Salvation equals death

Qingzhu of the Demon Slayer Squad is a swordsman who is eager to protect those around him.

Whether it is the immature Zenitsu, Inosuke, Tanjiro, or Muichiro who has become a pillar after two months of holding a sword with extraordinary talent, and even more Yashiki Yoya, they can all feel the guardian heart of the silver-haired girl.

It's like a lonely knight who is used to fighting alone, but treats the people standing behind him as his own people.

"Children should enjoy the sunshine and rain, hold candy and flowers in their hands, and decide what kind of person they want to be and what kind of person they don't want to be in the future, instead of being forced to make sacrifices at the most innocent age."

"Cry loudly if you are in pain, and laugh loudly when you are happy. If you can't even do this, then what do we adults do?"

She would stroke the heads of those young and orphaned members of the Ghost Killing Squad with an expression that could not be described in words, perhaps what could be called tenderness, and gently praised: "Good boy, you have worked very hard. "

When Wuichiro saw his dead brother Ichiro for the first time, he was scolded by his poisonous brother. At that time, Wuichiro was also scolded to the point of tears, choked up and said: "I have worked hard, you Won't you praise me?"

...Yeah, those who struggled desperately to survive may only expect others to say "Thanks for your hard work" to them gently.

Tanjiro didn't know what happened to others, but the first time he was touched on the head by a girl who was a few years older than himself, he couldn't hold back and lay down on the ground crying loudly almost instantly.

If I'm not the eldest son... Maybe I don't need to force myself to be strong.

If I wasn't my brother... maybe I could allow myself to be vulnerable.

If, if... the person who died in that snowy night was him, wouldn't he be so sad?

——But no, I have to be a role model in front of my younger sister Mizuko.

"Only those who have support can be called 'pillars'."

Tomioka Yoshiyuki once said that, he has changed a lot, everyone has changed a lot, and they are becoming more and more gentle.

"Miss Hanamizu, what do you think... what will the future look like?" Tanjiro asked blankly with the sound of birds outside the window, holding a cup of hot tea.

"The future..."

The silver-haired girl took a sip of her tea and smiled slightly.

"Children can grow up healthy and carefree. Teenagers at your age don't need to worry about their lives being in danger. The only thing they need to worry about is their schoolwork and the relationship between relatives and friends..."

She paints a picture of a future filled with sunshine and rain.

"Will there be such a day?"

"There must be."

……

"Damn it!" Wu Mi's arms turned into soft whips like thorns, and they kept pulling towards the figure of the light in the house, but the brows were already filled with anxiety, "Ming Nu! What are you doing!"

The clank of the shamisen kept ringing, urgent and heavy, obviously the performers couldn’t calm down, and as the tune changed, the layout of the room kept changing, and a door appeared on the floor inexplicably, or Suddenly there was an extra window on the wall where the strength was borrowed, and the figure who turned into light was about to fall into the danger set by Naruto several times, but he avoided it dangerously and dangerously.

Vera's expression is cold and solemn, her sword is like lightning, and she is like a knife attached to the bone, chasing Wu Mi's lifeline, never leaving, but she has to dodge all kinds of traps set by Naruto, and at the same time attack Wu Mi, It was a bit difficult to deal with for a while.

"Isn't it okay to die obediently?" She turned cold-faced completely, raised the blade high and slashed down, her steps were like a fright, like a flash.

Wu Mi gritted his teeth, seeing the ghostly figure of the other party approaching, but he was exhausted to resist because of his serious injuries, but the drug that Zhu Shi injected into his body that can turn ghosts into people is gradually taking effect...

Can't delay any longer!

Wu Mi made a decisive decision and cut off his own arm. The thorn-like soft whip instantly turned into a piece of fleshy paste, sticking the silver-haired girl who had cut off his arm to the wall.

"Ming Nu!" Wu Mi yelled in his mind, Ming Nu immediately opened a door under his feet, and a heavy wooden door appeared beside Vera who was restrained, and the wooden door was mixed with the weight of Wanjun. With force, he slammed towards her fiercely.

Naruto, who was sitting high on the tower, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She can only control the spatial layout of Infinite City, but it's not impossible to use various decorations in the room to kill people...

"Boom!" There was only a loud noise, and Naruto couldn't help feeling terrified, and couldn't help but use her visual blood ghost technique to check the movement, only to find that the silver-haired girl kicked on the deadly door, enough to kill her. The palm-thick wooden door was kicked in half, and smashed at Wu Mi with a terrifying force.

