[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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"This is really strange, don't you think?"

In the room, a small voice that did not resemble a human echoed.

"Mixu, Chuhe, and Suma who was by your side were redeemed and left at almost the same time not long ago."

"Their identities... Forget it, it's up to you to know."

"But you are the only one who can't leave. You are so beautiful, you are worthy of being eaten by me." Speaking of this, a certain voice echoing in the room suddenly became harsh and cold, like a snake entrenched in the corner, "So stay here and don't think about running away with anyone, so that you can live for a while. Otherwise, I will kill everyone in the house at this time, and then smash your internal organs, understand? "

After a while, the beautiful oiran with a pale face who was sitting in the room spoke wearily:

"I……"

"Li Xia Hua Kui, Li Xia Hua Kui!" A girl's call came from outside the house suddenly, "Who are you talking to? I seem to hear a voice."

The tense atmosphere in the room disappeared instantly, and even the lights were turned on.

Li Xia Huakui was stunned by this sudden change, she raised her eyes and looked at the empty room in a daze for a while, then realized that the voice had gone away, like a nightmare.

"Oiran?"

"No one's here, come in," Li Xia said softly, and hurriedly raised her hand in front of the mirror to straighten her ebony-like hair, then she turned her head and forced a smile on her face, "Come find me What's the matter? Want to eat snacks again?"

"Eat, eat!" The little girl in charge of the handyman immediately approached Li Xia skillfully, holding her arm and preparing to act like a spoiled child, but suddenly noticed Li Xia's tired expression, "Oiran, are you okay? Do you want to?" Ask a doctor? I'll go and tell the proprietress for you."

"I'm fine." Li Xia smiled gently, opened the small bag containing snacks, and put a few candy balls in the girl's hands, "It's just that I'm really... a little tired these days, just take a rest."

Before the girl who took the sugar ball left, she finally remembered the business, "By the way, the proprietress asked me to ask, are you still unwilling to meet Miki Hideharuka-sama? He is also here today, and it is already the eighth time this month." .”

Hearing this name, Li Xia's smile suddenly became a little more sad.

"Sure enough, you like him very much, right?" the little girl said, "Why don't you want to meet him?"

"Don't mention this again," Li Xiaban closed his eyes, hiding the sadness inside, "It's getting late, go and do other things, I don't need to worry about it here."

"I understand, then you should go to bed early."

Seeing that Li Xia really didn't want to continue talking, the girl stopped being coquettish and left obediently.

As the door snapped shut, that breathless feeling of being watched seemed to come back again.

So after sitting for a while, Li Xia got up and opened the window, and the cool evening breeze came in, making her seem more relaxed.

There is a bright moon in the sky.

Lord God.She prayed in her heart, please let Lord Xiuyao forget me.

I have been stared at by that weird thing, and I am destined to wither in this cage like a rotten flower.After burning, after being reduced to ashes, there will be nothing left of me, nor will anyone remember it.

But I can't drag Mr. Xiuyao, he still has a lot to do, and he has a vision for the future.In this Yoshiwara, parting is nothing more than normal, so let the figure in gorgeous clothes that was branded in his eyes that day be his last memory of me.

Li Xia was so sad that she almost shed tears.

"Master Xiuyao..."

At this moment, she suddenly met a pair of eyes from the window that made her miss her day and night.

"Li Xia!"

It was Miki Hideharuka who was being carried by someone and came directly to the window.

"what?"

This is the second floor, Lixia Huakui took two steps back, took a short breath, and almost fell backwards, but then she was pulled and fell into a warm and generous embrace.

"Master Xiuyao?"

No, that thing is still in the room, so this person has to leave quickly.

"Master Xiuyao, please don't contact me again..." There is no connection.

"Don't be afraid, Li Xia, I'm here," the man in brocade clothes was holding Li Xia's shoulder with trembling hands, "Why don't you want to see me? If it's an illness, I'll find the best doctor to heal you. No matter what the difficulty is, as long as you nod your head, I will... be rude, now is not the time to talk about these things, what happened?"

Li Xia couldn't help being stunned, and when she finally came to her senses, she could only huddle in Miki Hideyao's arms while blushing, listening to her own heartbeat.

I couldn't say anything, only tears welled up in my eyes.

So safe, so warm, even if you die now, you won't be afraid.

Am I dreaming?she thinks.

"Be quiet first, there is something in the house."

Hearing another strange voice, Li Xia came back to her senses and noticed that there was another person standing by the window.

He was dressed in white feathers. Although there was a scar on his face, it couldn't conceal his awe-inspiring demeanor. He was holding a knife and focused on guarding around the room.

"you are?"

The man didn't answer her, but pulled out the knife neatly, and cut off a certain ceiling of the attic at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

The azure blue blade fell, and a section of the luxurious belt fell to the ground. Blood oozes from the severed knife edge, wriggling a few times like an earthworm, and then stopped moving.

Li Xiahuakui covered her lips to suppress the exclamation that almost blurted out, and Miki Hideharuka also opened her eyes wide.

"I'll explain later," the swordsman said, leaning half of his body out of the window again, "Mimu, take her downstairs to the room with the lights on first, there are people there who can protect you."

After speaking, his figure disappeared in front of the two of them.

what on earth is it?Li Xia questioned Miki Hideharuka with his eyes, but the latter just stood up, holding Li Xia's hand gently but firmly.

