[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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"Since the opening of the sky and the earth, it has been thousands of feet longer. Raise your glass and smile at the sky, and the sky will return to the sun."

What kind of song it is, I can't say it, but just hearing that solemn and grand tune, it seems that I have touched the way of heaven and earth, the principle of ups and downs, and my heart trembles.

Where the boundless zither sound resounded, even the black mist stopped spreading, and it seemed to shrink back as if it had noticed something, and even had a faint tendency to shrink inward.

……

In all the confusion, the past is the Nanke.

"Shi'an, what did you stuff in your bag again?"

Messy ingredients, statues of unknown meaning, even tree seeds and feathers.

The descendant of Taiwu who was arranging the luggage on the horse frowned, took out one inexplicable thing after another, packed them all up and threw them on the ground.

"I bought it from a place where merchants gather." Not far behind him, a young man in a light-colored brocade shirt smiled, "Don't throw it away, it might come in handy sometime."

Even though he said that, he didn't intend to stop Taiwu at all, and seemed to be fresh about his different expression now.

"The load is limited. If you pack too much, it will affect your journey." Taiwu said righteously, and suddenly looked into the depths of the luggage with doubts, and took out a black object, "This is...?"

"Ah, did you find out?" Shi An replied, "This is the Moyu Weaving Jar I saw from Gongshufang. I just want to give you some gifts for the Chinese New Year. Are you very touched?"

"That's it."

Taiwu thought for a while, then silently walked towards the waterfall beside the deep bamboo path in Baihua Valley, and raised his hand.

"Wait a minute, don't throw it!" The friend took two steps forward and hugged his waist from behind, but was still dragged forward under Taiwu's firm steps, "Okay, okay, I was wrong , I know you don’t have time to play with Zhizhi, it’s my fault! Don’t throw it away, can you!”

"I appreciate your kindness, but the space in the luggage is limited. Instead of packing such useless things, it is better to pack an extra bottle of wound medicine."

"Okay, I understand! If you don't want it, just return it to me, at least don't throw it away!"

Only then did Taiwu stop, and when Shi An saw this, he hurried forward to rescue the woven pot, and held it in his hand with distress.

"Oh, you are the yellow cabbage in the field."

"..."

"Let's not play with him anymore, let this kind of heartless bastard stay alone."

"...bye then."

"Don't, don't, don't go!"

Listening to the noisy voices from far and near behind him, Taiwu Hiiragi sighed in his heart for the countless times.

Back in Jiangling, when he met Shi An who was hunted down by the Xuannv faction, he used Taiwu's kindness to eliminate the disaster for this guy on a whim, but he didn't expect to be entangled since then, and he has been entangled for several years.

"I don't understand." On a night with a bonfire, he once asked, "You obviously hate fighting, why do you still follow me?"

In this world, there is probably no one who has to face more battles than Taiwu.

Shi An, who was adjusting the strings next to him, said "huh?" Then he looked at him in shock: "You think I'm annoying?"

"I……"

"How dare you despise the disciple of Baihua Valley who is the best piano player in the world?"

Taiwu was stunned for a moment, thinking in his heart how could there be such a thick-skinned person in this world, but he still replied indifferently: "No."

The warm light of the campfire danced, reflecting his profile.

"That's it." Shi An smiled, and looked down at Qin Xian again, "If you don't drive me away, I will follow."

"You will die."

"I will follow you after death."

"……you're disgusting."

"Hey!!"

Seeing Shi'an jumping anxiously, Taiwu finally couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

They climbed over the mountains of Gyeonggi together, passed through the cloud-shrouded Zhanlu with endless springs, and Wudang with beautiful mountains and rivers. The wind of Mount Emei blew across their cheeks with the breath of vegetation.

Yes, not all pain.

Even in the most difficult situation, there is support.

"It turned out that it has been a thousand years, but I was saved by you."

In the darkness, Kuhara Hiiragi's mind slowly recovered, and the black mist gradually retracted into the haori along with the sound of the piano. He looked at the blurred figure in front of him and smiled helplessly.

"How on earth did you do it?"

"I don't know, maybe it's because I'm so talented that people can't help but pass on my songs from generation to generation."

"..."

"I'm just joking," Shi An shrugged, "Actually, I put the piano score in a weaving jar and buried it in Bailuze. I didn't expect that someone would actually dig it out."

"You actually buried the things you wanted to give me in the soil?"

"Didn't you want it? A good horse never turns back."

Kuhara Hiiragi laughed, "...It's been so many years, you really haven't changed at all."

"Ah, after all, I went to the underworld a thousand years ago." Shi An smiled helplessly, "What is here is just a shadow of the past, and this shadow will never change, I'm sorry that I still bore you like this stay."

Hearing this, Kuhara Hiiragi couldn't help being silent.

"I'm sorry," he said.

If I was born in a normal world, I also want to get along well with you.

I want to catch and weave in the sound of insects in autumn, I want to sit on the low wall and watch the moon, and I want to go to the deep bamboo path of Baihua Valley in Guizhou to see the rumored white elk.

If you don't want to do anything, just listen to your piano and fall asleep.

