In the spring after the new year, Purgatory Kyojuro asked how her new breathing method was developed, and Taketori scratched his head shyly: "Not a single type has been developed!"

A normal teacher must think that the trash students must be lazy at this time, but Purgatory Xingjulang doesn't think so. Even though it is the first time for someone to be a teacher, he still patiently expressed his expectation: "Slow work Work carefully and hone yourself to find the breathing method that suits you best!"

"By the way, Shiina, do you want to go to the Fujisan Mountain Trial in three months' time?"

The so-called vine attack mountain trial means that the ghost killing team released many low-level ghosts in the vine attack mountain, and then put the new recruits into the mountain to survive for seven days.Only those who can come out alive in the end can become the real swordsmen of the Ghost Killing Squad.

Taketori Che looked at his teacher: "Teacher, what advice do you have?"

"I hope you will go, Shiina. But I think you must first seek your own opinion before deciding whether to enter the list." The man blinked his eyes and said very boldly, "I can see that you are ready!"

A faint smile appeared on Taketori Che's face.

"Yes, I can't wait."

Before going out to leave the Purgatory House, Purgatory Makijuro stood under the corridor and suddenly called her: "Akihara."

The girl turned her head in doubt, her expression respectful as always: "What's the matter, Mr. Makijuro."

"If you die, at least these two boys will send you away."

Teacher Xing Shoulang rolled his eyes suspiciously, looking between the two, he couldn't tell whether it was a provocative sentence - because the lines were very provocative, but his father's expression was very flat.

But Taketori Che's eyes widened slightly.

Because she understood the meaning of the other party.

The girl said before that she has no family anymore, so no one will miss her, and if she dies, no one will come to see her off.But Makijuro doesn't think so... at least his two sons will come to say goodbye to her.

【don’t worry】

This sentence is the only blessing that this awkward and depressed middle-aged man can say.

The corners of Taketori Che's mouth curled up, revealing a sweet smile, "Thank you for your blessing, Mr. Makijuro! I will try my best to live until the day I send you away!"

Makijuro's forehead was tensed with blue veins: "Oh, my life is on the line! Get out!"

The two confused brothers at the side: ...

Oops, the little apprentice (Shiina) must be stupid.

In any case, Taketori Che embarked on special training for the Fujisan Mountain assessment three months later.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

Taketori Che took the knife and luggage that Purgatory Kyojuro specially prepared for her, bid farewell to her master and her teary-eyed younger brother, and went to Wisteria Mountain to gather.

There she saw many strange people and ghosts.

The seven-day wild forest survival knowledge is not difficult for her, the most difficult of which is that there will be many ghosts in the dark forest.

Once these ghosts are killed... there will still be experience points!

Although not much, it is also experience!

Taketori Che was overjoyed. Although it was useless to complain about leveling when he was in Xinshou Village, when he came out to enter the society, he realized that only killing ghosts and doing tasks can gain experience.

The girl wandered in the forest for seven days, killed all the ghosts she met, and rescued a few of her peers, but unfortunately, she didn't meet any particularly strong opponents...

When the seven-day deadline came, she left the forest without incident, but found that no more than two hands survived.

Is the casualty rate that high?Taketori Che sighed inwardly, and listened to the arrangements made by the two exquisite boys in front of him.

Everyone who survived got a bird for communication. Taketori Che heard the sound of wings flapping from above, and immediately a pair of paws landed on his shoulders.

She turned her head to look over, and found that it was a chic and personable crow, which gracefully "quacked" at herself.

"So it's a gentleman." Taketori Che suddenly realized, "Then I'll call you...Xiaobai!"

The black crow: ...

The irascible Zaun crow nearly pecked Taketori's eyebrows off.

"Okay ok! I'm sorry! How about calling you 'hunk'?"

Unexpectedly, Mr. Crow seemed to like the name quite a bit, so Taketori Che got a hunk shoulder pendant.

The two delicate doll-like boys announced some precautions for the Ghost Slayer Squad, and asked everyone to come forward to choose a special ore for the next forging of the sun wheel sword.

Taketori Che let go of his breathing, chose an ore that best suited his own breathing, and then went back to the dojo to wait for the swordsmith to come.

A few days later, a man wearing a comical red fireman mask and a toolbox crawled up the hot dojo.

"Xi Chui in Xiatieshan, is your sword forger."

"Well, Mr. Tieshan..." Taketori pointed to the other party's drenched clothes, "Do you want to take a rest first? Or it will be so hot after taking off the mask!"

