? Apparently, that is what my sister turned into after she died. I watched Geto stare at me before he poured champagne into his empty glass. Quickly drinking it before speaking again. 

" The spirit's name is Rika, the queen of curses. With my curse manipulation, if I can get Rika under my control, then I can finally break the cycle of curses ending this once and for all. "

I stare at him before nodding my head at him. A pleased look appears on his face before I ask a question. 

" Where's Nanako and Mimiko? I didn't think they would ever leave your side. "

Geto laughed at me before answering my question. 

"They're completing a request for me. It's a simple one, they're meant to go grocery shopping, however, the grocery store I sent them to look for doesn't exist. " 

I scoff at him while pouring champagne into my glass before drinking it. My conversation with Geto lasts for hours until the two champagne bottles on the table become empty. I stare at the table in front of me with my vision blurry. I forgot that this body had never drank before. I reach up and touch my face feeling it being flushed. 

I let out a loud sigh before I wobbly stand up from the table, balancing myself by holding onto the table. I hear Geto laughing at me before I glance up at him staring at his drunken face. He talks to me while slurring his words. 

" A-Are you sure that you've drunk before? I-It looks like you can barely handle it. "

I stared at him with an annoyed look before I responded.

"You're one to talk, you barely can talk normally, but I need to leave Geto, so I'll see you soon. " 

I say to him while walking past the table. I'm about to walk towards the door of the room before I hear Geto drunkenly talk to me once again.

" Before you leave, Mute, let me tell you a metaphor. "

I glance back at him before he grins and tells me the metaphor.

" Why couldn't, N-Nanako and Mimiko find the grocery store-, because they were as dumb as a box of hairs. "

I stared at him confused before I murmured something under my breath.

" That's not a metaphor, at all. "...

After fighting to get away from a drunken Geto, Mute could be seen walking through a pile of snow. The thickly falling snow had ended up only leaving inches of snow on the ground. Mute drunkenly walked through the snow before his eyes locked on a young boy with black hair. He was wearing a backpack. He clearly had just gotten out of school.

Mute noticed something about the boy before he walked over to him catching the boy's attention. Mute stared at the kid before asking a question.

" Hey, are you a Zenin by chance? "...