A slime came out of the pillar

After Bushichuan went out because of the mission, Sato and Giyuu also temporarily left for a period of time because of the mission. Chloe felt that she had instantly become the happiest child in the world.

He was first invited to the house of Mr. Purgatory. Ganlu Temple invited him to eat delicious cherry cakes and made him high-quality black tea. Mr. Purgatory’s younger brother, Senshouro, was a good boy. Although it was scolded several times by Purgatory's father for being too noisy, Chloe still felt that this was heaven.

In the evening, when Purgatory Xingshoulang came back from his patrol, Senjuro and Ganlu Temple covered Chloe together, saying that he had trained obediently for a day. Mr. Purgatory had no doubts at all, and patted him on the shoulder to praise him. Pile it all up and eat sweet potatoes on the patio with Chloe.

During dinner, Ganlusi smiled shyly at him holding a rice bowl several times larger than his own face: "My appetite is a bit big...so..."

"There's no need to be ashamed of this, Ganlusi!" Purgatory quickly ate the rice in his mouth, took a bite of salt-grilled sea bream from time to time, and took the time to comfort her: "No one is qualified to make irresponsible remarks about other people's food intake !"

Looking at the two masters and apprentices who had a huge appetite in front of them, Chloe inexplicably ignited the fighting spirit, took the rice handed by Senjuro, and clenched the chopsticks in his hand, fighting high: "Okay! I can't admit defeat either! "

"I'm done eating, please have another bowl!"

"I'll have another bowl too!"

"I also want!"

The eating speed of the three of them was evenly matched, and the full rice soon bottomed out. For some reason, the harmonious dinner time turned into a big appetite competition. After a long time, in the end, the Purgatory Makijuro from another room finally broke in and snatched his rice spoon, and forcibly terminated the game: "Enough! If this continues, our family's rice will be eaten up! "

Although Ganlu Temple was forced to stop eating, she was not particularly disappointed. Instead, she stared at Chloe with bright eyes and excitement. Since she was born, she has never met anyone who eats as much as her. Now that she sees Chloe, she can't help feeling There was a feeling of similarity that made me cry: "I didn't expect Chloe to look thin and small, but she actually eats so much."

"Ah, I'm pretty average." In terms of food intake, Rimuru-sama is definitely bigger, after all, his stomach is only a quarter of his size. "I know there is a famous ramen shop nearby, let's go together next time." Ganlu Temple took Chloe's words as modesty, and excitedly sent him a dinner invitation, "The super big A serving of ramen, if you eat all of it, you can get a free order.”

"Okay, let's go together some other day." Chloe agreed without thinking about it.

……

Chloe would occasionally go to the Butterfly House to make soy sauce... No, to take care of the wounded. Although he no longer lives in the Butterfly House, he still has deep feelings for it.

He stepped into the Butterfly House with the muffins made by Ganlusi himself, and he was in a good mood: "Kanahu, Xiaokui, Xiaoqing, Xiaocheng, Xiaocai, I'll bring you delicious food!"

"Chloe, here you come."

What responded to him was a friendly and gentle female voice. I saw Kanae sitting there with a smile, and the other girls were lining up for her to braid their hair. They were no longer wearing uniforms, but colorful ones. Yukata, printed with patterns of different colors and patterns, looks particularly girly.

Chloe blinked, with a blank expression on her face: "Are you planning to hold a party?"

"Nah."

Kanazaki Aoi, who was struggling with the yukata belt next to him, looked up at him, and Kanae next to him smiled and came to help her, and explained to Chloe by the way: "There will be a festival in the town below the mountain tonight, and these children haven't been out for a long time. I've played it, so Shinobi is going to take them to the festival tonight, Chloe, do you want to go together?"

"Yes!" Chloe, who had never participated in a festival, nodded excitedly, her eyes shining brightly: "What is a festival? Are there many people dancing around?"

"Hmm..." Kanae tilted her head and thought for a while, then bent her eyes and smiled and answered him: "Everyone wears beautiful yukatas and goes to the street. There are many delicious and fun things at the festival. Can we meet the Fireworks Festival?"

It sounds very interesting. Chloe was completely aroused. He has never seen fireworks. When he was in the Federation of Demon Kingdom, Rimuru-sama said that they would be set off during the New Year. He had been looking forward to it for a long time, but... In the end, it didn't work out, because you understand the reason.

"Kanahu, why haven't you changed your clothes yet?" Just as Chloe plunged into the group of children and Xiaoqing and Xiaocheng were discussing what interesting activities there would be at the festival, Butterfly pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing Chanel sitting quietly in the corner, she couldn't help frowning.

