[Lord Demon Slayer: Hiiragi of Kuhara]

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With a flash of the knife shadow, several deep cracks were drawn on the wall in an instant. The broken masonry and stone walls were scattered on the ground, and the dark red blood mixed with them could be vaguely seen.

The ghost who was dragging the woman into the wall shrank back in pain, a dark mass slid on the wall a few times, and disappeared into the depths of the alley covered by the shadow of the building.

The woman who fell out of the wall fell to the ground. Although she fell into a coma, fortunately she didn't seem to be injured.

This was no ordinary ghost, Satu realized, it could vampire.

Seems to be the ability to sneak into walls.

So he focused his attention on the wall around him, and not long after, he saw some dark, mud-like things oozing from the corner of the wall where sundries were piled up not far away.The mud gathered together to form a dark and vague human figure, which stood up unsteadily.

"It hurts..." the figure said, the voice was like a bubbling swamp, vague and disgusting, "Why do you hinder me?"

In the next second, its head was chopped off.

succeeded?After the blow, Sato regained his footing, but he didn't put away the saber. Looking at the head that fell to the ground, he secretly sensed something was wrong.

The touch from the blade was too light... He didn't cut flesh and blood at all.

The one who was beheaded might not be the ghost body at all.

"Hee hee hee……"

Just as he guessed, the head that fell on the ground moved, and suddenly turned to look at him, a small and sharp laughter like a child came out of his throat, and then it turned into an amorphous mass like mud again .

"Get along well with me, I'm your shadow." After saying that, its body and head that fell to the ground re-infiltrated into the shadow of the ground.

"So that's it. Is the mud-like one the main body?"

His judgment just now was wrong, this ghost's vampire technique is not the ability to sneak into walls.But some kind of ability to turn oneself into a shadow, to merge with other shadows?Sabito was thinking, while still guarding in the posture of holding a knife.

It's tricky, but as long as you find the right position of the main body, you will be able to hit it. The undried blood on the side wall is the best proof.

After confirming this point, Satu calmed down a bit, pointed the tip of the knife at the ground, and focused on distinguishing.

where?Where is the body?

"You are, the one who can't kill me..."

The ghost's voice suddenly sounded in this deep alley, mixed with laughter-like echoes, at first glance it seemed to come from all directions.As its voice fell, Satoshi saw something move.

It is his own shadow.

The slender shadow formed by the light of the street behind him suddenly began to expand and grow larger, it extended suddenly, and finally formed an almost distorted shape on the ground.

"Varied……!"

Even though he took a sudden step back, he found that the shadow was still closely following him, and he hadn't been shaken off at all.

"You can't get rid of me, how can people get rid of the shadow?" Seemingly aware of his thoughts, the shadow cracked a smiling face, "You are the main body, but who said that the shadow can't be bigger than the main body?"

Oops!

Sato's heart skipped a beat, and he slashed at his own shadow, but missed, because the shadow had already circled behind him in an instant, and that was the side facing the light.

"Stay here, stay here."

The feet suddenly sank, and the part where the feet were connected to the calves became mixed with the shadow at some point, and was slowly sinking into the ground.There was also a slender shadow protruding from the ground, tightly wrapped around his scabbard.

He struggled a few times, but couldn't break free.

The shadow figure that just appeared in front of him was indeed a trap.

I can't move my legs, the ghost's body may be behind me, how can I hit it...

"Complete Works, Breath of Wood-Two Types-Wooden Wheel."

A knife light with the shadows of vegetation and trees flashed across, and severed the shadow that was devouring the rabbit on the ground.Bright red blood spattered from the crack, Satu seemed to hear the shadow ghost grunt unwillingly, and then he felt his hands loosen.

The shadow that entangled him disappeared.

At the same time, the feet are sent back to the ground.

"One after another, come to hinder me!" The ghost who re-infiltrated into the ground after being injured whispered unwillingly, "I will not let you go..."

After speaking, it had disappeared into the interlaced shadows of the alley.

Sato turned around with his wrist moving, he was stunned for two seconds, and recognized the expressionless person in front of him as Kuhara Hiiragi whom he hadn't seen for a year.

"Senior Brother Jiuyuan? Why would you..."

"The same mission." Kuhara Hiiragi replied briefly, then sheathed the knife, turned his head to look at the noisy street behind him, "Go to the street. This ghost cannot turn into a shadow in a place where the light is too bright."

After handing over the unconscious woman to the security team, Kuhara Hiiragi began to explain the situation to Satu.

"I came half a day earlier than you." They walked side by side, and their heights were almost the same. "Recently, there have been reports of many pedestrians missing while crossing the alley."

He told Sabito that the ghost's blood ghost technique was to turn himself into a 'shadow'.

Although ghosts in the 'shadow' state can't hurt people, they can't be hurt either.

If someone beheads a ghost in a 'shadow' state, the ghost will sneak into the shadow of the beheader, and the entire shadow will be under the control of the ghost, and the ghost can easily swallow people as long as it sticks out from the shadow.

Kaitu thought deeply, "That is to say, Brother Jiuyuan has already fought against it?"

Kuhara Hiiragi nodded: "I also beheaded the shadow."

"Then how did you escape?"

"It only took away my knife, it didn't control the movement of my arm, so I cracked the ground and forced it out."

Speaking of which, he seemed to think of something, and frowned slightly: "It wanted to turn back into a shadow to restrain me, and then a... a square iron cage drove over from the opposite side, and the light just shone on the ghost, and it turned into a ghost." Return to the body and escape."

