Chapter 083
"Go slowly, and be careful on your way back."
At the door of the house, Tsurumaru Kuninaga watched Ubuyashiki Amane and the Inu members leave and waved to them. He closed the door and returned to the corridor only when the group of people gradually turned into small black dots in the distance.
He made two trips and carried the two boxes brought by Ubuyashiki Tenon to the outside of Qingxi's house.
After listening to him explain the contents of the two boxes, Qingxi casually put away the box containing the gold. As for the remaining one, after opening it, she found that it was full of fabrics for clothes and hair accessories suitable for her age. She put the fabrics together with the fabrics that Mrs. Ruhuo had prepared for her, and placed the rest in the box where her clothes were kept.
She let out a long breath and half-jokingly said, "It's all right now. I only need seven or eight more pieces, and then I'll have enough clothes for a month's rotation."
"How about I make it a whole number?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga replied in a negotiating tone.
"Please don't." Qingxi replied softly.
Again, she already has enough clothes, especially kimonos, so please don't add any more to her suitcase.
"By the way," she asked, changing the subject, "Have you asked Madam Tianyin about the effectiveness of those protective suits made of animal scales?"
"They say the defensive power is pretty good," Tsurumaru Kuninaga recalled. "The first batch of people who wore them not only saw a lower death rate, but also a lower chance of serious injury."
Qingxi nodded in satisfaction after hearing this, but then she turned around and said, "That's all we can do for now. If we encounter a demon with powerful blood magic and isn't weak, the protective suits they wear won't be of much use."
"Well, master, you have done a good job, so don't think too much about it." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said soothingly.
"But..." He stretched out his voice, a thoughtful expression on his face, "Speaking of defense, we can actually think of other ways."
Qingxi looked at him, "What did you think of?"
"It's an amulet." The white-haired young man said to the girl. "It's the amulet that the Shinsengumi give to swordsmen when they go out into battle if they have a change of heart.
There are two types of sword amulets. One is a simple amulet that can pull a swordsman back after his sword is shattered. However, his health will be low, and he needs to return to the main castle immediately for a hand-in. The other type of amulet is a super amulet that not only pulls the swordsman back after his sword is shattered, but also heals all of his serious injuries, restoring him to full health.
Of course, these two amulets, which are specific to swordsmen, cannot be applied to humans, but they can definitely block the next fatal blow."
Qingxi's blue eyes lit up after hearing this. This thing is great. As long as she carries enough with her, she won't have to worry about being attacked by ghosts when traveling at night.
"Can you do it?" she asked. "Give me a set of twelve first."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga spread his hands, "I don't know how."
Qingxi choked, "No, what did you come to say to me?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga made a statement like "cat is confident and righteous.jpg", "But I know the principle, I can teach you, Master."
Qingxi showed a toothache expression, she asked weakly: "Spiritual power again?"
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Qing Xiren lay down on the tatami and said something nonchalantly: "I think protective clothing and other things are also good, but forget about the amulet."
"No, Master, there seems to be something wrong with your script." Tsurumaru Kuninaga also slumped down on the tatami. "According to the routine, shouldn't you go through a series of steps like 'self-reflection, self-comfort, self-encouragement, hard work, day and night, never stopping, and finally crafting the perfect amulet'?"
Qingxi stared at him silently for a long moment before averting her gaze. "If I had such a good mindset, I would have been admitted to a prestigious university decades ago, and immediately become a CEO after graduation, reaching the pinnacle of my life. I would have started my own business and led my company into the Fortune 500. Would I have let my boss ask me to work overtime continuously and work myself to death?"
"But amulets are really useful!" Tsurumaru Kuninaga added. "If we make a lot of them, we won't be afraid even if we encounter Muzan Kibutsuji. Even if we can't kill him, we can still survive, right?"
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"But making an amulet should be difficult." Qingxi made an excuse for herself, "I haven't been able to sort out the spiritual energy in my body for nearly half a month, and the problem with my eyes hasn't been solved. I don't think I can do it."
"Although the amulet is a little difficult to make..."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga thought back to his two previous Shinsengumi. One of them claimed that she could save money by making amulets, but she worked for a year and didn't produce a single finished product. Finally, out of her responsibility to the sword men, she bought six amulets and gave them to the sword men who went into battle in turn. Even after she stepped down, she didn't forget to take the six amulets away. She sold them in a second-hand store and left with the money. The other Shinsengumi was a little more skillful than their predecessor, but not by much.
The success rate of making amulets is very low. If you need an accurate number, it is probably 30:1, that is, only one out of thirty amulets will succeed... I need to explain that one amulet is made per day, which means that it takes a month to make one amulet... well, an ordinary amulet.
