Chapter 22 How to die?
"Didn't I just accidentally take the wrong road?"
"I apologized so actively. If that doesn't work, we could have discussed financial compensation. I'm not unreasonable. I was trying to reason with her, but she didn't even give me a chance to explain and started scratching my face like hell. I didn't fight back and just dodged the first time, but she's still doing it! She's even more aggressive! Is she crazy?"
[And if she can't win, she'll just run away and explode and spray everyone else's blood. She's described as weak, cowardly, and playful.] Number 233 said, [If we can't kill her, she'll just run away quickly!]
"I've always felt like her final escape method of self-destruction is somewhat familiar. I feel like I've heard it somewhere..." Cheng Xiaoyu twirled the ends of her hair, which were soaked in enemy blood, and casually tucked it back. "Never mind. Maybe I heard someone mention it during a previous mission."
The most important thing right now is to save lives, this world is not safe.
Like the girl just now, although Cheng Xiaoyu could beat her without any pressure and beat her so hard that she used her space-based ability to self-destruct and run away, she was still a huge threat to Huiyuan Xiong.
Judging by the standards of the world of sorcery, the opponent's strength is undoubtedly at the "special grade" level, and is definitely not something that the modern Haibara Yu can deal with.
Cheng Xiaoyu pulled out the locating spell she had prepared earlier from the shadows. She looked at the palm-sized compass, which was emitting a bluish-purple light. The needle trembled slightly as it pointed towards a certain direction. A smile finally appeared on the corner of her lips. "It seems that little Alice who fell into the rabbit hole is still alive and well."
It's a good thing. It makes the trip worthwhile if we can find a lost child.
"I told you not to worry, you're an expert at finding lost children."
While Cheng Xiaoyu was determining her goals, No. 233 began to imagine their retirement life, which they might not even live to see.
"If you ever quit and retire, you could try to open a lost children's center in some other world. I could then be your search system, and when I have free time, I can just play cyber mahjong. How nice."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "I think you could write a book called 'Will Bionic AI Become Addicted to Electronic Mahjong?'"
Ignoring the following complaint from No. 233, “Retirement and leaving get off work are my only motivations for going to work,” Cheng Xiaoyu slipped into the shadows and headed towards the direction of the compass.
......
"Wait a moment!"
There were still fifteen minutes left before dawn. Tanjiro Kamado, who was helping the old man evacuate, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, who was carrying a child on his back, stopped at the same time, drew their swords in an instant, and stood in front of the crowd around them.
"What did you find?" Rengoku Kyojuro put his thumb on the blade of the sword. The sword was unsheathed and he could use the sword-drawing technique to strike a critical blow at any time.
Agatsuma Zenitsu possessed a far more sensitive hearing than most people. He pointed the tip of the knife in one direction and said, "It sounded like the turning of mechanical gears and the swinging of a pointer. It suddenly appeared and was getting closer and closer."
Tanjiro Kamado: "I smell the scent of Muzan's blood, and the concentration... is much higher than that of the Upper Three just now, second only to Muzan himself."
The smell was so strong that it didn't seem to be separated by flesh and blood, but as if his head was covered with the blood of Muzan Kibutsuji. Tanjiro Kamado had never smelled a stronger smell on any demon other than Muzan Kibutsuji.
Rengoku Kyojuro made a quick decision: "Everyone, immediately continue running along the railroad tracks towards the town. I'll cover your rear."
Everyone had heard about Tanjiro Kamado's extraordinary and sensitive sense of smell, which was comparable to a plug-in, and his previous experience of encountering Muzan Kibutsuji offline, and they were even more frightened when they heard about it.
Is the one coming Upper Rank Two or Upper Rank One, or... is it Muzan himself who is coming?
After defeating the Lower Rank One, the Upper Rank Three comes to fight next. The Upper Rank Three leaves and another demon comes to fight. It never ends, right?
What are you doing here when dawn's less than fifteen minutes away?! Do you man-eating ghosts really like meeting deadlines?!
Perhaps the other party realized that his whereabouts were exposed and the sun was about to rise, so he simply didn't want to hide anymore. A black shadow rushed straight towards Tanjiro Kamado and others at a speed that was far beyond the reach of ordinary humans. Even the eyesight of a pillar-level person could only barely see her blurry gray-blue skin and long black hair.
If the other person hadn't jumped out and shouted "I found you", they wouldn't even know each other's gender.
Under the hazy moonlight, she was like the scythe of the god of death, about to reap the lives in front of her.
But she overlooked one point - how could Rengoku Kyojuro, who had been on guard for a long time, allow the evil spirit to kill people in front of him?
Even if my whole body is burned to ashes, I must stop the enemy here and buy a chance of survival for my companions behind me!
"Breath of Fire—"
.......
I have to say it’s really cool to take a shortcut using the shadows. Cheng Xiaoyu arrived near Huihara Xiong in no time.
Because the time and space lines of this world itself are somewhat chaotic, non-local spatial forces like Cheng Xiaoyu will be subject to certain constraints that affect their accuracy.
So in order to avoid being teleported to a place where he shouldn't be and being discovered by the owner, causing unnecessary disputes, and also to avoid causing further damage to the people's weak hearts by performing a sudden transformation, and finally having to rescue them on the spot, Cheng Xiaoyu deliberately moved the position of his shadow, so that his appearance point was slightly away from the target location, in the woods a few hundred meters away.
It's so far away, so if I make some noise when I get closer, it shouldn't scare anyone... Wait?
Why did Haibara Yu's coordinates suddenly accelerate? Judging from the deviation of the compass needle, the speed is not slow. Could something have happened?
