The time gradually came to the afternoon.

In the open space in front of the wooden house.

"Mom, what is Dad doing?" Shigeru tugged at the corner of Aoi's coat and looked suspiciously at Tanjuro Kamado, who was sitting in the hallway, looking down and thinking.

Aoi Zhi smiled and pulled away Shigeru:

"Father is thinking about the problem, don't disturb him, go to the charcoal cellar to help Takeo make a fire."

"Fire?"

Shigeru seemed to be a little confused, and he looked up at his mother, not understanding why he had started the fire when it had just snowed.

……

Corridor.

Tanjuro lowered his head, his hands crossed, his brow furrowed.

In the face of no misery, Tanjuro's first reaction was to run.

He is not the only one here, but also his wife and children.

It is impossible to stay, and the result of leaving behind is bound to wait for death.

But the whole family escaped together, and there was a possibility that they would be chased all the way by Wu Miao.

Ghosts move much faster than humans.

Tanjuro didn't dare to gamble with his family's lives.

So.

He raised his head and looked at Shigeru and Liutai, who were playing in the open space in front of the house, and Hanako and Midouko, who were smiling and clapping their hands.

After more than 30 years of suffering in a wolf, he didn't want to experience the feeling of losing his family again.

Tanjuro Kamado plans to stay behind himself.

Even if, there is a high probability that this will die.

However, it is better to kill him than to slaughter the whole family.

And, when he was a ninja "wolf", he had already died enough.

In the world of "Demon Slayer", there are man-eating ghosts led by the "Oni King" Onimai Tsuji Mumi.

They are scattered all over the neon and there are many of them.

Ghosts, cannibals, speed and strength far crush ordinary people, and broken limbs or heads can be reborn.

When ordinary people encounter it, there is only one way to die.

It is impossible to kill a demon completely unless the head is decapitated with a specific weapon, or it is illuminated by the sun.

Among them, the strength of the Twelve Ghost Moons is the strongest.

The strength of the ghost moons, if placed in ancient neon mythology, is also a big monster that can dominate one side.

And the strength of the "Ghost King" Onimai Tsuji is above all the ghost moons.

- After all, the Twelve Ghost Moons are only subordinates created by him.

Tanjuro Kamado dared to assert.

With his current self alone, he can't survive a few breaths in the hands of no misery.

It is even more impossible to defeat Wu Miao head-on.

His current body is too weak to perform a few decent slashes, but he will collapse immediately.

But even if the body is energetic, the chances of running away are very small.

Not to mention victory.

But.

The ghost king has a "weakness".

- He's extremely timid...

- Oh no, be cautious.

This "prudence" originated in the Warring States period.

The reason is –

During the Warring States period, a human genius was born.

This genius is called Jiguo Yuanyi.

He was born with the ability to observe the workings of the world—to see through the world.

Born with an extremely strong physical fitness, as well as its representative - markings.

Born with a strong talent for swordsmanship, he instantly defeated a samurai who had been galloping on the battlefield for many years when he held a sword for the first time.

The natural special breathing rhythm is a breathing method that can compress a large amount of oxygen into the lungs at one time and make the body leap forward - Sun Breathing.

and - a stunt that can make the knife red and hot with just the grip strength and has a targeted miracle effect on slashing ghosts - the knife.

Tanjuro thought of this, and suddenly there was some silence in his heart.

Although he knew, after thinking about it carefully, he was still shocked by Jiguoyuan's terrifying talent.

In the previous life, there was a word that could affectionately describe the fate of Jiguo.

- Hang B.

Every trait in him seems to have been born for the existence of ghosts.

So much so that when he met the ghost king for the first time, he was able to give the young and arrogant ghost king a double blow both physically and psychologically.

Even though the Ghost King found himself underestimating the enemy, he tried to split into more than 1,800 pieces of minced meat and escaped.

In an instant, he was given an inhuman reaction speed and smashed more than 1,500 of them.

Although the Ghost King successfully escaped from the clutches of Yuanyi in the end, he never dared to show his face again.

In the more than 60 years since the death of Guoyuanyi, Wu Miao has never appeared in the field of vision of mankind again.

Until Yuan Yi died of old age, Wu Miao dared to show up gradually.

