Chapter 107: Mei/Kotoha joins the Infinite Castle Upper Ranks...
The Infinite Castle has added another Upper Moon member, and with the addition of Ando Tsukasa, things are starting to get lively.
But a few years ago, Ando Tsukasa could still use the excuse of visiting the Eternal Paradise Sect to escape the Infinite City's technological development plan, but now it is impossible.
Cheng Ji suddenly became as excited as if she had been injected with chicken blood, and supervised him every day.
But soon, Ando Tsukasa successfully got close to Shirohime, and the two ghosts went to the Eternal Paradise Cult to drink together.
Douma likes drinking and dancing, and Ando Tsukasa offered more advanced wine-making technology. The little ghosts were ordered to make wine, and then under the acceleration of the time adjustment of the Infinite City by Shirohime, the fine wine was transported to the Eternal Paradise Sect in boxes.
The three ghosts hit it off immediately when it came to drinking. Ando Tsukasa even wanted to invite Kokushibo to join, but was ruthlessly rejected by Kokushibo.
One winter night, Ando Tsukasa and Douma went out for a walk to get rid of the smell of alcohol on them. It was almost time for Suzuki Kawa to wake up, and they were afraid of being caught by Suzuki Kawa, so they restrained themselves for several days.
Passing by an alley, they heard a loud noise. The two ghosts looked at each other and walked over tacitly.
It was a young boy, crying while holding a body that was burned beyond recognition.
Ando Tsukasa: "Oh my god, there's even barbecue to eat late at night!"
Tong Mo wrinkled his nose and felt that his appetite was not very good.
Jifu Taro looked up and looked at the two young men in front of him warily: "Who are you?"
One of the black-haired young men looked at him, his expression changed slightly after a moment, and he said something to the white-haired young man next to him.
"Really? Then tell him." Douma said lazily.
Ando Tsukasa shrank his head and said, "I don't really dare." The fear of Suzuki Kawa was almost engraved in his bones.
Douma looked at Jifutaro and said, "Let's take him back to the church first. The man he's holding is probably beyond saving."
Both upper ranks saw the ferocity in Jifutaro's eyes.
Transformed into a ghost, Gitarou is undoubtedly a powerful helper.
"How about... grilling that thing, no, turning that corpse into a ghost?" Ando Tsukasa covered his mouth, paused, and continued.
Douma tilted his head. While Ando Tsukasa was still thinking about whether to tell Kokushibo and let Kokushibo wake up Suzuki Kawa, he rushed out and grabbed Jifutaro.
Ando Tsukasa opened his eyes wide: "What are you going to do——"
Jifutaro had almost no strength to resist under Douma's hands, and the demon blood was injected into his head. Severe pain spread throughout his body. He collapsed to the ground, his body twitching constantly.
As expected of Douma, he can actually transform people in an instant.
Ando Si took a deep breath and stepped forward quickly: "How did you transform so quickly?"
Douma looked down at Jifutaro and shook his head, his voice amused. "It's not a transformation, it's just that he's temporarily incapacitated."
"I can see the big hole in his forehead!"
"Don't worry, it's not incurable. The important thing is the other one." Douma lowered his head and looked at the inhuman corpse with interest.
Just now, the body died.
Ando Tsukasa: "Can corpses be transformed? It seems that I have never tried it before. Let me try it?" He was quite confident in the purity of his blood.
Douma looked at the corpse, but stood up and took a few steps back.
A pair of shoes appeared in Ando Tsukasa's field of vision. He blinked, then looked up, thinking it was Douma: "What are you doing standing over there—Ahh! Boss!"
His legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
Suzuki Chuan, who appeared out of nowhere, glanced at him and sighed, "What a loser! Get up! I'm not some ghost-eating monster."
The blond young man spoke in a lazy tone as he squatted down and placed his fingertips on the center of the corpse's eyebrows.
A drop of blood appeared on the fingertip and then quickly merged into the body of the corpse.
Ando Tsukasa swallowed his saliva, looked at Suzuki Kawa's actions, and whispered, "I was just about to ask Lord Kokushibo to notify you."
Suzuki Kawa watched the burnt skin of the corpse gradually begin to heal, and said calmly: "Dou Ma told me that there was a body and asked me to take care of it."
Andoji:? ?
He stood up tremblingly and looked at Douma who was giving him a mysterious smile. Is this guy so brave?
——Is it because of being favored that one feels fearless? !
Douma looked at him: I don’t understand what Ando-kun is saying.
