"This taste...it's a little strange..."
After drinking the rare blood in her hand in one gulp, Chika raised her head slightly, smacked her lips, and tried to evaluate the taste of Shinazugawa's rare blood.
However, Chika is not a gourmet and finds it difficult to describe the taste of Shinazugawa's rare blood with professional terms. Just when Chika thought she had been excited for nothing, the "aftereffects" came.
Chika's body trembled. She had been sitting cross-legged on the bed, but with this tremor, she "plop!" fell to the ground, one hand covering her chest, her face flushed, and she was panting heavily.
What exactly does this feeling mean?!
As Chika struggled to get out of bed, panting, that subtle feeling was trying to engulf her entire body, even her mind.
Her originally reddish-brown eyes turned scarlet, and the scent of the other rare blood she had preserved broke through the confines of the test tube and stopper in her olfactory system and entered Qianxia's nose.
Bloodlust!
This was the first time such a situation had occurred since she transmigrated, and Chika realized that the thing she was most worried about had come to pass.
Murphy's Law... Murphy's Law!
Suppressing the intense bloodlust within her, Chika gritted her teeth, climbed out of bed, and went to the door.
Is she about to leave the room?
No, Chika wanted to lock the door.
After locking the door, Qianxia felt that simply locking the door wasn't enough. She turned around and went back to her bed. With a swift movement, she lifted the entire bed with both hands, blocking the doorway.
Chika was panting heavily, not because she was tired from moving a bed, but because she was suffering greatly from forcibly suppressing this bloodthirsty desire.
After moving the bed, Qianxia took out a piece of paper from a drawer in the room, wrote "Secluded cultivation, do not disturb unless necessary... do not disturb even if necessary" and passed it out through the small crack in the door.
After doing all this, Chinatsu leaned against a corner of the wall in the room, clutching her chest tightly with one hand, panting with her head down.
As she felt the changes within her body, Chika couldn't help but recall the experiences of the Wind Pillar, Sanemi Shinazugawa.
Sanemi's father was an abusive, gambling, and alcoholic man. After he was strangled to death by his enemies one day, his mother took on the burden of the family.
Despite her petite stature, my mother never backed down in the face of my monstrous father and always protected us.
The gentle mother shoulders the heavy burden of the family, and Sanemi, as the eldest brother, matures early and shares some of the pressure with his mother. The other children are also obedient and sensible, never crying or making a fuss. Although it cannot be called a happy family, it can be considered warm and harmonious.
Just when everyone thought things would gradually get better, their mother, who had been out all day, did not return. Sanemi comforted her younger siblings, saying that their mother would be alright.
Late at night, their mother returned, but as a demon. The once gentle mother now turned on her children and killed them, her blood splattering on Sanemi and Genya's faces.
At that moment, their world collapsed.
Chinatsu clutched her chest with one hand and pressed her head with the other. She absolutely refused to become a demon like Sanemi's mother, one who lost her mind and harmed her own family. Driven by this unwavering resolve, even if she did become a mindless demon, she would choose to commit suicide immediately...
Damn it, we're so close to the perfect ending you envisioned. All we have to do now is work together to defeat Muzan, and then we can all go back to living normal lives.
So I absolutely... absolutely cannot lose my mind!
Qianxia sat leaning against a corner of the room, her eyes closed and head bowed, breathing heavily. She even experienced auditory hallucinations, with her own voice echoing in her mind, urging her to drink the blood again and again.
Blood trickled from Chika's bitten lips. After a series of indescribable struggles, Chika lost consciousness in human form and fell into a coma.
Within Chika's spiritual world.
She walked aimlessly through the pristine white open space, her eyes vacant, unaware that puddles of mud were closing in on her from behind.
who is she?
Where is this?
What is she doing?
Chika couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it and continued to move forward. There was no end in sight, but the swamp behind her was getting closer and closer.
Just as Chika was about to be overtaken by the muddy swamp behind him and fall into this swamp of no return, a figure appeared in front of him.
"What's wrong? Where did the tenacious Chika who fought me go? You didn't give up, did you? That would be such an unfair defeat for me."
Upon hearing this, Qianxia froze, and the muddy swamp that had been closing in on her also stopped moving forward.
"Who are you…………"
"What, you've already forgotten me after only a few days? Are you the kind of person who doesn't remember the defeated opponents?"
The blurry figure in front of her gradually became clearer, and Chika's pupils widened as strands of memories rapidly returned under the stimulation of the other person.
Kokushibo... to be precise, it's Iwakatsu Tsugikuni!
A human-like figure, Tsugikuni Iwakatsu, appeared before Chinatsu. After Chinatsu regained her senses, she turned around and looked behind her. The muddy swamp, only a few steps away from her, came into view.
That was... a close call...
Chika swallowed hard, then turned to look at Tsugikuni Iwakatsu again. She knew that if she really fell into this muddy swamp, then she, who refused to become a demon, would only have "death" as her path.
"Thank...thank you."
"It's okay, we're just even."
Since the deceased Kokushiro Tsugikuni could not interfere with Chika in the real world, he could only barely interfere with her current situation.
Of course, this was also thanks to someone who was waiting for him, allowing him to postpone his journey to hell for atonement.
"Brother, our time is limited."
Suddenly, a sentence that was neither Chika nor Iwakatsu's came from beside Tsugikuni Iwakatsu. Chika looked over in shock and saw a blurry figure appear beside Tsugikuni Iwakatsu that was gradually becoming clearer.
Even if the figure doesn't become clear, and even if the figure doesn't look like a person, Chika knows who the owner of this figure is.
Because there is only one person in the entire world who calls Kokushibo Tsugikuni "elder brother," and that is the man standing on the rooftop in the Demon Slayer universe.
Tsugikuni, Yoriichi!
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