Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 16
After being shaken by Xin Lailai for a while, Tanjiro woke up from the ground.

"Xin Lai Lai... Nezuko!" Tanjiro looked dizzy at Xin Lai Lai in front of him, muttered about him, and then suddenly shouted Nezuko's name.

"...This guy is a true girl-controller." Xin Lailai looked at Tanjiro who jumped up from the ground and rushed to Nezuko, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

"Tanjiro, take your sister home first. I'll talk to you in detail about the rest on the way."

Xin Lai Lai greeted Tanjiro. Upon hearing this, Tanjiro picked up the unconscious Nezuko and followed Xin Lai Lai towards his home.

Because both of them had used up a lot of energy, they didn't walk very fast, but this also made it easier for Xin Lailai to give Tanjiro a detailed explanation.

"That means we have to go to Saagiri Mountain next, right?"

"Yes, according to what Tomioka Giyuu said, the only way to save your sister is to ask the ghost, but the ghost will not listen to our explanation obediently, so we must first gain enough power to make the ghost calm down! "

The two of them were walking and talking. Suddenly, Tanjiro stopped, stopped talking, and rushed over in a hurry.

Only then did Xin Lailai notice that he had reached Tanjiro's house.

He walked over, looked at Tanjiro who was kneeling in silence in front of the corpses of his family, and patted the other man's shoulder.

"Get up, we have other things to do, and you don't want them to freeze here all the time." Xin Lailai squatted down and whispered in Tanjiro's ear.

"Yes." Tanjiro's eyes were red and swollen, and he nodded.

"Xin Lailai...thank you."

"Why are you thanking me? You are my friend, why do we need to be polite!"

Xin Lailai smiled, then walked into the house and picked up the bodies of Tanjiro's younger siblings, seemingly not caring about the pungent smell of blood.

"Let's go, find a place for them to rest in peace." Xin Lailai smoothed the eyelids of the corpse and whispered to Tanjiro.

……

Burying Tanjiro's family was not an easy task. By the time the two of them dug the hole, buried the people, and put up wooden signs, the sky was already dark.

"Although your sister can't see the sun, it's still too dangerous for us to go out at night. Just rest here tonight and we'll set off again tomorrow."

Xinlailai, knowing that Muzan had left this area, said to Tanjiro.

"Brother Lai Lai, I listen to you." Tanjiro accepted Xin Lai Lai's proposal directly.

With today's time, Xin Lailai has successfully improved Tanjiro's favorability a lot, and now Tanjiro treats him as a brother.

"Why didn't you notice that I was so good at deceiving people before? Did Sanctuary Paradise bring me in because they saw my talent as a magic stick?"

Seeing Tanjiro's sincere eyes, Xin Lailai touched her nose in embarrassment and cursed.

He didn't tell Tanjiro that the reason why he stayed one extra day was partly because he was worried about safety, and partly because he wanted to secretly go to Tanjiro's cemetery at night to pick some blue Higan flowers.

According to the foreshadowing in the original Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the blue Higan flower that Muzan has been searching for all his life actually happens to bloom in the Tanjiro family cemetery. To be precise, it is the ceiling of combat power in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. One and each other's wives were near their graves.

Although it is not explicitly stated in the original work, the reason why Tanjiro can become the ghost king who is not afraid of the sun in the final ending, and the reason why Yadouzi can later awaken a physique that is not afraid of the sun, is most likely related to this.

Therefore, just in case, Xin Lailai naturally planned to pick two plants for backup.

The problem is that when the blue flowers are not blooming, they are almost like weeds. Xin Lailai has no other way to distinguish them, so the best way is to pick up all the weeds nearby.

This is why Xin Lailai chose to wait for Tanjiro to rest at night before taking action. It would be okay to consume two grasses in front of others, but to consume all the grass next to his ancestral graves in front of others...

He plans to continue to improve Tanjiro's favorability, but it would be better not to do such a thing for the time being.

……

The next day, Xin Lai Lai and Tanjiro packed up their gear, took Nezuko shrunk into a basket, and rushed to Samagiri Mountain.

After half a day.

"Huh...huh, Tanjiro, don't you feel tired?"

Xin Lailai, who had been traveling for several hours, wiped the sweat from his head and looked at Tanjiro with a look like a monster.

This guy was carrying Nezuko, who was definitely not very light, and he was running so fast that Xin Lailai risked his life just to keep up with the pace.

"Well, maybe it's because I usually run up and down the mountain a lot, right? Brother Lai Lai, why don't we go to the Buddhist temple in front of us to have a rest?"

Tanjiro looked at Xin Lailai who was out of breath from exhaustion, scratched his head in embarrassment, and then pointed to a Buddhist temple ahead along the mountain road.

"Okay... okay, I've been traveling all day today. Let's stay here tonight." Xin Lailai said intermittently while panting.

"Then let me go see if anyone is there?" Tanjiro said, strode up the steps, came to the door of the Buddhist hall, and knocked on the door.

"This Buddhist temple...is where Tanjiro first encountered a ghost, right?"

Xin Lailai looked at the Buddhist temple, squinting and muttering.

Although it is unclear how long Tanjiro spent on the road in the original novel, considering that in the original plot Tanjiro buried his family alone, the departure time should be much later than they are now.

"In other words, if you stay here tonight, you are likely to encounter a ghost?"

"Speaking of which, it seems that Kintaki Sakonji also showed up at this time..."

