Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 18 Rintagisa’s recent recognition
One day later, darkness fell.

Tanjiro and Xinlai, who were as tired as two dead dogs, lay on the ground, gasping for air.

When Nintaki Sa recently said that he would give them a hellish training, he really didn't say any lies in it.

It can be said that the two of them really tried their best to keep up with his speed.

"Huh...huh, Tan...Tanjiro..."

"What's wrong, Brother Lai Lai?"

"Today...huh...thank you so much."

Xin Lailai squeezed out a sentence in a hoarse voice.

If it hadn't been for Tanjiro today, he wouldn't have been able to survive until now. Every time he fell down from exhaustion, Tanjiro would be the one who picked him up and carried him on until he regained some strength.

"Brother Lai Lai, you are too... too polite. I just did what I should do." Tanjiro, who was also very tired, responded.

Then, the two were silent for a while, then looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"Haha...hahaha...ha...cough cough...cough cough cough!"

"Hahaha, Brother Lai Lai, you are too funny today. I can't do it anymore. I have a stomachache, hahaha!"

Xin Lai Lai just laughed twice before she choked and couldn't breathe. Seeing this, Tanjiro covered his stomach, pointed at Xin Lai Lai's red face, and laughed even louder.

"Ahem, what are you kidding about? You kid, you think of Nezuko's hard work while you are running, and you are so moved that you shed tears. Isn't that embarrassing?"

"But... haha... Brother Lai Lai, the way you look tired is really funny, just like the blushing monkey in the story!"

"Bah, what does it mean to be like a monkey? My blood energy surges, do you understand?"

The two of them had a great time chatting with each other, and finally got tired of chatting, so they both looked at the bright moon in the sky and rested quietly.

"Tanjiro?" "Yes."

"I'm really happy to have you as a friend."

"I am the same. I am very happy to meet Brother Lai Lai. If I had known, I would have talked to Brother Lai Lai more when I was in the mountains."

"Haha, you were a popular person in the eyes of the villagers at that time, so I was able to establish a superficial friend relationship with you and go to your house as a guest so that I could eat and drink."

"Well...it's a pity that I can no longer invite Brother Lai Lai to my house."

As soon as he talked about his family, Tanjiro's eyes suddenly darkened.

"Don't look like that, Tanjiro." Xin Lailai suddenly sat up and looked at Tanjiro seriously.

"I know the death of your family makes you sad, but because of this, you must cheer up, control your emotions, and let it become the reason for your strength, not your weakness!"

"This is not only for yourself, but also for the daughter that your mother risked her life to protect, your sister, Nezuko!"

Xin Lailai said, pointing to Nezuko who was squatting aside and staring at them for a long time.

"Nezuko..."

Tanjiro turned his head and met Nezuko's innocent eyes. He was startled, and his dim eyes became bright again.

"You are right, Brother Lai Lai," Tanjiro followed suit and said with firm eyes:

"I really shouldn't stay in a place like this!"

"I must keep moving forward and keep getting stronger, strong enough to protect Nezuko, strong enough to defeat the ghost who killed my mother and brothers and sisters!"

Hearing this, Xin Lailai showed his big white teeth, patted Tanjiro hard on the back, and praised:
"That's right! That's it! Use this energy and let's become the strongest ghost-slaying swordsmen together!"

"Yes! Brother Lai Lai!"

"Ah woo!" Nezuko on the side also raised her little hand and shouted.

Why didn't he realize that he was so good at deceiving people?
"If I had known that I would have chosen the acting department instead of the stupid medical major."

Xin Lailai looked at Tanjiro who was full of energy under his own encouragement and cursed himself.

"But... this feeling is really good."

Xin Lailai turned his head and looked at the sky, with a hint of curvature at the corner of his mouth.

Xin Lailai couldn't explain why his acting skills and ability to fool people had inexplicably improved a lot since he entered the Sanctuary Paradise, as if he was a self-taught teacher.

But Xin Lailai could be sure that the previous laughter and mutual insults were absolutely not false. He could only say those words when he truly experienced the emotion of joy.

He even somewhat understood why there were people in the paradise who had clearly become workers but still longed to regain their status as contractors.

The temptation brought by the life of contractors who risk their lives to experience different and wonderful worlds is indeed far beyond the comfortable and boring daily life of workers.

……

The next day.

"Damn, why do I have to face this thing too!"

Xin Lailai stood on the top of the mountain, breathing the thin air, with an ugly expression on his face.

He originally thought that he had spent so much effort to create a genius character, so Nintaki Sasa would be gentler on him this time, and given his physical disadvantage, he would give him some basic training first.It turned out that the truth was different from what he thought. Nintaki Sakonji had no intention of holding back at all. He took him and Tanjiro up the mountain together on the first day, and even arranged a completely different path for him from Tanjiro.