Sabito noticed his vague and weird address: "That seems to be called a tram."

"...Oh." Kuhara Hiiragi replied absently, as if he didn't really want to continue the topic, "The main body of the ghost seems to be in the shape of a mass of mud, which can seep into the ground. It moves fast, but is very fragile."

Sabito nodded, this was very similar to the situation he encountered just now.

"Continue to patrol the streets, don't act alone," Kuhara Hiiragi said, "You can rest after dawn. So far, no pedestrians have disappeared during the day."

"Indeed, if ghosts are afraid of light, they are even more unlikely to come out during the day," Sato suggested. "Do you want to borrow a lamp? Maybe it can be used."

Kuhara Hiiragi gave him a puzzled look.

"You hold the lantern, and the ghost will run away when it sees the light."

"I'm not talking about lanterns," Satoshi explained with some embarrassment on his face, not knowing why his senior brother understood the lantern, "it's the kind of portable light that has a switch that can be turned on and off instantly."

"...Is there such a thing?"

"It's available in the village at the foot of Sawu Mountain, so you should be able to borrow it in the city."

As soon as Sato finished speaking, Kuhara Hiiragi seemed to turn into black and white, walking forward stiffly.

"Senior brother, you..."

"I made you laugh, I know that the task should be the most important thing now." Jiuyuan Hiiragi interrupted him.

I just wanted to tell you that there is a car ahead.Sato thought for a while, but withdrew the words that might cause Kuhara Hiiragi to burst, and instead used practical actions to grab his arm so that he would not walk onto the tram track.

The upper echelons of the Ghost Killing Team arranged for themselves to do missions with Brother Jiuyuan, presumably to take care of themselves as a novice.Sato thought, at least the original intention must be like this.

I don't know if they will make the same arrangement if they see the current situation.

At daybreak, Kuhara Hiiragi and Sato followed the letter crow's instructions, found the inn with a wisteria-like curtain hanging at the door, and went in to repair it.

"Yiyu mentioned you to me in the letter." Before going to sleep, Kuhara Hiiragi recalled something, "He said that you killed almost half of the ghosts who attacked the mountain in the final assessment?"

"I wanted to kill the ghosts on the whole mountain in one go, but I was stopped by Yiyong." Sato said helplessly, "That guy was very worried, and said that if I didn't listen, he would knock me out and tie me to a tree. superior."

Satoshi didn't want to listen to it at first, killing ghosts seems to be a matter of course for him, but the righteous courage that day really scared him.

"You've already saved everyone, there's no need to run out alone!" The black-haired and blue-eyed boy firmly grabbed Satu's arm, "If you can't even pass the test, what are you talking about saving people in the future!"

He had never seen such a resolute face of righteousness before.

"He was right."

Sato didn't understand.

"Tengjishan is very big, and it is easy to run out of energy for a long time."

"I know, but if you don't take the initiative to attack, it will be troublesome to be attacked." Sato frowned, "I may not be able to take care of other people at that time, and the situation of Yiyong will be even more dangerous."

Kuhara Hiiragi sighed inwardly.

"Perhaps for him, letting you run out alone is more terrifying than putting himself in danger."

Sabito's light-colored eyes widened, and he opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything in the end.

At dusk, the two borrowed a portable electric light from the hostel, Kuhara Hiiragi hung the light around his waist, and set off again to look for the ghost.

Fire trees and silver flowers never go to the sky, and the city is as bright as a fire tonight. Banners with various advertisements are displayed among the buildings, and the chatter and laughter of men and women can be heard everywhere.

But in this highly developed environment that lacks natural vegetation, Jiuyuan Hiiragi's ability to capture breath is severely restricted. Tokyo Prefecture is a place where fish and dragons are mixed, which makes him feel a serious sense of dislocation.So I can only hand over the task of finding ghosts to Sato.

"I see."

Sato immediately began to concentrate on the investigation, but after a while, he said hesitantly: "There is a ghostly breath...but it is on the street."

Kuhara Hiiragi froze for a moment, looked at the brightly lit street, "Is it the same ghost?"

"Yes."

Kuhara Hiiragi was silent for a while, and said, "Then go and have a look first."

According to his experience in killing ghosts in the past year, such abnormal actions of ghosts are probably traps.But if you don't take the initiative to attack, you will never have a chance to catch the ghost's flaws.

Can only adapt to the circumstances.

They quickly shuttled through the crowd, constantly searching for the figure of the ghost, but they found nothing.

"What's the matter, two boys?"

A man wearing dark gray kimono and glasses saw Kuhara Hiiragi and Sato who were looking around, and walked towards them: "Are you separated from your family? Do you want me to take you to the security team?"

Kuhara Hiiragi looked at him, shook his head and said, "No need, thank you."

"Uh, oh..." The man stared blankly at his overly mature appearance, then smiled again, "If there is anything wrong, you must go to the security team."

Jiuyuan Hiiragi nodded in accordance with his words, and then wanted to call Saito to leave, but found Sato standing there in a daze.

"what happened?"

"Strange," Sato frowned, "the aura of the ghost is obviously very close. It seems to be..."

Following the vague breath, he slowly shifted his gaze to the ground.

Among the intertwined figures, he met a pair of eyes that suddenly opened from the man's shadow.

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The next chapter is Yushiro and Miss Zhushi.

! !Suddenly received the first mine in my life, thanks to the black tea tea, it took a lot of money, I will keep it as a family heirloom (?

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