Ms. Gojo thought she was dating an ordinary person's boyfriend.

The bookstore is not far from the square.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't a pure bookstore.

The signboard at the entrance is made of light wood, with warm yellow lights embedded in the edges, casting a soft white shadow. Behind the glass window, you can see bookshelves, as well as neatly arranged stationery, stickers, postcards, and some small handicraft materials.

At the very back is the coffee area, where a few small lamps are lit by the window. Some people are writing with their heads down, while others are just holding their cups and daydreaming.

Rather than a place for "serious reading," this place feels more like a corner where people can slow down and browse.

Sumire Kikawa pushed open the door.

The wind chimes on the door rang softly.

Gojo Satoru followed him inside, his gaze sweeping over the rows of shelves before quickly settling on a whole wall of sticker shelves against the wall.

"Sumiko is the kind of person who would come to a place like this."

He seemed to have discovered something new.

Sumire Kawakawa turned to look at him.

The two were not far apart, almost shoulder to shoulder. When Gojo Satoru turned his head slightly, his voice came very close, so close that it seemed to be spoken only to him.

Is that strange?

"No, it's just that this place feels like a place Sumi would know about." Gojo Satoru laughed.

Sumire Kawakawa thought for a moment.

I don't buy books often.

"Um?"

"But there are stickers and sticky notes here," Sumi Kikawa said. "Kids will like that."

As he spoke, he walked to the sticker shelf and reached out to take a transparent animal sticker from it.

It features cats, dogs, rabbits, and bears, with a round and soft art style and colors that are not glaring.

"After the inspection, they can choose one as a reward." Sumi Kichikawa looked down at the sticker, her voice calm. "If they're scared, they can choose two."

Gojo Satoru stood beside him, looking down slightly.

"Are the medical benefits really that good?"

"It's not a benefit."

"What is that?"

Sumire Kawakawa thought about it seriously.

"compensate."

Gojo paused for a moment.

Sumi Kichikawa didn't seem to find anything special about the sentence. He put the sticker in his shopping basket and then looked at the star stickers next to it.

"While we can't make the examination painless, at least we can make them feel that they endured it properly."

Gojo Satoru did not speak immediately.

He watched as Sumi Kichikawa picked out stickers.

Sumi Kichikawa was very careful in her selection, unlike when she casually bought some little trinkets to coax a child.

He would look at the color, whether the edges were too sharp, whether the pattern was clear enough, and he would even pick up two similar stickers to compare them, and finally choose the one that was gentler and less likely to frighten the child.

This kind of delicate gentleness doesn't seem like something deliberately put on.

Suddenly, Gojo Satoru reached out and pulled out a sticker from the side.

It was a dessert-themed sheet.

Pudding, cake, ice cream, candy, bear cookies, and each design has a small glitter symbol next to it.

He held the sticker up to Sumi Kichikawa.

"What about this one?"

Sumi Kichikawa glanced at it.

"Do you like it?"

Gojo Satoru smiled and asked, "What does the doctor think?"

This should have been a question that could easily be turned into a joke.

For example, "Are you a child?" or "This is not suitable for you".

Sumi Kawakawa simply looked at the sticker carefully, and then looked at Satoru Gojo.

"I think you'll like the pudding one."

Gojo Satoru was silent for a second, as if he hadn't expected this answer at all.

Then he laughed out loud.

"I was clearly asking if you wanted to buy it for your child."

Sumi Kichikawa blinked.

He genuinely didn't seem to be thinking in that direction.

Or rather, rather than wondering "Is this for children?", he was more concerned about whether Gojo Satoru would like it.

Kikawa Sumi lowered her eyes and looked at the sticker again.

"That's fine to buy."

"For children?"

"for you."

Gojo Satoru's laughter paused for a moment.

Sumi Kichikawa took the dessert sticker from his hand and naturally put it into the shopping basket.

"If you like."

He said it so naturally.

Naturally, Gojo Satoru's prepared jokes were like a small pebble caught in cotton, making no sound.

He only wanted to tease Sumi Kichikawa.

I wonder if the doctor will show a helpless expression because he's holding a childish sticker, or if he'll say in a gentle voice, "Wu, this is for children."

But no.

Sumi Kichikawa simply said, "Here you go."

If you like.

Gojo Satoru suddenly felt something was new and interesting.

He often does things that seem inexplicable to others.

If you want dessert, you can change your route on the spot; if you want to tease someone, you can suddenly get close; if you want to disrupt a serious atmosphere, you can deliberately say something nonsensical.

The students will be disgusted, the assistant supervisors will have a headache, Shoko will shut him up, and the bunch of rotten oranges at the top will only want to lock him back into some kind of framework they can understand.

He didn't care.

Or rather, he had long been used to how others reacted to him.

Gojo Satoru.

That's just how he is.

willful, frivolous, powerful, and difficult to deal with.

But Sumi Kawakawa doesn't see him that way.

Sumi Kikawa wouldn't first judge "whether this is something an adult should do," nor would she confine him with "how could the strongest sorcerer like this?"

Wu likes it.

Therefore, enlightenment can be given.

This logic is both excessively simple and excessively flexible.

Gojo Satoru turned his head and stared at Kikkawa Sumi for a while.

"Cheng".

"Um?"

"Aren't you being a little too nice to me?"

Sumi Kichikawa paused for a moment while holding another moon sticker.

He turned to look at Gojo Satoru.

The two people were standing very close together.

If Gojo Satoru were to move even a little closer, their sleeves would brush against each other.

His distance would easily make someone instinctively back away.

But Kawasumi didn't.

He simply stood there, calmly accepting Gojo Satoru's approach.

Why should you reject a kitten's attempts to get close?

"Is there?"

Gojo Satoru laughed.

Yes.

Sumire Kichikawa thought for a moment and asked, "Don't you like it?"

Wu Tiao Wu Yi Dian.

He felt that whenever he was with Cheng, he would often find himself speechless.

This person is just too blunt.

Sumire Kichikawa always liked to leave the questions to Satoru Gojo, as if he could do whatever Satoru Gojo answered.

Gojo Satoru suddenly realized that this person was very impressive.

His teasing was always met with a gentle, almost harmless response from Sumi Kichikawa.

He was clearly the one who crossed the line first, but in the end, it was he who felt a subtle itch in his heart when asked the question.

"I like it."

Gojo Satoru drawled out his words, as if answering with great ease.

I love it so much!

Sumire Kawakawa looked at him.

"That's good."

Gojo Satoru: "..."

Oops.

he thinks.

This doctor is really something.