Chapter 100: There's a Big Demon on Fujikasane Mountain.

After observing the battle, the Hashira were all thoughtful.

On the other side of the dojo.

Tomioka Giyu, who was a bit tired, put down his wooden sword, leaned against the wall, and rested.

At this time.

Step, step.

A soft voice accompanied by footsteps sounded.

Tomioka Giyu instinctively looked up.

After seeing who it was, his face stiffened.

"Tomioka-san?"

Kocho Shinobu took a few small steps and stood next to Tomioka Giyu. She leaned slightly to the side, peeked out her head, and looked at him with a hint of annoyance in her voice:

"Why didn't you listen to me before and stay in the Butterfly Mansion to recover?"

"Even as a Hashira, you can't carry out missions while injured..."

She raised her head, trying hard to look at Tomioka Giyu, who was turning his head away from her:

"You don't need me to say these rules, do you?"

Kocho Shinobu smiled.

But this smile made Tomioka Giyu, who had turned his head away, feel a bit embarrassed.

Even the hot-tempered Shinazugawa would obediently stay in the Butterfly Mansion for treatment, Kocho Shinobu couldn't think of any reason why Tomioka Giyu wouldn't want to stay.

After a while.

Seemingly unable to avoid Kocho Shinobu's gaze, Tomioka Giyu glanced sideways, his tone unchanged:

"My injury is no longer serious..."

Kocho Shinobu was taken aback.

Then she reacted, smiled, and tilted her head:

"?"

She extended a finger and accurately poked the outside of Tomioka Giyu's thigh.

Pfft!

Tomioka Giyu's face suddenly turned pale.

Seeing this, Kocho Shinobu was even more convinced of her thoughts.

From observing the battle just now, she felt that something was wrong.

"Hey, Tomioka-san." She smiled, her mouth trembling slightly, feeling her forehead throbbing:

"If your injury is healed..."

"...What's going on?"

Tomioka Giyu turned his head tremblingly, but did not answer.

...

...

Under the alternating practical training of Tanjuro and Himejima.

A week of training quickly passed.

Surprisingly, in just one week, some Hashira successfully opened the Transparent World, but they were not yet proficient.

- Sound Hashira·Uzui Tengen.

- And Snake Hashira·Iguro Obanai.

At the same time.

The final selection of the same seven-day period also came to an end.

And the members who passed the selection, as well as the soldiers who gave up halfway, will all be brought to the Butterfly Mansion for treatment and recuperation.

At this moment.

Butterfly Mansion.

Tomioka Giyu sat in the courtyard, under Kocho Shinobu's admonition, he sat quietly, motionless.

He heard that Urokodaki-sensei was helping at the Butterfly Mansion, but he did not see him.

Perhaps because he had been there for too long, Urokodaki Sakonji had already left the Butterfly Mansion and returned to Mount Sagiri.

His deep blue eyes didn't know where to look.

"You also survived... that's great..."

The passing members who were supporting each other, either hugged and cried, or limped into the Butterfly Mansion.

Under the care of the Butterfly Mansion, Zenitsu, who had already recovered, was standing at the entrance of the Butterfly Mansion with a head of yellow hair, nervously watching the passing people:

"That, that!" His voice was a bit timid, watching people pass by him one by one, he slightly extended his hand:

"Have you seen a swordsman with black hair, wearing a tomoe collar around his neck, using Thunder Breathing..."

"A little taller than me, with thick eyebrows..."

Zenitsu's eyes trembled slightly, perhaps because his voice was too weak, the passing people didn't pay attention to him:

"Has anyone seen him..."

He had been waiting here for a morning.

The hope in his heart gradually fell from expectation, and his voice gradually became smaller:

"Please... tell me..."

Watching another swordsman covered in scars walk past him, Zenitsu's hand fell in disappointment, his furrowed brows trembling.

Grandfather, because he was a bit impatient, had already been waiting on the inevitable path in front of the Butterfly Mansion.

Brother Kaigaku...

Zenitsu's fist slowly clenched, his eyes unconsciously reddening.

Although Kaigaku was usually very strict with him, that was all because he really couldn't learn other sword forms.

Deep down, Zenitsu still greatly admired this brother who trained so hard.

The master also often told him to learn from his brother.

But... it's already noon, and brother still hasn't come back...

Could it be...

Just as Agatsuma Zenitsu thought of some bad results, his face gradually turned pale.

"...You."

A hoarse female voice sounded next to him, the person stumbled a bit, barely supporting herself on a nearby stone.

Upon hearing this, Zenitsu quickly looked up.

In front of him.

A girl with short twin tails, but with a tired face and somewhat dazed eyes, was standing with difficulty, using a sword to support herself on the ground.

It was Kanzaki Aoi.

She was panting, frowning, and struggling to lift her head:

"...The person you mentioned."

"Have you seen him?" Seeing this, Zenitsu, with a trace of anxiety on his anxious face, quickly supported her.

He was about to continue asking, but noticing her condition, he swallowed his question and spoke anxiously:

"Are you okay, or you should rest first..."

Kanzaki Aoi shook her head, she was supported and stood still, trying to speak:

"Fujikasane Mountain... there's a big demon..."

As soon as her words fell.

Tomioka Giyu, who was sitting not far away and had been in a daze, suddenly pricked up his ears.

His gaze also looked this way, his previously listless pupils instantly became serious.

"I... I heard it, he ate fifty people..." Kanzaki Aoi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, she spoke intermittently:

"When I saw him... there was a person with a magatama on his neck... being chased by him..."

After saying this.

Kanzaki Aoi's eyes rolled back, and she collapsed weakly.

Agatsuma Zenitsu, who was listening in a daze, was suddenly startled, he looked down at the collapsed Kanzaki Aoi, and instinctively shouted:

"Ah!!" He suddenly turned his head, looked left and right, and staggered to help Kanzaki Aoi up:

"Is anyone there! Who's coming! Someone has fainted here!"

...

At the same time.

Creak...

The door of the first floor of the Butterfly Mansion was pushed open, and Kocho Shinobu walked out from behind the door.

She was smiling, holding the medicine prepared for Tomioka Giyu in her hand:

"Tomioka-san." Kocho Shinobu raised her head and looked into the courtyard: "The medicine is ready..."

But Tomioka Giyu, who should have been sitting on the stone, was nowhere to be seen.

—?

Pop!

Kocho Shinobu, who was smiling, crushed the liquid medicine in the test tube in her hand.

Veins were faintly bulging on her forehead.

...

"Just leave it to us, thank you for the hard work."

After Zenitsu's shouting, Kakushi team members quickly rushed out from the Butterfly Mansion, skillfully picked up the fainted Kanzaki Aoi, and quickly rushed into the Butterfly Mansion.

Zenitsu watched the backs of the stealth team members leaving, and heaved a sigh of relief.

But suddenly, he remembered what Kanzaki Aoi had just said.

He turned his head to look in the direction of the Butterfly Mansion's gate.

But there—there were no more swordsmen coming this way.

He was stunned.

Standing in place, like a stone, he waited for a long time in a daze.

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