Chapter 026
Qingxi never thought that the lunch box he made for Beiming Island Xingmei would eventually be given to Rengoku Makijuro, nor did he know that after returning home, the other party would share it with his wife and two sons as a snack.
After sending Xingming from Beiming Island away, she took the Butterfly Sisters to the market, where they bought the daily necessities for them. Then the three of them took the things back to the clinic.
"You guys tidy up first, I'll go downstairs to help." After putting the things on the bedside table, Qingxi waved to the Butterfly Sisters and walked out of the room. When he left, he also helped them close the door.
After going downstairs, Qingxi went straight to the gym.
The wounded who were sent here in the past few months have also gradually recovered at this time, so rehabilitation training for these people has to be arranged. However, in this way, the number of assisting staff on the hospital side is a little short. So after she had served as a "weight" for Harada Shinnosuke, she was arranged by Koharu Aya to be the weight for push-ups for these people, and she had to carry her on her back to do 200 push-ups every day.
Things like this where you become a "burden" might make you feel very ashamed at first, but once you get used to it, you'll become thick-skinned, and looking back on it, you'll feel like it wasn't a big deal at all.
At night, Qingxi was awakened by the sound of a girl crying. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Her voice was very soft, but it made Kanae Kocho, who was squatting beside Shinobu Kocho's bed, turn her head.
The moonlight shone through the window and hit her worried yet beautiful face.
After Qingxi suppressed her strongest sleepiness, she got out of bed and walked over. She and Kocho Kanae stood shoulder to shoulder, looking at the girl on the bed who was sobbing and crying even in her sleep.
"Shinobu's been like this for the past few days," Kocho Kanae said slowly, her eyelashes drooping. "The death of her father and mother was a huge blow to Shinobu. Besides being there for her while she cries in her sleep like I'm doing now, I don't know what else to do."
Qingxi listened quietly until the other party stopped. She put her hands on her chin and asked, "So will you be like the others? Join the Demon Slayer Corps and become demon hunters?"
Butterfly Chane was silent for a moment before she answered, "I will."
"On the way here, Shinobu and I actually asked the Anbu staff about ghosts and the Demon Slayer Corps, and requested Mr. Beimingyu to teach us how to hunt ghosts. But Mr. Beimingyu didn't agree at that time. He told us not to let anger control our bodies. But later, Shinobu and I kept pestering Mr. Beimingyu, and he was so annoyed that he finally said that he would take us to the clinic first and give us a month to cool down. After a month, if Shinobu and I still wanted to become ghost hunters, he would recommend a trainer to us.
It's just that my thoughts may be different from others. Those ghosts were once ordinary people, but they were unfortunately transformed into ghosts. I sympathize with them, so I want to save the people they want to kill, and I want them to be freed from this sad karma.
Kocho Kanae smiled shyly at Qingxi, "I told Shinobu my idea, but she rejected it."
Qingxi understood that Shinobu Kocho's inner thoughts were the same as those of most demon hunters in the Demon Slayer Corps.
The existence of ghosts is wrong. Because of their existence, countless beautiful and warm families have been destroyed. The survivors rescued by ghost hunters, the elderly have lost their families forever, the women have lost their husbands and children, and the children have lost their parents, making it very difficult for them to even survive.
"So you're leaving the clinic in a month?" Kocho Kanae nodded. "Yes. Shinobu and I's happy family has been destroyed by a ghost, but there are countless other happy families facing the possibility of being destroyed by ghosts. We made a pact to become ghost hunters together and protect the happy families of those who haven't been affected by ghosts yet."
Qingxi opened her mouth, she wanted to say something, but when she noticed the serious look in the eyes of Kanae Kocho opposite her when she said those words, she realized that if she said anything about her decision at this moment, her words would seem very light and empty, just like false bragging, like a "high-quality person" who could talk without any worries because those things did not happen to him.
How can you know the difficulties of others if you have not experienced their suffering?
Qingxi admires Kanae Kocho just because she can still look at ghosts with kindness even after her relatives were killed by ghosts.
"Now that you have determined your target, don't look back. If you are injured, come to the clinic and we will do our best to treat you." Qingxi said seriously.
Butterfly Kanae smiled and rubbed Qingxi's head: "Then I will say now, "From now on, I'll leave it to you, Aki."
That night, two people, one big and one small, squatted beside Shinobu Kocho's bed and stayed with her for half the night until she finally stopped crying. Only then was Qingxi urged by Kanae Kocho to go to bed.
Then, not surprisingly, Qingxi, who had a very regular schedule because he had no cell phone or TV since arriving at the clinic, overslept that day.