"Ah, I just finished combing her hair. I wanted to change it for her, but I forgot when Chloe came." Kanae looked at Chanahu apologetically, and pulled her over, "I'm sorry, Kanahu , my sister will change your clothes for you now."

"Let me change it for her. Elder sister, you still have to comb Xiaoqing's hair." Butterfly took Chanahu's hand and led her to the next room. Just add to the chaos, stay where it’s cool.”

Chloe didn't care about her. He put the muffins aside and showed full curiosity about Butterfly Ninja's yukata shape: "You also change your yukata, right? What does your yukata look like?"

"No, I'll go in this suit."

"Ah, Shinobu, don't you wear a yukata?" Kanae paused when she braided her hair, and looked at her sister in confusion: "I've already sorted out your yukata, it was you The one I like..."

Butterfly Shinobu maintained a serious expression and was firm in his thoughts: "It's not convenient to wear a bathrobe. I can just wear the team uniform. If there is any emergency, I can come back in time."

"That's it." Kanae lowered her head and didn't say anything, but her expression looked a little disappointed.

Butterfly dragged Kanae out and walked out. Chloe turned her head silently and asked Kanae who was also wearing a team uniform: "Aren't you going to change your yukata, Kanae?"

"I can't go with you." Kanae smiled bitterly at him, tied the hair rope tightly in her hand, and patted Xiaoqing on the shoulder, signaling that she could stand up, "Someone found Twelve Ghost Moon's I'm going to investigate the trace, that area is far away from here, and I'm about to leave later."

She looked at the children who were happily looking at their hairstyles in the mirror, and said calmly, "I hope you can take them to have fun, especially Shinobu."

Speaking of her younger sister, her slender eyebrows were slightly lowered, and she no longer maintained the smiling expression just now, but a little sad, but her sadness seemed to only appear for a moment. When she turned her head to look at Chloe, The smile returned to her face, "Since Chloe came, Shinobu has become much more lively. Before, she had no friends of her age. Now she is more cheerful than before. I am very happy."

"Really? But I'm always pissing her off."

"Although Shinobu looks serious on the surface, she is actually a very gentle child in her heart." Looking at Xiao Qing and the others who were fighting, Kanae's tone carried a hint of nostalgia, "I hope she can do more Don't always suppress yourself like what a girl of this age should do."

"I think she's already released her nature." Chloe doesn't know anything else, at least that boxing technique is getting better and better.

"So, I'm very happy." Kanae was amused by Chloe, stretched out her hand and gently rubbed Chloe's head, with something he couldn't understand hidden in her eyes: "Thank you very much."

Chloe wanted to say that he didn't do anything, so he didn't need to thank him, but he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, so he nodded silently, focusing on the butterfly hair ornament on Kanae's hair After a while, I felt for the first time that the thing was really made, like a butterfly about to flap its wings and fly away.

……

Kanae carefully helped every girl in the Butterfly House comb their beautiful buns, put beautiful silk flowers on them, and arranged the bathrobes for them one by one. Standing in front of the Butterfly House, she smiled at them. Waving goodbye: "Have fun."

The sound of clogs rattling along the way, Butterfly Ninja held Chanahu with his left hand and Xiaocheng with his right hand, glanced at Chloe who was wandering beside him, and said abruptly: "Sister just told you what?"

"It's nothing." Chloe's eyes fluttered, "Just tell me to cover you more."

Butterfly could see that he was lying at a glance, and was a little annoyed: "My sister would never say such a thing!"

"You're not her, how do you know if she will say it?"

"She's my sister, of course I know."

"Then why don't you guess what she said to me just now?"

"you!"

"A little bit..."

"Chloe?"

While the two were busy bickering, a familiar voice suddenly came from the front. Chloe looked up and found Sato and Giyuu walking towards him. She couldn't help being a little surprised: "Didn't you go on a mission?"

"Well, it's finished." Satoshi walked up to him and stood still, looking at the group of beautifully dressed little girls behind Chloe, "Where are you going?"

"There is a festival at the foot of the mountain, let's join in the fun, and it seems that we can watch the fireworks."

"Is that so." Satoshi seemed to be very interested in the festival, and turned his head to ask Yiyong beside him, "Shall we go to see it too?"

Of course Yoshiyuki had no objection, and the two just joined the team participating in the festival.

As we get closer and closer to the town, more and more people are around. The trees on the side of the road are covered with lanterns. Through the layer of thin paper, we can see the flames jumping inside. The clusters of lights make the night become The bright, surging crowd, the shouts from all the stalls, and the delicious smell of food in the air, the warm scene in front of me made Chloe's inexplicably heavy mood a little happier.

