Demon Slayer: The Forest Pillar

"Except for the first seven forms of Forest Breathing, I have nothing else to teach you. In the past year, your performance has been better than I expected."

On the country road, Grandpa Mori and Shinichi walked on the road in the moonlight. Along the way, the old man kept nagging like an ordinary old man, repeating how good Shinichi was. Fortunately, Shinichi was used to it and his ears automatically filtered out Grandpa Mori's long-winded words.

In this way, Grandpa Mori talked all the way, and Shinichi also listened passively and silently all the way until the two came to the destination of this trip, "Butterfly Medicine House"

Dong Dong Dong! The wooden door was gently knocked. After a while, with a creak, a thin figure opened the wooden door. The violet eyes immediately widened after seeing the two people at the door, and immediately ran into the medicine house.

"Sister! Grandpa Mori and that cold-faced man are here again!!" Butterfly gestured to her sister breathlessly.

Butterfly Kanae stretched out a finger helplessly and tapped her sister's forehead, "Xiao Shinobu, it's impolite to say that about Shinichi-kun. You go find dad, and I'll go entertain Grandpa Mori and Shinichi-kun."

Soon, the lights in the living room of Butterfly Pharmacy came on. On the tatami, Grandpa Mori and the Butterfly family were kneeling very standardly. Only Shinichi was sitting cross-legged. Butterfly Shinobu, who was sitting in a small corner, looked at Shinichi with dissatisfaction and muttered in a low voice, "Impolite cold-faced man."

Swish! For some reason, Shinichi seemed to hear this muttering, and turned his face in an instant, staring at Butterfly Shinobu with his pink eyes. In the moment when no one else noticed, he opened his mouth slightly, and his two canine teeth seemed to stretch in an instant, and his pink eyes also turned scarlet in an instant, and the whole person looked quite scary.

"Ah!!" Shinobu Kocho was startled by Shinichi's sudden change of expression. She interrupted the adults' conversation with a cry of surprise. Kocho Yaoxin frowned and said to her little daughter sternly: "Shinobu! It's so rude to yell so rudely! Kanae, take Shinobu back to bed!"

Shinobu Kocho widened her violet eyes and pointed at Shinichi and said: "No! It's him!... Hey! What's the matter? He just clearly!" Before Shinobu Kocho finished speaking, Kanae Kocho grabbed her sister's hand and said to Grandpa Moriki and Shinichi apologetically: "I'm so sorry, Grandpa Moriki and Shinichi, it's Shinobu who is too naughty, but she didn't mean it, please don't take it to heart." After saying that, she was about to pull Shinobu Kocho away.

But Shinobu Kocho was obviously a little resistant and was still trying to explain what she had just seen, "No! Sister, he really changed his face just now! Believe me..."

On the other hand, Shinichi was sitting there with a normal expression. How could he change his face as Shinobu Kocho said? Glancing at the two sisters leaving the living room, Shinichi snorted imperceptibly. He just wanted to scare the child named Kocho Shinobu. Did he think he didn't know what she called him behind his back? Cold-faced man? The most intolerable thing is that this stubborn little girl actually said that her Shiba Inu Enji was not cute at all! It's outrageous. The rude little brat knows nothing!

In this year, Shinichi also followed Mr. Mori to the Butterfly Medicine House at night many times. It was not for anything else, but for the purple wisteria flower medicinal materials. In order to practice forest breathing, Shinichi would take a lot of purple wisteria flower tea every day to suppress the powerful ghost power in his body. It was also relying on purple wisteria flowers that Shinichi now looked nothing like a ghost. Just like Kocho Shinobu said, Shinichi looked like a cold-faced teenager.

"We keep bothering at night. Yao Xinjun won't blame us, right?" Mr. Mori said with a smile.

Butterfly Yaoxin also smiled and said, "If that's the case, I should thank Mr. Moriki. You are a big customer of our pharmacy. By the way, this time I have prepared the kind of wisteria pills you told me about before, but the taste will be very bitter."

"Really? That's great. The taste is not a problem. We won't mind." Old man Moriki said and glanced at Shinichi beside him. Anyway, this child can't taste anything other than sweetness. It's bitter. It's not for an old man like me to eat.

"That's good, but why does Mr. Moriki like wisteria so much? In fact, I have a lot of medicines that are more effective and cheaper than wisteria." Butterfly Yaoxin asked his doubts at the right time.

Old man Moriki touched his gray hair, "Because in the legend, wisteria is a blessing flower that can resist evil spirits and bring good luck. Wisteria not only has medicinal value, but also has the meaning of protecting the house from evil spirits, so I like this flower as medicine."

Butterfly Yaoxin was surprised to hear this answerA little surprised, "Is that so? I didn't expect Mr. Mori to be so traditional. I've learned a lesson." Although she said so, Butterfly Yaoxin didn't really take Mr. Mori's words to heart. After all, evil spirits? It's just an old story to scare children.

After getting the prepared wisteria flower medicinal materials and special wisteria flower pills, Mr. Mori and Shinichi were ready to leave. Butterfly Yaoxin sent them out of the medicine house with a lantern.

When Butterfly Yaoxin returned to the inner room, the lights in the two daughters' rooms were still on. In the room, Butterfly Shinobu angrily emphasized that she didn't lie, "It's true! The teeth of the cold-faced man suddenly became so long, and his eyes turned into a scary red!!"

Butterfly Kanae looked at her sister helplessly, and finally could only say in a coaxing tone: "Okay, okay, I believe Xiaonin, go to bed early, okay? I have to get up early tomorrow to sort out the medicinal materials with my mother."

"Sister, you coax the child! I really didn't lie!!" Butterfly Shinobu's stubborn voice continued to ring.

Outside the room, Butterfly Yaoxin, who was listening to the conversation between the two sisters, also shook his head helplessly, "What a stubborn child."

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On the country road, Mr. Mori and Shinichi, each carrying a big bag, set out on the road home.

"Shinichi, did you really scare the child of Butterfly's family just now?"

"Does it matter?"

"Nothing, but scaring a child is not a glorious thing."

"Haha, I am happy!"

Mr. Mori looked at Shinichi who was occasionally stubborn. It was also at this time that he could feel the childishness of a teenager of the same age in Shinichi. No matter what, in the eyes of Mr. Mori, Shinichi was just a teenager.

"I am really old, and the future belongs to you young people."