[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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Kuhara Hiiragi stood outside the house, and a crow flew in front of him.It was the one that delivered the letter to Master Rinaki just now.

"There is a letter to the wood kid. The wood kid has black hair and black eyes. He is the apprentice of Rinakisa Konji-sama, and his nickname is Kuhara Hiiragi."

...Did you mess something upside down?

Kuhara Hiiragi shook his head, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the letter crow was doing it on purpose.

The raven twittered and confirmed the recipient according to his master's prompt, then closed his eyes and stood still.Jiuyuan Hiiragi fed it some water, and before he took down the letter and opened it, he heard the letter crow say again:

"Be sure to check it out alone, be sure to check it out alone!" Then it spread its wings and flew away with flapping wings.

Want to check it out separately?

Kuhara Hiiragi was puzzled, and opened the letter written by Tanuki Shin.

At first glance, the boy's handwriting was a bit scribbled, but in fact, the lines between the lines were neat and precise, just like his people—until Hiiragi Kuhara saw the first sentence.

'I felt that the air was a bit stuffy this morning, and I realized that it was summer, but Sagiri Mountain must still be as cool as ever, so I couldn't help feeling nostalgic.Even so, after I left, there is no quilt corner for you to grab, so you can't sleep, Brother Jiuyuan. '

Kuhara Hiiragi almost tore up the letter.

He looked up at the sky and read the scriptures for a while before continuing.

'I have written all the knowledge and scenery on the road in the letters to the master and Zhenzhu. If you want to know, you can ask them. I won't repeat them here.Because I really don't want to write it a third time (this sentence was crossed out).The following content is very important, you must read carefully. '

In Tanuki's description, the trial is not as close to death as they thought, but because it requires long-term vigilance and action, it consumes more energy.

Most of the ghosts on Tengji Mountain are easy to deal with, with only one exception - the ghost is covered with staggered arms, which looks like a mountain made of meat from a distance.

The neck, which is the weak point, is also surrounded by layers of arms, making it extremely strong.

It doesn't matter if it's just that, if you can't beat it, you can always hide it.But when the hand ghost told him that in the past 40 years, in order to avenge Rinaki Sakumi, he had never let go of any child wearing a mask, Tanuki noshin was so angry that he almost lost his mind, forgetting the difference in strength between him and the hand ghost, and was full of heart. Thinking of killing it, he rushed up and chopped it.

The ghost's aggressive general succeeded, and in an instant several arms were sent out at once, blocking all of Tanuki's retreats.

'Speaking of which, thanks to your strange palm technique, I can be particularly sensitive to the attacking palm.I found a gap and cut off both arms, barely escaping from its encirclement. '

'Otherwise, I can only entrust these words to you now. '

Jiuyuan Hiiragi didn't expect that his whim would have an effect, and his heart was indescribably complicated.

Although he would not be caught, Tanuki no Shinobu couldn't find a chance to cut the hand ghost's neck no matter what. The hand ghost deliberately sold him a flaw several times, but he also saw it through, and kept looking for opportunities while dodging.

It was like this all night.

Before he could take any effective actions, the sun rose on the seventh day, and the trial was over. When the ghost saw the sun, he fled into the deep forest and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

'A few times I wanted to fight this guy, and it didn't matter if I died.But humiliatingly, I found I was still terrified. '

'If he continues to grow stronger after eating me, then if you and Zhenmu are killed by him in two years, wouldn't it be my fault? '

'So even if I die, I can't die in his hands, at least I want to tell you the news. '

'I'm weak as hell, you can laugh if you want. '

Kuhara Hiiragi tightened his hand holding the letter, scratching out a few wrinkles.

How could I laugh at you.

He seemed to see the dark gray-haired boy, facing an almost impossible enemy, the arm holding the knife trembled with anger, but at the end he gritted his teeth, and stopped attacking with red eyes that were almost cracked.

"Thank you," he said, though he knew Takinoshin wouldn't hear.

Later, Tanuki Jin approached the members of the Demon Slayer Team, saying that he hoped to go to the mountain again and kill the hand ghost to avenge his senior brother.He didn't mention that the ghost specifically targeted Lin Taki's apprentice, for fear that the words would reach Master Lin Taki's ears.

