Chapter 76
"Except for some red blood around the eyeball, everything else seems to be fine. But you still need to get a good rest these few days, General." In the dormitory, Yagen Toushirou said this and wanted to wrap her eyes with gauze, but seeing the disgust on the girl's face, he paused and put the gauze away.
"Forget it." He chuckled. "I won't bandage your wound. However, until you return from your visit with Mr. Beimingyu, unless you are short-handed, please stop everything at the clinic and get some rest."
Even if Yagen Toushirou didn't say this, Qingxi would not go there before considering his future plans.
She was about to nod, but Yagen Toushirou mentioned a name instead, "By the way, General, do you know a man named Tomioka Giyuu?"
"What's wrong with him?" Her expression showed that she knew him.
"He was also among the injured ghost hunters last time." After Yagen Toushirou gestured to Qingxi to turn around, he took a comb and started a new job he had recently added - combing and braiding the hair of his general.
He had never done this kind of work before, but it didn't matter. There was a brother in his family who looked like a girl. Although he didn't braid his hair the same way every day in front of the mirror, he did change his braids every three days and every five days. After watching for a long time, even though he had never done it himself, his theoretical knowledge was greatly enriched. Now, after trying a few more times with the general's hair, his practical skills were also improved.
"He's very worried about you. But because he's seriously injured and can't get out of bed, he'd ask me about you whenever I was there these past few days."
It was still the low ponytail that Kiyokuni usually wore, but after being in the hands of Yagen Toushirou, it became a carefully crafted and very expensive one.
"General, do you want to go see him?" asked Yagen Toushirou.
It’s not that he was saying good things about Giyu Tomioka, he just wanted Qingxi to find something to do to distract her.
Through observation, after Mr. Beiming Island came over that time and the few people talked about something in Tsurumaru Kuninaga's room, although the general seemed to be in a much less negative mood than before, he was still much quieter than usual.
Even with the company of Jiro's restless crow, it still didn't work.
Thinking of Tomioka Giyuu, Qingxi belatedly remembered something she had asked him to do before. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll go see him now."
He tied the hydrangea hair tie around his hair, and when Qingxi turned around and he looked at her, Yagen Toushirou put his hand under his chin and looked thoughtful.
After a while, he suddenly leaned in closer and asked, "General, do you want to get your ears pierced?"
"Ah?" Qingxi was inexplicably stared at for a long time and was stunned to hear such a sentence. He couldn't help but squeeze out an interjection from his throat.
Yagen Toushirou took off his leather gloves, revealing his hand, which looked particularly pale due to wearing them for years without being exposed to the sun.
When her earlobe was pinched by a hand, Qingxi shrank back uncomfortably.
Yaogen Toushirou released his hand that was pinching the girl's earlobe and explained, "The general's earlobes are very delicate. If he gets his ears pierced, it would be very suitable for him to wear some pearl-like earrings."
Qingxi raised her hands and pinched her earlobes. She said, "Then, let's fight later?"
Yagen Toushirou nodded and decided on a time. "Let's do it tonight. I need to find some things to prepare."
Standing up from the stool he was sitting on, Qingxi followed Yagen Toushirou downstairs.
When they reached the first floor, the two separated at the stairs again.
Qingxi went straight to the ward and looked around there. After finding the person, she walked over.
It was on the fifth day after he was sent to the clinic that Giyu Tomioka finally saw Kiyoshito. Seeing the blood-red area around her eyeballs, he couldn't help but recall the scene of her bleeding eyes that day. It couldn't be said to be shocking, because he had seen more tragic looks than that, but her current appearance was very worrying.
"Mr. Tomioka."
The girl's soft voice greeted him, and Tomioka Giyu stared at her quietly for a while. After a while, he said, "Are you okay?"
"Please don't worry, I'm fine." Qingxi heard herself say this, which was the sentence she had said most often recently. She bent down, pulled out a small stool from under the bed and sat down. She looked as if she was ready to stay here and chat with him for a while.
"Huh? So, the small stools prepared under each bed can be used for two purposes?" The three female ninjas who had rarely seen Qingxi near the kitchen in the Crow House recently suddenly saw someone. They all began to secretly accompany Uzui Tengen while secretly pricked up their ears to listen to the gossip from Qingxi's side.
Suma murmured softly.
She always thought that the small stool was just for Qingxi to use when performing surgery.
Following Qingxi's example, she pulled out the small stool from under Uzui Tengen's bed and sat down on it.
