"Ichiro, wake up......"

"Ichiro ......"

Trapped in a magma hell and dodging around, Kuichiro suddenly felt his shoulders shake violently-

Then, from beneath his body, a strange buoyancy suddenly appeared, carrying him all the way up - through the layers of barriers attached to the unconscious, subconscious, and memory, and finally opened his eyes in reality.

And the first thing he saw was the somewhat panicked faces of Tanjiro Kamado and Takeo.

Especially the former, the clothes on his body were full of dust, not to mention, there was a dark purple bruise on his neck, which should be a small palm pinching mark.

Seeing that Ichiro had woken up smoothly, the two brothers suddenly turned their worries into joy: "You're awake!" It's just wonderful. ”

“…… Did something happen? ”

Holding down his aching head, Genichiro straightened up, feeling a little hot at the tips of his fingers that were in contact with his forehead.

After a night, Genichiro had stabilized his body temperature to 39 degrees. It is estimated that it will not go down any longer. Only in this way can you open the Hedao at any time, otherwise you have to prepare for a while every time, which will affect the battle too much.

At this moment, although he is not very uncomfortable, he is still a little uncomfortable.

"Huh?" Feeling the bright moonlight behind him, Koichiro realized that he was not in the house, and hurriedly asked, "Why am I here?" ”

"In short, when you were unconscious, a ghost attacked us."

Tanjiro tried his best to describe the most crucial thing in simple words, "It was Miss Shinobu who saved everyone, but ......"

"Ghosts?"

Hearing this word, Genichiro immediately rolled over.

At this moment, he saw the huge half-dead flesh spider in the clearing, half of its body already showing obvious signs of corruption, as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid, revealing a foul smell.

But only the oozing face that grows on the side of the body is still fighting against the toxin.

And among the dozens of eyes on the spider's ugly face, Genichiro saw the two largest of them, with the words "Shangfeng" and "wanton" written respectively.

Winding Four?

What's going on?

Koichiro was a little confused.

"How can I not feel threatened if a winding ghost is coming?"

"And, since you've dealt with this ghost to this point, why don't you just kill it?"

He couldn't figure it out.

"This ghost's blood ghost technique is a dream, and everyone except me and Miss Shinobu has been taken to the nightmare.

"It wasn't until Miss Shinobu hit that ghost hard that Mom and Dad and You Douzi woke up from the blood ghost technique. Ichiro you're the last to wake up because of your body. ”

Tanjiro explained, "I think it's because of the high fever. ”

"Yes, I still remember in my dreams, Brother Genichiro has been protecting us from the monster that my grandmother turned into, it's a terrible dream."

"But in the end, you fell into the lava and stopped talking, and the rest of us were woken up." ”

Genichiro thought for a while, and felt that he seemed to have some impression of what Takeo said, although he couldn't remember clearly, but his body still felt afraid.

No matter what he experienced in his dream, it was definitely a terrifying scene.

"What about the others?"

Genichiro asked, "What about your mom and dad, and Butterfly Shinobi?" Is she hurt? ”

This should be the first time that Butterfly Shinobu has dealt with the winding ghost independently, right?

"Miss Chanae asked Mother and You Bean to go back to their room first."

Tanjiro suddenly lowered his head and pointed in the direction of the woods, "Dad went over there with the people of the Demon Slayer Team. Miss Shinobi's condition is very bad......"

As soon as he heard that "the condition is not good" and that Chanae was also here, Koichiro stopped asking and walked in that direction with the two of them.

As he passed by the flesh spider's body, Tanjiro saw a blue Hinawa knife stuck in the heart of the oni, with the words "Demon Extermination" engraved on the blade.

It was the knife of the water column that made this weak ghost completely immobilized, and it should be a precautionary measure.

"Is Yoshiyoshi Tomioka here too?"

However, Genichiro is still a little uneasy. Although it is not clear why they didn't kill them, there must be a reason for it. But out of the sense of safety, Genichiro pulled out the Hinawa spear from the shadow, and then volleyed up in the air, slammed the spear head into the body of the huge demon from the top down, and completely nailed it to it.

To Genichiro's surprise, the screams that followed his blow did not come from the oni itself, but from the direction Tanjiro had pointed earlier.

And it sounded familiar.

"It's a butterfly ninja?!"

Ichiro frowned and disappeared in place with a bang, creating a wave of air that almost knocked Tanjiro and Takeo over.

It wasn't until they stabilized their bodies that they glanced at each other and hurried in that direction.

Ichiro's figure was fast, and he soon came to the source of the sound, a mahogany forest surrounded by a rope, which was supposed to be the place where the Kamato family worshiped the god of fire.

At this time, the scales of the Tengu mask, Kanae Butterfly, and Tanjuro Kamado were all staring at the butterfly shinobi tied to the tree at a loss.

"What are you doing here?"

Ichiro didn't understand, just he fainted once, what the hell happened here?

