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Geto kept walking through the crowd, passing all these non-sorcerer monkeys, until he suddenly stopped in front of the 30% off deal poster at the KFC. But it wasn't the incredibly good deal that stopped him. Nothing could stop him. With the sole exception of Gojo Satoru.
"I thought we weren't allowed to kill when there's no point to it!!!"
"So arrogant..."
"HUH?!"
"You could do it...couldn't you Satoru?"
Geto's words shocked him into silence. Gojo was still furious and confused, but now he felt guilty. Not just because he didn't stop his best friend from murdering everyone in that village, but because he remembered what happened that day in the basement of the Time Vessel Assocation building.
There was so much clapping that day, as he was cradling Riko's body in his arms.
"Suguru...should we just kill these guys?"
Yeah it's true.
"The way I feel right now, I doubt I'd feel anything about it"
He did say those things.
He could've done those things.
But the reason he didn't was...
"No. There's no point."
...was because his best friend stopped him. And now even though he was considerably stronger since that day, he was unable to prevent his friend from going down the same path he almost did.
"Are the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru? Or are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest?"
"Let's eat at KFC!!!"
"If I had your strength, this impossible ideal would suddenly become alot more grounded and...wait what did you say?"
Gojo couldn't give up yet. Even if Geto killed all those people, he was still his friend. He could at least prevent more violence. And what better way to do that then to talk it over a nice meal?
"Look over there Suguru. A whole bucket is 30% off!!!"
Indeed it was. A deal like this was hard to come by. Was it just this store? Geto didn't get any promo email on his phone.
"You're still subscribed to KFCpromos aren't you?!" Gojo kept yelling as the crowd kept walking past these two boys talking about murder and chicken "Suguru! We have to take this deal!!!"
Geto could feel his empty stomach grumbling. The cursed spirits he ate didn't fill him up at all, and they all tasted like rags soaked in shit and vomit. Colonel Sanders fried chicken was a different story. The delectable crispiness, the delicious spiciness, and the mouth watering taste could potentially be his. All he had to do was turn left.
So he did. Gojo surged with hope that things weren't over yet and quickly followed him in.
Neither boy expected the line to be this long. It made sense since it was 30% off deal when KFC rarely gets deals at all but waiting wasn't that big a deal. But it was kind of awkward waiting in the silence.
"..."
"..."
"Is your wallpaper still Waka Inoue?" Geto asked.
"Ah no, I changed it to a One Piece cover, wanna see?" Gojo held out his phone to show his mass murdering friend his wallpaper on his flip phone, a picture of Luffy and the strawhats. "So uh do you think One Piece is gonna end soon? It's been like a decade now"
"I haven't been catching up on it. The last thing I saw was skypeia. It was kind of boring so I dropped it"
"You dropped at Skypeia?! Why?!"
"It's mid Satoru"
"Skypeia is not mid! It's the essence of romance and adventure! It's what One Piece is all about"
"The pacing is garbage"
"Oh you're watching the anime, you should just read the manga"
"I don't like manga much in general anymore"
"Why not?"
"All the popular show's fanbases has too many illiterate monkeys obsessed with power-scaling, shipping, agenda's and overused memes"
Gojo was silent. He couldn't deny the brainrot he felt with engaging with manga fans online. But at the same time he was addicted to the shitposting. Everything made him laugh, even if it didn't make sense, or if something made too much sense. In the end he had to delete his reddit and tiktok accounts because he was getting too addicted to shitposting
"Konichiwa can I take you're order?" the cash register guy said.
"Oh shit Satoru we're up next!"
Gojo and Geto walked up to the register and began ordering.
"Yeah uh we'll just take a bucket of uh..." Geto turned to Gojo "a 10 piece?"
"Yeah a 10 piece sounds good" Gojo said
Geto turned back to the register "A ten piece please"
"Oh and the medium mac n cheese side!" Gojo added
"Okay that will be 30 dollars"
"Uh I left my wallet at campus" Gojo said "Can you spot me today and I'll pay you back later?"
...that just a lie. Gojo didn't really leave his wallet back there. But if he owed Geto money then maybe that'd be another reason Geto would stay.
He wasn't sure if plan was going to work when he saw Geto's angry face, although he was angry for a different reason.
"Hold on Monkey. Shouldn't the bucket be cheaper because of the 30% off deal?"
"Oh that? That's the couples discount"
Geto and Gojo were silent. They stared into each others eyes, as if they were telepathically speaking to each other. They knew what had to be done.
"We are a couple!" Gojo put his arm around his fake boyfriend and smiled.
"That's right" Geto said smiling too "We've been going out for a year now!"
The cash register guy was skeptical. "Oh yeah? Well if you two are a couple then you guys should kiss"
Geto and Gojo were silent. They stared into each others eyes, as if they were telepathically speaking to each other. They knew what had to be done.
"Domain Expansion: Infinite Void"
Suddenly the cash register guy went unconscious. Everyone else in the restaurant also went unconscious, except for Geto who Gojo still had his arm around, and Gojo himself.
"Aight dude lets just grab a bucket from the back and eat that!" Gojo said.
Gojo used Curse Technique Blue to make a bucket of fried chicken fly towards him. Aa medium sized mac n cheese cup flew to him next. Then he got out his wallet and put 30 bucks in the cash register.
"I thought you said you didn't have your wallet" Geto said.
"Uh did I say that? Come on lets eat!"
The two boys found a table and began eating. Sitting right in front each other like this, in a way it was almost like they really were a couple on a date.
But when Geto took a bite...
"These goddamn monkeys made this bland! Kentucky FRAUD chicken is more like it!"
Gojo couldn't argue with him. Even though KFC is a billion times better in Japan then America, he couldn't deny that this fried chicken was incredibly disappointing. It had so much potential but it didn't amount anything.
"Suguru"
"What is it?"
"I'm not going to be able to stop you from leaving am I?"
"...You could. But you'd have to kill me" Geto got up from the table and walked towards the door "There would be a point to that"
Gojo looked down at his now 8 piece bucket of fried chicken and clenched his fists.
"But thank you, for sharing this one last meal with me" Geto opened the door and left.
***
"You're Megumi Fushiguro right?"
The kid turned around and saw a tall guy with white hair holding a bucket of KFC.
Gojo was a bit shellshocked at how similar he looked liked that Zenin assasin but he shrugged it off. He explained to him stuff about his dad, but Megumi didn't seem to care.
"If I go to the zenin clan will Tsumiki be able to find happiness? It all depends on that"
"No. 30% No"
"30%?"
Gojo shook his head "No I mean 100%! I can say that with certainty"
"Okay then. Guess I'll go with you"
He patted Megumi on the head "Okay leave it to me! Alright kid you wanna eat some chicken with me?"
"If my sister can have some then sure"