Cheng Xiaoyu jumped up and started to see what was going on, but she didn't expect that as soon as she got out of the woods and didn't even have time to say hello, a fiery man jumped out and greeted her with his hot knife.
"Fire Breathing Type 1 - Shiranui!"
No, who are you? I didn't offend you, did I? And why are you shouting so loudly?!
There were too many questions to ask, so Cheng Xiaoyu turned her head slightly to avoid the blade that was rushing towards her neck at high speed, but the opponent immediately took advantage of the force of the missed blade and turned to stab her while launching a slash.
The target was still her neck.
This time, Cheng Xiaoyu chose to jump up and dodge, and stepped on the tip of the swinging knife to use the force to fly into the air and hover to create distance between herself and the attacker.
It was at this moment that she noticed Huiyuan Xiong running along the railway tracks with a large group of people not far away. The experience of encountering the stressed indigenous people a few minutes ago made Cheng Xiaoyu, who had always been mistaken for a villain, immediately realize that there was some misunderstanding between them.
...Although if possible, Cheng Xiaoyu doesn't really want this kind of experience.
Before the golden-red-haired attacker could step on a tree to gain leverage and chop her face with the knife again, Cheng Xiaoyu shouted, "Hui Yuanxiong, I'm here to take you back to the 21st Century. Where are you running to?!"
The samurai sword with a red flame-like blade pattern swung in the air, and Huiyuan Yu's foot suddenly stopped.
Cheng Xiaoyu used his magic to wrap around the "attacker" who was about to fall. He looked down at the height below him, then at the attacker who was obviously a human. He said with shame: "No, buddy, this is just the first time we meet. Aren't you a little too eager to kill me?"
"Um, because I'm the Flame Pillar, my name is Rengoku Kyojuro! I mistook you for a demon, I'm sorry!" While being slowly descended by the invisible force, Rengoku Kyojuro took advantage of the close distance to confirm that there were no words engraved in the eyes of the young woman in front of him who looked like a demon.
He is indeed not one of the Twelve Demon Moons, nor is he like Muzan Kibutsuji. It is impossible for him to leave anyone alive.
"It's okay. I'm a little used to being misunderstood."
Cheng Xiaoyu is not very good at dealing with people who are so emotionally passionate.
It wasn't because she was socially anxious or uncomfortable, but being around people like that always made her feel... well, how should I put it? It made her feel like a salted fish that had been buried in the Baltic Sea for a thousand years, like a damp, dank feeling...
It's like when a 996 worker on his way to work meets a lively student during the summer vacation, he realizes that he has become a miserable office worker and his youth is gone. It's sad...
Oh, it seems she is also a corporate slave now.
…I feel even sadder, and the darkness in my heart becomes deeper.
"Ms. Ghost?" As the alert was lifted and the distance closed, and then the morning light slowly rose, Huiyuan Xiong finally saw the familiar yet unfamiliar face. He was ecstatic to finally see a familiar face, "Ms. Ghost, it really is you!"
When he was at Tokyo Jujutsu High School, he did not have any communication with the "Ghost Queen", who was classified as a dangerous element by the top management. The other party's origins and more detailed information were not accessible to him, a newcomer to the world of sorcery. He had only met her a few times and said hello.
Even the name "Miss Ghost", which was more acceptable to the other party, was something he heard by chance from Senior Getsuyu.
Even so, after being away from home for several months and wandering in an unfamiliar era, Haibara Yu was still extremely excited and his eyes were slightly warm when he finally saw familiar people.
Can he finally go home?
After Cheng Xiaoyu confirmed that Huiyuan Xiong was healthy and had no missing limbs, she patted the lost teenager on the back and handed him a tissue. "Not bad, not bad. You must have worked very hard to stay alive and kicking in this strange time for so long without losing any limbs. You'll be fine from now on. You can go home as soon as I'm done."
"Congratulations, Haibara-kun." Tanjiro congratulated from the bottom of his heart, "You can finally be reunited with your family."
The boy who had fought against ghosts and faced life and death without shedding a tear finally gave up after hearing the words "reunited with his family". He grabbed a tissue of a familiar brand from the 21st century and wiped his tears carelessly.
Who wouldn't want to go home? Who wouldn't be afraid of suddenly leaving their familiar hometown? Only Huibara herself knows how scared and desperate she has been during this period of time.
Everyone tacitly turned aside, leaving space for Haibara Yu who was expressing his emotions, and wished him well from the bottom of their hearts.
At this moment, Cheng Xiaoyu noticed that the group that Huiyuan Xiong and the other three teenagers had been protecting were running further and further away along the track. "I'm not sure what happened over there...but don't you need to deal with that?"
I'm a little curious about what happened here that led to the grand scene of hundreds of people jogging together in the morning.
Rengoku Kyojuro said, "Well, no need! They should be meeting up with the people responsible for picking them up soon. But Miss, before you take Haibara back, could you please answer a few questions for us?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "What's the problem?"
Tanjiro Kamado was impatient. With his keen sense of smell, he moved closer and naturally discovered the true source of the strong smell of blood. "Excuse me, what's with the blood in your hair?"
"Oh, you are talking about this. This was the result of my self-defense." Cheng Xiaoyu briefly explained how she had taken the wrong road and was beaten up, but she found that the people in front of her suddenly fell into a strange silence. Even Huihara Xiong stopped crying and just stared at her.
Huiyuan Xiong murmured: "So it's you... Everything makes sense now."
Cheng Xiaoyu:?
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