"Incompetent, huh..." Mizuki rubbed her chin. "Muichiro, you probably lived with your brother and depended on each other in the past, right?"
"I don't remember." Muichiro shook his head with a calm expression. He silently chewed on the word 'brother', and faintly, he could see a figure, intermittently saying something.
"Then this phrase must have been said by Muichiro's brother," Mizuki analyzed. "Incompetent or something like that... the Muichiro of the past was probably that kind of person."
"To put it simply, that means trash... right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Kochou Shinobu couldn't help but poke her with her fingertip.
Her face beaming with a deathly smile: "What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"
Kanae said with a sweatdrop: "Young Miss Mizuki, that's a bit too much."
It will make the child Muichiro fall into sadness.
Mizuki gave a sheepish smile: "I was just joking because he seems so concerned about the past, you know?"
Upon hearing this, Muichiro's teal eyes flashed with a hint of contemplation, and he murmured: "Trash... me?"
Kochou Shinobu waved her hands in a panic: "Mizuki is just joking!"
It's over, it's over, this child is going to take it seriously.
Receiving Kochou Shinobu's deathly smile, Mizuki quickly tried to remedy the situation: "I've heard from Lady Amane that your brother was actually a very good person."
In reality, she had heard it from Kochou Shinobu.
When Amane Ubuyashiki first brought Tokito Muichiro back, she had told Kochou Shinobu about his general situation.
The two brothers, who had depended on each other, were attacked by a demon, and only Muichiro survived.
With demons in existence, living in the mountains indeed carried such risks.
"A very good person..." Muichiro looked up at the sky. He didn't know why, but a mysterious voice emerged in his mind again.
"The 'Mu' in Muichiro is the 'Mu' of infinity..."
This voice, it seemed to be the same.
It was the voice that had appeared in his mind back at the Swordsmith Village.
He couldn't remember.
He didn't really like thinking about these things; he felt they were a waste of time and unnecessary to ponder.
Mizuki sighed and patted his shoulder: "That must be a very precious memory for you, but it's okay if you can't recall it for now; sooner or later, you will remember it."
Besides, doesn't a near-death flashback often occur at the moment of crisis?
It must be that her performance today wasn't good enough, or the pressure wasn't sufficient, failing to let Muichiro enter a near-death flashback.
"Precious memory." Muichiro lowered his eyelids.
He didn't quite understand these things...
What kind of precious memory.
It felt like exploring a meaningless topic.
But...
There was a strong desire in his mind to retrieve his past memories, otherwise... otherwise he would lose something.
He had this feeling.
Muichiro bowed his head slightly toward Mizuki: "Please take care of me next time as well."
After saying this, the child didn't even wait for anyone, turned around, and left.
Mizuki watched his retreating figure and couldn't help but scratch her head: "That's why I'm not very good at dealing with this type."
Kochou Shinobu rolled her eyes at her: "Then could you please just keep your mouth shut?"
"Honestly, you always like to say inexplicable things."
She used to think Mizuki was very cute, always quiet and alone, with a personality that would make people worry about her.
Why has her personality become so strange now?
"Well, isn't this just me livening up the atmosphere?"
Mizuki also had something to say. Originally, she was quite depressed, but with so many people caring for her, if she didn't become more cheerful, wouldn't that be unfair to them?
"Honestly..." Kochou Shinobu rolled her eyes again and said gloomily: "Let's go back."
Kanae touched her stomach and smiled: "I'm a bit hungry, let's hurry."
"If we're slow, the midnight snack will be snatched away by the others."
Hearing this, Kanao's eyes brightened, and she tugged on Kanae's arm and walked forward quickly.
Kanae couldn't help but laugh as she was dragged away.
Kochou Shinobu chuckled to herself: "Don't look at these two girls; they can actually eat quite a lot."
The two walked back side by side. Under the cool moonlight, the scorching air of the day seemed to have cooled down a lot.
Kochou Shinobu suddenly said: "Did Mizuki go easy on them just now?"
Although she didn't know why she suddenly asked this, Mizuki still responded:
"Go easy? I can only say I wasn't that serious." Mizuki fell into the memory of just now.
After all, the main goal was to help them reach their physical limits and activate their Demon Slayer Mark and Transparent World.
If it were a life-or-death battle, Mizuki would have tried to reduce their numbers from the start, rather than considerately waiting for them to reach their limits step by step.
But regardless, when she was finally defeated by their combined efforts, she had no intention of going easy.
Kochou Shinobu looked at her strangely: "Is that so?"
She didn't know if Mizuki had noticed, but from her perspective, after being eroded by Mizuki's cold air, the others' movements were more than just a little stiff; both their speed and strength should have decreased.
Mizuki seemed to understand her doubt and explained: "I was indeed taken aback by them."
"In that state, they were actually all able to stand up and Move."
"And Tanjirou, in that extreme state, successfully activated the Transparent World, which was something I hadn't expected."
"So I suffered a bit of a loss."
Mizuki herself had forgotten that she actually believed in the so-called 'human miracles'.
After all, when she activated the scarlet blade back then, it was at an 'impossible' moment.
Kochou Shinobu couldn't help but ask one more thing: "Is the Transparent World really that powerful?"
"Hmm, the Transparent World is not just simply seeing through the enemy's movements," Mizuki nodded slightly. "The improvement to oneself is also great."
"The use of Moves, the details of dodging Moves, these improvements are hard to describe."
It might just be a difference of a millimeter, but the distinction between them is worlds apart.
Kochou Shinobu couldn't quite grasp the difference, but just sighed: "That child is indeed very talented; he's truly amazing."
"Is that so?" Mizuki shifted her eyes slightly. "Given that child's level of effort, this reward seems to be deserved."
They all saw Tanjirou's hard work.
From morning to night, apart from eating and sleeping, he spent all his time exercising his body.
Mizuki was, of course, also training herself, but not physically.
Whether human or demon, after reaching the limit, it is difficult to become stronger through ordinary methods.
Not to mention Mizuki, as a demon who doesn't eat human flesh, her Physique is a cut below other demons.
If it weren't for the large dose of blood her cheap brother gave her back then, she might have even lost her regenerative ability after not eating or drinking for hundreds of years.
Mizuki's training mostly involved meditation, whether it was for Breathing Technique or the development of Sword Forms.
At her level of strength, this was really all she could do.
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