Chapter 124
"Brother, what is that?"
In the Rengoku house, Rengoku Chijuro, who was passing by his brother's room along the corridor, stopped and his eyes fell on the two handkerchiefs spread out on the coffee table.
Rengoku Kyojuro was about to put them all away when his hand paused.
I can't hide it anymore.
Because Chijuro had already walked in.
Sitting down next to his elder brother, Rengoku Chijuro looked at the two handkerchiefs curiously. After seeing the patterns embroidered on them clearly, he was stunned: "Brother, this was embroidered by...Aki?"
It was impossible for a shop on the street to sell handkerchiefs embroidered with patterns of himself and his brother, and he had never seen his mother embroider such a pattern. After filtering through the people he knew, Senjuro quickly locked on one person.
Someone who might be often mentioned by the elder brother.
Rengoku Kyojuro hummed vaguely. Between keeping it all for himself and returning Senjuro's piece to him, he chose the latter.
He pointed to the handkerchief embroidered with two owls and said, "This is a gift from Ah-To."
"Is it for me?" Rengoku Chijuro was overjoyed. He carefully took the handkerchief and then looked at his brother's. "Both pieces are embroidered with me and my brother."
The only difference is that one piece looks like they did when they were little, and the other piece has completely transformed into an owl.
If you really ask him to say what the two have in common, it would probably be good milk.
Looking at the picture, Rengoku Chijuro began to doubt, were he and his brother really so cute when they were young?
If he had been exposed to modern information, he would have known that Qingxi did not draw them based on real people when she was making the draft. She drew a Q version, so both of them looked particularly round all over.
At his brother's suggestion, Rengoku Chijuro turned the handkerchief over and saw that the pattern on the back was still there. He was happy but also wanted to collect it, but immediately, he thought of something.
He carefully put the handkerchief away, then looked at his brother with a strange expression, "When did you receive Sister Axi's handkerchief?"
Rengoku Kyojuro's body stiffened, and his eyes were vague as he was not good at lying.
Seeing his elder brother like this, Rengoku Chijuro was well aware of it. His face fell instantly and he said darkly, "Brother, if I hadn't seen it this time, you wouldn't have given me the handkerchief that Sister Axi gave me, right?"
Rengoku Kyojuro: “…”
Rengoku Chijuro continued: "Brother, you want to take all the gift that Sister Axi gave me!"
Rengoku Kyojuro: “…”
Rengoku Chijuro bravely jumped up and said, "This is really too much."
"So, these two handkerchiefs were given to you by Sister Axi on the day you returned from your mission, brother." Rengoku Chijuro asked after the two brothers had a fight where they failed to suppress the enemy and were killed in return.
"If you count the days, it was more than two months ago." At this point, Rengoku Chijuro couldn't help but want to complain to his brother again, "Sister Axi has already gone back to Mr. Beimingyu, and I didn't even miss the chance to thank her in person. It was really rude... Brother, you really..."
Rengoku Kyojuro's hair drooped, "Umm, sorry, Chijuro."
"Forget it." Rengoku Chijuro sighed.
He could see that his brother was warm, kind, and helpful. He was good in every way except when it came to Sister Axi... It seemed as if he almost put the words "mine" on her like a label.
"I didn't know my brother could be such a possessive person." Rengoku Chijuro muttered.
"Hmm, is it that obvious?" Rengoku Kyojuro felt his cheeks a little hot. He coughed lightly and asked in a low voice.
Rengoku Chijuro nodded without saying anything.
Where is it not obvious?
Anyone with eyes can see it.
Why are you the only one who didn't notice it, brother?
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"Then, will Aki hate me like this?" Rengoku Kyojuro asked a soul-searching question.
However, what responded to him was another helpless sigh from Rengoku Chijuro.
Chijuro was depressed, Chijuro was hurt, Chijuro was suffocated.
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Why should I let a little kid like me explore the relationship issues between my brother and sister?
