Chapter 170: Village of the Past - Truth and Winter!

"Oh, you said that."

Su Beixun shrugged.

"That's because you were sitting in the carriage when you came here, and you didn't look at the sculpture for a long time, so you only got a brief glimpse of the truth in your illusion."

"And that old man..."

"It's just a scapegoat that I sent out for you to kill in order to dispel your suspicion."

He put his hands in the pockets of his jacket, looking innocent.

"Di Can Song Yuan was the previous owner of the house I lived in. He didn't disappear early like in the story, but after I robbed his house, I turned him into a ghost."

"And because his obsession is not deep, he doesn't have any blood demon arts at all."

"The alien space you think of is just an illusion I created in my hallucination to cover up the reality you see."

"The reason why you feel the night is short is because I cut off the first part of the first night and restored the 'day' to the real night, so as not to arouse your suspicion."

It turned out to be the case.

But Rengoku Fujuro still had some doubts.

"Why send him to die? If you can control my five senses, you don't need to send anyone to let me fight the air, right?"

"No, you misunderstood."

Su Beixun said bluntly: "I can only be vague about you, I can't control you."

Seeing that the other party didn't understand, he thought for a moment and explained: "The difference between [Blur] and [Control] is probably that one can be created out of thin air, while the other must be based on something."

"For example, if you stand still, if it's [Control], I can make you feel like you're experiencing a grand adventure, running, jumping, fighting, and having fun..."

"But if it's just [Blur], the most I can do is change the scenery you see. If I want you to start the adventure, you must take corresponding actions in reality."

"In other words—"

"I can change the course of the fight in your mind and add a non-existent dimension."

"But every time you collide with someone, you must have a similar experience in real life."

As Su Beixun spoke, he took his hand out of his pocket, spread out his palm, and scratched the tip of his index finger with his thumb nail.

A drop of bright red blood dripped down, leaving an oval burr-like mark on the floor.

"If you want to control the five senses, you must make others swallow my blood without knowing it and without being alert."

Su Beixun felt helpless.

——This condition is acceptable if you are willing to do so.

It seems that the same drop of blood can only work when the opponent is unaware of the effect and does not resist with all his strength from the bottom of his heart.

It's not so reasonable. But in this world with souls, Su Beixun can only try to accept it.

"But I didn't expect you to be so vigilant. After entering the village, you refused to touch any food in the village and only ate what you brought with you."

"Even though I explained the reason why you saw the night through my fantasy [Blood Vampire Art], it didn't make you feel at ease... Heh, maybe the story I made up was indeed a little ridiculous."

Su Beixun tilted his head, looking embarrassed.

"Later, even though I 'healed' Purgatory Ruka and made you grateful to me, and you began to purchase food in the village...but the sense of caution that never faded still made the blood I mixed in it lose its effect."

Rengoku Furyurou opened his mouth.

His broken lungs expanded with difficulty: "So... your purpose... is to let me take the prescription back..."

"Yes."

Su Beixun stared into his increasingly dim pupils: "I wanted to manipulate your five senses to easily solve it. But who knew you would not listen, so I can only change the way, let you find the abnormality, get rid of me, and then go back with the prescription."

"That Ruka..."

"Oh, I didn't lie about her. Most diseases can indeed be cured through potions. But her case is special. Unless you increase the dosage and turn her into a ghost, it will be useless."

Rengoku Fujuro's pupils could no longer focus, and he squeezed out the last bit of sound from his throat.

"...You've gone to so much trouble, what exactly do you want..."

"When I turn you into a ghost, you will know."

Su Beixun smiled and flicked out his sharp nails.

But
When he pierced his nails into Purgatory Furious Shoulang's flesh, Su Beixun suddenly froze!
With only one breath left, Rengoku Gojuro forced himself to breathe, completely cutting off his last bit of life!

He finally revealed a sarcastic smile, as if he was laughing at the other party's wishful thinking...

Looking at the gorgeous hair that had become dirty and messy, Su Beixun was silent for a moment and said softly, "You are amazing."

He turned around and looked at the man kneeling beside him, his limbs having been regenerated.

"[Cage], you will take care of the aftermath. Whether it's eating or burying it is up to you."

“If someone from the Demon Slayer Corps comes to investigate, find a way to make them eat their blood and make up a good story.”

The man put his head on the ground.

A piece of flying snow fell on the stone slab in front of his forehead and turned into a tiny water stain.

With a gust of breeze, the pair of slender ankles in the corner of the vision slowly disappeared like smoke.

