Demon Slayer: Tanjuro Kamado returns from Sekiro

Chapter 146 - Crazy Wuxian (the beginning of the decisive battle)
night,

Kitchen door home.

The deserted mountaintop looked very quiet, with the cold moonlight covering the forest.

Not long after the hidden team members left.

Dang!

A strange pipa sound sounded from nowhere.

Creak——!
As an abrupt Japanese-style wooden door opened in mid-air, dim and warm light leaked out.

A panicked figure in a black suit fell from it.

With a snap, his feet touched the ground.

The figure who landed on the ground bowed his upper body and looked around furtively and carefully.

The two scarlet eyes looked nervously from side to side, so conspicuous in the dark night.

for a long time.

"...not here."

There was a fine drop of sweat on Wuhan's pale forehead. He seemed to finally heave a sigh of relief and straightened up his upper body with a long sigh.

His hands kept soothing his chest, and the seven hearts that kept running around in his body were beating hard.

The narrow scarlet eyes narrowed.

As imagined.

The guy was busy dealing with Tongmo and couldn't take care of himself.

Well done Tongmo.

That being the case!

"Next!"

Muzan regained his former ghost king aura, his face became cold, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the position where Narume's vampire technique was seen.

That bunch of green buds!

Unable to suppress his inner excitement, he faintly shouted:

"The other side of blue——"

but.

"?"

next moment.

When Wu Kuan's eyes swayed left and right in excitement twice, he finally determined that the scene in front of him was the same as the blue flower cluster he had seen before.

The expression of excitement gradually became stunned.

The voice also suddenly dropped:
"……flower--?"

He frowned tightly and took steps forward hesitantly.

Slowly walked to the mass of blackened and withered grass.

With a face ashen as death, he leaned down and picked up the withered buds of the other shore flower with two fingers.

before.

The flower cluster that had one bud shoveled away by the hidden team seemed to be there for some reason.

It has all withered now.

Not even a bit of the bright cyan color just now can be seen.

It completely turned into a damp, dark, disgusting sludge.

pat.

The withered branches and leaves that were twisted up by Wu Kuai swayed twice under the gaze of his red eyes, and then broke off with a snap.

fall to the ground.

His vision gradually became dull as the flower buds fell to the ground.

"what…"

Wu Kuai was stunned, his mouth was half-opened, and he let out a meaningless whimper.

Sudden.

"Ah..."

His pupils trembled, he hugged his head fiercely, and fell to the ground as if his whole body was exhausted, not caring at all about the mud-stained suit.

He shouted in despair and helplessness.

"--Ah ah ah ah ah!!?!"

The bright moon above his head hung in the sky, and the moonlight slanted on Wuhan's body.

"why?!"

The pale expression was slightly crazy.

boom!
He pounded the ground in front of him.

"After this little time, it withered?!"

"In front of me!"

Wu Kuai's eyes were splitting with bloodshot eyes.

Kneeling on the ground, he clenched the withered flower buds on the ground with his palms, and the black mud squeezed out from between his fingers:

"Ahhhhh!!"

He tremblingly let go of his palms and lay down embarrassedly, wrapping his arms around the muddy beach in front of him, his eyes full of unacceptability.

There was even a vague thought in my mind: "Would eating this mud directly have any effect?"

He opened his mouth slightly, raised the mud in his hand, and put it towards his mouth with dull eyes:

"Obviously, when the human discovered it, it was so lush..."

Sudden.

Wu Ke's eyes were fixed, and something seemed to flash between his five brains.

The movements in his hands also stopped.

——The human just now.

——He remembered that he seemed to have brought a blue Bana flower...

——The flower buds in front of me have turned into mud, and the one that was taken away...

There was no time in my mind to think about why the flower buds withered or whether the flower buds that were taken away would wither.

He didn't dare to think carefully.

At this moment, there was only one sentence echoing in my mind.

There's only one left!
Take a deep breath.

"Naruto—!!"

The ghost king's roar echoed through the mountains and forests, and the birds that had fallen asleep were awakened, fluttering their wings and flying out of the woods.

Swish!
Wu Kuan's figure lying on the ground disappeared instantly.

……

soon.

Creak——!
A wooden door opened again in mid-air, and a palm with black nails poked out of it.

slap!

He grabbed a handful of mud on the ground.

Retracted.

Bang!
Then he closed the wooden door forcefully.

……

……

Down the mountain.

Wuhan's shouts also reached here.

He lives alone in Saburo's home at the foot of the mountain.

creak-

The old windows were slowly pushed open.

"...Are you here again?" Saburo poked his head out and looked nervously towards the top of the mountain.

That voice.He frowned slightly, his eyes full of solemnity.

In Saburo's hands.

