Chapter 178
In the early morning of winter, the white mist is like a veil, blocking people's view of the surroundings.
At the Beiming Island house, Qingxi, who had been sitting there all night, wanted to stand up and move his body, and at the same time, go outside to take a look.
However, she only moved a little, and her whole body froze there. After a while, she lost her balance, fell forward, and then with a loud bang, she hit the tatami face to face.
Jiang Xue Sahimonica and Suzumaru Tsuneji, who had been sitting in the house all night, were stunned. They had never expected such a thing to happen. However, when they reacted and wanted to lend a hand to help, they found it was too late.
"Master, are you okay?" asked Suzumaru Tsuneji, who did not make any sound that would embarrass the girl even after seeing such a funny and weird thing.
Although he really wanted to see the expressions of the two people in the room who saw him in such a miserable state, Qingxi could only say sorry to himself.
Because she can't move now.
Suzumaru Tsuneji, who didn't get a response, was thinking about something in his mind.
Should I go and help the Shinsengumi now?
Fortunately, he didn't need to answer this question himself, because the girl who had not responded to him before finally spoke up.
"Please, turn me over, I'm numb."
The air was stagnant for a moment. Just when Qingxi was awkwardly trying to scratch the floor with her numb toes, the man chuckled softly. Then, she felt a pair of hands lifting her up, turning her over, and finally helping her lie face up in the quilt.
"Thanks."
Qingxi stayed in the quilt for a long time, and only came out after she felt her hands and feet were no longer numb.
She was still wearing all her clothes, so there was no need for them to go out.
She walked out of the house and stood in the corridor, wanting to see if the crow had brought back any news.
Maybe it was because they had a tacit understanding, or maybe it was because it was daybreak. Even though it was snowing, it was a cloudy day and the ghosts were preparing to go back to their own nests to rest. Finally, a crow flew to Beimingyu's house and brought her news.
"Rock Pillar Gyoumei Kuroshima, Flame Pillar Rengoku Kyojuro, Insect Pillar Kocho Shinobu is seriously injured, Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Horikawa Kunihiro are moderately injured, Yagen Toushirou and Daikurigara are slightly injured."
Boom!!!
The news that Jiao Ya brought back was definitely not good news for Qingxi.
This is nothing short of a disaster.
"How could this happen? It's just an upper-rank demon, why are so many people injured?" she asked?
The crow gave its answer.
"Not one upper-rank demon, but three."
hiss--
Qingxi gasped.
If this was the answer, and Xing Ming and the others were all so badly injured, she could accept it... What the hell!!!
Who can accept that half of the people you know suddenly get hurt?
She could imagine the complicated feelings that Ubuyashiki Yoya felt when he learned that four-ninths of his nine children would be temporarily removed.
There was no time to think about anything else here, so Qingxi asked Jiang Xue Sawamonji and Suzumaru Tsuneji to go back and pack their luggage.
All the adults in the family have gone to the butterfly house to lie down, so why is she still staying here alone with two knives?
Naturally, I followed him.
The only thing that made her feel a little regretful was that she had only stayed with the Sword Man for two or three days after returning.
It was a pity, but Qingxi checked the house again. After making sure there was no problem, he locked the door and hurried to the Butterfly House.
Qingxi rushed all the way, and this time, it can be said that he was risking his life to rush here.
When she arrived at the ward on the first floor of Butterfly House, the lightly injured patients there had been moved to the second floor, and the room was also crowded and messy.
Qingxi was leaning against the wall, breathing heavily, but his pair of blue eyes kept scanning the room.
Beimeijima Gyomei, Rengoku Kyojuro, and Kocho Shinobu were lying unconscious on the hospital beds. The slightly injured Yagen Toushirou, Kocho Kanae, and several other doctors were treating them respectively. Only Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Horikawa Kunihiro, and Ohkurigara were not seen here.
Noticing the girl's arrival and her movements, the Wind Pillar Fushigawa Shima, who arrived a while before her, said in a gruff voice, "When your people were sent here before, Yagen Toushirou directly asked the Anbu personnel to carry them to the Crow House. He said that only you can heal them."
Knowing the location of the three people, Qingxi glanced at the three people on the hospital bed. At this moment, she didn't care about their bad temper towards everyone. She grabbed Fushigawa Shiya's hand and said, "I'm going to the crow house. If there is anything here, please send someone to inform me."
