Accompanied by a sense of weightlessness and suffocation, everyone woke up from their beds.
"Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale."
The moment they woke up, everyone began gasping for fresh air, clearly uncomfortable with the sudden feeling of suffocation.
"Did... did we win?"
The few of them exchanged glances, speaking with lingering fear.
"Let me see."
Megumi instinctively tried to open his panel, but despite calling out several times in his mind, he received no response.
It was then that Megumi truly realized they had returned to reality.
"Seriously, I haven't had enough fun yet."
A familiar voice drifted over, and Megumi's eye twitched.
He turned his head and saw two incredibly familiar figures.
"Please stop your antics, Satoru-sensei."
Megumi rubbed his temples, a headache already forming.
Looking in the direction of the voice, the first thing he saw was Satoru and Suguru on the bed, and Ultimate Mechamaru lying on the floor.
Megumi, who understood Satoru very well, immediately figured out what had happened.
"Why are you two participating in the Exchange Event? Isn't this an event for students?"
Megumi could not help but complain.
"That's not right, Megumi."
Satoru held up a finger and wiggled it.
"The current event is the Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, an Exchange Event between the two schools. It isn't limited to students."
After speaking, Satoru nodded with complete seriousness.
Regardless of what others thought, Satoru himself believed it.
"Is that your reason for a teacher to compete with students for the championship?"
Megumi stared at Satoru with dead fish eyes, looking at him as if he were looking at his old man.
"Ehehe."
After a moment of silence, Satoru tilted his head cutely, then stuck out half of his pink tongue and finally made a cat paw with his right hand, resting it on his head.
"What does 'ehehe' mean?!
Don't try to get away with being cute."
Megumi realized that after complaining for so long, the other party seemed to be enjoying it, while he himself was exhausted.
"Eh! Satoru is also a participant? Is that true?"
Kasumi and Momo were also very shocked.
"I protest. It is a violation of the rules for Tokyo School personnel to personally participate in the Exchange Event.
And I remember that last year, the two schools added a clause prohibiting Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerers from participating."
The speaker was Noritoshi.
At this moment, he was thinking, 'The rules are clear. If there's a rematch, I definitely won't come in last.
This time, I will definitely rank near the top, bring glory to the Kamo Family, and gradually accumulate enough honor to become the Family Head.'
In reality, what he did not know was that even if there were a rematch, Eichi would not have a second imaginary world for them to wreak havoc in.
Based on the situation just now, the Noble Phantasm release of the Seven Oaths of Victory Sword was not enough to shatter the imaginary world.
As long as the "I kill myself" situation from this match did not happen again, it would be fine.
But even so, the terrifying destructive power of the Seven Oaths of Victory Sword combined had flattened the entire imaginary world, making it impossible to restore it to its original state in a short time.
Finally, under the decision of Masamichi and Gakuganji Yoshinobu, the team match of this Exchange Event was declared a draw.
The winner would be determined by the number of victories in the individual matches on the second day.
In Gakuganji Yoshinobu's view, the Kyoto School's participation in this event was merely a routine formality. Successfully investigating Yuji was considered a success.
As for winning or losing?
Kyoto had gotten used to losing, so it did not matter.
Just then, Gakuganji Yoshinobu received a phone call.
"Excuse me, is this Principal Gakuganji Yoshinobu? I am Inoue, the new head of the Jujutsu Department at Jujutsu Headquarters."
The voice on the phone was relatively young, and the tone was very polite. Gakuganji Yoshinobu began to ponder which Family's younger generation had a young man named Inoue.
It was not surprising that he thought this way.
For a long time, positions in Jujutsu Headquarters had largely become hereditary and entrenched. It was almost impossible for outsiders to hold high positions in Jujutsu Headquarters.
But before he could think of which Family had an outstanding young man named Inoue, he was shocked by the other party's words.
"Due to a vacancy, Jujutsu Headquarters now invites you to return to Headquarters to take up a position..."
Gakuganji Yoshinobu's eyes widened in surprise.
If this young man named Inoue was not a phone scammer, then he had just leaped several Ranks and entered the core of the Jujutsu World.
"Hehe, young man, I have a few questions I'd like to ask you."
Gakuganji Yoshinobu asked with a smile.
"Please ask."
Gakuganji Yoshinobu began to ask a series of crucial questions to determine the truth of the matter and what exactly had happened at Headquarters for such a stroke of luck to actually fall upon him.
"What did you say? The Kamo Family was massacred by Curse Users?"
"Jujutsu Headquarters suffered heavy losses?"
"The other two Families have already jointly requested to exclude the Kamo Family from the Three Great Families?"
Gakuganji Yoshinobu had not lost his composure like this in decades, and he quickly began to press for various details.
On the other side, Noritoshi was also wide-eyed with surprise.
"Young Master, please return to the Family as soon as possible and take over as Family Head."
A female Jujutsu Sorcerer from the Kamo Family excitedly ran up to Noritoshi the moment she saw him and knelt on the ground to plead.
"Calm down. Why do you suddenly want me to go back... Did something happen to Father?"
Although Noritoshi did not like his old-fashioned father, if something had truly happened to his father, then even if he became the Head of the Kamo Family, he would only be a puppet.
He currently did not have enough supporters to help him gain control of the Kamo Family.
"What did you say? The Kamo Family was attacked by Curse Users, and only one in ten clansmen survived?"
The moment Kenjaku used Domain Expansion at the Kamo Family, the fact that the Kamo Family harbored Curse Users became undeniable.
As for the Kamo Family clansmen who died in groups from Blood Manipulation?
That was all done by Curse Users. Choso, who was there to provide support, had tried his best to save them. Otherwise, how would so many women and children have survived?
That's right, after Kenjaku appeared at the Kamo Family, the whole incident became, "Curse Users attacked the Kamo Family, and the Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerer Choso, who rushed over to provide support, desperately repelled the vicious Curse Users."
As for the Kamo Family's own explanation?
No one cared anymore. All the Jujutsu Sorcerer Families who could speak for the Kamo Family had joined this grand feast to carve up one of the Three Great Families.
Therefore, they also tacitly approved the notice Eichi issued after learning about Kenjaku.
As a certain Noxian commander once said, there are choices in all things, and the truth is no exception.
They accepted the "truth" Eichi spoke, and Eichi accepted their division of the Kamo Family.
"Who is currently presiding over the Kamo Family?"
"It's Young Miss Fujiwara."
Noritoshi had an impression of this name. She seemed to be a female Jujutsu Sorcerer who had married into the Family from another Family.
After confirming that the Family had indeed undergone a major change, Noritoshi informed the Kyoto School group and returned to Kyoto that same day.
(To be continued.)