"So, what kind of state do you feel Sister Axi is in every time she's with you? Repulsive? Pressured? Nervous? Or relaxed and happy?"
Rengoku Kyojuro tilted his head and thought for a moment, "It should be easy, because Aki always smiles."
"That's good, isn't it? But, speaking of which, shouldn't you start saving all the money you earn from killing demons? Otherwise, I feel like your wife won't be able to save enough."
Not wanting to discuss his relationship with Sister Aki with his brother anymore, Rengoku Chijuro stood up and prepared to leave. At the last minute, in case the other party wanted to recruit people, he quickly dropped the topic. He thought that the issue of saving money for a wife would probably make his brother feel embarrassed for a while.
Rengoku Kyojuro was stunned as he watched his brother leave. Obviously, he was stunned by the other party's words "wife".
Another person who was also stunned was Rengoku Makijuro, who did not hear the whole story and only heard the last words of his two sons.
Rengoku Makijuro felt that he was a little confused.
There was one thing he didn't quite understand: did young people nowadays start saving up so early?
Think about what you were doing before you met Ruka. How did you spend your monthly salary?
Well, all that money went to my stomach.
Rengoku Makijuro: I’ve been outdone, I’ve been outdone.
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That night.
A huge black shadow was speeding across the sky. If it slowed down a little, people would be able to see that it was a huge black crow.
How big is it?
It is so big that it can carry two minors on its back.
The giant crow carried two figures that were relatively weak compared to it through the mountains and forests below, flew over the lake, and finally landed slowly near a village surrounded by mountains.
"General, I'll carry you down."
Smelling the bloody smell in the air, which could be smelled even though they were about ten meters away from the village, Yagen Toushirou, dressed in his battle uniform, unbuckled his seat belt and said to the girl sitting in front of him with a frown.
After unbuckling his seatbelt, he walked to the girl on the narrow edge of the giant crow's back as if it were flat ground. After she unbuckled her seatbelt, he stretched out his arms to pick her up and jumped lightly into the air. When he fell due to the inertia of his body, he landed safely on the ground.
Putting the girl, dressed in modern clothes with long sleeves, long pants, and boots, down, he hesitated as he looked towards the village with his purple eyes. "General, are you really okay? If we can smell blood at this distance, everyone in the village is probably dead. We might even see something worse."
Qingxi took the first aid kit out of the gourmet backpack and put it on his back, and gave another first aid kit to Yagen Toushirou.
"No problem," she said in a calm voice.
She grinned at the still worried black-haired boy, "I used to be a gourmet hunter. How do you think I deal with those who don't put in the effort and just want to pick the fruits that others have worked hard to harvest?"
Why not just kill them when you see them now? Are you going to wait until the next time you meet them and give them a chance to understand you, only to be killed by them instead?
After confirming that his general really had no adverse reaction to the smell of blood in the air and was not pretending, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"In that case, let's go in," he said.
With Yagen Toushirou leading the way, Qingxi, who no longer needed to stand on a small stool to perform surgery, trotted behind him.
Two people walked in from the entrance of the village and went into several houses in succession, but they were all empty.
"General, let's go to the center of the village," suggested Yagen Toushirou.
Qingxi nodded. "In a situation like this, you don't need to ask me what to do outside the pharmaceutical research. Just act according to your own experience. I'll listen to you."
Yagen Toushirou was shocked by the girl's words, as if she were entrusting her life to him. However, he immediately suppressed his expression. Suddenly, he knelt on one knee, lowered his head slightly, and said in a gesture of submission, "Yes, I will protect the general even if it costs my life."
Qingxi, who had never considered that the black-haired boy beside her would cause trouble like Tsurumaru Kuninaga, was so frightened that she stepped back repeatedly like a kitten with its fur standing on end. After she calmed down, she replied dryly, "Yes, yes, there's no need to be like this... Besides, why risk your life? Isn't it enough for everyone to be fine?"
In order to survive, when she encountered danger that she could not bear, all she thought about was how to escape. But what was going on with the knife in front of her? Was she thinking about risking her life?
