[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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The room I was in happened to be changed by the vampire technique.After recovering, the boy wearing the wild boar hood had disappeared from sight, and everything that happened just now seemed to be an illusion.

Kuhara Hiiragi looked at the empty corridor, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then put his hand on his forehead somewhat annoyed.

What am I doing.

This kind of behavior of avoiding the same thing, after becoming a phase pivot, does it also deteriorate the xinxing?

He made those ghost parts gradually return to normal human appearance.The kid must have figured out that he had become a ghost, even though he knew it wasn't going to help.

What would he think?You must be angry.

But I have to say that, no matter the level of fighting or the height, Inosuke is no longer the kid he was back then. He even changed into a wild boar headgear that is one size bigger. I don’t know where the king of the mountain was defeated.

...You have grown up, Inosuke.

in places he doesn't know.

Kuhara Hiiragi lowered his head, showing a somewhat sad smile.

……

The seasons turn and never stop.

Even without Kuhara Hiiragi by his side, Zuhira Inosuke's time kept passing.

It’s hard to get along with people, it hurts to bandage his own wounds, no one can let him show off after he comes up with a new move, and those so-called teammates always shout "" The members of the Ghost Slayer Team can't fight privately." In the end, as long as he looked at him, he would be scared out of his wits, with an attitude of avoiding it.

"Hey Kihara, you and I have a fight."

He said so to Flying Bird.

But the product of the mechanism didn't have the function of speaking. It just stood quietly in his palm, tilted its head as if observing something, and finally made a light click of the mechanism, and opened its mouth to spray the cold air on his head.

"Ah, what are you doing! It's just Kihara who wants to teach me a lesson!?"

The flying barge flapped its wings and flew out, leaving Inosuke hopping on the spot.

Kuhara Hiiragi disappeared from his life, but Inosuke knew the way to live. He is not the type who can't live without anyone, so he kept getting stronger and lived well until now, and became a ghost killer through selection .

After that, he has done many missions, but this time he suffered a disadvantage in this ever-changing narrow terrain. After walking around for a long time, he couldn't find the location of the ghost, nor could he find the exit.

The flying barge couldn't leave the sun for a long time, so when he was trapped until the next day, he let him find the exit by himself.

Just forget everything about Kuhara Hiiragi.

It's good to forget, it's just a few short years, the road is still very long, it seems to have no end.

But it doesn't matter if you can't forget it, for example——

"As long as you survive, maybe you will meet again somewhere."

He still remembers this sentence.

And just now, I did hear that familiar figure calling my name.

Although the face he saw for a moment seemed to be that of a ghost, he still recognized the person.

but……

Zuhira Inosuke looked at the empty room in front of him that had changed under the effect of the blood ghost technique, and unconsciously exerted force on the door frame, almost breaking a piece of wood.

What does 'don't come over' mean! ?

He was angry.

This rage lasted until the Oni in the house was slain, and didn't stop until he left the building, so when confronted by Tanjiro who was blocking the box behind him, he just drew his sword.

"The thing in that box is a ghost!"

"Hey! Monster!?"

My wife Zenitsu was taken aback, Inosuke ignored him, pointed at the box next to Tanjiro and said, "Why are you keeping the ghost behind you, brat?"

"Please listen to my explanation. Although it is a ghost, it is my sister inside!"

"I don't care who you are! If you dare to stop me, I will beat you together!"

Saying that, Inosuke put down his knife and rushed directly towards Tanjirou.

"Among the team members..."

"I've heard the saying that members of the ghost killing team can't fight in private countless times. You don't need a knife to do it. You asked for it this time!"

Saying that he punched him, Tanjiro had no choice but to ask Zenitsu to protect the box containing Nezuko, and he and Inosuke fought.

After observing for a while, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.

what happened?

Although this person's attack seems random at first glance, Tanjirou always feels that he has seen it somewhere between his moves.

He suddenly remembered something and opened his eyes slightly.

"Don't you...!"

The man in the wild boar hood had no intention of communicating with him at all, and kept attacking him, leaving him no chance to ask questions.

Breath of anger?

Tanjiro showed a puzzled expression. This person seemed to have been in a state of anger since just now, but he had no idea why.

"Get out of the way for me! Otherwise, I will stab you too!"

"Please calm down!"

The voice was accompanied by a head hammer that slammed down and hit the wild boar's headgear with a bang.

After Shanyi screamed next to him, the world fell silent.

……

When Kuhara Hiiragi came out from the door, what he saw were Tanjiro and Zenitsu who were burying the dead, and Inosuke lying unconscious on the ground with his headgear off.

"Ahhh!" My wife Zenitsu jumped up when she saw him, "Tanjiro! I said Tanjiro! He actually..."

"Oh yes, I forgot to tell Zenitsu, in fact Mr. Hiiragi is not a human being," Tanjiro smiled at him soothingly, "But he doesn't attack people and is not afraid of sunlight, Zenitsu doesn't need to be afraid of him."

