Chapter 045

I can't eat it.

Because accidents always come so unexpectedly.

Time goes back five minutes.

"Kyojuro, are you done eating? Hurry up, the lines at those two stores seem to be much shorter now. If we go over now, we might be able to get our turn soon."

"Hmm, I'm fine."

Following the girl's urging, the boy had to quickly put the food in the bowl into his mouth. When he said he was done eating, she had already handed a handful of coins to the boss, and then she trotted across the street to queue up as the boss walked slowly.

Well, they both lined up separately, one to get croquettes and the other to get takoyaki.

Just as Qingxi said, as the number of people queuing to buy gradually decreased, when the two of them arrived, they could buy directly without having to queue anymore.

“Huh—huh—”

The freshly cooked food emits transparent hot steam, and when it comes into contact with the cold air, its color turns white, which is visible to the human eye.

When the croquette in her hand didn't seem so hot anymore, Qingxi opened her mouth and took a bite.

"Ouch, it's hot!"

The moment she took a bite of the croquette, the temperature inside, which had not yet cooled down, almost made her spit out the croquette in her mouth. But when she thought about the person next to her, Kyojuro, who was super-thrifty with food and could eat any food that was not unpalatable as delicious, she finally did not do that. Instead, she opened her mouth and breathed like a puppy, letting the delicious croquette in her mouth be exposed to more cold air and cool down quickly.

Another person who is similar to her is Rengoku Kyojuro. Just one glance at him and Qingxi felt relieved.

Okay, now everyone has become a "little puppy" and no one is more elegant than anyone else.

Looking up at the sky, the dark clouds above blocked the sun and showed no sign of dispersing. On the contrary, the weather that was originally light snowing had now turned into heavy snow like goose feathers.

At this time, vendors pushing small wooden carts on the street have already packed up their things and are preparing to close their stalls.

"Kyojuro, the snow is getting heavier, let's go back." Qingxi said, pulling the boy's sleeve.

The umbrella in their hands had been put away when they were holding the many things they had bought. At this moment, the two of them were in close contact with the snow.

"Hmm, let's go back then." Rengoku Kyojuro also looked up at the sky and nodded.

Judging from the weather, it won’t get better until evening.

The two walked back along the street. On the way back, the shops on both sides of the street that were originally open for business were now closed one after another. It didn't look as lively as when they just left.

Just then, a black crow circled above their heads. Rengoku Kyojuro looked up and said, "That's... the Crow, right? Is it here to see you?"

"answer……"

The voice of the girl beside him stopped abruptly. Rengoku Kyojuro felt his sleeve being pulled hard. He instinctively made a move to grab it with his backhand, but just as his fingers had touched the girl's hand, a more ferocious force pulled the girl into the dark alley beside them.

It's a ghost.

The only answer that flashed through Rengoku Kyojuro's mind was who could possess this ability.

The snacks that he had packed in his arms and were about to take back fell to the ground and scattered all over the floor. Rengoku Kyojuro looked around, then he ran to a pile of firewood against the wall as if he had found something, grabbed a handful of wood, turned around and chased after Qingxi along the alley where she was pulled in by something like a rope.

As he chased in, the crows that had found someone and were about to land in the sky above his head also disappeared. The part-time worker that the lord wanted to summon and the breeder of this batch of crows were recently captured by a ghost. Is this okay?

Of course this won’t work, help, help, are there any ghost hunters nearby, I have two of my own kids here who need rescue!!!

.

"Hehe, this time the 'fragrance' is actually the scent of wisteria."

"When I was still a human, I also liked this taste."

"...But it doesn't matter now. Although eating wisteria flowers may make me feel a little uncomfortable, I still like it so much."

His hands and feet were tied behind his back by vines, and his body was held high in the air by the master who could control the vines. His face was licked by a wet and slippery tongue. Qingxi was forced to kill him face to face with a ghost face that had nothing to do with humans. He felt like he was in trouble.

She also didn't expect that she would encounter such a thing as encountering a ghost in broad daylight, which has a very low probability. It would be fine if she encountered it, but she didn't expect that she would encounter a pervert. No, judging by what the other party said, she was a "pica" ghost who only targeted women, men, and children who sprayed perfume or sachets on their bodies... and the other party was not afraid of wisteria flowers.

Things are going to get serious.

Atong, I may not live long enough to see you come back.

I'm about to be eaten here by a female ghost who doesn't look like a woman in any way except for her voice and clothes.

Long strings of text flashed through Qingxi's mind, while his hands tied behind his back were trying to break free from the vines.

...Emmm, why don't you follow the routine? Shouldn't her wrist be the most vulnerable when she was kidnapped?

Or is it that on this set she is just a supporting actress numbered 4567, not even worthy of any privilege to save herself?

It’s so tight, I can’t free my wrist…

At this time, she especially missed her fighting power in the food world where she could eat high-quality ingredients from the human world with one punch.

I don’t know how Kyojuro is doing now. He should have gone to the nearby ghost hunters for help as soon as he found out that she was taken away by a ghost.

You don't have the Nichirin Sword, and you've just started learning the Breathing of Flame passed down by the academy. At best, you can fight a little better than an ordinary boy. Please don't rush over by yourself...ah.

Qingxi almost fainted when she saw the flaming hair that suddenly appeared in the dim alley.