"No need! The mask is the body below! Besides, what is this little heat?" Tieshan Xichui flatly refused, "Where is your ore? What specific requirements do you have for using a knife? What breathing method do you use?"

Taketori Che answered the other party's questions one by one. Finally, after hesitating for a while, she untied the broken knife at her waist and handed it to the other party.

"This is...?" Tieshan Xibui didn't know, so he still took the sword of the same length with both hands.

"This is my father's favorite knife during his lifetime, and it is said to have been passed down from the Warring States Period."

The swordsmith drew out his sword, and the dull blade surface and damaged gap showed that it had experienced unimaginable fierce battles.

"Oh, that's right, it's a very ancient skill... The line and the binding method of the rope can be traced back to a hundred years ago..." The knife forger admired it in amazement, and suddenly he looked at the sinking bamboo. Qu Che, "Do you want it?"

"Yes, please fuse this broken knife and ore into a new solar knife. Can you do that?"

"It's fine, it's all swords after all." Tieshan said breathlessly, "But are you sure? It's a family heirloom after all."

Taketori Che raised his eyes and said with great care: "I hope that in the years to come, whenever I wield the Hinari Saber, the courage and fighting spirit of the ancestors of the past generations will be with me."

Tieshan Xichui was moved by her sincere words, and nodded to her: "I understand, after seven days, a new Sun Wheel Knife will be delivered to you."

Seven days later, the Sun Wheel Knife came as scheduled, along with the crow "Macho Man" who brought a new mission.

"Quack quack!"

Taketori Che: "Northwest direction, I understand."

Tieshan, who watched the scene, sighed: "Wait, why do you understand?"

However, before Taketori Che could explain anything, she saw the Animus system that had been silent for a long time burst out golden flowers suddenly!

[It is detected that the main task is fully activated, and the following functions are simultaneously activated]

[Ding—Unlock the national map]

[Ding - time-limited task system unlock]

【Ding——Hunting Pedigree Map】

Taketori Che:?

Is it so coquettish?

She first secretly opened the map, and then found that this scene looked like she stood there and opened a notebook to read carefully.

On the map, the area of ​​the county where she was located was brightly lit, while other surrounding counties were shrouded in a black fog.

This Taketori Che understands very well, black mist means "map fog", as long as the place has not been to, it will not be automatically illuminated.

But the difference from the real Ubisoft game is... there is no "overlook point" on this map (Note 1)!This means players can't take a Leap of Faith or run around all over the roof!

Aren't you a fraudulent fake behavior!Going offline, she's going to sue your Abstergo Corporation!

Taketori Che cursed in his heart.

As for the "hunting genealogy map", it is even taller - twelve groups of black shadows whose specific appearances cannot be clearly seen are distributed in a circle, and together guard the hideous ghost mask in the middle.

It turns out that this is the hunting map of the ghost king "Ghost Dance Tsuji" and his "Twelve Ghost Moon" guards!

It's just that due to the lack of information, the entire hunting and killing genealogy map is wrapped in darkness, and the core appearance cannot be seen at all.

But what does Twelve Ghost Moon have to do with her, Taketori Che, a newly promoted team member?

So the girl jumped back to the map interface, enlarged it to view the details, and was surprised to see a red triangle marking herself on the map, and then there were three different time-limited missions distributed throughout the county!

She casually opened the nearest time-limited mission to view the mission description.

[Time-limited mission at Gui level: There has been a case of missing persons in Dongqu Town recently. Up to now, four adults and one child have disappeared... (Time to end: 3 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes and 12 seconds)]

Taketori Che's pupils narrowed slightly.

She opened the other two missions, and found that they were also Gui-level time-limited missions!The only difference is that the location is different, and the task end time is different.One ended in four days, and the other ended in six days.

"Gui level" is the rank division of the ghost killing team. Generally, the team members are divided into ten levels: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, and Gui, and the next level is the "Pillar" level.

In other words, these three tasks are actually newcomer tasks for killing ghosts!

Taketori Che looked at the level recognized by the system again, and couldn't help feeling a little ashamed, and it was only level 9... No way, the upper limit of level was level 5 when he was at home (Xinshou Village), and then he came out to wander for two years, plus Some time ago, I hacked some ghosts on Wisteria Mountain to get to level 9.

Taketori Che tentatively compared the location of the map with the task that the "macho man" reminded himself to do, and found that it was the Dongqu Town with a time limit of 3 days!

...I never imagined that this is actually a business simulation game!

Alright, let's see how she maxes out this game!

