Chapter 030
After watching the two of them walk out of the room, Qingxi fell asleep with a thin blanket covering her head. Moreover, she overestimated herself. What do you mean by sleeping until tomorrow morning? She slept directly from today's afternoon to the next morning, slept past noon, and jumped directly to the afternoon.
During this time, Ueno Shin, who had not waited for her to leave the room for a long time, came over to take a look at her. After confirming that she was just sleeping and had no physical problems, he left with peace of mind.
"My lord summoned me?" Qingxi, who was eating ramen specially made for himself in the cafeteria, said in surprise.
Ueno Shin nodded. "The Hidden Corps personnel who will take you to the headquarters are already waiting for you outside. You..." He glanced at the half-eaten bowl of ramen and scratched his hair. "Don't eat yet. It's very rude to keep the lord waiting for a long time."
Qingxi thought it might not work: "But I'm hungry. It would be rude to let my lord hear my stomach growling."
The most important thing is that she doesn't want to eat lumpy ramen when she comes back.
Ueno is getting a new headache.
The girl had just gotten up and was supposed to be hungry, so it was fine for her to have a meal first, but she couldn't wait because her lord had summoned her.
He said, "Take two rice balls and eat them on the way."
Kiyoki: ...When there's delicious ramen, why would I choose a rice ball with no fillings?
"Forget it." Qingxi showed that he was not interested in the rice ball. He lowered his head and quickly shoveled a few mouthfuls of noodles into his mouth. Then he wiped his mouth and pointed outside with his stuffed face, saying, "Let's go."
Ueno Arata: ...Let it be. Considering her young age and natural talent, the lord probably won't blame this girl for her disrespect...right?
Completely unaware of the fatherly worries in Ueno Shin's heart, Kiyokito, who was smoothing his uncombed hair with his ten fingers, was blindfolded with a black cloth by the Anbu members and carried on their backs towards the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters.
As the core of the entire Demon Slayer Corps, the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Corps has always been kept secret from outside except for the Nine Pillars.
Even if the lord summoned her, her eyes would be covered with a cloth, and she would be carried away on the backs of these hidden people.
Qingxi lay on the back of the Yinbu member. Because of her female body, the pain on her flesh was not obvious when she was carried on his back. On the contrary, she felt a bit like she was lying on a wooden bed with a mattress in a clinic room.
Thinking of the bed, she couldn't help but yawn, and moved a little to a comfortable position. She rested her head on the other person's back. After thinking that they would not reach the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters so soon, she closed her eyes.
One of the side effects of excessive use of dialysis eyes is lack of energy and constant sleepiness.
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Qingxi was woken up by the sound of feathers brushing against her face.
Unable to sleep until she woke up naturally, she felt uncomfortable all over her body and wanted to find something to vent.
"Let's eat, let's eat quickly."
Seeing that his dining partner had woken up but showed no sign of getting up, Jiro opened his mouth and started urging him in an unpleasant and sharp voice.
It was okay before because the person looked uncomfortable, but today’s situation is not okay.
However, she must pay me back the three meals she owes me.
Ignoring Jiro, the noisy crow, Qingxi struggled for a long time and finally crawled out of the unfamiliar bed.
"This is..." Recalling the time when she fell asleep on the back of an Anbu member, she raised her head slightly to look at Jiro circling above her head and slowly uttered a few words, "The headquarters of the Demon Slayer Corps."
As she finished speaking, a sound of light and slow footsteps was heard from the corridor outside the shoji door.
With the woman's gentle "Excuse me", the shoji door was opened from the outside.
Qingxi's blue eyes widened slightly. For a moment, she thought that the woman in front of her, dressed as a woman, was a fairy who had transformed and walked out of a book. But her eyes slowly shifted to her slightly bulging belly, and the strange feeling of seeing a fairy disappeared.
It was a human with black hair, a rosy face, and she was pregnant...
"I'm Ubuyashiki Tenon." The woman introduced herself briefly. "Do you need something to eat?"
Looking at the question of the female fairy, no, the woman with snow-white hair, Qingxi shook her head subconsciously, but only after shaking her head did she realize what the other party had just said.
Ubuyashiki Amane...So, she is the wife that Ubuyashiki Kōya mentioned.
So here comes the question.
How come Mrs. Amane looks like a mature woman? And considering Ubuyashiki Kōya's age... Holy crap! Is this a sister-brother relationship?
