Chapter 27 (revised)

Colleague A was shocked: "What? It's not over yet? Is this a joke? Didn't Tanjiro already cut off his head? Could it be that the demons can no longer kill them with the Nichirin Sword?"

Murata: "That's not the reason why you shook my shoulder! How would I know such a thing? I just know that you almost made me dizzy!"

"Aren't you a road pillar? Come on! Use your excellent luck to guess it, Murata!"

"What the hell is this road pillar? You believe what he said! Let me go!"

Compared to the relaxed atmosphere here, the pillar side seems much heavier.

Rengoku Kyojuro: "Hmm! Is it the same as Upper 3? Can a head grow back after being cut off?"

Fuzugawa Miyabi retorted: "You must be joking! That's the Lower Moon, the Lower Moon Five! It's more likely that they planted some wires around him, and after he dies, they will use the blood demon art to kill him, right?"

Uzui Tengen: "No matter what, Iguro, you need to act quickly."

Iguro Obane: “Yeah, I know.”

"Because, when I was about to be beheaded, I used my own thread to cut my neck first and thus escaped having my head chopped off by the Nichirin Sword. Since I chopped off my own head myself, of course I will not die."

"And Tanjiro was unable to move due to the aftereffects of forcibly switching his water breathing to the God of Fire Kagura, so I decided to kill the Kamado siblings directly. When I used the blood demon art "Killing Eyes" to kill Tanjiro directly, the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps arrived at the critical moment."

"Water Pillar, Giyuu Toioka arrived in time and cut off Rui's thread, saving Tanjiro and Nezuko."】

"So there is such a method?" Uzui Tengen muttered to himself, "If the Nichirin Sword chops off my head first, then does that mean the Nichirin Sword is useless?"

Fuzuigawa Miyabi looked at Uzui Tengen as if he was a fool and said, "You can chop it diagonally? That would be useful, right?"

"That's not the case. What if the ghost cuts himself into small pieces?"

"...What kind of person would cut himself into small pieces?"

"Just in case! Just in case!"

…

"Hmm! But Tomioka is here! So there's no need to worry about the Kamado boy and the demon girl!" Amidst the noise, Rengoku Kyojuro spoke as if no one was around. After that, he looked at Tomioka Giyuu.

Tomioka Giyuu, who did not join in the verbal fight, said: "..."

"Um."

[“In the end, I was at my wits’ end and had to use my strongest blood demon art, “Line Rotation”, to charge at the opponent, but he still broke it directly with “Water Breathing·Eleventh Form·Nagi”. Before I could react, he beheaded me with a single blow.”]

"Eleven forms?" Santu stared at the screen with her mouth wide open, her face full of surprise. "Is there eleven forms of Water Breathing?"

"It should be something that Giyuu created himself!" Shinkomo was also excited, "It's called Nagi! What a great name!"

"What?" said Xuantu, "Doesn't this already fit the title of Water Column? What's the point of saying it's worthy or not?"

In the Lord’s House——

"What?" Uzui Tengen was a little disappointed. "It's not what I thought at all."

"What you're thinking is too far-fetched." Fuzugawa Shigeya said, "How can a ghost cut himself into pieces? Even if he just chopped off his own head, it was a formality. Normal ghosts don't do that."

"Don't forget our bet," Iguro Obanai reminded him, "We agreed on kelp [1]."

"I can't forget it. This is such a disappointment."

[“I originally thought that I would drag the Kamado brothers and sisters to hell even if I disappeared. However, after seeing Tanjiro desperately protecting Nezuko, I suddenly began to wonder: what exactly am I pursuing?”

"I suddenly regained my human memory and remembered that what I wanted was actually to regain the bond I had lost in the past."

Having said this, [Lei] suddenly let out a long sigh. The sigh was so heavy that it didn't seem like it came from a child of eight or nine years old.

"Tanjiro - he is such a gentle person. He smelled my sadness and reached out his hand to me who had already lost my head. I felt Tanjiro's hand as gentle as the sun, and I remembered completely - I actually always wanted to confess to my parents."

"Finally, I disappeared peacefully. After death, I thought it was impossible for me to go to the place where my parents' souls were. When I was wandering on the edge of hell, I found that my father and mother had been waiting for me." [Lei] sniffed, "This is the life of 'Lei' in the book."】

"Ala, what a good pair of parents..."

Shinobu Kocho also sighed. She sheathed the burning sword first, then thanked Mitsuri Kanroji, "Thank you for helping me open the Hedao, Mitsuri."

