Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 15
"Have we started yet..." Xin Lailai looked at the two people confronting each other in the snow, squinting slightly as she listened to the familiar lines.

"Please don't kill my sister...please." Desperate Tanjiro cried, kneeling on the ground, begging.

"It's coming!" Seeing this scene, Xin Lailai immediately cheered up.

The development of the plot is almost consistent with what he knows, except for the small episode where Tomioka Giyu tells Tanjiro that all his family except Nezuko are dead.

"Don't let others control the power of life and death!" Giyuu Tomioka, who could no longer suppress his inner emotions, swung the knife with all his strength and scolded Tanjiro with a ferocious face.

"Don't lie miserable on the ground!"

"If that had worked, your family wouldn't have been killed!"

In the snow, Giyu Tomioka kept yelling at Tanjiro.

"Your mistake caused your sister to be snatched away!"

"I can even stab you and your sister to death!"

Angry roars echoed in the ears of Xin Lai Lai and Tanjiro.

Swish!
The sword flashed across and pierced into Nezuko's shoulder.

"do not want!"

Tanjiro, who was woken up from his grief and despair by Tomioka Giyu, instinctively shouted and threw the stone in his hand accurately, hitting Tomioka Giyu's face.

"Stop!" Tanjiro shouted, but he did not rush towards Tomioka Giyu without thinking, but rushed towards the ax beside him.

Whoa!
The sudden strong wind swept up the snow on the ground, blocking the sight of both parties.

"The time has come!"

Xin Lailai, who had been hiding aside, saw this scene, no longer cowered, and rushed out with Tanjiro.

"Tanjiro, cover me!" Xin Lailai rushed to Tanjiro's side, shouted, and at the same time reached out to grab the ax in the opponent's hand.

"...Okay!" Tanjiro looked at Xin Lai Lai who suddenly appeared. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded vigorously and decisively handed the ax to Xin Lai Lai.

"To be able to make a judgment so quickly, you are indeed the protagonist I like!" Xin Lailai looked at Tanjiro who instantly understood what he meant, and grinned.

"This is much more reliable than those passers-by. In this case, I have to use some skills to do it!"

Then, covered by wind, snow and trees, Xin Lailai approached Tomioka Yugi from another direction with all his strength.

"The purpose is just to get a high score in front of Tomioka Yugi. It is not suitable to use magic, so..."

……

"Leave it to the pure attack of emotion... folly!"

Tomioka Yugi looked at Tanjiro who was roaring towards him and scolded him angrily and disappointedly.

Bang!
Raising his elbow, he easily found Tanjiro's flaw and smashed the opponent directly into the snow.

"Huh? The axe...is not good!"

Seeing that there was nothing in Tanjiro's hand, Tomioka Giyuu's pupils shrank suddenly and he turned his head suddenly. His eyes reflected the figure of Xin Lailai very close at hand - and the ax in his hand that was hitting his head.

"Successful." Xin Lailai looked at the shocked Tomioka Giyu, with a deliberately curved corner of his mouth.

The next moment, Xin Lailai felt something brushing against the back of his head, as gentle as running water, and then his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground.

"These two guys...when did it happen?"

Tomioka Giyuu looked at the two unconscious people in front of him, with surprise that he couldn't hide in his eyes.

"Especially this guy...he hid from the beginning, and even I almost ignored his existence. Now it seems that he was already planning to do this from the beginning?"

Tomioka Giyuu stared at Xin Lailai and muttered to himself. Nezuko, who had been held by him, noticed his distraction and suddenly used force to break away from Tomioka Giyuu. He kicked him away and fell to the ground. Tanjiro rushed over.

"Oops! He's going to be eaten!" Giyu Tomioka was shocked when he saw Nezuko rushing towards Tanjiro. When he instinctively prepared to use the fastest move to kill Nezuko, his body suddenly froze in place. .

The girl who had turned into a ghost was like an eagle protecting its young, standing in front of the young man, screaming at the man holding the blade in front of her.

……

"Hiss...my head hurts, Shuizhu is too cruel."

When Xin Lailai regained consciousness, he subconsciously covered the back of his head and complained in his heart.

"Are you awake?" A cold and questioning tone sounded in Xin Lailai's ears.

