Tetsu no Sosuke lifted his cup and took a sip, nodding in satisfaction. "Can't be helped. When your Master is this much trouble, you end up doing extra legwork. Besides, he said he wanted me to do one thing, but it's actually two..."
Tamayo smiled. "That depends on how you look at it."
"Confirming whether the information is true is one thing. Killing the Demon that needs killing is another. That's clearly two things."
Tetsu no Sosuke clicked his tongue. Thinking back on what Ubuyashiki Kagaya had said, he found himself at a loss for words.
Ubuyashiki Kagaya had received a piece of information, but he didn't know whether it was accurate, so he needed Tetsu no Sosuke to do something.
That something was to verify the information.
If it proved true, Tetsu no Sosuke would have to organize an operation. For a short time, he would have the authority to mobilize the Pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps!
Granted, both the information to be verified and the target to be killed concerned the same person.
But they were still two separate tasks...
"You could also treat it as a single task: killing the Upper Rank Demon Nakime."
Tamayo refilled Tetsu no Sosuke's cup. "Noro Kira's current condition isn't quite what I expected. That vial of blood you obtained later is extremely valuable. With its help, along with the earlier Blood Sample, I've more or less found a way to turn Demons back into humans. But when I used it on Noro Kira, he became half human and half Demon instead. His mind also seems to have been affected to some degree. That makes it hard to tell whether what he told us is true... If it is, we can begin the operation immediately. But if it's false... an operation