Why did the butterfly ninja let out such a terrible scream when it attacked the ghost's body?

Why did these people tie up the butterfly ninja who saved everyone's life?

But as he approached, Shinobu the butterfly in the tree suddenly opened a pair of eyes that glowed red, and wrinkled her nose at him and roared like a beast.

"What's going on?"

He came to Butterfly Chane's side, and felt a strong hostility from Butterfly Shinobi's expression, and the other party was obviously already in a red-eyed madness.

But the problem is that Genichiro remembers very well that none of the drugs he provided to the Demon Slayer team could make people get Akame's Akaseru.

After all, not everyone has the endurance he has to maintain self-awareness under the influence of being red or scum.

"Ichiro, you're awake."

Chanae did not smile this time, but had a solemn face.

"It's not clear exactly what's going on. It's just that as soon as we arrived here, we saw Xiao Shinobu her, and she almost strangled the child to death......"

Ichiro's eyes widened: "What?!" ”

It turns out that the marks on Tanjiro's neck came from this way.

"We stepped forward to stop us, but Shinobu didn't seem to know us, and just blindly attacked wildly."

Chanel paused, her eyes gradually starting to redden, "In the end, Mr. Scales had to subdue her violently. ”

"We don't know what's going on with Shinobi...... She didn't turn into a ghost, and wisteria flowers didn't work against her. ”

"Originally, we thought it was the ghost's blood ghost technique and wanted to kill it, but as soon as we cut it, it was Xiao Shinobu who screamed, as if it was her who was injured."

"Later, Tanjiro told us that it was the face on the side of the oni's body that spit out a black thing and burrowed into Shinobu's head......"

At this point, Chana's voice trembled for me, "We really don't know what to do." ”

"It wasn't until Mr. Tanjuro asked us to bring her here that Shinobu quieted down a little."

At this time, Tanjuro explained in a timely manner: "This is the place where the ancestors of the Kamato family sacrificed to the fire god Kakuto, and it has the effect of warding off evil spirits. ”

"I see."

Ichiro nodded, then fell into deep thought.

cut that ghost, but it was the butterfly who cried out in pain.

Add to that the saying that "a black thing got into the head of the butterfly ninja......

How is it a bit similar to the "evil possession" in folklore?

"Let me see."

Genichiro enters a state of transparency and scans Shinobu's brain with his gaze, but he doesn't see anything "black". Lacking a basic understanding of brain science, he didn't know what the different areas meant, only that the brain stem of the butterfly ninja was far more active than other places.

It seems that there is only one way to look at it.

"Vision......

However, the moment he opened the third eye, Koichiro's expression suddenly became solemn.

Through his spiritual vision, he could clearly see that Butterfly Ninja's brain was actually shrouded in a thin layer of black mist.

And that kind of black fog shrouded way, how familiar is it...... It's like some kind of buff.

Coupled with that remarkable red-eye feature-

He couldn't help but have some bad associations.

"Ichiro, what's wrong?"

The three of them noticed that his reaction was wrong, and immediately asked worriedly, for fear that something would go wrong.

"That pitch-black thing......"

Stringichiro asked word by word, "How much do you know?" ”

"We searched for it, and although we didn't find it in the demon's body, we ......"

Scales and Butterfly Kanae glanced at each other, "We have found something similar on the corpse of this ghost's previous victim. ”

"The previous victim?"

"Yes, a fireworks merchant named Kasa and Goro."

Butterfly Chanae said as she pulled out a vial filled with black slime from her pocket.

"He came here yesterday and took a blue flower with him, which is probably why the ghost found here. He killed several people last night, but he can still communicate, but the state of Xiao Ren ......"

"Give it to me."

With an impatient expression, Genichiro took the vial in his hand and shook it vigorously, finding that the liquid was very viscous and hardly shook with the bottle.

"But don't be what I thought it would be."

He walked to the place in the forest where the moonlight could shine, and took out a bottle of foreign liquor prepared for Oni Ting Yaxiao from the shadow.

"Genichiro, ...... are you" The three of them were very strange and didn't know what Ichiro was going to do.

Then they saw that Ichiro had directly shaved off the neck of the glass bottle with his fingers, and then butted the mouth of the vial with the opening of the bottle, and carefully dripped a drop of black liquid into it.

Unlike ink, this black liquid is not blended directly with water!

But...... Sink directly!

It is a substance that does not dissolve in water!

"......" Butterfly Chanae noticed that a dense layer of goosebumps suddenly floated on Genichiro's bare arm.

Ichiro ...... Are you scared?

However, Genichiro didn't say a word at this time, his jaw tightened, and he continued to pour all the smelly liquid into the drink.

The black sediment began to gather as if consciously—

In the end, a ...... was formed The shape of an unformed person! It's like a curved embryo that can't curl up yet.

Tanjiro, who had just arrived with Takeo, and Tsuki Tsuji, who also had a keen sense of smell, invariably experienced a horror that was so thick that even they could empathize. And the source of this fear is none other than Genichiro who is holding a vial in his hand and squatting on the ground with a chilled body.

