The "rescue" of Ghost Light Suigetsu was personally carried out by Purgatory Anjuro.

To be honest, he didn't quite understand the way Giyuu and Butterfly Ninja got along. The special atmosphere between the two that was always at the extreme ends of "excellent and extremely bad" was as unpredictable and changeable as the clouds on a windy day, which made him unable to get involved at all.

Even if you don't say anything, even if you just have an idea, it will be disrupted by the unpredictable behavior or language of the two people.

For the first time in his life, Anjuro felt powerless, as if nothing he could do would help the two of them have a good relationship, but would instead create unnecessary things like how he guided Giyuu before.

[Yiyong, you can only rely on yourself to get along well with Miss Shinobu.]

After sighing for a moment, Anjuro went to the third underground floor to release the ghost lamp Suigetsu.

However, just like Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuga Hinata who once left Giyuu, Giyuu and Butterfly Ninja didn't say a word for a long time after Anjuro left.

But unlike the tense atmosphere between Naruto and Hinata, the current calm between the two is not awkward, but extremely harmonious, just like the water surface without breeze in spring, quietly reflecting the uneasy scenery on the shore.

Talking wooden pile.

Butterfly Ninja bent over the table and drew a huge cross on the blank space of the notebook with a ballpoint pen.

These two horizontal and vertical lines are like a coordinate system, dividing the white paper into four evenly sized quadrants. The butterfly ninja wrote in the four boxes respectively - "Important and urgent", "Important but not urgent",

"Urgent but not important" and "Neither important nor urgent".

Giyuu stared at the paper motionless, a little confused at first, but as the Butterfly Ninja began to write, he immediately realized: the Butterfly Ninja was making plans for the future, and prioritized them to facilitate her planning and allocating time.

She wrote in the "Important and Urgent" quadrant: [Learn the knowledge left by Orochimaru; try to reverse his experiments and rescue or free the experimental subjects who are still alive.]

It involves dozens of lives on the three underground floors, and it must be completed before leaving the Kingdom of Water or before the experimental subject dies, so it is also the most important.

"Important but not urgent": [Check Ranmaru's body and collect information related to the 'blood disease'; raise flower breathing and water breathing to normal levels, and then try to mix chakra to use; practice wood escape

, cultivate crops.]

These are equally important, but they cannot be rushed.

Whether it's a disease caused by blood or cultivating crops, it will take a period of time to produce results, so it needs to be done slowly. Fortunately, both Ranmaru and Itachi Uchiha still have enough time.

"Urgent but not important": [Collect various intelligence about the Kingdom of Water before leaving.]

But when the tip of her pen fell on the last quadrant of "not urgent nor important", Butterfly Ninja stopped, as if she couldn't think of anything similar, so she put the tip of the pen against her cheek while thinking.

"Is it really okay?"

Giyu suddenly asked, "It will be difficult to reverse Orochimaru's experiment. There is a big gap between the ninja world and the earth, and he has been studying these things for many years."

He felt sad when he thought of the half-human, half-ghost children at the bottom who were lingering in nutrition tanks as if they had been transplanted with animal organs, and the dying "monsters" like tree men at the bottom.

Unfortunately, the knowledge involved in these experiments is quite advanced and cannot be understood by Yiyong in a short time.

"It's about human life. It's better to take risks than to do nothing, otherwise they can only die slowly in pain."

The butterfly ninja gave an answer, but it didn't sound like there was no hope at all.

"Although I can only bite the bullet and give it a try, when I was researching drugs against Kibutsuji Mukai with Miss Tamashii, I already had some foundations in cutting-edge biology and medicine, and I also dabbled in mathematics. Last night

, after I replaced the strange words in Orochimaru's experimental report with words from Earth, I could barely understand half of them."

The butterfly ninja wrapped his fingers around the hair on his forehead and said with some trepidation: "But for the rest, I have to ask that pharmacist Kabuto to help. After all, apart from Orochimaru himself, he is the person who knows these experimental procedures best.

He also knows how to operate those experimental equipment and computers. But I don’t know whether I should trust him..."

"Do I need to use illusions to make him cooperate?" Yiyong asked.

With the Three Magatama Sharingan, those genjutsu that couldn't be used in the past are no longer a problem now.

Although he dislikes this kind of thing, using illusion can indeed save a lot of trouble, and now is not the time to worry about it.

"No, this kind of high-precision work, if you use illusion to control him, it will actually reduce his judgment on the situation of those 'experimental subjects', so I can only give him some room to play in this regard, that is, in my heart

Not very comfortable.”

Butterfly frowned and expressed his worries.

"Kabuto Yakushi is different from Miss Tamashi. Although he promised to help, so far, he has no real regrets about his actions of helping others, and I can't figure out what he wants.

"I've made it clear to him that even if he helped me save those people, I won't let go of a villain like him so easily. But Yakushi Kabuto actually just smiled and said that he only had one request, then

That is: if you want to kill him——"

Her eyes fell on Yiyong's face, "He hopes to die in your hands so that you can continue what you didn't finish last time."

