Tokyo: My Hundred Demon Scroll

It's cruel, but it's the only way to purify their sins.

Only by cleansing themselves of their impurities will the gates of the next life open to them, and only then will they have the opportunity to be reincarnated.

"Ah, I'm starving."

“Humans, human flesh and blood,” a demon kept wiping the drool from its mouth, “I can’t wait to taste human flesh again.”

The prisoners present were not just demons from hell.

In fact, when they were alive, they were also a group of monsters that fed on human flesh and blood.

"Where is Lord Muzan? Where is Lord Muzan?"

"We must find Lord Muzan! Thanks to Lord Muzan, we were able to return to the human world!"

The demons realized why they had been able to escape from hell.

Muzan Kibutsuji was originally a descendant of nobles from the Heian period. He was born weak and sickly, and his heart stopped beating in his mother's womb due to his weakness. He was even born as a stillborn infant.

Despite being born successfully, Muzan suffers from a terminal illness, is bedridden, and is predicted to live past the age of 20.

A kind doctor developed a medicine to prolong his life, but the side effects of the medicine made Muzan believe that his condition had worsened, so he killed the doctor in anger.

However, the doctor succeeded. The drug he developed not only restored Muzan's health but also transformed him into an immortal being.

The only drawback is that he will never be able to walk in the sunlight for the rest of his life.

Because sunlight will turn Muzan to ashes.

Only by obtaining the Blue Spider Lily and perfecting the doctor's prescription can Muzan complete himself and become a truly 'perfect being'.

Therefore, Muzan led a large number of cannibals created from his blood on a search that lasted for hundreds of years.

If this is the Demon Slayer world that Gu Yun knows, then Muzan Kibutsuji might be able to wreak havoc in the Taisho era of the original story.

Unfortunately, this world has exorcists, as well as real ghosts, gods, and demons.

Muzan Kibutsuji is very strong, especially in terms of pure physical destructive power, which far surpasses the magical system.

No matter how powerful an exorcist is, they are still just a mortal.

While there are indeed some incredibly strong individuals among them, such as the reclusive Higa Dohan clan, Hao Asakura who was reincarnated once 500 years ago, and Kenshin Uesugi who has just descended to earth as a human.

Muzan Kibutsuji considers himself a perfect being. He is incredibly arrogant, but he is even more afraid of death and cherishes life.

Therefore, Muzan Kibutsuji never actively provokes these powerful monsters.

He led the cannibals, lurking in the darkness, devouring human flesh and blood to grow stronger while searching for the whereabouts of the Blue Spider Lily.

Until they encountered the Demon Slayer Corps, led by that man.

The Ubuyashiki family is a samurai family that has continued for over a thousand years.

Kotoko Higa found them and extended an invitation, making Ubuyashiki a member of the new Ten Great Families.

The Demon Slayer Corps was created by the Ubuyashiki family with the aim of eliminating all evil spirits in the world and killing the source of the Ubuyashiki family's curse—Muzan Kibutsuji.

However, the Demon Slayer Corps was disbanded two hundred years ago.

The reason for their disbandment was not that they were destroyed by evil spirits.

On the contrary, the Demon Slayer Corps in this world is very capable. Before the Taisho era even began, they had already sent Muzan to hell.

Because there were no more man-eating demons in the world, the Ubuyashiki family disbanded the Demon Slayer Corps, but retained only the ancient swordsmanship style, including the Breathing Technique, which continues to this day.

Among them was a group of demon-slaying swordsmen who changed their profession to spirit-exorcising swordsmen, cooperating with the Ten Famous Sects to protect the peace of the human world.

Of course, there are also quite a few problems here.

Breathing techniques can greatly strengthen the body and increase strength and skill.

But it could not destroy the demons.

Firstly, the invisibility itself is a formidable barrier, and secondly, some demons possess the characteristic of being immune to physical attacks, making it far more difficult for ghost hunters to deal with supernatural events than to exterminate evil spirits.

Over time, the Ubuyashiki family gradually withdrew from the supernatural world, only to reappear recently.

As for the reason for coming out of seclusion…

Muzan Kibutsuji escaped from Hell, and the man-eating demons of the past have returned.

He guards each dimension for twelve days, rotating every hundred years. Except for the Eternal Heaven, he resides on the seventh floor and above to fight Hiruko-gami.

Every eight hundred years, immortal geniuses descend to the lower realm to recuperate for a hundred years by protecting the dimension.

