Chapter 146 Leaving
The next day, in the morning of the Butterfly House, Busei looked up and called out loudly towards Wolf's room from outside the house.
"Hey, Hirata, the lord is going to call a meeting of the pillars ahead of schedule. Do you want to go? ...Where are you?"
But after waiting for a long time, no one responded. He frowned slightly and turned around to ask Youzhilang, who was reading the book intently, to come to the side.
"Go check on Hirata and see what's going on."
Yuichiro, who was still concentrating on trying to understand the key points of Moon Breathing in the booklet, raised his head with some displeasure when he heard the voice.
"Why don't you call those two guys?"
But Fuzukawa calmly raised his thumb and waved it behind him, signaling Youzhilang to look back.
He leaned over, his pupils shrank, and saw that Muichiro and Inosuke had collapsed to the ground, their eyes were blank. If it weren't for the rise and fall of their chests, they would have looked almost dead.
He took a deep breath and looked at Busei again, whose face had turned ferocious. Then, Youchiro smiled awkwardly and ran towards Wolf's room upstairs.
As soon as he went upstairs, he found that the lock on the door had been opened at some point. Seeing this, Youlang knocked on the door first, but no one answered after a long time.
After hesitating for a moment, Youzhilang gently pushed the door open. After whispering "excuse me", he squeezed through the crack in the door and entered the room. However, the scene he saw stunned him.
The warm morning sun shone on Minako, who was curled up on the floor. Even with the warmth of the sun, it was far from enough in the early morning of autumn and winter. However, Minako looked peaceful as if she was leaning against a warm campfire.
Coming to his senses, Ichiro looked around and found no trace of the wolf. Knowing that he could not handle the situation, Ichiro carefully stepped over Minako who was curled up on the ground.
He walked to the window and leaned out to explain the situation to Busei downstairs.
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After a long time, inside Wolf's room, the small space was now full of people. Everyone gathered around Minako, who was sitting on the ground in a daze, and Fuzugawa asked her puzzledly.
"You mean Hirata left last night?"
Rubbing her eyes, Minako nodded slightly.
After receiving a positive reply, Busei held his chin and fell into deep thought, while Shinobu, who was standing next to him, tightened the rust pill in his hand and asked Minako with concern on his face.
"Why would he leave without saying goodbye?"
Hearing Shinobu's question, Minako also became disappointed and shook her head at Shinobu, indicating that she didn't know either. Seeing the other party's disappointed look, Shinobu did not ask any further questions.
But Minako, who had regained consciousness, took the initiative to speak to Shinobu.
"Before Mr. Wolf left, he promised me that he would come back. He also told me that if I encountered danger in the Butterfly House, I should call his name in this room and he would appear!"
Looking at Minako's bright eyes, Shinobu felt a sudden pang of pain in her heart. Kanae, who was standing beside her, came forward to hug Minako and whispered gently in her ear.
"Then Minako, can you live in this room from now on?"
Nodding happily, Minako broke away from Kanae's arms and jumped onto the bed in the room. After a while, she fell asleep peacefully.
Seeing that Minako was calm, everyone stopped worrying and made eye contact with each other before walking out of the house.
As soon as he went out, Busei, who had been thinking for a long time, began to express his speculation.
"That guy Hirata should have gone to look for the resurrected Yoichi. After all, he said before that it is his responsibility to end the immortality."
Kanae, who obviously knew about the two immortal swords that Wolf introduced and the incident of Kokushibo taking away [Kaimen] to revive Yoriichi, nodded in agreement, while Shinobu on the side looked confused and had no idea what Busai was talking about.
Seeing her sister's confusion, Kanae was a little shocked. She had thought that Wolf would mention it more or less and then tell Shinobu the news he had previously learned.
Upon learning that Wolf was going to fight to the death with the founder of the breathing method, a swordsman who sounded extremely powerful, Shinobu immediately became worried about him.
Everyone wanted to help Wolf, but firstly, they didn't know how far Wolf had already gone given his speed, and secondly, with their strength, or in other words, how many people in the entire Demon Slayer Corps could help.
The morale was low... but then the three of them cheered up again. They might not be able to help the wolf, but they could still help the people who were troubled by evil spirits.
The big riot in a month will be a great opportunity for them to eliminate the evil spirits and defeat Muzan. Before that they must make the most thorough preparations.
Gripping the short blade hidden in his sleeve, Shinobu cheered himself up and spoke to Kanae who was standing beside him.
"Sister, I may stay in the New Swordsmith Village for a few days. I'll trouble you with the Butterfly House."
Looking at her sister with a determined look, Kanae smiled slightly, touched Shinobu's hair, and nodded to indicate that everything in Butterfly House would be left to her.
When Fuzukawa heard that Shinobu was going to the swordsmith village, he suddenly raised his head, which had been lowered, and looked at the other party as if he had seen a savior. After struggling for a moment, he spoke in a low voice with an embarrassed look on his face.
“…Please tell the swordsmith named Kotetsuzuka to make a new Nichirin sword for me…”
"Row."
Looking at the ninja who turned and left after saying that, Busei looked a little surprised. He thought the other party would mock and make things difficult for him, but he didn't expect the other party to agree so readily.
Realizing that he was facing a powerful enemy, not only himself, but everyone had made changes. The surprise and embarrassment on Busei's face disappeared instantly. He turned around and walked towards the yard with his wooden sword, shouting at the same time.
"You guys! You're not slacking off!"
Seeing the two of them like this, Kanae smiled with relief, then blew the whistle gently, calling her crow, and reported to her lord that the wolf had left alone.
At the same time, it was decided to hold a joint meeting two days later.
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In the process of improving his strength every day, two days passed in a flash. At noon, at the door of Chouya, the Tokito brothers, who were covered in bruises and swollen faces, stood with Inosuke and several girls from Chouya.
I waved goodbye to the car that was going away not far away, with sincere tears in my eyes, but the corners of my mouth showed uncontrollable ecstasy.
As the vehicle disappeared from sight, Ichiro collapsed to the ground and whispered hoarsely.
"Finally I can take a day off..."
Inosuke and Muichiro snuggled together and murmured weakly at the same time.
"Every day I have to work so hard swinging a knife, doing physical training, and at night I have to say it's combat training, but in fact it's just getting beaten. I'm really going to die..."
Xiao Kui, who heard their complaints, put her hands on her hips and teased them.
"If you say that, be careful or I'll tell Master Fengzhu."
Seeing someone threatening them, Inosuke couldn't bear it anymore. He pushed away Muichiro who was leaning on him, rolled up his non-existent sleeves, and looked at the other person viciously.
"I've already noticed that you...don't like me, right?"
Xiao Kui watched the other party first take a half step back, then glared back at him without showing any weakness.
"What are you talking about? I cook the meals you eat every day!"
The girls behind him nodded frequently and added.
"We cleaned your rooms."
Seeing that he couldn't win the argument because of the large number of people on the other side, Inosuke turned to ask the Tokito brothers for help, but found that the two of them had already collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion.
"useless!"
He muttered something in a low voice first, then Inosuke turned around and yelled angrily.
"I'll prepare my lunch today!"
After saying that, he ran back to the Butterfly House alone. Of course, he would not say those words without any preparation. Wolf was not there, Busei was not there, the Butterfly sisters were not there, and the Tokito brothers were exhausted.
Who can stop him in the Butterfly House at this moment!
Looking around, I saw the chubby chicken that I remembered sleeping during the day. It will be my lunch today!
But after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find it. He held his chin and recalled carefully, muttering uncertainly.
“It seems I haven’t seen it in the past two days…”