A Chance for the Transparent World's Second Advancement!

As for why our all-powerful Lord Giyu Tomioka didn't personally cook a pot of loving chicken soup for his beloved wife, but instead had to ask the kitchen servants to do it?

The reason is very simple, and can even be summarized in four words:

He won't do it!

Are you kidding me!

No one is perfect. Since God gave Giyu Tomioka a face that is devastatingly handsome, He must close a window for him in other areas!

As for cooking skills, God not only closed the window for Giyu, but even welded the window frame shut with molten iron!

In Giyu's culinary dictionary, there are only two kinds of food in the world:

Radish stew with salmon and others.

Back when he first got together with Kanae, he once had a sudden urge to show off his breakfast-making skills to his wife.

As a result, he cleaved the stove in two with a single stroke;

Then he used the Sun Breathing to start a fire, almost burning the entire kitchen to ashes!

From then on, Kanae Kocho strictly forbade this human weapon from stepping within three feet of the stove.

Normally, in the mansion, it was Kanae had superb cooking skills, who personally cooked all sorts of dishes to feed him. Giyu's only task was to sit at the table with a bowl and chopsticks and be responsible for eating!

A few minutes later, in the kitchen of the Butterfly Mansion.

"Splash."

When Giyu Tomioka, with his perpetually cold and expressionless face, pushed open the kitchen door and walked in.

The five or six female cooks from the Kakushi Division, who had been busily chopping vegetables, rinsing rice, and gossiping inside, suddenly fell completely silent, standing at attention in unison, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"Good morning, Water Hashira Master!!"

There was no way around it; Giyu had accumulated too much prestige, and according to his usual routine, whenever Kanae wasn't home, this guy would practice swordsmanship in the secluded room until late morning, with Shinobu Kocho personally bringing him breakfast.

The sun had barely risen when this killer himself came to the kitchen!

Are they going to start chopping cutting boards again?!

Looking at the trembling cooks before him, Giyu remained unfazed and his heart did not skip a beat:

"Good morning. I wasn't feeling well this morning and couldn't get out of bed."

"Now, prepare a pot of chicken soup to nourish your blood and qi. Once it's done, bring it directly to my bedroom door and hand it to me."

After saying that, Giyu nodded, turned around and left the kitchen.

The kitchen was deathly silent.

A full five seconds passed before Giyu's footsteps had completely faded into the distance.

"Boom--!!"

"I... I didn't hear wrong, did I?! What did Lord Water Hashira say?!"

"He said... Lord Ren wasn't feeling well this morning and couldn't get out of bed?! And he still wants to make a soup with red dates, goji berries, angelica root, and old hen?!"

"Oh my god! Isn't that the after-work tonic soup that Kanae- sama and Water Hashira- sama always specifically request the morning after they've been really rough around the edges of their room?!"

"And what Lord Water Hashira just said was... to deliver it to his bedroom door?!"

"Hiss--!! Big news! While the Flower Hashira was away on patrol, Shinobu actually managed to sneak up on her brother-in-law last night and steal him away?!"

"Hurry! Don't just stand there! Go and slaughter that old hen we've been raising in our backyard for three years, the one that even Lord Wind Hashira wouldn't kill if he wanted to eat! Add plenty of ginseng and goji berries; this is a matter of utmost importance concerning the future mistresses of our Butterfly Mansion!!"

As for what kind of dramatic scenarios the gossip-loving members in the kitchen were concocting in their minds, Giyu naturally couldn't be bothered to care.

Meanwhile, inside the master bedroom.

Shinobu Kocho, who had been Giyu shoved back into bed by Giyu, was now lying obediently on her side.

Because Giyu had just left, the bed still held that man's unique, incredibly comforting, and refreshing scent.

Shinobu buried half her face in the pillow that Giyu had just been using, took a deep breath, and a look of infatuated bliss appeared on her face.

Then, she lowered her head slightly, her gaze falling on the center of the pristine white sheet beneath her.

There, a patch of red plum blossoms, like flowers blooming in the snow, proved that what happened last night was not a dream.

"Hehe... Mr. Giyu is mine... he's mine now..."

Shinobu Kocho's lips curled into a sweet, blissful smile.

Immediately afterwards, an overwhelming wave of weariness washed over me.

The young wife, who had just fulfilled her wish, hugged the pillow that still carried her husband's scent, slowly closed her eyes, and drifted into a sweet nap, accompanied by the chirping of birds outside the window.

Time flies, and it's already afternoon.

Around noon, Shinobu Kocho woke up groggily once and drank two large bowls of concentrated old hen soup, clumsily but patiently fed by Giyu. Afterwards, feeling sore and sleepy, she crawled back into bed to catch up on her sleep.

A gentle breeze was blowing in the courtyard.

Under the Wisteria tree,

Giyu Tomioka changed into a refreshing dark blue kendo uniform and sat cross-legged alone under the shade of a tree.

The cascading Wisteria blossoms swayed gently in the afternoon sun, casting dappled purple light.

The surroundings were so quiet that the only sound was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

However,

Deep within Giyu Tomioka's clear black and white eyes, a hint of glass-like color subtly emerged!

This is a unique sign that appears when Giyu Tomioka pushes the Transparent World to its limit!

In conventional terms, the so-called "Transparent World" is simply about pushing one's perception to its limit, being able to clearly see the contraction and relaxation of muscles, the rotation of bones, the flow of blood vessels, and the rhythm of breathing in the lungs of an opponent, thereby predicting the opponent's attack in advance.

But for Giyu Tomioka, who had already reached the Pinnacle of Humanity, he had already explored every imaginable aspect of that basic, Transparent World!

A year ago, Giyu was able to see everything that would happen within the next three minutes!

A three-minute Future Sight!

Imagine a battle between masters, where life and death are often decided in a second. What would it mean if someone could see their opponent's every move, every step, and even their dying glance three minutes in advance?!

This is one of the reasons Giyu took action against Muzan Kibutsuji!

At this very moment, the reason why Giyu Tomioka, sitting under the Wisteria tree, wore such a focused and solemn expression was because he keenly sensed—

That afternoon, his Transparent World began to show signs of secondary development and further advancement!

"Buzz--"

Giyu narrowed his eyes, which shimmered with a divine light, and quietly watched a Wisteria drifting down from mid-air in front of him.

In his view, the entire world was once again collapsing and being reconstructed!

Only when he felt a slight soreness in the corner of his eye did he slowly close his eyes, the strange light in his pupils dissipating.

When he opened his eyes again, they were back to their usual deep blue. Looking at his hands, a sense of anticipation rose in his heart.

"Unexpectedly, after half a year of secluded cultivation yielding no progress, a new breakthrough was found thanks to Ren's antics."

"My first promotion gave me three minutes of Future Sight, making me invincible."

"If this Transparent World can completely complete its second advancement... perhaps..."

Thinking of this, Giyu couldn't help but sigh inwardly:

Sometimes, a balance of tension and relaxation, a harmony of yin and yang, is indeed much more effective than blindly practicing.

So, all things considered, Shinobu's chaotic behavior last night actually turned out to be a great service by accident!