Not long ago, the twelve-day rotation changed, and Uesugi, who was originally the guardian of the underworld, became the guardian of the human world, while Katen took her place as the new guardian of the underworld.

Unlike her sister Uesugi, Huo Tian did not lead the Demon King and the demons to bind the sinners in hell. Instead, she used a transaction to release a group of the most heinous beings.

These escaped criminals possessed extremely terrifying power in their lifetimes.

After death, they were indeed bound by the rules of hell.

This constraint is both a punishment and an opportunity.

Just like Hagoromo Gitsune's child, Kuro Seimei, he not only escaped all kinds of tortures in hell, but also gained great improvement over the past thousand years.

Similarly, Muzan Kibutsuji is the same.

After Muzan Kibutsuji died, his soul fell into the deepest part of hell, a prison specifically for those who committed the most heinous crimes—the Avici Hell.

It was there that he encountered beings who were just like him, or even more evil.

They helped Muzan Kibutsuji, not only allowing him to rebuild his body with the blood and mud of hell filled with sins, but also imparting all their knowledge of magic to him.

For these prisoners, the Avici Hell had become their sacred ground.

Villains from all eras and all kinds of evil converge here, much like the enlightenment in Longchang.

Ironically, he was stuck at a bottleneck and unable to move forward during his lifetime, but after death he broke through one after another and reached a level he never dared to imagine before.

Was turning misfortune into a blessing in disguise, intentional or accidental?

Chapter 208 The Fallen Princess and Her Siblings

"Are we back again?"

The two evil spirits looked around in astonishment, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"Brother, we... escaped hell?"

Daki looked at her brother, Kio-taro, whose body was twisted and hunched, and then at herself, who had reverted to her former demon form: "This, this is not right, we shouldn't have run away."

Unlike the demons who were killed while harboring resentment, Daki and Kiotarou died with their resentment gone.

They didn't actually have much resentment or fear about falling into hell.

The brother and sister committed a terrible crime in their lives, devouring humans, and received their due punishment after death.

As long as the brother and sister are together, they are willing to share any kind of torment.

The Daki siblings died two hundred years ago, killed by the descendants of Kamado Tanjiro.

Although they didn't die at the hands of the gentle Tanjiro, the inherent nature of the Kamado clan still offered the siblings a final act of redemption before their deaths.

Therefore, if we're talking about demons who don't want to return from hell, Daki and her brother are clearly among them.

They no longer want to turn back into demons.

"Damn it!"

"how so?!"

Kifutaro instinctively stood guard in front of his sister, sensing the commotion around him as more and more demons emerged from the cracks of the underworld.

They are frenzied and bloodthirsty, their desire to devour human flesh growing ever stronger.

"We can't afford to make that mistake again!"

Taking his sister's hand, Kifutaro decided to leave: "We have to go back!"

Two hundred years of hellish tortures, though excruciating, allowed the brother and sister to clearly feel the sins in their souls dissipating into nothingness.

Before long, they will be able to atone for their sins and be reincarnated in the next life.

Moreover, because of their good behavior in hell, the brother and sister were granted a life in the afterlife, with no excessive demands.

I hope we can be siblings again in our next life.

This was their wish, and the gods of the underworld granted their request.

It's fair to say that the brother and sister truly didn't want to leave hell.

Their return to the human world was entirely accidental and forced.

"What should we do, brother?"

Daki held her brother's hand tightly, feeling her own craving for human flesh and blood.

This is wrong, this shouldn't be, this is incorrect.

They didn't realize it when they were demons, but as the brother and sister died, they saw the sins they had committed from the perspective of bystanders in hell.

That cruelty and indifference chilled the brother and sister to the bone.

Both of them were bullied and abused before they turned into demons.

But in this world of hell, the human warrior who tormented Daki suffered a punishment a hundred times more painful than hers in hell.

Moreover, that human warrior was reincarnated fifty years ago, and his life was a complete mess.

The torment in hell is physical, but the retribution in the next life lies in the mind.

In this respect, the system of reincarnation in the afterlife is quite fair.

However, now, Huo Tian has interfered with the cycle of reincarnation, releasing sinners from hell, causing even the fairest cycle of reincarnation to malfunction.

"We must leave as soon as possible."

Kifutaro led his sister away from the demons.

Having died once isn't without its advantages.

At least the curse Muzan left on them has been broken, which means that all the demons who return from hell, while still being suppressed by Muzan's bloodline, will no longer be controlled by him.

The brother and sister are now free; they can escape instead of continuing to wreak havoc under Muzan's control.