Chapter 81 Love and Sorrow
"The Upper Five!? Is this true?"
Uzui, who was lying on the hospital bed, sat up straight and looked at Wolf with shocked eyes. The sound was so loud that it woke up Giyuu who was lying on the bed next to him. He opened his empty eyes and looked at the ceiling helplessly.
But Busei, who was also lying on the bed with bandages wrapped all over his body, was relatively calm. He had the highest understanding of wolves' strength among the three, and at this time he was just thinking secretly in his heart.
Were we held back by the Upper Five and therefore unable to provide support in time...
In this battle with Kokushibo, all three were seriously injured. Fuzukawa had broken bones all over his body, Uzui's eyes were seriously damaged, and Giyuu's arm, which was using the Yasha Rikuto, was almost scrapped and necrotic.
Thanks to the wolf who arrived in time and distributed the pills to the three people, the three were saved and able to hold on until Kanae Butterfly, the doctor from the Butterfly House, arrived.
Under the leadership of the village chief, they temporarily requisitioned an inn in the swordsmith village and established a hospital to provide treatment for the injured villagers and the Demon Slayer Corps soldiers injured in the battle.
The three seriously injured people were carried on stretchers by the people from the Butterfly House who rushed over and were quickly sent to the hospital for treatment. However, Wolf, who insisted that he was not injured, could not withstand the worried gazes of the people from the Butterfly House.
In the end, he insisted on not lying on the stretcher. He walked to the Butterfly House to receive some examinations, then found the ward of the Uzui people and sat down to discuss what had happened before.
They soon asked the wolf what had happened in the back mountain. They didn't believe that if the wolf hadn't encountered any trouble, he would not have come to support for such a long time.
After Lang told about his encounter with Yu Hu, the scene that had just happened happened again. The next moment after Uzui exclaimed, Kanae's somewhat tired face poked out from the door frame, with a somewhat resentful look in her eyes.
"Mr. Uzui, please keep your voice down..."
After saying that, he turned his head back and went back into the house to continue checking on the injured. Seeing this, Uzui immediately shut up and apologized for his unglamorous style just now. Wolf, who had been absent-minded since just now, stood up and spoke to the three of them.
"…I'm going to go out for a while…"
Then he stood up and walked out of the house without looking back, and Busei frowned.
The war had just ended, where was this guy going?
"Where are you going? Be careful of an enemy attack. The location of the Swordsmith Village has been exposed."
Hearing the questions and reminders from Uzui behind him, Wolf paused, thought for a moment, and without turning back, just explained.
"…go…take a hot spring bath and relax…"
As soon as he finished speaking, the wolf had already walked out the door, leaving only a somewhat lonely back view to everyone.
This made Fuzugawa and Uzui feel confused.
Killing the Five Upper Ranks and severely damaging the One Upper Rank, this has dealt a heavy blow to the power of Demon King Muzan. Why does Wolf look like a complete failure?
At this moment, Uzui remembered what Wolf said when they parted after taking the knife. He looked towards the back mountain with complicated eyes and couldn't help but sigh. His hatred for the ghost became even stronger at this moment!
Fuzukawa looked at Giyuu, who was sitting up and stretching his legs to get out of bed with difficulty, and asked curiously.
"What did you do again?"
Yiyong stood up with difficulty and walked step by step in the direction where the wolf left with a calm look.
"He looks like he could get lost easily... I'll go and help him find the way..."
After hearing this, the corners of Busikawa's mouth twitched, and a black line on his face obscured his expression. He grabbed the back of Yiyong's clothes and threw him back to the hospital bed.
"How did you know that... and don't meddle in other people's business!"
With a pain in his back, Yiyong calmed down, and the three people in the ward gradually fell silent...
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At the foot of the back mountain, the wolf looked at the stairs that continued to extend upward with a complicated expression, raised his legs and put them down, and finally walked slowly upwards.
Along the way, there were traces of fighting between the wolf and Yu Hu, but the wolf didn't even take a second look. He silently climbed to the top of the mountain and stood in front of a house that was so destroyed that it could not be recognized in its original state, with hesitant eyes.
“…Excuse me…”
The wolf knocked lightly on the door that still stood, walked straight into the house, carefully avoided the collapsed house, and walked towards the courtyard.
But... just after passing the corridor, he heard the sound of ping-pong coming from the courtyard. Hiding behind the wall, the wolf turned his head to look into the courtyard.
I saw a small figure squatting on the ground, clumsily carving parts on the ground, and next to him was a broken Yuan Yi Zero Type.
This mechanical puppet that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day was ultimately unable to fully restore the strength of the legendary swordsman. Even though Toshisaburo activated it at the first moment when Yu Hu attacked, he was quickly defeated.
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The sharp carving knife cut a long gash on Xiaotie's finger, and pain and blood appeared from his hand at the same time.
Subconsciously, I wanted to call out my father's name, but the next moment I saw only half of his body lying quietly beside me.
The illusion disappeared instantly, and Toshisaburo's body had already been taken away and buried by the kind-hearted Demon Slayer Corps soldier.
But Xiaotie was only a four-year-old child. He could no longer bear the pressure in his heart and burst into tears.
"Well……"
He couldn't get over his father's death for a long time. He looked at the wounds on his hands and the jagged parts that fell on the ground, sobbing and whispering.
"...I have no talent at all..."
At this moment, a red, torn haori flashed across the corner of his eyes, and Xiao Tie recognized that this was the young swordsman who saved him that day.
He quickly stood up, wiped his tears, and looked timidly at the wolf in front of him.
"..."
Not knowing what to say at this moment, after thinking for a while, Wolf took out a bandage from his arms, squatted down and bandaged Xiaotie's wound. Then he glanced at the Yuan 10-style next to him, sat down and started carving parts without saying a word.
Faced with the wolf who said nothing and acted on his own, Xiao Tie was stunned at first, then he reacted and walked over to the wolf and sat down.
"Thank you... Mr. Sekiro for saving me that day..."
Hearing Xiaotie's words, the Wolf paused, an orange covered in dust had rolled here from under his body at some point, his eyes were dazed for a moment, and then he spoke stupidly.
"…I'm sorry I couldn't come to save Toshisaburo soon enough…"
The moment he heard the wolf's words, Xiao Tie clenched his hands and spoke loudly to the wolf.
"That's not true! Mr. Wolf saved me and avenged my father. He is already a great benefactor to my family!"
Looking at Xiaotie's serious face, the wolf's eyes began to light up, and he reached out and touched his head clumsily.
"Thank you..."
After Xiaotie shyly dodged, his tone became sad again.
"It's just that... I wish it was my father who survived... instead of me, who has no talent for mechanical engineering..."
Hearing Xiao Tie's self-destructive words, the wolf frowned and then spoke.
"No matter how you think about it...even if Xiaotie doesn't have any talent...he is still my most beloved and important family member...my...son."
Not knowing why the wolf would say such a thing, Xiao Tie was stunned and subconsciously raised his head in doubt.
"Hey?"
And then the voice of the wolf explaining to him rang out.
"This is... what Toshisaburo said to me that night... He is a good father."
After hearing the wolf's words, Xiao Tie could no longer pretend to be strong. Tears as big as beans dripped from his sad face like raindrops.
"Woo...Woo..."