As a general, she cannot be a good daughter of Kage.

"Is it a mouse? I've seen it before...it seems to be half the body."

Shadow knelt down with his hands on his knees and recalled what happened before... speaking in a gentle tone that was unique to her.

The general didn't answer her for a second... but thought of something. Half of the mouse's body in her sight was covered by the opponent's shadow at the moment, and the border of the shadow was perfectly stuck on the cross-section of the half-mouse...

"...!!"

Her eyes widened slightly... and then she looked up blankly at the figure in front of her. The figure was standing in front of the mouse, facing her, and aligned with the cross-section of the half-rat's body was the figure's neck!

"?...What's wrong?"

When Ying saw her face turning pale, he immediately looked worried and expressed concern in a soft voice.

Bang~!

"!"

The moment she heard this drum sound like a death knell...she immediately lost her usual calmness, and was replaced by a fierce fear that spread across her entire expression.

Time seemed to have entered slow motion... She desperately hugged Ying's neck in this second and fell forward forcefully! !

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba ~ Self-cultivation as Naruhashira: Chapter 40 Mom will never leave you...

"...?"

Ying was stunned for a moment...but his body did not resist as he was hugged so weakly and pressed under her.

At the moment when she hugged Kage and pushed him down...the space behind her changed again with the sound of drums...the originally deep corridor turned into a tatami room, and the boundary of the space change happened to be the cross-sectional position of the half-mouse. Not bad, perfect!

However, even though it was so fast, it was still a little late. Although there was nothing wrong with the shadow, the general's hair had not yet escaped the disaster. The long braid hanging down was cut off by the boundary of the changing space, because the cutting place was the end... So the long braid that was originally tied up was spread out behind him, and the fallen hair strands covered the mouse's body like it was buried with him.

"!!"

After seeing this scene during the filming process, I instantly understood all the cause and effect, and there was obviously a hint of fear in her eyes...not for herself but for her daughter.

puff~!

Time has returned to its original state...

puff~!

After a muffled sound...she was pushed to the ground by her daughter, but the back of her head did not hit the ground but was protected by the other's arm first.

"Are you OK?!"

The general lost his usual calmness and finally became panicked. His face was pale now and his hair was disheveled... That beautiful face was full of fear and worry. She asked the shadow in her arms in a panic.

"I'm... fine..."

After seeing the general's appearance, Ying was stunned again and then answered in a low voice.

"...Really...Is everything okay?"

After hearing this, the general confirmed again with a trembling voice, and then deliberately touched Ying's neck with his fingertips to see if there were any severed wounds. There was no trace of scars on the tender white neck skin.

"I'm fine... General... I'm really fine."

Ying felt both unbearable and heart-warming when she saw her daughter like this. She put her hand on the back of the other person's hand that was touching her neck and gently comforted her.

"..."

She kept pursed her lips at this moment, and even the circles under her eyes were red.

"General..."

Ying was obviously startled when she saw this... she stared blankly at her daughter who was lying on top of her.

Whoop~! !

Just when she was about to say something... the other party hugged her again, hugged her tightly and pressed his face against her neck.

"!"

Ying just wanted to get up but was interrupted by the other party again. She fell to the ground again and was tightly hugged by the other party.

"...General?"

She didn't put up any resistance and just let the other person press her, hug her, and press against her neck, and her hands slowly hugged the other person's slender waist.

"Well...I thought you...would..."

The general's delicate body in her arms was trembling... maybe because of fear, or maybe because of her body's instinct. She also hugged her daughter tightly and placed her lips gently on her forehead, which was buried in her neck. He kept gently stroking the other person's hair and back with his palms, as if to make the other person no longer so afraid.

"No...I will not leave you...General."

She kept whispering in the other person's ear...continuously relaxing the other person's trembling mind at the moment.

"But... you, you just... almost...!"

The other party hugged her tightly again... and retorted in a sobbing tone, as if she was coquettish.

