After that, Izumi Iori called everyone else from the Kanto branch outside the office.
Tokiwa Shougo had a cordial and friendly conversation with everyone, and both parties exchanged their opinions.
Tokiwa Shogo greatly appreciated their courage and determination in the face of world disasters, and also greatly respected their ideas for purifying the serpent and eliminating disasters.
In the end, both parties agreed that this was a useful meeting.
Outside Tachibana Dessert Shop.
After watching Shogo Tokiwa and Gates leave, Iori Izumi breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense nerves finally relaxed a little.
But when he turned around, he saw everyone staring at him without blinking.
"Well……"
Seeing this, Izumi Iori couldn't help but lean back, and a trace of nervousness appeared subconsciously on his face.
"What are you... doing?"
His heartbeat was racing. He was "doing bad things" for the first time, and his mentality was unstable. For a moment, he thought that he had secretly become the devil's accomplice without telling everyone.
Of course, this is purely because Izumi Iori is overthinking.
In fact, they were just curious about Iori Izumi, and they all chatted with Shogo Tokiwa.
"Awe-inspiring ghost." Tachibana Kasumi asked, "Can you tell everyone about the conversation you had with that Toki-O alone before? Also, regarding the conditions that the leader proposed to Toki-O, your decision. What is it?"
"..." Hearing this, Izumi Iori was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and replied, "Let's... go back and talk."
"Okay." Tachibana Kasumi nodded, then turned around to greet everyone, "Everyone, this is not the place to talk. Let's go back to the store first."
"Um."
"Kasumi is right, this is indeed not a suitable place for conversation."
"Let's all go back inside and stop hanging around outside the store."
Everyone responded, turned around, walked through the store door, and returned to the store.
Tachibana Kasumi walked last. Before entering the door, she turned back and looked at Iori Izumi, who was still standing motionless outside the store, with a trace of doubt in her eyes.
"A bragging ghost?"
However, she didn't suspect anything, she just whispered.
"..."
At this time, Iori Izumi, who had adjusted his mentality, looked at Tachibana Kasumi in silence, lowered his eyes, raised his eyes again, and raised a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"coming."
He took a step towards Tachibana Kasumi.
It's close.
Also stay away.
Because, next, he will selectively tell part of the truth according to the devil's wishes, and use an appropriate amount of lies to cover up the devil's true purpose.
Because, taking this step, it is not just a verbal agreement, he will also become the devil's de facto... accomplice!
…
Should I say that I was too successful in the past? The process of convincing everyone was smoother than Izumi Iori imagined.
Even though the reason he used to convince everyone was the dream of official history that he had been having, everyone finally chose to believe him.
This made Izumi Iori's originally determined will gradually become a little shaken.
[Is it really okay not to tell the truth to these companions who believe in me? ]
He couldn't help but have such thoughts in his heart.
until……
After the meeting ended, Todoroki, who was left until the end, stood up suddenly after a period of anxiety and confusion about wanting to ask but not daring to ask. He looked at Iori Izumi very seriously and asked him loudly.
"Wei Chui Gui, in that dream you had, I mean, in the official history, did Master Kill... survive?"
Todoroki Todoroki's words made a picture appear in Izumi Iori's mind.
That is a picture that has also appeared in this heterogeneous history...
Killing ghosts, funeral.
At this thought, Izumi Iori's hands suddenly clenched and his teeth clenched.
Under Todoroki Todoroki's gaze, his pupils trembled slightly, his thoughts swirled, and all his words were blocked in his throat.
Silent sadness flowed quietly between the two of them.
However, just when Todoroki Todoroki's expectant eyes gradually darkened, and his expression became sad and dejected, Iori Izumi suddenly said firmly: "Live!"
He looked at Todoroki who was stunned by this, and spoke again with certainty: "If we can correct the history of this alien species and get everything back on track, then the Demon Slayer must be in the [New World] ahead of us. Among them, waiting for us!”
As he spoke, his eyes felt as if all the dust had been blown away by the long wind, becoming as clear as a mirror, without any hesitation or confusion anymore.