"Xiao Cheng, Xiao Caisui, let's go fishing for goldfish!" As soon as they arrived at the place, the three younger girls immediately became lively. They broke away from holding hands and ran towards the booth they were interested in together.

"Hey, wait!" Kanzaki Aoi hurriedly followed behind, not forgetting to shout to the others behind: "We will meet under the big tree next to the shrine later!"

In a few seconds, their figures were submerged in the crowd. Because Chloe deliberately concealed the content of the conversation with Kanae, Butterfly Shinobu had a sullen face along the way. At this moment, she looked down and obediently followed her. Chanel's expression softened a bit: "Let's go, let's go buy apple candy."

Before leaving, he gave Chloe an angry look, but ignored him.

A few people split up and just dispersed. Chloe looked at the surrounding stalls distractedly. The steaming food on the iron plate and the candies like clouds were all new to him. When he came to his senses, only Sato and Yoshiyuki were left beside him.

"Let's go, let's go and see if there is anything delicious." Sato stretched out his hands and grabbed him and Yiyong's shoulders, "What do you want to eat, I treat you!"

Since joining the Ghost Killing Team, he has been diligently performing tasks, and he was promoted to Zhu before, so the salary he got is naturally quite a lot, enough for him to take Yiyong and Chloe to eat a whole street.

"Really?" Chloe's eyes lit up instantly.

"Of course!"

With the approval of Sato, Chloe naturally stopped being polite, and boldly ordered all the takoyaki, grilled squid, apple candy, etc., and the three of them ate from the street to the end of the alley without stopping their mouths. .

They walked along the path to the river bank. Seeing that the stalls of the ceremony were about to reach the end, Chloe stopped suddenly. He noticed some people standing on the bank with something like a paper tube under their feet, "Then What is it?"

"It's fireworks." Giyuu swallowed the takoyaki with difficulty, and stood there without moving.

"How do you put that?"

"Just set it on fire."

Chloe and Yiyong looked at the rows of salute barrels longingly as if they were nailed in place. After a while, they looked at each other, turned their heads in tacit understanding, and at the same time expressed their expectations with anticipation. He stared at Sabito.

How could Sato not understand what they meant, he sighed helplessly, and bravely walked towards the river bank. A few minutes later, he came back with a box of fairy wands.

Chloe is disappointed, and so is Giyuu.

"No way, those big ones are waiting to be put together, they are not for sale." Seeing their disappointed faces, Sato raised his eyebrows, a little upset: "Then you still play or not, if not, we will go back , give this to Butterfly and the others.”

One must know how to be content, and Chloe quickly forgot the loss of not being able to blow up fireworks. He and Sato Yoshiyuki squatted in the grass by the river bank, each holding a small stick in his hand. , Sato struck a match, and lit his own fireworks first. Seeing the star-like sparks, Chloe and Yiyong also moved the fireworks in their hands, only to hear a sting, and they The tip of the firework in the hand also burst out with flickering light, as dazzling as a shooting star.

The golden light illuminated the faces of each of them. Occasionally, the evening wind would blow gently across the river, bringing the coolness of the river to them, but they didn't feel cold at all.

Behind him was the brightly lit downtown, filled with noisy hawkers, but Chloe felt an unprecedented peace in her heart. Time passed very slowly suddenly, and everyone was immersed in the happy atmosphere, leaving all the painful things behind. At the back of his head, he finished setting off one firework, and there will be another one. After all the fireworks are set off, they will go to find Xiao Naiho and the others who have been crazy about playing. After the festival is over, they can go catch goldfish and send them back For Kanae, by the way, I have to bring some delicious food to Ganlu Temple and Mr. Purgatory. Although Immortal Chuan is very annoying, I still have to buy something for him. In summer, I have to help him catch a unicorn again. ...

These are obviously trivial things, but when Chloe thinks of everyone's happy expressions after receiving the gift, she feels that her whole body is full of enthusiasm and a little light.

The fireworks in his hand gradually went out, leaving only a dim spark slowly, and there was a faint smell of gunpowder in the air. Sato helped him light up two more, and taught him how to draw in the air with fireworks, He noticed that Giyuu's firework was about to go out, so he graciously gave him another firework.

Chloe noticed that Yiyong had been quiet and didn't speak much from the beginning. Just when he was about to say something to brighten the atmosphere, the other party suddenly said: "I used to let this go, and go with my sister."

He watched the crackling fireworks quietly, perhaps because they were too close, and the light hurt his eyes a little.

Chloe knew a little about Giyuu’s family from Satoshi, but he had never heard it from him. He was a little annoyed at the moment, maybe he shouldn’t have encouraged them to set off fireworks, so Giyuu would not be reminded of those sad things up.

