[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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When the dawn quietly rose, the ghost screamed and broke away from the puppet, and a mass of mud-like body fled around the ground looking for a place to hide.

There was already a burning pain in his body, which made him extremely frightened.

"Why are you hiding in the shadows?" It seemed that someone had asked this question when he was a human being. The tone was very cold, but it was a voice he hadn't heard for a long time, communicating with him 'normally'.

"Mother is in a bad mood." The young child was bruised and huddled together, "I'm afraid of making her angry."

As long as you hide in the shadows, you won't be seen by your mother, and you won't be beaten.

However, I still really want friends, I really want someone to talk to me.

"In this case, go and make yourself a shadow."

"shadow?"

"Yes, the shadow that is always inseparable from the main body."

"is it okay?"

"Of course, I will help you."

He raised his head ignorantly, and then there was a stabbing pain on his forehead. He watched the man with the magnificent scarlet eyes poke his finger into his forehead.After the pain of being transformed from a human into a ghost is over, it does get everything it wants.

It is more afraid of sunlight than ordinary ghosts, afraid of light, extremely fragile, and does not even have a definite shape.But it can pull those people into the shadow and become its own puppets, eat them when they get bored, and look for the next target.

He gets a lot of 'companions'.

But although the emptiness inside remains unsatisfied, it seems that something very important has been forgotten.

But at this time, looking at the rising sun at dawn, it finally remembered.

Why forget it.

Obviously at the beginning, I just wanted to be by my mother's side.

"Boom."

Jiuyuan Hiiragi couldn't find where the ghost's head was, so he nailed it to the roof of the building, watching it burnt by the sun with a blank expression.And the ghost soon stopped struggling and quietly ushered in its demise.

Don't hide in the shadows in the next life, he thought silently.

After the ghost was completely wiped out, Jiuyuan Hiiragi put the comatose young lawyer in the alley downstairs. He also pulled out the knife plugged into the light and put it beside the young man. The unconscious Sabito left.

Then he heard a small movement downstairs.

I was still a little worried, so I walked to the edge of the floor and looked down.

"Hiss... my head hurts," the young man who woke up looked around in a daze, then stood up abruptly from the pile of debris, "It's already dawn!? No, why am I in the alley?"

"Ah, I found it, Mr. Wright!"

Not long after, a dignified girl appeared at the entrance of the alley, her black hair was tied into a delicate bun behind her head, she was wearing a light pink cherry pattern kimono and a wine-red long hakama, just like a girl on the street in spring Sakura, anyone who sees her will think of the word 'Yamato Nadeko'.

"Shoushadu! I seem to have run into a ghost, yesterday..."

"drink!!"

Then Hiiragi Kuhara watched with his own eyes, that Yamato Nadeko used his slender wrist majestically to lift Wright away.

His head hit the sundries with a bang, but he seemed to have survived through a strong will.

In other words, resistance has already developed.

"Mr. Chengbutang's consciousness doesn't seem to be very clear yet, he actually said something like 'hit a ghost'."

"Objection あり! I seem to have really seen something dark...Ah, please listen to me to prove my innocence, don't use 'Shoushatou' again!"

"Please explain first, the problem of disappearing suddenly in the middle of the search yesterday."

It seems to be all right.

Satoshi woke up in a hostel with a wisteria flower curtain hanging at the door. When he woke up, he saw that it was already dawn, and Kuhara Hiiragi was sitting at the desk writing something.

The windows are open, and the wind blows the curtains, letting in a few rays of sunlight.

It's getting cold already?He sat up abruptly, and then clutched the back of his painful head, "Where's that ghost?"

"Killed by the sun." Kuhara Hiiragi said, "You're seriously injured, don't move around."

Satoshi felt a little dizzy, so he lay back calmly, and after a while he heard Kuhara Hiiragi ask, "Why did you cut off Shadow's neck?"

"If you don't do this, it will escape." Sato thought for a while, "And even if it is used as a puppet by a ghost, I don't think it will be difficult for senior brother to deal with me."

And it does appear to be so.

"Then what if it doesn't intend to use you as a puppet." Jiuyuan Hiiragi said in a soft voice, "What if it just kills you?"

"Although it is inside the puppet's body, it is impossible for it to cut off its own neck with the sun blade, right?" Saito felt baffled.

Kuhara Hiiragi was silent for a while, "What if it wants to die with you?"

Sato: ...?

This is a bit preposterous, why would senior brother ask such a question?

"Are you angry?" he asked bluntly.

Kuhara Hiiragi stopped writing.

"No," he replied, "just asking."

Said this very calmly, so Sato didn't do it, he thought, "I don't think this ghost will do that, and even if I die... it's better than watching ghosts kill other innocent people in front of my eyes."

Kuhara Hiiragi let out an oh, and continued to write.

"What are you writing?" Satoshi asked.

"A letter to Master and Giyuu." Kuhara Hiiragi said, "I also wrote your answer just now."

"I don't think it doesn't matter if I die," Saito said firmly and earnestly even in the face of threats, "but under the circumstances at that time, no matter how many times I would make the same choice."

