Jujutsu Kaisen: Shadow King.

"Um, um, Mr. Mirai, I'm so sorry~ Yuta is playing with Rika-chan in the community park..."

People will eventually be trapped throughout their lives by the things they could not obtain when they were young.

This is exactly the case with Otsutsukoshi Mio.

Parents to enrich people.

She was born in an ordinary poor family.

My parents arranged my marriage early on.

But her husband only sees her as a reproductive tool.

They have been strangers since the birth of Empress Dowager You.

Mio was depressed all day.

Being hated and despised by that person.

Worry about the timid character.

That person also disliked it.

What Okkotsu's family needs is an elite who can take the family business to a higher level, not a sickly and foolish child who just stays in his mother's arms all day.

So it was natural that Mio Otsutsuki and Yuta Otsutsuki were abandoned like garbage, along with the severance pay that the two of them had saved up to live a worry-free life.

Marrying a man she didn't like, Mio Otsutsukoshi never felt a single bit of warmth and happiness.

As a young girl, she also hoped that one day a prince charming would take her away from the quagmire of this world.

That's when.

The future has emerged.

Perfect appearance coupled with a gentle and considerate personality.

It can be said that it perfectly coincides with the image of the prince charming in Otsutsuki Mio's mind!

"Which way has more goods?"

Wei Lai showed a gentle smile on her face and said happily: "It doesn't matter. Being able to share a room with a beautiful lady like Mrs. Okkotsu makes even the air taste sweet."

"W-Where is that~"

"I'm almost thirty years old~"

Otsutsuki Mio, who was only in her early twenties, blushed and her heart beat fast when she was stared at by Mirai's undisguised admiring gaze. She held her cheek with one delicate hand and fanned it with the other.

It was as if he wanted to blow away the unspeakable pink throbbing in his heart.

But it is like a spark, the more you fan it, the stronger it becomes, and it has the potential to spread across the prairie.

"Friant, go check on Yuta and Rika. If nothing unexpected happens, you will stay in Rika's shadow and protect her."

'Hey~ I will follow your will and spread the seeds in the future!'

A "black line" spread inconspicuously from the shadow under Future's feet to the outside of the room.

……

The boy and the girl first met in the hospital.

Because the boy was born with enormous magical power without knowing it, he had been troubled by it since childhood, was weak and sickly, and was even nicknamed "bean sprouts" by people around him.

A chance encounter.

The boy was suffering from pneumonia.

Because the mother wanted to give the boy a better life, she found it difficult to get away from work and could not come and take care of the boy personally.

Abandoned by his father, he was walking alone in the dim hospital corridor, holding on to the infusion bottle stand and coughing constantly.

The boy felt heartbroken by his father's abandonment.

But the mother's love makes up for this gap.

The boy is very satisfied with his current life.

He felt that he was happy.

But still a bit lonely~

The young man thought so.

however.

Fateful encounters always happen unexpectedly.

When passing through the only open room in the corridor that emitted a dazzling white light, the boy couldn't suppress his curiosity. He subconsciously stopped and looked into the room.

This was the first time he and the girl looked into each other's eyes for a long time.

The fresh breeze from the window blew through the girl's hair.

The warm sunlight outside shone on their faces.

From early morning till night.

From the hospital to the park.

Just this one look.

Thousands of years have passed.

With a sickly flush on her cheeks, the girl stared out the window, as if longing for the scenery outside.

Bathed in the breeze and sunshine, she is so otherworldly, so beautiful, so quiet and peaceful.

This is the situation.

The boy stood there in a daze.

But the tightness in his chest made him unable to hold back his coughing.

The quiet atmosphere was suddenly broken by the boy's cough, but the girl didn't mind at all and just showed him an extremely warm smile.

The boy's heart was captured by this smile.

The girl was also attracted by the boy's melancholy.

The two people who developed a liking for each other gradually became close playmates who could talk about anything.

After discharge.

Coincidentally, the boy and the girl attended the same school, and their feelings quickly heated up.

The boy later found out that this was a deliberate arrangement made by his mother so that he could feel happy.

The boy's name was Otsukota.

The girl's name is Rika Kimoto.

in the park.

"one two Three!"

"Don't be like this, Yuta~"

“Hahaha… Stop turning around~”

Yuta pushed Rika, who was riding on the "planetary globe", and made it spin non-stop.

The feeling of weightlessness and dizziness made Rika laugh like silver bells.

That infectious smile made Youta feel intoxicated with happiness.

The cheerful atmosphere continues to spread.

The two of them chased, played, and fought, as if they had forgotten all their worries and sorrows, and had already become an indispensable part of each other's lives.

The boy likes the girl's smile.

Girls like the innocence of boys.

The two of them ran towards each other, and when their peers were still unaware of what love was, they had already completed a path that some people would find difficult to complete in their entire lives.

Under a banyan tree with yellow and beautifully falling leaves.

Rika Kimoto twisted her fingers a little shyly, but finally made up her mind and took out a small and exquisite black gift box from her pocket and gave it to Yuta Otsutsukoshi.

"Rika-chan, what is this?"

"This is a gift for Yuta~"

"Really? Is it really for me?"

It was the first time that Yuta Okkotsu seemed a little excited when he received a gift from a girl. He opened the gift box with great anticipation and found a silver ring inlaid with a small diamond.

In the sunshine.

The ring sparkles with dazzling brilliance.

Yuta Otsutsukota had once seen a similar ring on his mother's ring finger.

But he had never seen his mother wear the ring since she separated from his father.

The clever boy was not completely ignorant of the current state of his family relationships, but in order not to make his mother even more sad, he pretended to know nothing.

just now.

Yuta Okkotsu vaguely understood the meaning of a ring given by the opposite sex, and was somewhat touched.

next second.

Rika Kimoto stretched out her little finger and gently hooked it around Yuta Okkotsu's little finger.

this moment.

Time seemed to have stopped.

The boy could clearly feel the girl's fingers trembling slightly, which was a reflection of her enthusiasm and anxiety.

"It's a deal~"

"When they grow up, Rika and Yuta will get married and never be separated in this life~"

"Yay~" (Okay~)

Looking at Rika who was smiling shyly in front of him.

Okkotsu Yuta accepted the promise without hesitation.

And put the ring directly on her ring finger.

"This way we can be together forever and ever!"

See Yuta putting on the ring.

Got the answer I wanted.

Rika Qimoto suddenly smiled like a flower.

In shadow space.

Friant: 'I eat lemons = ='