[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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Time sequence entered winter, when the first snow melted on Mount Sagiri, Kuhara Hiiragi finished his basic physical training and began to hold a knife.

Even if he had a set of perfect sword skills in his previous life, it would be difficult to play [-]% of the effect in the face of strange ghosts who can heal themselves.

Breathing is the art of killing ghosts that has lasted for thousands of years in this world, so even if you have to learn it from scratch, Kuhara Hiiragi doesn't mind.

Although the movement of swinging the knife was a bit stiff, it carried a natural ease. Master Rinaki nodded aside, and then doubled the amount of training for him.

Manko and Tanuki Shinosumu also occasionally give advice to Kuhara Hiiragi. ...Although Tanuki no Shin is more likely to come to trouble him.

After being pinned to the ground and beaten several times, Kuhara Hiiragi finally got used to the weight of the knife and his current height, and he started to fight back.

Then finally one day, he dodged to stagger the force of Tanuki's sword, held the knife with one hand, then turned around and slammed the opponent into the ground with a palm.

Tanuki no Jin:? ? ?

"Ahem, what kind of strange move are you using?" That palm seemed random, but it seemed to hold a lot of force.Tanuki was stunned in the ground for a few seconds, and then got up in disgrace, with a confused look on his face.

"Wu..." Wudang School's Taiyi Xiaoyaozhang, but it was impossible for him to say this, so he calmly changed his words, "I hit it casually."

I'm sorry, seniors of the Wudang faction.

"Tch, you can't kill ghosts with your fists!" Tanuki Shinsumi regained his posture, held the knife, and took a lunge, "Again!"

"Ah."

Then he shot Tanuki Shin into the field again.

Facing Tanuki Shinosumu's murderous gaze, Kuhara Hiiragi looked back calmly—you asked me to come again.

"You're looking for death, you're sick!" Tanukosumi exploded, and he realized that if he didn't show his power, someone would really treat him as a tanuki, "Don't use your fists! Take a knife and hit me upright!"

Kuhara Hiiragi stared at him.

"Uh, not..."

Kuhara Hiiragi made a starting gesture.

"Wait a minute! Stop!"

Facing the junior brother who raised his palm horizontally, Tanuki Shinoshin grabbed the last straw and shouted, "Did I offend you in any way!?"

Kuhara Hiiragi stopped a few inches in front of him, brushing Tanuki Shinosumu's hair with the palm wind, then he withdrew his posture and said briefly, "Makoto."

"Ah?" Tanuki Shinobu looked at him inexplicably, then suddenly remembered something, frowned and sighed.

"I know, it's because I can't do it."

The reason is that yesterday, Kuhara Hiiragi cut off a section of the wooden post with a standard posture, without hurting the blade at all.

Makoto recognized him with a smile on the side, Tanuki Shin turned his head away disdainfully.

"Don't be awkward, Takinoshin." Mako persuaded, "Kuhara is really talented."

"It's very talented. If Brother Yujiro is here, he must do better than him."

Tanuki noshin showed regret as soon as he finished speaking. Seeing Makoto's dim eyes, he hurriedly made amends, "Although this, this kid did a good job!"

Makoto smiled reluctantly, turned and left.

"Hey, that, really wild rice!"

Tanuki Shinobu couldn't stop her, opened his mouth on the spot, and finally kicked the stone on the road in annoyance.

"Ah, it's all your fault!" He rubbed his hair and said to Kuhara Hiiragi, but it looked more like he was angry with himself.

Kuhara Hiiragi looked bewildered.

"Runoshin, who is Yujiro?"

Tanuki Noshin was silent for a while, then resigned himself to explaining.

"Brother Yujiro is our senior brother." He said dryly, "It's none of your business to leave before you come."

"It's very important, please tell me."

"what?"

"Senior Sister Zhenmu looks very sad."

Rikuzhijin was stunned for a moment, and curled his lips, "Why do you call me Senior Sister Zhenmu? You don't call me Senior Brother, you little brat."

