Chapter 058
The important news had been obtained, and the group packed up the things they had brought and prepared to return to headquarters.
Qingxi stood up and walked to the side of the people sitting on the rush mat. While putting on his shoes and preparing to leave, he sighed in his heart, look, who can be like them, bringing their own rush mat, small table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the cemetery.
However, just as she finished sighing in her heart, she saw Beimingyu Xingming squatting on the ground with his back to her, as if preparing to carry someone on his back. Qingxi blinked, then blinked again, and swept her eyes over the others, and found that none of them were looking at her, so she moved her feet slightly, and then threw herself on Beimingyu Xingming's back.
After leaving the cemetery, Ubuyashiki Tenon glanced in the direction of Qingxi, and saw that the girls with low ponytails on the left and right of the tall monk's back, who gave people a special sense of security, had their eyes closed at some point, and the flesh on one side of their cheek was squeezed out because of the contact with the young monk's back, as if they were dreaming. From time to time, their little mouths would mumble a few words that no one could understand.
"She fell asleep." Noticing the gaze of the people around him, Ubuyashiki Kakuya also looked over. "She's worked hard today."
Qingxi had reported the aftereffects of excessive use of the Dialysis Eye, and he had also heard from Ueno Shin about her condition after she used it for the first time to perform surgery on a Demon Slayer with a broken arm, so he was not surprised that she fell asleep at this moment.
After returning to the Demon Slayer Corps' headquarters, Gyoumei Hirumi first took Kiyoki to the guest room to rest, and then he went to Hiroma to attend the meeting.
However, his timing was a bit unfortunate, as he arrived right in the middle of an argument between Rengoku Makijuro and Kitaya Genei. Beiming Island Gyomei listened quietly for a moment before realizing that the two were arguing. Now that they knew the appearances and characteristics of the three Upper Rank Demons, they should focus on finding them. The most urgent task was to determine the names of the remaining nine pillars.
Upper-rank demons are not cabbages sold in shops that can be bought for just a few dollars.
If the Demon Slayer Corps cannot improve its strength, it will be extremely difficult for them, the pillars, to find the upper-rank demon and defeat him.
Don't say that they are pillars and therefore very powerful.
Are there no pillars among the former Demon Slayers who died in the cemetery? Aren't they strong enough? Yet, they still died at the hands of the Upper Rank Demons.
If you think that those who died long ago have no reference value, then take the closest person, their former companion, the former Water Pillar Hasegawa Naoto. His abilities are well known to everyone present.
Even he alone cannot deal with an upper-rank demon, so how can the three pillars with similar strength to him possibly deal with an upper-rank demon by themselves?
"So, you mean that we don't have to look for them, but just kill those weaker ghosts?" Kitani Genying said in an irritable tone.
If Qingxi were present at this moment, she would probably describe his current appearance as being no different from those man-eating evil spirits she had only seen three times.
"Hmm, that's not what I meant." Being stared at by the other party with such a fierce look, Rengoku Makijuro just frowned, "What I want to say is that the vacant pillar position that the upper-rank demon is looking for should also be chosen from the A-class members.
Also, our own strength is not strong enough, we need to work harder to train.”
"Do you need to tell me that?" Bei Gu Xuanying snorted coldly.
Perhaps it was because he suddenly realized that those former teammates, friends, companions, and seniors had never left, and had always stayed here to accompany and watch over him, encouraging the living in their own way. The original faint sadness of losing his companions no longer spread in his heart. At the same time, the feeling of wanting the Twelve Kizuki and Muzan Kibutsuji to die quickly occupied the peak of all his beliefs.
Muzan Kibutsuji, please come out quickly and die quickly. Everyone is waiting for you to go to hell!
Seeing the sparks of a confrontation finally die down after the two finally found common ground, Ubuyashiki Kōya put down the paper with the information about the three Upper Rank Demons in his hand and said, "I will confirm the positions of the remaining Nine Pillars as soon as possible after investigation. I will also send people to investigate the three Upper Rank Demons who already have confirmed information. From now on, I will probably have to trouble you three, Gyomei, Genei, and Makijuro."
The three of them knelt on one knee and said in unison, "I understand."
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Qingxi slept from day to night.
