The next day, near noon, Micah and Tanjiro came to the mountain again under the leadership of Hiroshizo Konji.

Feeling the thin air nearby and the thick fog, Micah's mind suddenly recalled the tragic experience of the previous night.

Because of his lack of physical strength, he couldn't avoid many traps even if he found them, and he could only resist them with his body, so that when he came back yesterday, he became scarred.

Even though he used the special medicine given by Mr. Scale, he could still feel a slight pain coming from inside his body.

"Today and for a long time to come, the training of the two of you will be repeated from here up and down the mountain, and after you can complete the descent training unscathed, you can enter the next stage."

With that, the figure of the scale left disappeared into the fog again.

"Did you go down the mountain unscathed?"

Even Micah, who had known that it would be like this, couldn't help but smile wryly.

This journey down the mountain brought him the saddest memories to this day.

This kind of pain, Micah really didn't want to go through again.

But this is not possible.

In order to learn breathing and swordsmanship, Micah must pass this trial.

"Let's go, Tanjiro!"

"Well, you have to be careful, Micah!"

"Don't worry!"

After communicating with Tanjiro, Micah ran towards the fog ahead without hesitation.

Unlike yesterday, this time Micah and Tanjiro did not walk on the same trail, which means that this time there is no one to lead the way for Micah.

This is not surprising to Michael, after all, Scales has trained a lot of swordsmen in the past, and it is not uncommon to train several swordsmen at the same time.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there are other paths.

At the same time, without Tanjiro's guidance, Micah would not have felt the slightest fear.

After all, he came here to get training and improve himself.

Tanjiro's sense of smell is indeed keen, but that's not what he's capable of.

He needs to develop his 'sense of smell'.

"Bang!"

Knocked away by the flying beam, Micah quickly got up and continued to run.

With that comes more and more traps.

Unlike the trap the night before, this trap is more hidden and perfect.

So much so that Micah couldn't quickly see through these traps.

His experience was bound here.

He was targeted.

Therefore, Micah, who does not have Tanjiro's keen sense of smell, can only detect their specific existence until the other party is near.

The fog clouded his vision.

As an ordinary person who relies on vision, Micah seems to be in darkness at this time.

"No, you can't go on like this."

When Micah didn't know how many times he had fallen into the pit, he lay in the trap and looked at the darkened sky and fell into deep thought.

"This trial of going down the mountain in a trap is not only exercising our physical strength and dexterity, but also exercising our ability to perceive danger."

"Does obscuring our vision with a thick fog allow us to develop other senses that do not rely on our eyes?"

Recalling Tanjiro's cultivation in the original trajectory, Micah diverged his thoughts, and instantly felt that he understood everything.

Unlike him, Tanjiro, who was born with a keen sense of smell, did not need to develop new perceptions at all, and his sense of smell itself was his most perfect sense of danger.

So, he just needs to keep exercising his sense of smell.

But Micah, unlike him, is just an ordinary person.

He doesn't have the talent of Tanjiro.

So, he needed to redevelop his new hazard perception abilities.

"Among the five senses of human beings, in addition to vision, the most acute should be hearing, that is to say, do I need to exercise the ability to listen to and defend position?"

"Can I do it?"

Staring at the starlight above his head, Micah stiffened his waist and abdomen, and jumped up directly.

"There is no way, only do not do!"

Crawling out of the pit again, looking at the still foggy road in front of him, Micah silently closed his eyes and ran forward again.

This time, he fell even more miserably.

...

"Micah!"

Looking at Micah, who had crawled out of the forest again, Tanjiro, who was standing outside the house, hurriedly ran over to help him up.

"Micah, why are you hurt so badly!"

Tanjiro examines the bruises and redness on Micah's body, and although it is not bleeding, it is still terrifying.

Such an injury seemed to Tanjiro to be more serious than the injury he had suffered the day before yesterday.

But it shouldn't be!

Micah was injured so badly the day before yesterday, in Tanjiro's opinion, it was because he had exhausted his physical strength in the previous run, and after resting today, Micah should be more relaxed when he has enough energy!

After all, he is like this.

But the situation in front of Micah made him very puzzled.

Of course, he was also puzzled by the scale on the side, and his thoughts were the same as Tanjiro's, thinking that Micah should be easier today.

"I'm fine!"

Although covered in scars, a smile appeared on Micah's face.

On this path full of traps, Micah, who had closed his eyes from the middle of the way, finally dodged a flying log after countless knocks and falls into the pit.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but it means that Michael's idea is possible.

Even if he was knocked away again immediately afterward, the smile on his face never stopped.

At this time, Micah's heart was extremely hot.

"Mr. Scale, I've found my way forward."

Feeling Micah's eager eyes, although he didn't know what was going on, he knew very well how to answer at this time.

"Now that you've found it, let's keep moving along this path!"

"Yes!"

Looking back and forth at Micah, who was full of smiling faces, and Mr. Scale, who smelled a little wrong, Tanjiro laughed with Micah, although he became more and more puzzled.

Such a scene undoubtedly made the scale of the left more confusing recently.

"It's not early now, Micah, you hurry back to the house and eat dinner, after dinner, let Tanjiro apply medicine to you and rest immediately, you have to train tomorrow!"

With that, Scales turned around and walked into the darkness.

"Yes!"

Micah replied earnestly, and then returned to the house with Tanjiro's support.

...

The next day, although his body was still sore after waking up, he stood up without any hesitation under the blessing of Micah's fiery heart.

After breakfast, he followed Tsutaki and Tanjiro to the mountains again.

This time he went down the mountain, and he closed his eyes the whole time.

As a result, his injuries are even more serious than yesterday.

But on this day, Micah managed to dodge the trap three times.

In this way, in the following days, Micah continued to repeat this training, and under the torture of various traps, Micah's physical speed and agility were greatly improved.

In addition to this, it is his hearing that has improved the most.

After more than a month of constant injuries, Micah's hearing has allowed him to avoid most traps, and although he can't be as unscathed as Tanjiro at this time, it is already very powerful.

After all, Tanjiro's sense of smell is naturally very sharp, and after training, it has become even more terrifying.

At this time, Tanjiro had entered the second stage of his training downhill, and the traps around him had become more tricky, faster and more dangerous.

In a sense, Micah had been dumped by Tanjiro at this time.

But Micah didn't panic in the slightest.

Because he is also improving every moment.