Chapter 29 Times Have Changed
“Bang!”
In a dark room in Jiyuan Flower Street, behind a folding screen painted with exquisite Ukiyo-e, a beautiful woman in a luxurious kimono and wearing many exquisite pearl hairpins on her head raised her hand and threw a stack of letters at the face of another woman dressed as an oiran who was kneeling before her, restrained by several belts painted with strange patterns.
"Suma Oiran, tell me who you've been communicating with, and I might spare your life."
The woman with dark blue hair was pale and trembling all over. She was obviously terrified to the extreme, but even so, she still kept her lips tightly pursed, lowered her head and said nothing.
This guy doesn't look very courageous but his mouth is as tight as the other two spies.
"Your other companions have also been captured. If you don't answer, I will kill them."
The woman known as the Suma Oiran trembled even more violently. She began to sob and cry, but remained silent.
Upper Six Dakimaki, who loves beautiful things, became furious when she saw the other person's ugly appearance with tears streaming down her face and her makeup messed up.
This is the first time in thousands of years that Lord Muzan has formed an alliance with someone. Lord Muzan also personally handed over the important task of assisting and protecting the ally to her. What an honor it is.
.......But at this critical moment, three spies from the Demon Slayer Corps sneaked into her territory!
Dakimaki wanted to force the interrogation, but humans were too fragile. She wasn't proficient in torture. If she used too much force and accidentally killed the informant, how could she catch the big fish behind the scenes? And then it would ruin Master Muzan's plans.
But this matter cannot be blamed on her, it is because the enemy is too cunning!
Daki prepared herself mentally for Muzan-sama's angry rebuke, took a deep breath, and reported in her heart:
"Lord Muzan, I have captured three Demon Slayer Corps spies. What will you do with them?"
Muzan Kibutsuji responded quickly: [Have you already captured them?]
[Yes!] Daki, still unaware of Muzan Kibutsuji's hidden meaning, was busy claiming credit. "I discovered these three were secretly gathering intelligence and transmitting messages to the outside world. I've apprehended all three of them the moment I noticed anything suspicious. To ensure the clues aren't broken, I've kept them alive and haven't let them discover Kyubey's existence."
.......You have arrested them without even finding out who the contact was. Now not only has the clue been cut off, but you have also alerted the enemy. What is this for?
He wanted to be angry, to lose his temper, to curse... but when he thought about the fact that the person who did this was Daki, who had no brains to begin with, Muzan Kibutsuji gave up.
Anyway, I didn't have any expectations of her. At least this guy had the brains to report to me in time and didn't let Kyubey be exposed.
[I understand. Be careful these days. You can deal with those Demon Slayer Corps spies as you wish.]
After Muzan Kibutsuji cut off Daki's communication, he said to the white beast by the windowsill, "Daki has captured three women who are suspected to be members of the Demon Slayer Corps. If, as we previously assumed, that monster and the Demon Slayer Corps will soon come to our door, are you and your group of human minions ready?"
Kyubey flicked his tail and said, "Don't worry. I've already told them that they are witches and their followers who need to be defeated. As soon as there is any movement, they will come to support immediately."
Because of the current chaotic state of the universe, opponents will be hesitant and limited when using their powers. Even a fledgling magical girl can cause damage by using a large number of people to attack.
Kyubey's magical girl contract will turn the girls' souls into soul gems, which will become cloudy with the passage of time and the use of magic.
Once the gem is completely turbid, the magical girls who represent "hope" will turn into monsters of "despair" called witches, and they will also be the targets of the magical girls' crusade.
The civilization to which Kyubey belongs has developed a magical technology that converts emotions into energy. The purpose of their contracts with girls is not to create magical girls, but to create witches, and to draw energy from the desperate process of magical girls falling into witches.
The only way to prevent the taint of gems is to hunt witches and use the "Seeds of Sorrow" they drop upon death to purify the gems and delay their transformation into witches. Of course, this witch-hunting process also tends to accelerate the consumption of gems, allowing Kyubey to gather more energy.
This will be an industrial chain that continuously produces despair for Kewpie.
However, there are no witches in this world.
Therefore, these magical girls who have just realized their life wishes have no reason to use magic to fight desperately, and the gems will become polluted much more slowly.
Muzan Kibutsuji: "Once we start a war with that monster, regardless of whether we win or lose, it will inevitably consume a huge amount of their magic power, speeding up the creation of witches. Then we can say that the tragedy was caused by that monster... What a brilliant strategy. But are you sure she will come?"
Chubby only talked about the results: "She definitely will. I've dealt with people from similar organizations before. They are very stubborn. Once they set their sights on a goal, they will not give up until they achieve it. Be careful out there."