No, wait, shouldn’t the more important thing be that not long after having twins, Ubuyashiki Kōya had another child?
For a moment, she didn't know whether Mrs. Tianyin was in good health and could give birth, or whether Ouyashiki Kazuya was so strong in that aspect.
The girl suddenly looked as if she had suffered a great blow, which made Ubuyashiki Amane hard to understand, but the pity in her eyes made her vaguely understand something.
She pursed her lips, suppressing that faint smile, and said, "In that case, I will take you to find Master Yaoya."
Leaving the rest room, Qingxi walked slowly along the corridor outside the shoji door, following behind Mrs. Tianyin.
Outside the eaves is a traditional Japanese garden with rockery, lakes, lawns, cobblestone paths, and a wisteria tree that even ghosts would avoid.
As she turned the corner, the sound of people talking came into her ears with the wind. Then, without the help of Ubuyashiki Tenon, she saw the young man standing in the corridor outside the large hall.
After not seeing him for nearly a year, he looked much older, and the childishness that only children could show had also faded a bit. His current appearance was quite consistent with his stable personality.
The two people who heard the noise stopped talking and looked in the direction of Qingxi.
"How was your rest?" the young man asked Qingxi in a voice so gentle it could be said to be harmless. "I'm sorry, it was my mistake to ask you to come here when you were still not feeling well."
"It's just that my mental energy has been depleted a bit, and I'm a little sleepy. I don't actually feel any discomfort physically."
If Ubuyashiki Kōya was the only one here, she might have complained to him directly. After all, he knew most of her past. However, his wife and the Flame Pillar were still here, so she had to keep some things for him in front of the lord.
After Ubuyashiki Amane sent the person away, she left. After she left, there were only three of them left in the entire hall.
"Would you like to come over and sit down?" Ubuyashiki Kazuya asked, pointing to his side.
Qingxi did not respond immediately. She looked at the young man sitting on the corridor under the eaves, and then looked at the Flame Pillar Rengoku Makijuro standing outside the eaves with a businesslike look, and she felt that this invitation was a little difficult to accept.
But when she turned around, she quietly sat down next to Ubuyashiki Yoya.
Unlike the other party's standard kneeling sitting, Qingxi knew that if she sat like that for a short time her legs would become numb and she would be unable to walk, so she stretched her legs out into the corridor and waited quietly for the other party's next words.
"I met you this time for your eyes and those incredible ingredients." Ubuyashiki Kakuya paused here, and his tone became subtle.
He still remembered Ueno Shin's "accusations" against him when he came to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters. It can be said that the memory is still fresh in his mind.
"Now I ask you again, Aki, do you mind if I make your story public to a small number of the Demon Slayer Corps?" asked Ubuyashiki Kazuya.
The other party's tone remained the same when he asked her this question, but Qingxi interpreted it as helplessness: "You always bring out some weird ingredients to others and then put the blame on me. It's hard for me to help you make things go away time and time again."
Qingxi: I was also doing that to save people. If the Demon Slayer Corps could suffer fewer injuries, and the Anbu members didn't have to send half-dead people to the clinic again and again, wouldn't I have to take things out of the gourmet backpack again and again just to save people?
After a glance, Qingxi lowered her head. She had something to save people, so she couldn't just stand by and watch someone die.
Since she estimated that she would have to take things out in the future, instead of putting the blame on Ubuyashiki Kōya every time and making him have to go back and explain to other people, it would save a lot of trouble if she explained her situation to some people first within a limited scope.
She nodded weakly, "Let's make it public to some people as you wish, my lord."
Once one thing is solved, it's time to deal with the second one.
"Ah Xi, those foods you have..." After a pause, he continued, "How many of those medicines are there? Can I buy some from you?"
"Of course you can, but if possible, please use it for urgent needs. I have a lot of medicines here, but if you want to use my medicines to replace the current medicines in the clinic, it may not be possible. After all, these are non-renewable resources."
"I understand. In that case, you can hand over a batch of medicines to Tianyin later." said Ubuyashiki Yoya.
Once the second thing is solved, the third thing comes next.
"Ah Xi, what natural medicine did you apply to the bones when you reattached Xiao's broken arm? During your sleep, Shinta kept asking me about it."
Xiao is the unlucky ghost hunter who almost became Dr. Ueno's first experimental subject whose hand was broken, and was later taken over by the seemingly even more unreliable Qingxi.
