A large, dark-eyed bird leaves the butterfly house and flies towards the low hills southwest of Tokyo in the cold winter wind, with its outstretched wings nearly a meter long.

People who don't know why they think of it as a bird of prey like an eagle or an eagle, but it's actually a crow that is used to deliver messages.

In the entire ghost killing team, the only crow of this size is the mocking pill that Yaoya Sanyashiki gave to Genichiro.

Before the Mocking Pill reached adulthood, it was already larger than its parents combined, but after identification, it was only a crow without any strange bloodline, which was a rare mutant variant.

However, it is also because of the advantage of its size, which causes the brain capacity of the mocking pill to far exceed that of its peers, and it is more intelligent and cunning than ordinary crows.

Since birth, Mocking Pill has relied on the dual advantages of intelligence and physical strength to dominate the group of crows of the Demon Slayer Team.

It has a loose personality and does not listen to commands, and is very picky about its partners, coupled with a very mean mouth, so it has not served.

In its words, the people he introduced to him in the past were either "absolutely not going well" or "definitely not quite right".

These people are red, including the gentle flower pillar butterfly Chanae, and the sound pillar Utomin Tengen, who looks at it with disgust, whether it is a good-tempered or a strange-tempered swordsman, it can't look down on it.

It wasn't until that day that he met Genichiro that he finally said goodbye to the boring bird life of the king of squats at home.

Regarding Genichiro, he gave an evaluation: "At first glance, you can tell that he is bad and generous." ”

And it just so happens that this kind of messenger who is not obedient to the ghost killing team is not high, does not have a strong sense of belonging, will not go back to report everything he sees, and has a flexible brain and is good at improvisation, which also just meets the needs of Genichiro.

So, one person, one bird, and one hit it off, and he couldn't help but look sideways as calmly as Yaoya Yashiki.

That day, the crows finally sent the demon king away, and for a while they cried with joy and ran to tell each other......

At this time, Mocking Onimaru is flying towards Genichiro's new mansion with the letters written by the people of the Butterfly House, the journey is not too far, but the messenger is easily bored.

According to the straight line, the current location of Genichiro is just at the midpoint of the Ghost Slayer Headquarters and the Butterfly House, and it will take less than an hour to fly.

Suddenly, Mock Pill saw an eagle of his size from a distance.

Mocking Onimaru was playful, and immediately flapped his wings excitedly, and began to climb high into the air from a distance of a few hundred meters, and then swooped down on the other party after getting closer, grabbed a handful on the backs of those poor eagles, and then shouted: "Silly bird! ”

The innocent eagle was attacked for no reason, screamed in pain on the spot, and then locked on the strange-looking culprit, intending to take revenge.

Naturally, the mocking pill would not sit back and wait for the other party to pursue, and forced down into the mountains and forests below like a plane crashing, nimbly shuttling between the trees, and after a while, he got rid of the eagle hovering in place, and let out a noisy laugh.

Don't look at its name as a mocking pill, if the conditions are met, anything living is the object of its mockery.

In this way, after playing for more than half an hour while flying, Mocking Onimaru finally came to an open valley, and sandwiched between them was a quiet and flowing river.

The moment it saw the river, it knew it wasn't looking in the right direction.

"If there was no river as a reference, the place would be difficult to find, and it would be even more secluded than the maternity house."

Mocking Onimaru deflected along the curved river, passing one tributary and fork after another, and finally found the building complex between the two mountains that surrounded each other.

"If even the birds can get lost, I don't know how the little ghost will get out and how the others will get in......"

Mocking Pill whispered, and his body flew towards the height of the complex.

Viewed from above, the main body of the complex is supposed to be the manor of an ancient Japanese aristocracy, about the size of the Sanyashiki family, surrounded by a dense bamboo forest, which looks quite elegant.

But apart from the manor itself, there were a few small mansions for retainers and samurai on the lower slopes, and a longhouse for peasant servants at the lower level, but it looked deserted and uninhabited.

"I don't know, I think it's haunted! Wail! Wail! ”

When the mocking demon maru landed on the tower of the Hirata family's main house (the tower next to it when his father-in-law faked his death), Genichiro was practicing bowing combo punches alone in the courtyard.

Knowing that he couldn't go down and disturb at this time, Mocking Pill stood on the spire and watched.

