Chapter 167
That night, except for the injured, the entire Butterfly House was brightly lit, and Qingxi was the same as them.
Everyone was praying that by taking advantage of the fact that Muzan Kibutsuji sent the Twelve Kizuki to investigate the reason why the collective combat power of all the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps had increased, they would lure Muzan Kibutsuji out as well, and then kill him when the other party was caught off guard.
Everyone waited until the middle of the night.
Qingxi was originally waiting at the crow house, but she had been waiting from dusk till late at night and her patience was really running out.
What a joke! Those were all the puppies she raised bit by bit using the ingredients in her gourmet backpack. She would feel heartbroken if one of them died.
She couldn't stay in the house, nor could she sit in the corridor. Relying on the more than twenty amulets stuck on her body, she moved a small stool, holding a lantern fruit and sat at the door of the butterfly house.
To this end, she lit the wisteria incense, and since there were mosquitoes outside, she also lit a string of mosquito repellent incense. Everything was ready, and now she was just waiting for the people who went out to kill ghosts to come back.
The clogs fell into the mud, making a dull sound.
Qingxi turned around and said, "Sister Kanae, why did you come out?"
"What about you, Aki? Why are you sitting here?" Butterfly Kanae asked instead of answering.
Qingxi touched his nose and said, "I can't stay in the house. There haven't been any crows from the front line to send back any news, so I thought I'd come here and wait."
She took out a small stool from her gourmet backpack, placed it next to herself, and asked, "Sister Chanae, do you want to sit?"
"Thank you." Kocho Kanae didn't refuse and sat down next to Qingxi. "Me too."
Then, Qingxi didn't look very happy after getting the answer. She puffed up her cheeks and said dissatisfiedly: "Sister Kanae, you are plagiarizing my words."
"But, Aki, you have already said everything I wanted to say." Kocho Kanae tilted her head and said.
Qingxi: “…”
Humans are visual animals. For ugly people, or people without good looks, the head tilt move can only "kill" people, but for people with good looks, doing this move will only make the viewers feel pleasing to the eye.
Qingxi: "..." Since you are so beautiful, I forgive you.
"Aki." Suddenly, Kanae Kocho's voice became low.
"Hmm?" Qingxi responded in confusion.
"There's something I've wanted to say to you before, but..." Butterfly Kanae looked up at the night sky above her head.
There are no stars tonight, but there is a full moon as bright as a disk.
The silvery moonlight spread out, illuminating everything on the earth that was not obstructed.
Butterfly Kanae let out a long breath and continued, "What I want to say to you is 'thank you'."
Qingxi: “???”
This, she didn't understand even more.
Seeing that the left half of the girl's face had the word "confused" written on it, and the right half had the word "enlightened", Kanae Kocho chuckled softly. She couldn't help but reach out and rub Qingxi's head.
"Shinobu's wrist strength is very weak. Even with the Nichirin sword in hand, she wouldn't be able to chop off a demon's head. You know that well." After laughing, Kanae Kocho stopped smiling and explained. "For this reason, she came up with the idea of extracting the poison from the wisteria flowers and using it to kill demons. Even her skill, Insect Breathing, was designed to serve this purpose."
"It's just that!" Sadness flashed in her eyes when she said this. "Her weak wrist strength and inability to chop off demon heads have always been her weakness. Even though she became a pillar, she is still the weakest among them."
"Tolerating her... She's been fighting like crazy ever since I stepped down from my position as a pillar," said Kocho Kanae. "She's like a dormant volcano.
No, that's not quite right. It should be said that she is a volcano that has suppressed all her anger, waiting for it to erupt completely at a certain time one day.
Later, I discovered that she was experimenting on her own body... She was injecting the extracted wisteria toxin into her body bit by bit."
Kocho Kanae pursed her lips. "If I'm not mistaken, she wants revenge for me. She plans to let Douma eat her if she can't defeat him. It won't be long before he digests her, and the large amount of wisteria poison in her body will spread to every corner of his body... By then, as long as there are demon hunters around, they will have a chance to cut off one of Muzan Kibutsuji's arms..."
"I did try to persuade Shinobu, but the result was that next time, she would find a more secluded place and continue injecting herself with the wisteria poison she extracted herself."
Speaking of this, Kocho Kanae's face was full of helplessness and powerlessness.