Qiubi, the dance king of the minefield, is very sure that anyone in the space-time maintenance organization, or even the local residents who know what it is going to do, will not sit idly by and watch it complete its plan, and will inevitably take action.
Kyubey would never let Muzan Kibutsuji know the truth behind it, otherwise the already fragile alliance between them would be broken immediately.
He won’t give up until he achieves his goal... What kind of murderous ghost is this!
Muzan Kibutsuji didn't show it on his face, but the throbbing in his heart had already become as intense as a tap dance. At this moment, he still believed that Cheng Xiaoyu was coming for him, and Kyubey was just cannon fodder he had tricked into the water.
After putting some pressure on Muzan Kibutsuji, Kyubey changed the subject in time to avoid being questioned: "But you might lose your men. In this situation, the people in these organizations are likely to completely ignore their surroundings when fighting, and only focus on achieving their goals."
This is the most reasonable result obtained after the most precise calculations, so Kyubey did not put all his eggs in one basket.
There are still magical girls outside of Flower Street. It doesn't matter even if the group in Flower Street are all wiped out. Kyubey had previously seized the opportunity to introduce the various magical girls to each other and build good relationships just for this moment.
Girls in similar situations easily bonded and formed friendships. How could these innocent girls remain silent when they heard that their friends, whom they had just seen a few days ago, had tragically died in such large numbers? And with a little guidance from the demon… despair, wasn't that the beginning?
Muzan Kibutsuji had witnessed Cheng Xiaoyu's strange movement speed. He had been psychologically traumatized by Cheng Xiaoyu. In addition, he had just been under pressure from Kyubey, so he would not open the Infinite City when Cheng Xiaoyu was present.
But he would never admit that he was a coward, saying only, "A piece of trash is not worthy of being my subordinate. Besides, if I can weaken this monster by only destroying the weakest of the Upper Ranks, that would be a great deal."
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Daki didn't know that she had been abandoned, and was ecstatic, thinking that this was a sign of Lord Muzan's trust in her.
This ghost tends to get carried away when he's happy, and when Daki is in a good mood, Suma doesn't seem so annoying to him anymore.
She didn't plan to kill these three spies right now. She planned to keep them to catch big fish. It would be best if she could catch a few more to eat!
In this way, she and her brother can eat better quality flesh and blood, become stronger, gain more praise from Lord Muzan, and then be promoted to get more blood... Just thinking about it makes the ghost full of motivation!
Full of energy, Daki stepped up her observation of Hanamachi, and soon she found four more young devils from the Demon Slayer Corps who had sneaked in disguised as women. One of them was actually the sorcerer devil that Lord Muzan had mentioned wanting to strangle.
Here, the face-obsessed Daki must interject: "Is there something wrong with the Demon Slayer Corps' aesthetics? The makeup is so ugly, it makes me sick. How on earth do you have the guts to live in the world with a face like that?"
"Stop making so much noise! It's not like we wanted to look so shameful!" the blond-haired boy yelled. The makeup on his face was funny and ugly, making him stand out among his teammates.
Agatsuma Zenitsu: Everyone was painted with this hideous costume when they came here, so why is he the only one still wearing it?
You agreed to be embarrassed together, but you actually took off your makeup secretly?
"No matter what you do, it's useless." Dakimaki manipulated several ribbons with disdain, sweeping the eye-catching Agatsuma Zenitsu away. "Don't you understand? The gap between humans and demons is like an insurmountable chasm. How dare the Demon Slayer Corps still dream of defeating us in the dark night that protects us?"
Daki was too confident. Most of her attention at the moment was on guarding against the pillars that might be hiding in the dark, and Haibara Yu, the only two people at the scene who she thought could pose a threat to her.
She didn't notice why there were no cries of pain or the smell of blood coming from the building that her silk ribbon had shattered into ruins. She didn't notice that she had razed everything around her to the ground. She didn't notice that Zenitsu Agatsuma, who had been lifted into the air by her, had already reached into her arms.
It's dawn.
The scorching light like sunlight instantly melted the flesh on Daki's back and the ribbons around her body, and the severe burning pain tore apart Daki's confidence.
Without time to think about why the sun rose early, Duji instinctively tried to go to the shade to avoid the "sun" behind her.
But the surrounding houses had already collapsed under her attack, so there was no shelter from the light. What's more, Daki could run, and Agatsuma Zenitsu, who was holding a powerful fluorescent flashlight, could also run, and he ran very well.
Feel the speed of Thunder's Breath, Goblin!
Wherever Daki ran, Agatsuma Zenitsu would shine the light, keeping a safe distance and following closely. The other three seized the opportunity to stop the ghost and kept the seriously injured Daki firmly under the light.
For the first time since its establishment, the Demon Slayer Corps received positive blessing in the dark, so how could they let her escape?
Let it be reduced to ashes under the brilliance of new era technology!
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