Playing house in the anime world

In Yokohama, the dock is as lively as ever.

"Yo Xisa-kun! I'm counting on you today too!"

Caesar raised his head and greeted the visitor with a smile. After some greetings, he left the dock carrying a box.

Half an hour later, he came back carrying the box.

"That's all for today. There should be a lot more tomorrow..."

Another half an hour later, Caesar left the dock with his hands in his pockets.

"I am back."

"Welcome back!" Aiko Gojo was lying in the living room in a daze.

Half a month ago, they moved from the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters to this carefully selected city to settle down.

The house was provided by the Ubuyashiki family and is located in the outermost circle of the bustling city center, close to the suburbs.

The reason for choosing this city is that the business trade here is very prosperous, and there are merchant ships communicating with overseas. There are several well-known herbal medicine shops locally, some of which are time-honored brands that have been passed down for many years.

Not only do they grow their own herbs, they also purchase herbs from all over the country and import them from overseas.

Caesar found a job as a deliveryman and successfully infiltrated a shop.

The information he has learned so far is that the owner behind this herbal medicine store chain is from a family of pharmacists.

The boss is very rich and very good at adapting to the development of the times.

Whether it is importing some medicinal herbs from abroad or one's daily living habits, they have begun to westernize. People usually wear suits instead of kimonos.

They are also very open-minded and attach great importance to children's education.

So they are very happy to hire foreigners like Xisa.

They even wanted to find out some things about Italy through Caesar, and vaguely wanted to import medicinal herbs from that country.

I have to say, the boss is really good at doing business.

The reason they chose this city and this pharmacy was obviously because they wanted to try their luck and see if they could collect some information.

For example, since they are a family of drug dealers, they should know or be acquainted with some medical families. If a tragedy happens in a medical family overnight, they should have some impression of it.

They want to start from this aspect and collect some case information that the Demon Slayer Corps is unaware of.

Chiba Niyuu and Morobushi Kagemitsu were also here. They took another route and pretended to be herb merchants, responsible for purchasing herbs.

They claimed that they had a sister who had a strange disease and could not see the sun since birth. Her skin would ulcerate if she saw the sun, so they searched everywhere for a way to help their sister overcome the sun disease.

Gojo Aiko thinks that although they don’t know why Demon King Muzan became a demon, they can endure it and pretend that they are like Demon King Muzan. Then what will they do by constantly visiting clinics and pharmacies?

Caesar, who has experience as a Ripple Warrior, firmly believes that the Demon King Muzan must have been moving around with the purpose of overcoming his weakness in sunlight.

Although demons possess the special talent of blood magic, it is obvious that this talent cannot help them overcome the sunlight.

So the Demon King Muzan turned to the simplest medical method. He had thousands of years to overcome this difficulty, and he had countless experimental subjects.

Perhaps due to the limitations of the times, the level of science and technology in the past hundred years was not very high, and he may not have researched anything.

But this is not necessarily true. After all, the Demon King Muzan was once a human. He was not born a demon. Something must have happened in between.

Maybe he has already completed his research and is just missing the last step.

Aiko Gojo chose to start from two aspects.

She assumed the first situation, that the Demon King Muzan had not yet found a way to overcome his weakness to sunlight, so he had been looking for a doctor everywhere.

The second hypothesis is that he has found a method and is about to succeed, but a certain link in the method may not have been achieved, such as missing a certain medicine.

But if the Ghost King Muzan wanted to find medicine, it is unlikely that he would not find it after searching for so long, after all, he has lived for thousands of years.

What kind of thing could have kept him searching for thousands of years without finding it? So Gojo Aiko was inclined to the first hypothesis.

However, some people have different views from him.

"It's impossible for a pharmacy to have all the medicinal herbs in the world, right? Besides, some things are not only medicinal herbs, but can also be eaten, or have not yet been classified as medicinal herbs."

Kakyoin Noriaki felt that they all overlooked one point.

"The medicinal herbs that Ghost King Muzan is looking for are definitely not ordinary stuff. They must be extremely special. That's why he hasn't found them for thousands of years. It's very likely that ordinary people don't even know about these extremely special herbs, and they may not even be available in pharmacies."

"Then... instead of looking in the pharmacy, maybe the Ghost King Muzan has already dug deep into the ground to search all over the mountains and plains, but ghosts can only move at night."

In the past, Noriaki Kakyoin often went outdoors to sketch, and they also often went hiking or camping. The flowers and plants in nature have their own growth patterns.

Going to the mountains to look for herbs late at night is definitely not as convenient as going during the day.

After all, we can see clearly during the day, but it is completely dark at night. Even if ghosts have a special body structure and they may have night vision, they will definitely overlook some things.

Especially some plants look very similar to each other, or are hidden deep underground, can the Demon King Muzan really tell them apart?

What if he is looking for flowering plants? When some plants do not bloom, you can't tell the difference between them and weeds.

What’s more, ghosts are actually afraid of wisteria. What if the herb he is looking for grows next to wisteria?