But no matter how hard he tried to persuade him, the members of the Ghost Killing Team only emphasized that it violated the rules, and if he trespassed, he would be punished according to the team rules.

Kuhara Hiiragi suddenly had a bad premonition, he continued to read, and sure enough——

'Of course I'm not convinced, how can there be no reason not to seek revenge from ghosts?In the end, I was scolded by a senior: I want to die somewhere else, don't stay with us, it's an eyesore!Then broke my leg. '

It turned out that the leg was broken like this.

'If you are also facing the ghost in the trial, remember to take care of the real mushroom.Her heart is soft, maybe she will be so sad that she can't even pick up a knife.Whether or not to tell her about this in advance is up to you to judge. '

'Finally, if you let the master know anything about this letter, I will cut you off. '

The letter started with sarcasm and ended with a threat. Kuhara Hiiragi rolled his eyes in his heart, read it several times, focused on remembering the characteristics of the ghost, and burned the letter.

Without Tanuki Noshin's threat, he would never have told Ryotaki about this.But he could also understand why Tanuki Shinojin would not hesitate to leave their brotherhood behind and warn him specially.

If you know that the mask you carved for your disciples to pray for blessings and ward off disasters will become the reason why they are being targeted by ghosts...

Kuhara Hiiragi thought that the master would probably entrust Makoto and him to ordinary people, go to Fujishiyama to kill the hand ghost, and then commit suicide silently.

He never wanted it to be like that.

Lin Taki didn't have any warm words to them, and didn't promise any future. The unsmiling old man just gave them a knife and told them that people can kill ghosts.

This is enough.

In the last life, before he was not a descendant of Taiwu, and before he even knew that people could drive Xiangshu away, on a certain ordinary day, his father Xiangshu became evil and raised an ax at him.

He didn't know how he escaped, but when he came back to his senses, his father had already been locked in a cage by the villagers, screaming inhumanly all day long, and finally starved to death without eating or drinking.

Because he was also in despair, he can understand those children whose relatives were killed by ghosts.

What is terrible is not what is lost, but the powerlessness of not being able to keep what is in your hands.

Kuhara Hiiragi took a deep breath, after a while, he calmed down, and pushed open the door of the wooden house.

Mako still hugged Master Rinaki tightly, and the latter stood stiffly, like a grandfather who didn't know how to get along with his granddaughter, stroking Mako's hair rather at a loss.

"When Tanuki comes back, let's eat hot pot."

"I see...can you let go of your teacher first?"

Makoto returned a bright smile, and there seemed to be something dark in those dark blue eyes that were always half closed.

"Don't let it go, who told the master to scare me."

Kuhara Hiiragi backed out silently, he felt that he might have discovered the incredible side of Zhenmu.

In the early autumn of that year, Tanuki Shinosumu finally found time to return to Sagiri Mountain during the busy and airtight tasks of the Demon Slayer Squad.

He was wearing a black Demon Slayer uniform, with a sun wheel knife hanging from his waist, and his long dark gray hair was tied up in a short bunch at the back of his head.

After greeting Makoto and the master for a while, Tanuki Shinosumi looked at Kuhara Hiiragi at the side, walked over with open arms as if to give him a hug, but said, "Yo! Junior brother, why are you getting shorter? You didn't sleep well. ?"

You grow too fast, be careful of osteoporosis.

Kuhara Hiiragi responded with a friendly uppercut with a straight face.

Immediately afterwards, the two men started fighting at the door in a disorderly manner, beating them until they were ashamed and dizzy.Zhenmo couldn't even persuade him, and finally he was willing to give up when Master Linlong said "Stop! You two idiots!"

"You didn't tell them, did you?" Takinoshin who was lying on the ground asked quietly.

"No." Kuhara Hiiragi who was also lying on the ground replied, thought for a while and said, "Brother."

"what?"

"You are strong."

Takinoshin froze for a few seconds, then smiled.

"of course."

Within a few days, Tanuki no Shin received another mission and had to leave. He will go around doing missions for the Ghost Slayer Squad, and the next time he comes back, it will be the Year of the Monkey.

"I'll leave it to you." He said to Jiuyuan Hiiragi.

Kuhara Hiiragi nodded.

"But stay away from Makoto."

