Going from the foot of the mountain to the house where Hinataki Saru recently lived would be very easy for Itachi who could use ninjutsu. However, in order to maintain his salty ideals, Itachi couldn't show any flaws and even had to pretend to be clumsy.

appearance.

Because of this, when he climbed up the mountain again, he felt that his feet no longer belonged to him.

Itachi looked at the back of the figure walking in front of him and lowered the corners of his lips unconsciously. If he could, he would like to know what was in Tomioka Giyu's brain and why he let a five-year-old child climb a mountain on two legs.

More importantly, don’t men even understand what coquettishness is?

Itachi, disguised as a salted fish, secretly moved his ankles, and from a distance he saw Ubuya Shiki Amane waiting there anxiously.

Tianyin also discovered Itachi at this time. She ran two steps and rushed over to hold her youngest son, who had been taken away by the ghost, in her arms.

Tomioka Giyuu frowned even more. He knew Amane, but the child in Amanyin's arms didn't seem to be one of the five children of the lord's family. Tomioka Giyuu thought of countless possibilities for Itachi's identity.

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Ningtaki Sakonji can be said to be the one who knows Tomioka Giyu the best. Seeing Tomioka Giyu freeze in place, he knew what the man was thinking. Ningataki Sakonji patted Mizuho's head hard from behind and said, "This is my lord, my lord."

The second son of the family, a very healthy child."

Tomioka Giyuu said, "It turned out to be the child of the lord and Amane. No wonder he didn't show any timidity after being captured by the ghost."

"Lord Amane, Mr. Kintaki Sakonji, I have something to report to you two."

Who Itachi is is not important to Tomioka Giyu. What he is really worried about is the hand ghost. As far as he knows, the hand ghost has been imprisoned in a place full of wisteria flowers and cannot escape easily.

What's more important is that Tanjiro had killed the hand ghost not long ago, so why did the dead ghost appear in Saagiri Mountain?

Everything is like a puzzle.

Ubuyashiki Amane released his crow and asked it to call back Muichiro Tokitoru, who was looking for someone in the mountains. What Tomioka Giyuu said might have a great impact on Hashira, and he needed to know it as soon as possible.

When Amane passed by Tomioka Giyu holding Itachi's hand, she stopped and asked Tomioka Giyu on behalf of her husband.

"Are you willing to be the guarantee for Kamado Tanjiro and Kamado Nezuko?"

Tomioka Giyuu nodded, he was willing to entrust his life to the Kamado Tanjiro brothers and sisters.

…

When Tokitoru Muichiro finally understood what it meant to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Itachi, he even ignored the "monstrous" Tomioka Giyu and walked straight in Itachi's direction.

"White steamed buns."

There was nervousness in Muichiro's voice. Itachi didn't want to be friends with the natural Muichiro before. He thought that he couldn't handle the natural Muichiro because he didn't know how to deal with it, and he couldn't even keep up with Muichiro's jumping ideas.

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Until the appearance of Tomioka Giyu...

Giyu Tomioka perfectly explained what it means that there is no harm without contrast. From the perspective of Itachi who was forced to disguise himself as a cub and climb the mountain again, those who can be friends with Giyu Tomioka are warriors.

Here Amane and Ningtaki Sakonji listened to Tomioka Giyu's brief report, and over there Itachi and Tokidou Muichiro communicated using the sign language they created.

Itachi pointed at himself, then stretched out his hand to make a hug gesture, and then pointed at Tomioka Giyu who was sitting upright on the other side. Itachi gestured to the shape of the Nichirin Sword and then waved his hand, making a walking motion with two fingers.

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Muichiro Tokitoru was very smart and saw through everything, "You wanted Mr. Tomioka to hug you, but he thought you were going to help him carry the knife, and then he refused you and asked you to walk back by yourself."

There are no mistakes in the summary from Muichiro.

Tomioka Giyu, who was suddenly named by Kasumashira:? [Slowly typed a question mark]

"So what you did just now was a hug?" Tomioka Giyuu's always cold and indifferent expression finally showed a crack, and his brain was restarting.

Amane Uyashiki, who was attracted and had never been acted like a spoiled child by Itachi before, smiled. There was surprise in her smile, "Oh, it turns out Itachi can really act like a spoiled child."

…

Before this, Tomioka Giyuu had never suspected that there was a problem with his ability to receive information, nor did he know that his popularity among the pillars was not as good as he imagined. After all, he spoke directly and thought abstractly, always saying things that made people think.

If you want to beat him to death.

Because Tomioka Giyuu didn't understand Itachi's hug, and after being hit continuously by Tokitoru Muichiro and Amane, he entered a state of panic. Even when he was sitting in the carriage, his face was dull.

Muichiro Tokitoru poked Tomioka Giyu with a small stick he found somewhere. After being poked, Tomioka Giyu only shook his head and showed no other reaction at all.

Muichiro Tokitou seemed to have some interest. He waved to Itachi and asked him to join him in "bullying" Tomioka Giyu.

Itachi ignored the three-and-a-half-year-old Muichiro and resolutely stopped playing such boring games.

Now they are on their way back, and Amane is sitting at attention in the innermost part of the carriage. She is looking at the "interaction" between Tokidou Muichiro and Tomioka Giyu with a smile, and feels that the relationship between Hashira has taken a further step.

