The next morning, it was not yet dawn.

Tanjiro Kamado habitually went to bed early, and after quietly stretching his waist, he immediately found that the mat next to him was empty.

In the not too big room, only he was left, as well as the two children Takeo and Shigeru. Your beans, Hanako, and Butterfly Shinobu sleep in the next room.

Although their family is very poor, they build their own houses, so that everyone does not have to be crowded together (except in winter, when huddle together can save charcoal).

"Did Ichiro get up so early? Or didn't he fall asleep at all yesterday......"

Tanjiro muttered softly, looking a little worried.

"It should be fine, right?"

Koichiro slept next to him last night.

However, Tanjiro can smell that since Shinichiro returned from the sea of flowers in the back mountain, his mood has been very unstable, and he seems to be making some difficult choices, and he is very eager to do something, otherwise something very bad will happen, just like an elephant chasing after Shinichiro, driving him to run forward desperately.

Tanjiro, who had never had a similar experience, was overwhelmed by the other party's violently fluctuating mood, and then fell asleep because of mental exhaustion.

Thinking of this, Tanjiro's eyebrows drooped.

"If even I, a bystander, feel so powerless, how will Ichiro feel?"

"What the hell happened yesterday evening...... I thought that taking him there would ease his burden, but now it seems that I have done a bad thing. ”

Blaming himself, Tanjiro stood up, put on his coat and walked out the door.

"Let's go find him."

The other side.

"Squat."

Looking at the sky suddenly lit up in the east, Ichiro dismantled the Suzaku Red Lotus Umbrella from Shinobi's hand and unfolded it, covering the back of Zhushi.

He had already tried before, only completely opaque objects could make the ghost defend against the direct rays of the sun, and the red lotus umbrella could also resist the heat brought by the sun, there was no more suitable for the sun treasure.

In addition, Zhu Shi's body is already extremely petite, and after the red lotus umbrella covers her, there is still a lot of space inside, and it shouldn't be a problem to stuff another butterfly ninja.

Ichiro had wanted to ask Shinobu Butterfly to come along, but she told the ghost story (literally) to the two girls too late last night, so Ichiro didn't wake her up. Anyway, when the time comes to go back to Hirata, she still has to study with Zhu Shi, and sooner or later she will know about the things here.

Her main task in the past two days is to learn to understand the world with Tanjuro, so it's better not to distract her.

"Look at it."

As the sunlight slowly shone on the hillside, Koichiro woke up, and Zhu Shi suddenly cheered up, staring at the gray-white dead branches in front of him that had been dyed golden red by the sun.

The next moment, as if absorbing water from the sun, the plants, which had been dead all night, gradually became fuller, the decaying gray gradually turned blue, and the drooping petals rolled upwards like bones......

In just a few seconds, the hillside, which had just been a dead land, instantly turned into a blue lake.

The sacred and pure posture of the blue flower made Zhu Shi forget to breathe, and his beautiful eyes looked ahead, a little overwhelmed.

After a long time, she said in a somewhat dejected manner: "It turns out that this ...... It's not that bastard's fantasy......"

But then, Zhu Shi Xiuwan's eyebrows twisted fiercely, and her expression became a little hideous, which made people think "she is really still a ghost" for the first time.

"Lady Genichiro, we must take the opportunity to uproot these other flowers!"

The anger in Zhu Shi's heart rose extremely quickly in just a few seconds, "Once Onimai Tsuji finds this place, we or the Ghost Slayer will no longer be able to come up with a way to deal with him." ”

"......," Ichiro muttered for two seconds, "you calm down first." After all, we weren't sure if it was what he had envisioned. ”

If so, how much does it take for him to overcome the sun? Do you want to eat it as it is, or do you want to combine it with something else to create something new? ”

"Besides, if this flower really can make the ghost overcome the sun, don't you want to solve your own problem first? In that case, except for the need to drink blood, you will be no different from normal humans. ”

“！” After Zhu Shi was asked this question, the resentment in his heart towards Onimai Tsuji was gradually retreated to the bottom of his heart and was temporarily hidden.

