Chapter 031
Taking the money from selling medicine given by Madam Tianyin, which could be considered a sky-high price for people of that era, Qingxi returned to the large hall alone.
To her surprise, she did not see Ubuyashiki Kōya here, but Rengoku Makijuro, who should have been patrolling in his own area at this time.
"Mr. Purgatory." Qingxi trotted to stand in front of him and turned his head to look around.
"He's busy with the Lord's words," Rengoku Makijuro explained to her. "The massive Demon Slayer Corps relies on the Lord to function, so he has a lot of work to do every day, and he has to sort through a lot of demon-related information to see if it's true or false."
"Let's go." He changed the subject and walked towards the gate first, "I'll take you back."
Kiyoki followed behind Rengoku Makijuro and saw the members of the Anbu waiting at the gate. She thought that the Flame Pillar could go and do his own thing. She had been carried all the way to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters and this time she would probably be carried blindfolded all the way back without her having to put in any effort. Of course, if she was a little thicker-skinned, she could sleep all the way back.
"Hmm, that's a surprise." Rengoku Makijuro said, looking up at the sky.
"What?" Qingxi, whose eyes were covered with a black cloth, could not see the surrounding scenery. She lay on the back of the hidden team member and asked curiously.
"I've heard from crow trainers before about Jiro, a crow that lost its partner five times and whose lively personality has changed to one that refuses to be approached by others.
And because it refused to partner with another ghost hunter, it withdrew from the communication crow.
But now it seems that it cares about you very much."
"It's not what you think, Mr. Purgatory." Qingxi curled her lips. "It only cares about whether it will lose me as a dining companion. It may treat me no differently than other people, and ignore me."
"Hmm, is that so." Rengoku Makijuro looked at the crow above his head whose flight trajectory was disrupted for a moment because of the girl's words. It didn't look like what the other party said, but since both the man and the bird looked like they were having some kind of quarrel, it was not convenient for him to say anything.
The staff of the Hidden Department carried Qingxi back to the door of the clinic before leaving. Based on this fact alone, she had to say that these staff members were dedicated.
"Mr. Purgatory, I'll go in first then."
"Hmm, go ahead. It's my turn to start patrol now."
Watching Rengoku Makijuro's figure leave, Qingxi looked up and wanted to see Jiro, whom Rengoku Makijuro said "cares about her". As for the result, the sunset above her head slowly turned ink-black as the sky gradually darkened. After looking at it for a long time, it gave people a faint sense of "mono no aware" in it, but there was no crow.
After returning to the clinic, Qingxi went to the kitchen.
Before going to the headquarters, she only ate a few mouthfuls of ramen. Later, when she arrived at the headquarters, except for the part when she slept, she spent the rest of the time either being questioned by Ubuyashiki Yoya or going to see Mrs. Tianyin to hand over medicinal materials. When everything was done, she was taken back by Rengoku Makijuro and the Anbu staff.
To sum up, she only ate a few mouthfuls of ramen today and last night.
You won’t die from hunger, but having an upset stomach is really uncomfortable.
So, she needs to eat.
However, maybe her luck with food was really bad today, and she was stopped before she even entered the kitchen.
"You're in the kitchen at this hour. Didn't you have dinner at headquarters before coming back?"
"If I had dinner at the headquarters, for the sake of my life, wouldn't I have stayed overnight at the headquarters today?" Qingxi turned around and faced the unshaven man who obviously had something to talk to her about.
She pressed her hand against her stomach and said pitifully, "Doctor Ueno, can you wait until I have dinner before we talk? I'm really hungry."
Approaching the girl, Ueno Arata gestured to her to do as she pleased, but he stretched out his hand and rubbed her head again and again, and even the sound of his voice sounded like he was grinding his teeth.
Ignoring the girl's protests, he said, "Girl, you're so generous that even the lord is willing to cover for you. I'm really curious about your identity now."
Unable to pry the hand off her head, Qingxi simply squatted down. The moment her head was freed from Ueno Shin's clutches, she held her head and squatted to the side like a little quail. She didn't stand up again until she was far away from the other person.
"I'm just an ordinary person," she corrected him. "As for the rest, the lord should be able to tell you."
Ueno Xin didn't believe it. He had just gone to the lord to ask for clarification, but was rejected by the lord because it was someone else's secret. Now she said that the lord would tell him?
Unless - this girl finally doesn't keep her secret.
"If that's the case, then just tell me right now." Following the girl into the kitchen, he watched her rummaging around in it. He kindly raised his hand and pointed at the rice ball in the lunch box, then continued, "This will save me from being summoned by the lord again."
Qingxi lost her appetite instantly after realizing at a glance that the rice balls in the lunch box were plain rice balls.