Soon it noticed that the ripples caused by Ichiro's palm were obviously more violent than a few days ago, and the sound of bang-bang explosions continued to explode, and even on the spire of more than ten meters, it could feel that its body was pushed by an invisible palm, and it almost fell down without standing firmly, becoming the first crow in history to be killed.

"Is this little ghost getting stronger again, my vision is really fine."

Mocking Pill's instincts were right.

After enshrined the four rosaries again, all of Koichiro's attribute points were increased again.

Now that five days have passed since he killed those lower string ghosts, he has already completed his second transformation, and his body size has exceeded the range that should be for this age.

【Soul Player Attribute Panel】

(Note: In addition to the luck attribute, the value of each attribute of the army soldier who has received one year of training is 8, and 16 points is the normal human limit)

Character: Genichiro Ashina

Age: 9 years old

Height: 148

Weight: 39kg

Vitality (Vitality, Endurance and Stamina): 10

Strength: 9+5 (from Knight's Ring)

Dexterity (Skill): 12

Arcane (Intelligence, Faith): 10

Constitution (Blood, Concentration): 10 (Homo sapiens, Thin-blooded Human, Enhanced)

Description: Your thin blood is further strengthened, making you immune to more harmful substances and strengthening yourself faster through exercise.

Luck (Perception): 8

The above is the data of Koichiro today.

At least from the panel, in terms of strength and agility, he can already be on par with Minoru Immortal.

If he were to fight the strengthened Lower String Five Tired with his current physical fitness, Genichiro would even feel that he didn't need to rub the Flying Snow of the Gods, and he could win in five minutes.

Powered by a blade of up to 14 points, combined with the breath of the wind, it's enough to tear through those tough webs with ease.

However, if you want to deal with the prostitute Taro independently, I'm afraid that the chances of winning a head-on battle will not be very great.

Seeing that he had finally stopped training, the mocking pill fell from the spire to the nearby tree, with a complaining expression that you had made me wait so long.

"Did you get a reply? Thank you for your hard work. ”

Ichiro had just exercised, and he was in a good mood, and he even smiled at the bird.

After his intelligence improved again, his brain power was better than before, and it was not so easy to get into the horns.

Many of the problems that troubled him in the past can now be figured out on his own, so the whole person looks obviously relaxed, and even the expression on his face is much more vivid.

This change made the mocking pill a little unhappy, and it thought that Genichiro was showing off his progress to it, so he stiffened his neck and shouted, "Don't misestimate your strength, there are many powerful people in the Demon Slayer Team, and you are still far behind." ”

Ichiro knew it wasn't alarmist.

In the old hunter's notes, the rock pillar called "Sorrowful Mingyu Xingying" is very terrifying in terms of strength and agility, which can be said to be far superior to him, and far beyond other pillars, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a peerless ride.

Strength: 16+4 (from Breath of Rock: Constant)

Dexterity: 14+3 (from Breath of Rock: Constant)

Just looking at the numbers on the panel, it seems that it is only 10 points more than Koichiro, and it is not exaggerated.

However, the increase in strength and speed of attribute points is marginally incremental. The difference between going from 9 to 10 and from 19 to 20 is probably dozens of times more.

For example, this time, Ichiro has increased his strength from 12 to 14 points through Buddhist beads and exercises, and the upper limit of one-handed weightlifting has skyrocketed by nearly 35 kilograms, and wielding Iron Summoning Thunder is as easy as wielding a chopstick.

Based on this data, Genichiro judged that with the strength of the rock pillar as high as 20, it could lift at least one polar bear.

(In the original comics, the rock pillar can push several tons of stone to plow the ground, and the stone is not rolling, so his strength should be stronger.) ）

This is only the effect of Iwan's Breath: Tsunenaka's amplification, not the ultimate stat when he uses the Concentration Breathing Method.

But with this panel alone, I'm afraid there aren't many ghosts who can surpass this one in terms of physical fitness......

At the thought of the existence of the Ghost Slayer Team, the joy that Genichiro had gained from his progress suddenly stabilized.

However, combined with the data of several other columns, Ichiro judged that the increase brought to them by this "Changzhong" should be related to the length of time they have practiced "Changzhong".

The longer you master the normal, the higher the increase and the more dehumanizing your physical fitness becomes.

