The days that followed passed amid these various routines.
Kanzaki Kumo mainly trained on his own during the day, occasionally going out to check the abandoned buildings in his area for demons. At night, he made a round of patrols and occasionally responded to distress signals from other Corps members.
However, over the course of a month, Kanzaki Kumo did not encounter a single unlucky demon on his nighttime patrols. There was only one distress signal, from a few Mizunoto members unlucky enough to encounter a demon with a Blood Demon Art, which Kanzaki Kumo casually dispatched under their admiring gazes.
Shinobu Kocho and Butterfly Zemu also achieved preliminary results in their joint research into drugs targeting demons. After distributing them to some Demon Slayer Corps members for field use, the feedback was fairly good. The drugs could kill ordinary demons outright and greatly weaken relatively stronger ones, but their effects against demons with Blood Demon Arts were unsatisfactory and required further development.
Kanzaki Kumo also offered them some ideas, such as strengthening the drugs' disabling effects rather than trying to kill in a single dose: paralysis, reduced stamina, weakened regeneration, and so on.
After the drugs' field results were reported to Kagaya Ubuyashiki, he doubled the funding Kanzaki Kumo had originally requested in his capacity as the Rumble Hashira with a wave of his hand, and added quite a few poisonous plants and animals to the Kakushi's procurement list.
Ever since their heartfelt conversation that night, Kanzaki Kumo and Shinobu Kocho had grown closer.
Although Shinobu Kocho was still a little prickly most of the time, she occasionally showed Kanzaki Kumo some of the tenderness she had previously reserved for her family.
The Butterfly Mansion's other affairs also proceeded in an orderly fashion under Kocho Delia's coordination.
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