"But fortunately, Shinobu stopped this matter later." Kanae Kocho slowly revealed a faint smile on her face.
Qingxi, who had been listening for a long time, immediately responded, "It's because Shinobu-san has developed gourmet cells in her body."
Kocho Kanae nodded. "Because the shackles on her body have been broken, Shinobu's strength has increased. Now she can chop off the heads of demons with the Nichirin Sword in her hand. With this flaw filled, Shinobu has more options for killing demons."
In this way, she gave up her extreme behavior.
Although Shinobu has been injected with a lot of wisteria poison, we still have a way to remove it from her body because the time is relatively short."
In other words, there is still a chance to remedy everything.
"That's not so bad." Qingxi patted his chest. "To be honest, ever since Shinobu's hot temper disappeared after you, Kanae, recovered from your injuries, I was intimidated by her as she gradually became more like you... Although Douma, the Upper 2, isn't the one we're going to kill tonight, I think getting rid of another Upper Rank demon will help Shinobu vent a little."
The two of them sat next to each other at the door of the Butterfly House, chatting about random topics. Suddenly, the sound of birds flapping their wings was heard. Qingxi and Butterfly Kanae looked up at the same time, and saw a crow flying towards them in the sky.
"Successfully killed Upper Rank Five Jade Pot."
As soon as the crow landed on the wall of the butterfly house, it began to cackle.
"Did you lure out Muzan Kibutsuji?"
Qingxi and Kocho Kanae both stood up from sitting on small stools.
Qingxi asked impatiently.
At this time, even though the crow's voice was still unpleasant, it gave them the feeling of listening to some heavenly music.
"No trace of Muzan Kibutsuji has been found."
Qingxi sighed when she heard the answer. She felt a little disappointed. If she didn't get rid of the troublemaker, she would have to support these big eaters with gourmet cells.
"Are there any casualties?" As a doctor, Kanae Kocho asked very responsibly.
"There were no casualties, but there were injuries."
"How about Jiuzhu?" Qingxi asked immediately afterwards.
Except for one unpleasant person, she is also very nervous about other people with whom she has a good relationship.
"Is Xingming injured? How is Kyojuro? Where's my sister Shinobu? Where's Kabutomaru? Where's Muichiro?"
The nine pillars who were returning together not far away: "..."
At this time, they can hear from the girl's words how important they are in her heart.
Beimeiyu, Kyojuro, and Shinobu were not surprised, but why was Kaburamaru the next to Shinobu?
He silently set his gaze on Iguro Obanai and his white snake.
Iguro Obana: “…”
That girl with more than eight hundred tricks in her head definitely said that on purpose.
Compared to Iguro Obanai who was being stared at by a group of people, Tokito Muichiro left the team and walked towards the Butterfly House ahead of everyone else.
"Sister Axi, I'm not."
Rengoku Kyojuro, who was a step slower, said: "..."
Rengoku Kyojuro suddenly felt that sometimes being too popular is not a good thing?
For example, now, he just wants to say a few words to Ah Xi, why is there always someone interrupting him.
However, no matter what Rengoku Kyojuro was thinking, the siblings on the other side had already started chatting.
After walking around Tokito Muichiro and making sure that only his clothes looked a little dusty and that he might have suffered some minor injuries, and that everything else was fine, she asked, "Are you hungry? Do you want to?" She looked up at the sky, which would soon be dawn. "Want an early breakfast?"
"Well, we need to report to the headquarters first." Rengoku Kyojuro interrupted at the right time.
Qingxi was thinking that she had already killed one of the upper-rank demons, so there was no rush to report anything. However, when she thought about the group of people in front of her who were so crazy that they could spin tops by themselves without any whips, she stopped talking.
"In that case," she said, taking two warm sweet potatoes from her gourmet backpack, each weighing one pound, and handing them out. "Use these to fill your stomachs for now. After the meeting, come to Butterfly House for something delicious."
"knew."
"Wait a minute." Seeing that everyone was about to eat the sweet potatoes, Qingxi suddenly stopped them. She took out two wooden basins for washing hands from her food backpack. The basins were filled with clean water. She smiled and said, "Wash your hands before eating."