He told Kuhara Hiiragi that Master Rinaki had adopted many children before them. He passed on his "breathing of water" genre skills to the children and taught them the skills of killing ghosts.

The boy named Yujiro is the senior brother of Tanuki Noshin and Mako, and he takes good care of them on weekdays.

Until three years ago, Yujiro went to participate in the final trial of the Demon Slayer Squad.

"To join the Ghost Killing Team, you have to pass the final assessment of Fuji Raiding Mountain. The team members need to survive seven days in a situation where the mountain is full of ghosts."

Kuhara Hiiragi nodded, he already understood.

The boy named Yujiro probably failed the examination and never came back.He didn't like to expose people's scars, so he turned his head to signal Takinoshin not to continue talking.

"It's not just him," Tanuki Shinosumu continued with a gloomy expression, "None of the master's disciples has ever returned."

At that moment, Kuhara Hiiragi couldn't tell what mood he was in.

Sadness, emotion, but there's something else on top of that, something more obvious:

Ah, so it is.

- Such a feeling.

Master Lin Taki always looked preoccupied.

He only has three apprentices, but he has so many spare wooden knives.

Moreover, in the perennial mist on the mountain, there is always an atmosphere of unwillingness and sadness.

The children who came to Rinaki all wanted to kill ghosts, take revenge, protect the people around them, and even just want to survive in this world where human lives are like nothing.

So they took up the knife, as if to die, as if to survive.

But was thrown hastily by this merciless world, like throwing away a stone.

"People who are eaten by ghosts will not even leave their bodies."

Kuhara Hiiragi was silent for a while and then got out of his emotions, because there are more important things now.

"Please enlighten me." He drew his knife.

Then there was the scene just now.

"I didn't say that, if you want me to apologize to Makoto, just say it directly, why do you have to fight with me?" Tanuki Shin was puzzled.

Then he saw Kuhara Hiiragi shaking his hand holding the knife.

"..."

"........."

Xiangshu in the previous life would not be reasonable until he was defeated.

So he subconsciously felt that only by convincing people with physics first can he convince people with reasoning.

I always feel sorry for Tanuki Shin.Thinking of this, Kuhara Hiiragi looked up at Takino Susumu whose face was almost as gray as his hair.

"Sorry." But being knocked to the ground by my junior is all your own fault, right?

Kuhara Hiiragi, who lived two lifetimes, thought without blushing.

"what!?"

Tanuki Shin is not a fool, he has been able to see a lot of hidden meanings of this cheap junior who is always sullen during the past half a year of getting along.

So he gritted his teeth and swore in his heart on the spot that one day he would tie this kid to the tallest tree in Siwu Mountain while the master and Zhenmu were not paying attention.

"You wait for me!"

Throwing down a harsh word, Tanuki Shinosumu left the training ground to find Mako.

Looks like he's cheered up.

Jiuyuan Hiiragi didn't know what they were talking about, but when they had dinner that night, the two had reconciled as before.

Another two months have passed, and the days of training all day have passed by in the blink of an eye.

Kuhara Hiiragi officially began to learn the breathing method of water. In order to let him feel the water flow better, Master Rinaki threw him into the waterfall in the mountain.

This is obviously very effective. That evening, Kuhara Hiiragi, who was drenched and staggered back to the wooden house, had already successfully used the Ichizo of Water Breathing.

He is not the only one who has made progress.

After several fights, Tanuki Shinobu was able to barely dodge his Taiyi Happy Palm, and taught him how to be a man with a wooden knife in his backhand.And Zhenmu has a dexterous figure, and his attacks are always fast and fast, and his mastery of water breathing is even further than the two of them.

One night, the lights were turned off, and after over-training, Kuhara Hiiragi was about to fall asleep almost touching the pillow, but a voice stopped him.

"Hey Jiuyuan? Are you asleep?"

He looked up at Tanuki in a daze.

Tanuki noshin laughed and said that you usually look old-fashioned, but you look like a child at this time.