Unlike her, because they come from a medical family, patients are occasionally sent here in the middle of the night. Kocho Kanae, who is used to waking up to check when she hears any noise, woke up from her sleep when she heard voices and footsteps outside the house.
Shortly after her, Shinobu Kocho also got up.
Looking at the little sister who was even younger than them, still sleeping in the bed with her body wrapped up in a ball with the quilt, just when Shinobu Kocho was thinking about whether to wake her up, Kanae Kocho spoke before her, "Let little Aki sleep a little longer."
Kocho Kanae, who didn't have the uniform of the medical staff at the clinic yet, was wearing the same clothes she had worn yesterday. "Shinobu had a nightmare last night and cried. Aki was woken up by you, and then the two of us stayed by your bed until you stopped crying before going back to sleep."
When Shinobu Kocho heard this, she looked incredulous. If it was a nightmare, then why did she, the most important person involved, have no recollection of it at all?
But the person lying on the bed next door and sleeping soundly was the best proof. At that moment, the ten-year-old girl blushed.
"Why didn't you wake me up if I had a nightmare, sister?"
"Well," Kocho Kanae drawled, tilting her head as if thinking. Just as her sister's patience was about to run out, she gave the answer with a harmless smile, "Maybe it's because Shinobu-chan was so cute back then. So even little Aki couldn't bear to wake you up."
"elder sister!"
Butterfly Shinobu was ashamed and angry, her cheeks turned red, and her voice was so loud that it woke up the person sleeping on the bed.
"Well, is it dawn yet?" The girl who was awakened by the noise in the house yawned and sat up, but the way she started to take off her clothes with drooping eyelids made people know that her brain was not fully awake yet.
Shinobu Kocho was about to faint. She rushed over and grabbed the quilt beside her and covered her head with it. "Are you stupid? We are girls and we can take off our clothes, but the curtains are not closed yet. People coming and going downstairs will see us!!!"
Shinobu Kocho tried hard not to let the veins on her forehead bulge out. She was already very worried about having a sister who was very easy to talk to and even had sympathy for the ghost who killed her parents. But now it seemed that this little sister who took her sisters to the clinic yesterday, took them to the street to buy daily necessities and bargained with the shopkeepers with great enthusiasm and looked very reliable, and who was temporarily living with her, was actually looking very unreliable.
Shinobu Kocho, who always feels like she can be a babysitter, has a vague feeling of heart attack in her heart.
I hope it's just my illusion.
Qingxi, whose head was covered by the quilt, did not resist. In the darkness, he continued to take off his remaining clothes. Then, under the sharp gaze of Shinobu Kocho, he stretched out his short arms from under the quilt and touched the surface of the bed.
Shinobu Kocho silently looked towards the end of the bed, which the girl could not reach. There was a folded piece of clothing. She was like an unscrupulous bystander, watching the owner of the arm exploring forward bit by bit, but the hand could not reach the clothes over there.
The vein on Shinobu Kocho's forehead couldn't help but throb.
She grabbed the clothes and stuffed them into the exposed little hand. She said angrily, "Ah Xi, you are really an idiot. If you can't find the clothes, why don't you stick your head out and take a look!!!"
There was a rustling sound of fabric rubbing against each other from under the quilt. After a while, the girl's face, still sleepy, emerged from under the quilt.
"You don't understand." Qingxi said in a deep tone.
Shinobu Kocho was stunned by her expression and was really stunned.
"No, what?" she asked.
Qingxi: "As long as I can't find my clothes, I can stay in bed for a while longer."
The righteous tone and confident attitude also left Shinobu Kocho speechless.
Shinobu Kocho stretched out her arm to clamp the neck of the girl on the bed, and with her other free hand, she pinched the soft flesh on Qingxi's face, "Look at my bad temper, even my hands don't listen to me and move on their own.
Finally, you have to call me and Kanae-sister. "
Qingxi struggled, "I came to the clinic earlier than you, so Xiaonin has to call me senior too."
Apart from people like Xian Yue who are selfish by nature, how many bad intentions can a few young kids have? If they are of the same sex, they can become friends in just one day.
Kanae Kocho, who was standing aside and watching the whole interaction between the two, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Hearing the sound, Kocho Shinobu suppressed Qingxi and looked up helplessly, "Huh? Sister, are you still laughing there? This girl really deserves a beating!"
"How could it be?" She rescued Qingxi from Shinobu Kocho's grasp and helped her up when she jumped off the bed, "Both Shinobu and Aki are very cute.
And they look a little bit alike when they're arguing with each other."
"I'm not like this idiot." Kocho Shinobu complained in disgust.
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