Chapter 037
That day, Qingxi finally couldn't escape and was taken away by Rengoku Ruka to change clothes. Although Kyojuro and Chijuro were very supportive when she walked out wearing the skirt and kept saying how beautiful she looked in the red dress, that couldn't hide the fact that they "sold" her to keep her safe.
So, let her break up with them for a week!!!
Even giving her their favorite sweet potatoes wouldn’t work!!!
Chop chop chop, chop chop chop!!!
The kitchen knife and the chopping board make a very regular sound when they come into contact with each other.
Tomioka Giyuu looked at the girl who was about to swing the kitchen knife so hard that it left an afterimage, and then looked at the cabbage shreds she had cut into thin and uniform sizes, and he really felt that she might also have the talent to kill demons.
"You, what are you angry about?"
Giyu Tomioka, who was squatting on the side helping to wash the vegetables, finally asked the doubts in his heart.
Chop bang!
The meat was cut in half along with the bones.
"I'm not angry." The black-haired girl had a gentle smile on her fair face.
Tomioka. Super straightforward, super straight man, and can't read the atmosphere. Giyu: "You're angry."
"I don't."
"You have!"
“…”
Putting down the kitchen knife, Qingxi took a deep breath, clasped his hands together, and silently apologized in his heart to the food in front of him that he used as a vent for his anger.
She tilted her head and puffed up her face unhappily: "Mr. Tomioka, if you don't intend to comfort me at this time, you should pretend that you didn't notice anything."
Tomioka Giyuu tilted his head with a blank expression on his face, "I'm sorry?"
Qingxi: “…”
She covered her face and said, "Mr. Tomioka, why don't you go to the reconstruction next door." The way he apologized to her without knowing anything was even more attractive.
Tomioka Giyuu kept washing the vegetables, "Then you probably can't handle it all by yourself."
"Hu!" He let out a long breath.
Don't be angry, don't be angry. Isn't that the character of Tomioka Giyuu? The one who takes himself too seriously is the loser.
Comforting herself in her heart, Qingxi picked up the knife again and began to cut off all the meat from the bone that she had chopped in half.
Giyu Tomioka looked at the girl who had calmed down while sitting on the bench. After debating whether to ask or not, he chose the former.
"Can you tell me now?" he asked
Qingxi glanced in his direction and asked, "Are you really that curious?"
Tomioka Giyu nodded.
"It's nothing, actually." Qingxi briefly recounted how Rengoku Ruka had dragged her to put on clothes.
"You can refuse." Tomioka Giyuu said after hearing the general idea.
Qingxi was stunned for a moment, pondering in her mind whether the other party was asking her to refuse Mrs. Ruhu's kindness in trying on clothes. She shook her head, "Am I angry about Mrs. Ruhu dragging me to try on clothes? I'm angry about the fact that Kyojuro and Chijuro 'sold' me out to 'protect themselves'!!!"
"They came to apologize to me before." Qingxi murmured, but a small flame burned in her blue eyes as she spoke, "But they haven't come since I said I wanted to break up with them for a week.
And there's the matter of feeding the crows here. I said I'd come over to help, but in the end—" She turned to Tomioka Giyu, "Mr. Tomioka, you've been helping me these past few days."
The boy paused in his tracks when he heard the girl's resentful and accusing voice outside before he even entered the kitchen. Then he walked forward even faster.
"Um, I'm sorry for making you angry, Axi." The boy with hair the same color as flames apologized as soon as he stepped in.
He placed the paper bag in his arms on the long table and pushed it in front of her. "Some time ago, Chijuro and I accompanied our mother to the Purgatory branch. We left in a hurry, so we didn't tell you."
Owl explained, and Qingxi felt that she was not the kind of person who would hold on to things, so she let the matter go.
"What's inside this paper tape?" Qingxi was cutting vegetables and it was inconvenient for her to pick it up, so she could only ask.
"Hmm, it's chestnut cakes," Rengoku Kyojuro said. "On our way back, we came across a Japanese confectionery shop. There were a lot of people lining up to buy chestnut cakes, so Mother took Chijuro and me there to buy some."
"Is that so? Then feed the crows and we can eat together." Her gaze shifted to Tomioka Giyuu, "Mr. Tomioka will also join us."
Neither boy refused the girl's proposal.
The food for the crows was ready, and the three people carried the wooden barrels filled with food to the crow house.
There were not many crows in the crow house, only a few in twos and threes, and the rest were still transmitting messages in the sky.
Without waiting for the other crows to return, Qingxi asked the two of them to put food into the trough one spoonful at a time, because she knew that it would not be long before the crows, who already knew it was time for dinner, would rush back to eat after finishing their respective work.
"Hmm, these crows seem to be much faster than other crows." Rengoku Kyojuro said.
Just as they were putting food into the trough, crows swooped down from the sky one after another and landed in the crow house. They pushed aside the crows around them that had already started eating and joined the group eating.
"They are all young and strong crows. If they are more active, their speed can be increased in a short time." Qing Xi said in a serious tone as he looked at the crows that he had fed for more than a month.
