In the early hours of the morning, the sun had not yet risen, which dispelled the darkness.

Tanjiro said goodbye to the old man Saburo, picked up the bamboo building on his back and trotted towards his home on the mountain.

For some reason, he felt a sense of urgency to return home.

Last night, he dreamed of Aoi and Hanako.

Aoi-eda's face was as gentle as ever, and Hanako and her three younger brothers all looked at Tanjiro with a grin.

The others didn't speak, and Aoi-eda's soft, feather-like voice said to Tanjiro, "Tanjiro...... Tanjiro...... Mother and Hanako are leaving you and going to a new, sad and troubled world. ”

"Tanjiro, don't be sad, don't be sad, you can live happily, that's what we want to see."

"Goodbye...... Tanjiro ......"

After saying that, Aoi Zhi took the other children and turned around and left in the endless white light.

Inexplicable sadness came, and Tanjiro felt the urge to cry.

"Don't go ......"

He ran as hard as he could, stretching out his arm to reach the corner of his clothes that was flying towards Aoi.

But no matter how hard Tanjiro tried, he couldn't catch up with Aoi until he was exhausted.

I could only watch as Aoi Zhi and the others disappeared into the white light.

"Ah, don't go!"

Tanjiro suddenly woke up from his sleep, and after reacting, he was glad that it was just a dream.

He couldn't imagine what their lives would be like without Aoi.

After detaching himself from the sadness of his dream, Tanjiro felt his cheeks wet and he touched them strangely.

I found that I didn't know when, I had shed two lines of tears.

From the window, it was still dark outside, but the wind and snow were a little lighter, and it was already possible to move.

Tanjiro quietly took a handful of snow from the edge of the window, and then wiped his face directly with the snow to refresh himself.

Then he put on his coat lightly, put on the bamboo basket on his back and prepared to leave.

Tanjiro didn't want to disturb the old man Saburo's sleep, so he left lightly, he left a note, and the old man Saburo would see it when he woke up.

However, when the door was opened secretly, the wooden door in disrepair made a creaking and screeching sound.

Tanjiro was shocked, the old man Saburo must have been woken up.

Sure enough, the old man Saburo woke up and saw Tanjiro who was packing his luggage and staying at the door.

Old Man Saburo snorted, and then asked, "Does Tanjiro want to go home?" It's still dark, why don't you wait for dawn before leaving? ”

"Before the sun rises, there are man-eating ghosts."

Tanjiro touched his head embarrassedly: "I don't know what's going on, my heart is empty, and I'm a little worried about the safety of my family, so I want to go back quickly." ”

The old man Saburo expressed his understanding: "So that's the case, then Tanjiro doesn't have to care about me, go back quickly." ”

"A lot of people don't believe it, but I can be sure that there is an inexplicable connection between relatives, even if they are thousands of miles apart, and occasionally they will feel it on a whim."

Hearing this, Tanjiro was even more worried, could it be that something really happened to them Aoi-eda? That's why I have such dreams.

When the old man Saburo said this, he seemed to remember something, and suddenly sighed.

"Well, when my son was out on business, I was having nightmares for days in advance, and if I had reacted earlier, maybe I could have stopped it."

"Tanjiro, let's go, in a person's life, only relatives are the most important."

Tanjiro hurriedly answered, and although he was in a hurry, he closed the door to the old man Saburo gently after going out.

Noticing Tanjiro's movements, the old man smiled slightly in the house: "Such a gentle and kind child, fate will definitely treat him well." ”

However, fate does not show kindness to the good.

On the contrary, fate likes to push a person to the point of exhaustion, and then watch that person struggle to survive in despair, and never tire of it.

After a while, Tanjiro had trotted halfway up the mountain, which was also close to the house.

However, Tanjiro's nose twitched slightly, and he smelled a scent.

"This, it seems to smell of blood?"

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Tanjiro quickened his pace, hoping that his guess was wrong.

I saw that in the snow, there was a small figure against the wind, facing the snow, staggering on the white snow, and running as if he was not fatal.

Along the way, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and some fishy smell was already lingering in the nasal cavity.

Tanjiro was reluctant to believe it, but past experience had taught him that the smell of blood was coming from his home.

"Thy beans, Hanako...... Mrs. Six, don't let anything happen to you. ”

With a hint of luck, Tanjiro kept running in a panic.

Until he saw his own home, the warm wooden house that protected them from the cold in the wind and snow, the door panels had broken into scattered pieces of wood, and blood was still visible in the snow......

In his eagerness, Tanjiro tripped over a stone and fell on the snow.

Not caring about the pain on his body, Tanjiro ran into the house with a crawl.

But the bloody scene in front of him was like a sharp knife that split Tanjiro's entire world.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! ”

"Mother, You Bean, Hanako, Takeo, Shigeru, Six Queens......"

After holding back tears and checking them one by one, Tanjiro found that the six people in front of him were silent.

He collapsed to his knees, large strands of tears coming out of his eyes, and under the great grief and pain, his heart seemed to be crushed, leaving Tanjiro breathless.

Just when Tanjiro was about to faint in grief and pain, he suddenly saw that your bean's shoulders trembled slightly.

"You beans!"

As if he saw the light in the darkness and grasped the straw that saved his life, Tanjiro held your beans in his arms, ignoring your bean's bloodstained clothes.

"Youdouzi, great, my brother will definitely save you, hold on."

There is no time, I almost thought that You Douzi was dead just now, she must be too injured, but there is still a possibility of survival.

"Mother...... And brothers and sisters, I'll go and save You Beans first, you wait for me to come back. ”

Time is pressing, and Tanjiro only plans to take your beans down the mountain to find a doctor, and then come back to collect the remains of his loved ones.

At this time, out of the corner of his eye, Tanjiro found a line of words on the wall, which was in a hurry and messy, but Tanjiro could still tell that it was the handwriting of his brother when the stove was flowing.

"Tanjiro, don't despair, you must live, live, wait for me to come to you."

It turns out that his brother is still alive when he is in the river, but why did he abandon everyone and leave?

Worried too much about your bean's injury, Tanjiro stopped thinking about it and put it behind him for the time being.

He just wants to take your beans to the doctor quickly.

After reluctantly glancing at the corpses of the others, Tanjiro picked up your beans and rushed out the door.

Despite his physical exhaustion, he ran desperately down the mountain.

It's just that he didn't see it, the eyes of You Douzi behind him were still closed, but the small face gradually became hideous, and there were cyan veins exposed through the pale skin............