Feeling the gravity coming from the girl's grasp on his arm, knowing that she wasn't as calm as she appeared to be, Fuzugawa Shiya sighed, "I see. If you have something to do, leave quickly."
With the other party's assurance, Qingxi looked at the ward again, then turned and ran towards the crow house.
She was very worried about Xingming, Kyojuro and Shinobu, but she also understood that there were enough people to treat the disease here, and someone needed her more now.
She ran to the Crow House, and as if they were waiting there, the three youngest members of the Butterfly House stood there and waved at her.
"Sister Aki." Takada Naho waved at them, "This way."
With Takata Naho's guidance, Qingxi didn't even have to find someone to ask Tsurumaru Kuninaga which room they were in.
Qingxi, whose legs were weak from running, finally breathed a sigh of relief when she stepped into the house. However, the result was that she stumbled. If the two young men who had been following her had not intervened in time and each of them held her arm, she would have crushed the two injured patients in the house and seriously injured them.
"Thanks."
After thanking Jiang Xue Sahimonji and Suzumaru Tsuneji, Qingxi turned his gaze to the three little ones in the Butterfly House.
"Leave this to me." After a pause, she added, "If possible, could you please go to the kitchen and prepare some breakfast? When Tsurumaru and Horikawa get better, we can all eat together."
The three little ones didn't quite understand what Qingxi meant, but as medical personnel, they still needed to explain some things to her.
"We've tried many ways to treat the wounds on Sister Aki, Mr. Tsurumaru, and Mr. Horikawa, but the bleeding won't stop." Nakahara Cheng said worriedly with a frown.
Terauchi Kiyoshi put his hands on his hips and said, "Besides, they don't cooperate with us at all."
Knowing that the three people here were all retainers of Qingxi, Terauchi Qing did not hesitate to complain. "Just like those injured ghost hunters in the Butterfly House."
After confirming that the two people who had been slandered were still conscious, she finally calmed down, and at the same time, she was in the mood to argue with the two people who had slandered her.
You have been complained about by a kid who is who knows how many times younger than you. What are you thinking at this moment?
Tsurumaru Kuninaga: Ohh ...
Horikawa Kunhiro:......
Mahakurikara turned his head to one side: I am not interested in you.
Unable to bear the large whimpering monster in front of her, Qingxi's mouth twitched. She rolled up her sleeves and said to the three little ones seriously, as if she was ready to teach them a lesson: "Thank you very much, you did a great job. Leave the rest to me."
The three little ones, realizing they had found the head of the naughty kid's family, nodded heavily, then said goodbye to everyone and ran to the kitchen to do another task that Qingxi had asked them to do.
"Okay, everyone has left." Qingxi looked around at the people in the room, then said to Dajulijialuo: "Now it's time for my aunt's hand-in. Mr. Dajuli, please teach me."
She smiled at the two injured patients lying on the tatami and said, "I still say the same thing. I hope I won't turn your hands into two kitchen knives."
This theory is not impossible.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga couldn't help but recall a time when he went to Man'ya one day and heard a piece of gossip there.
It is said that a certain Shinsengumi has extremely strong spiritual power, and his Honmaru is almost complete. Moreover, because of his strong personal management and business abilities, he and the Honmaru he carries are registered with the Government of Time.
There is only one thing, if he travels with the expeditionary team and encounters a powerful Time Traveler Army, the swordsman beside him will be seriously injured and will not be able to use spiritual power to repair his sword on the battlefield.
As for how bad it is, it's probably like the knife can be shaped into a discus or a lump of iron.
The two people who experienced the sword being refined by a Shinsengumi on the battlefield that day were Mikazuki Munechika and Onimaru Kuninaga.
There is a high probability that two out of the five swordsmen in the world will be selected. In a sense, Mikazuki Munechika really deserves to be the poster boy for various propaganda of the government of time.
As for Onimaru Kunitsuna, Tsurumaru Kuninaga felt that he might have been taken along.
However, today, this experience is about to happen to him. Tsurumaru Kuninaga said that if he had a choice, he actually didn't want this "experience card" at all.
However, there are no ifs.
