Chapter 92: Tatsu! You Pervert! Scoundrel! Glutton!
Kocho Shinobu closed her eyes, tilted her head back, and with a look of resolute self-sacrifice,
threw the foul-smelling black pill directly into her mouth.
After swallowing the pill, Kocho Shinobu slumped onto the tatami mat like a puppet that had lost its soul.
With her eyes closed, her hands tightly clutched her clothes, waiting for the moment the poison would take effect and kill her.
"I'm sorry, Big Sister... I might not be able to stay with you anymore..."
One second... two seconds... ten seconds passed.
The expected excruciating pain of her intestines rotting and blood flowing from her orifices did not come.
Instead, Kocho Shinobu felt a warm current gradually rising in her stomach.
This warm current rapidly spread along her meridians to all her limbs and bones.
For a long time, in order to make her body a weapon to poison Tatsu to death,
Kocho Shinobu had been taking and injecting high concentrations of wisteria poison every day.
Although this potent poison was fatal to demons, it was also a terrible torment to her own body.
Her cells, blood vessels, and internal organs were constantly enduring the erosion and destruction of toxins,
that continuous excruciating pain had long become a part of her life,
she merely endured it with astonishing willpower, never confiding in anyone.
However, at this moment, as the warm current spread,
the pain that had been entrenched in her body, like a festering bone sore, miraculously began to recede.
A long-lost sense of ease and comfort, surging from the depths of her soul, instantly overwhelmed Kocho Shinobu's reason.
"Mmm..."
An extremely charming, soft, and infinitely blissful hum,
involuntarily escaped from Kocho Shinobu's cherry-like mouth.
The moment the sound escaped, Kocho Shinobu was struck by lightning, her entire body instantly stiffening into a stone statue.
She suddenly opened her eyes, her hands tightly covering her mouth,
her fair and pretty face instantly flushed crimson,
the redness even spreading to her translucent earlobes and slender, pale neck.
"I... what sound... did I just make?"
She wished she could dig a hole and crawl into it, never to come out.
She, the dignified Demon Slayer Corps swordsman, the elegant Kocho Shinobu, had actually made such... such an shameless sound in front of a demon.
Tatsu stood to the side, taking in Kocho Shinobu's entire process from despair to bliss, and then to shame and indignation.
His Transparent World clearly showed that
the pill was rapidly neutralizing a part of the wisteria poison in Kocho Shinobu's body,
and repairing her damaged functions.
"Looks like the medicine works well, doesn't it?"
Tatsu crossed his arms, a satisfied smile playing on his lips.
He looked down at Kocho Shinobu, who was red-faced and so ashamed and annoyed she wished she could find a hole to crawl into,
and slowly said:
"How is it? Do you feel much lighter?"
As long as you behave obediently from now on, and diligently serve me to my satisfaction every day,
you'll have this medicine every day from now on.
I guarantee to make your tattered body plump and healthy."
Tatsu's words were full of arrogance, but the phrase "every day",
was like a clap of thunder, exploding in Kocho Shinobu's heart.
She knew exactly what that meant.
It meant she no longer had to endure that inhuman torment every day,
it meant her broken body had hope of recovery.
But at the same time, it also meant she would be even more deeply controlled by this demon before her,
becoming his plaything.
She lowered her hands from her mouth, raised her head,
her watery, still somewhat indignant purple eyes looked at Tatsu,
a very unnatural, somewhat gritted-teeth smile playing on her lips.
"Is... is that so?
Then I truly thank Tatsu for your grace.
Please rest assured, for Big Sister, and for this precious medicine,
I will... definitely be obedient from now on,
and diligently... serve you."
Just then,
"Whoosh—"
The room's shoji door was suddenly pulled open from the outside.
A tall woman with waist-length black hair, purple tips, and a butterfly hair ornament,
carrying two fragrant paper bags, walked lightly into the room.
"Good evening, Tatsu, Shinobu~"
As soon as Kanae entered, she greeted them cheerfully like a nightingale.
She seemed completely oblivious to the tense atmosphere in the room,
and directly held up the two paper bags in her hands, smiling as she showed them off to the two,
"Guess what I brought back?
Ta-da-da-da~ It's the most famous sushi from the east side of town,
and freshly made, piping hot Takoyaki too!
I waited in line for a long time to get them, come and eat them while they're hot!"
The moment Kanae's words fell,
Tatsu, who had just been condescending like a demon king from hell, exuding terrifying pressure and arrogance,
suddenly seemed to change completely.
"Whoosh—"
With a whoosh through the air, Tatsu instantly transformed into a black afterimage.
He 'flew' directly in front of Kanae at an astonishing speed.
"Great! I'm starving!"
Tatsu cheered, rudely snatching the two paper bags from Kanae's hands.
His movements were so fast that Kanae's hand paused slightly in mid-air.
But Kanae wasn't angry; instead, seeing Tatsu's eager appearance,
she couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle softly, her eyes full of tenderness and indulgence.
After grabbing the paper bags, Tatsu scurried directly to the low table in the center of the room.
He plopped down on the tatami mat and tore open the seals of the paper bags.
Instantly, the fresh aroma of vinegared rice, the sweetness of raw fish,
and the rich sauce and bonito flakes on the Takoyaki mixed together,
immediately filled the room.
"I won't be polite then! Dig in!"
Tatsu shouted, not even bothering to use chopsticks,
he simply reached out, grabbed a Takoyaki covered in sauce, and unhesitatingly stuffed it into his mouth.
"Munch munch..."
He chewed heartily,
savoring the wonderful taste of the soft batter, the chewy octopus, and the salty-sweet sauce bursting in his mouth,
an extremely exaggerated, heavenly expression of happiness on his face.
After swallowing one Takoyaki,
he immediately grabbed a piece of salmon sushi,
and stuffed it into his mouth along with a large blob of wasabi, eating messily with oil all over his mouth, completely devoid of any image.
Meanwhile, Kocho Shinobu, standing not far away, looked at the demon Tatsu sitting at the table,
eating with both hands like a starving ghost reincarnated after eight hundred years without food.
Then she turned to look at her Big Sister Kanae, standing at the doorway, watching Tatsu feast with a motherly, gentle gaze.
"What is this? What in the world is this?!"
"Just now!
This scoundrel was threatening me with Big Sister's life,
forcing me to eat that disgusting, unknown pill!"
"How can he turn into this kind of person the moment he sees food?!"
Kocho Shinobu looked at Tatsu, who was happily eating, and swore a solemn oath in her heart:
"Tatsu! You pervert! Scoundrel! Glutton!
One day, I will fill your Takoyaki with the most lethal wisteria poison!
So that you, this starving ghost, will have your intestines rot and die without a burial place while savoring the delicious food!!"
At this moment, Tatsu, who was immersed in the immense happiness brought by the food,
seemed to sense the murderous intent behind him.
While chewing the sushi in his mouth, he mumbled and turned his head,
looking at Kocho Shinobu's darkened face, and slurred:
"Shinobu, what are you standing there for?
Aren't you going to eat some?
This Takoyaki tastes really good, if you don't eat it soon, I'll eat it all!"
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