Andoji:……
As for the mental communication among his subordinates, Suzuki Kawa simply turned his back on them and sat at the same table with the system, habitually ignoring them.
He watched the corpse gradually regain its human appearance, and his expression changed slightly.
The prostitute Futaro next to him was poisoned by Douma and fell into a coma.
Suzuki Kawa stood up and looked at his two subordinates who were still exchanging crazy eye contact, and felt his heart skip a beat.
He first looked at Douma with a questioning look on his face: "Douma, please don't eat your colleagues."
Hearing this, Douma's smile widened: "Ah, how could that be, sir~"
Ando Tsukasa was puzzled and looked at the corpse on the ground that had just been transformed by Suzuki Kawa again. She was worthy of being the Upper Six Fallen Princess. Her eyebrows and eyes were beautiful even with her eyes closed.
To Douma, this is no different from a blueberry shortcake.
He suddenly understood Suzuki Kawa's warning strangely.
"Sir, don't you plan to rank her?" Douma suddenly asked again.
Suzuki Chuan looked at him: "What ranking?"
"After all, he is a ghost transformed by adults himself. Looking at the entire Infinite City... or among other cannibal ghosts, there are only a handful of him." Douma said. He often had a smile on his face, and it seemed that he was sincerely thinking about his new colleague.
Suzuki Chuan looked back at Mei, who was still unconscious lying on the ground. The system had just told him the name of this little girl. He simply nodded and said, "You make sense. Let her follow Cheng Ji and see what her blood demon art is like."
The implication is that if her blood demon magic is strong enough, she should be considered to be included in the ranks of Crescent Moon Demons.
Douma's smile faded slightly, "I understand."
Ando Tsukasa seemed enthusiastic and said that he would take Mei back to the Eternal Paradise Sect first, and also take Jifu Taro back for treatment.
"With my blood suppressing it, the human flesh and blood won't get too out of control," Suzuki Chuan looked at the man and the ghost on the ground, "If her brother wants to become a ghost, you can transform yourself. There's no need to report to me."
After saying that, he turned around and disappeared on the spot.
He now no longer needs the help of a door to enter the Infinite City.
After Suzuki Kawa left, Ando Tsukasa patted his colleague on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, Douma. The last person to experience this kind of feeling was Lord Kokushibo. I understand you."
The next second, the lotus leaf ice penetrated his arm.
Ando Si uttered an "Ah" and withdrew his hand in frustration: "Why are you still so impatient?"
As expected, after waking up, Jifutaro learned that his sister had gained a second life by becoming a ghost, and he wanted to become a ghost without hesitation.
Upper-rank demons have the power to transform demons. Douma, with a smile on his face, fiercely plunged his finger into the chest of Jifu Taro, blood splattering. He looked at the twisted but still determined expression on the human's face and whispered, "It's really interesting, isn't it?"
Cheng Ji sat aside and drank tea. Because Suzuki Chuan woke up, she quickly quit drinking. Hearing this, she raised her eyelids and said, "He is indeed a determined person. I am afraid he is a very talented ghost."
What happened to the prostitute Futaro had nothing to do with her. She cared more about the white-haired girl that Suzuki Kawa had stuffed into her hands.
It’s hard to imagine that these two people with such completely different faces are siblings.
She looked at Ando Tsukasa again: "Ando, you are still too kind, not like an upper rank at all."
Having seen Kokushibo's coldness and aloofness, and Douma's fake innocence and cruelty, Ando Tsukasa is as pure as a blank sheet of paper.
Ando Tsukasa pointed at himself: "Ah, me?"
He tried to justify himself: "I've killed quite a few people!"
"If the Demon Slayers hadn't seen the words in your eyes, they would have thought you were just a passerby." Shirohime smiled. "Did your Excellency deliberately make the words 'Upper Rank' appear in our eyes to make you look more intimidating?"
The extremely destructive words shattered Ando Tsukasa's last bit of self-esteem. He looked heartbroken and began to reflect on whether he was too un-ghost-like.
Douma turned around and gave him some bad advice: "It must be because Ando-kun smiles so often. Why don't you cover the lower half of your face so they can't see your silly grin."
"What's with that silly grin?!" Ando Tsukasa stood up, "Douma, I'm really going to fight you this time!
But... Douma's suggestion is so tempting, no, it's so alluring.
Suzuki Kawa returned to the Infinite City and first went to find Kokushibo, urging him to go out and find blue spider lilies so that mushrooms would not always grow in the Infinite City.
