Chapter 19 Confusing News
Flames, like the sun, danced and swept past, precisely severing the heads and bodies of the two attacking ghosts. Their pitiful screams ceased abruptly in a second.
Rengoku Shujuro swung his sword forcefully, blocking the attacks from the other demons. He flipped the blade, and brilliant fireworks burst from the sword, slicing across the demons' necks.
"Breath of Flame, First Form: Shiranui".
As the Flame Pillar, Rengoku Shujuro was not at a disadvantage and killed these ordinary demons with a single move.
As the gray smoke gradually dissipated into the sky and earth, Rengoku Shujuro turned to look at Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who had just stood firmly.
"Yoriichi, I didn't expect to see you again so soon. How have you been lately?"
Xi Shoulang's surprised voice made Jiguo Yuan turn around, but his expression remained unchanged indifferent; only his words evoked emotion.
"Purgatory, it's been a long time."
Yoriichi looked at the other person, noticing the red haori with faint flames on it, which was torn in various ways, and the several boys peeking out from behind him. He sensed something was wrong.
"Purgatory, have you been busy lately?"
"Huh? It's alright, but the ghosts have been getting stronger lately. I wasn't paying enough attention while training the newbie today. What about you?"
Rengoku Shujuro noticed Yoriichi Tsugikuni's gaze, laughed heartily without caring, and then patted the head of the child behind him.
"Thankfully, there's no danger."
After observing for a while, Ji Guoyuan realized that the other party did not seem to care, so he felt relieved. However, when he recalled the news he had just received, his mood became much heavier.
"We received news that my elder brother..."
Before he could finish speaking, Rengoku Shujuro, being a clever man, realized that when they first learned of Kokushiro's disappearance, the others understood that Kokushiro could only have died or become a demon.
“Yoichi…”
Rengoku Shujuro didn't want to see his friend so dejected, so he quickly changed the subject, making way for the boys behind him and proudly introducing them to Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
"Yoriichi, these are the kids I'm currently training. Don't they look pretty good?" Shujuro said with a grin, then solemnly introduced Yoriichi to the boys, "This is the founder of Breathing Techniques, our Demon Slayer Corps' ace, the Sun Hashira."
Wow! Really?
"Amazing!"
"..."
The children were all shocked and amazed when they heard this. Even though they were still hiding behind Rengoku Shujuro because they were not familiar with him, their eyes were fixed on Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
"Purgatory, I am no longer the Sun Pillar."
Yoriichi Tsugikuni did not agree with Rengoku Shujuro introducing himself in this way, since he had already left the Demon Slayer Corps and should not refer to himself as the Sun Pillar.
"Your withdrawal won't change anything, Yoriichi."
"..."
Faced with Rengoku Shujuro's unusually serious tone, Tsugikuni Yoriichi did not insist on correcting him, but instead looked up at the bright moon in the sky.
"thump--."
A dark shadow streaked across the bright moon and flew towards them. Yoriichi Tsugikuni watched as the Kasugai Crow flapped its black wings, circled Rengoku Shujuro once, and then landed steadily on his shoulder.
"Xi Shoulang——."
Rengoku Shujuro's Kasugai Crow is a spoiled crow, and Shujuro is always helpless with this little guy.
"Yan, what's wrong?"
"Our lord... our lord has sacrificed himself! The new lord urgently summons you back!"
Yan sadly nuzzled Rengoku Shujuro's face, conveying the information he needed to him.
"My lord, how could this be?"
Rengoku Shujuro was surprised when he grabbed the banquet and shook it in disbelief. Even though they all knew that their lord's curse was getting worse, they never expected it to happen so suddenly.
"It was Kokushiro Iwakatsu, the Moon Pillar, who turned into a demon and killed his lord, ah—."
Yan pecked at Shujuro's hand in distress, and after finally breaking free from his clutches, she flapped her wings and finished speaking. Seeing Yoriichi Tsugikuni standing to the side, she screamed and flew back into Shujuro's arms.
“My elder brother actually…”
Yoriichi Tsugikuni felt that the information he had received today was too much to digest, and he looked at Rengoku Shujuro in a daze. Shujuro didn't say much, but patted Yoriichi's shoulder heavily and said very solemnly, "Trust the answers you have found. Haven't you always felt that way?"
Yes, Yoriichi Tsugikuni had always been like this, firmly believing in his choices. He said no more, but nodded to Shujuro Rengoku.
"Yoichi, I'm leaving now. I'll contact you again when I have the chance."
"Purgatory, take care."
"The same to you."
Yoriichi Tsugikuni watched Rengoku Shujuro leave with the crow until he could no longer see him before turning around and rushing off in another direction.
——
After a few days of laziness and idleness, Yan Sheng finally left the Infinite City and decided to go out and get some fresh air.
Yan Sheng flashed a few times and stood on a floating pillar, watching the demons fighting fiercely below with no interest and even a little annoyed.
I don't know if it's because he got access to a different dimension where he can move around anytime, anywhere, but Boss Xie got all excited and kept assigning a bunch of ghosts to the Crescent Moon's spot.
After that, the fighting within the Infinite City continued unabated, with the ghosts constantly battling each other.
Thankfully, there's no concept of "blood-position battles" yet, otherwise Yan Sheng feels like he'd be watching these idiots hurt each other every day.
Of course, he knew he needed to give these guys a hard time, but feeling that Muzan Kibutsuji was still recruiting, Iwakatsu thought it best to wait until the scumbag boss had recruited enough before showing up and giving them a surprise.
In any case, Upper Moon One can only be himself.
Iwakatsu communicated with Nakime, and a wooden door opened in front of him. Iwakatsu calmly passed through the door, sensing that he had arrived in another place.
Tonight there is no moon; it is as black as an abyss.
Yan Sheng, with his demonic night vision, could clearly see that this was not some desolate wilderness, but a village, or more accurately, a town.
Like something left over from a war, the walls hadn't been maintained for years, some houses were dilapidated, and the night was silent. The only faint sounds were conversations coming from inside the houses lining the street.
This is completely different from the towns around Kyoto; you can clearly feel the difference, much like the difference between a second-tier city and a fifth-tier city.
Iwakatsu put on the straw hat with a veil over it. The feeling of his wooden clogs sinking into the mud and the moisture in the air suggested that it had rained during the day, and the humidity was quite high.
But the rain didn't affect Iwakatsu, as long as his clothes weren't soaked, which Iwakatsu didn't like.
Just as Yan Sheng thought he was simply passing through the town, a strong, pungent smell of blood, tinged with red, wafted from afar, carrying the earthy scent of rain-soaked soil.
Yan Sheng's fair nose twitched involuntarily, and his brows furrowed slightly. He didn't actually like killing, so apart from the mountain of corpses he encountered when he met Muzan Kibutsuji, he had never smelled such a strong stench of blood.
Yan Sheng, wearing wooden clogs, walked steadily on the slippery street. Following the stench of blood, he arrived at a house that looked quite different from the surrounding area.
This kendo dojo looks nicely decorated, though it's still old, with many signs of repair and renovation. In contrast, the dojo not far away is dilapidated.
"Su-ryu...dojo?"
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