God!Naruto was almost unable to hold the shamisen in her arms. She watched the girl's seemingly tender hands get stuck on Wu Mi's broken arm that looked like a piece of meat, and forcibly pulled the huge broken arm from the ground. The body was torn off.

Naruto couldn't help shivering, she felt a silent madness filling the girl's body, just like the grand fireworks before it shattered.

Wu Mi received a blow, but she didn't fight back. Instead, she took advantage of the gap to escape quickly. Naruto didn't have time to think about it, and repeatedly plucked the strings to move Wu Mi as far away as possible.

So, where are we going to throw this ghostly girl?Naruto couldn't think of it.

Qingzhu bears the power of the scorching sun, even Wu Mi only dares to fight her head-on after devouring Mi Douzi's blood, and Shangxian Ertongmo died under the blood of this woman.

For ghosts, this woman is not an excellent blood food like other pillars, she cannot be killed or eaten, it is really very tricky.

If you can't kill Qingzhu, you can only keep her lost. Naruto keeps changing the route of Qingzhu, and at the same time leads Fengxiayan Sanzhu to the position of Shangxian and Hei Shimou.

Just divide and kill several Zhu, and finally gather the power of the twelve ghost moons to kill Qing Zhu, and wait for Wu Mi to dissolve the antidote and break out of the cocoon.

Naruto and Wu Mi planned very well, but their eyes were all attracted by the brilliant Qingzhu, and they forgot about the seemingly weak but endless bottom forces of the Ghost Slayer Squad.

"Have you finished drawing yet?"

"not yet."

Ubuyashiki Teriya sat kneeling indoors, with a psychic talisman on his forehead, through which he could overlook the entire map of Infinity City. Yuya directs the actions of the members of the Demon Slayer Squad. If Onimai Tsuji uses Naruko to control the location of Infinity City, then Yuya Ubuyashiki will overthrow her control.

Behind Ubuyashiki Teriya, the two little princesses of the Ubayashiki family, Hikata and Hanna, assisting their elder brother Teriya, drawing the map of Infinity City with immature hands.

The youngest maternity house Shiki Higata thought of her dead parents and two older sisters, and tears gradually blurred her vision. Her throat was choked up, and she couldn't hold back a sob, but she heard her brother's cold voice coming from the front.

"Don't stop." Hui Lizai didn't turn his head back, and his immature back already had a bit of his father's demeanor, "You can cry, but you can't stop your hands... If you stop, you lose."

——They bear the hope of everyone in the Ghost Slayer Squad.

The retired Umo Tengen and Butterfly Ninja return to the Ghost Killing Squad to guard the still immature Patriarch, along with Purgatory Kyojurou's father Purgatory Makijuro.

The immature head of the family was ordered in the face of danger. Although he was only eight years old, he had already shouldered the inherent responsibilities. At this age when he was supposed to be happy at the knees of his parents, he had learned to bury the pain of bereavement deeply in his heart.

"Ghost Dance Tsuji Wu Mi." Butterfly looked at the three children who didn't even dare to cry, with no smile on their faces, and couldn't help clenching their hands on their knees, only feeling the bitter hatred hidden in their hearts, "Please , please go to hell—"

"Quack! Southeast! Southeast!" Vera's crow flew in mid-air to show her the way, but now that she was full of hatred, Naruto almost threw all the traps and obstacles on her.

"Wu Mi is in the center of the city! Let all members of the Ghost Killing Squad enter the center." Hui Lizai ordered without hesitation, and this order was also transmitted to Vera's ears through the crow.

Can't!Vera's pupils shrank suddenly. She had fought against Wu Mi, and she knew very well that if it wasn't for the pillar with the markings turned on, it was basically to deliver food to Wu Mi. The crowd tactics would not work here.

Once Wu Mian gets a large amount of blood food, his injuries will recover quickly, and when he returns to his peak, he may cause countless casualties.

Did Hui Lizai miscalculate Wu Mi's strength?Or did he think he could kill him while he was sick?What about fear of future troubles?

Vera looked up at the crows that had been following her in the sky, one of which was painted with a spell drawn by Jushi's assistant Yushiro with blood ghost art, and could share the vision with Teriya.