Then again, she really had no love for rice balls without fillings, unless they were made with ingredients from the food world.
He took two clean empty bowls and a pair of chopsticks from the cupboard, and under Ueno Shin's sharp eyes, a long Western-style pot for cooking soup appeared in front of him.
The little hand held the handle of the spoon and stirred it gently in the pot clockwise. When it was picked up again, the big spoon was already filled with a spoonful of soup and vegetables. One spoonful fell into the bowl, which was just enough for one bowl.
Qingxi put the bowl in his hand, which was already full of food, on the table beside him, put the pot and spoon into the food backpack, and then took out an extra-large bowl.
Ueno Shin estimated in his mind that the rice, well, let's just think of it as a mountain of compacted rice, must weigh at least twenty kilograms.
I watched the black-haired girl use clean chopsticks to scoop a bowl of food into the bowl in her own hand, and then it appeared and disappeared again, and finally she walked out of the kitchen and went to the cafeteria with the bowl of soup and rice.
"How did you do that just now?" Ueno Arata asked while standing still.
The girl, who had already revealed her "secrets" bit by bit in front of him, didn't want to explain at all.
Ueno Shin touched his hungry stomach.
After all, he came to the kitchen to find food. Since he missed dinner, he just wanted to come over and get a couple of rice balls, but it seems that is no longer necessary now.
He also got two bowls and a pair of chopsticks from the kitchen and came to the cafeteria. He placed them in front of her and said, "Come on, give me one too. I'm hungry too."
Qingxi, who was putting big mouthfuls of food into her mouth with her head down, looked up, and the words "Doctor, why haven't you eaten yet at this time?" were written on her face.
The newcomer Ueno sat down next to her and said, "I forgot about dinner time because of the experiment."
Qingxi suddenly realized and glanced towards the door. After making sure that no one would come here for the time being, he quickly served him the same food as himself.
Although she usually complains about how unreliable Dr. Ueno is and how bad his personality is, as a professional doctor he is still trustworthy.
Of course, we have to ignore the fact that he said such terrible things about the experimental subject when he was reattaching a broken arm for the first time.
"I made some of those blood-replenishing pills you gave me before." Ueno Arata held the bowl, and through the skin of his palm he could still feel the warmth of the rice inside. "But the effect is much worse than the ones you gave me."
The other party's probing gaze on her was so intense that Qingxi couldn't eat anymore.
She looked up and met his gaze, a smile on her face. "Doctor Ueno, if you don't want to eat, you don't have to."
"Ah, I'm really hungry." Ueno Shin picked up a piece of rice with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
I have a similar idea to Qingxi. When there is something delicious, who would want to choose to eat dry rice balls without fillings?
"Hmm, what a taste!" As if he had been drugged, Ueno Arata put the first mouthful of rice into his mouth and chewed it for the first time. He was stunned by the refreshing feeling that felt like he had taken a bite of spring.
Take another sip of the soup, the broth is delicious, take a bite of the fish, the meat is delicate, the taste of spring is even more intense, in this restless and stuffy summer, it is like a breath of refreshing cool breeze blowing into people's hearts.
With his appetite aroused, Ueno Shin's little mouth no longer cared about drooling at Qingxi. Now his little mouth was drooling at the food in front of him.
After dinner, Ueno Arata asked, picking his teeth with a toothpick, "What was that we just ate?"
Seasonal Rice (Spring), Capture Level 15, is a type of rice that only grows on Four Seasons Grain Island. When you take your first bite, you'll feel as if you've eaten an entire spring.
Spring Shark, capture level 123, radiates the glow and warmth of spring all over its body. Its meat is delicate and the soup stewed from it is also very delicious.
Qingxi said silently in his heart.
But he said, "To eat."
Ueno Arata couldn't help but roll his eyes. Of course he knew it was food. He wanted to ask her what the names of those ingredients were. He had lived for most of his life, so why didn't he have any impression of these at all?
However, seeing the little girl's attitude of shirking responsibility and saying, "Don't ask me, I won't tell you even if you ask me, so if you have anything to say, go find the lord," Ueno Shin realized that he wouldn't be able to get anything out of her.
"Aki, wait a minute." After washing their own dishes, Qingxi was about to leave, but Ueno Arata stopped her.
Qingxi stood still, waiting for the other party's next words.
Ueno Arata gave her a look that asked her to follow him, but he himself walked towards the lounge. "The Anbu staff brought you some things this afternoon."
Qingxi was puzzled: "Things?"
Ueno Shin gave a name, "It was sent from Momoyama, where the Thunder Breathing Trainer is."
Qingxi suddenly realized that Yangta, Xiang and Airi, who were training with the Thunder Breathing Instructor, must have asked someone to send something to her.
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