"During the Chinese New Year, I don't like to get together with children from other families, so my sister will buy this to play with me." The fireworks in his hand went out after a while, and Yiyong silently stared at the rapidly disappearing star on the ground to ignite Just looking at it for a while, Ye Ye hid the sadness in his eyes very well, "I didn't have any friends before, my sister was afraid that I would be too lonely, so she always left things at hand to play with me."

"When my sister said that she was going to get married, I cried a lot, because if my sister married into someone else's house, she would not be able to play with me often. That day my sister hid me in a box in the cellar and said she would play hide-and-seek with me. , I am very happy..."

It was rare for Giyuu to speak so much, Chloe and Sato did not intervene tacitly, and listened to him quietly.

"My sister said that as soon as I counted one hundred times, she would come to me, but I counted many hundred times, but she never came."

He didn't continue talking, just took a deep breath, disrupting the frequency of the breathing method of the whole concentration.

No one spoke for a while, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent, as if the excitement just now had gone away from them. Chloe didn't know what to say to comfort him, so she had to stay beside him and accompany him to mourn.

The three of them remained silent for a while. In the end, Satu stood up first. He picked up the last firework and lit it up.

"Come and play, the password game you invented before."

Chloe and Yiyong looked up and saw him holding the fireworks in his hand and gesticulating in the air. The places where the fireworks passed left light traces, matching with the flickering sparks, Gradually intertwined into a sentence.

You didn't lose your loved ones, they just came to protect you in a different way.

Facing the darkness with his back, the young man was like holding a cluster of falling stars, the sharp lines of his face were softened by the faint light in his arms, and the sad atmosphere around him was gradually dispelled by the light, even behind him The rushing river also calmed down for him.

The fire light dissipated again, Satu lowered his arms, looked up at Yiyong again, the corners of his mouth curled up, "A man can't show such a fragile expression, Yiyong."

Yiyong didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

"Your sister must be very proud of you." Chloe patted him on the shoulder, "You are so good now, and Satu and I are such strong buddies, we are tired of taking care of you."

"Hmm." Satoshi gave him a warning look.

"Friends should take care of each other, it should be." Chloe immediately changed her words, "I heard a story before, it is said that after death, people will turn into stars in the sky to protect us."

As he spoke, he looked up at the starry sky above his head, "The stars can only look at us and cannot speak, but do you know that blinking is the language of the stars, and when you are looking at them, they are always staring at you."

"Like your password?"

"Perhaps, speaking of it, when people get lost, they rely on the stars to find their way."

They spend the next 5 minutes with their heads up, trying to decipher what the stars are saying.

"The star is asking me to give it three yuan to buy mochi."

"Huh? Why do I think it's sending a distress signal?"

Chloe squinted her eyes and took a closer look. The brightest star lit up three times for a short time, then lit up three times for a long time, and then flashed three times, which seemed to really mean SOS.

He raised his eyes and looked not far away. The person in charge of the festival seemed to be ready to light the fire and set off fireworks.

"The stars are calling for help. They are afraid that the fireworks will blow them up." Yi Yong gave the most reasonable explanation.

"No, those stars are far away from us." Chloe stood up and patted the dust off her body, "This location is good, you wait here, I'll ask Shinobu and the others to come and watch the fireworks together. "

"Well," Yi Yong turned his head and reminded him: "You can apologize to Die Die later, she is just caring about her sister."

"Yes, Chloe, don't bully girls all the time." Sato echoed earnestly from the side.

"understood."

Obviously she is the one who bullies me, okay... Chloe responded sullenly, then turned her head and walked under the tree they had just agreed on.

When the fireworks were about to be set off, the crowd swarmed towards the river bank. Chloe tiptoed and ran through the crowd, struggling to find the girls from Butterfly House. Soon, he was in the big tree. Then I saw Butterfly Ninja, the uniform of the Demon Slayer Squad was very conspicuous in the crowd.

"Where have you been? We've been looking for you for a long time." Butterfly endured the impatience of waiting, and just as Chloe walked in front of her, something was slapped on her face.

Chloe took it off suspiciously and found that it was a tanuki mask.

"For me?"

"Don't think too much, this is Chanel's darts. It's useless for us to hold it. It looks silly. It suits you."

"Kanahu, you are too kind to me, I'll buy you marshmallows later!" Chloe looked movedly at the side who was silently gnawing on an apple candy, and the other party didn't even give him a look .

"Chloe, look! The goldfish we caught!" Xiaoqing happily raised the bag in her hand, which was filled with water, and a small golden-red fish was blowing bubbles inside.

