"Snap!"
A crisp sound of porcelain shattering echoed in the quiet living room.
Across from him, Giyu frowned slightly when he saw that Shinobu not only didn't leave but had also crushed the plate. He thought he had said something too harsh and hurt the girl's pride, and was about to speak up to ease the tension:
"Ren, it's okay that the plate is broken, what I mean is..."
Before the words were even finished!
"Plop!!"
A heartbeat as loud as the beating of a war drum suddenly exploded in Giyu's chest!
Giyu, who was about to stand up, paused, swayed slightly, and placed his right hand on his knee.
"Huh...?!?!"
"Boom--!"
Giyu felt his blood flow triple in just one second!
The skin surface quickly became congested with blood, and a visible blush appeared on the neck and behind the ears!
"This tea... is there something wrong with it?!"
Giyu Tomioka raised his head, a hint of surprise flashing in his deep blue eyes!
His gaze was like lightning, first sweeping over the celadon teacup on the low table, which he had already emptied completely, then fixing on Shinobu Kocho's face as she slowly raised her head:
"This isn't some calming and soothing tea at all... Ren, what did you put in this tea?!"
At this moment, even with Giyu Tomioka composure, a row of black lines couldn't help but pop into his mind!
What kind of nonsense is this?!?!
He was strategizing and preparing to kill the Demon King, but then bandits suddenly invaded his home base!
And the one who betrayed him wasn't Muzan's Twelve Kizuki, but actually his sister-in-law, whom he had just recently given the "good sister" card to?!
"Click--"
Shinobu Kocho didn't rush to answer.
She brushed the cookie crumbs off her hands, stood up, and walked lightly to the front door.
In front of Giyu, she stretched out her fair little hand and closed the two paper doors.
After doing all this.
Shinobu Kocho turned around, leaning against the door, her gaze fixed intently on Giyu Tomioka, who was sitting cross-legged on the tatami mat.
The dim candlelight cast an ambiguous glow on the girl's face.
At this moment, Shinobu Kocho completely shed her usual gentle, dignified, and demure facade as a well-bred young lady!
On her fair, doll-like face, the corners of her mouth turned up high, and her beautiful purple eyes no longer held their usual restraint. Instead, they held a smile that was both innocent and obsessive—a beautifully yandere smile!
"Oh my, Mr. Giyu noticed so quickly?"
"Her keen perception is frighteningly sharp."
Shinobu Kocho tilted her head, gently raised both hands, and pinched her silk ribbon with her slender fingers:
"You ask what kind of drug I used? It's nothing special~"
"It's just an aphrodisiac and Soft-Bone Powder that I spent three whole months refining~"
"Sizzle--"
It was accompanied by a soft rustling sound of silk.
With a flick of her wrist, Shinobu Kocho tore open the sash at her chest!
The loose, light purple outer garment slipped halfway down her rounded, delicate shoulders, hanging loosely in the crook of her arm, revealing the close-fitting pure white lining underneath, as well as a large expanse of her exquisite collarbone and rounded shoulders that shimmered with a pinkish glow!
Shinobu, with her bare, snow-white feet, stepped onto the tatami mat and walked step by step to Giyu, laughing hysterically, her tone carrying a hint of obsession:
"Based on the dosage I calculated, even someone with Mr. Himejima's physique would become weak and disoriented within ten seconds after drinking this entire cup of special tea, turning him into a puppet completely at my mercy!"
"Are you feeling burning hot all over now, so hot you can't even lift a finger, my dear... brother-in-law?"
As she spoke, a fervent look of determination flashed in Shinobu Kocho's eyes. She opened her arms and pounced on Giyu, who was sitting cross-legged, intending to pin this high and mighty Water Hashira down first!
However!
Just as Shinobu Kocho's soft, fragrant body was about to fall into Giyu's arms!
A sudden change has occurred!
"--Nagi!!"
"Buzz--!"
In an instant, the wind and waves subsided!
Are you kidding me?!
Do you really think the phrase "the Pinnacle of Humanity" came from a roadside cabbage wholesaler?!
Three or four years ago, Giyu might have actually fallen victim to this long-planned and deadly poison.
But now, Giyu can forcibly combine the Breathing Style of the Sun, Moon, and Water schools, and his physical strength has already reached the ceiling of carbon-based life forms!