Vera raised her head, opened her mouth, and said a word silently: "Calm. Calm, don't. Do. Impulse. Move—"

Hui Lizai is still too young after all. The pain of bereavement and the urgency to complete the family mission made him ignore a very important clue——

Why can no pillar reach Wu Mi's side?On the contrary, the members of the other Ghost Killing Squads were able to rush to Wu Mi's location one after another?

There is only one answer, because those people are the blood food prepared by Ming female generals for Wu Mi.

The most urgent thing is time.

When Vera was running towards the center, she suddenly felt a sudden pain in her heart, as if hit by a heavy hammer, and then her throat was sweet.

Yes, there is no time left.

Over the past year, the blood that killed the string and the paint that painted the Curse of Light was all Vera's blood—the blood of God is the source of power, and she has long since run out of fuel and her soul is exhausted.

"Why now?" Vera was feeling agitated rarely, but she couldn't show it. Both Miyashiki and his wife died, and she had to be the backbone of several children, "At least... let me kill Wu Mi."

She murmured, her clear golden pupils were erratic, and finally the pupils shrank suddenly, transforming into the shape of a six-petal flower.

When Vera received the inheritance of light, she also inherited Alex's omniscient eyes. They were originally a pair of golden eyes with an inverted triangle, but with the experience of Vera one after another, the pattern in her eyes turned into a six-petal lotus flower. .

From Alex's all-seeing eye, it became Vera's own transparent eye.

Insight into yin and yang world affairs, knowing the cause and effect, breaking through all obstacles.

So Vera saw it. She saw Muichiro die tragically, and the ghost killing team was wiped out overnight.

Such a future... such a future...

Vera slashed at the attacking ghost, bit her thumb and pressed it to the ground, opening the seal of Baihao.

"Vera, stop!" Shuzhuwan came out and grabbed her wrist, but it was too late, the blue tattoo spread along her forehead to the floor, covering the entire Infinite City almost instantly.

"You can't save everyone, life and death are life and death, all things are impermanent, why don't you understand?!" For the first time, Buddha Sword's compassionate face was stained with other emotions, which were anxiety that shouldn't belong to him.

"If I could understand..." She raised her head, her face covered with tattoos looked a little ferocious, but also strangely beautiful, "...I wouldn't be where I am today."

—— Ninja method. Creation and regeneration.

A light that was so gentle that it almost made you cry filled the entire Infinite City, and countless blue tattoos turned into leaves of Hiiragi trees, flying and falling on the members of the Demon Slayer Squad.

"This, what is this?"

"This light... is Qing Zhu, Master Qing Zhu!"

"Why would I turn on stripes...this...?"

Vera discovered very early on that the so-called markings are actually the embodiment of a person's life, just like Missing's tattoo and Baihao's seal.

The recovery power of the pillar that turns on the markings is amazing, and the physical ability is greatly enhanced. This is actually the same principle as the seal of Baihao, both of which are burning vitality in exchange for a momentary glow.

Therefore, there is a law that the pillars with stripes on will not survive the age of 25.

"Don't be afraid of getting hurt, and don't be afraid of death." Vera Xuxu whispered, but her words clearly reached everyone's ears, "Dawn will definitely come."

Her words were soft, but they sounded like they were hitting the ground. The ghost killers with knives walked through the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, but they shed tears in a moment.

Wu Mi, who broke out of the cocoon, was greeted by thousands of swords.

He frantically killed, trying to devour these annoying bugs, but he was shocked to realize that he couldn't kill any swordsman at all, even if they were cut in half, they could still return to their original state.

"Kill without misery—"

"Kill Onimai Tsuji Mumi—!"

"kill him!!!"

The will of mankind is like sparks starting a prairie fire, gathering sand to form a tower, and condensing water to form an ocean.

Those who bear the deep hatred of blood, those who bear the responsibility of protecting the common people, wipe off the blood and tears on their faces, regardless of pain, regardless of fear, like moths to the flames, and recklessly ignite their lives.

Shitou Wuichiro gritted his teeth and stabbed the Rilun knife into Bai Shengmou's vitals...

With the help of Yushiro, Snake Zhu and Lian Zhu restrained Naruto and pushed Wu Mi into a dead end little by little...

Sitting firmly at the back, Hui Lizai gritted his teeth, kept recalling everything his father taught him, and issued orders one after another with utmost rationality...

Then, Zhu, arrived.