After kneeling for a long time, the man raised his head cautiously - only his body and that of the swordsman were left here.

Millions of goose feathers fluttered and scattered, quickly covering the large bloodstains on the ground. But there were still a few spots exposed, like scattered red plum blossoms swaying in the snow.

The man who had clearly turned into a ghost seemed to have not yet gotten over the extreme cold in his memory, and subconsciously grabbed his collar.

he knows.

winter is here.

##
Accompanied by the howling cold wind, snowflakes floated in the sky, witnessing another scene.

"Please stop! I won't let you eat people with your beans! I will definitely find a way to turn her back into a human!"

"So...so..."

In the snow-covered forest, the boy with a scar on his forehead suddenly knelt down, prostrated himself on the ground and begged the cold-blooded man with a low ponytail in front of him.

Tomioka Giyuu paused the knife that was stabbing at the girl's neck. Looking at Kamado Tanjiro in front of him, he suddenly gritted his teeth in anger.

"Don't let others control your life and death!!"

Tomioka Giyuu roared.

He remembered himself trembling in the closet when his sister was killed...

I also remembered myself who survived the entire Demon Slayer Corps test due to being in a coma when Santo was fighting...

"Don't beg others miserably on your knees! If this worked, your family wouldn't have been killed!"

Tomioka Giyuu waved his hands in hatred, not knowing who he was talking to.

Tanjiro grabbed the snow, picked up the axe beside him for chopping wood, and rushed forward with a roar.

……

Afterwards, after witnessing Tanjiro Kamado's determination to protect his sister, and Nezuko Kamado's feat of overcoming hunger and not attacking her brother.

Giyu Tomioka decided to give this unique pair of siblings a chance.

"Go to Sagiri Mountain and visit an old man named Urokodaki Sakonji. Tell him that it was Tomioka Giyuu who asked you to go."

After saying this, he took one last look at the two of them, then flashed on the spot and disappeared without a trace.

Tanjiro Kamado hugged his remaining family tightly, thinking of his dead mother and missing brothers and sisters...

He wiped away his tears and set off with Nezuko full of hope.

##
In the vast white sky, both the sun and the moon were obscured by the falling snow. It was impossible to tell what time it was just by looking at the weather.

The boy held the wooden sword in his hand and swung it down with all his strength, meticulously.

The jade dust was blown away by the strong wind and swirled around, unknown where it flew to.

"Chi, take a break." The old man wearing the Tengu mask said softly as he looked at his beloved disciple who had been swinging the sword for more than three hours.

The boy put away his knife, turned around, and said to the old man respectfully: "Master, the snow is getting heavier, you should go back to the house and rest. I will practice one more set and then go back, you don't have to worry."

Urokodaki Sakonji sighed and said, "You push yourself too hard. If you rush for quick results, it will be detrimental to your mastery of the breathing technique."

Chi was silent for a moment, then clenched his fist unwillingly. "But, my talent is far inferior to that of Senior Brothers Santu and Tomioka... If I don't work harder..."

When mentioning the dead Sakonji, Urokodaki Sakonji's eyes dimmed a little. But it was precisely because of this that he could not watch another disciple go to extremes.

He walked up to Chi, touched his head, and told him the information he had just obtained from the Demon Slayer Corps.

"Shui Gu Dongci...or Su Beixun, he is dead!"

"Not long ago, the [Flame Pillar] killed him in a duel for some reason... So, there's no need for you to push yourself anymore! Just take a rest today."

【died?!】

[…That person… is actually dead?! ]

Chi looked dazed.

But then, he suddenly pinched his chest: "No! Su Beixun is not dead!"

"……red……"

Urokodaki Sakonji thought that his disciple still had feelings for his brother and could not accept the sad news.

But just as he was about to persuade her, Chi murmured in a low voice with a ferocious look on his face: "I can feel... he is still alive! Somewhere in this world... he must still be alive!"

He gripped his clothes harder and harder, until his knuckles turned white.

After bowing to his master again, Chi turned around and continued to practice swordplay with full concentration.

Urokodaki Sakonji didn't say anything else. He just stood behind him, quietly accompanying the boy.

##
"It's the last day, Hanako."

Su Beixun looked at Kamado Shige, who could only hide in the corner to avoid those sharp teeth, and whispered to the girl in chains.

He stretched out his hand, pinched the ring, and applied slight force. The thick iron chain that was strong enough to restrain the evil spirit fell to the ground with a "click".

Accompanied by splashing soil.