“This—”
Qingxi's eyes were a little wandering, and at this moment, Jiro, who was getting impatient, swooped down from the sky, landed on the earthen floor beside her, and pecked her lightly with his black beak. Thinking of the identity of the Nine Pillars of Rengoku Makijuro, he was probably among those who were informed of his situation, so she didn't hide it. She took out the camping cutting board and Melk kitchen knife, and made a full bowl of salad with the belly meat of the ancient pig mammoth, sun wheat, natto corn and almond cabbage for it.
"It's the mucus produced on the surface of a mushroom called the Mushroom Mushroom." Qingxi's gaze fell on the Jiro Pile Driver, not meeting the other people's gazes. "The Mushroom Mushroom, Capture Level 10, is considered a rather special ingredient. It needs to be soaked in ice water at a constant temperature of zero degrees Celsius to peel off the outermost layer of mucus. The Mushroom Mushroom is very crisp and fresh when eaten raw, but I prefer to use it to make some thick soups, or store the mushroom powder and use it as a seasoning when needed later."
Qing Xila said a lot of random things, but when she saw Ubuyashiki Kakuya's smiling face at her, she realized belatedly that what she had just said seemed to be a bunch of nonsense to them who were not chefs.
She coughed lightly and quickly brought the topic back to the topic, "The mucus of the sticky mushroom is a natural adhesive with strong viscosity and long-lasting effect. Some construction teams use this natural adhesive to build houses.
But one thing is that its freshness doesn’t last long, and its viscosity will also weaken over time.”
After listening to Qingxi's explanation, Ubuyashiki Yoya gave up on purchasing a large amount of slime from the slime mushrooms from her, but he also learned something.
Ah Xi's backpack can store the mucus of the sticky mushrooms, or perhaps her food god gave her backpack the ability to preserve freshness.
The slime of the slime mushroom cannot be distributed to the entire Demon Slayer Corps. However, a large batch cannot be purchased, but a small amount can be purchased from Qingxi every month depending on the situation and sent to several Demon Slayer Corps bases that are far away from here.
It may be wasted, but it is also very likely that a team member in need will use it.
"So, finally, your eyes," he asked.
Qingxi raised his hand and rubbed his eyes. "I don't have that ability. This is just a gift from the God of Food."
After hearing her previous sentence, Umayashiki Kōya understood, "Is the side effect of using it just that the mental energy will be depleted excessively, or is there something else?"
"And physical strength. So normally I wouldn't use it. Firstly, there's no need, and secondly, I wouldn't have the chance before reattaching someone's broken arm."
"In that case," Ubuyashiki Tōya tilted his head slightly, his tone pleading, "Maybe I'll need to ask you to use this talent of yours, Aki, in the future."
Qingxi's mouth twitched. At this moment, she felt that the other party no longer treated her as a child.
Please ask her to use the Dialysis Eye more?
Considering that she was in the clinic, she naturally helped to treat and reattach the limbs of the Demon Slayer Corps who were sent there with broken limbs.
Qingxi: "...Can I apply for a raise?"
With his family's inestimable wealth as a foundation, Ubuyashiki Kōya said without hesitation, "Sure."
The matter of asking Qingxi to come to the headquarters has been concluded, and the next step is to explain to Rengoku Makijuro, who automatically became an observer after they started talking.
Due to the information asymmetry between the three people, even if Rengoku Makijuro listened quietly at the side, he could only vaguely understand the general idea. For anything more in-depth, he needed someone to explain it to him.
As for the person to explain, he naturally gave it to Ubuyashiki Yoya, leaving Jiro here. Under the guidance of the other party, Qingxi started to go to find Mrs. Tianyin to hand over the medicine.
As a gourmet hunter who has been running into the wild for many years, the medical supplies she carries with her are probably mostly trauma medicines. Moreover, she traveled through time this time to return to her own world and had no intention of returning to the world of gourmet food. With a gourmet backpack, she was naturally well prepared.
However, it was a pity that when Atong took her away, he did not record the coordinates of the world she lived in, so her journey home failed. After Atong took 999 doses of the medicines she prepared, there were enough for her to sell some to the Demon Slayer Corps.
After telling Madam Tianyin, who was taking notes at her desk, the injuries that each medicine targeted and how to use it, Qingxi, who had nothing to do, suddenly became idle.
By the time the other person finished writing, the sun was setting outside the house, and the blue sky was painted a warm orange.
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