In a basement beside the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters.
Chiba Yo pushed open the basement door with a crudely made wooden box on his back.
Yushiro was carrying several reagent bottles toward an inner room. At the sound, he turned and saw Chiba Yo, then immediately looked annoyed.
"Is Miss Tamayo here right now?" Chiba Yo still had not calmed down from his excitement.
After encountering the demon that could track targets through their blood, he had knocked the demon unconscious and brought him to Tamayo.
But the journey was too long to finish in one night. As dawn approached, he had no choice but to cut down two trees and piece the wood together into a crude box, then support it with both hands as he carried it here on his back.
The demon had woken up several times along the way. Whenever Chiba Yo noticed, he immediately rewarded him with another heavy blow. By now, the demon's neck had broken and healed, broken and healed, nearly ten times.
Because the box was so crude, Chiba Yo could not spare any attention for the Kasugai Crow tied to his waist while carrying the demon. The crow had suffered a thoroughly jarring ride, and Chiba Yo could only silently apologize to him a few times.
Of course, he had only done this out of necessity. He absolutely was not trying to get revenge on Crow Bro.
Yushiro was puzzled by Chiba Yo's strange appearance, but he had no desire to concern himself with it. "She's not here," he told Chiba Yo outright.
Hearing that, Chiba Yo was baffled. "But it's daytime. Where else would Miss Tamayo be?"
"How should I know?" Yushiro replied impatiently. "Lady Tamayo isn't here, so hurry up and leave."
With that, he started toward the inner