Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began When I Became Yoriichi's Sister

Chapter 542 I'm About to Die

Yuko looked at Touko speechlessly: "Is four hundred years old old? Not at all! Don't talk nonsense with your eyes open."

Yushiro corrected him, "It is five hundred years old."

Yu Zi clicked her tongue in displeasure: "Pretty much the same."

"Very different."

Yuko said with dissatisfaction, "If I'm considered old, then Tamayo must be old and just a skeleton."

"Huh?" Touko Gasai's eyes widened. There was actually a master?

"Yuko, I heard you."

A gentle female voice, tinged with a hint of laughter, came from not far away.

Touko subconsciously turned her head and saw a mature, intellectual woman leaning against the wall, smiling at them.

Tamayo smiled, her purple eyes filled with tenderness: "This must be Touko, right? What a lovely child."

Touko Gasai blushed and quickly bowed, saying, "Ah! Hello, I am Touko Gasai. Please take care of me."

Tamayo smiled slightly and said, "I am Tamayo. Nice to meet you."

"Come in and sit down."

Tamayo invited the two into the house.

Touko Gasai looked around; there were many portraits of Tamayo hanging all around: "Are these all works by Mr. Yushiro?"

"Amazing!"

Yushiro said calmly, "Well, I only managed to capture one ten-thousandth of Lady Tamayo's beauty. It's not that impressive."

"Huh? Aren't you two a married couple?" Touko Gasai asked, somewhat puzzled.

Why do married couples use the honorific term "adult" to address each other?

Before Yushiro could answer, Yuko waved her hand and said first, "It's just a little playfulness between husband and wife, you don't need to pay attention to it."

Touko Gasai and Yushiro's faces instantly flushed.

Tamayo's face darkened.

That idiot, even after all these years he still can't speak properly.

Just as Tamayo was about to make fun of Ikuko, she noticed that Ikuko was carrying someone. "What's wrong with this child?"

Yuko casually remarked, "You were scared by Yushiro, weren't you?"

Yushiro rolled his eyes, and Tamayo immediately understood, smiling helplessly.

"Put him on the sofa."

Yuko casually tossed my wife's photo onto the sofa.

Tamayo broke out in a cold sweat and turned to Yushiro, saying, "Yushiro, could you please brew a pot of tea?"

Yushiro nodded slightly, then turned and left.

Yu Zi lay on the sofa, crossed her legs, and casually looked around: "This place really changes every time I come here. Is being a doctor really that lucrative?"

"No, these are all earnings that Yushiro made from publishing his works online."

"It's so sour."

Touko sat somewhat awkwardly on the sofa. Although she acts like a social terrorist at home and in front of friends, today's situation was indeed a little different.

Ghosts and stuff, so they're all real after all!

Yuko noticed Touko's embarrassment and looked at her with a smile: "Doesn't it seem a little different from the ghost you imagined?"

Touko Gasai nodded: "I feel that Yuko-nee and Tamayo-nee...nee, don't look like ghosts at all."

"That's because we're using human form right now. If we revealed our true forms, it might scare Touko so much that she wouldn't be able to move."

Tamayo's lips twitched slightly; she still couldn't quite understand how Ikuko could spout such nonsense so naturally.

Is it... really that scary?

“Take Tamayo’s original form for example. She was so bloated that she looked like a small mountain. It was terrifying.” Yuko exaggeratedly spread her arms wide to show her.

Touko swallowed hard, imagining the scene as Yuko prompted her, and a hint of fear crept across her face.

"Pfft, haha~" Yu Zixian couldn't help but laugh. "You're still so naive, kid."

"A lie?" Touko's eyes widened.

"Not really, because some of the demons are indeed very ugly, but Tamayo and I are exceptions, we're at the level of being as beautiful as angels."

My wife, Touko, twitched her lips.

A short while later, Yushiro returned with tea.

Yushiro glanced at it and asked, "Shouldn't we call this brat?"

"It's alright, it's alright, just let him lie down." Yuko waved her hand casually, then added, "By the way, Yushiro, this child is your fan, could you please take her to visit your studio?"

Touko Gasai quickly declined, saying, "No need, it's too much trouble."

Yushiro shook his head: "It's alright, come with me."

"May I?"

Yushiro nodded slightly.

Touko Wagatsuma jumped up happily and quickly followed after him.

Seeing that Yuko had deliberately sent Touko away, Tamayo looked at Yuko curiously.

"Ikuko?"

