Chapter 439 432. Why the hell are you taking Nezuko shopping in Flower Street?
Chapter 439 432. Why are you taking Nezuko to Flower Street?
Afternoon.
After lunch, Xuanhao walked on the road.
Wisteria trees are planted on both sides of the courtyard gate. The crowns of the trees are tall and dense. When the wind blows, the entire courtyard will be filled with the fragrance of wisteria flowers.
Xuanhao stopped amid the rustling sound.
"Where are the people?"
He found that when he returned to the courtyard of Butterfly House, several teenagers who were supposed to be training hard here were gone.
Confused, I walked into the house and looked around. The wooden box used to contain Nezuko was also gone.
"Did you run away again?"
Shaking his head helplessly, Xuan Hao sighed as he sat down on the steps facing the courtyard door.
His training is indeed a bit too 'hard' for these young teenagers. The teenagers who are still growing naturally do not have as much room for improvement as the pillars who have gone through many hardships.
The training for the pillars is nothing more than to 'train them to their limits' and then help them break through the 'boundaries of humanity'. Among the pillars of the Demon Slayer Squad, except for Muichiro, they have almost reached their own limits, so training is naturally very simple.
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But these three teenagers are different.
They are more like 'premembranes of gemstones' that have just been mined. Good jade needs to be carefully polished, and it is not possible to encourage the development of new skills. They can only 'sharpen' slowly. It is normal for them to want to be lazy when facing such rigorous training.
"Am I being a little too strict?"
Xuan Hao smiled bitterly.
But this feeling made him feel good, because this is how "people" should be.
In fact, as long as Wuhan is eliminated, there will be no such creatures as "ghosts" in this world, and the martial arts of these young people will have no use. There is no need to consider the problem of depleting the potential of these young people by encouraging them.
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Speaking of which, his original purpose was just to find his sister's soul fragment and then find a way to take it out. The only important thing was Nezuko.
The rest of the people, including Tanjiro, were indifferent.
In short, in order to achieve his goal, he can actually do whatever it takes.
However, there will always be connections between people.
Nezuko and Tanjiro, Tanjiro and Zenitsu, Inosuke, and everyone around them.
The path Xuanhao wanted to take was originally the path of 'people'.
But this road didn't seem to be easy to walk, because he had gradually realized that he was incompatible with this world.
No matter how much he wants to be a normal 'human', he has already become a 'non-human' existence.
Everyone around him, including Tanjiro, will have a feeling of 'awe' towards him.
After all, he possesses power beyond common sense and will always be feared.
This is probably the so-called trouble of the strong?
"Forehead?"
A startled sound from the door interrupted Xuanhao's thoughts.
He raised his head.
On the gravel-paved path was a jumping figure.
Amidst the falling petals of the wisteria, the girl lowered her head and walked carelessly along the path towards this side, her feet stepping on the spots of sunlight scattered through the canopy of the tree, her body light and graceful.
But as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she saw the slightly lonely figure on the doorstep.
It was clearly afternoon and the sun was shining brightly, but this old figure seemed to be out of tune with the world, sitting on the steps with an incomprehensible wry smile.
"Mr. Xuanhao, what happened?"
Butterfly Kanae asked with some confusion.
She didn't understand why the person in front of her had such a lonely expression.
He gently approached, sat next to Xuan Hao, and looked at him carefully.
"nothing."
Xuan Hao laughed at himself and shook his head, "It's just that those boys seemed to have slipped out again. Do you know where they went?"
"Forehead……"
When mentioning this matter, Kanae's face turned red.
"They seem to have gone to Flower Street with Master Yin Zhu."
Although she knew that Yusui Tianyuan would not bring up bad children, and there must be some urgent matter when taking these teenagers there, Kanae still felt strange in her heart.
After all, Huajie knows everything.
"Flower Street?"
Xuanhao was stunned for a moment, the name of this place did not sound very serious.
There doesn't seem to be much action on the ghost side recently. Why are Yin Zhu taking a few children to Flower Street?
Forget it, the most unbearable thing is that idiot Tanjiro dares to take Nezuko with him when he goes shopping in Flower Street!?