"..."

"After Tanuki left, I always felt that something was missing."

One afternoon, Makoto said so softly as if she was talking to herself.

Kuhara Hiiragi nodded sympathetically.Needless to say he and Master Linlong, Zhenmo is also very quiet.Sagiri Mountain lacked a person who could liven up the atmosphere.

As if to prove his words, within a few days, Master Linlong brought back two more children one after another.The black-haired one is Tomioka Yoshiyuki.Another child with a scar on his face and a rare hair color is called Sato.Both of them are children with great talent for killing ghosts, especially Sato, whose talent in swordsmanship is simply too good.

And in the first few days when he came here, Yiyong was depressed all day long because of the pain of bereavement. Even if Zhenmo and Sato actively talked to him, his dark blue eyes were always dim.

Is it okay to go on like this?Kuhara Hiiragi asked Master Rinaki with his eyes if he needed to do something.

Rinaki Zuo recently said, "This is his own business."

So Kuhara Hiiragi didn't care.

One afternoon, Kuhara Hiiragi came back from cutting firewood on the mountain, and saw two children sitting side by side under the shade of a tree not far away.

Looking up at the sun, the rest time has not yet arrived.So he walked over and wanted to remind the two of them not to stop training, but he heard Yiyong say from a distance: "Sister, she has suffered all her life, she finally met someone she likes, and she is about to get married, but she died protecting me gone."

"Why is it my sister? I don't understand..."

Kuhara Hiiragi stopped in his tracks, he looked at the depressed young man with his head down, and an image flashed in his mind inexplicably.

The moonlight shone into a strange wooden house from the door. He had never seen the surrounding furnishings before, but they were inexplicably familiar, as if he had lived here for many years.

And he seemed to be lying on the ground, in front of him was a pool of blood and flesh, and he could barely see what was once a human corpse.

"Why, mother...why..."

The one in his memory wiped his tears and looked at the corpse, shaking his head as if to deny it all.

——"It would be fine if I was the one who died."

Giyuu who was sitting there said the same thing as the self in memory.

Jiuyuan Hiiragi wanted to recall more about the starting point, but was interrupted by a piercing headache, he had to raise his hands and cover his head to give up thinking.But it's certainly not his memory, whose is it?of this body?

He was adjusting his breath to relieve his headache when he heard a snap.

Looking up, Yoshiyuki Tomioka covered his beaten face blankly, and the hand that Satu waved beside him had not yet dropped.

"Are you a man?"

Saito said to him, looking angry and sad.

"As you said, your sister who was supposed to get married tomorrow died protecting you. Does she want you to regret and blame yourself, and let you immerse yourself in sorrow and end your life hastily?"

"Your sister saved you not to die, but to live!"

"Don't you want to pass on what she entrusted to you?"

Yiyong seemed to be in a daze, the wind from Sawu Mountain quietly blew his hair, and he looked at Sato without making a sound for a long time.

Kuhara Hiiragi was also stunned, Satu's words just now were too forceful, for a moment he even forgot that the person who said those words was just a 12-year-old boy.

Compared with excellent swordsmanship talent, Sato has more precious abilities.

If this world doesn't abandon him, his future must be limitless.Kuhara Hiiragi thought.If he was still in the original world, he would definitely train Satu to become a descendant of Taiwu.

Far away, Taiwu's inheritance has been broken with Xiangshu in his generation, and now there are more important things.

He came out of his hiding place.

"Ah, Senior Brother Jiuyuan..."

"Go to training."

The wooden-faced Kuhara Hiiragi spoke briefly and honestly to the two juniors. In the nervous and guilty eyes of the two, they left as if 'I'm just passing by'.

The next day, looking at the two juniors who were chatting and laughing together for dinner, Makoto asked Kuhara Hiiragi, "How did they make friends?"

Kuhara Hiiragi thought for a while, but really didn't know what to say, so he could only briefly summarize:

"Because Satoshi slapped Yiyong."

"...?"

After a while, relying on the two years of getting along with each other, Zhenzhu suddenly understood what he meant.

"It's amazing, Junior Brother Satu." Makoto said sincerely.

"Yes." Kuhara Hiiragi agreed.

he is great.

He can light up the despairing eyes of others.

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