Tamayo rubbed her temples and suggested, "Could it be with Young Miss Shinobu?"
"Oh, right! It's with Shinobu." Mizuki suddenly realized.
At the time, they needed to inject Nezuko with the human transformation medicine, so the medicine box had been handed over to Kochou Shinobu.
She remembered; she didn't have Alzheimer's.
Tamayo lightly touched her forehead, inexplicably recalling something.
How had this child managed during the two hundred years she was away from her?
She couldn't have been sleeping rough and wandering the streets, could she?
The so-called not eating, not drinking, and suppressing desires was actually because she couldn't earn money.
Thinking about how Mizuki came from a Samurai Family, was pampered since childhood, and seemed normal to be useless, especially since she was clumsy when they lived together before.
Tamayo couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow.
Mizuki had no idea that she had just traversed a path of hardship in Tamayo's mind.
"I'll go back to the Butterfly Mansion to get it later," Mizuki said.
Shinobu is currently undergoing special training with others, and she didn't take the medicine box from the Butterfly Mansion earlier, so it should still be in her room.
She's going to get it right away?
So urgent? She only mentioned it in passing.
Could it be... Tamayo frowned and asked, "Has Muzan already started taking action?"
"Yes, if nothing goes wrong, it will be tonight."
"Tonight?" Tamayo's eyes widened. "Why are you only telling me now?"
Mizuki: "...I only found out last night too. He has already used the abilities of other demons to find this place."
Yabai, it seems she hasn't even told Tamayo about the Eyeball Monster.
She thought Ubuyashiki would have informed her somewhat.
Tamayo didn't press the matter, only frowning deeply. "Tonight..."
She turned to look at Yushiro and said solemnly, "Yushiro, we must rely on you tonight."
Yushiro nodded seriously. "I understand."
Yushiro's Blood Demon Art possesses powerful concealment abilities. Without outstanding talent in perception, even Muzan would find it difficult to detect.
Blood Demon Art is such an unreasonable ability that even the Demon King, Kibutsuji Muzan, who is the source, cannot interfere with it.
After informing Tamayo of the situation, Mizuki pointed curiously at the medicine on the table. "So, what is this medicine on your table?"
"Ubuyashiki's blood?"
Tamayo shook her head. "There are no pathological factors detectable in his blood; it is completely the blood of an ordinary person. I merely took it on a whim that day."
Mizuki nodded.
Understood, professional habit.
Yushiro couldn't help but ask, "Then what is this?"
He seemed not to have noticed when Lady Tamayo started working on this.
Tamayo calmly picked up the medicine, looking as if she were gazing at something through the liquid.
Tamayo said calmly, "human transformation medicine. I prepared it for myself."
Both of them froze.
Yushiro panicked. "Lady Tamayo?"
What about me?
If you turn back into a human, what about me?
In his haste, he even forgot the change in address he had secretly decided upon.
"Of course, Yushiro... you can decide for yourself," Tamayo said, taking out another vial from a box nearby.
"If... we manage to survive..."
The box was densely packed with vials, making Mizuki's mouth twitch. "How many did you make?"
Tamayo smiled and explained, "Because there was a lot of Mizuki's blood left, I made a few more."
Mizuki's face went pale.
She regretted asking.
Yushiro firmly picked up the vial. "Lady Tamayo's decision is my decision."
"Whether as a human or a demon, my heart for Lady Tamayo will never change."
Having just revealed his true feelings, Yushiro, completely unaware of what he had just said, only felt that...
All that nonsense about changing his address—it really felt better to say "Lady Tamayo."
Tamayo's eyes widened slightly, seemingly lost in thought.
Mizuki couldn't help but gasp. Yushiro, what did you just say, kid?
After a moment of silence, Tamayo nodded with a complex expression. "Mm."
She naturally knew Yushiro's feelings.
She had actually decided to reciprocate this affection.
Just as Mizuki had said.
It wasn't that she thought Mizuki was right about her not owing anyone anything; she just felt that she truly shouldn't be trapped in the past.
If she decided to reciprocate this emotion, then they would inevitably have to survive as humans together, not as demons.
When Mizuki heard Tamayo say that the human transformation medicine was prepared for herself, she understood Tamayo's intention.
Like Tamayo, she also had the idea of using the human transformation medicine to revert to a human after the Final Battle, even if doing so meant her lifespan might only have less than a year remaining.
Even if she broke free from the constraints of the muzan cells, the Demon Slayer Mark could not be reversed.
The reason she had the idea of returning to a human was not because she personally harbored much rejection toward demons.
Her modern mindset was actually fine; whether being human or a demon, as long as it was good, it didn't matter.
For her, as long as she didn't have to eat people, becoming a demon was nothing special.
At worst, she could just lie around at home during the day and come out to play at night.
Speaking of which, her biological clock seemed to be like this even before the Transmigration.
She couldn't quite remember.
It was because of Kochou Shinobu. If Kochou Shinobu could become a demon like her, surviving only by borrowing a little blood, she would be happier.
Because then they would have more time.
However, Shinobu's entire Family died because of demons, and she harbors irreconcilable hatred toward them.
As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, forcing her to become the existence she once hated the most would be too much.
Even if Kochou Shinobu succumbed to being Love-Drunk and genuinely decided to become a demon to be with her, Mizuki wouldn't do it.
At this moment, Yushiro finally realized what was wrong with what he had just said.
His face flushed red, and he immediately started stammering.
The atmosphere became awkward. Mizuki didn't want to stand there as a Third Wheel, so after delivering the message, she took her leave.
Leaving Tamayo's residence, Mizuki headed straight for the Butterfly Mansion.
"Young Miss Mizuki? You're back." Kanzaki Aoi, who was airing out bedding, heard the sound coming from the corridor behind her and turned around.
"Aoi." Mizuki greeted her. "Do you remember where Shinobu put the medicine box she brought back earlier?"
"medicine box?" Young Miss Shinobu's medicine box?
No, she must mean the one brought back that day.
Kanzaki Aoi recalled the situation. "It should be in Young Miss Shinobu's room."
"I see." Mizuki had guessed as much. Shinobu wouldn't leave such a valuable item lying around.
Mizuki, familiar with the route, headed toward Shinobu's room.
Shinobu's room was right next to hers.
Mizuki pushed open the door and entered. The goldfish in the tank splashed water upon hearing the movement.
Kochou Shinobu disliked furry animals; the only pet she liked was this goldfish, which she had raised to be so plump and white that it looked strangely like a pufferfish.
Therefore, the goldfish's name was—
"Fugu (Pufferfish), long time no see."
Mizuki greeted it, then scanned the room.
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