To be honest, sitting is much more comfortable than standing.
"How is the effect of that set of leather armor?" After experiencing the awkward situation of answering the other party but not waiting for the other party to say anything next, Qingxi thought about it and simply got straight to the point.
Giyu Tomioka was not good at finding topics to talk about, but when he heard Qingxi bring up a topic first, he felt relieved.
"Not bad," he said in a serious tone. "Even weak ghosts can't leave marks on leather armor."
As he spoke, he pointed to the bedside table next to him. Qingxi stood up in understanding and opened the drawer. Inside was the Gala crocodile leather armor that the medical staff had taken off and placed in it after he was carried here.
She took them out one by one and laid them flat on the edge of the bed to examine them. There were very few tiny marks on the leather armor, and the only major mark left by a sharp weapon was on the chest. She gently poked the mark with her finger, and the next moment there was a snap, and the leather armor that had not been pierced by the sharp weapon instantly broke into two pieces.
Qingxi: “…”
This is a bit embarrassing.
She silently withdrew her fingers, looked up and said to Tomioka Giyu, "I said I didn't use any force, do you believe me?"
Tomioka Giyu nodded, "I know."
Qingxi put the leather armor away and said, "After all, this has been used, so its performance may not be very good. I will make you a new one using the skin of a Gala crocodile."
"No, let's redo everything. I'll measure Mr. Tomioka's size later. If it fits well, it should be easier to move around." Qingxi rejected what he had said before and said again.
Tomioka Giyu: “…”
"Mr. Tomioka, can you judge the strength of the demon that nearly pierced your chest armor?" Qingxi asked. "I need to know if this kind of armor is necessary to tell the Lord." Her voice paused. "Tell Lord Ubuyashiki."
A frown finally formed on Giyu Tomioka's expressionless face.
"Yes, my lord," he corrected.
Tomioka Giyuu couldn't understand the sense of alienation that the girl deliberately tried to express in her words.
Qingxi shook his head. "Just let me call you that for now. This is my personal problem. I'll be fine once I figure it out."
However, what she didn't tell him was that if she couldn't figure it out, she was ready to leave the Demon Slayer Corps, which was a shelter for her.
Seeing that the girl didn't want to talk about this matter anymore, Tomioka Giyu pursed his lips, followed her wishes and didn't mention it anymore, instead returning to the question she had just raised.
"I haven't encountered the Twelve Demon Moons, so I can't make a comparison, but that demon is quite powerful." Tomioka Giyuu spoke objectively about the defensive effectiveness of Qingxi's leather armor. "One more thing: the attack that broke through the leather armor was a demon's blood demon art."
After getting the answers they wanted, Qingxi and Tomioka Giyu looked at each other, because she found that they had no topics to talk about anymore.
She hesitated for a moment, then stood up. "I have a little work to do right now. I'll come see Mr. Tomioka later." She thought for a moment and added, "I'm late for lunch, but what would you like for dinner? Mr. Tomioka has a special treat today."
Tomioka Giyuu blurted out his favorite food without thinking, "Salmon with radish."
"Besides the radish salmon, is there anything else you want to eat?" Qingxi asked.
Tomioka Giyu: "Whatever you want."
Qingxi looked at the black-haired boy who looked like he was fine as long as he had radish and salmon to eat. She nodded and said, "Mr. Tomioka is still so easy to feed. See you tonight then."
After Qingxi walked out of the ward, she went to the crow house. At noon, Hinazuru and the other two who were preparing to come here to borrow the stove happened to meet her when they came out. After greeting each other, they parted ways.
"Hey! Suma, what are you looking for jumping around like that?" At the kitchen door, Mu Xu asked unhappily as he saw Suma walking into the kitchen and then either opening the cupboard or sniffing around with his nose.
"Food," Suma said matter-of-factly. "Don't you smell the delicious aroma of food in the air?"
Mu Xu crossed his arms and said impatiently, "So what? Wasn't Ah Xi in the kitchen just now? She should be cooking."
Hinazuru suddenly understood. She said, "Suma means that if Aki cooks, then what about the dishes she made?"
Suma nodded, "Yeah, yeah, it's so hot, how can we eat them all right away without leaving even a drop of soup."
She pointed towards the kitchen and said, "Apart from the lingering heat from the stove, I don't see any trace of food."
"The most important point." Suma took a deep breath and pursed his lips and said, "This smells really good~~, I really want to have some QAQ"
Mu Xu's forehead was throbbing with veins. "What about your future?"
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