The newly appointed Swordsman of the Demon Slayer Squad embarks on the journey with confidence.

Almost suffered Waterloo in the first battle.

It turned out that the ghost was hiding in an ordinary family's house, and the ghost chose to go out and hunt the neighbors in order not to hurt his family.Although the family didn't know about the female ghost's cannibalism, they stood up to protect her without hesitation when the "evil guest" came to her door.

Facing the interception of the male house owner and the watching of the tearful child hiding in the dark, Taketori was stiff.

——As a ruthless mercenary, she can kill the hostess who has turned into a ghost in front of the other party's family. The problem is... Akihara Shiina can't do it!

"Too weak." The female ghost sneered triumphantly, "Are you still the Ghost Killing Squad just like you are?"

"Didn't you say you want to protect human beings... No matter how nice the big words are, come on."

Taketori Che glared at her, the hand holding the knife trembling uncontrollably.

However, the hostess frowned and pointed at her with a kitchen knife: "Get out of my house! Otherwise, I'll call the police!"

Taketori Che let out a helpless and aggrieved breath, and slowly, step by step, retreated towards the gate.

A trace of disdain flashed in the female ghost's eyes when she saw this, and she was about to continue mocking, when she suddenly saw the girl in front of her swipe the back of her left hand on the dark red blade, and a trace of blood spilled out...

Thin blood!It's thin blood!

The alluring and sweet smell instantly occupied the female ghost's thoughts, she rushed across the defense line composed of family members recklessly, and threw herself in front of Taketori Che.

"Keiko! Don't!" Her husband yelled heart-piercingly from behind, but it was too late.

At this time, Taketori Che had withdrawn from the range of the house, facing the ferocious female ghost, she let out a sigh of pity.

Why feel pity for the enemy?

Because Akihara Shiina is such an existence who is good at sensing the pain of others.

The pain of the female ghost, the pain of the other party's family... and the pain of not being able to protect these people in her heart.

Because of this, the accumulated pain in Akihara Shiina's heart turned into fuel, like the last spark in the ashes, vowing to burn up the entire dirty world!

"Breath of Prison · Shape of One · Underworld Lamp!"

Lamp is fire.

Huang Quan points to the underworld.

The so-called Huangquan Lantern means—the Underworld has been opened, please go on your way!

The sun wheel knife bursts out dark flames that are different from the traditional breath of flames. They are such a sad color, as if they have been burning in hell for many years without seeing the sun.

But when the tip of the knife wrapped in dark flames pierced her body, the female ghost was stunned.

Inappropriately, she remembered something very far away.

When she was a young girl, she fell in love with her current husband.

Lang rides a bamboo horse to get around the bed to get green plums.

It is obviously a happy family, why did it become like this in the end...

Oh, she remembered, she was afraid that her beauty would grow old, her beauty would fade, and most importantly...she was afraid that those people would no longer love her.

But she was worried about many things, but she forgot the love her husband and children had for her.

That's right.

This child's sword, so it exists like this.

...Thank you for reminding me of this.

The female ghost turned into ashes in the air with regret and sadness. This scene happened to be seen by her husband who chased him out.Because Taketori Che's beheading was too fast and too hard, her husband couldn't stop it.

He hugged the black dust in the night, crying uncontrollably.

Taketori Che stood aside and asked himself: Did I do something wrong?

No you don't.

At least you didn't kill a husband's wife in front of his face, or hack a mother in front of her two children.

At this moment, the man whose eyes were red and swollen from crying raised his head and shouted at her: "What are you still standing here for! Get out! Murderer, get out!!"

Taketori Che was silent for a moment, then calmly explained: "If I don't kill her today, it will be you and your two children who will die tomorrow."

"Then what's your business? Mind your own business! I am willing! If Keiko dies at the hands of Keiko, I am willing to die like this!" the man cried and roared.

"Then your children are willing? As a father, you just sit and watch them being eaten by the mother you love the most?"

"..."

The man froze.Yeah, he can speak for himself, but what about the kids?Children are innocent!

He actually knows everything.

There is no good end for becoming a ghost, and even less for a human being who falls in love with it.So he was venting his anger, venting his weakness and incompetence to the swordsman who came to kill the ghosts.

sorry……

But... But why can't my tears still flow down?How much warmth did the cold fly ash in my arms bring to my life?

Taketori Che looked at the human male whose backbone was suddenly taken away, sighed, turned and disappeared into the darkness.

She didn't actually say the last word.

[If your wife eats you, how painful will she be when she wakes up? 】

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