Chapter 100
After lunch, Sizhu prepared to leave.
Qingxi pulled Rengoku Kyojuro and Rengoku Chijuro over.
These people either knew or were half-knowing that she had a gourmet backpack, so she didn't care about taking things out.
"The puffer whale wine that Madam Ruhue drank before should be almost finished. This time, try this wine. It is made of natural ingredients and is nutritious." After she finished speaking, Rengoku Kyojuro brought the wine over, but immediately, the bottle of wine slipped out of his hands again. He turned around and saw that the bottle of wine was already in Rengoku Kyojuro's hands, and he kept it well.
Qingxi continued, "Sweet potatoes, if you want to eat them, just roast them yourself."
The two brothers were easy to please, and two baskets of sweet potatoes were enough to make their eyes sparkle with joy.
"Sister Kanae, here are two kilograms of mixed candies. Please distribute them to the medical staff here later."
When Tsurumaru Kuninaga heard the number two kilograms, he understood it immediately.
It was the candy candy from the fairy wands they put out on the porch on New Year's Eve.
After delivering the things, Qingxi's gaze reluctantly fell on Uzui Tengen. When the other party looked at her with a superior look, she was about to hand the bag over to him, but the next moment she threw it at him.
"I saw Sister Hinazuru and the others like to eat rice balls made of strawberry rice. Here are about 20 kilograms of it. Cook it for them and eat it!" His tone was fierce and full of momentum.
At least during that period, every day after they came to borrow the stove, they would think of leaving her some food, snacks, or candies. Apart from the initial unpleasantness, everyone got along well later. So, since everyone else had given gifts, there was no reason to leave them out.
However, the other party just reached out and caught the cloth bag that was thrown at his face.
Qingxi: ...This person, I really can't like him at all...
After sending the people here off, she went to Yagen Toushirou's house, where she left him some long-lasting and delicious snacks and dried meat. Then, she and Tsurumaru Kuninaga followed Gyomei to leave on the island of grief.
Of course, she, with her small arms and legs, did not walk with them.
She called Jiro, climbed onto its back, sat on the homemade chair, fastened her seat belt, and walked on the empty road.
Not surprisingly, everyone was stunned when they saw people flying in the sky, especially those carried by crows.
"Brother, brother, I am not seeing things, Jiro can actually carry Sister Aki and fly in the sky." Rengoku Chijuro grabbed his brother's hand and said excitedly.
Rengoku Kyojuro's face also showed eagerness to try, "Hmm, that's awesome, Jiro, can you take me to the sky to have a look?"
"That might be a little difficult," Tsurumaru Kuninaga interrupted his reverie. "Jiro can carry the Master because her current weight is just within its carrying capacity. It wouldn't be able to carry anyone heavier."
"Then I should be able to do it." Rengoku Chijuro asked excitedly.
Although he is a boy, his weight is about the same as Sister Aki, so Jiro should be able to carry him.
Compared to his brother's excitement, Rengoku Kyojuro looked very lost. Even the two strands of hair on his head that had always stood up were now listless and wilted.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga comforted him: "Don't be upset, think positively. Jiro's body is still growing. Maybe in another year or two, when it grows bigger, it will be able to carry you."
"Can Jiro still grow up?" Rengoku Kyojuro asked in surprise.
"Of all the crows, it's the one that stays with its owner the longest, eats the most, and is also the largest among all the crows.
Given its current size, it's probably the largest bird in the world."
Seeing that the people in the sky were almost just a small black dot, Tsurumaru Kuninaga waved at them and reminded Beimingyu Xingming, and the two of them went back to Beimingyu's residence.
In the following time, Qingxi's daily life went on as usual.
That night, when Qingxi came back from the bathroom, a shadow fell over her head, blocking her sight.
When the black shadow fell under the eaves, Qingxi could see clearly what it was in the moonlight.
"Jiro?" she asked suspiciously.