"Pfft... little fool~ Have you forgotten? I am now taking the form of something... not a real body, but the power of a dream. Even if I was... beheaded just now, I would just turn into particles of light and be reorganized. No. What impact will it have?"

She explained as gently as water in the other person's ear... She was sure that the child's actions just now were greater than his thoughts. This was the only reaction to an important person, and she was very happy.

"..."

The general made no further reply.

"...General?"

Ying felt that the person in his arms was no longer moving, so he called out worriedly.

"!"

The next second she felt a touch of warm liquid dripping on her neck, and then more and more... just like this, her neck was wet.

Ying carefully and gently asked the general to raise his head... However, the other party seemed a little stubborn and didn't want to raise his head, so he lay muffled on her neck.

"General...are you crying?"

she asked softly.

"...?"

The general slowly raised his head and left her neck, looking at her blankly, his red eyes including tears gradually falling from the corners of his eyes.

"how do I…?"

She wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingertips with a puzzled expression, looking puzzled at the moisture on them.

"You cried..."

Ying looked at her in a daze.

"No, I didn't cry. This... is just a bug in the visual system."

She shook her head quickly as if she was panicking.

Looking at the person on her body, she would sniff cutely from time to time... giving her a burst of love and pampering, even if the other party was quibbling, there was nothing she could do. It would be better to say that the other party's subconscious quibbling seemed even cuter.

"Stop crying...Mom is fine..."

Ignoring his quibbles, she hugged the other person back and pressed him on her chest. She kept running her palms along the other person's disheveled hair and comforted him softly...

"Mom will never leave you...stop crying..."

Always so comforting...

It turns out...it's not just herself who can't live without each other...it turns out that they both do the same.

She didn't know how long it had been... Listening to the person in her arms being silent, she lowered her head and pushed aside the other person's bangs to look over, and found that the other person's tears had not subsided and his eyes were very red... He still had a cute and alluring moisture.

"(inhale)~///"

The general silently straightened up his upper body from Ying's body... blushing a little and looked away, and deliberately covered his tear-stained face with his palms, as if not to let Ying below him see it, but his lower body was still sitting on Ying's body. ...should be around the waist.

Ying's legs were stretched out under the opponent's buttocks at will, and the slender legs wrapped in dark purple knee-high socks were drawn together inward... His calves were slightly spread apart to make the opponent sit more comfortably.

"Pfft...don't you cry anymore?"

The shadow lying on the floor looked at his daughter's cute appearance and smiled fondly and asked her.

"I didn't cry...you read it wrong, the program is BUG~!"

The general replied dully.

"It's okay to cry for a while... on me..."

She said.

"I told you I won't cry anymore...you want to see me cry so much?"

The general retorted again... but he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes... completely unconvincing.

"Why don't you admit it? You don't have to do this in front of me -"

"If I admit it, will you throw me away like you did the collapse of the country?"

Her daughter turned her face away and wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes, and asked a little fragilely.

"..."

Her body trembled subconsciously after hearing these words, her jade lips pursed slightly, and her eyes lowered. She didn't expect that the other party would miss her so much, but -

Indeed...she did do this kind of thing. Although she seemed to call it a good name, she still did it. She was ashamed of the child.

"……call."

He exhaled slightly and hugged the girl on his lap again, but the other party didn't struggle.

"...I'm sorry...I said the wrong thing."

The general was held in her arms and he raised his head obediently and apologized to her in a low voice...

"It's okay, it's my fault. How could I abandon you just because you cry? Don't think too much... You have made me change, haven't you? I am no longer the same person as before, am I? So, …Can you trust mom? General.”

She spoke affectionately against her daughter's face.

"Well... I have always believed in you, Ying... I'm just still a little scared subconsciously, I'm sorry."

"I won't let you be afraid anymore, not anymore... not anymore..."

He kept whispering in the general's ear, as if he was admonishing himself again.

She straightened her upper body slightly...and her arms were forced to support the ground...because the general was sitting on her waist, she didn't stand up completely.

"..."