Kuhara Hiiragi was silent for a while, then said, "Sorry."

But he was really not angry, he just felt scared.

Afraid of the possibility of "ghost killing Sato in front of my eyes", afraid of the possibility of myself who failed to protect the younger generation, as long as I think of those pictures, I can't help but think of my friend who was cut in half in front of me in my previous life , remembering my own powerlessness.

This anxiety swelled in his heart, and he even had the thought of "let them all quit the Ghost Slayer Squad" for a moment.

But this is wrong, he has no right to make decisions for anyone.What's more, if he is alone, he may really not be able to kill the ghost this time without letting anyone die.

When did I become so cowardly?Kuhara Hiiragi was thinking, when he heard Sato's voice.

"And with my senior brother here, I don't think I will die."

It was a bit reluctant to say this, but he didn't want to hold it in his heart.

Kuhara Hiiragi's eyes widened slightly.

There seemed to be something misty in my heart that dissipated suddenly, like gravel washed away by waves.

Then he stopped writing, put the letter he had just written aside, and the corners of his mouth raised a little.

"Thank you."

The raven, who landed on the window at some point, looked at this scene, tilted his head, and flew away with wings.

Soon after, in an unknown mansion surrounded by layers of wisterias.

After listening to the crow's report, the young man with black hair reaching his shoulders and a slight smile nodded.

"The mission is completed, and no one was injured or injured in the face of that ghost," he said softly. "Their growth is really exciting. What do you think? Hana, Butterfly Kanae-sama?"

Kneeling on one knee in the courtyard, the gentle girl raised her head when she heard the words. She was extremely beautiful, with black hair like a waterfall, draped on the butterfly-colored feathers behind her.

She smiled and said: "As you said, the new generation of ghost slayers who are growing up, I think they are all worth looking forward to."

"Sakura, Yoshiyuki Tomioka." He read out the names of these two people who just became team members this year, "Both of them are the successors of Breathing Water."

"Is that Lord Ryotaki's disciple?" Kanae narrowed her eyes, still with a gentle smile on her face, "I think the vacancy of the water column will be filled soon."

The black-haired boy nodded, and said: "There is also that Jiuyuan Hiiragi who is from the same school as them. The breath of wood used is derived from the breath of water. I remember that the 'breath of flowers' used by Lord Butterfly is also the same. A branch of Water Breathing?"

"Ah." Butterfly Chana Hui opened her eyes slightly, she had already seen the intention of the lord, so she covered her lips with one hand and said, "But my breathing method is only suitable for girls, and it is really a bit... ..."

Yuya Mibuyashiki shook his head lightly, "Of course I didn't intend for you to adopt him as a stepson, but if you meet him in missions in the future, I would like to ask you to give him some pointers."

"Of course it's fine."

But, why did the lord say that he encountered it in the mission?Kanae thought for a while, and stopped thinking about this question.

The lord must have his own arrangements.

At this moment, Kuhara Hiiragi has received a new mission, and after saying goodbye to Satu, he left Tokyo Prefecture first.

"The next mission is Mt. Otake, Okutama County, Tokyo Prefecture. It is rumored that there are ghosts haunting it." The raven landed on his shoulder and instructed, and after seeing Kuhara Hiiragi nodding, he flew away quietly.

Seeing that the non-stop Tokyo Prefecture was far behind him, and looking at the mountains and rivers in the distance, he was sincerely relieved and slowed down.

Came alive.

A few days later, Jiuyuan Hiiragi stepped into the boundary of Dayue Mountain and passed the farmland and farmhouses at the foot of the mountain. He had just climbed the mountain, and the birds chirping came to his ears.There are many wild animals here, and Kuhara Hiiragi noticed that a few deer ran away after finding him.

"Is it a member of the Ghost Slayer Squad?" The person who spoke was a young man with a hoe and thick earlobes. He seemed to have just ran all the way from the farmland, panting slightly.

"Ah."

"It's E-level...it should be okay, the K-level team members who passed here last time were kicked out directly," the young man murmured while looking at Jiuyuan Hiiragi's team uniform, and then took it out of his pocket. A package of something, "Here."

Rice cake slices?

Kuhara Hiiragi didn't answer, just gave him a puzzled look.

"There is a mountain king on this mountain." The young man explained, "It is best to bring some tributes if you pass by. It will be quite troublesome if you get entangled."

"I understand, I will eradicate him together."

"No, no, that guy is a human being. If I could get rid of him, I would have wanted to do that a long time ago," the young man immediately shook his head, then looked at Kuhara Hiiragi's more puzzled eyes, and sighed, " But my grandfather... how to say, quite like him."

Kuhara Hiiragi felt that the residents here were very strange.

He took the rice cake slices suspiciously, said goodbye to the young people, and went up the mountain.

The author has something to say:

He is the hot-blooded reversed soul... its ancestor.

Cheng Butang Ryunosuke, the protagonist of the game "Ace Attorney".

And I can't find the age of Kanae, but she should be much older than Ninja, so I set her here to be 4 years older than Ninja.

The Great King of Next Chapter (crossed out) Inosuke

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