Kokushibo: "Ogawa...does he need a blue spider lily too?"
Without waiting for Suzuki Chuan to answer, he said seriously: "I understand, I will definitely find the blue spider lily."
Even though Muzan searched for thousands of years, he still couldn't find it.
Suzuki Kawa: "Then there's no need to worry...it doesn't matter if you don't find it."
He just didn't want Kokushibo to be a otaku anymore.
When he realized that Kokushibo had been hiding in the Infinite Castle for fifty years without leaving, he became completely terrified.
Don't let it cause any other psychological problems for his friend.
In the Infinite Castle, Kokushibo is either practicing swordplay or daydreaming, either daydreaming or practicing swordplay. Ando Tsukasa and Douma are so considerate that they bring takeout for Kokushibo, allowing him to completely achieve the freedom of staying at home.
Although I want to be a hands-off boss, I can't let go like this.
Suzuki Kawa sighed in his heart and said that he didn't need to sleep too much from now on.
Kokushibo was visibly happy, the only difference was that the corners of his mouth rose by at least two pixels.
This reminded Suzuki Kawa of another good friend, who was also very serious.
No, when Kokushibo was still a human, he wasn't so serious. It must be Ando Tsukasa and Douma who didn't talk to Kokushibo, which made him autistic!
Suzuki Kawa silently took note of the two chatterboxes.
The system said quietly: [Is it really not Brother Hei who is unilaterally isolating others?]
Suzuki Kawa: [Impossible.]
Yan Sheng was super popular when he was in the Demon Slayer Corps!
System: ...You win.
However, Suzuki Kawa did not plan to continue sleeping because his [Time Buff] had expired.
And...it's less than a hundred years away from the Taisho era.
During these hundreds of years, the number of man-eating ghosts remained at a rough number, and the Demon Slayer Corps moved several times, and there were many talented swordsmen among them, but they still could not defeat the little ghosts of the Infinite Castle.
Of course, those were the first generation of imps in the Infinite City. After so many years, they had already evolved to the strength of the Lower Moon, and they were not just a few, but a group.
These are all organized ghosts.
There are also a considerable number of unorganized ghosts who are unaware of the existence of the Infinite City. They only know that they are controlled by the Ghost King. They are active in the wild and pose the greatest threat to the Demon Slayer Corps in the past few hundred years.
Suzuki Kawa looked at the data presented by the system and smacked his lips. "This strength doesn't seem to match up. The Demon Slayers can't even beat those demons in the wild, how can they fight against the Upper Ranks?"
Why did he feel that sending out just Ando Tsukasa would be enough to wipe out the Demon Slayer Corps without leaving a single survivor?
System: [Don't worry, wait a hundred years, and the strongest generation of the Demon Slayer Corps will emerge, a generation that can rival the first generation of the Warring States period!]
"But I killed those people during the Warring States period at random." Suzuki Chuan was puzzled. "That's it?"
Apart from the plot-killing method mentioned by the system, he couldn't think of any way to lose.
The system was anxious: [What about the daily call messenger? ]
"Breathing of the Sun? Didn't Yoriichirō pass it on?"
The system explained the relationship between Yoriichi Tsugikuni and the Kamado family.
Suzuki Kawa understood and nodded, "Did he win just by copying Yunyi's moves? Let me think..."
There was a large piece of paper in front of him with many symbols drawn on it. He picked up a pen and drew a circle on the symbol of the sun.
System: [Didn't you read the original novel? Actually, you could just change the beginning, that way there would be another way.] For example, don't kill the Kamado family, or just kill Nezuko or Tanjiro directly. Once the protagonist dies, everything else is useless.
"No." Suzuki Kawa refused.
Before the system answered, he continued, "There will definitely be a mandatory mission. Do you want to make a bet?"
[…Yes.] The system remembered a certain mandatory task and felt a little frustrated.
But soon, it started talking about some gossip with Suzuki Kawa: [I heard that the wild vegetable growing in front of the Kamado family is the blue spider lily, do you want to go and see it? ]
"What do you want that thing for? Give it to Yan Sheng to eat? That seems like a possibility." Suzuki Chuan put the pen aside, looked at his masterpiece, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Don't you want to eat it? It's a magical thing that can overcome the sun!"
Suzuki Kawa: “It doesn’t matter.”
The system was shocked. Has this guy evolved to the state of being strong without desires after waking up from a sleep?
