Chapter 19
"No." Tomioka Giyuu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up, startling everyone, "Where is the Infinity Train arc?"
Something is wrong. After he said this, everyone remembered the forgotten Infinite Train. Shinobu Kocho flipped through her notebook with a guilty conscience: "It seems that the Infinite Train arc is indeed between the Spider Mountain and Yukuo arcs... We all forgot..."
"Who sent that... message to ask this little devil [my wife]? After all, the Infinite Train is quite important, as they said before. Purgatory is also... Who sent a message to ask!"
…
After a long period of confusion, the message was finally sent. The golden words VIP on the screen blinded Zenitsu Agatsuma's face. Looking at the golden words "Where is the Infinity Train?", Zenitsu Agatsuma felt guilty. He felt that he couldn't bear the consequences of causing such a big disaster. He "whooshed" out of the camera - even at the speed of a Thunder Breathing Transmitter. The next second, no one could see the face of the blond boy anymore.
...Oh, but the sound is still audible.
【There was a series of crackling sounds, and then [Tanjiro Kamado], who hadn't been seen for a long time, dragged [Zenitsu Agatsuma] back to his seat. The reliable eldest son of the Kamado family bowed to everyone and apologized: "I'm sorry, everyone, Zenitsu just missed a chapter of the Infinite Train. This is because Zenitsu was too nervous during the live broadcast. Please forgive him. Because it's getting late, today's live broadcast will be the end of the Infinite Train and Flower Street Arc. Thank you all for watching."】
"Not bad." Uzui Tengen patted his chest, looking relieved, "This gorgeous god is still lucky. I just finished the talk on Huajie and went off the air."
"Hmm! Tomioka, thank you so much this time." Rengoku Kyojuro and Tomioka Giyuu, who had long known that the Infinite Train was closely related to them, thanked him, "Please agree to have dinner with me next time!"
Tomioka Giyu shook his head and nodded. Finally, he remembered his master's advice to "talk more", so he hesitated for a moment and replied, "Okay."
[After exchanging a few words with [Azuma Zenitsu], [Kamado Tanjiro] stepped aside. [Azuma Zenitsu] pursed his lips pitifully, apologized to everyone with great sincerity, and then continued to talk about the Infinite Train arc.
"The Infinite Train was a mission I carried out with Tanjiro, Inosuke, and the Flame Pillar, Rengoku Kyojuro. According to Rengoku Kyojuro, a large number of passengers on the train went missing, and the advance team of the Demon Slayer Corps that came to support them all lost contact, so there might be demons on the train."
"Of course, there is indeed a ghost haunting the place, the Lower Moon One after all."】
"Lower Moon One? But I remember it was Upper Moon Three who killed Purgatory?" Fuzukawa Mitsuya questioned.
Kanroji Mitsuri: "Yeah, maybe he came later?"
"Don't worry about the Lower Rank One, the main thing is the Upper Rank Three." Iguro Obane said, "I don't know what the Upper Rank Three blood demon art is."
[“Of course, there is another interesting little thing behind the spider mountain and before the infinite train.”
"Didn't the Lower String Five of Tagumi no Gumi no Yama be killed by Tomioka Giyu with one sword? So Muzan Muzan got very angry when he received the message. So he summoned all the Lower Strings to the Mugen Castle and killed all of them except the Lower String One. He also said that he would abolish the Lower String system in the future."
"And this scene was later jokingly called by us - The Demon Slayer Ambassador Wu Hei furiously kills the Lower String."】
"puff."
Kanroji Mitsuri couldn't help but burst out laughing. With Kanroji Mitsuri's start, the lord's house was suddenly filled with laughter, and even the usually serious Beimingyu Xingming smiled slightly.
"Ah aah." Shinobu Kocho finally laughed enough and said, "I didn't expect that Muzan Mumu has really reduced our burden."
“Let’s get back to the original topic.”
"Soon, the Lower Moon One's blood demon art was activated, and we soon fell into a dream because of the Lower Moon One's nightmare blood demon art. In the dream, I dreamed that I was running happily in the peach forest with Nezuko who could talk, and I was carrying Nezuko who couldn't swim across the river on my back - ah, it's so happy, Nezuko-sister~"
Halfway through the conversation, [Zenitsu Agatsuma] fell into his imagination. But soon, a fist suddenly appeared from behind the phone. [Zenitsu Agatsuma] shuddered, quickly came out of his imagination, and continued to talk about the following content.
"Afterwards, Nightmare ordered several children to use ropes to sneak into our dreams, intending to enter the unconscious realm of everyone's dreams to destroy their "spiritual core" - oh, the "spiritual core" is the core of our spiritual world. If it is broken, we will become useless - and then kill them. But how could anyone other than Nezuko appear in my spiritual world? So by mistake, I unconsciously attacked the invader in my spiritual world."】
"It's really a coincidence." Uzui Tengen laughed a few times.