She was praying in her heart, why did you, Kyojuro, still follow her in?

Qingxi, whose neck was pinched by the female ghost, felt very upset. She seemed to have seen the scene where the ghost in front of her pinched her and Kyojuro's heads like pinching ants and then made them into food.

The sound of air being cut was very prominent in the quiet alley. The next moment, several pieces of firewood appeared in the sky and smashed towards the female ghost hanging upside down on the wall.

These little tricks are just minor things for the female ghost.

No, it should be said that the matter was settled when I saw that the boy who chased me into the alley was holding a ridiculous piece of wood that he could pick up anywhere instead of the Nichirin Sword, right?

He killed the brat he was about to let go, and then ate the little girl with the scent of wisteria bite by bite.

"Aki, are you okay?" Rengoku Kyojuro asked loudly, looking at the black-haired girl who was held in the air by the female ghost's vines and whose carefully crafted hair was messed up in the pulling just now.

Qingxi opened her mouth and wanted to tell him that she was fine, and then persuade him to run out of here quickly and find a ghost hunter outside, but she found that the half of her face that had just been licked by the female ghost had become numb.

She was literally numb, her facial muscles were completely stiff, and she was completely unable to mobilize the surrounding nerves to move them.

Qingxi: Fuck! This ghost used poison!!!

Since she couldn't speak, she could only shake her head at Rengoku Kyojuro to indicate that she was fine for the time being.

However, the boy who didn't hear Qingxi's response didn't think so. What's more, there was a female ghost next to him who was laughing hideously.

"What did you do to Aki?" Rengoku Kyojuro asked.

"Hehe, I didn't do anything." The female ghost hanging upside down on the wall let out an uncomfortable laugh. She hung upside down from Qingxi's left side to her right side, and then used her long bangs with three long horns to cover most of her face, leaving only a mouth that reached the roots of her ears. She moved close, stretched out her wet and sticky tongue, and gently licked Qingxi's right face, as if what she was treating at the moment was not her prey but some weak, beloved, and carefully cared for little pet. "It's just that if the food is too disobedient and struggles too much, it will make it very unrefined for me to eat.

So in order to calm them down, I had to give them a little anesthetic."

"But, it would be too boring if we don't struggle at all, so right now, we just have to do it like here—" The female ghost stretched out her fingers with sharp nails and lightly tapped Qingxi's shoulders on both sides. Then, when Rengoku Kyojuro was feeling sorry for himself for not attacking the girl, she poked her left shoulder with one nail. As she listened to the painful groan from the girl's throat, she smiled and said, "Just poke it and give her a local anesthesia.

I started eating from her legs, making her feel the pain while her body could not resist, but the pain was reflected in her eyes, pain, despair, and finally deathly silence... Well, just thinking about it makes me feel very excited, but -"

She suddenly changed the subject, and her gaze, which had been focused on Qingxi, turned to Rengoku Kyojuro. Her voice became hoarse and brutal, "Why are there people like you in this world who disturb others when they are about to eat? This makes me very unhappy."

I'm not happy, sir!

After listening to the ghost girl's nonsense for a long time, Qingxi finally used a knife to cut the vines that tied her up, freeing her right hand. She turned the knife and slashed at the ghost girl. In just a moment, she paid the price for not taking the child seriously.

As long as it is not the Nichirin Sword, any injury on the demon will be healed immediately. As a medical staff of the Demon Slayer Corps, how could she not know this characteristic? While the initiative was still in her hands, she loosened her hand and the dagger in her hand fell to the ground, and her free hand now contained a bowl of rough but purified wisteria flower juice.

So what if she is not afraid of wisteria flowers? It's not like she is completely immune to them. This bowl of flowers she poured on her is enough to make her digest a pot of soup.

Rengoku Kyojuro, who had been paying attention to the situation here, rushed up and jumped, holding up the wooden stick in both hands and chopped hard at the vines that were wrapped around Qingxi.

no!

Feeling that the wooden stick in his hand suddenly softened, Rengoku Kyojuro thought to himself that something was wrong.

The vines can become soft or hard according to the ghost girl's wishes, but what he holds in his hand is not a knife, let alone a Sun Blade. This is... bad.

As if knowing what the boy with flame-colored hair needed most at the moment, as his body fell downwards, a wakizashi fell from Qingxi's hand, past his face and falling straight to the ground ahead of the boy.

With just one glance, Rengoku Kyojuro's pupils widened, and the next moment, his hand reached out and grabbed the hilt of the knife.

Although it was not a katana-style Nichirin sword, what Qingxi threw out was indeed a Nichirin sword.

The moment he landed, Rengoku Kyojuro rolled several times on the ground due to inertia to relieve the gravity of falling from a high place.

"My face, my face."

Wisteria flowers can destroy the ghost's internal body structure. Generally speaking, it can melt the ghost's body.

Of course, if the ghost is powerful, a small amount of wisteria flowers can automatically decompose their bodies. Similarly, there are also female ghosts, whose blood ghost magic is poisonous and they are resistant to the wisteria flower poison.

The bowl of purified wisteria flower juice did not kill her, but it did destroy her face, which had already gone beyond the human realm. If she wanted to recover, she would have to wait until she had decomposed the poison of the wisteria flower.