Pulling the black-haired boy up, she avoided the topic and said, "Let's go and see if there are any survivors."
Yaogen Toushirou, who was pulled up by the girl, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Yes, I know."
The two continued to move forward until they reached the center of the village without encountering any danger, but here they saw the bodies of the villagers.
A large number of them were concentrated, and it seemed as if the ghosts had gathered all the people in the village here and slaughtered them.
Qingxi, holding a lantern fruit, walked slowly with Yagen Toushirou among the corpses lying on the ground.
Every time they passed a corpse, the two would stop to check if they were still breathing. However, from their silence, it was clear that they had not found a single living person among the corpses since they arrived.
"general."
When Yagen Toushirou's voice sounded, Qingxi was startled, then he walked over quickly with a lantern.
"What happened? Have you found any survivors?" she asked.
Yagen Toushirou shook his head. He pointed at the male corpse on the ground, which only had the upper body and the lower body was nowhere to be found. "No, it's a member of the Demon Slayer Corps."
Qingxi pursed her lips and suddenly opened her eyes of clairvoyance. In just a moment, the world she saw changed.
Looking at the soul that was still leaving a message next to the corpse, she said, "I'm sorry, because there were only two of us who arrived here first, we had to choose to save people first and couldn't collect your body right away.
Do you know if there's anyone alive here?"
Listening to the girl's long words, the young soul's face showed astonishment, but he still led them to find three people who were still breathing among these dead and cold bodies.
After performing first aid measures such as stopping the bleeding and bandaging the three people, Kiyoki and Yagen Toushirou were still busy. The weather was hot in the summer, and the bodies of people would quickly start to decay after death. They had to carry out the bodies of the Demon Slayer Corps before the smell became strong, and then wait for the Anbu members to arrive, and they would take them to the cemetery and bury them together.
Qingxi wasn't quite sure what the people from the Inu department would do with the bodies of the remaining villagers, but she guessed they would contact the higher-ups at the police station, and then either the Inu department would directly handle the cremation, or they would send someone over to deal with it. But she estimated that they would cremate the people killed by the ghosts, and then find some kind of food poisoning or infectious disease to mention in a small corner of the newspaper and that would be the end of it.
What? Why not mention this in more detail?
Of course, the government did not want to cause a sensation by announcing to all Japanese people that there were man-eating ghosts in their country and a group of unknown heroes who killed ghosts, thus making everyone feel that the government was doing nothing in this matter.
After doing all this, Qingxi and Yaogen Toushirou were covered in blood.
Just as the sky was beginning to turn pale, footsteps were heard at the entrance of the village.
Led by Jiao Ya, a dozen people came over with torches. When they saw two people sitting near the corpse from a distance, they were so scared that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests.
Didn’t they say the ghost had been dealt with?
What about the two in front? Did they come later? And so on. Questions popped up in my mind one by one.
It was not until the other party revealed their identity and one of the Hidden Department members who came with them actually knew them that a group of Hidden Department members who had no talent for killing ghosts breathed a sigh of relief.
"Only those three people survived in the entire village. We have given them simple bandages and stopped the bleeding. The rest need to be sent to the nearest clinic for more precise treatment.
The five bodies over there are members of the Demon Slayer Corps. We have sewed the broken parts back together, but please be careful when you bring them back.
The remaining people who haven't moved are probably from the village here. This is roughly the situation."
"Sorry to bother Mr. Yaken and Ms. Aki. Leave the rest of the matter to us. You..." The Anbu staff member who was assigned to take over paused.
Yagen Toushirou replied, "We are going back now."
Go back? How?
A big question mark appeared on the forehead of the Anbu member, until he saw the two people riding on a huge black crow, and flew to the horizon in just a blink of an eye, he opened his mouth belatedly and said, "That, that's a crow? It's too big." No matter how the Anbu member spoke in a choppy voice, Kiyokuni and Yagen Toushirou had already been carried by Jiro to fly towards the Beiming Island house.
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