Yubari City is located in the central region of Hokkaido, an island country, and is best known for its large open-pit coal mine, Ishikari Coal Mine.

This small city, which was originally not famous, became popular because of the discovery of coal mines, and immigrants came to reclaim the wasteland and dig up the coal mines, so it gradually prospered.

Twenty years ago, the development of Yubari City was accelerated by the opening of a railway line designed to transport coal mines.

But it is also because of this that Yubari City has attracted some beings who are not friendly to humans.

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The Ishikari Coal Mine is located in the deep jungle to the north of Yubari City, some distance from the town.

It's winter, and the snow covers the entire jungle in white.

Recently, there have been many incidents of brown bears attacking humans and even eating people in coal mines, and some miners have been found in the snow with leftover clothes and bones.

This situation frightened the miners, and everyone was in danger, so they all withdrew from the mine as soon as it got dark, and did not dare to stay here.

Brown bears should be hibernating in winter, why do they run out to attack humans?

But just today, there was a violent wheezing sound from the coal mine.

"Ahh

With a cry of pain, a figure wearing a brown Western-style uniform and holding a sword in his hand dragged a drooping and weak left arm, and rushed out of the mine with rapid steps.

At the same time, another black shadow followed, chasing endlessly.

This dark shadow is like a hunter who plays with its prey.

With his speed, he can quickly catch up with the figure in front of him, but he has always maintained a cat-and-mouse playful mentality.

When he got closer, he stretched out his beast-sharp claws and swung them lightly, leaving several injuries on the figure in front of him.

Whenever they were injured, the figure in front of them would cry out in pain and run faster.

The chaser licked the blood from his hands, and the smile on his face grew bigger and more interesting.

"Whew, Whew......"

Looking closely, the figure who was panting and desperately trying to escape was actually not very old, probably about 16 years old.

In the case of a great threat to his life, his expression was frightened, and he didn't know that the black shadow behind him could easily catch up with him, but he just ran forward desperately, constantly squeezing his physical strength through breathing, hoping to escape from the hands of this terrible demon.

Snowflakes fall on him and will soon be melted by abnormally high body temperatures.

But suddenly, he could faintly see the light of the fire in the forest.

When there's a fire, it's someone there.

A few steps further on, in the dark forest, a quiet log cabin stands in the middle of the snow.

The cabin is not large, only about ten square meters, and it is supposed to be a hut built by hunters who often go into the jungle to hunt and rest in the woods.

The light of the fire came from the wooden house.

Looking at this hut, the face of the man who fled suddenly changed.

"It's a human? Why do people live in such remote mountains and forests? Could it be a miner? ”

He hurriedly changed directions and did not run towards the cabin, hoping that it would not affect the people in the cabin.

But alas, the dark shadow chasing behind him also saw the existence of the hut.

The shadow stopped in his tracks, laughed, and ignored the fleeing figure in front of him, but turned and ran in the direction of the cabin.

"Hahaha, swordsman of the ghost killing team, I'm going to eat the people in the house, can you save him?"

Hearing this, the figure in front of him stepped on his right foot hard, and a large fan-shaped snow was swept on the snow.

At the cost of the swelling and tingling of his right leg, he stopped his form and watched as the black shadow landed on all fours, almost as fast as a beast to the cabin.

At this moment, the young man's heart was at war.

If he turns around and runs, regardless of the person in the cabin, there is a good chance that he will escape from the evil spirits.

But if he does, the people in the cabin will die!

Ordinary people don't know how to breathe, how can they fight ghosts!

It was as if there was a little angel and a little devil arguing fiercely in his heart.

The little angel said with an anxious face:

If you hadn't lured the evil spirits here, nothing would have happened to the people in the cabin! It's your responsibility and you need to save him!

But the little devil looked disdainful:

He lives so close to the demons that even without you, the demons will find out and eat them! What's more, you can't beat that ghost at all, rushing up is just adding another dish to him! Let's hurry up and run! Your own life is the most important thing!

Seeing that the terrible black shadow was getting closer and closer to the wooden house, almost breaking through the door, the young man gritted his teeth and let out a roar.

"Ahh

He clenched the Nihon Knife in his hand with one hand, and his face showed a look of fear and fear, full of reluctance and nostalgia for life, but he quickly turned around, opened his trembling legs, and resolutely ran towards the evil spirit.

"The tragedy that happened to me, how can I watch it happen to someone else! Stop me, Baga Ya Road!! ”

But just then, the door to the cabin slammed open.

A sword reached out from behind the door, leaving a slender shadow on the demon through the firelight behind him, slashing at him head.

The demon's pupils shrank violently, startled by the sudden attack.

He hurriedly rolled on a lazy donkey and dodged the sword to the left, but his right arm was slashed fiercely, and a deep wound appeared, and in an instant blood flowed profusely.

Looking up at the young figure in the wooden house, the demon gritted his teeth and said with a hideous anger on his face.

"Another swordsman? Damn, you dare to ambush Uncle Ben! Uncle Ben is going to tear you apart! ”

The authentic ghost slayer swordsmen on the side were stunned.

Where did the ambush come from?

He's the only one on this mission, okay!

Could it be that it was the support of other swordsmen?

But he didn't have time for the crows to call for support from headquarters!

With the wide open wooden door, against the blazing fire behind him, the figure in the wooden house was also revealed.

It was a boy about the same age as a swordsman of the Demon Slayer Team.

He was dressed in a brown coarse cloth coat, a pair of cloth shoes on his feet, and a young and handsome face with an indifference like snow, and he looked like a man with a story.

The weapon he held in his hand was not so much a blade as a piece of iron with a wooden handle.

The straight iron piece barely sharpened a blade, perhaps even sharper than the kitchen knife at home or the sickle used to cut the wheat.

Just now, because of too much force, the sword body even appeared slightly distorted.

But there was an invisible air flow around the iron sheet, which made the surrounding snowflakes flutter, but they could not fall on it.

"Wind? Did he use the breath of the wind? But why didn't you use a Nichiren knife, but such an iron piece? ”

The Demon Slayer swordsman was puzzled.

He couldn't really say it was a sword.

In the same way, the demons who were dodging the attack on the side saw what had slashed them.

He thought that the other party was a swordsman of the ghost killing team in ambush in the house, and he was afraid of being killed by the Nichiren sword, so he dodged in embarrassment.

Now that I see that I was actually injured by such a broken iron piece whose greatest power may be tetanus, my mentality is simply explosive!

The demon threw himself at the boy in annoyance, a vicious mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth opened, and the disgusting saliva on the outstretched tongue was like a shower, like a wild beast in a rage.

"I'm going to eat you alive!"