Ren reached the door of the guest office. As he was about to open it, a girl with blue hair stood there. She wore a suit and had a katana on her hip. She looked at Ren and spoke in a stern voice, "You can't enter!"
Ren smiled to himself and thought, ''Holy moly, who thought I would see the sword genius here? Kasumi Miwa is a pretty weak character, honestly. In the whole story, she was useless. She made a binding vow once, which was funny, but why did she say, I can't enter? Oh, maybe she does not know who I am. Well, it's not impossible; I do, in fact, not take many photos…''
Ren smiled at Miwa and spoke calmly, "My name is Ren Sato. I want to meet my sensei, Gojo. He is in there, right?"
Miwa squinted at him, looking him up and down, her frown deepening. "Yeah, you're Ren Sato, and I am Gojo Satoru."
Ren blinked in genuine confusion, stunned by her words.
Miwa continued, "Yeah, like you are. Ren Sato—the youngest special grade sorcerer, a genius who reached the peak of Jujutsu society! And you don't look like a beast in human skin to me, buddy. Now, I don't know much about Ren Sato, but I know one thing: you aren't the Wild Beast of Tokyo High!"
Ren's eye twitched. 'What the fuck? Ugh, I thought I left the Wild Beast of Tokyo title behind! What kind of rumours are going around out there about me?!'
Ren started, "Uh, wait, let me get my ID out—"
Miwa raised her hand sternly, cutting him off. "No need to show me some fake ID. Now get out of here before I report you to—"
At that moment, the door behind Miwa opened. Gojo stood there, speaking casually, "Oh, hey, Ren-kun, what are you doing here??"
Ren kept his tone calm. "I am just here to tell you I am going to head out for training and a warm-up. No, I won't destroy anything, and I am only going out for a few hours. Also, Yaga told me I can do this."
Gojo frowned, clearly wanting to argue, but he shook his head and said, "Ah, go, Prince, go live your life. I know whose arms you're going to jump into…" He dramatically looked away and huffed.
Ren rolled his eyes and looked past gojo and caught a glimpse of the room's interior. Yoshinobu Gakuganji, the principal of Kyoto Jujutsu High, sat there alongside Utahime Iori. Utahime's eyes widened when she saw Ren, and she spoke, "Hello, Ren," glaring at him as if he had stolen her lunch money.
Ren thought, 'Oh, is she still angry about what I did last time? Ha…'
He smirked. "Hey, weakling, long time no see. Good to see you're as weak as ever."
Without waiting for a reply, Ren turned and walked away quickly.
"Ah, HEY! Who the hell do you think you're talking to? Brat!" Utahime shouted after him.
All the while, Miwa stood frozen, like she was made of stone. Her heart seemed to stop as thoughts raced through her mind: 'Wait, why is Gojo Satoru talking to him? Utahime-san also knows him? Is he really REN SATO? And I questioned him? I told him that he was a fraud… Oh, I see. I am going to perish at tomorrow's event.'
Outside of Tokyo Jujutsu High, Ren thought, 'Hmm, well, this was much easier than sneaking out. I guess from now on I will just make up excuses to leave. Ha. But well, where do I go now? I can't go back to my apartment...
No, I will be doing something much more important things. I can't do it in a spot like my apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture because there are too many eyes there… I know there are. Last time I went there, it was only for a maximum of one hour, plus Mei Mei and Ogami were there… But right now I don't have anyone or any place to be… I should have made a hiding spot in Japan somewhere, but till then… Where should I go? Hmm…'
As Ren walked, his mind slipped, and he remembered something—something new. Huh? What? Who lives there? Why did this random place come into my mind? For some reason I just remembered a random Japanese address? How is this possible? I have never been to Japan before… Well, I mean, in my past life I had never been to Japan, so how do I know this address? Or wait… Is this Ren's memory?
Yeah, that's possible. Ren Sato: The original body's memories are still here. When I first came here, I was able to stay alive by following his memories… But well, after that I never really got anything about his memories. I guess I understand and know Japanese. I guess that's also because of Ren's memories, but… Still, how weird – why did I remember that address when I thought about a place to hide safely?
Ren shook his head and kept walking thought the evening...
A while later, Ren stood outside an abandoned school. He smiled.
'Yup, that will do. Ha, there are a lot of abandoned buildings in Japan, huh? This should do; I just need to find a big clean room and set up for the ritual. The true rebirth of Red Stitch happens tonight…'
Ren casually jumped over the gate and landed inside. The interior was trashed, to say the least. Ugh, why is everything broken? The glasses shattered, the bench was rotten and broken, and… uh, wait, is that a… fuck? Is that now?
On the floor, Ren saw a curse. It looked like a spider, but its pale white skin had pores and scales like a snake...
"What an ugly-ass curse. Ew, they could look like that?"
Ren extended his hand and form his shadow worm and Kai2 leapt out!
Kai2's scales shook, and his fins were open wide, and he looked like he was finally happy to be out and fight! But the second Kai2 looks at the demonic spider curse, Kai2 turns around and tries to jump back into Ren's shadow!
"HEY! Why are you running!? Swim, freak, swim and distract that thing! Kai2!"
Kai2 shook his little fish head furiously. Slowly, he floated above the spider, keeping it in view.
Ren eyed the worm on his shoulder, which fast spat out a knife. He grabbed it.
Hmm, let's see what I am able to do right now without Rika… This will be a good test to see how strong I am before Red Stitch's rebirth…
End of the chapter.