"Excuse me...excuse me! What are your names?!"
The passerby, who had gotten up from the ground, looked at the two people in front of him. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to ask Chinatsu and Tanjiro their names.
"Kamado Tanjiro."
"Kamado Chitsu".
"Brother and sister?"
"It's sister! Brother!"
Qianxia, somewhat annoyed, immediately pointed a finger at him to correct his incorrect address. Passerby A was startled by this strong reaction and was also surprised to think that they were actually siblings.
His gaze swept over Chika, slowly sliding down her cheeks to her chest.
Chika's lips twitched slightly when she noticed the man's subtle gaze. After Chika unleashed her strong hostility, the man was so frightened that he turned around and scrambled out of Chika's sight.
"Honestly, how can you be so rude?"
Chinatsu put one hand on her hip and couldn't help but click her tongue, while Tanjiro stood awkwardly beside her, not daring to make a sound.
I remember my older sister used to be like that. Once, my youngest brother, Rokuta Kamado, made a comment about my sister's chest. My usually gentle sister immediately put down the kitchen knife in her hand, squinted her eyes, and stretched out her two hands to drill into Rokuta's temples. For a while, Rokuta Kamado was quite afraid of my sister.
After the "Hand Demon," an evil spirit beyond the beginner village level, was defeated, the level of the Fujikasake Mountain Demon returned to the normal level for the final selection.
Although he could have just left it alone, Tanjiro was a kind-hearted man, and how could he stand idly by when he saw a demon killing someone? Meanwhile, Chinatsu used low-level demons to hone her swordsmanship without using breathing techniques.
The final selection lasted for 7 days. The first few days were fine, just normal monster grinding. But in the last few days, the situation in Tengxi Mountain changed drastically.
A ghost killing someone?
The demon trembled upon seeing Chinatsu and Tanjiro, then turned and ran without daring to look back.
Because of those two little monsters, in the final days of the final selection, the group of demons even entered the ultimate hide-and-seek mode, hiding themselves completely. Even with Tanjiro's nose, which was like a navigation system, it was impossible to confirm whether the demons on Fujikasane Mountain had been completely wiped out in the end.
After leaving the Fujikasake Mountain demon-hunting area and arriving at the exit, where the surviving demon slayers were standing, Chika glanced at them briefly and found that there weren't many more survivors than in the original story, just a few more.
That's true, after all, the assessment period is a full 7 days, and there are too many uncontrollable factors. But in the end, it's because they are too weak. Even if weak people become members of the Demon Slayer Corps, they cannot become combat power, and may even become a burden that drags them down.
"I'll die, I'll die. Even if I survive here, I'll still die in the end..."
A blond-haired boy was muttering to himself with his head down, emanating a strong aura of negative energy that caught Tanjiro's attention.
Chinatsu, on the other hand, focused her attention on Kanao. Among everyone present, Kanao's clothes were the cleanest, without a trace of dirt or sand on them.
As Chinatsu's attention focused on Kanao, Kanao quickly noticed Chinatsu's gaze. She turned her head slightly to look at Chinatsu, who was looking at her, and gave her a professional smile again.
Before the final selection began, the two boys and girls in kimonos who announced the rules came out again. Their eyes were wide open, and Chika thought to herself that their eye circles were almost comparable to the Rinnegan of the Naruto next door. The Rinnegan had fewer circles on one side and more circles on the other, and the base color was similar.
After the two briefly introduced the newly selected members who had become the lowest-ranking "Aoi" level members of the Demon Slayer Corps, they clapped their hands lightly together, and suddenly the cawing of crows echoed in the air.
“From today onwards, the shovel duck will be with you. Its main function is to communicate with other crows, thus transmitting messages over long distances… Oh dear? How could this be…”
Before the two could finish speaking, a scene that surprised them both forced them to stop talking.
Tanjiro and the others had a crow hanging from their hands. Zenitsu Agatsuma, with his blond hair, blinked in confusion because what he had in his hand wasn't a crow at all, but a small sparrow.
But that's not the point!
Although Zenitsu's situation was strange, at least a creature landed on him. Meanwhile, Chinatsu, standing next to Tanjiro, was looking up at the sky. The crow above her was flapping its wings and circling in the air, but showed no sign of landing on her.
"Oh dear? How could this be? Specially trained Kashiwagi shouldn't be afraid of people. This is the first time this has happened..."
The two spoke in unison, and Chika quickly lowered her head.
This crow... oh well, it's fine if we don't have one, we still have Tanjiro's crow to use~
As soon as Chika thought this, she turned to look at Tanjiro beside her. When Tanjiro saw Chika turn to look at him, the crow in Tanjiro's hand was so frightened that it quickly flapped its wings and jumped from the arm closest to Chika between Tanjiro's two arms to the other arm.
The entire room fell silent...
Chika's expression was somewhat subtle, thinking to herself that even a crow didn't give her any face.
The two people watching this scene fell silent. They originally wanted to observe for a while longer, but one of the hot-tempered people who had successfully passed the selection flung the crow off his arm.
He strode towards the two men, saying as he went, "Crows don't matter! Sword! Give me a sword! A Demon Slayer sword, a color-changing sword, a Nichirin Blade!"
Just as he reached out to grab one of the two men by the hair, two figures suddenly flashed past him on either side.
Tanjiro stood to his right with a serious look in his eyes, his outstretched hand grabbing Tanjiro's arm and wrist as he tried to attack, while Chinatsu stood to his left.
Did you think Chika reached out and grabbed his other hand?
No, no, no, Chika reached out and grabbed his hair, which was quite comical.
"Calm down."
"Um?!"
The man's eyes widened, and at that moment both of them began to exert their strength. Tanjiro, being a woodcutter, was already very strong, and with the enhanced physique from "Total Concentration - Constant Force," if Tanjiro used all his strength, he could easily break someone's bones with just his grip strength.
However, what he was worried about under this grip was not his own wrist, because Qianxia was also exerting force. He suddenly had a premonition that in a few seconds, his hair might be yanked out in a big clump with a "snap!"
"Tch, I know, I know, just let me go."
In an instant, the force transmitted from both sides disappeared, Tanjiro released his hand, and Chinatsu released his hair.
The two of them immediately changed their expressions and looked at him with smiles.
"Sorry, I didn't hurt you just now, did I?"
"………………"
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