Although he learned that Zenitsu was fine in the end, Jigoro Kuwajima was still afraid. He secretly made up his mind - judging from the strength of the demons that Zenitsu would encounter in the future, it seemed that the difficulty of Zenitsu's training would have to be increased.
As for Zenitsu, it was not until he passed the final assessment and became a true member of the Demon Slayer Corps that he learned why his grandfather had been so cruel to him.
【“Afterwards, as expected of Nezuko, I was able to dissolve Nightmare’s blood demon art. With Tanjiro’s call, I joined the battle while still asleep, and saved Nezuko from Nightmare who had merged with Train—Ah, as expected of me! I’m so cool!”
But soon, the high-pitched boy's tone suddenly dimmed: "I accepted the instructions of the Flame Pillar and kept protecting the passengers with Nezuko. It was not until dawn that I rushed out of the car and found that Kyojuro had been fatally injured and eventually died. Later, I learned from Tanjiro about the advent of Upper Rank Three, Akaza."
"It's a ghost with black patterns all over its body, like a zebra crossing turned into a spirit. It has red hair and eyelashes." He paused, "Very strong."】
"What? There is no clue about Upper 3's blood demon arts." Someone from the Demon Slayer Corps complained. Amidst the complaints, Murata's friend grabbed Murata's neck and said, "Hey, what do you think, Brother Luzhu?"
"Don't tease me!" Murata struggled to escape from the clutches, "Well... at least we know what Upper Rank 3 looks like?"
"But the one above [Azuma Zenitsu] said that this demon is very strong!" Someone hesitated, "Can we really defeat them... Even the Flame Pillar was fatally injured..."
"Have you forgotten that future?" Someone encouraged, "You will definitely succeed!"
——No matter how difficult the road ahead is.
【“Next comes the Yuguo chapter.”
"I have to say something here! This time, it was not my wife Zenitsu who insisted on going on the demon-killing tour! Instead, it was to save our poor, persecuted children of Chouya from the hands of the great demon Lord Uzui Tengen!"】
"What? How can someone as gorgeous as me be the devil? It must be wrong!" Uzui Tengen said angrily. But he was not angry for two seconds before he felt a chill on his back. He immediately felt something was wrong, turned around stiffly, and laughed: "Hahaha, Butterfly, you...how can you believe what that little devil said, haha..."
"I really want to know what Mr. Uzui did." Although the smiling doctor is petite, she looks particularly "tall and mighty" in the eyes of the public. "After all, he is called the Great Devil Uzui, and he also forced my child... It seems that Mr. Uzui misses the double yellow lotus meal."
[“You don’t know, Tengen Uzui!” Agatsuma Zenitsu slammed the table and shouted in accusation, “He actually carried the girls from Chouya on his shoulders and patted them on the buttocks, and forced them to go to Yugoku regardless of the girls’ wishes! It’s so abominable! He is simply a scumbag!”
He was indignant: "You know, girls are the most beautiful treasures in the world!"
For a moment, the girls in the Butterfly House broke out in cold sweats, and their favorability towards the three people increased rapidly, while their favorability towards Tengen Uzui fell to the bottom.
And the one whose favorability has hit rock bottom?
Uzui Tengen: I'm sweating coldly.
He felt like he was going to die.
In this situation, facing the smiling but extremely angry doctor, no one dared to go against the doctor's anger and say a good word for Uzui Tengen - you have to know that in the Demon Slayer Corps, you must not offend the doctor, otherwise you will face double, even triple or quadruple the bitter Coptis medicine package.
No one would want to try, right?
——Right?
"So, I, Tanjiro, Inosuke, and I volunteered to replace the girls from Chouya and follow Uzui Tengen to Yoshiwara to carry out the mission."
"Should we say it's a good thing that the girls from Butterfly House didn't come? You know, Uzui Tengen treated us all as prostitutes and sold us to various places."】
Facing the wrath of Shinobu Kocho, Uzui Tengen broke out in a cold sweat: Please stop talking like that, or I really feel like I’m going to lose half my life the next time I go to the Butterfly House!
For a time, Uzui Tengen angered everyone in the Butterfly House.
[“Like me, I was disguised as a prostitute ‘Zenko’ by Uzui Tengen and went undercover in the famous brothel ‘Kyogokuya’ in Yoshiwara. I was even evaluated by other colleagues as ‘ugly but talented in music’—nonsense! I am the most handsome man in the world—because I was forced to go to Kyogakuya after being repeatedly belittled by Uzui Tengen, so I made up my mind to become the number one oiran in Yoshiwara, so as to make Uzui Tengen, this evil man, look bad!” When he got emotional, [Azuma Zenitsu] even put his feet directly on the table, “Just wait, Uzui Tengen! You ignored me in the past! You can’t afford me now!”]