Chapter 020
On New Year's Eve, even in places with a large flow of people like hospitals, people will get up early and do a simple cleaning.
Of course, if it were an ordinary family, the women in the family would have already started preparing food for the next few days.
Because everyone still adheres to the custom of not cooking during the New Year, the Demon Slayer Corps' hospital inevitably omitted this point.
The clinic is full of patients. Rather than letting these people with weak bodies and weak spleen and stomach eat cold food for a few days, for their own health, it is naturally best to light a fire and cook hot food for them.
So when the evening came, the luxurious and rich Osechi cuisine did not get cold, but there was a simple warm Toshikoshi soba.
On the first day of the new year, everyone’s breakfast became red bean rice cake soup. After breakfast, it was time for another day of routine work.
Maybe ghosts also want to celebrate the New Year, or maybe they also want to give themselves a holiday. Until the third day of the New Year, no new patients were sent to the clinic. However, there were several patients in the clinic who were about to complete their physical rehabilitation.
"96, 97, 98, 99, 100!!" After finishing the counting, Qingxi said in a daze.
Perhaps she herself didn't know that she would become a burden to the recovering ghost hunter, and one day she would be asked to sit on his back and do push-ups while he carried her.
And we make 100 of them at a time.
Although she is young and therefore light, she still weighs at least 20 or 30 kilograms. She was really worried that the ghost hunter, who was about to recover, would have both arms disabled because the other person carried her on his back to do so many push-ups.
"Ah, Mr. Harada, are you really okay?" Qingxi asked.
Well, what she really wanted to ask was how his arm was? Could he still move it? Should he have Dr. Ueno check it out?
"Haha, no problem at all." The muscular middle-aged man, shirtless, flexed his arms with laughter. The creaking sound made the black-haired girl feel a bit strange. "Little Axi, you're not heavy at all. Honestly, you should eat more. I don't even feel any weight when you're sitting on my back."
Qingxi's eyes were dead, "Mr. Harada, please look at the sweat on your face when you say this. You are totally lying."
"Hey! I'm not lying. I was just hot, not tired."
"Okay, okay, I got it." Qingxi nodded, speaking vaguely with a perfunctory tone.
Harada Shinnosuke, a Class A ghost hunter, was one of the seriously injured people Qingxi met when he first came to the clinic. He was the one who stopped breathing and was saved by Qingxi by acupuncture on his heart.
That time, after regaining consciousness, he claimed to have encountered two demons suspected to be Lower Rank Demons. Those two demons were quite powerful and would collaborate with each other. When targeting weaker demon hunters, if a higher-level demon hunter chose to rescue them, they would seize the opportunity to attack the higher-level demon hunter.
It was precisely because of this that their team, who had only received the news that it was a ghost, was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
"Mr. Harada, you still have speed training coming up," Qingxi reminded him. "Please keep up the good work, and please put on your clothes right after training. Even though you're in good shape in this winter, I still don't want any more patients at the clinic to come down with a cold or fever."
It was because he had a good temper. Otherwise, with all the disobedient children in the ward, she wouldn't have the patience to give him any more instructions.
"Hahaha, I got it, I got it. Little Aki, you can go in." Harada Shinnosuke waved at her, stretched his muscles a few times, and then started running around the entire clinic.
Looking at the person who left from the wooden door in the backyard and disappeared in just a moment, he didn't have time to say that the swordsmith who would make the Nichirin sword for him would be here soon.
Qingxi: Well, forget it.
Anyway, every ghost hunter carried in by the hidden department personnel, as long as he needs a knifemaker to repair his knife, or simply send it back to the furnace for re-forging, will be more or less cut lightly or heavily by their respective knifemakers who will then forge the knife and send it back to them. In short, you just get used to it.
"Ashi, come here for a moment."
After walking in through the door leading to the backyard and passing through Dr. Ueno's lounge, he was stopped by Ueno Arata who was talking to someone in the room.
The girl with two ponytails silently came back from the door she had already walked through, stopped at the door, and her blue eyes swept over the young man who was wearing the Demon Slayer Corps uniform, a Nichirin sword at his waist, and a haori on the outside.
As she looked at the other person curiously, the other person's eyes also fell on her.
Unafraid of being caught observing, she turned her gaze and asked, "Doctor Ueno, what's going on?"
