Chapter 75
Beiming Island Xingming, who didn't wait for Qingxi's response, didn't show any disappointment. He still used a negotiating tone to speak from her perspective and said to her, "If you feel uncomfortable staying in the clinic, you can move in with me. When you grow up, you can open a restaurant in town as you said before."
If the Demon Slayer Corps makes you feel uncomfortable, it's no problem to leave here. With the presence of the two sword masters, Yagen Toushirou and Tsurumaru Kuninaga, and your personality of not wanting to cause trouble, Aki, he believes that the three of them can live well together.
Perhaps it was because the tall monk who was hugging her from behind was too gentle, or perhaps it was because of some strange emotion that even she herself couldn't explain that made Qingxi not immediately agree to the future life he arranged for her.
She half turned sideways, buried her body in the other's arms, and then a muffled voice came out, "Let me think about it again."
"Then think about it carefully." Beimingyu Xingming patted her back gently, "You still have several years to go before you become an adult, right?"
Rengoku Kyojuro was completely stunned when he saw the two people, one big and one small, in front of him.
No, it should be said that since coming here, he has not said a single word except for the one he said at the beginning. He has been listening to the "secrets" the whole time.
But at the same time, because the amount of "secrets" was a bit large, his brain, which was only 13 years old, worked hard to organize them and digest them.
Axi is actually older than Mr. Beimingyu and is of the same generation as his grandmother.
Ah Xi wanted to go back to her own country, but Mr. Beimingyu said that the country next door was not her country.
Ah Xi is someone who came from another world that is similar to his own.
Ah Xi wanted to leave the clinic...
The more Rengoku Kyojuro tried to digest it, the more confused he felt. He looked at Gyoumei Gyoumei and then at Kiyoki, and decided to speak. "Hmm, Aki, there's still a lot I don't understand. Can you explain it to me?"
Qingxi, who was nestled in Beimingyu Xingming's arms and almost suffocated by his slaps, stiffened. She was talking so excitedly with Beimingyu Xingming that she forgot there was another person here.
Half an hour later.
"It's probably like this." Qingxi said as he sat down again and had a string of soy sauce meatballs specially sent to him by Yagen Toushirou stuffed in his hand.
"Well, even though you said you are in your seventies or eighties, you are just an eight-year-old girl now." Rengoku Kyojuro, who finally knew Qingxi's secret, concluded.
He sat next to Qingxi. When she opened her mouth to eat the soy sauce meatballs but lost her sight of the meatballs, he grabbed her hand holding the skewer and put the meatballs accurately into her mouth.
"Aki, you're starting over now, aren't you?" Rengoku Kyojuro said. "So stop calling yourself a grandmother. You're..." He took a moment to organize his words. "You're a little girl now, um, a little girl."
Qingxi opened his mouth and wanted to say, "A girl in her seventies or eighties?"
But then I thought, if I said that, wouldn't I be stabbing myself in the back?
So she shut up.
"Aki, can't you stay?" Unlike Kiyoki Gyomei who couldn't bring himself to ask, Rengoku Kyojuro spoke very naturally when he asked Kiyoki to stay.
"I don't know." Qingxi said.
She took out the box containing the Hinamisai doll from her gourmet backpack.
After placing it on the tatami, she fumbled with the lid of the box. She couldn't see it now, but she had opened it and taken a look at it when she received this relic from Mr. Harada yesterday.
Now, she just opened it and showed it to Rengoku Kyojuro.
The moment the lid of the box was opened, a faint smell of blood wafted out. Rengoku Kyojuro looked at the two dolls in the box. They had obviously been taken care of, but there were large patches of blood on their clothes. And because so much time had passed, even if the clothes were washed and then put on the two dolls, there would still be traces of blood on them.
"People here in Japan seem to appreciate the beauty of mono no aware, which I understand as a kind of 'beauty of imperfection.' But whether it was the era I lived in, or the era after I died and my soul was taken away by A-Tong on a mission, the general trend was towards positive and uplifting beauty."
I like to get together rather than to be apart. I like to meet people and we can all sit around a table, eat heartily, clink glasses and talk freely.
I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I say this, Kyojuro, because I'm a gourmet hunter in the gourmet world, so I've seen it, and I've also killed countless ingredients, but the number of human corpses I've seen in my two lifetimes combined is not as many as I've seen in just less than two years here.
I'm afraid that if I stay here for too long, get to know more and more people, make more and more friends, then one day I'll have to send them away one by one.
I don't like that feeling." Qingxi said calmly what he couldn't say to Beimingyu Xingming.