"Forget it, it's impossible to give up just because of something like this when we've reached this point."

Xin Lailai looked at the mountain road shrouded in mist, and sighed as he thought of the request that Ning Taki Sakon had made last time.

"Go back down the mountain before dark...Fight!"

Xin Lailai gritted his teeth, no longer hesitated, put on two layers of 10 mana spell shields on himself, and strode down the mountain.

"Ahhhh!"

Not long after, ear-piercing screams sounded.

Xin Lailai, who was sitting in a deep pit full of blades, looked at the cold blades under his butt with a pale face, and his legs trembled involuntarily.

It is not difficult to imagine what miserable situation he would be in now without the magic shield.

"You are really planning to train me to death!"

'If it's so easy to die, then the previous rhetoric would be nothing more than a joke. 'Xin Lailai finally understood the meaning of what Lintaki Sago said to him before he went up the mountain last time.

"Very good, you're going to die, right? The gate of hell is close, right? I'm afraid of you! Don't say before dark! If the sun has even entered the mountains and I haven't gone back, I will be your grandson, Taki Sago! "

After knowing that Ningtaki Sakonji was not joking at all, Xin Lailai was provoked and his teeth gritted loudly.

"I'm going to let you know the difference between you, Uncle Lai Lai, and those people who only talk loudly!"

Xin Lailai struggled to climb out of the pit, spit out the mud that accidentally got into his mouth, and cursed fiercely.

……

at dusk.

Nintaki Sakonji stood in front of the window, looking at the setting sun.

"Can they really pass the test?"

Nintaki Sakonji asked himself.

There were backup personnel of the Demon Slayer Corps watching everywhere on the mountain. With the special characteristics of those two children, he believed that those traps could not really take their lives, and they could be saved even if there was an accident.

But surviving and being able to pass his test are two different things.

"Why should I do this even though I know it is too difficult for them... Sakonji, Sakonji, in your heart, are you really willing to train these children to become demon-slaying swordsmen?"

Kintaki Sakonji looked at the sunset that was about to disappear into the shadows, shook his head, his thoughts were a little confused.

boom!
The door was knocked open with a loud noise, and the shocked Ningtaki Sakonji subconsciously grasped his right hand at his waist, and then realized that the person who came was actually Xin Lailai.

"Ahem, how about it, Mr. Lintaki... the sun shouldn't have set yet."

Xin Lailai, who was covered in scars and was wearing a strange-style cloth that had been torn into strips of cloth, showed an extremely forced smile to Naitaki Sakonji, and then passed out.

Ningtaki Sakonji hurriedly ran over and hugged Xin Lailai, whose head was about to hit the ground. The expression under the Tengu mask was a bit complicated.

Then, just as Nintaki Sakon gently placed Xin Lailai on the bed for the first time, the wooden door was pushed open again.

Tanjiro, who was covered in blood and even more injured than Xin Lailai, forced his eyes open, gasping for air, then supported his body with the wooden door, and said with his last strength:

"I am back!"

After saying this, Tanjiro, who had already exhausted all his strength, passed out like Xin Lailai before, and his body fell softly along the wooden door.

"..."

Nintaki Sakonji was silent for a while, silently walked over and picked up Tanjiro and placed him gently on the bed, then looked at the wooden table with the candlesticks.

I saw a neatly written letter spread out on the table:
'Foreword, Mr. Kintaki Sakonji, I sent two young men who want to become ghost-slaying swordsmen to your side.

They had the courage to challenge me with their bare hands. Although family and friends were killed, and the surviving sister of one of the teenagers turned into a ghost, I judged that she would not attack humans.

I feel something different from this pair of siblings. The older brother named Tanjiro Kamado seems to have a sharp nose just like you.

As for another young man named Xin Lailai, let’s call him a young man. I can’t completely see through him, but I don’t think he lied to me.

He is a person who cares about his friends very much and will feel angry for them, but his mind is surprisingly calm and he can make the most correct judgment in anger. Therefore, even if his age and physical foundation no longer meet the standards for training , but I still recommend him to you.

Maybe they can achieve a "breakthrough" and "inherit", so please cultivate them.

I know this is a selfish request, but please forgive me.

Please take care and continue to work hard.

Write this hastily.

——Yiyu Tomioka. '

After reading the letter in his hand again, Ningtaki Sakon once again focused his attention on Xin Lai Lai and Tanjiro on the bed.

"I recognize you... Xin Lailai, Kamado Tanjiro."

(End of this chapter)