"Based on current observations, they're still within the normal range of crows." Qing Xi pulled out a notebook from the side, flipped through it, and then used the charcoal pencil to record the daily data before returning the notebook to its original place. "Only a few of the five, like Jiro, show signs of secondary development.
However, since it's not obvious yet, there's a possibility of misjudgment, so we can only observe those five first. Once we're sure, I'll separate them from the other crows' meals."
Speaking of this, Qingxi felt a headache.
Although he knew that the Demon Slayer Corps lacked channels to quickly transmit information, Ubuyashiki Kōya couldn't just pull the fur of a single crow.
There was no pressure from him to urge her to quickly produce a few more secondary-development, fast-flying crows, but Jiro, who was caught plucking their feathers, would rush to the crow house before coming to her place for dinner every time, as if he wanted to see if she had bred a crow like him that day.
Just imagine, a crow that is almost one meter long and is a giant among other crows rushes into the crow house and loses its temper at the crows inside. Which crow, which seems weak and helpless in every sense, would not hide in a corner and shiver in fear?
The crows in the crow house were trembling with fear. Every time Jiro came, they even refused to eat the food. It became difficult for them to eat her food. It was difficult to feed them. It was very likely that the crows among them would not develop a second time. If they could not develop a second time, they would not grow up. If they could not grow up, they could not fly in the sky like Jiro and increase their flying speed. There would be no crows to share Jiro's work. It was simply a vicious cycle.
People sometimes talk without thinking, and the same is true for crows.
Qingxi was just thinking about Jiro when, above his head, the big black bird that had grown a new head in a month began to swoop down towards the crow house where they were.
"Jiro, if you scare the crows in the Crow House again, I will triple your food expenses this month. Absolutely triple it!!!"
After handing the food bucket to the person beside him, Qingxi stood in front of the crow house and shouted a warning.
Tomioka Giyu held the extra food bucket in his arms, but his blue eyes were looking at the thirty "little" crows hiding behind Qingxi, who seemed to have done this many times before. After looking at them, his gaze shifted to Qingxi, who was like an old hen protecting her cubs that she had raised with great difficulty. Finally, his gaze fixed on the "bully" Jiro.
"quack--"
Jiro flapped his wings and chirped in dissatisfaction.
"I know, I know." She said in a muffled voice, covering her mouth and nose with dust raised by Jiro's flapping wings. "You're working hard, but just hold on a little longer. One month, another month. After a month, before the New Year, I'll go to the lord and ask him to lighten your workload."
She turned sideways and pointed at the shivering "quails" behind her, letting Jiro see for himself, "Back then, you had to stay with me for several months before your body suddenly underwent a secondary development. Now, I've only raised these descendants of yours for a month. As a senior, don't you act like a senior at all?
We should give them more time, right?"
"The most important thing is, is it fun for you to keep coming over here and irritate them? You've scared them so much they've stopped eating. The more you irritate them, the slower my progress will be. The slower I am, the slower the assistants you want to share your work will appear. Are you sure you want to keep going like this?"
Jiro understood Qingxi's words and understood what she wanted to express, but he was really anxious. He flew in the sky all day long without a chance to catch his breath... After three or four months, he didn't even have a day off. He was a crow, not a wooden crow that couldn't feel tired.
Looking at Jiro who was jumping up and down in anger, Qingxi had a dead look in her eyes. If she hadn't used the Dialysis Eye on it again and again, checking every cell in its body to make sure there was no problem, it would still be just an ordinary crow. Otherwise, based on its incredible size as if it had eaten a bulking agent, she would have suspected that it had eaten too much food from the gourmet world on this side, and the gourmet cells had parasitized in its body, causing its body to evolve.
"Since you're so resistant, why don't you report it to the lord yourself?" Qingxi waited until the other party had vented enough before approaching it. He reached out to help push back the tiny hairs on its back that had exploded and couldn't be removed, and said with a tone of disgust. "Don't tell me you forgot that your dormitory is at the headquarters."
Jiro snarled at her again in dissatisfaction.
Qingxi chuckled softly, "Do you think I won't know if you don't speak human language? Because you don't dare.
I dared not refuse the lord who was so gentle and tolerant of you when you were dejected and in a state of disarray after losing five of your companions. So you came to torment us.
Jiro, whose little thoughts were exposed, began to cackle in dissatisfaction again, and at the same time, he poked Qingxi's head with his sharp beak.
Rengoku Kyojuro and Tomioka Giyu, who were seeing this scene for the first time, were both holding their breath for Kiyoki in their hearts, fearing that Jiro's beak would poke a hole in Kiyoki's head.
However, none of the scenarios they imagined in their minds happened in reality.
Jiro was angry that Qingxi had ruthlessly exposed all the dark experiences in his past to the sun, but the force he used when poking her head only turned her neatly combed twin ponytails into an afro.
If you are still angry, then spread your wings and send her two gusts of cold winter wind to make her sneeze several times.
"Ah, my hair!!!" Qingxi screamed, but rushed towards Jiro, rubbing his back with his hands.
If her hair is messed up by it, then its feathers will not be able to remain shiny and beautiful.
Come on, fight each other, let’s all kill each other!!!
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