She opened her eyes dazedly and stayed in the quilt for a long time before her brain slowly started working.
The white snake that was resting with its eyes closed noticed the change in the breathing of the person next to it. It slowly swam down from the soft cushion and got close to the girl's face.
After having her face licked by the snake's tongue, which had no warmth, Qingxi reached out from under the quilt and touched the snake's head. She asked uncertainly, "Are we... back to headquarters?"
Kabutomaru hissed several times, but unfortunately, she was not Iguro Obana, and had no idea what these dull hissing sounds meant.
But it doesn't matter.
Qingxi crawled out from the bed, tiptoed to the closed shoji door, put his hands on it, and gently opened the door enough for his head to stick out.
So in this quiet night with only the sound of wind blowing through the grass and insects chirping, a little head quietly poked out from the dark corridor.
In the moonlight, Qingxi vaguely looked around the yard, and after confirming that he was now in the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Corps, his heart began to settle down.
She retracted her head again, and the shoji door was gently closed again. She took out a lantern fruit from her food backpack and placed it in the corner of the room next to the wall, letting it glow there.
After warning Daiwan not to get close, because if he knocked it over, the entire headquarters would be blown up, she began to become dazed.
Watching it nestle back onto the soft cushion someone had prepared for it, she asked, "Kabutomaru, have you eaten yet? I can't read or understand your conversation with Iguro, so if you have, pat the tatami lightly with your tail once, and if you haven't, pat it twice."
Diwan tapped his tail twice to indicate that he had not eaten yet.
It’s not that Ubuyashiki Tenon ignored it, but the kitchen prepared raw meat for it, but Kabukimaru didn’t eat it.
These are all snakes with owners. Unless the owner gives permission, how could they eat something given by someone they don't know or are not familiar with?
But Qingxi is different. They lived in the same dormitory together before, and it was fed for a week with the tacit consent of Iguro Obana. This time, it was with the consent of Iguro Obana that she was allowed to take it with her, so it followed Qingxi so obediently.
Knowing that Kabukimaru had not eaten yet, Qingxi did not think much about it. He took out a large plate of pufferfish and whale sashimi from his food backpack, and then took out one-fifth of the sashimi from two other bowls.
Don't accuse her of being stingy. After removing the head, tail and bones of a puffer whale, there are still about ten pounds of meat. With one snake for each of them, they definitely cannot finish the sashimi of a puffer whale. Since they can't finish it, they should take out bowls and share it out early to avoid waste.
Puffer whale capture level 293. Every ten years they will swim to the cave beach to lay eggs. Originally a large cetacean, but later due to the influence of the living environment, their bodies were compressed to the size of a pufferfish. At the same time, their own deliciousness will also be concentrated as their bodies shrink, and the toxins in their bodies will also be concentrated, forming an extremely poisonous venom sac in the body of the puffer whale. If the venom sac is not disposed of, or if the poisonous puffer whale meat is eaten, it can be said that it is a mouthful of death, and there is no time for treatment.
It is worth mentioning that the venom sac of the puffer whale is not fixed in a certain part of its stomach, so it is very difficult to handle. Apart from her who cooks it with the help of the Dialysis Eye plug-in, when she left the gourmet world, there were not even a handful of chefs who could handle it.
The taste of top-quality tuna makes people want to chew it hard, even if their jaw is protesting its fatigue. Moreover, it has the effect of nourishing and strengthening the body. After eating a piece of puffer whale sashimi with chopsticks, it is paired with a bowl of tofu fish soup stewed with the puffer whale's head. It is sweet and delicious, and it can sweep away all the fatigue of the day.
Qingxi sat cross-legged, holding her slightly aching chin with her left hand as she chewed. From time to time, she would glance in the direction of the dysprosium ball. The white snake's head had already been buried in the bowl, and its body was almost about to fall in with it.
Qingxi found it funny, but didn't want to remind it.
After finishing the late dinner, they stuffed the empty bowl and chopsticks back into the food backpack, and the man and the snake lay back in their respective nests.
Qingxi leaned over and said, "Let's continue sharing the remaining pufferfish and whale sashimi."