"Let's talk about it in the lab."

Tamayo nodded slightly, and the two got up and headed towards the laboratory, leaving Yoshiteru Agasa alone, fast asleep on the sofa.

Upon arriving at the laboratory, it was clear that it had undergone another upgrade, with various advanced equipment in place.

Yu Zi exclaimed, "This place is really amazing."

Tamayo shook her head: "It's just a second-hand item returned from the clinic."

"That's pretty awesome too."

"So, Yuko, what do you mean?"

Yu Zi honestly replied, "Actually, I've recently suddenly felt my life force draining away faster."

Tamayo was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "Why so suddenly?"

"It's not like they'll die immediately, but what's certain is that if this trend continues, it might not be more than a few years."

"Several years?!" Even someone as composed as Tamayo couldn't help but cover her mouth, almost exclaiming.

This isn't considered dying immediately?

For ghosts, especially a ghost king like Yuko, a few years is no different from a few minutes.

Tamayo quickly asked, "What caused this?"

"I don't know, that's why I thought I'd come to you to find out."

"How long has this been going on? It's been several years, I think it was around the year I met Tanyan and the others."

Do you think it could be related to this?

Yuko said jokingly.

Tamayo shook her head and began tidying up the laboratory equipment.

"Let's restore him to his demon form first."

"can."

Meanwhile, my wife, Shanzhao, slowly woke up on the living room sofa.

"An unfamiliar ceiling... wait!"

He belatedly realized what was happening and quickly got up.

"Where is this place?"

Yoshiteru Gasai looked around in a panic, wondering where he had just been.

What is this place?

"Touko? Yuko-nee..." Yoshiteru Gasai's trembling voice suddenly stopped, and the image of Yuko after her demon transformation involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

Yoshiteru Wagatsuma bit her finger, quickly shut her mouth, and nervously glanced around.

Could it be that Sister Yuko is planning to eat him and Touko?

That's why they knocked him unconscious and brought him here?

What about the lamp?

Has he already been put into the cauldron?

Yoshiteru Gasai once again saw Touko tied up in an iron pot, with Ikuko piling firewood underneath her with a wicked grin on her face.

No!

He must find the lamp!

My wife, Yoshiteru, mustered her courage and walked deeper into the house.

He walked a short distance and proceeded down a staircase:

"here it is……?"

A half-open door appeared ahead. My wife, Yoshiaki, swallowed hard and groped her way forward.

The lamp might be trapped here.

He quietly pushed the door open a crack and peered inside.

It was Sister Yu Zi with a woman she didn't know.

My wife, Yoshitaka, covered her mouth, not daring to make a sound.

But when he saw Yuko looking perfectly normal, he couldn't help but wonder if he had just been having a nightmare.

Because I got too engrossed in reading my great-grandfather's novels, I imagined Sister Yu Zi as a demon.

Just as he was thinking this, Yuko in the laboratory began to undergo subtle changes.

Yuko took off her glasses, and her golden eyes quickly split open, revealing a pair of peculiar golden double pupils in Tamayo's eyes.

The demonic horns, about thirty centimeters long, on its head appeared sharp and ferocious, and the fingernails on its hands were also changing, turning black.

Yuko stretched out a hand: "In this state, perhaps it's just my imagination, but I feel that my life force is being consumed more rapidly."

Tamayo nodded gently: "Lie down, let me check you out first..."

Before she could finish speaking, a dull thud came from outside the door.

Yuko went over and opened the door, only to find her wife, Yoshitaka, lying on the ground outside.

"What's this guy up to?" Yu Zi raised an eyebrow and dragged him inside.

"He must have fainted from fright after seeing your demon form."

Yu Zi couldn't help but complain: "A little brat with absolutely no sense of aesthetics."

"Is it ugly?"

"It's not ugly, but it might be scary to humans."

"Then the lamp will be fine, won't it?"

"There are always exceptions, aren't there?"

Yuko pouted.

Tamayo smiled and said, "Alright, lie down now."

Yuko obediently followed Dr. Tamayo's procedure.

"How was it?" Yuko, who had just had a full physical examination, dragged a chair over to sit next to Tamayo and asked curiously.

Tamayo flipped through the data, frowning from time to time.

"It's unbelievable, it's almost like a curse, Yuko, your body is indeed aging at a very fast pace."

"A curse? Isn't that a good thing?" Yuko smiled. "But to be honest, I'm really a little reluctant to leave Tanyan and the others so soon."