Hearing this, Giyuu's face tightened. Kabuto Yakushi was talking about the last time Giyuu almost strangled him to death.

"I don't know what he was thinking."

Yiyong shook his head firmly, "But I have no interest in being an executioner."

"I knew you would think so, so I told him the same thing, 'If you decide to die now, just hit the wall yourself.'"

[There is also a saying, 'Save other people's hands dirty'.] However, she did not convey this sentence to Yiyong.

As the Butterfly Ninja spoke, he wrote and added an entry in the "Important but not urgent" column, "He is different from ordinary 'ghosts'. Orochimaru's death did not have as big an impact on him as I imagined.

We have to find a way to figure out what he is thinking. At this time, I really envy Tanjiro’s nose that can sniff out the secrets in people’s hearts.”

After she finished speaking, there was another silence between the two of them.

This silence was completely different from the peaceful harmony before, as if the sky had suddenly turned cloudy.

Butterfly couldn't bear to feel something, and raised his head, just in time to see the magatama in Giyuu's Sharingan eye spinning rapidly, and there was an urgent desire in it, which Giyuu had never experienced before.

The skin on Yiyong's neck turned slightly red, and he couldn't help but take two deep breaths. He didn't even know that Yue's breathing rhythm was interrupted.

His eyes were locked on the butterfly ninja's face, and as if he had made a difficult decision, he asked the question that he had been avoiding asking since he woke up.

"Butterfly, did you see Tanjiro before you came?"

He was unusually nervous, and for a moment he forgot the previous agreement between the three of them on their titles.

According to the Demon Slayer's diary, all swordsmen who turn on their patterns will not live past the age of 25.

Giyu himself died two years after the Battle of Mugen City, at the age of 23. Tanjiro was 17 at the time.

Five or six years later, Anjuro came to the ninja world, and Tanjiro was 23 years old, but he had not yet reached the upper limit of the life span of a spotted swordsman, so Anjuro did not meet Tanjiro in the underworld.

This also made Yiyong breathe a sigh of relief.

But when the butterfly ninja arrived, more than three years had passed, and it was finally time for the final answer to be revealed——

Did those markings take away Tanjiro's young life?

Yiyong unconsciously held his breath and waited solemnly for Butterfly Ninja's answer.

In his opinion, Tanjiro's contribution to killing Muzan Onimbutsuji was greater than all ten of him combined.

It would be unfair if Tanjiro died young and could not be resurrected because of this incident.

No matter what, Tanjiro is more qualified to survive than him!

"He is over twenty-five years old, but I have never seen him."

The butterfly ninja smiled and gave the answer that Giyuu wanted to hear most. It was also a definite fact, not an excuse for comfort.

"My lord said that perhaps when the Wuhan cells took over Tanjiro's body, they contributed a lot of nutrients to make up for his damaged lifespan. Therefore, he should be able to live to a very old age like the original swordsman who used the Breath of the Sun.

Come on. Nezuko, who once became a ghost, will live a long life."

When the Butterfly Ninja finished speaking, there was a rustling sound of leaves above his head.

A gust of warm wind blew up the big trees and apple trees next to the two of them, and it hit Yiyong's frozen face accurately as if it had found its target.

"That's... great."

With a slightly trembling sigh from the bottom of his heart, Yiyong's ice-lake-like face began to melt.

His Sharingan, which had been soaked until it shone brightly, narrowed in happiness, and hot tears burst out uncontrollably. Even the gauze that was bandaging his left eye became wet and soaked in just a few seconds.

"Great, great, great..."

Yiyong sat there blankly, repeating this simple syllable like a mantra, over and over again, just like reciting Amitabha's name while walking in the Ming Island, full of sincere gratitude to God.

Even on the day when he knew that all the pillars could be resurrected, Yiyong had never been as grateful as he was today to the fate that controlled everything.

"It's great that Tanjiro can survive!"

While Yiyong was chanting like crazy, he raised his right hand and wiped away the tears that flowed to his mouth and chin again and again.

His movements were clumsy. After all, Yiyong, who had been emotionally isolated from himself for many years, did not always have the opportunity to shed tears.

Across the round table, Butterfly Nin looked at this scene in astonishment, a little at a loss.

She had never seen such a brave man, and she didn't know whether to comfort him or rejoice with him.

The Butterfly Ninja instinctively stretched out his hand, trying to hold Giyuu's shoulder to calm him down a little bit like Anjuro often did to others. But just when the right hand was about to touch Giyuu, it stopped suddenly, and then

Instead, she covered her mouth.

The summer wind blew the leaves above them wildly.

At this moment, the butterfly ninja also saw clearly that when Yiyong awkwardly wiped away the tears near the corners of his mouth, the corners of his lips were slightly raised in the gap between his movements.

Yiyong smiled.

The smile that had lasted for nearly ten years suddenly bloomed like a rare flower that is picky about the environment, catching people so off guard.
To be continued...