Thinking of the efficiency of the previous two Shinsengumi in making amulets, Tsurumaru Kuninaga decisively threw the probability of making this amulet out of his mind.
He then said, "But, as the saying goes, the first time is new, the second time is familiar. It's difficult in the early stage, but once the most difficult period is over, all that's left is practice.
"Master, when the time comes, you can carry a hundred or eighty amulets in your arms, take me and Yaken with you, well, that might not be safe enough, then take Mr. Beimingyu with you, and it's not impossible for the four of us to go and have some fun with the upper-rank demons."
Qingxi's mouth twitched, "Why don't you say you're going to play with Muzan Kibutsuji?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga shrugged, "I do want to, but I don't know his strength yet, so I'll settle for the next best thing and try fighting the Twelve Demon Moons first."
"And..." He changed the subject, "If Master could create an amulet, it would also give the people you care about a chance to breathe and react when they encounter a ghost."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga didn't make his words clear, but Kiyoki understood them and even expanded on them herself.
If she had devoted more energy to her spiritual power after becoming a Shinsengumi, instead of letting it grow like wild sheep in her body, she might have made amulets long ago and given one to everyone around her to save their lives.
"Master, do you want to include making amulets in your learning plan?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked softly when he saw that it was almost done.
"Yes!" The girl's decisive voice sounded.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga's golden eyes curved with a smile, and suddenly he also became energetic and encouraged: "In this case, Master, you must quickly master the spiritual power first. If you can't master the spiritual power, the time it takes to learn to make amulets will be infinitely extended."
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Beiming Island Xingming suddenly discovered that Qingxi, who had slowed down her pace since she moved in with him, started to speed up again.
Practicing calligraphy, making protective clothing with the scales on hand, and feeding crows were all fine, but when it came to spiritual power and eyesight, she went from being in the state of "I try hard, but not actively" to "I try hard, and very urgently."
When asked if she had any problems, the little girl replied that nothing had happened.
Don't be too obvious when you look like you have something to do but are too lazy to deal with it.
The most important thing is that not only did she not say anything herself, she also did not allow Tsurumaru Kuninaga to say anything, which made Beiming Island Xingmei think that something had happened to the little girl. He even interrupted his practice in the back mountain and secretly returned to the house after Qingxi thought he went to the back mountain, and secretly observed for a few days.
After discovering that the little girl had finished her lunch, except for the one-hour lunch break, she used it to work hard. Even though he still had doubts in his heart, he felt more or less relieved when he heard that she had not done anything else except training her spiritual power for two hours before going to bed at night.
At least everyone is okay.
As for working hard to improve yourself, then just do it. There's nothing wrong with that.
Time flies, and before we knew it, it is the Cold Dew season again. The vegetables planted in July and August in the yard have grown into a green landscape.
"Aki, are you and Tsurumaru going up the mountain with me today?" Under the eaves, after putting on his shoes, Beiming Island Xingming turned sideways and waited for the two people who were also wearing shoes and asked.
"Yes, Tsurumaru said he found two wild chestnut trees on the mountain. Now is the time for them to be ripe, so Tsurumaru and I are going to pick them." Qingxi replied as she put on her shoes. After tying her shoelaces, she stood up and jumped twice on the spot with the empty backpack. "If the harvest is good, we will arrange sugar-roasted chestnuts, chestnut rice dumplings, chestnut rice, chestnut chicken, chestnut cake... everything.
When the time comes, let Jiro send some to the headquarters, Momoyama, the clinic, and the Rengoku family.
I'm always taken care of by the people there, and sometimes I want to give something back."
The most important reason why she was so generous was that as early as last week, she fed 14 mutant crows to Ubuyashiki Yoya. Including the previous 11, there are now 25 mutant crows in the Demon Slayer Corps. Although there are still 15 short of the 40 that Ubuyashiki Yoya needed originally, if there are no urgent letters that need Jiro's fast flying speed to deliver them urgently, Jiro has already retreated from the first line of mutant crows in the sky to the third line.
In other words, it's pretty empty right now.
It's okay to run errands for her and be an air courier.
"Wild chestnuts." Beimingyu Xingming sighed, which reminded him of the scene when the little girl first came here two years ago and tricked Yang Tai and Xiang into carrying a basket of wild chestnuts she brought out of the tree to sell in the town.
His broad hand moved unconsciously, and touched the chest pocket of the Demon Slayer Corps' uniform under the haori. There was a small amulet made with extra fabric he had found in his spare time. Inside the amulet was nothing but a one-sen coin.
It was pocket money given to him by the children he took in after they worked.
Well, although he was given a lot of pocket money by girls later on, the first one had a different meaning.
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