After the waiter had returned to us, taken our order and we had waited for the food, Mayu leaned back on the side of her seat, propped her elbow on the backrest and turned to me.
"You found out earlier where I grew up and how I came to live here in Tokyo. Did you actually grow up here in Tokyo?" she asked me curiously.
"No. I was born and grew up in Kyoto."
"Kyoto? And then you're moving to Tokyo too?" she sounded more reprimanded than surprised, "Kyoto had also been on my shortlist for where I would have moved to, but the practice in Tokyo that finally accepted me was quicker. So what drew you here?"
Sounded like she wasn't just addicted to Tokyo. I said yes - she was easy to get excited about.
"First and foremost because of the work. There are only two training centers for jujutsu here in Japan. One is here in Tokyo and the other in Kyoto."
Now it was she who looked at me in confusion. She had probably been mentally searching for instructions for me. But I had just realized that we had taken the same path independently of each other. Maybe there was this humbug called fate after all!
"Let me explain it briefly and concisely. I wanted to escape my overbearing parents."
If I wanted to find out more about my target subject, I had to reveal more about myself. Even if I hadn't liked talking about it.
"Too arrogant?" she snorted, 'I'm sure it's because of you, isn't it?' she guessed more as a joke.
"Bull's eye," I confirmed with a grin as her features slipped away.
"Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"Oh, I-I didn't mean to-" I quickly placed my index finger on her soft lips and shook my head.
"You're absolutely right, Mayu," I began and let go of her lips so that she could interrupt my explanation like everyone else.
"Among us Jujuzists, there are three clans made up of large elite families. One of them is the Gojo clan - my family. You should know that the six-eyes and the infinity curse technique are only found in my family. The Six-Eyes are innate, which should explain why owners of this gift are only born every few hundred years. The same applies to infinity, by the way. Although this is not innate, it is just as rare. I, on the other hand, have both, which results from the fact that I am the strongest Jujuzist of our time."
Strange?! She hadn't interrupted me yet, whereas everyone else had interrupted me long overdue, so I dared to go on a bit. Maybe the point of interruption was yet to come.