After a while, she lowered her head and sighed: "I beg your pardon, I was too excited." These flowers also have research value. ”

Then she said, "Next, we have to collect some flowers and find some weak ghosts to experiment." ”

"Hmm. The flower only blooms on these two days of the year and only survives during the day. Onimai Tsuji didn't have a hard time getting it. ”

Ichiro raised his hand and settled, "But this also requires that you must do the experiment as soon as possible." However, even if you can really get the ghost to overcome the sun, I don't recommend that you use it right away. Judging from the memories provided by Butterfly Shinobu before, when the girl named Youdouzi showed that she could overcome the sun, Onimai Tsuji Muru hit her with the idea. If a few of you overcome the sun, Onimai Tsuji will be able to achieve this ability by devouring only one of you......"

"So, I can't take that risk."

Zhu Shi nodded without surprise, "I understand, they won't have any complaints, except for the fallen hime, of course—"

Listening, she suddenly took a turn, as if she was deliberately trying to avoid some difficult guys.

"By the way, mention the ...... of the beans of the stove door"

Zhu Shi suddenly asked, "You should have seen her, right?" What's so special about that kid? Why is it that in Butterfly Shinobi's dream, she has just become a ghost, and she can suppress her desires, and even overcome the sunshine? Could it be that it has something to do with the flowers on the other side here? ”

"There should be some."

Speaking of this, Genichiro's face became a little strange.

"I just noticed at dinner last night that the Kamato family seems to have a tradition of using this plant as an ingredient."

"The other side of the flower?" Zhu Shi gently covered his mouth, but the surprise in his eyes couldn't be hidden, "You said that this family feeds on the blue flowers?" ”

Ichiro nodded.

Of course, he knew why Zhu Shi had such an expression, after all, Japan is a country that is very taboo about death (and at the same time likes the untimely death of geniuses).

A poisonous plant like the Flower of Hell, known as the Flower of Hell, is so synonymous with foreboding and death that it's hard to imagine anyone using it as an ingredient.

"This must be a long-standing family tradition, taught to her by Mrs. Kamato's mother-in-law."

"The ancestors of the Kamado family seem to have thought that since the red Higan flower grows in a damp place and is called the flower of hell, then all the characteristics of the blue Higan flower are the opposite of it, and it should be the flower of the heavenly kingdom. If you eat a small amount every year, you can gain merit and ward off evil spirits as if you were doing things. It is also easier to become a Buddha after death. ”

"However, the children of the Kamato family don't seem to like the taste of the other side flowers, and the only two people who eat the most are the two people who eat the most beans and Tanjiro Kamado."

"......I see," Zhu Shi nodded, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seems that the special feature of your beans should be related to her special choice of food.

"And."

"If you cook this flower, it won't change color even after dark, but I don't know if it has the original effect." So, you want to try to keep at least one blue flower and let it last a long time. ”

Facing the sun, his face was illuminated golden, and even his long black hair was like flying golden threads.

"Once I've learned the breath of the sun and mastered the sword or the markings, I'll try to use this thing to lure out Onimai Tsuji."

"Judging by his character, although that guy may not be fooled, we can't give him any more time to transform."

As he spoke, he crouched down and looked into Zhu Shi's eyes with a look full of anticipation.

"So, these two days, please devote all your energy to studying these flowers."

Of course, what he didn't tell Zhu Shi was that if he awakened Hedao and Zebra by then, but still couldn't defeat Onimai Tsuji, or that "real enemy", the blue flower left behind would be his last hole card.

Grandpa's wish is for him to defeat the other party as a human being, and of course Koichiro will do his best to do it.

But, wishes are wishes because they will not be fulfilled nine times out of ten.

Shinichiro is not as carefree as Ichichi, and he must be prepared for the worst.

And he vaguely thought that the group of "Storm Stewards" against swords drawn last time was probably something prepared for himself......

In other words, even if he really released the "lion" as Yixin said, he would definitely be ready to hold the lion in a cage.

"If you don't say I'll do the same." Zhu Shi nodded happily, "Then please collect more of these flowers for me." ”

Ichiro nodded, and immediately went into action.