"No, I have to go take a look."
Xuan Hao immediately stood up and decided to find out.
"ah?"
Kanae looked at the old man who suddenly became aggressive with some surprise.
Ah, is this... called Laodang Yizhuang?
"Don't think too much, I'm just afraid of something unexpected happening."
Xuan Hao explained, "After all, the recent ghosts have been too peaceful."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Butterfly Kanae also frowned and nodded.
"It's unusual for Master Yinzhu to take people to Flower Street in such a hurry. Maybe... there's some trap?"
"Um."
Xuanhao answered while taking out the Sun Lun Knife from the room.
"Do you need me to report this to your lord?"
Kanae asked the figure who was preparing to leave.
"No, if it's a trap, the rest of the people will cause trouble."
"Right……"
Looking at the leaving figure, Kanae fell into silence.
The girl propped her chin up with her hand and looked toward the courtyard along the old man's leaving figure.
Looking at the beautiful scenery in the courtyard, she seemed to understand why the old man had such an expression.
Although it was a sunny afternoon, there was nothing in the yard except fallen flowers.
Elderly people probably feel lonely, right? For example, an old man who is over seventy years old is lying on a rocking chair, basking in the sun, and reminiscing about life.
Kanae came to a bold guess in her mind. The old man next to her might be afraid of being alone like normal old people, and hoped that there would be someone by his side, otherwise it would be as if the world was moving away from him.
But... Mr. Xuanhao didn't have this situation before when he was still young? We could get along normally before. Could it be that this is the so-called generation gap?
Kanae felt a little confused.
This man is really strange.
It's strange to go from a young boy to become so old overnight, but you didn't expect that even your personality would be affected?
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Yoshihara, Flower Street.
It is a place that never sleeps, where countless love, hatred, vanity and desires between men and women gather.
As its name suggests, Flower Street is an independent area composed of many romantic places.
Most of the geishas in the shop are women who were sold here because their families were too poor or they owed high debts that they were unable to repay.
Each of them is burdened with endless suffering, but they are relatively guaranteed to have food, clothing and housing.
For most people who have tried their best just to live, they are lucky, and if they can become famous as geishas, there will even be wealthy people to redeem their lives. In that case, they can probably marry into a rich family and rise to the sky.
The "courtesan", who has the highest status among geishas, is highly respected by people in Flower Street. Only women who combine beauty, education, and talents can afford such a special status.
Except for those who are also geishas, no one can easily see the high-ranking oiran, and men even rush to see her beauty.
But this naturally does not include the three young men Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu who are new to the world.
At this moment, three teenagers stood helplessly in the crowded crowd.
In front of them was the sound pillar Yusui Tianyuan who led them into the flower street.
"Tsk——"
Yusui Tianyuan, who was walking in front, complained, "You guys are so useless, no one wants you even at a cheap sale."
"Shut your stinky mouth, I don't want to talk to you."
Zenitsu's body was almost overflowing with substantial black resentment.
"why why why……"
His eyes were fixed on Yusui Tianyuan, who was walking at the front.
He couldn't understand why the three of them were now dressed as women and why they were so ugly and came here!
The most crucial thing, and what Zenitsu couldn't accept the most, was why this inconspicuous sound column in front of him actually had three wives!
Do you know what the concept of three wives is? That is something that many men can’t even dream of! Why can this guy have one!?
Is it just based on this poor aesthetics and that so-called ‘gorgeousness’?
The most disgusting thing is that a guy with such a bad aesthetic turns out to be a completely handsome man after removing those useless decorations. Is God blind?
Thinking of this, Zenitsu even began to understand why this guy had three wives, which made him even more unhappy.
"Ahem, okay, don't look like you're complaining, just listen quietly to me explaining your next mission."
Yu Sui Tianyuan coughed twice, because if nothing unexpected happened, a buyer would come to the door soon, so he had to hurry up and explain.
"cut--"
Zenitsu smacked his lips and calmed down honestly.
Although they felt very unhappy, this was a mission after all, and they had promised this man to obey his words before setting off.
He forced himself to forget everything. At this moment, his name was "Yoshiko" and he was a geisha.
