Chinatsu decisively refused and retaliated with a chop to Zenitsu's neck. Zenitsu immediately felt as if he had been struck by lightning again. Don't think Zenitsu is exaggerating; he had actually been struck by lightning before, and this mystical lightning had turned his black hair golden on the spot...
"Why...why? Wait, your voice sounds familiar...could it be you!!!" Zenitsu seemed to remember something and immediately pointed a finger at Chinatsu, who was wearing a black cloak.
He recognized the voice; it was the one from the final selection…
Chinatsu pulled off her black cloak, and her cold eyes fell on Zenitsu. Zenitsu immediately recalled the scene from the final selection.
"You two are the swordsmen who chased after the Demon Slayer during the Final Selection!" Zenitsu, still terrified, quickly slid backward several times while sitting on the ground, putting distance between himself and Chinatsu and Tanjiro.
Just as he was about to turn and run away, the little sparrow that had been delivered after the final selection flew to his front and frantically poked his forehead with its beak.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
"Ouch, ouch, ouch! What are you doing? Are you bullying me too? Waaaaah, I'm so miserable..."
Chinatsu and Tanjiro stood aside quietly admiring the world-famous painting of a person being bullied by a sparrow, and couldn't help but make some sarcastic remarks.
Tanjiro: Is this person... an idiot?
Chinatsu: Yeah, obviously an idiot.
It was only after Tanjiro's amazing ability to understand what the little sparrow was saying that they learned what was going on. It turned out that Zenitsu Agatsuma was also on his way to fight demons, and he and Tanjiro Chinatsu had taken on the same mission.
After Zenitsu calmed down, he gradually began to recount his situation. It turned out that the reason he became a member of the Demon Slayer Corps was because he was cheated out of money by a former girlfriend. A trainer in the Demon Slayer Corps paid off the money for him, and he became the trainer's apprentice, learning the "Thunder Breathing" technique from the basic breathing methods. He was a genius who could only use one technique from Thunder Breathing.
"Tanjiro, you have to protect me!"
"Um... shouldn't you move closer to my sister? She's much stronger than me."
"Huh? That...that...that won't work either. Let me tell you quietly, I'm a little afraid of her. I always feel like if I get close, your sister will rip my skull off."
"How could this be...?"
Tanjiro answered softly, somewhat embarrassed, that although his sister could be quite scary at times, she was mostly very gentle.
Zenitsu didn't believe Tanjiro's words at all. He thought Tanjiro was pretty good, and if Tanjiro were a girl, he would definitely pursue Tanjiro madly.
She's got so many wifely qualities!
As they traveled together, they soon arrived at a large mansion. Outside the mansion, a girl and a boy were huddled together, shivering.
The three looked at each other, and finally pushed Tanjiro forward to take charge of the negotiations, which yielded immediate results.
Tanjiro's powerful sense of smell detected a strong demonic scent in the mansion, likely comparable to that of Akasamaru and Yahaba, whom he had encountered before—all high-level demons.
Zenitsu, standing beside him, trembled with fear. He had no confidence in facing high-level demons. He didn't even know how he passed the final selection. He only remembered running around inside and even losing consciousness for a while. He was incredibly lucky not to be eaten by a demon.
Chinatsu estimated the time. In the original story, just as Tanjiro and the others were talking, a boy flew out of the mansion and died from blood loss right in front of them.
But that hasn't happened yet, so it seems there's still time, and perhaps the boy can still be saved.
"Tanjiro, you stay where you are. I'll come alone this time." Chika gripped the scabbard at her waist and walked step by step toward the mansion.
Tanjiro wanted to go along, but he thought the demons in the mansion weren't that dangerous for his sister, and the two people beside him also needed protection, so he nodded and simply told his sister to be careful.
"Tanjiro... it's too dangerous for you... it's too dangerous for my sister to go alone... why don't you come along too? I'll protect these two children. I think I can manage," Zenitsu said, somewhat worried.
Tanjiro's opinion of Zenitsu changed immediately after hearing his words, but he did not accept Zenitsu's suggestion. He simply smiled and replied, "It's alright. I've already said it before, my sister is stronger than me."
Zenitsu knew that Chinatsu was strong, but he didn't know exactly how strong. The proportion of women in the Demon Slayer Corps was very high, especially in the main combat units. Most of the women in the Demon Slayer Corps were in the logistics units, and the ratio in the main combat units could even reach 1:9.
He didn't have any senior or junior female disciples among his fellow apprentices, otherwise he would have chosen to find a partner within the family.
"Don't worry, my sister is the strongest."
Tanjiro was full of confidence in his sister, while Chinatsu, who rushed into the mansion, was racing against time. Unlike Tanjiro, she didn't have a keen nose and couldn't accurately smell the location of the demon.
But this mansion is only so big. Even if she really can't find it, she can let the ghost find her. After all, what ghost would allow others to destroy its territory without permission?
A faint drumbeat came from an unknown direction, and as the drumbeats continued, Chika could sense that the layout of the rooms in the mansion had changed.
Walking back and forth in this corridor is too much of a waste of time. Chika's eyes narrowed, and she activated the strongest move of her Water Breathing technique.
"The Breath of Water, the Form of Gathering, the Flow of Life!"
With her Nichirin Blade brimming with the power of a water dragon sword, Chika rushed toward a wall. She chose to ignore the wall and simply chisel it open to create a path.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The walls shattered one after another, and the roar was clearly audible even to Tanjiro and Zenitsu outside the mansion.
"Wait, what happened?!" Zenitsu exclaimed in surprise, covering his ears with both hands.
Inside the mansion, a boy wearing a pig's head mask froze, turning his head to look in the direction from which the sound came.
A few seconds later, the wall he was looking at was shattered with a loud "bang!!!" and a water dragon swept in, breaking through the wall behind him right in front of him, and then continued straight forward, breaking through several walls in succession until it completely disappeared from his sight.
"What...what is that thing...?"
Beneath the pig's head mask, the boy blinked blankly and uttered a question in a daze.
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