A week had passed since Yoizumi last used Breath of Snow: Sixth Form.
After Yoizumi finished training the Demon Slayer Corps members in the afternoon, he received a letter delivered by his Kasugai Crow.
The general content was:
An urgent matter needed to be discussed, requiring all Pillars to be present.
This was the first meeting requiring everyone's participation since the last one concerning the Mark.
He pinched the letter with his fingertips; it must be related to that red sword.
It seemed Kagaya Ubuyashiki had already investigated the origin of the sword.
The meeting was scheduled for the evening, as the Pillars needed to train during the day, so the evening was chosen.
Incidentally, the next evening, Yoizumi brought a box of ohagi to thank Sanemi Shinazugawa, though he didn't know why Sanemi looked so upset.
Sanemi looked as if he wanted to slice Yoizumi into a thousand pieces, and even when Yoizumi took out the ohagi to place it in his hand, Sanemi tried to throw the ohagi at Yoizumi.
Of course, Yoizumi easily dodged it.
As for Sanemi Shinazugawa hitting him on the head while he was unconscious, Yoizumi hit him back hard when they sparred later.
He just hit him a bit too hard, knocking him out. After waking him up with Blood Demon Art: Rotation, Sanemi was like a firecracker, exploding at the slightest touch. Yoizumi had no choice but to knock Sanemi Shinazugawa out again.
And responsibly carried him back to his estate in one piece.
Now they were even.
These past few nights, Yoizumi had been researching how to minimize the consumption of the Sixth Form, so he hadn't trained with them much, and he didn't know how Tokito and the others were doing.
Oh right... since he had knocked Sanemi Shinazugawa out twice, Yoizumi felt a bit bad. He would ask Kanzaki Aoi to make some ohagi later and take them to him tonight.
Yoizumi's gaze fell on Nezuko, who was playing with Kanao not far away.
Kanao faced four pairs of sparkling eyes, at a loss. She rubbed the coin between her fingertips, and in the end, she gave up the idea of tossing it to make a decision. She nodded gently, defeated by the expectant gazes of Nezuko and the three little girls.
"Heh~," a barely audible chuckle escaped his lips, a smile appearing on his usually calm face as he rose from the long corridor.
It had been a while since he changed the water for the roses in Shinobu's room; he should go.
On the way, he met Kanzaki Aoi and told her about the ohagi. Genya, who overheard that it was for his brother, immediately offered to help.
Genya, who felt awkward being too close to girls, slowly followed Kanzaki Aoi towards the kitchen.
"..."
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Staring in astonishment at the withered roses, beyond saving, Yoizumi raised a hand to lightly touch a wilted petal. As soon as he made contact, the petal disintegrated.
Slowly, under Yoizumi's gaze, the petals scattered at his feet, leaving the rose a bare stem.
After a moment of silence, Yoizumi suddenly vanished from the room.
Ten minutes later, Yoizumi reappeared, holding more than a dozen roses. He poured out the water from the porcelain vase, replaced it with fresh nutrient solution, and selected one rose to place inside.
Yoizumi carefully scraped off the thorns from the stems of the remaining roses, intending to give them to Shinobu when he saw her.
Letting out a soft sigh of relief, Yoizumi's gaze casually swept around.
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He leaned closer to the glass fish tank. How did so many small fish appear in here?
He had only been away for a few days.
Both the flowers and the goldfish.
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