"Brother Lailai! Come up, there's no one inside!" Above, Tanjiro was waving to Xin Lailai.

Hearing this, Xin Lailai walked over in a hurry, thinking about how to deal with tonight.

[Trigger side mission: Temple Imp]

……

[Side mission: Temple Imp]

Difficulty level LV.2
Mission introduction: A little ghost, a house, two fangs, covered in blood.

Mission information: Use this little devil to prove your potential under the eyes of the secretly observing Sakonji Nedaki.

Mission deadline: 12 hours, 59 minutes and 54 seconds

Mission reward: Ningtaki Sa's recent recognition, paradise points * 1000
Mission punishment: Rejected by Rin Taki Sago and lost the opportunity to be trained by him.

……

The light blue text appeared, and Xin Lailai glanced at it twice. His eyes stayed on the name 'Lin Taki Sakonji' for two seconds, and he nodded slightly. "It seems... we need to plan carefully."

……

That night.

"Brother Lai Lai, wake up."

Tanjiro pushed the sleeping Xin Lai.

"Is it already dark?" Xin Lailai rubbed his eyes and looked at Tanjiro.

"Well, you said you wanted me to wake you up as soon as it gets dark."

"Thanks, Tanjiro, I know you are reliable."

Xin Lailai smiled at Tanjiro and pinched the back of his hand quietly to wake himself up quickly.

"By the way, who are these two?" Xin Lailai noticed that there were two more people in the Buddhist hall and asked Xin Lailai.

"This is Uncle Lu and his nephew. They happened to be passing by this Buddhist temple and wanted to stay here for one night." Tanjiro introduced.

"Are those two passersby who died in the anime?"

Xin Lailai glanced at Lu's uncle and nephew, smiled at them, and was about to strike up a conversation when something unexpected happened.

boom!
Suddenly the door opened.

"Get out of the way!"

Xin Lailai, who was well prepared, grabbed Tanjiro and pulled him away from the sharp claws that stabbed at his neck.

"Huh?" A voice of surprise sounded. The nameless ghost standing at the door looked at the five people in front of him and licked his lips, with greedy light shining in his eyes. .

"You actually escaped? What a pity. You could have been happy..."

"kill!"

Just as the nameless ghost opened his mouth, Xin Lailai in front of him suddenly shouted loudly, which frightened the nameless ghost. Then he saw a cold light flash across his neck.

Boom!
The unknown ghost's head fell to the ground and rolled twice.

"A lot of nonsense."

Xin Lailai kicked the nameless ghost on the head, kicking it away, and then slashed at the headless body again, splitting it in half.

It only took a few seconds before and after, and the movements were smooth and smooth.

It wasn't until the nameless ghost's body hit the ground with a loud noise that Tanjiro and his group behind him realized what had happened.

"Why are you standing there in a daze? Tanjiro, take Nezuko to see that guy's head. As for you two, just watch the show."

"Oh... ok, ok!"

Tanjiro, who was a little confused, nodded vigorously and dragged Nezuko to the nameless ghost's head.

"You bastard!"

The nameless ghost whose head was kicked away stared at Xin Lailai with splitting eyes and roared.

"Still! Still alive!"

Tanjiro next to him was startled, but Nezuko rushed over and kicked the nameless ghost in the head.

boom!The unknown ghost's head hit the tree, and half of his face was completely deformed by the kick.

"Well done, Nezuko!" Xin Lailai, who had added two more axes to the unknown ghost's body, wiped the blood stains on his face and praised Nezuko.

As for the two passers-by behind him, they were so frightened by Xin Lailai's actions that they fainted.

"Tsk, can you still die now that it's become like this?"

Xin Lailai walked over, looked at the nameless ghost head that was still struggling to crawl towards them, and said something deliberately.

"Tanjiro, take it and give him the final blow."

Xin Lailai patted Tanjiro on the back and handed him the ax in his hand.

"...Hmm." Tanjiro looked at the nameless ghost's head that was crawling in front of him. He walked over and made a chopping gesture, but he still failed to chop it off.

In the anime, the same is true for Tanjiro, who cannot give up his gentle character even when facing a ghost. Although he will not show mercy, he is unwilling to kill the opponent in an overly cruel way.

[Reminder: Nintaki Sago has arrived recently. 】

"Are you here?" Xin Lailai looked at the prompt from the paradise, his eyes flickering.

"Tanjiro, I'll do it."

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Xin Lailai walked over, held Tanjiro's hand, and comforted him.

"Brother Lailai, I'm sorry, I..." Tanjiro looked at Xin Lailai and lowered his head guiltily.

"It doesn't matter, you are not wrong, there is no need to blame yourself for this." Xin Lailai consoled her.

"Since you regard me as your elder brother, there are some things that I should face."

Xin Lailai said, taking the ax from Tanjiro's hand, looking at the nameless ghost's head squirming little by little, his eyes crossed, his legs stepped forward, and he chopped it down without hesitation.

Whoa!
The blood-stained ax blade glowed with cold light and split the nameless ghost's head into two halves with a muffled sound.

"You're not dead yet?" Xin Lailai muttered, and when he was about to strike again with the ax, an arm was put on his shoulder.

"That kind of thing can't give the final blow."

The vicissitudes of life and the hoarse voice sounded without warning.

The old man, wearing a Tengu mask and wrapped in a white hood and blue feathers, stared at Xin Lailai and said.

(End of this chapter)