"You are so slow, Mimiko. How much longer until Suguru comes back?"
Nanako leaned against the Pelican Cursed Spirit, bored, playing on her phone.
"I do not know."
Mimiko held her doll with a noose around its neck and idly counted ants on the ground.
Suddenly, a commotion reached their ears.
"It has been noisy around here for a while."
Perhaps the content on her phone was too dull, or the increasing noise was affecting her mood.
In the next moment, Nanako put away her phone and began searching for the source of the disturbance.
"Is that..."
She raised a hand to shade her eyes and squinted into the distance, trying to see clearly.
"Mimiko, Mimiko, look. It seems to be Suguru."
After recognizing the figure rushing toward them, Nanako immediately shook Mimiko's shoulder excitedly.
Her gaze never left Suguru.
Mimiko looked up and saw the man in the distance, shirtless, revealing a physique more sculpted than a fitness instructor's.
His shirt had been torn off earlier when Suguru tried to grab him. Satoru, in Suguru's body, had used a cicada shedding its skin Technique, leaving the clothes behind and escaping.
If it were his own body exposed like this, the sheltered young master Satoru might have felt a little shy.
But now, using Suguru's body, he felt a hint of excitement instead.
Seeing Suguru rushing toward them impatiently, Mimiko, who had been bored, immediately stood up happily.
"Suguru, over here."
Nanako waved and shouted cheerfully.
"You are in the way. Move aside, brats."
In the next second, the Suguru in their eyes rushed past them.
"Did we... get disliked?"
Nanako stared blankly at Mimiko.
But Mimiko had already removed the noose from her doll's neck and hung it on a nearby tree.
"Wait, Mimiko. This is a misunderstanding, it must be a misunderstanding."
Nanako hurriedly hugged Mimiko's waist and pulled her back.
"Huff, huff, wait, wait, Nanako, Mimiko."
A panting voice sounded behind them.
Suguru, currently in Satoru's body, felt extremely frustrated.
Although he had always known his body was stronger than Satoru's, he did not expect that his greatest advantage would cause him so much trouble today.
More importantly, it was the Six Eyes.
Because of its overwhelming observational ability, whenever he focused, everything around him seemed to slow down.
This created a severe mismatch between his mind and body.
Brain, the eyes saw it, the opponent is moving very slowly, can catch up.
Body, cannot catch up at all.
"Ah, it is you."
Nanako immediately pulled out her phone and assumed a defensive stance when she saw him.
In her and Mimiko's eyes, this white haired fairy was an enemy competing with them for Suguru's affection.
At that moment, Nanako felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.
"Tell me, did you bewitch Suguru and frame us?"
She pointed her phone at him and questioned loudly.
"Huh?"
Suguru, who had just caught his breath, nearly choked again.
"No, you misunderstood, Nanako, Mimiko."
He quickly waved his hands in denial.
"Do not call us that. Only Suguru can call us that."
Nanako placed her finger on the shutter button, and Mimiko also picked up the noose, watching him warily.
"No, I am not Satoru, I am Suguru."
"Are you playing with us?"
Nanako grew even angrier.
"It really is me. Right, I will tell you something only we would know."
Suguru's mind raced.
"When I first adopted you, you had to hug me every night to fall asleep. At that time, your bodies had not fully recovered. You wet the bed, and also..."
Nanako and Mimiko's expressions instantly shifted from anger to blank shock.
Then their faces quickly flushed with shame and indignation as he continued.
"Enough, you idiot."
Blushing furiously, Nanako threw her phone at his head, then hurriedly caught it again.
"Good, it is not broken."
"Are you... really Suguru?"
Mimiko asked cautiously.
"Yes, it really is me. For some reason, my body swapped with Satoru's. It is absolutely not because I dislike you, I swear."
Suguru raised his right hand and pointed to the sky as he swore.
"Then can we call you Papa again?"
Mimiko's soft voice sounded.
"You can."
Suguru suddenly felt a headache coming on.
He was only a little over twenty years old, yet he already had two daughters over ten, which was strange enough.
He had spent a long time persuading them to stop calling him Papa and just call him Suguru.
Yet Satoru had undone all his efforts in less than an hour.
"Papa."
The two of them happily threw themselves into his arms.
"Good girls. Wait until I get my body back, then I will play with you."
Suguru gently patted their heads.
"We want to help too."
After saying that, the two sisters immediately jumped onto the Pelican Cursed Spirit and chased after Satoru in Suguru's body.
They would never allow their beloved Papa's body to remain in the hands of that fairy competing with them.
"Wait..."
Suguru subconsciously tried to use Cursed Spirit Manipulation, then remembered Satoru's earlier warning and stopped himself in time.
But that brief delay was enough. The Pelican Cursed Spirit had already carried the two girls into the air.
Seeing this, Suguru could only continue the pursuit.
Ahead, Satoru, who had just shaken off Choso and the others, was studying his body.
"Suguru's body is really firm."
He struck a bodybuilder pose with one arm and used the other hand to squeeze and poke at his muscles with interest.
"Divine Dogs? I ran all the way here."
Seeing the Divine Dogs chasing Rabbit Escape nearby, he realized he had run into a zoo.
"Better go another way."
As soon as he turned to leave, a sudden sense of danger surged from the bottom of his heart.
A noose abruptly appeared in front of him, aiming straight for his neck.
Startled, Satoru immediately grabbed the nearby Divine Dogs and stuffed them upside down into the noose.
Suspended awkwardly in midair by their hindquarters, the Divine Dogs let out mournful howls.
"It is those two brats."
He turned his head and saw the Pelican Cursed Spirit in the sky.
On its back,
"Mimiko, quickly use your Technique to catch him."
"Would that not be bad?"
Mimiko hesitated, worried that she might hurt someone.
"Are you willing to let Papa's body stay in that person's hands?"
Hearing this, Mimiko immediately activated her Technique.
Unlike the students of Tokyo Jujutsu High,
Nanako and Mimiko were not familiar with Satoru. They would not indulge him like Choso and the others, simply chasing him around.
In their eyes, Satoru was an enemy competing with them for Suguru's affection.
They would not show him any mercy.
All they wanted now was to reclaim Suguru's body.
(To be continued.)
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