Chapter 59: Robbery while the fire is on fire
It took half a night for Genichiro and Butterfly to successfully surpass the five demons with the "enthusiastic help" of the skinny little ghost.
Among the five ghosts, only one had a blood ghost technique, which was a little more difficult, but under the attack of the two of them, he was caught before he could even hold out for five minutes.
However, the poison of the butterfly ninja has little effect on a ghost of this level.
After several experiments, Butterfly Shinobu summarized some rules.
There are three ways to use wisteria flower poison on ghosts.
The first is to splash it on the skin of the ghost, and in just two seconds, the skin contaminated with the ghost will rot, and the local muscles will also soften to the level of a normal person.
But unless you're an extremely skilled swordsman, it's hard to pinpoint the toxin-contaminated location before it evaporates.
The second is to pour it directly into the wound of the ghost.
Oni's blood circulates more than ten times faster than that of humans, and once an excess of venom is injected into the bloodstream, it quickly flows through the entire body, causing it to collapse from within.
However, it is very difficult to inject venom into the oni's veins without catching the oni.
Just by applying poison to a knife, the amount of poison is not enough.
Therefore, at present, this method is of little practical significance.
The third is to let the ghost take it orally.
If ghosts' circulatory systems are more than ten times better than humans, then their digestive systems are more than a hundred times that of humans.
Let the ghost swallow the wisteria flower poison directly, and within a few seconds, you will see the ghost's muscles and skin undergo obvious decay.
The weak ghost will die directly in ten seconds, and the ghost who can only use blood ghost magic will fall into a weak state that cannot cope with the battle.
However, ghosts only eat people.
How to make the ghost take the initiative to take the poison in actual combat is the difficulty.
The above is the harvest of Butterfly Shinobi tonight.
The three methods of poisoning have different drawbacks, and the mixed poison of wisteria flowers and poisonous fly umbrellas can only deal with some simple ghosts.
Therefore, the study of butterfly shinobi can only be said to have just begun.
With Genichiro by his side, before he knew it, Butterfly Shinobu had completed what he had been wanting to do for half a year but had no chance to do.
After all, when she usually goes out on a mission alone, she must quickly kill the ghost, and there is no room to catch the ghost to test the poison.
When you go on a mission with your teammates, you will be found out again if you do this, and you will definitely be known by your sister later.
But Ichiro's hook and rope can bind the demons, and he doesn't care about her various tortures of the demons, and there is no risk of leaks, so he is the perfect partner.
In this way, Butterfly Shinobu talked about his various ideas about poison in Ichiro with Koshiro all the way down the mountain, and when she passed by the path, she didn't even ask to see the situation of the trio of trial knives, which saved Koichiro a lot of trouble.
After all, Yamada is no longer there.
Under the pretext of going to the toilet halfway, Genichiro summoned a celebrity samurai who met the devil and asked him to secretly bring Yamada back to the dim sum shop and give it to Shinkan Sase.
As for what to do, the demon samurai couldn't carry out such a complicated order, so he could only wait for Genichiro to return.
When the two of them arrived at Daisuke Hirayama's hut, it was already past four o'clock in the morning.
But the old man did not break his promise, not only did the dim light shine through the window, but the roof chimney hill was also smoking.
Obviously, the old man did not rest, but boiled the broth while waiting for the return of the two.
"Let's rest here tonight, and we'll take the carriage back in the morning."
Butterfly Shinobu suggested.
"Okay." Ichiro nodded, "It just so happens that I'm a little hungry too." ”
After Shinobu knocked on the door, Daisuke Hirayama opened the door almost without delay, looking at the two of them who were a little dusty, and his eyes were full of tears.
"You're finally back!"
The old man's expression was full of surprise, and he was very excited.
He had watched the two of them leave since eight o'clock last night, and now that a full eight hours had passed, anything could have happened. Therefore, he was already panicking in his heart.
Seeing that the two of them were safe and sound, he was immediately relieved.
"Come on, come in, come in first! Come in first! ”
As he spoke, he grabbed a person with one hand and pulled the two into the house, not asking about ghosts, but just saying, "Just come back!" It's good to be back! ”
Then, he immediately lifted the lid of the pot, because it had been simmering for too long, and the room was filled with the smell of meat.
He served a large bowl of meat for each of them.