"You know..." The blond boy rubbed his hair frantically, "What's the matter with you!? You're not afraid of the sun and you're packed in a box with so many strange things. Oni! I think you’ll be called Onijirou! ...Wait, maybe you’re also an oni!” With such a hard head, it’s not human at all.

Tanjiro looked serious: "I am human."

"Yes! Sorry!"

"What happened?" Kuhara Hiiragi looked at the golden haori that covered my wife Zenitsu on the ground, Zuhira Inosuke who seemed to have passed out.

"Mr. Hiiragi, it's great that you're safe and well." Tanjiro Kamado waved at him with a smile, "This man is Zuhiira Inosuke, who just got a headbutt from me and now fainted. Please rest assured that there is no life-threatening, and you will wake up after a while."

"...That's it."

You can probably guess what happened.After a moment of silence, Kuhara Hiiragi walked to Inosuke, sat down and checked the swollen wound on his forehead.

Even if Tanjiro said that his life was not in danger, he was still not at ease, after all, it was a head hammer that beat the ghost to pieces.

Fortunately, it seems that there is really no big problem. After realizing this, Kuhara Hiiragi breathed a sigh of relief, and slightly tucked up the haori on his body.

Feeling the breath of nostalgia in the air, Tanjiro looked at Kuhara Hiiragi with some doubts.

"Do you know him?"

Kuhara Hiiragi nodded: "I taught him for a while before."

"Is Inosuke the apprentice you mentioned in Sagiri Mountain?" Tanjiro was stunned, "I see, you are his master, no wonder his way of attack looks familiar."

"...It can only be said that it used to be." Jiuyuan Hiiragi sighed, "I took him out of the mountains and taught him some exercises. But when I became a ghost three years ago, I was no longer His master."

He left Inosuke behind, and really didn't think he had any qualifications to call himself his master.

And the kid probably doesn't need him now.

What he should care about is how to turn back into a human being, how to kill ghosts more effectively, how to find the positions of those winding ghost moons and ghost kings, and end all of this.Compared with these goals, even if Inosuke hates him, wants to kill him, and never becomes a stranger to him, it should be a secondary matter.

That's how it should be.

——If you want to escape, there are always many excuses.

"Tanjiro, I'll leave before Inosuke wakes up, and I'll leave it to you guys after that."

"Eh?"

"He has already discovered that I am a ghost." Kuhara Hiiragi stood up after speaking, patted the dust on the haori, turned around and wanted to leave, "I will come to him again when I transform back into a human being."

With Tanjirou and Zenitsu around, there shouldn't be any worries.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Hiiragi!"

Kuhara Hiiragi turned his head and saw Tanjiro with a serious face, "What's wrong?"

"You just said that you took Inosuke out of the mountains?"

"Ah."

"Although I don't know what happened, maybe you didn't mean to leave him three years ago, but can't you have a good talk this time? If you just leave like this..."

Tanjiro hesitated for a moment, and finally looked at him with clear and firm eyes.

"I think this is too cruel for Inosuke!"

"...!"

"Are you actually worried about that wild boar?" My wife Zenitsu stared at Tanjiro with wide eyes, and poked his forehead that was still unscathed after he knocked people unconscious, "I said you are too kind. ! He almost pierced your box just now!"

"But Shanyi must think so too, right?"

"This, I..."

"Because Zenitsu is a good person," Tanjiro pointed to his nose, "I have a good nose, so I can know."

"No, no, stop joking, even if you say such kind words, I will..."

Kuhara Hiiragi didn't hear what Tanjiro and Zenitsu said next, he just turned around and looked at Inosuke who had passed out on the ground, and was stunned for a while.

"What am I doing?" He murmured.

Yes, as Tanjiro said, cruelty is too much.

If he hadn't brought this child out of the mountain to train him in order to teach Taiwu's skills, Inosuke would still be his king of the mountain in peace and security, only knowing how to compare strength with animals every day without any worries.

Although none of them are good at expressing emotions, they did make Inosuke get used to getting along with others.Let him get used to it, and left him again, and now he wants to leave him again because of his inner timidity.

Giving people hope and then breaking it, that kind of pain...

Kuhara Hiiragi clenched his fists.

Such pain, I should be very clear about it.

I am sorry.

Those memories of looking at the moon in the bamboo hut are really dusted, the past is gone forever, and the person who made you the flying barge has become this inhuman appearance out of his own choice.

Kuhara Hiiragi never regretted being a phase pivot.

but.

"I'm really sorry for leaving you..."

When Zuihei Inosuke woke up, this was what he heard.

He saw that the man looked exactly the same as three years ago, holding a broken flying barge in his hand, sitting in the sun, beside him, his eyes were a little bewildered.

"...Kihara?"

"it's me."

say no more.Reason is persuading him.

Inosuke has nothing to do with you, you should have thought about this ending when you left him.

Return the things to him and settle the matter from now on. Where is your determination to fight alone?

But when the words came to his lips, they became——

"I'll fix it as soon as possible."

Everything is by chance.

Like a dream in the afternoon sun.

The author has something to say:

So Inosuke lay back down.

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