Especially, when he saw the light that lit up again from Todoroki's eyes.
"No matter what..." he thought, "No matter what! I will realize the world in the eyes of the devil!"
…
At the same time, the demon king that Izumi Iori longs for is fighting with his thugs...
"Hey! Just because I don't speak doesn't mean I don't exist!"
Gates walking beside Shogo Tokiwa.
"Who is your thug!?"
"Isn't it you?"
Tokiwa Shougo raised his hands to both sides of his chest, raised his index fingers, tilted them in the direction of Gates, looked at Gates sideways, and answered immediately.
"?"
Stunned by Tokiwa Shogo's funny expression, Gates immediately became angry and fearful. He made a fist and punched Tokiwa Shogo in the face.
"!"
With a big exclamation point rising behind his head, Tokiwa Shogo quickly dodged sideways, backed away, and looked at Gates with a shocked expression.
"Bold! How dare you plot to kill the Demon King!?"
Gates sneered: "Haha, I'll beat you!"
Tokiwa Shougo turned around and ran away without saying a word.
The veins on Gates' forehead bulged and he started to chase after him.
"Abominable devil... stop! Today, my savior will do justice for heaven!"
"Haha, you have a beautiful idea! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
…
From nine to five.
Tokiwa Shougo took one step across the entrance, raised his hands in the air, and shouted loudly: "Safe!"
He reached the safe zone, where fighting was prohibited.
"Tsk."
Gates, who arrived at the last step, looked unwilling.
"Hmph, I will win next time!"
He folded his arms and declared victory without blushing or out of breath.
...Although it’s for next time.
Behind the maintenance station, Junichiro Tokiwa took off his monocular magnifying glass and happily watched Shogo Tokiwa and Gates playing around.
"Welcome back." Junichiro Tokiwa said.
"I'm back." Tokiwa Shougo responded.
Following Shogo Tokiwa, Gates also said to Junichiro Tokiwa: "I'm back."
"Would you like a late-night snack?" Junichiro Tokiwa asked.
"Eh? Is that okay?" Tokiwa Shogo said in surprise.
He was indeed a little hungry.
"Of course." Junichiro Tokiwa nodded, and then asked Gates, "Does Gates want to eat?"
"Well, please."
When he was at Tachibana Dessert Shop before, the atmosphere was so unusual that he didn't have the nerve to eat more.
"No trouble, no trouble. There's just a lot left over from dinner. I'll heat it up for you right now. It'll be quick."
Junichiro Tokiwa smiled and walked towards the kitchen as he spoke.
Tokiwa Shogo and Gates each went to wash their hands and waited for supper.
…
The words were divided into two parts, and Woz's side had already eaten.
Together with leader Izumi of the Warriors Organization and Tachibana Setichiro who brought him to Yoshino, the three of them exchanged glasses of wine, just like a gathering of old friends. They ate and drank so happily that it was as if the age difference between the three of them did not exist. Same.
However, no matter how the breath blended with the wine, the cheeks were dyed red, the smiles on the mouths were shocking, and the clarity in the eyes of the three people never faded away.
[Tsk, this little fox! ]
Leader Izumi and Tachibana Sejiro failed to get any more information from Woz.
[Humph, two old foxes! ]
Woz squinted and smiled, relying on his youth, he raised his glass in toast.
"Come on, brothers, drink!"
As soon as the words fell, the expressions of leader Izumi and Tachibana Sejiro changed slightly, and they were depressed when they responded.
"Hey - I did it, you two brothers are free to do whatever you want."
Leader Izumi and Tachibana Sejiro: "..."
They gritted their teeth and looked at each other, their competitiveness immediately rising.
"drink!"
…
Hidaka's living room.
Dressed in cool white clothes and long hair, Tsukuyomi held a cup of hot tea and drank it obediently without saying a word. She waited quietly for Hidaka Hitoshi, who fell into a long silence to give a reply after hearing everything she said.
(End of chapter)