A mere aphrodisiac Soft-Bone Powder made from herbs—they think they can paralyze his motor nerves?!
Giyu simply took a deep breath!
"Laugh--!"
The visible pink mist was forcibly expelled from Giyu's body, evaporating completely in the air with a soft sound!
"What?!"
While still in mid-air, Shinobu Kocho's pupils suddenly contracted, her small face filled with horror!
Before she could react, Giyu Tomioka, who should have been at her mercy, suddenly shot out his right hand like lightning!
With just one large hand, Giyu effortlessly grabbed Shinobu Kocho's slender wrist and twisted it downwards!
"Aaaaaah--!"
Not only did Shinobu Kocho fail to tackle Giyu, but Giyu also lifted and pressed her down with one hand, pinning her to the spot in a humiliating position with her hands twisted behind her back!
The situation reversed dramatically in an instant!
"This... this is impossible!!"
Shinobu Kocho struggled a couple of times as she was pinned to the knee, only to find that the large hand gripping her wrist was like a pair of iron clamps. No matter how much force she exerted, she couldn't even make Giyu's fingers wiggle a millimeter!
Shinobu turned her head and stared blankly at Giyu's handsome face, which was slightly flushed but with terrifyingly clear eyes.
"How so?!?!"
"Even an elephant would collapse on the spot after drinking it!"
"Mr. Giyu, what kind of monstrous body do you have?!"
"Why are you completely unharmed?!"
"Who said I'm fine?"
Looking at the girl writhing and struggling in his arms, feeling the still faintly burning blood within him, and the soft, delicate body rubbing against his legs as she struggled, Yi Yong couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He said Giyu a deep, irritated voice:
"Your medicine is indeed quite potent. If I hadn't already reached the Extremity Realm, you might have actually succeeded tonight."
Giyu raised his free left hand and flicked Shinobu Kocho's forehead lightly without any hesitation:
There's a limit to how much nonsense we can do!
"As the manager of the Butterfly Mansion, instead of researching how to counteract Muzan's poison, you spent three months developing this despicable aphrodisiac to scheme against your own brother-in-law?!"
"Tell me! Where is the antidote?"
"Hand it over now, or I'll write to Kanae tomorrow and tell her everything that happened tonight!"
"Ouch... it hurts!"
Shinobu Kocho had just been flicked on the forehead, covered her head but wasn't scared!
Since the Soft-Bone Powder isn't working, let's use something harder!
Since the facade has already been torn off, if I can't completely take down this big blockhead tonight, then once he's on guard, I'll really only be able to watch my sister eat meat while I squat in the corner and drink the northwest wind for the rest of my life!
"There is no antidote! We never prepared any antidote in the first place!"
Taking advantage of the moment when Giyu flicked her on the head, Shinobu Kocho disregarded the risk of twisting her wrist and shrugged her shoulder and twisted her waist!
"Sizzle--"
She managed to tear off the light purple silk outer garment that was already half-draped over her body and left it in Giyu's hands!
Shinobu Kocho, wearing only a tight-fitting undershirt that revealed her breathtakingly beautiful figure, didn't back down but instead moved forward, grabbing Giyu's neck and wrapping her long, slender legs around his waist, clinging to Giyu like a piece of Giyu gum!
"!!!"
Giyu froze!
I just forced out the nerve-numbing powder, but there's still 30% of that heat still running rampant inside me!
At this moment, being held so tightly by his sister-in-law who was only wearing an inner lining, the two soft mounds in front of his chest were directly squeezed and deformed. The girl's rapid breath sprayed onto his carotid artery. Even though Yi Giyu used Breathing Style to forcefully suppress it, the suppressed evil fire rose up again!
"You... you get down here! What kind of behavior is this?!"
Giyu's neck turned bright red, his hands hovering in mid-air, wanting to grab Shinobu's shoulders and pull her down, but because she was dressed so scantily, his fingers touched smooth skin everywhere, making him feel like he was being electrocuted and he didn't know where to put his hands!
This is the tragedy of facing one's own family.
If it were Muzan Kibutsuji pounced on him, Giyu would have chopped him into mincemeat with a single stroke.
But the one who pounced on him was his beloved sister-in-law, whom he couldn't afford to hurt. So he couldn't use any of his world-destroying skills!