It is estimated that the meat will cost at least one or two yen (the monthly salary of a female worker at that time was 1.7 yen), and it is supposed to be prepared for the New Year.
Now it's all left to them.
"Eat first, eat first, and then talk after eating."
It's hard to resist the hospitality, and after a night of hard work, even Butterfly Ninja, who doesn't like to eat meat very much, ate it cleanly.
"Thank you for your hospitality." She was a little embarrassed.
"Thanks for what?" Old man Pingshan served a large bowl of soup to the two of them, "You are so young, but you are doing a job that is a hundred times more dangerous than those waste police, and that's all I can do." ”
After speaking, he looked at the two of them, "How is it, have you found the ghost?" ”
Butterfly Shinobu was a little slurching, obviously not knowing what to say about it.
So Koichiro said simply: "Fortunately, I don't disgrace my life." ”
In just four words, no specific details were explained.
If the old man and those workers knew the truth, they would inevitably go to the police to complain about their grievances, and the matter would easily be stabbed to the powerful.
So the less they know, the better.
Butterfly Shinobu glanced at him in surprise, and then said, "The ghosts in the neighborhood have all been solved by us." ”
"Really? That's great. ”
As he spoke, the old man suddenly bowed down to the two of them, "I thank you on behalf of those children!" ”
"Those black-hearted entrepreneurs, let them work day and night! What a blessing to get two extra hours of sleep! ”
"Without that path, there would be no hope for their lives!"
He was right.
At this time, Japanese workers were just awakening, and many factories hired teenagers to work more than 14 hours a day in order to save money.
Cut off the time for commuting, sleeping and eating, almost no free time for himself, and often have accidents due to fatigue work.
Workers living in factory dormitories have to smell the foul air every day, and they can't walk two steps out of the house, and they encounter hordes of hooligans to extort and extort money.
It is no exaggeration to say that their lives are dark.
And this small road, which can save workers a lot of commuting time, so that they can at least get rid of the harsh environment when they rest, is simply their way to salvation.
But even such a hidden path that can give some comfort is remembered by the historical dross of the knife tester.
It can be seen how miserable the life of the people at the bottom of Japan is.
Butterfly Shinobu quickly helped him up, "Please don't do this." Destroying evil spirits is what we should do. ”
"It's great to have people like you in the world."
In this way, after the two finished eating, they comforted the old man for a while, and then they had a chance to rest.
Koichiro finally had time to investigate tonight's harvest.
It's strange to say, it's clear that Butterfly Shinobu is only a C-level player, but the reputation value contributed to Genichiro is the same as that of Hanazhu and Immortal River, starting at 500.
On the other hand, the reputation value that came from the Ghost Slayer team, especially the Ming Pillar, was only 200.
This made Genichiro a little unsure of what this reputation value was based on.
From the day before yesterday to the meeting at the train station to the present, Butterfly Shinobi alone has contributed no less than 7,000 prestige points to him.
For a moment, Genichiro thought about joining the Ghost Slayer Team.
In addition to reputation, the five ghosts add 1 skill point to him, and a very small amount of the Oni King's Blood*5.
But these are not his biggest takeaways this time.
The biggest surprise of the day was the new Upanishads of the Pranayama.
After opening it in my mind, there were only three sword types of Water Breath and four sword types of Flower Breath for the time being.
These were all repeatedly used by Butterfly Shinobu in the process of slaying ghosts tonight, and were recorded by Ichiro who turned on the spiritual vision.
In other words, as long as Genichiro lights them up with skill points, he can immediately obtain these sword types as skills, and the accompanying breathing patterns will also appear directly in his mind.
Unlike the Upanishads provided by the system, each sword type in the Breathing Skill Book only needs one skill point to unlock.
And Genichiro now has a total of four skill points.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he still planned to reserve it first, and then use it to learn the breath of the wind with the Immortal River.
After all, after his Iron Summoning Thunder has undergone a sharp qualitative transformation, his attack power is linked to agility, that is, the speed of swinging the knife.
At present, the breath of flowers and water are still far from the breath of wind in terms of speed.
[I don't know how Oribe Masayuki is doing? 】
[If the ghost killing team can't solve the leaderless one, then the matter of learning the breathing method will be stable......]
In this way, thinking about it, Koichiro gradually fell asleep with the sound of the fire crackling and burning.
In the morning, he was woken up by a butterfly shinobi.