"Of course, you can sleep if you want."

Shi An smiled at him.

"Heaven, earth, life, death—I will tell you all about it, so now dream sweetly."

"It's just that after waking up, you have to face tomorrow soberly. I respect your choice, but don't succumb to the evil spirit of Xiangshu and lose yourself again."

……

The strings snapped suddenly.

After the song was over, the geisha hugged her banjo and silently looked at the gradually clear horizon.

Ah, how many years have you not seen such a scenery?

Her thin figure faltered, and then fell into a gentle embrace.

"Thank you." Makoto said.

Qingjiao returned a faint smile, her figure gradually disintegrated in the sunlight, she took out something hidden in her bosom, and handed it to Zhenmu.

"You... put it away..."

Those were a few broken and yellowed piano scores, but the incomplete parts had been completed by her in her long life.

"Don't... bury it any longer..."

Zhenmo took the sheet music and nodded solemnly.

"I see."

The clear corners turned into ashes, and in a haze, she saw a young man in a brocade shirt, nodding slightly to herself.

"You play this Tiandixiao really well." He approved of Qingjiao's piano piece, "But my piano score has ruined your whole life. Thinking of this, I really can't apologize."

Hearing this, Qing Jiao shook his head.

"You didn't... harm me..."

Instead, your sheet music gave me everything.

Let me meet a friend who is a bosom friend, let me finally finish playing this piece and learn its name.

Even this ending of Dissipate in the Sun is the same.

I have been extremely happy.

……

When he opened his eyes again, Kuhara Hiiragi saw Yoshihara in ruins under the early morning light.

"By the way, we have to collect the blood of the winding ghost..."

He thought of Tanjiro's commission not long ago, but now let alone the brothers and sisters of Kamizuru Riku, there is no ghost except himself in a radius of dozens of miles.

Kuhara Hiiragi lay back helplessly.

He felt very tired, as if he had had a long dream, a dull and common, autumn morning dream.

Someone walked over with tired steps and sat down not far away.

"The ghost in the land of the string has... been resolved." Jiuyuan Hiiragi felt that he hadn't woken up yet, and said in a daze, "I didn't swallow... other cores... so the casualties?"

"Two people were injured by the collapsed building," Saitu replied, "Although it was a very slight injury, I will ask you to apologize later."

"……Feel sorry."

"You almost dragged people into the black mist, thanks to the ghost who played the piano."

Kuhara Hiiragi closed his eyes again, heaving a sigh of relief.

"A Hiiragi."

"Ah."

"Who is Shi An?"

...?

The remaining drowsiness disappeared, Kuhara Hiiragi froze, and turned to look at Satu who was sitting not far away.

"...that was a friend."

"I see," Sato nodded, and asked again, "Where is the Valley of Flowers? You seem to be familiar with that place."

"...It's a place in my hometown."

"Oh, what about Zhujian Villa, Chichuang Island and Mount Hao?"

How much did I talk in my sleep?Kuhara Hiiragi wanted to strangle himself to death just now.

"It's... many places in my hometown."

Satoshi turned his head to look at him, and was about to say something when he suddenly heard a voice from the other side.

"It's great, I defeated the ghost of Shangxian, even though it's only Lu."

Iguro Hanai, who came to support, stood on the eaves that were still intact, looked down at the two people on the ruins, and then stared at Kuhara Hiiragi with those different-colored pupils.

"I've already heard what Mako said about the situation. After killing the ghost of Kamizuru, you made Yoshiwara like this. It's really your fault."

"..."

"Why are you still lying there? You are obviously a ghost, and you still want to wait for the hermit to carry it?" He finished speaking with a bad expression, and then looked at Sato, "They say you are the strongest in the column, but It didn’t come in handy this time, it’s really depraved.”

"..."

Really poisonous.

The two thought in unison.

……

After all the dust settled, several people returned to the headquarters and reported the mission to Yoya Yashiki.

"You said that Xiangshu lost control this time?"

"Yes." Kuhara Hiiragi lowered his head guiltily, "I'm very sorry, but I have already developed resistance to Taiwu's blood, and this situation will never happen again."

Yashiki Yoya, who was sitting on the couch, nodded. Although he was terminally ill and unable to stand up, he seemed far happier than usual because he killed the ghost of the string without causing any casualties.

After a brief conversation, they were let go.

"Hiragi, if you're looking for Inosuke, he's not at the headquarters right now."

Before leaving, the lord said so.

Kuhara Hiiragi stopped to go to the Butterfly House to find someone, and looked at Yoya Masanyashiki with a questioning gaze.

"He, Zaomen Tanjiro, and my wife Zenitsu have rushed to the Infinity Train today to carry out the mission with Yanzhu Purgatory Kyojuro." The lord said, "I wanted to stop him at first, but his attitude in the past was very firm. .

"The infinite train departs at night, you should pass now, there should be still time."

The author has something to say:

Pig blitz, off to the infinite train x

There should be no big problem with the timeline. The wives of the original Usui have been lurking for a long time. I remember that Tanjiro and the others trained desperately for three or four months after the Infinity Train.

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