Suzuki Chuan touched his chin and had an idea: "How about I send a threatening letter to Ubuyashiki every year?"
"Once you collect a hundred seals, you can summon Suzuki Kawa, a fugitive from the Demon Slayer Corps!"
System: [You actually defeated your opponent mentally first? You... I really underestimated you.]
[There are also escaped members of the Demon Slayer Corps, how dare you bring it up?!]
It imagined that if the Demon Slayer Corps was intimidated by Suzuki Kawa for a full hundred years, they would either become more and more afraid or more and more hateful. When it came to the final battle, Suzuki Kawa would directly increase his hatred to the maximum.
Life in Infinite City is not boring because there is a system to provide entertainment.
One day, Suzuki Kawa ran into Ando Tsukasa who had just returned. Seeing the black mask on the lower half of his face, he asked curiously, "What are you wearing this for?"
Ando Tsukasa's voice was muffled: "Sister Shirohime said I wasn't fierce enough, and Douma suggested that I wear a mask. This way, when I'm not talking, I can be quite intimidating."
I have to say, Douma's suggestion is really useful.
Suzuki Kawa nodded, then asked, "How did you become an Upper 4?"
Ando Tsukasa: "Douma started a bloody battle with me, and I didn't win."
Suzuki Kawa nodded again and let Ando Tsukasa leave.
A few days later, he met Cheng Ji again.
Shirohime was followed by Mei, looking at him curiously.
Suzuki Gawa looked at Shirohime and asked, "How did you become an Upper 3? Did Douma also fight with you?"
Cheng Ji felt a little ashamed: "Sir, I have never beaten him..."
"Oh." Suzuki Kawa nodded, indicating that he understood, and then looked at Mei who was hiding behind Shirohime, "What's your name?"
"Mei." Mei said to him.
"Nice name." Suzuki Kawa said casually.
Shirohime hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and while Suzukigawa was still there, she knew what Douma and Suzukigawa had said when she was still Upper Moon Two, so she simply asked Suzukigawa: "Sir, are you going to include Mei in the ranks of Lower Moons?"
Suzuki Kawa was already planning to go find Kokushibo. He was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then he remembered that it seemed to be true, so he nodded: "That's fine."
"Mei's brother, Jifutaro, is also very powerful..."
"Ah, let them go together." Suzuki Chuan waved his hand, "I'm leaving now. See you next time."
He had never seen Jifutaro, but since Shirohime had personally confirmed that he was powerful, it would be fine to give him his identity.
After all, it's just the lower moon.
On the way to find Kokushibo, the system popped up: [Why do I feel like you accidentally did a good thing. ]
"There's no definition of what's good or bad," Suzuki Chuan said nonchalantly. "What you think is good may not be what others think. Right and wrong is up to you."
[What about you?] The system's electronic sound suddenly carried a hint of electricity.
Suzuki Chuan walked slowly and leisurely, "Me? Just follow my heart."
[The mandatory mission has been assigned. You must kill the Kamado family and then release Tanjiro and Nezuko.]
"Hehe," Suzuki Chuan couldn't help laughing, "Then I really have to go to the sea. Oh, I have to think carefully about how to do it."
He hummed a song as he went to find Kokushibo.
The new Upper Rank is determined after Douma launches several bloody battles of position switching.
Douma never defeated Upper Moon One Kokushibo, but Kokushibo didn't kill him either.
When his head was taken away from his body by the Hollow Crying God, his pair of smiling, colorful eyes met Kokushibo's, and his tone was full of joy: "Sir Kokushibo, you are jealous, you are angry, right?"
Kokushibo looked at him coldly.
Douma was about to say something when he suddenly spoke up: "You, aren't you?"
After a brief silence, the smile on Douma's face widened, and laughter overflowed from the corners of his bleeding mouth, gradually becoming louder and echoing in the empty Infinite City.
The emotionless monster, with only a head left, laughed wildly until tears appeared in the corners of his eyes. This was completely different from the tears he shed when he preached and heard about the miserable fate of his believers.
He didn't know why the tears fell, maybe because he was tired of laughing, or maybe it was a habit.
"Huh? Are you guys fighting?"
Suzuki Kawa's voice rang out above his head. Kokushibo retracted his Hollow Crying Spirit and looked up at the young man leaning on the railing.
The scene on the platform was horrific. Douma’s head and body were separated. His head fell to the ground and rolled for a few times. His body spontaneously picked it up and pressed it against his neck. Then he greeted Suzuki Kawa: "Long time no see, sir!
