Chapter 05 (revised)

[Seeing this question, [Tanjiro Kamado] almost burst out laughing. Just as he was about to answer, there was a sudden loud noise, and then a hand suddenly stretched out from the side and covered [Tanjiro]'s mouth.

"[Tanjiro!]" someone nearby muttered in a startlingly loud voice, "You can't say bad things about your good brothers without any reason... You can't do this... No, no, no, no..."

[Tanjiro Kamado]: Ah...why don't you let me go first? 】

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"This should be the [Zenitsu Agatsuma], right? I don't know why he feels unexpectedly unreliable..." Somewhere, an unknown person complained.

[After a series of unexpected circumstances, [Tanjiro Kamado] arrived in front of the camera, but his clothes, especially his collar, looked particularly messy. He smiled bitterly, pretending not to see the series of question marks on the screen, and changed the subject directly:

"Ah, I saw someone asked who will be doing the live show tomorrow." Actually, no one asked, and [Tanjiro Kamado] changed the subject. "Tomorrow, all the main actors will go on stage together to give speeches. However, it will not be live, and it will be released at the end of the movie. After all, the movie will be online tomorrow. Everyone is welcome to watch it! The next question is the ninth one."】

"…He skipped the eighth question, didn't he?"

"…He skipped the eighth question."

"It's obvious!" an ordinary Grade-5 member of the Demon Slayer Corps complained, "He just skipped the eighth question!"

[“The ninth question.” After being severely beaten up by Agatsuma Zenitsu, Tanjiro paused for a moment, skipped over a series of bullet screens asking him where the eighth question was, and silently apologized to a series of people who asked him this question.

"The ninth question is whether anything interesting happened during our filming this time." [Tanjiro Kamado] glanced at the bullet screen, "Yes, a lot of interesting things happened during this filming, and they will be released as behind-the-scenes footage later."

"For example, when [Inosuke], [Zenitsu] and I were filming the fight against the former Twelve Demon Moons, there was a scene in the middle where [Zenitsu]... Alas, can't I talk about this?"

The hand that was just there suddenly covered Kamado Tanjiro's mouth and pulled him aside. As Kamado Tanjiro faltered, a large face with yellow hair appeared on the screen. The yellow-haired man in front of the screen smiled with only eight teeth showing: "Sorry, Mina-san, today's live broadcast ends here..."

Then, the big screen went black instantly.

Bullet screen: ...

Are you sure?! 】

"Are you angry because of shame?"

"I'm angry because of shame."

"I'm so angry because of shame."

Uzui Tengen's face was filled with disbelief: "Is this the... Lei Hu kid? How unglamorous!"

"Hmm! Maybe the personality on screen is different from the personality in real life?"

Uzui Tengen: ...Thank you for the invitation. I don't feel any comfort at all due to the poor quality of this screen.

On the other side, Jigoro Kuwajima saw the screen, his eyes lit up, and then a roar rang out on Momoyama: "Zenitsu!"

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After the big screen ended, Ubuyashiki Yoya deliberately kept Tomioka Giyu and Fushigawa Sane behind. Because Ubuyashiki Yoya received news that there was a demon in Shizuoka Mountain, and it was said to be a lower moon, so he sent Tomioka Giyu and Fushigawa Sane to investigate together, and directly eliminate the demons they encountered.

Shizuoka Mountain is quite far away, so we definitely won't be able to get back by this time the next day. But it doesn't matter, after all, the two of them can try it out to see if the moving screen is real or fake.

However, what the Demon Slayer Corps members and In said was correct. On the next day at exactly the same time, a small screen did appear in front of the two of them.

Unlike yesterday, today, there was no person on the big screen like in the previous few days, but a strange title. Fuzugawa Shima and Tomioka Giyuu were tired from rushing and were sitting on a rock to rest. Fuzugawa Shima was drinking water, and when the title appeared on the screen, he clicked it with great confusion.

Many people did the same thing as Fuzugawa. Soon, the title faded away, and then the screen appeared.

[It was a snowy day, and someone's heavy breathing could be clearly heard. As the snow fell heavier, the breathing became heavier, and the boy who was breathing choked up: "Nezuko, Nezuko... I will definitely save you."]

Tomioka Giyuu paused in his action of drinking water - he recognized the voice of Tanjiro Kamado.

[“No, Nezuko, don’t sleep, don’t sleep.” Tanjiro’s voice became more and more panicked, “Don’t sleep, you won’t be able to wake up if you fall asleep. Brother… Brother, I will definitely save you!”]

Fuzugawa Miyabi smacked his lips. As the eldest son in the family, he could fully understand Tanjiro Kamado's actions - but... he touched the Nichirin Sword irritably: a demon is a demon.

[The scene moves forward rapidly, and soon, it reaches the time before everything begins.

