Chapter 99 Meeting Yoriichi Tsugikuni
Kokushi was preparing to leave. Spring was more than halfway over, and he planned to travel around while Kamado Tanjiro was still training with Urokodaki Sakonji. After all, once the other man came out, he would probably be nagged by the scumbag boss every day.
After sunset, Iwakatsu and Tokito Ichiro left Kyoto with their simple luggage. Walking uphill along the mountain path, Tokito Ichiro, panting, looked at Iwakatsu walking steadily ahead and reached out to grab his sleeve.
"Brother—slow down..."
Upon hearing this, Iwakatsu paused, turned his head and saw Tokito Ichiro with his hands on his knees, panting heavily. After noticing Iwakatsu's gaze, Tokito Ichiro looked up and pursed his lips at him.
"...Rest first..."
Looking at the other's displeased expression, Iwakatsu felt a strange sense of familiarity with the scene. Tokito Ichiro, however, didn't care what Iwakatsu thought; he simply sat down on the ground, picked up the water bottle, and began to drink.
Iwakatsu stepped forward and helped the other man up. He explained that sitting down directly when tired was bad for his health and told Tokito Ichiro to sit down after he had recovered.
Tokito Yuichiro reluctantly leaned against a tree trunk, watching Iwakatsu looking around, and asked curiously.
"What's wrong."
"illusion."
When Iwakatsu stopped what he was doing and answered Ichiro's question, he had a bad feeling, but after observing for a while, he found nothing.
"Kuroshibo, come here."
Kibutsuji Muzan's voice suddenly came, and Iwakatsu wanted to roll his eyes, but he stopped himself when he saw Tokito Ichiro not far away.
Why is that scoundrel looking for him? He explained to the other party during the day that he hadn't found anything this time, but then he's calling him again at night.
"I...I have something to do...wait for me a moment."
Iwakatsu spoke to Tokito Ichiro, who nodded perfunctorily, sat down to eat something, and waved for Iwakatsu to do as he pleased.
Well, the other person wasn't some defenseless kid either, and I always subconsciously felt that it was dangerous for a minor to act like that.
Thinking this, Yan Sheng stepped through the open wooden door next to him.
Yuichiro Tokito was already used to it. Watching the wooden door disappear, he took out the miniature Hollow Crying God and fiddled with it. He held it up to the moonlight and examined it carefully. The golden eyes on it moved and stared at him without blinking.
After looking at it for a while, I actually find it kind of cute.
Yuichiro Tokito raised his other hand and touched the eye, causing it to squint uncomfortably and refuse to open.
"Hey, let me touch it, it's not like I'm poking you."
Xu Kushin didn't want to pay any attention to Tokito Ichiro, so he simply closed all his eyes and ignored Tokito Ichiro's threats and inducements.
"You're giving me attitude with just a knife? I'll use you to chop vegetables later."
Tokito Yuichiro shook it, then used his other hand to grope the other's eyes, determined to pry them open.
"Where did you get this knife?"
Just as Tokito Ichiro's attention was entirely focused on the mini Hollow Crying God, a low, hoarse voice came from behind.
Yuichiro Tokito instinctively gripped the katana and swung it forward, but the opponent was clearly faster. A large hand tightly grabbed his wrist, rendering him unable to move.
"Let me go!"
The other person was backlit by the moonlight, so Tokito Ichiro couldn't see their appearance clearly. He could only see the black curly hair with red ends and the fiery red haori that was being blown by the wind.
Tokito Ichiro struggled fiercely, his hand swinging back and forth as he did so, feeling a slight pain in his wrist.
"It's too dangerous."
The other party tried to snatch the illusory crying god away, but the other party grabbed the wrist and pulled it up, preventing the other party from making any rash moves.
"Damn it, give it back to me, you pervert, you human trafficker."
Tokito Ichiro was immediately enraged. He hadn't expected that he would encounter an opponent he couldn't defeat after only half an hour of Iwakatsu's absence. He raised his leg and launched a spinning kick as Iwakatsu had taught him.
"Quiet down, or it will be dangerous."
The opponent reacted quickly and suppressed Tokito Ichiro's movements, pinning him down like a kitten.
Because of this action, Tokito Ichiro was able to see the other person's appearance clearly, which really startled him.
Her eyes were a deep, calm crimson, like a still lake; her forehead was marked with red flames; her lips were thin; and her hair was black with red ends.
He looks exactly like Iwakatsu.
Tokito Ichiro knew that Iwakatsu was his ancestor, several generations older than him. If Iwakatsu hadn't become a demon, he wouldn't have survived to this day. And now, someone who looked exactly like him was appearing in front of him.
Yes, people.
Tokito Ichiro felt that he had been with Iwakatsu for a long time, and no ghost could hide anything from him, let alone the fact that he could not sense any trace of the other party's presence, yet it suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Who are you, old man? It's one thing to bully a child, but you also steal someone's family heirloom. Have you no shame?!"
Tokito Yuichiro was cursing and swearing, and what Iwakatsu gave him was practically the same.
Ji Guoyuan's eyes darkened. He never attacked humans, but the small child in front of him was indeed human.
He didn't know why the other person was carrying his brother's knife, even though it was different from the one his brother had used before, it still carried his brother's aura.
"This knife belongs to my elder brother, why is it in your hands?"
Yoriichi Tsugikuni was very troubled. He just wanted to get to the bottom of things, but the other party was completely uncooperative. However, this question was very important to him, and he had to get the answer no matter how much the other party struggled.
"What do you mean 'your brother'? This was given to me by my brother!"
Yuichiro Tokito shouted, seizing the opportunity to flip the other's wrist and kick with both feet, forcing Yoriichi Tsugikuni to let go.
Tokito Ichiro did a somersault, grabbed the wooden sword next to his luggage with one hand, and took a few steps back to create distance between himself and his opponent.
"Breathing of the Moon, Second Form: Pearl Moon Dance".
Yuichiro Tokito took a step forward with one foot, lowered his body slightly, and swung his sword forward with force. Two red, curved blades were simultaneously unleashed, spinning erratically with yellow crescents as they attacked Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
"brush--."
Jikuni's eyes narrowed sharply, and he quickly retreated to dodge the two attacks. At the same time, he rushed forward, drew the sword from his waist, and slashed at Tokito Ichiro's wooden sword.
"So fast!"
As Tokito Ichiro watched the figure closing in on him, he swiftly flicked his wrist, dodging the attack from the wooden sword that could have cut him in half. He felt an even more terrifying sense of oppression than when he faced Iwakatsu, an intensely hot aura that seemed to melt him.
Tokito Ichiro gritted his teeth, not daring to be distracted for even a moment, and immediately raised his hand to hold the wooden sword in front of him.
"Breathing of the Moon, Form 5, Lunar Calamity Vortex".
A red blade, like a tornado, appeared before Tokito Ichiro, its spiraling upwards creating a crescent moon and causing the surrounding trees to sway violently in the wind.
Yoriichi Tsugikuni twisted his upper body to the side, tilting the sword to offset the damage from the blade. With a forceful grip on the hilt, flames like the sun appeared on the surface of the sword.
"brush--."
The crimson flames, carrying a scorching heat, tore through the tornado, slicing Tokito Ichiro's wooden sword into several pieces. The immense heat wave caused him to involuntarily fall backward, his back slamming heavily against a tree trunk.
When Tokito Yuichiro looked up, he could only see Yoriichi Tsugikuni standing there, completely obscured by the moonlight, holding a sword in one hand.
"Who taught you this breathing technique?"
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