Inside the cushion, coiled circles of snakes were spitting out their tongues, and their tails stretched out on the tatami, tapping gently several times in a row, as if expressing their joy.
From then on, there was no conversation that night.
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Early in the morning, I heard the sound of footsteps slowly approaching outside the shoji door. Soon, a shadowy figure appeared outside the shoji door.
Qingxi woke up from a deep sleep, rolled over, and then slowly crawled to the shoji door. He opened the door and, as expected, saw a brand new small-patterned kimono outside.
The kimono was picked up and the shoji door was closed again.
After wearing similar clothes a few times, Qingxi no longer feels bothered when she wears them again.
However, having said that, she spent a total of two nights at the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters, and both times, the clothes that Mrs. Amane prepared for her were this kind of small-patterned kimono. It can be imagined that she is a very traditional woman.
Wear a kimono with small patterns of plum blossoms and butterflies. If you don't know how to put your hair up, just tie it all up into a bun. The best headdress that matches the kimono is a hairpin with plum blossoms and butterflies. Wear it on one side with the bun in the middle.
She reached out for the dysprosium ball, waited for it to slowly climb up her arm to her shoulder, and then wrapped around her neck. Qingxi put the clothes she had worn yesterday into her food backpack, planning to wash them herself after returning to the clinic later.
After opening the shoji door, Qingxi went to wash up first, and then went to have breakfast. He didn't see Beimingjima Xingmei here. It was easy to guess that he should have returned to the house he was patrolling yesterday.
Finally, she thought about it and decided to go find Ubuyashiki Amane.
When Qingxi walked over, Ubuyashiki Amane was talking to the members of the Inami. After listening quietly for a while, she realized that a demon hunter in the Demon Slayer Corps was getting married, and she was arranging all the necessary matters.
Qingxi smacked her lips silently. She really didn't know that as the mistress of the Ubuyashiki family, she was even responsible for the marriages of the Demon Slayer Corps members.
Thinking about how many people there were in the Demon Slayer Corps, she shook her head and realized that she definitely couldn't handle that kind of thing on her own.
After watching the Hidden Department personnel accept their mission and leave the room, Qingxi placed an unopened small jar of wine in front of Ubuyashiki Tenon. Facing the other party's puzzled and doubtful gaze, she explained: "This is wine brewed from puffer whales. Puffer whales are known for their nourishing and fitness benefits in the world of gourmet food... I hadn't thought of it before. You can let the lord try it after the doctor confirms it.
Drink one cup every day before bed to see if it has any effect on your body. If it does, you can come to me for more after you finish this jar.
I may be short on other things, but when it comes to wine, I have a lot of it.”
To outsiders, using fish to make wine may seem a little beyond their understanding.
Generally speaking, in their understanding, the raw materials for brewing wine are inseparable from various grains.
For example, sorghum wine, rice wine, corn wine, barley wine, and wheat wine.
But if we go back further, people in ancient China made Yubingshao with pork and Yanglaojiu with mutton. Her method of making puffer whale with puffer whale is almost the same. Once she gets used to it, she won't find the various wine-making processes cumbersome.
What Qingxi took out this time was no longer the small jar of wine that held five kilograms like the one he took out at the cemetery, but a larger jar of wine that held ten kilograms. If Ubuyashiki Kazuya drank it all by himself, it would take him nearly half a year.
Although Ubuyashiki Amane didn't know whether the wine Qingxi brought out was as good as she said, she could sense the girl's thoughts. She put down the brush in her hand, rubbed the girl's head carefully, and smiled lightly, "I understand. After the doctor checks and confirms that there is no problem, I will remind my lord to drink it every day."
After waiting for Ubuyashiki Tenon to stop rubbing her head, she said that she had never seen Teriyachi once since she came here, and that she would go back to the clinic after visiting him this time, and then left the room.
Arriving at the room where Teriyaki was resting, Qingxi couldn't tell who the little soft ball in front of her looked like, as it had only been less than half a year since he was born. However, his black hair that had not been shaved off was the same as that of Umayashiki Kōya.
After playing with the little boy for a while and waiting for him to fall asleep, Qingxi did not go to say goodbye to Ubuyashiki Tenon, and let a member of the Hidden Department carry her out of the headquarters.
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