Smack.

Tanjiro, who was walking to the first floor, just heard his father's words.

Tanjuro turned his head slightly and said to Tanjiro behind him, who happened to have one foot stepping on the stairs:

"Tanjiro, you should come along."

"Kagura, the god of fire."

"Already, I haven't practiced in a while."

Tanjiro was slightly stunned for a moment, and then nodded confidently:

"Hmm!"

……

……

Meanwhile.

The other side.

The mansion of the pearl world.

in the room.

The dim light flickered slightly, but the tiny flying insects that were usually seen everywhere were not here.

"Unbelievable..."

Joo sat on her knees at the table, her head bowed, observing the drops of blood in the microscope.

This is a blood sample provided by Tanjuro.

Her pupils trembled slightly.

At first, Zhu Shi only discovered that Tanjuro's blood cells were more active than ordinary people.

But.

- when she was next to Tanjuro's blood.

- After adding a drop of his own blood for an experiment.

Everything has changed.

Tanjuro's blood cells are slowly eroding her cells, and they use them as nutrients to feed themselves for survival.

Unheard.

Zhu Shi slowly tilted her head, and she took a deep breath.

This method of absorbing the vitality around him for his own use made Zhu Shi feel a little brain for a while.

It's just as miserable as the other one!

Just when Zhu Shi wanted to stand up and get something to record all this.

Suddenly, her legs went limp.

Syllable!

Hold the table with your hands suddenly.

"Yusero..."

Somehow, Joo covered her forehead, and she felt a little tired and dizzy.

She cried softly, her body gradually weakening.

Her eyelids seemed to become extremely heavy, and one wave after another of sleepiness seemed to weigh heavily on her surroundings, trying to drown her.

Creak...

The hand that was supported on the table slowly slipped weakly, and the whole person also fell to the other side like a center of gravity.

"Lord Zhushi!"

Yushiro, who came over, saw that Zhu Shi was about to fall, so he hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhu Shi who had fallen.

Yushiro's face was pale, and he held Zhu Shi and looked around anxiously.

"Can you still hear me?! Lord Zhushi! ”

"Lord Zhushi!!"

Zhu Shi's consciousness gradually blurred, she was confused and wanted to open her eyes, and at the last moment before her vision fell into darkness, she saw Yushiro's anxious shouting expression.

The hand that was about to be raised hung limply on the floor.

Then.

Confusion of consciousness.

It was a darkness that was silent to the extreme.

……

……

It feels like a long time has passed.

"Ahh

Zhu Shi felt that his body seemed to be sinking all the time.

In this boundless, thick enough darkness to drown everything, countless cold hands grabbed her limbs.

Sink.

Sink.

……

……

At last.

The darkness dissipated.

In front of a dazzling light.

Zhu Shi was dazed and opened his eyes.

She lay flat on the soft-touch ground and stared at the sky.

into the purpose.

It is a forest of wisteria flowers.

"Here... Where? Zhu Shi barely opened her eyes, adjusting to the light, she covered her head, and slowly propped herself up from the somewhat soft ground.

It was difficult to look around.

In his trance-like eyes, he could only vaguely see that the surroundings were full of blooming wisteria flowers.

She tried to raise her hand, but she was shocked to find that there was something bound on her hands and feet.

Those things whose faces could not be seen clearly grew out of the ground and were tied to the limbs of Zhu Shi.

This is... What?

Just when Zhu Shi was confused.

A childish child's voice.

From behind Zhu Shi:

“… Mom? ”

It was a young figure holding a ball, and she was standing behind Zhu Shi at the moment, maintaining the appearance of just picking up the ball, shouting at Zhu Shi.

After this familiar cry, Zhu Shiben's confused body suddenly froze, and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped.

The confused mind suddenly cleared up at this moment.

She didn't dare to think about it.

Zhu Shi's breathing became rapid, and she seemed to be a little incredulous, but the emotions she poured out of herself were far more than she could have imagined.

His eyes trembled, the tip of his nose was a little sour, he felt heavy under his eyes, and the sorrow in his heart instantly overwhelmed everything.

Zhu Shi pursed his mouth vigorously, the corners of his eyes were red, and he slowly turned his head.

At the moment when she saw the vague figure behind her, Zhu Shi's tears burst out of her eyes, and her voice trembled with sorrow, with a cry:

“… Mika, is it Mika? ”

As he spoke, Zhu Shi almost subconsciously stretched out his hands towards the familiar figure, wanting to embrace him.

But as if thinking of something, her outstretched hand jerked back as if it were electrocuted.

"Mom!"

The young figure dropped the ball in his hand and ran towards Zhu Shi with a happy smile.

Strike!

Then, he threw himself into Zhu Shi's arms.

Zhu Shi felt the heavy weight in her arms, and her eyes that were flowing with tears were slightly stunned.

Then, her hands tightly hugged the young figure in her arms, as if she didn't want to be separated again, she gritted her teeth, hung her head, and tears couldn't stop pouring out of her eyes:

"Woo... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! ”

Tears of bean size dripped down his face, Zhu Shi lowered his head, holding his child, but he couldn't stop the tears:

"I'm sorry...! I'm sorry..."

Zhu Shi hugged Mixiang tightly, whimpering, as if he was missing a mouth, and tears kept pouring out of that mouth:

"Whoa, whoa..."

Her body trembled and she wept.

"Mom, don't cry..."Mika hugged her mother, she whispered, patting Zhu Shi's back lightly with her hand:

"Mika misses her mother so much."

"But..."

Mika's voice paused, and she looked up in Zhu Shi's arms and glanced behind her.

Then.

A somewhat tall figure of a man in an old-fashioned dark kimono blurred in this direction.

The figure stayed in front of Zhu Shi, and he lowered his head slightly.

“… How did you end up here? ”

It seemed to be recognized for a while, and the man's soft voice with a little surprise came:

"You shouldn't be here..."

As he spoke, the man leaned down, he squatted in front of Zhu Shi and Mi Xiang, reached out and searched his daughter's head, and whispered to Zhu Shi who was hanging his head:

"Let's go back."

"Zhu Shi."

Zhu Shi was stunned, and she slowly raised her head.

It just matched the man's blurred half of his face.

Tears flowed silently.

Whether it's the pearl world or a man.

The next moment.

It seems to have heard the man's words.

Creak...

The unknown object that bound the pearl world suddenly clenched, and carried the pearl world to continue sinking.

"Ahh Zhu Shi was stunned, she looked back at her tied limbs, and cast a confused look at Mi Xiang and the man in front of her in a little panic.

"Mom!"

Mika was forced to break free from Zhu Shi's embrace, she smiled, and shouted to Zhu Shi who continued to sink:

"Don't come to me and Daddy so soon!"

"Good..."

Zhu Shi continued to sink, and her consciousness was blurred again, and she could no longer hear the last few words.

But she struggled to open her eyes and look at her daughter through the last slit that had sunk beneath the surface.

“… Stay alive. ”

Mika said to Zhu Shi.