After being hungry for nearly a month, Hanako Kamado immediately pressed her biological brother under her body and opened her bloody mouth to bite him fiercely!
【Isn’t it possible? 】

Su Beixun narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"don't want……"

"Sister...don't!"

Kamado Shigeru stretched out his arms to push the person away, but the pale face was getting closer and closer. He closed his eyes tightly and tears flowed out of fear.

creak~

Close your mouth!

Hearing the clear chewing sound coming from his ear, Kamado Shigeru screamed in surprise.

But Su Beixun's eyes lit up and the corners of his mouth slowly cracked!

Kamado Hanako held her brother's shoulders tightly with both hands! Her expression was grim, and tears were falling one by one.

Tick ​​~
Tick ​​~
The dry land was stained with tears, taking on a darker color.

The girl pressed her head to the ground and swallowed big gulps of dirt to resist her hungry stomach!

"elder sister?"

Finally realizing that it was not painful, Shigeru Kamado opened his eyes and cried out in shock as he looked at the girl with a painful expression and a face covered in mud.

He cried out "Wow" and stopped pushing, instead hugging the evil ghost on his body tightly.

There was malice in Kamadomon Hanako's eyes as waves of rich aromas hit her taste buds.

But she just raised her hand tremblingly, carefully avoided the boy with her nails, and gently stroked the younger brother's head.

a bit……

again...

“It’s very touching.”

Su Beixun stroked his palm gently and narrowed his eyes: "But besides your deep love for each other, can you cooperate with me to do an experiment?"

Hearing the devil's voice, Hanako Kamado immediately protected her brother behind her, half-crouched down, opened her arms, and intimidated him.

Seeing Su Beixun approaching step by step, she decisively stretched out her claws and scratched the other's cheek!

But the next second, his neck was grabbed fiercely!
"Wait... you bad guy! Where are you taking my sister?"

Seeing this, Kamado Mao mustered up the courage to block him. But Su Beixun just flicked his finger, and he rolled over and hit the stone wall on the side!

A trace of blood flowed down.

……

Passing through the tunnel, the world above ground was still covered with light snow, but fortunately the sun was still out.

He threw the girl who had been strangled unconscious in his hands away and stood in the shadows waiting for the result.

one cent……

Two points...

Hanako Kamado, lying in the snow, is safe and sound!

But Su Beixun did not stop.

The winter sunlight was so thin that even if he had just turned into a ghost and stood outside, it would not have much impact in such a short time.

at last!

At the 20th minute, the skin on Hanako Kamado's face began to char a little bit, then crumbled into ashes, revealing the pale red muscles underneath.

Su Beixun quickly concentrated his attention and looked over.

The black area spread little by little, and the girl's body twitched unnaturally due to the pain.

It looks no different than at the beginning.

But Su Beixun discovered that when the charred area spread to half of the face, the carbonization speed slowed down significantly... until it finally approached zero!
-Success!

Su Beixun covered his face and laughed wildly with his head raised.

Sure enough, after the other party overcame the desire for cannibalism, all the conditions for immunity to sunlight were met!

He looked at the girl's body which was beginning to heal, and couldn't wait to step out of the tunnel!

The cold sunlight kept decomposing his flesh and blood, and he felt a tingling pain on the surface of his skin - he knew that this was the symbol of ghosts being rejected by the light!

In the past, Su Beixun might have felt depressed or annoyed...

But at this moment, he was only happy! Only joy!
After breaking out of the cage, the pain that once tortured people can only be used to highlight the greater success!
Reaching out and pressing on Kamado Hanako's chest, Su Beixun began to mobilize his own blood in the other person's body. Unlike ghosts that eat people, the [Ghost King] devours its own kind, not by eating, but by absorbing!

The unconscious Hanako Kamado suddenly widened her eyes!

She only felt that the temperature of her body was getting higher and higher, as if she had drunk lava and was melting her from the inside out!
The blood beat against the blood vessels again and again like waves, and the girl's skin bulged here and there, looking scary and weird.

And after the gap was created, warm blood rushed out of the body!

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Leaving behind a sharp scream, Hanako Kamado seemed to turn into a pool of thick bloody liquid, wrapping around Su Beixun and then slowly seeping into his body.

The child's jacket is still bright yellow.

He stood there quietly, not moving at all.

One hour……

Two hours...

Until the fine snow turned his hair gray and his face white, Su Beixun didn't feel anything unusual.

then……

He smiled and looked up.

Look at the sun in the sky hidden in the flying snow.

Open your hands.

Embrace the world in your arms!
(End of this chapter)