"I caught it! You have fished it so many times without success!" Xiao Cheng stretched out his hand angrily, trying to snatch the bag from her hand, "Give me back my goldfish!"

"You don't want to fight, sister Kanzaki said we will raise it together." Xiao Naiho hurriedly tried to dissuade them.

"Let's go catch goldfish later, how about one for each of us?" Chloe suggested.

"Okay!" The three called excitedly, "Why don't you go now!"

"Don't you watch the fireworks?" Kanzaki Aoi reminded helplessly.

"Oh yes! Fireworks!" Chloe almost forgot what he was going to say just now, "We found a good location! Come with me!"

He led them through the sea of ​​people, and when Chloe led them to the front of Giyuu and Sato, a firework not far away suddenly burst into the sky and exploded with a bang, followed by Two, three... Countless fireworks exploded in the sky. The dazzling fireworks illuminated the night sky and imprinted in everyone's heart.

Chloe stared blankly at the successive brilliant lights in front of him, and his eyes felt sore and swollen. If he was still in the Federation of Demon Kingdom, he would definitely be able to see such a scene in the New Year.

"What's the matter with you?" Butterfly Ninja who was standing next to him keenly noticed that something was wrong with his expression. Normally, Chloe should be jumping happily with Xiaoqing and the others at this time, not this He looked dumbfounded.

"It's nothing." Chloe sniffled, "...just a little homesick."

"Oh, so." Butterfly nodded, looking at the fireworks thoughtfully, but said calmly: "Cry, I don't think you're ashamed."

"Because we're all the same."

……

Chloe still didn't cry in the end, because Sato and Giyuu went to negotiate with the person in charge of the festival while he was looking for Butterfly. After a lot of talking, they finally bought a big firework from the other party. When the ceremony was about to end, a group of them surrounded the river, lit the fireworks together, and watched it leap into the sky, sending messages to the stars in the sky.

"What do you want to say to the stars in the sky?" The fireworks above his head were fleeting in the air, and Chloe turned to look at the silent Yiyong beside him.

"Tell them mochi are not good at all, and the best thing is salmon radish."

"...Let's go Xiaoqing Xiaocheng Xiaonaho, let's go fishing for goldfish."

Instigated by Chloe, Sato and Giyuu also accompanied them to the goldfish fishing stall.

"Okay! Let me show my skills today!"

Saitu took the net given by the stall owner and stretched it aggressively into the water... Well, it failed smoothly.

Yiyong, who was squatting next to him, looked at the net that broke instantly when he got into the water, with a confused look on his face.

"...Didn't you all learn to breathe water?" Chloe and Xiaoqing had the same peasy eyes, "Can't even a little water solve it?"

Satoshi took out a few more coins in disbelief, and decided to try a few more times, but without exception, none of them succeeded.

Facts have proved that the breath of water is just a kind of swordsmanship, and it is completely useless in life.

"Let me try!" After seeing the net broken in Yiyong's hands for a few times, Chloe finally couldn't help it, and snatched the paper net, ready to show her skills .

"I bet you can't get a Jinpingtang."

"I bet a grilled corn."

"A bowl of salmon and turnips."

The feeling of being scorned strangely inspired Chloe's fighting spirit. He quietly covered the paper net with spider silk, and saw a goldfish the size of a little finger was successfully caught.

Chloe was proud, carrying the goldfish he had caught in one hand and the roasted corn and candies he had harvested in the other. There was no shop selling salmon and radishes at the festival, so Yiyong bought him an apple candy as compensation.

They went back to the headquarters of the Ghost Killing Squad, put the goldfish in the pond of the Butterfly House, and named them. The big one, who was the master, was named by everyone together, and it was called 'Xiaohong·Xiaojin·Xiaojinhong' ·Little Red Gold·Canai·Salmon·Crow Fish·Squid", I haven't figured out what the name of the small fish that Chloe caught is yet, it is what he intends to give to Kanae, so I plan to wait for Kanae Come back and give it a name.

In the middle of the night, after everyone was asleep, Chloe quietly ran to the pond, stole the breakfast prepared by Butterfly Ninja for tomorrow, sprinkled it bit by bit in the pond, and fed it to the fish.

"Quack——" a crow suddenly flew into his sight.

"This is for my clo fish, you can't snatch it."

Chloe thought it was coming to snatch it, and hurriedly protected the bread in her hand, but stopped suddenly when she heard the hoarse chirping of the crow.

I saw the crow hovering anxiously in the air, repeating the same sentence over and over again: "Style Butterfly Kanae is in a hard fight with the first string——ask for support——ask for support—"