Chapter 628

Seeing that Jiao Shou was about to continue fleeing, Luopò couldn't help but shout: "Don't keep fleeing! If you have confidence in defeating us, why not settle this once and for all?!"

"Jiao Jiao Jiao, it's not class time yet, don't be anxious."

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Jujutsu Kaisen

"Hmm… you guys see those words floating in the sky."

Shoko pointed at the sky of Pinokangni in the firmament, where floating were phrases like "little monkey doesn't need exams", "little monkey doesn't need performance reviews", "little monkey doesn't need to revise plans"... and so on. These phrases continuously emerged from above the time of the sleeping banana, vanished, reappeared, vanished again, endlessly cycling, like the deep resentment of a cursed spirit.

"Are these the true thoughts deep inside those little monkeys' hearts?"

Itadori's smile vanished from his face, a hint of sympathy gradually appeared: "Even in dreams there's this much life pressure; being human is really tough."

"What? You also want to become a monkey?"

Mei Mei gave this high school athlete a slightly curious glance.

Itadori quickly waved his hands: "Ah, no, no! I just feel that what Jiao Shou does isn't entirely deception and deceit; indeed some people want to escape, and the little monkey just happened to give them a way and reason to escape."

Speaking of this, Itadori suddenly recalled Mr. Nanami.

Previously he had said that line "Labor is also shit"; what mindset did he utter it with?

"Actually it's not that complicated; actually it's only natural for people to want to escape and complain. Even if you, Itadori, face Sukuna, wouldn't you also have thoughts like 'Could this guy just disappear?' or 'How the hell is this bastard so damn strong?'"

Mei Mei slightly curled her lips: "Everyone will have negative thoughts, but Jiao Shou deprives everyone of the possibility to maintain humanity and seek a turning point in adversity—just based on this, it dying a hundred times wouldn't be enough."

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Everyone continued their efforts until they knocked out and sent away all the little monkeys in a space; looking at the busy crowd, Jiao Shou still maintained his lofty posture: "How many test subjects' Weiyuan are there in the core now? A thousand? Ten thousand?"

"Make full use of things; let's take these results to smooth out obstacles for future experiments..."

The three of them also couldn't be bothered to waste words with him, because as they worked, the number of monkeys in the synesthetic dream dwindled, so the virus's intensity would likely weaken.

They followed Jiao Shou's trail all the way, and midway Dan Heng reached out to block Luopò, who was about to continue forward: "Wait, it seems to be deliberately leading us there..."

"Flying Dragon Ninja, no need to hesitate. If there's an ambush, break the ambush; if there's a scheme, break the scheme."

Luopò had already discovered that the remaining curses were few; just need to keep going, and the meme virus's intensity would completely disappear.

Everyone climbed up, arriving at the place where Luopò and Xing first met; the starting point of the glorious hunt was also the endpoint, and Jiao Shou finally had no way to escape, only able to gaze at the huge little monkey dream bubbles floating in the sky and sigh.

"Jiao... the experimental results have actually suffered such great damage, you bunch of underachievers..."

"Curse·Chief." Luopò approached step by step holding a blade: "You have nowhere to flee; face the sanction of the Roving Chaos Ninja Arts!"

"Heh heh heh..." Jiao Shou chuckled lowly: "【AK-A-3】, carrying the superior primate genes selected from the 32 civilizations of the ancestral return experiment, but due to a trainee research ape's mistaken cultivation it went astray. And this trainee research ape, still unrepentant, privately consorted with wanderers, bringing the lab immeasurable heavy loss, ultimately leaving only a terribly awful failed product—"

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One-Punch Man

"A failed product? How ridiculous, does he even understand? Luopò this kind is actually the most successful."

On the forest trunks, the gleaming eyes of Furaisi narrowed slightly, the corner of his mouth pulling into an undisguised sneer.

Having grown up in a ninja village since childhood, a true ninja, Furaisi's experience astonishingly mirrored Luopò's: they both endured ten years of austere training, then ultimately killed everyone in the village—except his actions were even more extreme; besides instructors and staff, he didn't spare even his fellow trainees who studied alongside him—except for Sonic in front of him, who fortuitously escaped due to diarrhea.

"Hmph..." Sonic the Speed also let out a snort, the kunai in his hand ceasing to spin: "Blaming one's own incompetence on the work's 'failure' is laughable. Perhaps this Jiao Shou still doesn't realize that the true failures already died in the experiment; those who survive... are the true victors."

Furaisi coldly glanced at Sonic sitting under the tree: "What qualifications do you have to say this? If it weren't for you lying in the dorm with diarrhea on the day of the graduation exam, I would have killed you long ago. Can someone like you, who merely snatched back a life, be considered a victor?"

Sonic licked his lips, a flash of red light in his eyes: "Heh, you're so arrogant—even if you don't kill them, I'll still attack after I finish my diarrhea; and what makes you think you can kill me? Besides, my diarrhea is probably because you poisoned my food, right?"

"Hehe... isn't it because you lack precautions?" Furaisi said coldly and disdainfully, "I suddenly think it'd be fine if you turned into a monkey. I recently heard Jenos mention a ninja constantly harassing a B-rank bald head; could that be you?"

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Luopò shouted angrily: "You only know how to obey evil ninjas, a curse that harms the four directions—what right do you have to judge me?"

Jiao Shou replied unhurriedly: "Naturally, it's based on... 'dream'."

"Let's continue our previous topic: bananas are asexual plants. One corm can spawn countless banana trees, thus creating vast banana groves that could solve the hunger of an entire star system, even the universe."

"Those selfish plants, emphasizing 'individuality' and 'self', yet scatter their seeds wildly, growing barbarically. They only know how to perpetuate their own genes, not knowing how to contribute to their kind. Tell me, from the cosmic scale, who should be eliminated, and who should be kept?"

"——Enough, your excellency, shut up already!"

Luopò simply couldn't hold back any longer, he shouted to interrupt: "Before the school term, you let everyone pursue freedom; now you mock the meaning of freedom. Earlier you judged bananas as a failed plant, and now you start praising their selflessness."

These remarks left Jiao Shou speechless, and he began to flusteredly defend himself: "Um… this… this is a different context; you can't generalize…"

"Evil people doing evil deeds always have countless excuses, always wanting to place themselves in the position of justice. Contradictory, forcing arguments, solely for their own desires. This kind of lesson is utterly unnecessary to listen to——"

"Curse·Chief." Luopò lowered his hat brim, as if delivering a final judgment, coldly said: "Rather than fabricating wild talk, it would be better to properly devise your last words, your excellency."