As the atmosphere before them suddenly grew tense...
The most nervous person was not the Dawn Hashira whose "secret was out."
It was the little girl standing to one side, looking utterly at a loss.
Ye Ying Kurumaji.
She could not understand why the two older sisters she spent time with every day...
Had almost simultaneously unleashed powerful pressure approaching, or even matching, that of the Nine Hashira.
Shinobu was a good person, but rather impatient, so it was one thing for her to get angry at the slightest disagreement.
But why did even the normally kind and approachable Kanae look so frightening?
"Please don't be angry..."
The little girl stammered as she clutched the Kocho Sisters' clothes, her voice pleading.
Most of Kanae's rising aura immediately dissipated.
Shinobu crouched down and gently hugged Ye Ying from behind.
"Be good, little Ye Ying. We're just discussing some grown-up matters with Big Radish."
She glanced at Kanae's profile beside her, whose expression she could not make out.
Then at Xia Xi opposite them, who had unconsciously lost some of his imposing air despite not understanding what had happened.
Then she lowered her voice.
But rather than speaking to Ye Ying, she was deliberately directing her next words at someone else present.
"You mustn't disturb Kanae right now..."
"When she gets angry, she's super scary."
"She might even give you a scolding along with him."
"And when she applies medicine, she might deliberately choose something that works better but hurts more."
"Oh, and if the Corps' swordsmen find out you've angered Kanae..."
"They might look at you strangely, too."
Ye Ying: (t︿t)
The little girl trembled in fright.
Seeing her younger sister paint an increasingly sinister picture of her, making her sound like a bully...
"I'm not angry~"
Both exasperated and amused,