He turned and stood facing outwards, asking doubtfully, "Why are you flying outside so late at night instead of sleeping?"
"We found a seriously injured Demon Slayer. The Anbu personnel are still a long way from the injured person's location." Jiro said in a hoarse voice.
Qingxi yawned and felt much more sleepy after hearing this. She thought for a moment, took a haori from her gourmet backpack, put it on, tied her loose hair with a rope at the back, quickly put on her shoes, and climbed onto Jiro's back. She said, "Where is it? Take me there."
Jiro spread his wings and flapped them, and the next moment the whole crow flew into the sky and headed rapidly in a certain direction.
Hearing the noise, Tsurumaru Kuninaga came over with the Sun Blade in hand to check the situation and stretched out his hand towards the sky.
"hiss--"
He grabbed his hair with a headache, "Are you in a hurry for a few minutes? Can't you wait for me if something happens? If something happens to the master, Yaoyan will definitely use his original body to stab me.
Oh, now besides being wary of ghosts running into the house at night, do we also have to be wary of the animals in the house?
Ah! It’s really hard. "
Qingxi didn't know that this would happen after she let Jiro carry her. The spring night was chilly, and she still felt cold even though she wrapped herself tightly in the haori. After thinking about it, she simply leaned forward and leaned against Jiro's back. With Jiro's feathers cushioning her body, she could avoid being hit by the cold wind and her face would be less likely to be bitten by the wind.
Jiro soon landed in a forest carrying Qingxi. The forest was dense with trees. Qingxi sat up straight again and looked in the direction Jiro pointed. She could vaguely see a pitch-black lump on the ground.
She took out the fragrant wisteria perfume and sprayed it on Jiro, then sprayed it on herself. After getting down, she sprayed it around her again. Finally, she picked up the lantern fruit and slowly walked towards the direction of the black shadow.
The black space gradually became clearer as the warm light slowly approached.
The other person was lying face down on the ground, Qingxi couldn't see his face, but from the fact that he was wearing the Demon Slayer Corps uniform, it was certain that he was a demon hunter.
Without further hesitation, she strode forward, and after placing the lantern fruit a little further away, she struggled to turn the person on the ground over.
Seeing the other person's face, Qingxi was stunned for a moment, then gently touched the other person's face, "Mr. Watanabe, Mr. Watanabe."
Watanabe Ryu, who was seriously injured and exhausted, began to lose consciousness after killing a ghost. However, just when he thought he was about to faint, the girl's concerned voice rang out. At first, he thought that he had not killed the ghost that used poison. He tightened his hand holding the Nichirin Sword in his right hand, and a breath gradually gathered in his chest. He struggled to open his eyelids that were almost stuck together.
...The ghost hasn't been dealt with yet, I can't just faint like this.
We can't let him escape... That demon is very powerful, perhaps even approaching the strength of a lower-rank demon... If he escapes, more of our fellow demon slayers will surely die...
"Mr. Watanabe, how are you?"
"Ah...Xi...Miss?" Watanabe Ryu would never have thought that what he saw when he opened his eyes was not a ghost but the little girl in the clinic with whom he had had a brief contact.
The breath that was lifted in his chest was released, and Watanabe Ryu almost lay down with his eyes closed. "Why are you here alone?"
His eyes fell on the single garment beneath her haori, but he immediately looked away and asked with difficulty, "Who took you out during your rest time?"
Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party was conscious and still remembered him.
Laying the man flat on the ground, she unbuttoned his uniform and, to his surprise, pulled out a medical kit and began treating his injuries. She explained, "Jiro discovered your situation while flying in the sky. The Anbu personnel were still some distance away, and he was worried they wouldn't have enough time to get here, so he came to inform me."
After listening to Qingxi's words, Watanabe Ryu finally paid some attention to look at the surrounding situation. Then he smelled the extremely strong fragrance of wisteria flowers and a... crow that was almost half the size of an adult, a crow?
