An Inquiry into the Blue Spider Lily

Tamiko blinked, covering her mouth. "Ah, sorry, I forgot about Miss Yuko..."

Yuko felt a sense of relief in her heart and didn't offer much explanation.

She simply said, "Regarding this, just pretend you never heard it. Things will proceed as they normally would. If you happen to see it, feel free to pick it and take it home to eat, as if it were just a wild vegetable."

"I was able to break free from Muzan's control and didn't lose my humanity, perhaps it's because of this."

Because this was the ancestral home of Tanjiro's family, she was so certain.

Otherwise, there would be no logical explanation for why she, like Nezuko, could break free from control.

Tamiko thought for a moment, then clenched one fist and slapped it into her palm. "Right! I think I picked some at that time."

Even when pregnant, peasant women in ancient times often did simple farm work, let alone picking wild vegetables.

At this moment, Tanjiki said uneasily, "But, that flower is still here after all. If the Demon King discovers it..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yuko shook her head, interrupting him. "Regarding that, Older Brother, you must have seen what it looked like when this flower bloomed, right?"

She said this while looking at Yoriichi.

Yoriichi pondered for a moment. "It bloomed suddenly, even though there wasn't even a bud before."

Yuko nodded slightly. "Yes, it was the same when I first saw it."

"And I didn't pick it at the time. It bloomed for a few minutes and then suddenly withered."

Everyone was a little surprised. "A few minutes?"

"Therefore, Muzan definitely couldn't have discovered it."

Honestly, as a BOSS, Muzan's intelligence was questionable.

He could have easily tempted a large number of influential figures with the promise of immortality to help him search.

It would have been simple for these influential figures to dispatch hundreds or thousands of people to search.

Yet, he never trusted anyone and preferred to search himself.

Yuko: "So I think that flower probably only blooms during the daytime in summer."

"If that's the case, then the Demon King really wouldn't be able to find it."

Yoriichi turned to look. "Do you need to transplant it to your home? So it's convenient for you to eat."

Yuko blinked, then waved her hand. "Let's not. Such an important flower, what if it dies after transplanting?"

Yoriichi nodded slightly.

The two stayed at Tanjiki's house for some time, but only managed to pick a few more flowers, all of which went into Yuko's stomach.

Although it was still useless.

The flower seemed to have more demanding growth conditions than they had imagined, and it wouldn't bloom every day, even in summer.

Summer ended, and they bid farewell to Tanjiki's family. The next meeting would perhaps be the day the spider lilies bloomed next year.

In the following days, Yuko continued to practice swordsmanship under Yoriichi's guidance.

She gradually realized that the gap between her and Yoriichi wasn't in the sword forms.

In terms of sword moves and martial arts, she was certainly inferior to Yoriichi.

Even among sword masters who had achieved the highest realm of martial arts, there was an unimaginable gap between the strong and the weak.

As the saying goes, if you don't practice, you see me like a frog in a well looking at the moon; if you do practice, you see me like a mayfly seeing the blue sky.

Yoriichi's talent and strength were unmatched.

However, if one were to solely consider the power of sword moves, sword forms enhanced by Blood Demon Art, Yoriichi, as a human, couldn't compare.

Therefore, the problem lay in speed and reaction.

She was still far from the speed that even the Demon King couldn't react to.

Yuko began to focus on training her dynamic vision and speed.

When one is busy, one realizes how quickly time passes.

During the day, she meditated at home.

At night, she practiced in the mountains.

And every summer, she and Yoriichi would always visit Tanjiki's family.

Each visit yielded a few Blue Spider Lilies. Despite having consumed many, she still felt no resistance to sunlight.

Every attempt to expose herself to the sun resulted in burns. The most severe time was when her entire body was exposed to the sun.

If Yoriichi hadn't reacted quickly enough, she would have been completely melted by the horrific burns all over her body.

This led Yuko to wonder if it needed to be taken with other medications.

A figure gradually emerged in her mind.

Tamayo.

She had no direction on where to find Tamayo.

Moreover, how could a good-for-nothing like her, who only mooched off her family, survive on her own?

She couldn't possibly sneak into someone's house in the middle of the night to spill their blood, could she?

Things were thus delayed.

Another year, summer arrived.

This year, Yuko was thirty, and Yoriichi was thirty-one.

"Sister Yuko, come out and play~"

Miyare, who had grown into a little girl, affectionately kissed Yuko's cheek and tugged at her clothes.

Yuko was cleaning wild vegetables inside the house and chided, "You can't, Sister Yuko is sick and can't be in the sun."

Yuko smiled and patted her head, "Go play with your brother."

Children don't have many complex emotions; she said "okay" and bounced away.

Yuko gently withdrew her gaze.

"Daddy~" Miyare, who had just bounced out the door, exclaimed in surprise.

"I'm back." Tanjiki emerged from the woods, a basket on his back.

After dealing with his daughter, Tanjiki entered the house.

He took out the spider lilies from his basket and said, "Miss Yuko, I found two."

Miyare watched curiously. She had heard that her father had gone out to find medicine to cure Miss Yuko.

Yuko nodded slightly and glanced at Miyare.

Tamiko immediately understood and said to her daughter, "Little Miyare, go call your brother to help Mommy wash them, okay?"

"Okay~"

Tamiko took the children into the inner room.

Only then did Yuko swallow the spider lily.

Tanjiki, meanwhile, skillfully found several ropes inside the house and tied them around Yuko several times.

Yuko smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you."

Tanjiki nodded solemnly, "Yes, Miss Yuko, don't worry. If anything goes wrong, I'll pull you back immediately."

Yuko nodded lightly and got up to walk out of the house.

As soon as her foot stepped into the sunlight, her body was quickly burned.

Is it still no good?

Yuko gritted her teeth. After becoming a demon, wounds from ordinary weapons were almost painless to her, but the sun was different. Facing the sunlight directly, the searing burn felt no different than being set on fire and burned alive.

The pain was unbearable.

Tanjiki watched intently. Seeing Yuko's burns worsen, he quickly pulled the rope.

The taut rope suddenly snapped, having been burned through. Tanjiki almost fell backward.

"Miss Yuko!" he shouted in panic, quickly steadying himself and reaching out to pull Yuko.

Fortunately, Yuko was not far from the edge of the shade.

So painful!

As soon as he touched Yuko's clothes, Tanjiki instinctively pulled his hand back.

"Daddy."

From the inner room, Miyare, who had heard Tanjiki's shout, ran out.

"Don't come out! Go back!" Tanjiki shouted, turning around.

Miyare stood frozen.

This is bad...

Just as Tanjiki's heart pounded, a hand suddenly rested gently on his shoulder.

"Don't worry."