Chapter 53
Muzan Muzan feels no pity. The Demon Slayer Corps has been helping him recently, as if by divine intervention, killing two of his lower ranks and two of his upper ranks one after another. One of them is the Upper Rank Three, a worker whom he has always been optimistic about.
This is really true. The upper rank hasn't changed for thousands of years, but when it changes, it changes into something big. Muzan Muzan was so angry that he laughed. The angry Muzan Muzan asked Naruto to gather the remaining upper rank in the Infinite Castle and was furious.
After venting his anger for a while, Muzan Kibutsuji began to review.
Something's wrong, no kidding, the Demon Slayer Corps' reaction is not right.
Daki is okay, after all, she has been hiding in Yuguo for a long time, so it is understandable that the pillars know her location...but what about Upper Three?
Upper Rank Three went there suddenly. How could they know that Upper Rank Three would appear and send three pillars there specially?
And how did that woman with pink-green hair know the name "Lian Xue"?
Is it possible that the woman has some special secret?
Muzan Kibutsuji Musou was completely puzzled.
The object that Muzan Muzan was puzzled about was in the lord's house, watching the live broadcast with great interest along with everyone except Iguro Obana.
【“I’m impressed.” [Iguro Obana] rolled his eyes and took the initiative, “So who agreed to help [Butterfly] live broadcast? [Buzugawa], you?”
"Heh." [Buzugawa Miyabi] mocked, "You're quite good at turning the tables. Who is it that is trying to pursue uuuuuu..."
[Iguro] threw the pill over and changed the subject abruptly: "Okay, the live broadcast has been going on for three minutes, let's start talking about the content of "Slayer"."
[Buzugawa] was furious, grabbed the kabana ball on his face and threw it to the side. In his panic, the kabana ball accidentally fell on the shoulder of an innocent passerby.
Innocent passerby [Yiyu Tomioka]: "..."
Pick pill: "..."
[Tomioka Giyu] and Kabamaru remained silent, staring at each other.]
Tomioka Giyuu saw the Zhaimaru above looking at him, and curled his lips for no apparent reason. See, I am really popular with small animals, even the snake of Iguro likes me very much.
On the other hand, Iguro Obanae's situation was not so good. Seeing the situation on the screen, Kabanaru inexplicably turned his head to the side and swiped Iguro Obanae's cheek with his tail.
Iguro Obane: “…”
Iguro Obane: “…………”
So it wasn't me who did this...what does this have to do with me?
[The two people next to him are about to fight. It is too scary to see them fighting. [Tomioka Giyu] does not want to get involved in the fight, so he ignores the director's gestures and starts telling the story of "Slayer".
"Tomioka Giyu is the only son of the Tomioka family. He has an older sister, Tomioka Tsutako. His parents died of illness when he was young, so Tomioka Giyu has been dependent on his sister. The two siblings have lived a difficult life relying on the inheritance left by their parents."
[Iguro Obanai] complained as he played: "How can you just say the name like that? Calling everyone Tomioka is too weird."
[Fuzuigawa Miyabi] retorted: "If you think it's weird, you can say 'I' when you talk about it. I definitely don't want to live such a miserable life. Who would want to bring themselves into it?"
[Tomioka Giyu] pretended not to hear the quarrel between his two roommates: "When Tomioka Giyu was 13 years old, the day before his sister Tsutako's wedding, the Tomioka family was attacked by a demon. Tomioka Giyu escaped because he was hidden by his sister, but he also watched his sister being eaten. He lost all his relatives, including his sister. Tomioka Giyu told his neighbors about the demon attack, but the neighbors thought he had mental problems and planned to take him to a distant relative who was a doctor."】
"This is too pitiful! Mr. Tomioka!" Mitsuri Kanroji simply couldn't imagine, "Mr. Tomioka watched his sister being eaten..."
Fuzugawa Mitsuya beside him sneered. He now agreed very much with his own point of view in another world - who would want to put themselves in such a miserable life... Unfortunately, the miserable life he was talking about was the life he had truly experienced.
[“After he escaped, he was rescued by a hunter known to the former Water Pillar, Sakonji Rindaiki, on the mountain. He then became Rindaiki’s disciple and began to train in the art of slaying demons. He also became friends with a boy named Santo who was the same age as him and had no relatives.”
"When training with Santo at Samagiri Mountain, Toioka Giyuu was slapped by Santo because he often said sad words like 'I'd rather die instead of my sister'. Santo scolded him and said that if Toioka Giyuu said such words again, he would end his friendship with him. At the same time, Santo also encouraged him to live bravely to continue the future entrusted by his sister."
"By the way, our [Sento] is also your senior, right?" [Buzugawa Shigeya] also spoke up, "Has he ever beaten you?"
[Yiyu Tomioka]: "..."