Nine Pillars: “…”
After being stared at by the girl, Jiuzhu washed his hands and headed towards the headquarters while eating sweet potatoes to fill his stomach.
When the nine people arrived, Ubuyashiki Yoya had not rested all night and had been waiting for his children to arrive in Hiroma.
The group of ten talked about the Upper Five today and the failure to lure out Muzan Kibutsuji until dawn.
After the meeting, Ubuyashiki Yoya asked them to stay at the headquarters for breakfast, but all nine of them declined.
"Aki has already prepared everything for us," explained Shinobu Kocho.
Ubuyashiki Kōya suddenly understood. He smiled and said, "In that case, you can go ahead."
After leaving the headquarters, the nine people went straight to the crow house.
Seeing that Kiyoki was too busy to handle the job alone, Kanzaki Aoi pulled Kurihana Ryokanao, as well as Kiyoshi Terauchi, Sumi Nakahara, and Naho Takata, who had recently been assigned to work at Butterfly House, to come to the kitchen to help.
"Sister Axi, the nine pillars are coming." Terauchi Kiyoshi, who was assigned to come out to see if anyone was coming, turned around and ran back the moment he saw them.
"Well, are they all here?" Qingxi, who was busy with her work, lowered her head and repeated her words. After she finished processing the ingredients in her hands, she looked up, "In that case, let's take all the dishes out... The portions are a bit heavy, is that okay with you?"
"We will be very careful, just leave it to us." Nakahara Sumire, who had low double ponytails, Takada Naho, who had low double braids, and Terauchi Kiyoshi puffed out their chests to guarantee.
"Yeah, so good, so good." Qingxi was in a very good mood after finally not being the youngest in the butterfly house. "In that case, I'll give you some special treatment later... There won't be any for others."
When Xiaoqing, Xiaocheng and Xiaocaisui heard that they were going to get special treatment, little stars twinkled in their big black eyes.
"Is it okay?" After being happy, Naho asked hesitantly.
"Sure." Qingxi said. "The kitchen is also on fire right now, right?
If you want to eat something, you can order one each. If not, I will make it myself."
The three little girls looked at each other, and finally they seemed to think that if each of them ordered a meal, it would disturb Qingxi too much, so they chose to let Qingxi cook by herself.
The three little girls were already full of enthusiasm when they came to help. Now when they heard that there was a reward, they all had a little anticipation in their hearts.
Although they had just met Sister Axi today, they had heard about her legend in Butterfly House from their predecessors. She was a person who was particularly tolerant to girls and children, but was particularly cruel to those disobedient patients.
Now, after getting along with each other, the three of them also firmly believe in those "legends".
So, when Jiuzhu came to the dining area in the Crow House, he saw several long and narrow tables merged together in the room, and three young girls came over pushing a small wooden cart full of food.
As one delicious dish after another, generous in portion and fragrant in aroma, was served, everyone's appetite was aroused.
"I've cooked rice and porridge here. You can have whatever you like." After breakfast was ready, Qingxi came over from the kitchen and said to everyone, "The dishes in front of Xingming are all vegetarian. You can eat them without worry."
"Aki, don't you want to eat with us?" Rengoku Kyojuro heard that the other party seemed to have something else to do, so he couldn't help but ask.
"No, you guys eat." Qingxi shook his head, "I have something to do in the kitchen. Besides, the kitchen is full of smoke and fire since early in the morning. I am actually full just by smelling the aroma.
I'll come back later."
After saying this and saying goodbye to the nine people, Qingxi left.
Back in the kitchen, she rolled up her sleeves and steamed some steamed buns with the remaining ingredients in the kitchen, and spread some egg pancakes in the pot. Originally, she wanted to make a whole pancake, but she didn't have the right tools, so the pancake became an egg pancake. After that, she put fried dough sticks, peanuts, bacon, sausage, and poached eggs on the fried egg pancakes, and finally wrapped them one by one with egg pancakes. She made a pot of fried buns, a few roujiamo, and a pot of salty and sweet rice dumplings. Even with these, there was more than enough for the three little ones, Kanzaki Aoi, and Lihua Luo Kanai to eat.
So, when the sky outside was completely bright, the other medical staff in the Butterfly House got up to greet the new day's work and found that today's breakfast was not only extremely delicious, but also very varied. For some of them, they didn't even know how to eat them.
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