He was clutching a musket that looked simple but seemed to be carefully maintained.

As an old man who lives in the mountains all year round, it is natural to carry a shotgun for self-defense.

The old hand was white and trembling, and the finger rested on the trigger tremblingly.

Saburo breathed out slowly.

He carried his musket and walked out of the house.

Last time, after meeting someone who called themselves the Demon Slayer Squad.

It seems that the polite young man with facial paralysis has a high status.

A swordsmith came to the door muttering, "We are determined to create a new era for the Demon Slayer Corps."

The man was cursing, "Those old-fashioned people in Knife Forging Village really don't know how to adapt."

On the other hand, he gave himself such a gun.

And three special bullets.

……

……

the other side.

in front of the windowsill.

"Gah! I understand! Karma!"

The pitch-black crow preened its feathers, and its yellow eyes twitched twice.

"Well! Please!"

The hidden team member who had just shoveled off the flower buds smiled and carefully handed the box containing the flower buds to the bird in front of him:
"Please be sure to give it to Lord Butterfly!"

The dark crow in front of him nodded, and after a loud cry, he flapped his wings and flew into the sky.

After watching the crow fly further and further away.

The hidden team members looked back.

He walks around all year round, and when he discovers something, he will hand it over to the bird.

I, on the other hand, rush non-stop towards my next discovery.

"Let's go." He said to himself, tightening the backpack on his back.

……

……

Shortly after.

high altitude.

Whoosh!

The crow held the wooden box in its mouth, fluttered its wings, and flew in the high blue sky, staring at the thin clouds and mist.

The familiar appearance of the house has come into view.

Butterfly House.

"Wow! What a serious injury!"

"This way! The swordsman here also needs to stop bleeding!"

"and many more!"

"Hey! I'm dying!"

The hermits were running around in a hurry.

The Butterfly House was not very quiet at night.

It seemed that the main force, the Butterfly Ninjas, were not around, so they seemed particularly busy.

"Everyone…"

Tanjiro stood helplessly outside the ward, holding a tray filled with medicines in his hands and looking at the panicked people in front of him.

At this time.

"Gah!! Tanjiro!!"

In the sky behind, the voice of the crow came:
"Take it!"

Tanjiro turned his head subconsciously.

In the field of vision, what is constantly enlarging is a long box.

His pupils shrank slightly.

He staggered back and took the opportunity to free a hand from under the tray.

Raise your hand suddenly!
Snapped!
He caught the falling box firmly.

"Caught it!" Tanjiro maintained the [Transformation] movement, steady his center of gravity, and a drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

"Gah!" A crow landed on Tanjiro's shoulder, and he raised his head proudly: "As expected of Tanjiro!"

"This is not something to be complacent about."

Tanjiro looked at the safe and sound box in his hand, breathed a sigh of relief, and shook his head helplessly:
"This is something important, what if it gets damaged?

"Don't do that next time."

"Ah! I understand!"

The eagle crow seemed nonchalant, lowering his head and combing his feathers.

At this time.

"What's wrong, Tanjiro?"

Kui Zhi wiped the sweat from her forehead with a towel. She was helping an injured swordsman stop bleeding. She turned around and looked over in confusion:
"I heard a pretty loud noise."

"elder brother!"

Hanako also looked over quickly.

"Ah..." Tanjiro was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile: "Don't worry, it's okay."

Takeo stood aside, looking at Tanjiro's appearance, somewhat lost in thought:
"elder brother."

Tanjiro noticed Takeo's gaze and looked sideways in confusion.

"The tone of speaking...no." Zhuxiong said in a daze.

In his eyes, Tanjiro's figure overlapped with someone familiar.

Appearance, figure, tone, everything -

Zhu Xiong was stunned and murmured:

"——Just like my father."

"I think so too!" Mao was cheering from the side.

"Because we are family." Kui Zhi smiled and rubbed Mao's head.

"Gah!" The bird crow suddenly called out.

"Ah!" Tanjiro suddenly reacted as if he was awakened by the crow.

He casually placed the wooden box on the tray and looked at the people in front of him:
"I was too busy chatting and completely forgot to help!"

In the ward.

The yellow-haired swordsman who was struck by lightning for the second time while practicing swordsmanship raised his charred arm as he lay dying.

And in a place where no one in Yi Ya and others paid attention.

Deep in the raven's feathers.

pat.

A small eyeball slowly opened its eyes.

It's like he has an endless desire to explore.

The pupils of the eyes are looking around quickly!

His eyes took in everything around him, and his eyes moved faster and faster.

The smiling Tanjiro, the panicked Yin team members, Aoi Eda, Takeo, Shigeru, Hanako on the side——

——Everything is reflected in the mirror-like pupils of the eyes.

(End of this chapter)