"Crazy! A group of lunatics!" Wuyou, who was driven to the end, yelled crazily, "If I am a twisted creature, then what are you standing on the opposite side of me? - A group of lunatics who don't know pain and death!"

"Even if your family is killed, so what? Shouldn't you be grateful to Dade if you survived?! Ah? At least you survived, isn't that enough?!"

"If your home is destroyed by the strong wind, do you want to take revenge on the strong wind? A perfect life like mine is originally a god—as long as you are satisfied with your own luck, you can continue to live as usual, wouldn't it be fine?!"

"No misery!" Tanjiro roared, he clenched the Japanese sword in his hand tightly, hot tears fell on the blade drop by drop, it was the heart of a young man who was sincere but also broken, "You don't deserve to live Creatures in the world——!"

Why on earth are we robbed of light and hope by such an ugly creature?

Sun disc, when will you rise?We have struggled in the silent eternal night for far too long.

"That's right, so you think so—" The girl's ethereal and cold voice sounded, as if a flame was burning quietly.

"Then—you shouldn't have any complaints about being killed by a god, right?"

At dawn, unsheathed.

Carrying the prayer of light and carrying the faith of all peoples, that ray of light piercing the long night sounded the horn of dawn.

"Five brains, seven hearts."

All the pillars, including Tanjiro, drew their swords at the same time, and the red blades raised high were like the newborn sun.

The nine blades pierced through Wu Mi's internal organs at the same time.

——Time seemed to stand still.

"How, how is it possible..." Wu Mi turned her head stiffly like an old wooden door, "He... He Dao?"

Before he could finish speaking, the thousand-year-old body collapsed little by little, Zhushi's medicine was still in his body, and he didn't even have a chance to split up and escape.

The silver-haired girl lowered her eyes, quietly watching the ghost king's body shatter little by little, turning into black ashes burned by the flames.

It was an extremely tragic scene. Everyone kept their original postures without moving, as if the pause button had been pressed in the whole world. Only Wu Mi, turned into ashes and scattered under everyone's gaze.

After an unknown amount of time, Ganlusi Mili's legs softened and she fell to the ground. Someone choked up and trembled out of tune: "We..."

"We won—!"

In an instant, time passed again, and the surviving people almost desperately shouted, screaming crazily, as if they wanted to let the whole world know: "We, we won——!"

"We survived, we survived!"

"1000 years, 1000 years! We... We really waited until the day when the sun rose—!"

Everyone cried and laughed, cheered and hugged each other regardless of their image, and some even rushed forward regardless of their dignity, and hurriedly hugged Zhu who hadn't recovered.

Feng Zhu threw away the knife in his hand, and lay on his back with his arms firmly pressed against his eyes, gritting his teeth, letting tears blur the corners of his eyes.

"What kind of miracle is this...?" Beimingyu Xingming clasped his hands tremblingly, tears fell miserably, and murmured, "Unexpectedly, really...all survived."

It must be a miracle, right?It must be a miracle given by the gods, right?

In order to kill Ghost Mai Tsuji, everyone is ready to die and is determined to fight with their backs.

However, who dares to hope that the day when they really see the dawn?

Muichiro's eyes were lost, and he stared blankly at the front. At this moment, tears welled up in his eyes and fell down uncontrollably.

— Brother, have you seen it?

——As expected, we came to this world to feel happiness, right?

The corners of Tanjirou's mouth rose slowly, and finally he broke into a big smile. He jumped at the silver-haired girl who was still standing there like a happy puppy, and shouted: "We won!"

"Miss Huashui, we really won! Dawn is really coming!"

The infinite city collapsed and destroyed, and the people standing on the ruins reveled in the dark night, while the sky was dimly lit, and there was a ray of light at the end of the sky, splashing on everyone.

tick-

The scalding liquid suddenly landed on Tanjiro's head. He smiled with tears in his eyes, and was about to say something, but the smile froze on his face in the next second.

The cheers gradually stopped.

The silver-haired girl holding the Dawn is still in her final posture, like an immortal statue.

Blood gushed out of her seven orifices continuously, and fell drop by drop along her cheeks.

The golden blood, the familiar smell, shone brightly in the dark night—the light that could freeze the heart instantly.

She gently pushed Tanjiro away, and her thin body tilted to the side.

That's it - fell into the darkness before dawn.

[Swordsman of the Sun Wheel. Falling in the Darkness Before Dawn]