Amane touched the letter in her arms that had been sent to Ubuya Shiki Yōya recently by Rintagisa. She thought that Yōya would be relieved after learning a series of news about what happened. Their war is probably really going to happen.

changed.

"Itachi, as Uyashiki, we must watch them carefully."

Itachi understood what Tianyin meant, watched everything about them, and then used his own power to protect them.

but……

The five-year-old Itachi looked down at his palms. No, his dream was to eat salted fish, not to protect the world.

So in order to prevent Tianyin from continuing this topic, Itachi decided to use his trump card.

Even though Yōya, as her husband, had said that Itachi didn't need to accept everything so early, as a mother and the supporter of Uyashiki Yōya, she always needed help to worry about more things.

For example, if the Ubuyashiki family is forced to have only its youngest son, Itachi should assume the responsibility of the Ubuyashiki family.

When Tianyin was thinking about the worst possibility, Itachi stretched out his hand and tugged on the corner of her clothes, then silently opened his arms...

hug.

Tianyin's heart was suddenly abducted. She smiled when she saw her youngest son, and then she hugged Itachi, who was acting coquettishly towards her for the first time, and pinched his white cheeks intimately with her hands.

"Itachi, can you act coquettishly with your father when you go back? My father will definitely be very happy."

Itachi:(●_●)I didn’t hear anything.

…

Everything went well on the way back. When he entered the main house of the Demon Slayer Corps, Giyuu Tomioka finally completed the reboot. He very seriously grabbed Muichiro Tokitou, who seemed to be in a good mood.

Muichiro Tokitoru was suddenly pulled and staggered by Tomioka Giyu. He turned his head and looked at the man speechlessly, asking with his expression, "What do you want to do?"

Tomioka Giyuu was silent for a long time and before Muichiro Tokitoru was about to hit someone, he said, "Am I really slow?"

Muichiro Tokidou nodded. He raised his finger and pointed at himself and then gestured to a height in mid-air. Then he pointed at Tomioka Giyu and gestured at a position lower than himself.

Muichiro gestured to the water column, he was even more slow than himself!!!

Tomioka Yoshiyuki who unexpectedly understood:...

It turns out that his status in the heart of Xiazhu, who likes to be in a daze, has been reduced to this?!

Muichiro Tokitou didn't care about Tomioka Giyu who was dying again. He turned around and caught up with the swaying Itachi, then followed behind Itachi silently, watching Itachi who was trying to walk and snickering.

The graceful girl passed by Tomioka Giyu who was standing there as a sculpture and blinked. Then she caught up with Muichiro Tokitoru with a smile, and the girl patted Muichiro's shoulder from behind.

"Mr. Tokitou, is Mr. Tomioka poisoned? Why are you standing there stupidly?"

Then Muichiro Tokitou said everything indifferently, about the understanding of a normal person reaching out to a cub and the understanding of Giyuu Tomioka.

"Ara, it turns out that Mr. Shuizhu has always had such a wrong understanding of himself."

As the girl spoke, she took out a lollipop from her arms and stuffed it into Itachi's hand, which had nothing to do with her. She teased Itachi and said, "Itachi-kun, call me sister."

Itachi looked at the girl who looked like a fluttering butterfly with an expressionless face. The girl was one of the pillars who followed Ubuya Shiki Amane that day, and she was the one who called him Maruko.

Facing the Butterfly Ninja, Itachi said that he would not be tempted by a candy.

But he pretended to be serious with his chubby face, which completely touched the girl's heart of Butterfly Ninja. Itachi was caught off guard by Butterfly Ninja and picked him up.

"Bai Wanzi calls sister and I will let you down."

I will never obey Weasel to the death: Even if I am a salted fish, I am still a salted fish with dignity!

The noisy group arrived in front of Ubuyashiki Yoshiya and his wife. Ubuyashiki Yoshiya couldn't see but had sensitive ears. He heard footsteps and noisy happy sounds from a distance.

The man held the hand of his wife beside him and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

"It's Hashira and Itachi who are here. The energetic Insect Hashira is holding Itachi in his arms, as if he's asking Itachi to act like a spoiled child. Muichiro is staring at Itachi with a very relaxed expression. There's also Shuizhu who is walking at the end and is being held in silk by Insect Hashira.

He's being dragged along, probably...still in a state of panic."

Ubuyashiki Yōya could probably guess the scene from his wife's description. He lowered his head and laughed, "What's Itachi's expression?"

"Itachi, holding a lollipop in his hand, his face is still expressionless, but... I think there must be some waves in his heart." Tianyin replied gently.

Ubuyashiki Amane held his wife's hand harder, thinking that it must be a very harmonious scene, "I'm very happy that my swordsmen can show expressions other than heavyness, and I'm also very happy that Itachi can make friends."

"Tianyin, maybe Itachi is really the person we are looking for."

What is the main mission of Demon Slayer Squad?

In addition to accurately grasping the deployment of the Demon Slayer Squad, their mission is also more important...to provide spiritual support to the swordsmen and gather their strength.

And he dreamed of being the young son of Xianyu, and he achieved it easily.

The sound of footsteps gradually came closer, and Ubuyashiki Yoshiya turned to the direction of the column.

"My lord——"

They pay their respects to the man they respect most.

Ubuyashiki Yōya smiled, because in addition to Hashira's voice, he heard a "heavy" footsteps.

He felt a pair of small hands holding his fingers, and the clear voice of the youngest son came to his ears.
Chapter completed!