Suzuki Kawa nodded: "Long time no see, Douma."
"Remember to clean it up, otherwise Cheng Ji will be unhappy." He reminded her and disappeared at the railing.
Douma's third bloody battle of position swapping ended in failure.
Suzuki Kawa seemed uninterested in the bloody battle of position-switching between them, but this did not affect his attitude towards them.
Whether it is the waxing two or the waxing four.
Douma is still drinking with Ando Tsukasa, Shirohime has to teach Mei and has no time to join them, and Jifutaro starts going out frequently to improve his strength.
Mei's early experiences have caused her temperament to become somewhat distorted, and Cheng Ji is worried about this.
Ando Tsukasa felt that given Shirohime's age, it was possible that she would lead Mei to another extreme.
Also, the prostitute Futaro who was originally assigned to work under him also went to Shirohime every day. Ando Tsukasa was a little angry, but when he thought about the deep relationship between the two siblings, it was understandable.
Decades more passed.
The Eternal Paradise Cult took in a woman who was beaten by her husband and had nowhere else to go. Her name was Qin Ye, and she was holding a newborn baby in her arms.
Suzuki Kawa happened to be out and visited the Eternal Paradise Sect, where he ran into Kotonoha who was walking around in the yard with her child in her arms.
Qin Ye was a little frightened when she saw a strange man coming to the backyard.
Suzuki Kawa looked around and said, "Hmm? Where's Douma?"
"The Master and Lord Ando went out for a drink..." Qinye answered him in a low voice.
"Ah...you're not here? Forget it, are you new here?" Suzuki Kawa looked at her.
Qin Ye was very nervous: "Yes, the leader took me in."
Seeing that she was holding a child in her arms, Suzuki Kawa asked if he could take a look.
When Kotonoha saw him calling Douma Suixing, she knew that he was an extraordinary person, and nodded quickly, not daring to refuse.
However, Suzuki Kawa just walked over, took a closer look, and praised: "This child's eyes are green, which is rare."
Qin Ye was flattered: "Thank you, sir."
It's no surprise that anyone who could be taken in by the church had a very miserable life. Suzuki Chuan thought for a moment, then pulled out a beautiful jade bell from the system space and said, "As a greeting gift, I wish this child a long life."
"Sir, this, this..." Qin Ye didn't dare to accept it and said in panic.
Suzuki Chuan had already stuffed the bell into her swaddling clothes and waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's just a worthless thing. There are a lot of things like this in the church storehouse. It's just a small token of my appreciation."
As he was speaking, there was a noise outside.
System: [A man came to cause trouble, saying his wife ran away.]
Suzuki Kawa glanced at Kotonoha and said goodbye, "Since Douma is not here, I'll leave first. It's getting late. You should take the child back and rest first."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Qin Ye looked down at the bell in the cradle, feeling a little uneasy.
The next day, she heard about the trouble last night and her face turned pale with fright.
But church staff told her that the man had been taken away by someone else.
"Looks like he's a friend of the leader? He's seen him before, so everyone else made way. He walked over, saw that person, and without a word, he immediately removed the person's noisy jaw, then his hands and feet, without blinking an eye."
"And then?" Qin Ye asked nervously.
The staff member said: "Then he was dragged away like a dog."
"Maybe he's dead." He shrugged.
Qin Ye's face turned pale: "Just... dead?"
The staff was not surprised: "It seems that he has a bad temper. The leader has told us not to provoke him before. I heard that the troublemaker last night is a repeat offender. It's his bad luck, hum."
Qin Ye left in a daze, feeling that the bell in the room was like a hot potato.
At night, Douma returned to the church. She couldn't wait to see Douma and told him what happened last night.
Douma was sitting in his seat. He looked up when he heard this, and the smile on his lips faded: "He gave you a gift?"
"Yes... I wanted to refuse, but he said they were worthless things, and then..." Qin Ye repeated what the man said during the day.
Douma, however, showed no other expression. He looked at her and continued to ask, "Where's the bell?"
Is there something wrong with that bell? Kotonoha quickly took out the bell and handed it to Douma.
Douma took it, held it in his hand and looked at it. After a while, he raised his head and showed his usual smile: "It's not a big deal, he won't do anything to you... No, he's been quite good to you."
His tone was light and cheerful: "It's a greeting gift. He hasn't even given one to Lord Kokushibo."
"What a...lucky kid."
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