Ueno Shin rubbed his hands, looking a little too excited. He stood up from the chair he was sitting on with a smile and walked towards Qingxi. However, before he could say anything, the little girl took a big step back as if avoiding something disgusting.
Ueno Arata: “…?”
Ueno Arata was confused, Ueno Arata couldn't believe it, and Ueno Arata couldn't understand it.
Facing the frozen middle-aged man, Qingxi silently took another step back, creating a safe distance between them before she spoke in a serious tone, "Doctor Ueno, could you please put away that sweet smile that looks like you're about to do something strange to a little girl? You're not a child anymore, and showing that expression will easily make people think of those perverted, greasy old men with certain peculiar taste buds."
The last shred of smile on Ueno Arata's bewildered face faded. Slowly, gradually, the "井" (well) symbol, representing anger, popped up above his head. The next moment, Ueno. Middle-aged old man. Greasy old uncle. Arata reached out, grabbed the little girl who had completely ruined his image with a mouthful of spitting, and tucked her under his arm. Then, with his free hand, he pressed a snap on her head and began to rub it.
"Ah Xi, we need evidence when we talk. Look at me. Although I'm a little older than the other young people, it's only a little bit. How can I be the perverted, greasy old man you're talking about? Is my smile "perverted"? You should say it's very "amiable" (emphasis added)."
Ignoring the little girl's cries under his arms as she was pinned face down and unable to turn over, Ueno Shin rubbed her head. "Remember? If you don't talk properly next time, I will continue to rub your head. Little girl, you care so much about your height, I will rub you so that you will never grow any taller."
Qingxi was shocked as she had never expected Ueno Arata to be such a rogue.
No, she could think of it, but she thought that there were outsiders here, so Dr. Ueno, who cared about his image, should wait until the outsiders left before teaching her a lesson.
But he had actually thrown aside his pretense in front of outsiders... What was going on? Was it because Dr. Ueno had always been like this, the one she had known before, always in a restrained state? Or perhaps, without her noticing, Dr. Ueno's unrestrained ability, when not working, had increased?
But now it seems that no matter which type he is, it is not a good thing for me.
After struggling for a long time without any results, Qingxi decided to give up.
Like a dried, salted fish that had shrunk out of water, she asked in a flat voice, "So, Dr. Ueno, what exactly is it that you called me over for?"
If the other party said nothing was wrong, Qingxi thought she might put the powder made from the croton on the head of the croton frog into the other party's lunch.
The Croton Frog, a 103-capture level frog, weighs two tons. Its meat tastes just like regular frog meat, and the croton seeds on its head are a natural medicine. Drying it, grinding it into a powder, and mixing it with other natural medicines creates a natural, non-hazardous laxative. It's particularly popular among women, who often use it as a weight-loss drug without side effects.
The croton effect of the croton frog is more than 30 times that of ordinary croton. She believes that only a small gram can allow Dr. Ueno to squat in the toilet for a whole day without having to think about coming out, and at the same time help him scrape off two kilograms of fat from his body.
"Ah, I almost forgot about the important matter." Ueno Arata paused while rubbing Qingxi's head and said in a daze.
Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that her head and hair were saved.
But she relaxed a little too early, because this unscrupulous doctor attacked her head again.
With a soft cry, Qingxi hugged his head, wishing he could bite off a piece of flesh from this bad doctor.
Ueno Arata: "It's all your fault, Aki. I have to waste my time here with you."
Qingxi: ...Whose fault is it anyway?! You stinky doctor, don't just blame others! ! His fists hardened.
Not sure if he really thought it was a waste of time or if he'd realized the little girl couldn't be teased any more, but he put her on the ground, straightened his expression, and said, "Hurry up and get your aphrodisiac." At this point, he couldn't help but smile again, eager to try something, a smile that made people feel sick. "I've found the ingredients for the experiment."
The feeling of her feet on the ground finally made Qingxi feel real. Just as she was thinking about how to fight back, the other party's words drew her attention away.
I don't know why, but when I looked at his smile after hearing what he said, the meaning seemed to become very subtle.
She knew there was nothing wrong with her, and the other party seemed to be fine except that he seemed a little excited. And then there was the ghost hunter who had been very quiet from the beginning until now. Suddenly, her blue eyes widened, and she thought of a possibility.
No, it’s what she thinks... If that’s true, then Dr. Ueno is really a tough guy.
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