In the original story, Kanae's Flower Breathing was a Breathing Style derived from Water Breathing. Studying Water Breathing under Sakonji Urokodaki now would give her a firmer foundation, and creating Flower Breathing should not pose a problem either.
Everything at the Butterfly Mansion was going well, too. Two days earlier, he had heard that the two retired physicians had taken in three little girls together. They would raise them while teaching them some nursing knowledge, then send them to the Butterfly Mansion once they were old enough.
All he could say was that retirement really was wonderful. It had only been about a month, and the two elderly physicians whose hands used to shake even when dispensing medicine now had the energy to raise children.
The three were named Kiyo Terauchi, Sumi Nakahara, and Naho Takada-the Butterfly Mansion's little trio from the original story. Although they were still very young and would not come to work at the Butterfly Mansion for another few years, this meant they were one step closer to gathering its entire original cast.
Kanzaki Kumo was quite happy about this as well.
As for the demons, their current level of activity was normal. They had neither suddenly gone quiet nor become particularly active. Kanzaki Kumo still had plenty of room to improve his strength, and for now, he could not truly shake the forces under the Demon King.
According to his plan, once he created another new sword technique based on Water Breathing's Seventh Form, it would be time to visit the Rengoku Family to learn Flame Breathing.
Kanzaki Kumo had already worked out the rough outline of the new sword technique. His inspiration came from a movie he had seen in his previous life, in which Giyu turned the Seventh Form's single-point thrust into high-frequency