[Tomioka Giyu] didn’t want to answer. 】
Fushigawa Mitsuya: "Oh, luckily your senior brother named Santoshi woke you up, otherwise I would have to have a good fight with you! What's the point of dying in my sister's place? That's nonsense!"
Kanroji Mitsuri: "Mr. Tomioka, how could you think like that? Your sister was willing to sacrifice her life to protect you, so she must have wanted you to live, but you are thinking that it would be better if you were the one to die. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?"
Rengoku Kyojuro: "Hmm! Tomioka's sister must be deeply in love with Tomioka! Tomioka should live well!"
Uzui Tengen: "I never thought that Tomioka would have such a plain thought. It's shocking! Such a plain thought is really too plain!"
Tokito Muichiro: "..."
Shinobu Kocho: "Although I can understand Mr. Tomioka's idea, it is still wrong."
Beimingyu Xingming: "Amitābha, what a poor child..."
[“When participating in the final selection of Fujitsuyama, Giyuu Toioka was knocked unconscious by the attacking demons, but was saved by Sane and entrusted to the care of others. When he woke up, he learned that the selection was over. He passed the selection without killing any demons, but Sane, who defeated almost all the demons, was killed by the hand demon in the end. This incident also became a knot in Giyuu Toioka’s heart.”
"After joining the Demon Slayer Corps, Tomioka Giyuu could not forgive himself for being weak. With a strong hatred for demons, he worked hard to practice swordsmanship, and gradually grew into the backbone of the Demon Slayer Corps. At the age of 19, he became the Water Pillar. But even after becoming a Pillar, he still thought that he had not really passed the final selection, and then thought that he was incompetent and unworthy to stand with his fellow Pillars. Therefore, he deliberately kept a distance from others, never smiled in front of others, and always trapped himself in the painful past."】
At this point, Toioka Giyu's past was completely revealed. No one expected that "I am different from you" would have such a deep meaning behind this sentence.
"I really give in..." Fuzugawa Shima was furious - this kind of behavior of Tomioka Giyuu was exactly what he had always disliked. He strode over, grabbed the other person's collar, and threatened, "You should not have such thoughts now, right?"
Toioka Giyuu shook his head: "If we keep going like this, Santo will be angry if he sees us."
Fuzugawa Mitsuya: “…”
The rest of the people: "..."
Is this a question of whether or not that Xuantu is angry? I think he just doesn't realize what the problem is!
Samagiri Mountain's Satsuki: "Damn it, really, Giyuu..."
【“One winter day not long after becoming a water pillar, Tomioka Giyuu went to the post station to perform a mission. He accidentally found Kamado Nezuko, who had just become a demon, on the snowy mountain on the way and planned to defeat her. However, her brother, Kamado Tanjiro, begged Giyuu to let his sister go, and he promised to find a way to turn Nezuko into a human. But Giyuu severely reprimanded Tanjiro for giving up thinking and only cared about begging. At the same time, he regretted in his heart that if he had arrived half a day earlier, he might have been able to prevent this tragedy from happening.”
"Tomioka Giyuu deliberately stabbed Nezuko in the chest to anger Tanjiro in order to inspire his fighting spirit. Tanjiro immediately began to fight back, using gravel and an axe to almost hurt him after being knocked unconscious by Giyuu. Nezuko, who witnessed all this, remained rational even after turning into a demon, rushed to Tanjiro to protect her brother, and began to attack Giyuu. Recalling that he had seen his blood relatives being devoured by demons in the past, Giyuu thought that Nezuko might be different from ordinary demons. Giyuu chose to let Nezuko go, and after knocking her out with a knife, he prepared a bamboo tube gag for her to seal her mouth. He recognized Tanjiro's courage to challenge him, and recommended the Kamado brothers and sisters to find their master, Rindodaki Sakonji."
"On the way to visit Rinno, Giyuu wrote a letter of recommendation for Tanjiro and handed it to Rinno in advance, explaining the situation and the reason for the recommendation, and asking the master to accept his behavior."】
They already knew about this, there's no need to explain it further... Everyone nodded.
"This letter of yours must have made your master very embarrassed." Uzui Tengen joked.
[[Fuzuikawa Jiya] was tired from fighting. He sat down and drank a whole bottle of mineral water in one breath. "I really don't understand." [Fuzuikawa Jiya] said and began to shake his head, "In "Seraphim", all the thinking circuits of the water are incomprehensible, including the Shinkomo Satsuki in the "Seraphim" if line."
"It is said that the people of you Rin Taki Dojo are also like this. Is this the curse that calls you by these names?"
[Iguro Obanai] took the Kabutomaru back from [Tomioka Giyuu]: "Heh, you know how they think and how they talk. Especially [Sento], the way he talks is simply a combination of [Rinjuku] and [Tomioka]!"
[Yiyu Tomioka]: "..."
[Tomioka Giyuu] couldn't help but retort: "[Sakuto] is actually very good at speaking!"】