Watanabe Ryu suspected that everything he saw was the result of the poison in his body.
A crow this big is outrageous.
It wasn't two years ago when he was tasked with protecting Dr. Ueno and the little girl and went to the prison to use ghosts as experimental subjects... How could he have encountered such a bizarre thing?
And the medical kit that suddenly appeared...
Therefore, everything in front of me was definitely an illusion caused by being too deeply poisoned.
Sensing the stiffness in her subordinate's muscles, Qingxi knew he didn't believe her. She took the time to touch his head comfortingly, "Don't worry, leave the rest to me. If you're tired, you can close your eyes. I promise you, when you wake up, Mr. Watanabe will be well rested in the house."
Watanabe Ryu still couldn't calm down. Putting aside the question of whether the person before him was just an illusion or a real person, they were now in the mountains. He had dealt with the ghost, but there were other wild animals in the mountains. If she encountered one, how would a little girl like her deal with it? She wondered if the person had been taken away.
But he was really too tired, and at this time there were people he knew around him to help him, so in the end Watanabe Ryu couldn't hold on any longer and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Qingxi stopped the bleeding from Watanabe's wounds, and after realizing that he was poisoned, he took out some milk and poured it into his mouth.
Although we don't know what kind of poison Watanabe Ryu was infected with, it is common sense that drinking more milk can help detoxify certain poisons.
Fortunately, the other person just fell asleep and did not faint, and he was able to swallow the milk when it was fed to his mouth.
After doing this, she took out a bandage from the medical kit and wrapped it around his body. Half an hour had passed after she completed these first aid measures.
The members of the Hidden Blade who came to look for someone had not arrived yet. After covering Watanabe Ryu who was lying on the ground with a blanket, Qingxi, who had nothing to do next, sat on the lid of the medical box. Jiro stood behind her, and the soft feathers on his chest covered half of Qingxi's body, blocking a lot of wind for her.
When several members of the Hidden Department followed the Crow, they saw from afar the combination of a small child and a huge bird in the dark mountains, and their hearts couldn't help but skip a beat.
First reaction: ghost.
Second reaction: The message is wrong, there are not just one ghost here, but two ghosts.
Third reaction: Something happened to Mr. Watanabe.
Fourth reaction: ...
There was no fourth reaction because the crow that led them, belonging to Mr. Watanabe, had already flapped its wings and flew away.
Crows can discern the situation over there better than humans, so the crow quickly recognized who was in front of it.
"Ashi."
"Save Watanabe Ryu."
The sound of crows was cawing.
Qingxi didn't recognize the crow perched on the branch above her, but she explained to it anyway, "I've already given first aid to Mr. Watanabe's injuries. Have the Anbu personnel arrived yet? Next, we need them to take Mr. Watanabe to the nearest clinic or Wisteria House for proper care of his injuries."
As the few people slowly approached, the conversation between the man and the crow also fell into the ears of the hidden team members.
"Is that Miss Ashi?"
Some of them had sent the wounded to the clinic, oh, which is now the Butterfly House. It was at this time that he also mustered up the courage to ask.
"It's me." Qingxi responded immediately when he heard someone's voice.
"Is he from the Hidden Department? Mr. Watanabe is here, please take him away." Qingxi said.
The Anbu members, certain they were their own, felt relieved. Without further hesitation, they walked towards the light source. Seeing the three people wearing haori with lingerie underneath, they all averted their gazes. The man who had spoken first said, "Leave this to us. But how are you going back, Miss Aki?"
No, he actually wanted to ask how the other party got here, but the question he asked changed its meaning as soon as he spoke.
"As for me," she stood up, holding the lantern fruit and patting Jiro on the back. As Jiro's body bent upward in cooperation, she climbed onto the leather seat fixed to its back and sat down. After taking all the safety measures, she waved to the three of them and said, "Fly back."
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