"Go downstairs and I'll explain it to you."

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In the bell room, the hustle and bustle just now has ended, leaving only a few lingering lingering sounds, and the hazy, desolate, quiet and clear sound of the piano coming from the closed room.

"I heard it's the new guest, now I'm going to listen to Miss Qingjiao playing the piano." Someone was chatting when passing by.

"Really? But her kind of music can't attract guests at all. People who have heard her play the piano before have never looked back. Can't she listen to the proprietress and play some music that can please the guests?"

"Let's go quickly, I don't want to be scolded with her."

Those chatting outside the house are naturally inaudible to the people inside.

The blind geisha played the piano with her hands down. Her posture was not as graceful as Baiyin's, and her fingers were not as beautiful as the well-known oiran.The tunes she plays are even less interesting, neither the melodious sounds played by ordinary geisha according to the scores, nor the gorgeous and captivating piano skills like Baiyin Huakuan.

It's an extremely plain, almost clumsy tone.

After playing, there was only silence in the room.

"Your violin looks very strange," said the handsome young man, looking at the violin in front of Qingjiao. "There are only five strings, and the scars on the violin are like eyes."

"This piano... ghost-eyed five strings..."

Makoto froze for a moment, then couldn't help but chuckle.

"Why... why are you laughing?"

"Because Miss Qingjiao finally talked to me." She narrowed her eyes, "Before you played the piano just now, you were unwilling to speak."

Qingjiao was stunned for a moment. It is not uncommon for guests to be very curious about blind geisha, but the young man in front of him seems to be a little different.

"Could you please play another song? It's impolite to say so, but I always felt that you seemed to be trying to deal with me with the song just now."

The slender geisha paused for a moment, but she didn't mean to apologize for being pierced. Instead, she said, "But the piece I'm playing next...you might not like it."

No one likes that kind of tune, everyone likes a more joyful, more gorgeous sound.

Makoto didn't speak, just kept watching Qingjiao with a slight smile.

So the geisha straightened up and played the first note.

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Under the moonlight, Sabito was moving rapidly on the roof of Yoshiwara.

When I cut off the belt just now, I could clearly feel some small movements in the gaps in the attic. Now as long as I follow the faint traces all the way, I might be able to find the hidden ghost.

Before, he stopped Miki Hideharu, who was acting suspiciously, on the street, and learned from the other party about the abnormal behavior of Lixia Oiran who stayed behind closed doors recently.

"You are the bodyguard of Shirenya, can you find out what happened to Oiran Li Xia for me? I will pay you."

"You misunderstood, I'm not a bodyguard." Sato said, looking upstairs at Oiran Lixia's room, "But I happen to have some things to investigate... Since you're worried about her, then go and see her directly ?”

"Huh?" Miki Hideharu was stunned, "So didn't I say that? She refused to see..."

Then, he was led directly up to the second floor by Satu with a dignified face.

Judging by the oiran's reaction, she was indeed threatened by a ghost.Sato thought, finally got a clue, now he just needs to hurry up and follow the trail of the ghost——

He was thinking this way, but suddenly without warning, not only the aura he just chased, but also the ghost aura disappeared in the entire Yoshihara.

what happened?

Sabito stopped, frowned and looked around, his silver eyes only reflected the lights of Yoshihara, without any ghost.

"Damn..."

The trail is broken.

There was no other way, he could only withdraw the knife for the time being, then turned around and returned to Shi Ren's house.

"Have you found it?" Kuhara Hiiragi, who was sitting at the end of the room, asked.

"It ran away, probably the ghost responsible for hiding used the blood ghost technique." Said Usagi, looking at Lixia and Miki Hideharuka at the other end of the room, "If you have any clues about that belt, how about it?" Please let me know."

Kuhara Hiiragi had already briefly explained to those two people about the oni and the Demon Slayer Squad just now, so they didn't seem too dazed when faced with Satu's question at this time.

"That belt... entered my room among the presents it gave me." Li Xia Huakui recalled with a worried expression on her face, "At that time, I just thought that someone sent the fabric, but as soon as I picked it up, it was thrown into my room." I wrapped my mouth, and then the monster started talking to me...threatening me not to leave Yoshiwara."

Miki Hideharuka next to her patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.

"Who sent it, do you have a clue?" Kuhara Hiiragi asked, "Or any possible source of the belt, please tell us."

Li Xia shook her head, "I don't know, but that belt looks familiar... I seem to have seen it on Warahime Oiran of Kyogoku House, maybe she has also been threatened."

Kyogokuya...

In the direction I was chasing just now, Kyogokuya was indeed on that road.

Thinking of this, the rusty-haired swordsman showed a dazed expression: "Although the two ghosts are cooperating, they don't have the means to communicate with each other in time...it really helps a lot."

"You seem to have an idea?" Kuhara Hiiragi asked Saito.

"Since the other party gave Lixia Huakui the belt as a gift, we will return it with a big gift."

"Return one? Return what?"

Sabito didn't answer, just looked at him quietly.

Kuhara Hiiragi: "?"

The author has something to say:

Qingjiao is really not Mingnu, Mingnu plays the pipa and Qingjiao plays the banjo.

Her blood ghost technique and strength are weak in a sense (anyway, everyone guesses that she is a ghost, so it’s not a spoiler x),

The origin will be explained later, and it has something to do with Taiwu scrolls.

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