Like the immortal Kawa Minoru and Kuano Kuang, it has only been half a year since they mastered Changzhong, so the increase is only a pitiful 2 points.

After the mocker pill taunted Ichiro twice, he opened his mouth wide and spat out a few five-centimeter-wide rolls of paper.

I don't know what kind of stomach pouch the crow is made of, there is no disgusting mucus on it, and there is not even any peculiar smell, so Genichiro immediately took it.

Then, a snack box suddenly rose from his shadow, and Mocking Pill's eyes were a little straight.

"Your reward."

Ichiro said as he opened the paper scroll, "Since you are so smart, it should be okay to open such a small thing as opening the box." ”

However, the mocking pill was still shocked by the magic performance just now, "What the hell was going on just now, are you a human or a ghost?" ”

"Rare and weird."

Without explaining to him, Ichiro walked out of the garden and onto the bridge outside.

The ability to take things out of the dark shadow is naturally the ability to get after pushing the wolf down from the bottomless, called [Secret Technique: Halogen Cavity], which is almost the "four-dimensional chrysanthemum" that the anchor said, and can put things into his own shadow.

With Ichiro's current concentration, it was possible to load something with a total weight of no more than 200 kilograms in the shadow, and that Gatling gun alone took up the vast majority of the capacity.

And this shadow of his can't become a shadow wolf, and it can't shoot automatically, and it has no use except for loading things, which perfectly explains the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show.

Of the last four lower strings (including Hibiki), Genichiro sacrificed only the wolf with a big brain problem, and the reel, which was not reliable at all, or even had no merit.

What he got from the Wheelhead was even more showy, only with an increase in the extension of the hook lock by ten meters.

In other words, if there is a six-story residential building in front of him, he can directly reach the roof through the hook lock, which can barely be strengthened as a prosthetic forbearance.

As for Tired and Hibiki, because their abilities are both useful, so Koichiro left them behind, and when Black Immortal gets his hands on it, he will resurrect them.

But that's all for later.

Now that Ichiro has the base camp of the Hirata Mansion, many things that he couldn't do before can be arranged immediately, which is also the purpose of his letter to Butterfly House.

There are two replies to the letter, one for Yongzhen and one for Kuro.

Ichiro took the lead in opening Yongzhen's letter, and after his intelligence was improved, he read it clearly in less than a few seconds, and a strange smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

"The breath of flowers and the breath of water? I didn't expect Yaoya to be so generous......"

In the letter, Yongjin mentioned that after the correspondence between Butterfly Kanae and Yaoya Sanyashiki, they decided to exchange the breath of flowers and the breath of water for the two sword postures of the ascending carp and the lower carp, which is equivalent to a relationship of mutual teaching......

However, since yesterday, the stunned water column and the flower pillar have regarded themselves as eternal students. And Yongzhen, after learning about the two breathing methods, was full of praise for this magical secret technique, and even had the whimsical idea of combining it, which would surely bear fruit within a few days.

After reading it, Ichiro tore up the paper roll and threw it underneath. Anyway, it's a win-win situation, how to do it He has already directly handed it over to Yongzhen to deal with, after all, he himself knows nothing about these two sword potentials. The reason why Yongzhen made a special report to him was purely out of courtesy.

After changing to Kuro's letter, Genichiro was a little surprised.

Since the Hirata Mansion had already been arranged, he planned to hand over the rooms next to the Mansion Street to Butterfly Shinobu as a laboratory, so he invited Kurou to come back with him.

As expected, Butterfly Shinobu will leave tomorrow, but Jiuro plans to continue to stay in Butterfly House to help, in his original words: "This way Miss Shinobu can also rest assured that she can do her own thing." ”

Obviously, he was afraid that Butterfly Shinobu would worry that after he left, there would not be enough people in the Butterfly House, so he decided to stay there. By these days, he was able to do the basic nursing, after all, twelve points of intelligence were there......

"What a child who thinks about others, Jiulang, and I'm a little jealous."

"However, since the research of Butterfly Shinobi is about to begin, we must speed up our own research. I don't know if that guy from Daoce will let me down this time......"

He turned his head and looked at the place where the underground temple was located, where the detection of Onimai Tsuji was insulated, and there were several strange ghosts with blood ghost magic, as well as the knife tester who had been captured not long ago.

"A big drama for the whole of Tokyo is finally about to begin."