Tanjiro Kamado is the eldest son of a family that sells coal. Today is the day to sell coal at the foot of the mountain. On the way home, Tanjiro passed by a small house and was about to ask the old man inside for a bowl of water.

The old man in the house looked at the sky getting darker and darker, and said something meaningful. He handed the water to Tanjiro and said, "It's getting late, why don't you stay here for one night. Be careful, you may encounter man-eating ghosts on the way at night."

Tanjiro didn't take the other person's words seriously, but it was really late, so he decided to stay at his grandfather's house for one night. But this was the beginning of all the tragedies. Tanjiro Kamado could never have imagined that in just one night, his family would undergo such earth-shaking changes.

"Hmm! I didn't expect this old man actually knew about the existence of ghosts!" Rengoku Kyojuro said loudly. You know, in order to prevent panic among the people, many people are not aware of the existence of ghosts.

Uzui Tengen looked thoughtful: "It seems that he is not an ordinary person."

Tokito Muichiro glanced at them calmly and said, "Maybe it's because we happened to meet before?"

[Early in the morning, Kamado Tanjiro said goodbye to the old man and walked towards the mountain. Halfway through, he suddenly stopped. He sniffed hard and muttered to himself: "Such a strong smell of blood..."

“This smells… like home!”

When he realized where the smell came from, he immediately ran towards his home.

The closer he got to home, the stronger the smell of blood became. Finally, he saw the familiar hut. But the moment he saw the scene in the hut, the basket he was carrying fell heavily onto the snow.

"Takeo, Rokuta, Shigeru, Hanako, Nezuko, Mom..." Tanjiro Kamado's face lost all color in an instant, and all he could see was that striking red.

"Amitābha." Although he couldn't see, just by the rise and fall of the voice and the breathing of his colleagues around him, Beimingyu Xingming had roughly understood what happened. He put his hands together, holding the Buddhist beads in his hands, sighed, and said with regret, "My condolences..."

The Demon Slayer Corps has seen many scenes like this before. In an instant, many people empathized with Tanjiro Kamado on the screen - they were just out for a night, so why did this happen?

On top of Mt. Samagiri, Rintaki Sakonji let out a heavy sigh.

[At this moment, Tanjiro suddenly discovered that Nezuko, who was lying in the yard, seemed to still be breathing. He put down the basket, carried his sister, who seemed to be the only one alive, on his back, and walked down the mountain.

"Nezuko, Nezuko...wake up, please? Nezuko...brother will definitely save you!"

Perhaps because of Tanjiro's call, Nezuko gradually woke up. However, she seemed a little different from usual.

The girl's teeth turned into fangs, her face was ferocious, and the whites of her eyes were exposed, which made people look a little scared. She kept struggling, and because of the terrain, Tanjiro accidentally fell down.

But the snow was deep and he did not die.

The girl attacked Tanjiro, seemingly trying to bite him, but was blocked by an axe that Tanjiro had taken out of nowhere. However, Nezuko still managed to knock him to the ground.

Only then did Tanjiro Kamado realize that the old man last night was not joking, there really are ghosts in the world...but Nezuko is a ghost?

Impossible, Nezuko was born a human, he can guarantee it. He believes that this is not what Nezuko wants to do. And it is not the family members that Nezuko killed, because...

Because……

There is another strange smell in the house that is different from the others. 】

"This child seems to be particularly sensitive to smells." said Mitsuri Kanroji.

Shinobu Kocho smiled and said, "If this is indeed the reality, then it should be Mr. Giyu's turn to appear next. But there is one more thing..."

"…A strange smell." Fuzugawa Mitsuya was in doubt. "If that Kamado Tanjiro is not wrong, then that smell is most likely Muzan Muzan. After all, only the Demon King can turn ordinary humans into demons."

[Nezuko and Tanjiro were in a stalemate, and the latter suddenly saw a pair of shoes appear in front of him. Tanjiro Kamado looked up, and the first thing that caught his eye was the blue Sun Blade with "Demon Slayer" written on it, a yellow-green haori, light flesh-colored hair, and a huge scar at the corner of his mouth. The purple eyes of the person who came in were raised at the corners, but he was not as lively as a normal person——

Tanjiro Kamado can see himself inside.

The man raised the Sun Blade and aimed it at the girl's neck. 】

"Hmm, it is indeed... Who is this?"

Rengoku Kyojuro blinked. He originally thought that the person who came was Tomiokana, but this was obviously not the case... Who is this?

"Hey...do any of you know who this is?"

Tomioka Giyuu was stunned. He suddenly trembled: "...Sento?"

At the same time, on Mist Mountain, Santu almost jumped up when she saw the flesh-colored man on the screen: "Wuwuwu! Isn't this... me?"

He pointed at himself, his face full of disbelief: "This is... me?"

Zhengu felt unbelievable. The two looked at each other and both felt their eyes go dark...

"Hey, hey, hey... really? If I were here, who was the person who died that year? The hero?"