"Huh? The data seems to be back to normal."

"Eh?!"

"I lied to you."

"What?! How can it be normal just because you say so?" Yuko said with a dissatisfied look. Only then did she notice that Tamayo hadn't moved at all, and she didn't even bother to check if the data had changed.

Tamayo shook her head: "Maybe."

"Perhaps it was Yuko's long-held desire to die as soon as possible that influenced her."

"Is this even possible?"

"Of course it can be done; the power of the mind is boundless."

"Of course, it's also possible that your mission has been completed, and God has decided to let you ascend to heaven."

Yuko was speechless: "Tamayo, why do I feel like you're acting a bit like a charlatan?"

"And you really think I'll go to heaven instead of hell?"

Tamayo smiled slightly: "If Yuko also goes to hell, then God is really too blind."

"Hmm, that makes sense." This was exactly what Yuko wanted to hear.

"So, this really isn't just my imagination, right?"

Yuko sought Tamayo's help because she worried that it might just be wishful thinking on her part, or that Tamayo might not have changed at all.

Tamayo shook her head: "No, you can rest assured, your body is indeed aging rapidly."

"Are you reassured? Well, I'm pretty reassured, aren't I?" Yu Zi's lips curled up. "I'm actually a little worried that I won't die no matter what, and that I'll live in this world until the sky falls and the earth cracks."

"Ten thousand years is too long, I only need a few years to live."

Tamayo shook her head, thinking to herself that this child had never been normal.

After leaving the lab, Yuko hummed a little tune softly.

"What happened? Why is Sister Yuko suddenly in such a good mood?" Tengzi asked curiously as she walked out of the art studio, looking quite satisfied.

"Yeah, because I don't have many years left to live, of course I'm happy." Yuko hummed as she lay back on the sofa, leaving a bewildered Touko standing there.

Yushiro asked, "Speaking of which, where's the little devil lying on the sofa?"

Tamayo paused, having just picked up her teacup. "I forgot it in the lab."

Just as Yushiro was about to ask a question, a wail suddenly came from the laboratory.

“Ah!!! There’s a ghost!”

The sound came from the laboratory and quickly moved towards the living room.

Then they froze in place.

Yuko looked at Yoshiaki Agasa with great interest: "The ghost you're talking about, is it me?"

My wife, Yoon-jo, gave a smile that looked more like a grimace: "I won't bother you anymore, I'm leaving now~"

As he spoke, the pain on his face was about to burst out, and he turned to run away.

With a dark expression, Touko stepped forward and pulled him back: "That's enough, you idiot!"

"Ah!!! Don't eat me! My flesh is not tasty! If you want to eat, eat Dengzi's flesh! Her flesh is more tender and tastier, my flesh is ugly and sour."

Touko Gasai's face darkened even more. "If Yuko-nee wanted to eat you, would she have waited until now?"

Yoshiteru Wagatsuma paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, that seems to be true."

He turned around and looked at Yu Zi, who was lying on the sofa laughing so hard she was bent over, and said, on the verge of tears, "You scared me to death, Sister Yu Zi! Do you know that scaring someone can kill them!"

"You could say it's the ghost that's scary, right?" Yu Zi caught her breath. "Besides, you don't seem to be out of danger yet."

My wife, Yoshiaki, scratched her head: "What do you mean?"

"So, you've offended me just now!" Touko Gasai raised her fist, which was as big as a sandbag, with a dark face.

Soon, cries of agony echoed from inside the villa.

A moment later, looking at Yoshiteru Gasai, whose head was covered in bumps, Ikuko shook her head: "He brought it on himself."

My wife, Touko, sat on the sofa with her arms crossed, looking very angry.

Yushiro and Tamayoshi were both sweating, feeling that his personality was not quite the same as they remembered.

They just look alike, as expected.

Yu Zi hadn't been to the Zhu family since she last left, so she decided to stay there for the night.

What comforted Tamayo was that she could feel the cheerful Ikuko had returned.

So, it really is because of that child's descendants?

Tanjiro Kamado, that child possesses incredible power.

It's a bit of a pity that the child's descendants didn't come along.

But according to Yuko, that child has already mastered the Breath of the Sun, so he is indeed an extraordinary individual.

Before leaving, Yushiro and Tamayo left Touko their contact information, saying that he would let them know in advance if there were any new works.

This made Dengzi, who had successfully met her idol, jump up and down with a wide grin.