Butterfly Ninja knelt beside him, but there was an extra crow on her shoulder.
She held a note in her hand and looked at him with a serious face.
Anyway, Butterfly Shinobu has such an expression no matter what time it is, as if her sister has used up all her smiles.
As for the old man, he should have gone out.
"What's wrong?"
Ichiro rubbed his eyes, judging by the brightness of the sun outside the window, it was almost noon outside.
"This is a letter from my sister, and the ghost slayer seems to have met ...... Hmmm......"
Butterfly Shinobu was entangled for a while, and didn't seem to know how to describe it, so he simply showed the letter to Genichiro.
"Anyway, my sister just wants to see if you can help with this matter."
Ichiro took the note in a daze, only glanced at it twice, and immediately understood what was going on.
The letter wrote that there was a headless monster suspected to be condensed by the resentment of the team members at the headquarters of the ghost killing team, which would cause a human heart attack as long as it was close, and it was difficult to be injured by swords and water, which was very difficult.
After Lady Aine "communicated" with her, she discovered that the purpose of this monster was to make the little ghost named Yasuke immortal.
However, after failing to persuade the leaderless, it began to destroy the building of the Demon Slayer as if venting, but the pillars did not do anything about it.
It is not until after sunrise that the headless suddenly dissipates, but there is no guarantee that it will not reappear in the future.
Therefore, Butterfly Chana Megumi wrote to ask Ichiro if there was any way, and faintly mentioned the Miko of Ashina Province.
[It seems that the omnipotent image of the Son of God has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people......]
Ichiro thoughtfully rolled up the note and handed it to Butterfly Shinobi.
"In addition to ghosts, is there really such a thing as a ghost in this world?"
Butterfly asked suspiciously.
She doesn't have any other hobbies, but she likes to read Japanese folklore, horror stories from various countries, and even studied English to read Edgar Allan Poe.
Reeling Spirits, that is the most common and common monster in the story.
But once this kind of thing does appear, it doesn't seem so interesting.
"Of course there are, and they have also appeared in the country of Reed."
Ichiro nodded and said, "And without a leader, it is mostly formed by the gathering of samurai desolate spirits who died unjustly, and unless the obsession is resolved or destroyed, it will always stay in the human world." ”
"Is my sister's guess right?"
Butterfly Shinobi's eyes widened, "This headless resentful soul is really the dead swordsmen who are dissatisfied with that little ghost, Mr. Cai's entanglement?" ”
[This is what you said, and it has nothing to do with me. 】
"That's how it should be."
Ichiro nodded on the scroll, "Didn't it say that the resentful spirit only destroyed the house and didn't hurt the team members?" ”
As he spoke, he paused, "But the longer the resentful soul stays in the human world, the less reason is left. Whether it will take the initiative to hurt or kill people in the future, it's hard to say. ”
He also said this to exaggerate the urgency of the matter.
The more anxious the Ghost Slayer team is, the more benefits he can gain.
Butterfly Shinobu clenched her fists, "But it was said inside, even the pillar can't hold it......"
As she spoke, she looked at Genichiro with anticipation in her eyes, "Since you have seen such a thing appear in the country of Aina, you should know what to do, right?" ”
"There's a way."
"So how?" Butterfly couldn't wait to ask,
"There is a sacred object called Kamino Flying Snow in the Ashina Country, which is a paper made with the blood of the gods."
Ichiro made a smearing motion, "If you sprinkle it on the weapon, you can make the weapon temporarily have the power to suppress all evil things, and the leaderless will naturally be among the evil." ”
With that, he lowered his eyes and stopped talking.
Butterfly Shinobu immediately understood: "Since it is soaked in divine blood, that point is very precious." ”
Although she didn't know what the "gods" were, it sounded very mysterious.
[I only have a few copies on me, of course they are precious. 】
"Of course."
Genichiro replied, "That kind of papermaking has always been kept on Miko's body, and there are only a few reeds in the entire reed, and there is one less if you use one." ”
Butterfly squinted.
And this kid has been figured out for a while, and has figured out his character.
"Tell me straight, what do you want us to trade for?"
Butterfly Shinobu hugged her arms, "I'll write to my sister, she'll discuss it with her lord." ”
Ichiro raised the corners of his mouth, and the lion opened his mouth, "So, how about letting me learn all the breaths freely?" ”
Butterfly Shinobu took a deep breath.