N-A-A Chapter 18 Is it a lot?
Chapter 18 Is it a lot?
Hearing this, Tomioka Giyu was obviously stunned, and his expression suddenly became aggrieved. After a long while, he slowly spoke.
"I... am not hated!"
Looking at his aggrieved expression and the tears in his eyes, I couldn't help but smile in my heart, and a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth. I spoke to him with a smile on my face.
"Oh~ Really~"
Yiyong opened his mouth and was about to speak when he found that the secret door in the basement was opened.
I turned my head and saw a man with flesh-colored medium-length hair, a haggard face, but extremely sharp eyes walking out.
Tamayo continued to study the potion, while Kotonoha led him to the exit and returned to the medical room to organize things.
"Hey, all right?"
Santo looked at me and Tomioka Giyu with complicated eyes, clenched the Nichirin sword in his hand, made a gesture ready to draw the sword, and spoke.
"You...are a ghost?!"
Yiyong saw the posture of Xuantu and knew that he was ready to fight, so he quickly put down the teacup and ran to his side with a sprint start.
I couldn't hear their conversation because their voices were too quiet and I didn't want to listen carefully. After a while, I saw Xuantu nodded and then walked to my side.
"I was reckless just now. I'm sorry. Thank you for your treatment."
"You're welcome. Saving lives is a doctor's original intention!"
After saying this, I waved my hand and motioned him to sit down. After he sat down, I looked at their torn Demon Slayer Corps uniforms, frowned, and spoke.
"Where did you encounter that ghost?"
The two people's answers are quite consistent.
"I encountered it unexpectedly while on a mission, the rest I can't tell you..."
"Well, since your strength hasn't recovered yet, stay and have dinner."
"Can......"
"Well, do you dislike it?"
Upon hearing this, Yiyong and Santu suddenly became flustered, immediately denied it and pointed their fingers out the window.
"No... no, it's the Crow that's here to assign new tasks.
I looked in the direction they pointed and saw a bird-shaped shadow outside the window.
"Oh, what a bummer! I wanted to let you guys try the salmon with radish that I just learned a few days ago~"
Hearing this, Tomioka Yoshi's body suddenly tensed. I clearly saw a flash of excitement on his face, but it disappeared in an instant because he secretly glanced at Santu. Although the excitement was gone, his hands still couldn't stop moving.
Xuantu: "I'm sorry..."
I waved my hand to indicate that it was no big deal, drank the tea in my hand, put down the teacup, reached into my feather robe, took out a bag with blue patterns, and handed it to Xuantu.
"This is for you."
"This is......"
"Just think of it as the money I give you to carry out your mission. Even if you don't have time to eat here, you must have money to eat during the mission."
"I haven't even paid for your treatment. We can't take this."
Xuantu refused in a firm tone, and Yiyong echoed him.
"Money is just a thing outside of my body. I am not interested in these things. And look at your team uniforms. They are so tattered. If you go out, people might think you are beggars."
"Can......"
Before he could finish, I tapped the table with my fingers, an expression on my face that said, "If you don't agree, I will force you to agree."
"Okay...okay..."
Xuantu took the bag I handed him and immediately felt it was heavy. He opened it curiously and took a look. After seeing what was inside, he was shocked all over and spoke to me with a look of surprise on his face.
"This... this is too much..."
I was obviously stunned when I heard this. I was so shocked that I felt that Xiaopan (five taels of gold) was too much? Could it be that the face value of prices has become lower in the past few hundred years?
Trivia: 1: (In the setting of Demon Slayer, the lowest-level Gui-class members of the Demon Slayer Corps have a monthly salary of 20 yen. The highest denomination in the Edo period was 1 yen. As for the salary of the Pillar-class members, they can take whatever they want.)
2: (In reality, the Daiban and Koban are special currencies issued by the Tokugawa shogunate, engraved with special runes of the court, and their value can be said to be "∞".)
Author's words: (The second one is just nonsense, don't take it seriously, after all, I'm just writing a novel.)
Okay, no more nonsense, let’s get back to the topic.
"I don't have any other banknotes on me, only this. Take it. It's not much."
Satoshi: [“You call this not much? (ー_ー)!!”]
After saying this, I stood up, stuffed the bag in Santu's hand into his pocket, and turned to Yiyong and said.
"Yiyong, if you still think of me as the brother you used to be, then our friendship can't be better than this?"
[“I have hundreds of taels of silver in my treasury, not to mention paper money.”]
Although Giyu Tomioka didn't know what was in the bag, he knew from the surprised expression on Santo's face that the things inside were definitely not simple banknotes.
"No, you saved my sister and me back then, and now you've given us money. How can I thank you?"
"No need to thank me, it's the best thing that you can be friends with a ghost like me."
I turned around and walked back to my original seat, sat back down, and looked directly at the two of them. Xuantu knew that he couldn't refuse, so he just clenched his pocket and said to me.
"Thanks......"
.........
After finishing my tea, I watched them leave.
I looked at their backs, and my smiling face immediately fell. My lively eyes were instantly filled with complicated expressions. I reached out and slowly took out a small notebook from my arms. After turning a few pages, I saw a row of Chinese characters.
Kokushibo - Excellent, Douma - Good/Poor, Akaza - Good, Hantengu - Poor, Gyokutsu - Poor, Gyarutarou - Good.
I took out a pen and erased the word "差" in the line of "玉壶" and rewrote it as "死"!
I looked at the line of words and sighed. My blood-red eyes showed a little bit of ferocity at this moment, and I muttered to myself.
“It’s not that I don’t want to let you go, but you’re just courting death, so I have no choice but to treat you as an “experience package” for Tanjiro and Muichiro.
[“If you didn’t want to see the entire Demon Slayer plot, I would have killed you long ago!”]