He circled around the sea of flowers, picked fifty-six of the taller flowers on the periphery, and tied them into a bunch with ropes.

However, since Zhu Shi had to hide in an umbrella, Genichiro could only bend his knees and squat down to deliver it to Zhu Shi in order to be comfortable.

Therefore, when Tanjiro walked up the slope with a bamboo basket containing firewood on his back, he happened to see the scene of Genichiro offering flowers to the "Pearl World".

One person and one ghost invariably looked at this uninvited guest.

“…… Oh, that's ......."

Tanjiro had an embarrassed and shy smile on his face, "I'm sorry I bothered ......"

Then, Tanjiro immediately disappeared into the woods in the mountains where the hardwood was preached.

Zhu Shi and Ichiro glanced at each other and laughed in unison.

……

At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, when Koichiro returned to Kamato's house after completing today's training, Tanjuro and Butterfly Shinobu had been waiting for a long time.

Smelling the burnt smell on Genichiro's body, Butterfly Shinobu immediately guessed that this kid should have gone to practice the breath of fire.

If today's "memory exploration" goes well enough, then Genichiro will become the first man to master the four breathing techniques before (the Demon Slayer didn't know that Ichiro and the Oni of Narutsu learned to thunder).

After knowing each other for less than a year, Butterfly Shinobu has watched Ichiro go from half a pound and eight taels with himself to the point where he has now killed Tong Mo and subdued Yuwoza.

Although she has also learned ninja physical skills and illusions in the past half a year, unlocked various poison formulas, and even perfected the breathing method to become a worm pillar, she knows very well that the string Ichiro in front of her is already another level of existence.

When he learned the breath of the sun, he learned the initial breathing method that was said to be more than twice as powerful as the breath of fire...... How powerful will it be?

Butterfly couldn't help but look forward to it.

"I've kept you waiting."

After saying hello, Ichiro sat down across from Tanjuro.

On the surface, the man was as tired and pale as yesterday, but when he looked through the air, he could see that Tanjuro's lungs were scorched and blackened, and the distance was reduced by two millimeters.

"When Butterfly Shinobu finishes this spell, I will treat you immediately. If you feel any discomfort during the procedure, please do not be patient. ”

Tanjuro nodded with a faint smile, "I know, I believe in Miss Ren's ability, there should be no problem." ”

When it came to this, seeing that this man really didn't have the slightest idea of backing down, Ichiro said to Butterfly Shinobi, "Let's start." ”

Butterfly Shinobu nodded silently, took out two extremely thin thousand books from his sleeve, and connected their tails with a thin silk thread.

This silk thread is not an ordinary thing, but a spider silk generated by Robert (tired) using blood ghost magic according to the needs of Lady Butterfly.

When he distributed his power to his family, he used this filament to transmit power, which was very suitable as a medium to trigger ninjutsu.

Butterfly Shinobu took a deep breath, stood between the two people who were sitting in meditation facing each other, and pointed the two Chibens linked by threads, one left and one right, at Tanjuro and Ichiro's temples, and then slowly handed Chiben in as if he had inserted a bamboo skewer into tofu, without encountering a single blockage or blood flowing out.

Ichiro immediately went black.

Butterfly Shinobu had already cut off his own visual, auditory, and olfactory nerves, and instead connected with Tanjuro's.

Until the white spot of light appeared, Ichiro knew about it, and he managed to enter Tanjuro's memory.

And those light spots, like game CGs, show Tanjuro's memories.

These memories are arranged in order of clarity, many and complex.

And those memories that are farthest away are things that Tanjuro himself doesn't even know what he remembers, such as the faces of strangers he only met once a few hours later, and even what he ate at which meal in the past.

It can be said that people do not forget anything, but often useful memories cannot be extracted.

"Kagura, the god of fire...... Kagura, the god of fire......"

As he silently recited the key words in his mind, the countless spots of light immediately changed positions, the front one retreated to the back, and the back one went to the front, putting together each other, and finally became a big puzzle.

"That's a lot......"