Fortunately, Qingxi, who was led by Daijuligara to feel the uniform output of spiritual power, did not fail the first time. This time, her spiritual power was obediently controlled by her until she completely healed the wounds on the three people.
After finishing the manual intervention for the three people, Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief.
What she didn't know was that when she lowered her head and breathed a sigh of relief, Tsurumaru Kuninaga was also patting his chest and breathing a sigh of relief in his heart. His master knew it very well, and he was also worried that his own body would be transformed into the various styles of kitchen knives she mentioned.
But his master held on.
A silver lining in this misfortune...
The recovered Tsurumaru Kuninaga was no longer the wounded man with his battle uniform torn here and there. With a somersault, he changed from lying down to sitting up.
After making sure that everyone else was fine, Qingxi, feeling that all the spiritual power in his body had been drained, chose to lie down on the tatami.
But before she could lie down completely, she was embraced in a warm embrace.
Before she could react, Tsurumaru Kuninaga held her up like he used to hold a child and said, "Practicing with the sword without any auxiliary tools like the hand-in-pond will consume more spiritual energy of the Shinsengumi. Plus, this is your first time practicing with the sword, and you struck out three times in a row. You must be feeling very uncomfortable right now.
Come on, I'll carry you to the rest room where we used to rest."
As a frequent visitor to the Crow House, even if Qingxi did not live here for a while, someone would keep the house she originally lived in for her.
After Horikawa Kunihiro laid the mattress, Tsurumaru Kuninaga took off the haori she was wearing, laid it flat, and finally covered her with a thick winter quilt.
"If you're sleepy, it's okay to take a nap first." He patted her forehead and said with a smile.
Qingxi, who hadn't slept all night, yawned and blinked, trying to make her dry eyes feel comfortable.
"Not bad," she said. "But since you look so energetic, let's talk about what happened yesterday."
By the way, while they were chatting, over at the Butterfly House, the injuries of the three seriously injured people had been treated by Sister Kanae and the others.
"If I hadn't lost my memory, I would have given you a box of amulets. How could so many of you have sustained such severe injuries?"
As soon as Tsurumaru Kuninaga heard this, he knew that the Shinsengumi of their family was now settling scores.
Qingxi added, "Even though, after going to support them, we found that there were three of them, no, it should be said that there were three upper-rank demons."
"It's not what you think, Master." Tsurumaru Kuninaga corrected, "Although there were three Upper Rank Demons, when Horikawa Kunihiro and I arrived, Beiming Island was indeed facing only one Upper Rank Demon."
The soft mattress makes one's will become unstable as soon as they lie on it. Qingxi tried to hold back her yawns but failed. She yawned three times in a row. When she was about to yawn for the fourth time, she stopped halfway.
Her attention was drawn to the words of the white-haired young man, "Are you trying to say that they set a trap for you?"
"What else?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga crossed his hands behind his head and casually lay down beside her. "They didn't come out when we arrived, but they showed up after Rengoku Kyojuro and Kocho Shinobu arrived. I can't think of any other reason except that they planned to cut down the main force of the Demon Slayer Corps like cutting leeks first."
He leaned sideways, his hand supporting his head. His golden eyes met the girl's, the color of the sea, illuminated by the gentle sunlight after a rainy day. "The Water Pillar is seriously injured, and now three more Pillars are seriously injured. If the medical treatment here lags behind, four Pillars will be disabled. Four of the nine Pillars will be gone at once. That's almost half the fighting force. It seems that a very strange balance has emerged between the demons and the Demon Slayer Corps."
"Compared to them, we can be considered close combatants," Tsurumaru Kuninaga said, changing the subject. "By the way, we encountered a man among the Upper Rank Demons who used breathing techniques. According to him, he is Upper Rank One, Tsugakugo Yansheng.
Moreover, the breathing method he used was Moon Breathing. Every time he swung his sword, I saw countless small moons being swung out, sometimes like boomerangs, sometimes like flying knives slashing at us. Among us, except for the three people who were good at speed and could resist him, the others could not get close to him at all.
What’s even worse is that we encountered Upper Two.”
Hearing this, Qingxi's attention, which had already been aroused by him, was focused even more. Her hand, huddled under the quilt, reached out and tugged at his sleeve. "Are you talking about that poisonous Douma who nearly killed Kanae?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga nodded: "Yes, that's right, it's him."