"I don't know what others think, but if Aki rejects us privately because she's worried about what might happen in the future, I'll be very sad," Rengoku Kyojuro said. "Because we're all still alive and well, we're all still here.
Ah Xi, you can't be so stubborn. "
"Huh?" Qingxi felt that she was already answering her friend's questions well, but she didn't expect to be criticized by her friend in return.
Rengoku Kyojuro put down the uneaten soy sauce meatball in his hand, stood up, and squatted in front of the girl.
He put his hands on her shoulders, and when the girl was confused, he said loudly: "Ashi is very good like this, I like it very much, so don't leave, stay."
Qingxi, who couldn't see what was happening, was so frightened that she dropped the soy sauce meatball in her hand.
Adults' thoughts are not as simple as children's.
So, are you simply trying to encourage me, or are you confessing your feelings?
The former is fine, but if it's the latter, Kyojuro, aren't you a little too young at this age?
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Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who had been listening with his eyes closed for so long, stood up in the corner.
It's okay for us to have some innocent flirtation between children, but as for anything like that, not only does Mr. Beimingyu not allow it, I also don't allow it!!!
"Oh my, what happened?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at the three people in the room. "The noise was so loud that it scared Tsuruma."
Rengoku Kyojuro blushed and bowed his head to apologize, "Sorry, I disturbed you, Mr. Tsurumaru."
"It's okay, it's okay." Tsurumaru Kuninaga waved his hand.
When he was about to say something, Beimingyu Xingming stood up. Qingxi felt his feet go empty and he was picked up.
Qingxi, who has gotten used to being carried around since yesterday, said:...Forget it, as long as you're happy.
but--
"My Hinami doll." Qingxi said.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga closed the lid and stuffed the box containing the two Hinamisai dolls into her arms, "Here, here, Master, keep it for yourself."
Beiming Island Xingming waited for Qingxi to put away his things and said, "I'll take Ah Xi out for a walk."
"Hey! Wait a minute." Tsurumaru Kuninaga casually picked up a haori and covered the girl's head with it. "It's very sunny outside right now. Children's skin can't stand the sun, so a haori is good to block the sun."
In just a moment, Beimeijima Gyomei left with Qingxi in his arms. Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked down at Rengoku Kyojuro, who had a confused look on his face and had no idea what hurtful words he had said.
He rubbed his cheeks in toothache.
Okay, okay, I already know you didn't mean anything else by that, but - innocent boys are also difficult to deal with.
Didn’t the master say that she has quite a few famous swords?
Well, Karasuma-chan, yes, let's see if it's genuine. If it is, it should be able to be awakened. That person is actually a caring old man.
"Kyojuro, are you planning to go back or stay here?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked while thinking about all sorts of things in his mind.
Rengoku Kyojuro scratched his hair and said, "I'll stay and help Aki prepare lunch for the Crow House."
Speaking of this, Rengoku Kyojuro, who often comes to help Qingxi, understands it very well.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga patted his shoulder and shouted, "Then I'll come and help, but... first I need to go find the owner and ask her to bring out the ingredients for today."
Because of Rengoku Kyojuro, Gyoumei felt he couldn't stay in the Crow House anymore, so he carried Kiyoki to the clinic, and the two of them sat in the corridor. That day, he stayed until sunset, and she left in a hurry after Yagen Toushirou came over to take care of her.
That evening, Qingxi was helped by Yaken Toushirou to lie down on the bed. Listening to the sound of fabric rubbing against each other from the next room, she tilted her head and asked in surprise, "Yaken, what else are you going to do?"
"Me? I'm making the bed," Yagen Toushirou said calmly. "The Admiral has trouble seeing right now, and I'm worried about you living alone in the dorm. So I'll stay here to take care of you for the next few days. If you need anything during the night, you can wake me up."
Qingxi opened his mouth and said softly, "I can actually ask Sister A Ling for help."
"Miss Koharu and the others must have worked very hard during the day," Yagen Toushirou adjusted his glasses. "Are you sure you want her to come and keep you company, General?"
Qingxi: "...Thank you for your hard work these past few days."
The black-haired boy smiled faintly on his delicate face, "Taking care of the general is my job."
After taking off his white robe and the glasses he had worn all day, Yagen Toushirou lay down on the bed. He tilted his head and asked jokingly, "Do you want me to tell you a bedtime story?"
Qingxi fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan, listlessly saying, "Then let's make up a story about the adventures of Miss Candy."
Yagen Toushirou was speechless.
The general was upset because he had tricked himself into drinking a bowl of Chinese medicine in the evening and had bloating in his stomach, so he didn't eat much for dinner. His mouth tasted bitter and he was upset.
However, if you can just make up a story to appease the child, that's not impossible.
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