Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Second Sun after the Nation

"Okay, try to get out of this space after you're done. You also need to deal with your clone as much as possible. After all, I don't exist in his memory. It's best not to have anything related to me appear."

Yan Chengyun was looking at a pufferfish that was touching and grabbing his body and jumping around. He felt a little dazed. He was obviously dead, so why did he still have a feeling of high blood pressure? In order to prevent irreversible damage to his body, he decided to interrupt the pufferfish's actions and urge it to leave quickly.

"I understand. Do I look like such a slow person?" After hearing what Yan Chengyun said, Ji Zhuyu subconsciously moved the joints of his arms, nodded, and started jokingly.

"Do I look like an old father then?"

"You don't look like me when you're not nagging me. But when you start nagging me, I just want to say that Master is worthy of being a Master."

"Glib tongue..."

A white light flashed, and two green figures appeared in the deserted forest at the same time. Ji Zhuyu looked at his still sleeping self, picked him up and put him on a nearby tree. Then he looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky, which seemed never to change. He slowly smiled with a little twinkle in his eyes, making it difficult to tell whether it was the bright sunshine or the tears in the eyes of this young man. Perhaps this will be regarded as an unsolved mystery and will always remain, because the young man who once looked at the sun disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only the other self as evidence that he had existed in this world.

"Are you the successor he chose?" A white-haired woman was standing under a huge glowing tree. Perhaps because she was too close to the tree, it was difficult to tell whether the light was coming from her light green skirt or from the tree.

"Are you the world tree he mentioned? No, it should be more precise, the will of the world?" Ji Zhuyu retracted his gaze and looked at the woman sitting on the tree. He turned his head to the side and did not answer the other party's words, but asked his own question.

"It seems a bit rude of us to ask each other questions on the first meeting instead of introducing ourselves." The white-haired woman looked at Ji Zhuyu's face glancing to the side, still secretly observing her expression, as if she was pleased by something. After laughing twice, her sacred face, which had no expression at all, showed a little smile, as if a god was looking at her own people.

"Really? Only when you don't know each other will you first pay attention to the other person's name and identity. But if you know each other, it doesn't seem wrong to ask like this. After all, we only know each other's identities. Who knows if the person standing in front of you is a real person, right?"

After hearing the two chuckles, Ji Zhuyu quickly realized that his little trick had been discovered, so he simply gave in, turned his head back to the normal position, looked directly at the white-haired woman and asked back.

"If this was in a cafe or a restaurant, I would understand your idea, but do you think my true form can be easily discovered and seen by others?" The white-haired girl put away the smile on her face. Although she still had that sacred look and her brows were not furrowed, she always gave people who saw her a feeling that the other person was angry.

"To some extent, we are the same." But the smile will not disappear, it will only transfer to other people's faces. At this time, a pufferfish is smiling, although his face is expressionless, just curling up the corners of his lips. Who knows what he looks like smiling in the back shot.

"Is that how you see me? It seems that you didn't learn much from him, but he didn't see it directly at the time, so I can't say anything to him."

"So was I wrong?"

"Almost. After all, you can't use a whole leaf to replace all the leaves on a branch, let alone the branch itself."

"So I am narrow-minded? It seems that I still have a long way to go. Do you think this road I am walking on will have an end?"

"A sapling will eventually grow into a big tree, but it takes a process. Now answer my question, do you think my body is big?"

"To be fair, it is a very large tree. According to the conversion standards of the human world, it is at least a hundred or a thousand years old."

"But there are still many behemoths like me, so many that you can't even see the end of them. To me, they are enemies competing with me for nutrients, so I can't answer your question until I kill all the enemies."

"But you seem to have lost a lot of leaves. Is that really okay? If I remember correctly, leaves are a very important part of the tree's self-sustaining cycle, right?"

"If it falls off, it will grow back soon. It's not a serious matter. It doesn't involve the trunk or the roots, so I don't pay too much attention to it."

"But if that's the case, how can there be "salvation"? You seem to have said something particularly contradictory."

"Like I said before, I'm trying to steal something and have a chance to survive. For me, it's more practical to let those leaves grow new ones than to leave them alone. Just like when humans occasionally pick a few leaves, it won't have much impact on the tree except for the particularly important buds, but the premise is that the other party can't pull off a large branch of leaves in one go."

"So as a teacher of teachers, you want to teach me a principle? What is called making choices?"

"I don't know if you and him are true master and disciple, but he and I are not. I am not your teacher's teacher. And even if I really accept this identity, I will not teach you the principles you already understand for the second time. I will only teach you something new."

"I'm looking forward to it. New teacher, for example?"

"For example, don't shout nonsense, don't use your own ideas to infer other people's identities. The proportion of my enemies and his enemies should be greater."

"But he has already taken revenge, otherwise he wouldn't have left so easily. Given his personality, I don't believe he would allow himself to have enemies living in this world."

"Really? He is smart, so he can tell who his enemy is. Besides, I am not the culprit who hurt him. I can only be said to be an important factor in his original appearance."