Usui Tianyuan's plan is for them to disguise themselves as geishas and sneak into the shop here to find the whereabouts of this guy's three missing wives.
A place like Flower Street where people and animals are mixed is a perfect place for ghosts to hide. However, Yusui Tianyuan sneaked into the investigation as a guest and failed to find the ghost hiding here, so he asked the wives to step in and conduct an investigation deeper inside Flower Street.
It has to be said that in order to find out the whereabouts of ghosts, Yu Sui Tianyuan can be considered a ruthless person for being able to come up with such a method.
These three ladies are all excellent kunoichi. They originally thought there would be no accidents, but unexpectedly they lost contact.
So now in order to rescue the three missing people, they can only take action.
"This is to save people... This is to save people... I have to be patient..."
Zenitsu kept giving himself psychological hints, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be able to help but tear the idiot in front of him to pieces first.
If he had three beautiful wives and it was too late to love him every day, why would he let them take such a big risk!?
However, he can still clearly distinguish between life and death matters, which is more important, and he will not share the common understanding with this idiot for the time being.
"At present, I have narrowed the investigation targets to the three most suspicious stores. The task of the three of you is to sneak into these three stores, because my wife disappeared while investigating these three stores. Their identities in the stores are respectively
They are Suma from Tokiya, Shio from Ogimotoya, and Hinazuru from Kyogokuya... You just need to investigate their situation.
Found a clue."
Yusui Tianyuan's brows furrowed more and more as he spoke, "Do you understand? Shanzi, Tanzi and Zhuzi."
"yes!"
"If you find it, can I take action first?"
"Tsk!"
The three boys dressed as women basically had no objections to this.
Soon, just as Yusui Tianyuan expected, as long as they were willing to 'sell them at a low price', there would still be people who would take in these three 'beautiful' young men with stretched hips.
Tanjiro was bought by the Totoya people because he looked very honest, Inosuke seemed to be attracted by the discerning Ogimotoya, and Zenitsu... was originally unable to be sold, but fortunately he has excellent hearing no matter what instrument he plays.
You can learn it after listening to it once, and it is because of this talent that you were reluctantly accepted by Kyogoku House.
Time passed little by little, but no useful news came from the three teenagers who had sneaked in.
"It's really hidden very deep..."
Yusui Tianyuan, who was paying attention to the surrounding situation on the roof, became more and more anxious.
It had been a long time since he lost contact with his three wives, and he had even prepared for the worst.
Being able to hide his aura so cleverly from being noticed by him as a pillar, what is lurking here may be a winding ghost.
In that case, his three wives would probably have been killed.
"Damn it..."
"What's wrong?"
Just when Yusui Tianyuan had a headache, a suspicious voice suddenly came from behind him.
"!?"
Yusui Tianyuan turned his head warily, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw clearly the appearance of the person coming.
If a ghost could sneak up behind him silently, it would be dangerous.
"Mr. Xuanhao? Why are you here?"
"You took away some of the boys I was training. Of course I have to come and take a look."
Xuan Hao frowned, "What happened? I think you seem to be very distressed. Where are they?"
"..."
After Yusui Tianyuan explained it.
Xuanhao covered his forehead.
Unexpectedly, this man who regarded himself as the "God of Gorgeousness" was of the same mind as him. Back then, he also led an army of cowherds into Kabukicho.
However, after listening to Yu Sui Tianyuan's genius plan, Xuan Hao fell into silence.
"..."
"..."
The atmosphere became a little awkward for a while.
Yusui Tianyuan looked at the old man in front of him in confusion. Is there something wrong with his plan? No, right? Let the three little girls go in to investigate, while he holds the battle outside. Isn't this perfect?
"I remember you were a ninja before?" Xuan Hao asked.
"Yes what's the matter?"
Yusui Tianyuan is still puzzled.
This question is simply baffling. Does it have anything to do with the current situation?
"That's right...then it's understandable."
Xuanhao shook his head helplessly.
"What are the extenuating circumstances?" Yusui Tianyuan became even more confused.
"I'm talking about the way you do things. If you are a ninja, there is nothing wrong with doing this. After all, it is normal for ninjas not to dare to confront you."