"You're welcome, Shinobu, you've helped me a lot!" Kanroji Mitsuri waved her hands. She walked to the wooden stake next to her and sat down. "Shinobu, have your medicines worked?"

"It won't be that fast." Shinobu Kocho took a sip of water. "It will take a long time. I guess it will be done after I finish my mission in Hanamachi."

"Ah..." Mitsuri Kanroji nodded, "Then your mission in the flower street..."

"It's almost done. We'll be able to set off in a few days." Shinobu Kocho said, "But there's a problem. If we don't deal with the lower strings first, then even if we get rid of the upper string six, Muzan Muzan is likely to raise the lower strings to upper strings again."

"Is that so?" Ganlu Temple Mitsuri's eyes lit up, and suddenly a little light bulb popped up in her head, "Then can't I just go to Spider Mountain and get rid of this ghost first?"

"Ah, thank you for your help, Ganlu Temple. I'll bring you some wisteria flower medicine when I get back. Take it with you, and we'll go ask if there are any other pillars who would like to go with you."

“Let me answer two other questions.”

[Tired] Looking at the bullet screen, reading every word very seriously: "Why am I the one doing the live broadcast today——"

"Because the students of Demon Slayer Academy have started school, I was dragged to the live broadcast."

"Isn't Ghost Moon School open yet?"

"Not yet. School starts in a few days. So tomorrow Sister Xiaomei and the others will do the live broadcast."

"Sister Xiaomei? She's the sister who plays Daki. She's the school beauty of our school. She's in her first year of high school this year, and her brother is in his second year of high school."】

"Nice!" Uzui Tengen couldn't help but blurt out an English sentence. He was very proud: "Look, what is this called! It's so gorgeous!"

Tokito Muichiro: "...Rather than being gorgeous, it's more like luck, right?"

[“If I could talk to Lei in “Evil Dead”, I would like to say something to him.” [Lei] looked at the barrage and suddenly turned his head to look at his parents. His mother waved at him with a smile, but his father was serious and there was no expression on his face.

But he could still see his father's pride.

"Me? I'll tell him..."

His voice was shaking with tiredness. His hands were so far behind that he couldn't even pick up the pen on the table.

He took a deep breath.

"I'll tell him..."

"The bond of family you wished for has returned, and your parents have forgiven you."

"You have become a family again!"】

-

As for why [Rui] read this book... [Rui] was recommended to read this book by his neighbor, a music teacher named Hibiki Kai at Demon Slayer Gakuen.

[Xiang Kai] also writes novels. After reading this book, he cried his eyes out and said that he called this book a "masterpiece."

"It's so touching!" [Xiang Kai] excitedly recommended it to the neighbor's children, "The characterization is very rich! And there's someone with the same name as me in the book! [Lei], the same goes for you, there's someone with the same name as you in the book! I strongly recommend you to go and watch it!"

The one who totally ignores his neighbors' children is a child who is about to go to primary school.

With Xiangkai's repeated recommendations, [Lei] finally made up his mind to finish reading the book.

From the part about the boy with the ghost girl, [Rui] was not interested in the boy's growth history. He turned the pages directly to the part about the spider mountain.

Just as Xiang Kai said, there is indeed a ghost with the same name as him.

Seeing a ghost with the same name and surname, [Lei] couldn't help but feel a surge of panic in his heart - he continued to look down.

Huge panic.

He didn't know why, but he subconsciously put himself in the shoes of the little boy in the book. His face suddenly turned pale - he couldn't imagine how disappointed his parents would be when they saw the tired boy in the book.

I'm sorry, Dad, Mom, your son has become a ghost. I'm sorry, I threw away the bond between us with my own hands, I killed you with my own hands, I killed people.

But it was just a book. The person in it was just a person with the same name as him.

Why do I exude such emotions?

Come to think of it, this is a question that has troubled me for a long time.

Maybe he was too obviously distracted in those few days, so the kindergarten teacher told his parents about this problem very tactfully. [Lei]'s parents repeatedly said: We understand and we will help [Lei] solve the problem. [Lei] is a very good child. We, as parents, were too busy these two days and did not notice [Lei]'s abnormality.

"It's okay, [Lei]." After learning the reason why [Lei] was not in good shape for the past two days, the two of them felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "I won't dislike you just because of a character in a book. Besides, the Lei in the book is not a bad person. In the end, he reflected on himself."

"He did something wrong because the adults didn't guide him well. It's okay, it's not his fault," said the mother.

"[Lei] would never do that," said his father. "After all, [Lei] is my proud son."