"I'm so tired, Mr. Kato!!"
Mitsuri followed behind, leaning on her wooden sword, complaining in a tearful voice.
Teiichi didn't turn around, but said reassuringly, "Keep going! You'll be there soon!"
"Could we practice less tomorrow?" Mitsuri pleaded.
Teiichi decisively rejected Mitsuri.
"No, this is only the first day!"
"Besides, with your physical talent, you're meant for a lot of strength training!"
"Only in this way can your physical talents be fully developed!"
"It's only because you wasted your childhood that things are like this now, otherwise there wouldn't be any Uzui and Himejima!"
Mitsuri pouted upon hearing this.
She seemed to see her future, yet at the same time, she seemed to see it.
Whether she saw it or not, she felt that her future was bleak.
Yes! At least for the time being, if I stay in the Swordsmith Village with Mr. Kato, it will probably be like this!
She now understood why her teammates had been screaming so pitifully when she was training them at home.
Being trained by someone much stronger than yourself is really exhausting!
She's already considering whether she should slack off on training the regular team members when she gets back.
After all, training is so tiring.
However, Mitsuri immediately shook her head.
Just as Mr. Kato wouldn't let me off the hook, I can't let the other team members off the hook either!
This is all for their own good!
Go Mitsuri!!
Hearing the sound of the cane gradually receding into the distance, Teiichi paused slightly, turned around, and waited for Mitsuri, who was several dozen meters away.
Mitsuri approached little by little, and when she was just a few meters away, Teiichi:
"The reception should have already prepared dinner, Mitsuri. What do you think we should have for dinner tonight?"
Mitsuri straightened up slightly upon hearing this. "Yesterday we had eel rice and pork cutlet rice. I bet today we'll have udon noodles, grilled chicken skewers, and tamagoyaki!"
After saying that, Mitsuri smiled and looked at Teiichi.
" Mr. Kato, what do you think?"
"Me?"
Teiichi murmured to himself as he walked forward, saying as he went:
I bet we'll have curry rice and sukiyaki tonight.
"Hehe..." Mitsuri laughed as she looked at Teiichi, "You don't know this, do you? Sukiyaki isn't suitable to be eaten with curry rice!"
"How did you know?" Teiichi glanced at Mitsuri.
"Because I've tried it!" Mitsuri giggled, "Sukiyaki is still..."
The two walked back to the reception area.
When they were still twenty or thirty meters away from the house, Mitsuri shouted happily.
"I can smell it! Tonight's dinner includes udon noodles, grilled chicken skewers, and..."
Mitsuri tilted her head slightly and sniffed deeply.
Teiichi, barely managed to suppress his laughter.
Yes, Mitsuri has a sense of smell when it comes to food that's just as good as Tanjiro's!
After smelling it for a short while, Mitsuri exclaimed happily:
"And tempura!!"
"Yeah, I had tempura yesterday! But it should taste just as good today!"
After saying that, Mitsuri turned around and looked at Teiichi with a grin.
"How about that, Mr. Kato? I won today! I guessed two correctly, and you didn't guess any of them!"
Teiichi smile, "Hmm, I didn't expect you to be so amazing!"
Upon receiving the praise, Mitsuri excitedly tilted her head back.
Teiichi reminded him, "Hurry up, we're going to eat!"
"Um!"
Mitsuri nodded happily and ran towards the guesthouse, taking three steps at a time.
When Teiichi was still a few meters away from the door, Mitsuri went in first.
Immediately, a greeting came from inside the house.
" Lady Kanroji, you're back!"
"Um!"
" Lord Kato hasn't returned yet. Would you like to wait for him to come back so we can have dinner together?"
"He..."
"If the food is ready, just bring it on!" the two said, Teiichi had already reached the door.
Seeing Teiichi return, the villagers greeted him with smiles, " Lord Kato, you're back early today!"
"Yes, I didn't have anything to do today, so I came back first!" Teiichi smile.
The villager laughed and said, "Alright, then you and Lady Kanroji go to the restaurant first, and I'll bring dinner over right away!"
"Thank you so much!" Teiichi, expressing his gratitude.
"You're too kind!" The villager turned and walked towards the kitchen.
Teiichi and Mitsuri also headed towards the place where they had eaten yesterday.
In the corridor, Mitsuri tilted her head and looked at Teiichi with a puzzled expression.
"Why do I feel like the villagers see you differently than they see me?"
"What's different?" Teiichi glanced at her casually as he walked and asked casually.
"At once..."
Mitsuri frowned slightly, lost in memories. The scene of meeting the villagers in the village just moments before flashed through her mind.
"Exactly! When he sees me, he bows very respectfully and greets me, his posture is so perfect, it's like he's had rigorous training. But when he sees you, he doesn't bow at all!"
As Mitsuri spoke, she gestured with her hands to illustrate the villagers' bowing motion, trying to describe the Teiichi more vividly.
Teiichi chuckled softly and explained, "He used to bow to me too, but every time I bowed, I had to bow back to him, which was too much trouble, so I told him not to bow anymore! He probably doesn't bow when he meets his best friends either!"
"Huh? Why would you do that?" Mitsuri looked at Teiichi with a puzzled expression.
"Why what?" Teiichi, somewhat puzzled.
Mitsuri gestured with her hands, trying to explain her thoughts clearly:
"When they bow to you, just accept it; you don't need to bow back! It's simply a gesture of respect!"
Teiichi, then nodded.
"Sure, but I personally don't really like this way of greeting."
"It feels too formal to use in a normal situation, as if there's a huge distance between us."
"Comparatively speaking, I still prefer to just greet him with a smile, like we did just now!"
"But they're just ordinary villagers from the Swordsmith Village, while we're Pillars!"
Mitsuri raised her voice, feeling that as a Pillar, it was perfectly normal for her to receive bows from the villagers of the Swordsmith Village.
Teiichi frowned slightly and explained with a serious expression:
"We're no different from them, just with different responsibilities!"
"While it's true that we ghost hunters face greater danger compared to them, there's no need to highlight the gap between us in this way!"
Having said that, Teiichi at Mitsuri and said:
"Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and you don't have to agree with me! Everyone has their own preferred way of greeting others and their own way of getting along with people."