Xin Lailai trembled, turned around and looked at Tomioka Giyu standing behind him, showing a wary expression.

"Don't worry, my duty is to kill ghosts. I won't fight with you unless necessary." Tomioka Giyuu looked at Xin Lailai and said indifferently.Tomioka Giyu then looked forward and saw that Tanjiro and Nezuko were still in a coma and had not woken up.

"I actually woke up faster than Tanjiro? Could it be because I have dizziness resistance after passing through the paradise portal twice?"

Xin Lailai complained in his mind, looked at Tomioka Giyu, and asked:
"How long have I been in a coma?"

"15 minutes."

"Tanjiro... can his sister really be saved?" Xin Lailai asked in a deliberately hesitant tone.

Tomioka Giyu glanced at Xin Lailai and said:

"I don't know. Maybe the ghosts know, but they won't tell."

After Tomioka Yoshiyuki finished speaking, he paused for a while and continued:

"I'm even more curious as to why you risked your own safety to help him. After all, in that situation I would probably kill you by mistake."

"Maybe... I just want to help him." Xin Lailai put his hands on the back of his head, lay down, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the sky.

"I am an orphan and I am not welcomed in the village, but the Kamado family who lives in the mountains treat me very well, as if I am their family."

"Really, it sounds a little funny, doesn't it? But their family is so kind that they are so kind and silly?" Xin Lailai said in an exaggerated tone, and then his voice suddenly became deeper.

"So, I don't understand why they died? Why do so many people survive by relying on various despicable ways, but they died!"

Xin Lailai closed her eyes and her tone became trembling.

"Really, you know? Normally I wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken, but today when I saw the blood on that ground, I don't know why I wasn't scared at all, but I felt very..."

Xin Lailai paused, opened his eyes, met Tomioka Yoshiyuki's calm eyes, and uttered two words:
"anger."

After saying that, Xin Lailai stopped making any sound, and the two of them fell into silence.

It took a while before Tomioka Giyu took the initiative to speak.

"How old are you?"

"Eighteen? Or nineteen? I can't remember clearly."

"..." Tomioka Yiyong hesitated for a while, then sat down, raised his head, looked up at the sky with Xin Lailai, and said:

"You are too old and your physical foundation is not very good."

"However, you are very calm. Even when you were extremely angry, you did not lose your mind. Instead, you made the right judgment and teamed up with Tanjiro to carry out an almost perfect attack on me."

It worked!
Hearing Tomioka Yoshiyuki say these words, Xin Lailai's eyes lit up, and an imperceptible joy flashed across his face.

"If you are willing to die, go with Tanjiro to the foothills of Mt. Sagi to visit an old man named Kinzasa Konji, and tell him that Tomioka Giyuu asked you to come. Also, remember to remind Tanjiro , told him not to bring his sister into the sun."

After Tomioka finished speaking, he stood up, swayed, and disappeared from Xin Lailai's sight.

Xin Lailai sat up and looked at the direction Tomioka Yiyu left. After staring intently for a few minutes, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The other party did not see through his lie.

"With the introduction of Mizuhashi, it will definitely be no problem to get the guidance of Konji Ninataki. As long as you pass his level, you will be sure to join the Demon Slayer Corps!"

Xin Lailai planned carefully in her mind.

The period of time given to him by the paradise for the second ring of the main plot is a full two and a half years. Of course, because he has to participate in the team selection in the Demon Slayer plot, the actual time left for Xin Lailai is only about two years.

But it is also extremely abundant.

In the past two years, he could completely make up for his shortcomings in physical fitness and combat experience with the help of Nintaki Sakon's training.

"Is this a disguised form of compensation from the paradise to me?" Xin Lailai thought.

Normally, contractors rarely have missions lasting more than a month, and they have to live in dire straits almost every day.

Xin Lailai has never heard of anyone who has experienced a task like this that automatically provides a stable development period of up to two years.

"The rest is to think of a suitable reason to rationalize my magic. After all, if I just rely on my body, let alone passing the test, it is probably too difficult to get the approval of Nintaki Sakonji."

Xin Lailai shook the unconscious Tanjiro vigorously while thinking.

"Tanjiro, wake up! Hey, Tanjiro! It's time to get up!"

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(End of this chapter)