How could it be such a thing?

Ichiro's eyes were filled with disbelief.

The humanoid substance that sank to the bottom of the bottle was all too familiar to him.

It was the oath prop of the Dark Souls 3, the sage Eldridge, the sediment of the human heart.

[No matter how deep it is, it will be dwarfed by it.] Legend has it that one day, it will become a yoke for the whole world. 】

This is the illustration of the sediment of the human heart, and the essential part of a darkness that is darker than the abyss. The abyss only makes people crave the soul incomparably, but the darkness makes people yearn for the flesh and blood of others even more......

The so-called precipitation is the materialization of the darkest and deepest desires in the human heart—survival, eating, fighting, and possession. It can infinitely magnify human instincts, deprive all acquired morality and upbringing, and serve only one's own desire to survive.

That is the kind of horror that corrupts the White Sect saint Eldridge into a cannibalism to survive in the last days!

Eldridge ate the living alive, grew his strength from the desperation of food, and eventually evolved into the Devouring God, the Shadow Sun Gwendrin with the power of moonlight.

In order to survive, as a salary king, he can do any kind of evil that is not accepted by the world.

At this moment, Genichiro finally understood what Miko said.

"The power of Onimai Tsuji does not come from this world itself."

"He's not your real enemy."

These two sentences sounded a bit foggy before, but now, everything is explained.

On the one hand, Onimai Tsuji Muru and Eldridge are also cannibals.

The same is unscrupulous for the simple reason of survival. They also have the ability to corrupt others.

On the other hand, Gwendrin, the god of the Dark Moon who was eaten by Eldridge, is named the "Sword of the Dark Moon", while Onimai Tsuji is often compared to a god, and the most important of his subordinates are named after the "String Moon".

Suddenly, everything made sense.

A wry smile broke into Ichiro's face.

It turns out that this is the real purpose of sending me into this world? Let a person who is not of this world destroy another thing that is not of this world?

"Ichiro, you're ......"

Seeing that he was not emotionally stable, Butterfly Chanae asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?" Ah, why are you so hot......"

"Let's not talk about this ......"

Ichiro stood up and let out a long breath to calm his mind.

"This black thing must be destroyed. It's dangerous. ”

He didn't explain much and couldn't explain it.

"However, we tried it with wisteria flowers, and the Hinawa Knife didn't react to this thing, so I don't think it's the product of pure blood ghost magic."

Butterfly Chanel paused, "It's like a substance that is born out of the human body itself." ”

“…… Ha," Ichiro sighed, "I suddenly remembered the book that Kurou had read earlier, and there was a sentence in it. ”

"It's not that the darkness can't be dispelled, it's that the sunlight isn't dazzling enough."

As he spoke, he took out the Vajra Iron Flowing Cloud, and according to the feeling he had last night, he poured the energy generated by the breath of the sun directly into the knife through the veins of his arm.

Tie Liuyun's original dark golden blade turned red inch by inch.

When the fiery blade of the sun's power came into contact with the humanoid precipitate at the bottom of the bottle, the latter struggled and was reduced to ashes in the burning wine.

"Hedao?!" Scales and Butterfly Chanae didn't know about Ichiro's progress yesterday, and there was a look of hope in their eyes.

Since Hedao can destroy the black substance, then the little ninja ......

"Now is not the time for excitement."

Genichiro looked at the butterfly shinobu who was tied to a tree with red eyes, "We have to let her recover some consciousness first and force that thing out!" ”

As he spoke, he put the second joint of his prosthetic's ring finger into his mouth.

That's the Crybaby's Whistle, a prosthetic ninja that has been upgraded to the top.

As a melodious and ethereal whistle sounded in the forest, the butterfly struggled like crazy, shaking its head desperately, its red eyes dragging the frantic light!

The second whistle sounded, and she let out a beast-like roar in her throat, then repeatedly slammed the back of her head against the trunk.

"Don't let her keep banging!"

After Genichiro finished speaking, he blew his finger whistle for the third time, but even if Tsutaki Left and Butterfly Kanae combined, they couldn't make Butterfly Shinobi stop.

At this moment, Tanjiro on the side gritted his teeth, suddenly ran two steps and jumped violently, and as his body fell, a head hammer smashed on Butterfly Shinobi's head.

"Miss Shinobi, wake up quickly!"

“Duang——”

At the same time that Tanjiro fell to the ground, Butterfly Shinobu also quieted down and closed his eyes, and Scales Left and Butterfly Kanae took two steps back together, but they saw -

A wisp of blood slipped from the ends of Butterfly Shinobi's hair.

But before he could worry, Butterfly Shinobi's eyes reopened, and the red light inside faded a lot......

Seeing the butterfly Chanae in front of her, Butterfly Shinobi's tears suddenly welled up.

"Sister-

"My head - it hurts!"

(End of chapter)