It can be seen that Wu Miao is indeed very "cautious".

This "prudence" is worth using.

Tanjuro looked down and thought about the hole cards he currently had.

As a young man, he practiced the Kagura Dance every day and finally reached the "highest realm"

- Transparent world.

This is one of them.

In the world of "wolves", there is a special mark that comes with it at birth.

- Markings.

It is a dark red hideous markings on the left forehead.

The appearance of markings represents a qualitative surge in physical fitness.

Tanjuro could clearly perceive that as long as he wanted to, it seemed that he could make the markings on his left forehead show up at any time.

This will speed your heart rate by more than 200 and your body temperature to 39 degrees, in exchange for a massive increase in combat ability.

Under normal circumstances, the left side of Tanjuro's forehead is just an ordinary burn scar.

Markings, this is the second one.

The third is that it is also Tanjuro's biggest hole card at present.

The Kamado family has been passed down from generation to generation, and the Kagura dance dedicated to Lord Vulcan-sama - Kagura no Hogami Kagura.

Tanjuro Kamado now knows better than anyone what this so-called dance is.

- Breath of the Sun.

- and, the matching thirteen-style sword type.

Because the breath of the sun was too domineering, no one among the human swordsmen at that time could inherit the mantle of Jiguo Yuanyi.

However, there are many people who have recorded and witnessed it, but these records were found and destroyed one by one after Yuan Yi's death.

Except for one person - the ancestor of the Kamato family, Kamado Tanji.

Tanji and Jiguoyuan are friends.

Yuan Yi also gave Tan Ji two of his sun earrings.

After Tanji had seen the thirteen sword shapes of Yuanyi's dance of the breath of the sun, he deeply remembered it.

It was also choreographed into the Kagura Dance, renamed Kagura, the god of fire, and passed down from generation to generation along with the earrings.

And now, Tanjuro Kamado has been dancing "Kagura, the god of fire" for nearly thirty years.

The rhythm of breathing, as well as the essentials of movement, are all familiar to me.

Ji Guoyuanyi's earrings are also hanging on his ears.

"Smack!"

Tanjuro Kamado clapped his hands, and he straightened up and slowly stood up.

After thinking about it calmly, the confidence in his heart was much more than just now.

In the face of no misery, it is not necessary to defeat him head-on.

Creak... Creak......

He took two steps forward and walked into the snow.

Close your eyes slowly.

"Suck—" Tanjuro Kamado took a deep breath, his muscle memory allowing his breathing rhythm to gradually match that of Kagura, the god of fire.

As a large amount of oxygen was compressed into his lungs, Tanjuro Kamado's body temperature gradually rose, and his heartbeat began to accelerate.

"——!"

Like the sound of water being evaporated by high temperatures, Tanjuro Kamado opened his mouth slightly, and a hot white gas floated out from the corner of his mouth.

In the cold snow, it turns into white steam and slowly drifts away with the direction of the wind.

At the moment, his left forehead.

Hideous dark red markings appear on the surface of the skin, covering the shallow burn marks.

The two earrings of the sun motif flutter slightly in the cold wind.

Her long, crimson hair was tied in a high ponytail and hung down at the back of her head.

Tanjuro Kamado opened his eyes, and his crimson pupils looked calmly into the distance.

He also has what he has.

You don't need to have substantial strength, what Tanjuro wants now is just appearances.

Markings, earrings, eye color, hair...

At this moment, except for his clothes and complexion, everything else seems to be almost the same as the fate in his impression.

There's still a handful left... Hedao.

With that in mind, he turned and walked back into his room.

Reach for your bed.

Click!

A pitch-black knife was pulled out of the futon by him.

Tanjuro Kamado looked down at the katana.

Click!

With a slight force on his wrist, the knife was unsheathed, revealing the black blade.

The glossy blade reflects Tanjuro Kamado's expressionless face.

- This is a wedge pill.

- The saber of the ninja "wolf".

Maybe it was because he was holding the wedge pill tightly in his hand when he woke up, and the knife came with him.

Just in time, he thought.

Looking back, look outside, in the direction of the charcoal cellar.

He poked his head out and asked:

"Takeo, is the fire burning?"