Ichiro's consciousness swept over these images and found that there were nearly 10,000 memories of the "Sacred Music of Fire" in Tanjuro's mind!

Some of them were his feelings and thoughts when he practiced, and the earliest ones were the movements that Tanjuro's father demonstrated to him.

Genichiro entered one of the earliest memories, and carefully watched the movements demonstrated by his father from Tanjuro's point of view.

At first glance, it is indeed difficult to find the shadow of swordsmanship.

But if you deliberately make these movements faster, that is, triple the speed, and then replace the magic weapon in the dancer's hand with a knife, then there will be some shadow of swordsmanship.

Due to the slow flow of time in people's consciousness, Genichiro unhurriedly watched them one by one, and understood the fifteen complete "Kagura Dances" demonstrated by his father in Tanjuro's memory, and memorized those movements all the time, presumably when he returned to his consciousness, the system had already formed a new move book, and he only needed to spend skill points to light it up.

But just as Ichiro was about to leave, he found that among the tens of thousands of memories searched, there was actually a spot of light that was black.

[What is this?] 】

Ichiro reached out his tentacles with his consciousness and touched the black spot, but the latter found no response.

[Is it a deliberately forgotten part, or is it something missing?] 】

Ichiro was very curious about why there was a locked memory in the memory related to "Kagura, the god of fire". But since it is locked, it should have some extremely important significance, especially in the case of the breath of the sun, and Genichiro naturally refuses to give up.

How do you open it up?

Suddenly, he thought of the experience of "having a heart" with Tanjuro yesterday - when the breathing of the two of them tends to be synchronized, there will be a feeling that there is no distinction between you and me.

Nowadays, almost whenever Tanjuro is awake, he uses the life-protecting breath Yin to stimulate the body's self-healing ability.

[As long as I do the same......]

As soon as Ichiro said he would do it, he immediately adjusted his breathing method to life-protecting breathing, and sure enough, after a while, he felt that his consciousness had become more flexible in Tanjuro's memory, and there was less resistance.

He stretched his conscious tentacles through the black, locked memory again, and finally found a gap on the surface that could be passed through.

Ichiro thought about it for a moment, and immediately let his consciousness drill through that gap, and then he was surprised to find that this place was still a place full of light spots, and there were thousands of memories of Kagura, the god of fire!

But after only watching two, Ichiro got it!

This locked memory does not belong to Tanjuro himself, but from Tanjuro's father!

The so-called black light spots, the so-called locked memories, are actually memories that belong to Tanjuro's ancestors!

After receiving this judgment, Koichiro immediately searched for it as before, and soon found a black spot of light in Tanjuro's father's memory.

Ichiro repeated his old tricks and entered the next level.

Unsurprisingly, it's also full of memories, but there are fewer of them than the previous two floors.

[If it is really as we guessed, the Kamado family is a descendant of Jiguo Yuanyi......]

Ichiro became excited, [As long as you continue to search for it layer by layer, won't you be able to find his own memory of the breath of the sun? 】

Thinking of this, Genichiro immediately took action, breaking into the past memories of the ancestors of the Kamato family layer by layer. The further you go, the less memories you have about Kagura, the god of fire, probably because of the loss of the bloodline.

But each generation of Kamato heirs remembers at least one full demonstration of Kagura. For this reason, Kagura, the god of fire, has not changed much in his movements.

It wasn't until after breaking through more than twenty layers of memories in a row that Genichiro finally entered a space with only one spot of light.

This is the bottom and end of the ancestral memories inherited by Tanjuro.

[This, will it be the memory of the successor to the country? 】

With some anticipation, Genichiro slowly entered the only light curtain.

Immediately afterward, he finds himself in the perspective of a young man named Tanji.

A man in his twenties, with flame markings on his forehead, was squatting in front of "himself", holding a child with wide eyes and bursting into tears.

Sunlight poured down from the trees on either side of the path, smearing the tears that overflowed from the corners of the man's eyes into beautiful orbs.

This face gradually coincides with the painting made by Zhu Shi.

He is Ji Guoyuan himself!

Closed tomorrow

(End of chapter)