Chapter 90: Your Footwork Has Improved Quickly, Little Kochou
Night.
Inside a room in an independent courtyard.
The sliding door of the room was tightly shut.
Inside, only an oil lamp covered with washi paper in the corner emitted a dim, yellow glow.
This orange-yellow light, as if alive,
Flickered and stretched across the flat tatami mats, casting the shadows of the two people in the room onto the paper shoji screen.
Tatsu was currently lying comfortably on the tatami.
He wore a very loose, dark black yukata, its collar slightly open.
On his back stood a petite girl.
Kocho Shinobu wore white tabi socks on her feet, and at this moment, with a rhythmic cadence,
She continuously stepped on Tatsu's spine.
"Thump... thump... thump..."
"Hmm... good, very good."
Tatsu closed his eyes, letting out a satisfied groan from his throat.
He slightly turned his head, pressing his cheek against the cool tatami, a comfortable curve forming at the corner of his mouth.
"Your footwork has improved quickly, Little Kochou.
I only gave you a little guidance,
And you've mastered it so quickly.
I have to say, your talent in this area is truly astonishing."
Kocho Shinobu, standing on Tatsu's back, had an expression that was nothing short of spectacular.
On her exquisitely beautiful face, like that of a doll, she wore a mask of sweet smiles.
However, a faintly twitching vein on her forehead betrayed her true emotions.
"This damned, perverted demon!"
"How dare he... how dare he make me, a dignified Demon Slayer Corps member,
Trample his back like a maid here!
Pervert! Shameless! Lewd!"
Kocho Shinobu bent slightly,
And with a sickly sweet yet ethereal voice,
She softly replied:
"Oh my, Tatsu, you flatter me.
I'm truly flattered to receive your praise.
However, since Tatsu feels comfortable, then I am relieved."
She subtly emphasized the words 'truly flattered',
And the force in her feet, following the end of that sentence,
Imperceptibly increased, grinding heavily on a major acupoint on Tatsu's back.
However, this amount of force was nothing to Tatsu.
With his Transparent World, he didn't even need to open his eyes,
To clearly'see' the rapidly flowing blood and tensed muscles within Kocho Shinobu's body.
He knew this outwardly gentle Little Kochou too well.
The brighter she smiled, the more she wanted to kill.
But Tatsu particularly enjoyed seeing her in this state, wanting to kill him but unable to, forced to endure the humiliation.
Time passed minute by minute.
Two hours, normally, wasn't much,
But for Kocho Shinobu, who had to maintain a specific rhythm and force while standing on an adult man's back and stomping, it was a considerable physical exertion.
A fine layer of fragrant sweat had already seeped onto her forehead, and her breathing had become slightly more rapid than before.
"Alright, time's up, you can stop."
Tatsu lazily stretched his arms,
His bones emitting a series of crisp 'crack-crack' sounds.
Hearing this, Kocho Shinobu's nerves, which had been taut for two hours, finally relaxed a little.
"It's finally over... this bastard."
Just as she was about to jump off Tatsu's back,
A malevolent thought, suppressed for two whole hours, suddenly surged from the bottom of her heart.
Looking at the unguarded demon's back beneath her feet,
A hint of cunning flashed in Kocho Shinobu's eyes.
She took a deep breath, instantly concentrating all her strength into her feet.
Her feet, originally light as feathers, seemed to transform into thousand-pound boulders at this moment.
"Thump! Thump!"
Two dull thuds abruptly exploded in the room.
At the last moment, Kocho Shinobu, without reservation, heavily stomped twice on Tatsu's back,
The force was so great that even the tatami beneath Tatsu let out a faint groan of protest.
After stomping twice, Kocho Shinobu immediately leaped off Tatsu,
Landing steadily on the tatami a few steps away.
Her chest rose and fell slightly, and her face still wore that smiling expression,
But her eyes hid a hint of satisfaction from successful revenge:
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry, Tatsu.
My foot accidentally slipped just now, and I used a little too much force. I hope I didn't hurt you?"
The room fell into a brief silence.
Tatsu lay motionless on the tatami, as if knocked out by the two stomps.
Just as Kocho Shinobu began to fret, wondering if she had gone too far,
And if she would enrage this unpredictable demon, Tatsu suddenly moved.
"Ha... hahahaha..."
A low chuckle vibrated from Tatsu's chest,
Then, he propped himself up with both hands on the tatami, slowly sitting upright.
He turned his head, his blood-red eyes staring intently at Kocho Shinobu, who stood not far away,
There was no anger in his eyes, but rather an indescribable sense of comfort.
"Comfortable, truly comfortable!"
Tatsu twisted his neck,
"Little Kochou, you should have used this much force earlier!
For the past two hours, you stomped as if you hadn't eaten, so soft and weak.
But these last two stomps, the force was just right,
Piercing through my muscles, straight to the bone marrow, it truly made me feel completely refreshed!"
Tatsu looked at Kocho Shinobu, a playful smile curling on his lips, and continued:
"Your strength is pitifully small, you can't even sever a demon's neck,
These two stomps, you must have used all your strength, right?
How does it feel to use all your might?
Remember this intensity, and from now on, whenever you stomp my back,
Use the same force as those last two stomps; I won't be satisfied with anything less.
Did you hear me?"
Kocho Shinobu's smile completely froze at this moment.
In her purple eyes, the satisfaction of revenge instantly vanished,
Replaced by a sense of utter defeat and uncontrollable rage.
She had intended to disgust Tatsu with those last two stomps, to vent the resentment in her heart,
But she never expected that this perverted demon not only wasn't angry,
But instead treated her full-force, murderous attack as the ultimate massage experience.
"This bastard! This irrational monster!"
Kocho Shinobu clenched her hands tightly into fists at her sides,
Her fingernails digging deep into the soft flesh of her palms.
She had to use all her strength,
To restrain the impulse to draw her nichirin sword and fight Tatsu to the death.
Deep breaths... deep breaths... For my sister, I cannot be impulsive...
A few seconds later, Kocho Shinobu slowly unclenched her tightly fisted hands.
She forced a smile onto her face, one uglier than crying,
Yet desperately maintaining gentleness, she bowed slightly,
And with a sickly sweet, bitter voice squeezed through gritted teeth, she said:
"Is that so?
Since Tatsu likes it so much, that's wonderful.
From now on... I will definitely serve you with this amount of force.
As long as... you can endure it."
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