Qingxi's face was filled with regret. "If I had known, I should have given you a dozen lantern fruit when you went there yesterday. That way, if we can't defeat them, we can still blow them up. If we can't kill them, we can at least blow off all their clothes, forcing them to run back to their own nest naked."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was stunned for a moment, but then he burst into laughter.
He even laughed exaggeratedly and rolled around with his hands on his stomach.
Qingxi's face darkened, "Is it so funny?"
"That's funny." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said. "You don't know, those three ghosts may have never cooperated with each other before. The time they set a trap on us yesterday seemed to be the first time they did so.
Because they were not united, because they were so confident in themselves, even if the remaining two showed up to attack us, they would fight on their own. What do you think they would think if these three confident and conceited people had their clothes blown off and were left running naked?
Qingxi followed his thoughts and guessed, "Let's destroy it. We can't keep this Earth anymore."
"That's how it is," Tsurumaru Kuninaga said, finally having stopped laughing. Then he sighed, "Ah! What a pity."
"As for the amulets—" Tsurumaru Kuninaga said this helplessly, "I used them all to block the poison when Douma's blood demon technique was activated."
After he reminded her, Qingxi realized belatedly why Kanae Kocho almost lost her life.
Upper Rank Two Douma's blood demon art is poisonous. Once it is inhaled into the body, the lungs will be corroded. This characteristic is not friendly at all to demon hunters who use breathing techniques when fighting demons.
It would not be an exaggeration to even call the other party the nemesis of ghost hunters.
After listening to the other party's explanation, Qingxi felt a little pressure on her body, and at the same time, she understood what the amulet in her small wooden box was used for.
"Didn't you say you also dealt with an upper-rank demon? Was it Douma?" she asked with a little hope.
Amulets can block poison. If Douma is defeated by them, then she will be spared the pressure of making amulets. If the ghost defeated is not Douma, for the sake of the lives of those ghost-killing people she knows, she will have to find a way to increase the success rate of her own amulet making.
However, Tsurumaru Kuninaga did not bring her the good news she wanted to hear.
"No." He shook his head. "He's an Upper Rank Five, probably promoted recently by Muzan Kibutsuji.
However, his strength was far inferior to Upper One and Upper Two, and he had far less experience, so we defeated him, but the remaining two escaped at daybreak."
"Well, it's good that they left." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said.
"If the other pillars of Butterfly House hear what you said, it will cause public outrage." Qingxi, disappointed that she would never hear any good news, began to lose spirits again.
"Master, Tsurumaru-san meant that if they hadn't left, we might have been the ones to give up." Seeing that Tsurumaru Kuninaga was being misunderstood, Horikawa Kunihiro finally interrupted to explain. "At that time, although we had defeated one Upper Rank Devil, we still had two to deal with... Devil bodies have the ability to regenerate, and we don't. If we kept consuming them, the situation would have been unfavorable to us."
"It may seem like we are shirking responsibility, but our combat power is indeed insufficient," said Kunihiro Horikawa.
"It's okay, I understand." Qingxi said.
She didn't want to blame anyone.
On the surface, there are seven of them, and they can definitely deal with three ghosts at the rate of two against one.
However, in terms of their trump cards, they still have no advantage.
Three demons, three upper-rank demons, all of them have blood demon arts. With it, their combat power can be upgraded from three to six.
By the way, if there is a demon like the former Upper Rank Four Hantengu among them who can create four, five, six, seven, or eight clones after just one chop, then the situation will be reversed. Instead of having seven on our side against three, the enemy will have to fight seven more.
With this calculation, except for Xing Ming, the worst that happened to the others who went to support was that they were seriously injured, not dead, which was actually the best outcome.
Everything she wanted to know had been revealed, and there was no news from the Butterfly House next door about the current situation of the three seriously injured people. The exhaustion brought about by the depletion of spiritual energy after the three people's attack was like a tide that suppressed her newly risen spirits.
She didn't insist. After yawning again, she closed her eyes and said, "I'll take a nap first. If Xingming, Kyojuro, and Shinobu are done, please call me. I want to go see them."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga put an arm on her, patting her gently through the quilt with his palm, and said in a soft voice as if coaxing a child: "I know, I know. Go to sleep first, and I'll wake you up when the time comes."
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