Tamayo could not promise Mizuki that she would survive alongside everyone else.
She was different.
...
After Kochou Shinobu arrived, Tamayo explained the situation to her, exchanged some pleasantries, and then led the two of them to the operating room.
Ubuyashiki Kagaya had basically prepared everything she needed; whether it was the laboratory or the operating room, the conditions were no worse than those at the Butterfly Mansion.
"Young Miss Shinobu, please help me prepare the tools," Tamayo said, instructing Mizuki to lie down on the operating table.
"Take off your clothes."
Mizuki started spouting nonsense: "I feel a bit cold."
She felt a bit embarrassed.
Tamayo tilted her head expressionlessly: "Then, should I turn on the heater for you?"
Mizuki was stunned: "Is there a heater?"
"There is anesthesia." While speaking, Tamayo had already stuck a needle into Mizuki's body with a completely calm expression: "Rest assured, my anesthesia can knock out even a demon."
...It wasn't a question of the drug's effectiveness, but rather the speed of the action; it was so swift that Mizuki hadn't even realized what happened.
Damn it... Tamayo...
Mizuki's wide eyes fluttered twice, Tamayo's face under the lights gradually became blurry, and then she closed her eyes and passed out.
Tamayo calmly stripped Mizuki bare, looking just like an old mother.
Kochou Shinobu, holding a pair of forceps, sweated and asked: "Wouldn't this be a bit inappropriate?"
Tamayo laid the stark-naked Mizuki flat on the operating table and shook her head with a smile: "This girl is sometimes so dawdling that it gives me a headache; this is better."
Kochou Shinobu was embarrassed: "Is... is that so?"
Tamayo asked strangely: "Young Miss Shinobu, you should be fine, right?"
"What?" Kochou Shinobu looked puzzled.
"Seeing Mizuki's body shouldn't cause your hands to shake, right, Young Miss Shinobu?"
Kochou Shinobu was stunned, her face flushed, and she said with some annoyance: "Young Miss Tamayo! Please don't joke around at a time like this."
Tamayo smiled faintly: "It seems there's no problem."
Tamayo's serious expression made Kochou Shinobu feel guilty for a second.
She was a doctor; doctors wouldn't have feelings when seeing these things...
Except for the person she liked.
Alright, she did feel a bit of an itch in her throat.
But she was a professional; her hands wouldn't shake.
Compared to humans, performing surgery on a demon was undoubtedly much easier.
There was no need to worry about accidentally cutting an internal organ, nor was there any need to worry about bacterial infection.
Stripping clothes directly on the operating table without any care for details—the main focus was full-blown bacterial infection.
...
The effect of the anesthesia was indeed very good; Mizuki just felt like she had slept for a very long time in a daze, and it passed without her feeling anything at all.
...
In her daze, Mizuki felt an itch on the top of her head, as if someone was touching it, which was unbearable.
She suddenly opened her eyes, and before her was an unfamiliar ceiling.
Mizuki subconsciously propped herself up, but before she could sit up completely, she suddenly seemed to bump into something. A force came from the top of her head, pulling her back down.
Mizuki lifted her head, saw the object hanging on the headboard, and touched the top of her head with a bewildered expression.
Damn it!
Why did these horns come out again?
Kochou Shinobu's voice came from the side, sounding somewhat between laughter and tears.
"Are you okay?" Kochou Shinobu walked over and carefully helped her up.
Mizuki shook her head: "What's going on? I am currently..."
She paused mid-sentence, catching sight of a lock of long white hair resting on her chest from the corner of her eye.
Kochou Shinobu shifted her gaze away evasively and replied: "You are currently in a state of complete Demonization."
That was close...
Young Miss Tamayo's anesthesia seemed to be a bit ineffective. It was supposed to make even a demon sleep for three days and three nights, but Mizuki had woken up shortly after the surgery.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly; seeing Mizuki's eyelids tremble, she immediately let go, otherwise she would have been caught red-handed.
"Demonization state?" Mizuki looked at her sharp black nails, suddenly remembered the purpose of Tamayo's surgery, subconsciously placed her right hand on her chest, and carefully sensed the state of her body.
...
Hmm...
It doesn't seem like I feel anything.
Mizuki opened her eyes in confusion. So, where exactly had she become stronger?
Can I punch Muzan and kick Yoriichi now?
Mizuki shook her head. Forget about that for now; let's just put these horns away first.
Mizuki concentrated, wanting to dispel the state of complete Demonization.
...
I can't dispel it!!!
Mizuki panicked a bit. How could she not make these horns disappear!!!
Do I have to saw them off?!
Swish~
The room door was gently slid open. Tamayo's figure appeared at the doorway carrying tea. Seeing Mizuki sitting up, she paused for a moment.
Mizuki looked as if she had seen a savior and hurriedly asked: "Tamayo, the horns, I can't retract the horns."
At the same time, Kochou Shinobu looked at Tamayo and said with some helplessness: "She has already woken up."
What happened to the promised three days and three nights?
"Much faster than I thought." Tamayo heard the resentment in Kochou Shinobu's tone. Her look of surprise was fleeting; not rushing to answer Mizuki, she placed the tea tray on the table and sat down next to Kochou Shinobu.
Seeing that Tamayo didn't pay attention to her, Mizuki touched the horns on her head and couldn't help asking again: "How do I retract these horns?"
"Aren't the horns growing on your own body?" Tamayo smiled helplessly, "And I think they look quite good like this."
"But I can't retract them." Mizuki panicked.
It wasn't a question of whether they looked good or not; the main point was that having these things on her head made it easy for her to get grabbed or slashed while fighting.
The last time Kokushibou grabbed her horns, it pulled her scalp so hard it hurt.
Tamayo couldn't help but chuckle. She stopped teasing her and said: "It's not about retracting them, but trying to disguise them."
"Disguise?"
"Yes, learn to disguise yourself as a human, just like demons do." Tamayo explained, "For the current Mizuki, this appearance should be your normal state."
Isn't she already a demon masquerading as a human right now?
Mizuki muttered to herself, but she also understood what Tamayo meant.
She focused her energy and tried to change her hair color, as well as hide the long horns on her head.
Sure enough, by approaching the change from the perspective of disguise, her appearance could be altered.
Her long white hair turned back to wine-red, and the horns on her head also disappeared.
Mizuki breathed a sigh of relief; she really didn't want to fight while wearing horns like that.
Looking at the top of Mizuki's head, Kochou Shinobu said with some regret: "They were actually quite cute."
Cute my ass...
Mizuki instinctively wanted to retort, but after seeing Kochou Shinobu's regretful expression, the words on her lips inexplicably changed.
"If you want, Shinobu, I can..."
Noticing that Tamayo was still there, she subconsciously paused mid-sentence.
Sensing Mizuki's subtle gaze, Tamayo smiled and said: "It seems I've disturbed you two?"
"No..." the two replied with lack of confidence.
Kochou Shinobu: Mizuki was just about to say it!
Mizuki: She almost said it just now.
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