Why didn't you feel that way when you hit me?

In response, Kuhara Hiiragi closed his eyes decisively and fell asleep.

"Wait a minute, don't sleep yet. Hey, hey." Tanuki Shinobu knocked on Kuhara Hiiragi's head with the gesture of knocking on the door, "Okay, I really have something important to say."

Kuhara Hiiragi looked at him.

"Actually, the final selection for this year's Ghost Killing Team will start in a few days."

"……Um."

"I'm leaving tomorrow."

Kuhara Hiiragi's sleepy brain reacted for a while, and then he sat up with his hands on his hands, staring straight at Tanuki Shinobu with a pair of black eyes, which startled the latter.

"Wow, don't make such a big noise, you will wake up Mako." Thinking of Mako, Takinosuke sighed, "When she knew about it, her reaction was stronger than yours, but Master Rinaki's trial has me It's passed, and even she can't stop me."

Kuhara Hiiragi looked at him steadily.

"Then I'll go too."

"Huh? You can forget it, let's not say that the master will not agree, Zhenmu will definitely tie you up."

"The assessment is dangerous." You said no one came back.

"Nonsense." Tanuki Shin lay back under the quilt and turned his back to him, "But I've already made up my mind, so don't try to stop me. I'm just telling you for the sake of the same family."

His tone was flat, but his determination was as hard as black iron, because some things were more important to him than life.

It was only then that Kuhara Hiiragi realized that he actually didn't understand Tanuki Shinobu.

So he has nothing to say.

"Oh, by the way, don't pester Zhenmo while I'm not around."

If I want to pester Senior Sister Zhenmu, I don't need to take advantage of your absence.Even though he thought so, Kuhara Hiiragi was very sensible and didn't say anything.

He looked at the back of Tanuki Shinosumu's head, and then he remembered that the boy in front of him was only 14 years old. He came to Rinaki after being killed by a ghost, and picked up a sword that should have been missed in this life.

If he didn't use his internal strength, and only in terms of sword skills, he really can't beat Tanuki who has practiced for a few more years now.

Thinking of this, Jiuyuan Hiiragi also lay back in his quilt.

"I see, you have to come back alive."

"Nonsense, I don't die so easily."

"promised."

"What are you doing, talking so much all of a sudden." Tanuki Shin turned his head and found that the boy behind him was so tired that he fell asleep, but his hand was still holding the corner of the quilt behind him.

Damn kid.He wanted to pull back the quilt, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

Forget it, let him pull it.

Before Tanuki entered and left the house, Master Rinaki carved him a tanuki mask with a scar on his nose, which is said to ward off bad luck for him.

After he walked for a while, Kuhara Hiiragi and Mako always stood at the intersection and looked into the distance when they were free.

Just like that day by day.

I didn't wait for half a figure.

One day, Master Linlong received a letter, which was sent by a crow that could only talk.He was sitting at the table reading. Kuhara Hiiragi and Mako, who were training, sneaked over and stood at the door to look inside.

After Zuo Rinaki finished reading the last time, he tapped the pipe in his hand and let out a long sigh.

Zhenmo couldn't hold back the tears at that time, she quickly covered her mouth.

"Come in." Lin Taki said.

Kuhara Hiiragi and Mako walked into the room, looking at the two apprentices in front of them exuding uneasiness, Rinaki said:

"Don't wait for Tanuki to enter."

Kuhara Hiiragi was stunned, while Makoto staggered back a step.

Then they heard Rinaki go on to say:

"He broke a leg and can't come back for a while."

Makoto, who thought Tanuki noshin was dead, was so sad that he was about to faint, and Kuhara, whose mind was blank: ...

"Master!" Zhenmo, who was half-frightened to death, rushed forward and hugged Lin Taki for the next time. She buried her head in the master's arms, and a muffled voice came out, "That's great, master, that's great..."

Kuhara Hiiragi took several deep breaths, his hands were shaking.This is the first time he thinks that master Lin Taki is very bad.

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