Simultaneous time travel: But our system is out of sync!

"Sorry for leaving you, Tanjiro."

"I'm counting on you for Mi Douzi and Lin Bei!"

While unconscious, Tanjiro watched in his sleep as the spirits of his family bid him farewell and slowly disappeared into the distance, unable to utter a single word.

He could only reach out in vain, trying to grab them, but to no avail.

Just then, he suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the snow, with Mi Douzi and Lin Bei, who were also unconscious, next to him.

His eyes were moist, and his face was covered with tears. The hand that had reached for his family in his dream was now firmly holding Mi Douzi's hand in its palm.

Tears streamed down her face again.

The feeling of having lost it and then found it again brought tears to his eyes.

At that moment, a cold voice rang out.

"Are you awake?"

Upon hearing the voice, Tanjiro immediately stood up, instinctively protecting Nezuko with one hand, and then looked over warily.

Then they saw Giyu Tomioka leaning against the trunk of a large tree not far away, looking at them with the same cold eyes.

Ignoring Tanjiro's reaction, Giyu Tomioka continued speaking.

"Let's go visit the old man named Urokodaki Sakonji who lives at the foot of Mount Sagiri!"

Tell him that Giyuu Tomioka sent you.

"He can help you."

"It's still snowing, and there's not much sun, so it should be fine."

"Be careful not to bring your sister out in the sun."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Tanjiro saw Giyu Tomioka vanish into the snow with a flash, accompanied by a wisp of snow mist.

Where are they?!

"Where did you go?"

Upon seeing Giyu Tomioka suddenly disappear, Tanjiro was taken aback at first, then immediately and very warily pulled Nezuko into his arms, fearing that he might launch another surprise attack.

However, after a while, the snowfield remained as calm as ever, as if Giyu Tomioka had truly left.

Seeing this, Tanjiro sniffed and carefully smelled the surrounding scent.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"His scent is gone. Has he really left?"

Just then, a helpless voice sounded beside Tanjiro.

"Don't be like a frightened rabbit, so suspicious and paranoid."

"He left a long time ago. If he really wanted to kill us, he wouldn't have needed to resort to these petty tricks."

"you……"

Upon hearing Lin Bei's voice, Tanjiro finally lowered his guard.

But before Lin Bei could finish speaking, Tanjiro hugged Lin Bei tightly in his arms, tears streaming down his face.

"Lin Bei, it's so good that you're not dead."

"I originally thought only Midouzi was still alive."

"I didn't expect you to survive."

"My mother and younger siblings were all killed by ghosts. Now I only have you and Midouzi left."

Feeling Tanjiro's trembling body and his own clothes gradually becoming damp, Lin Bei swallowed back the words he was about to say.

And wasn't he the same?

He came into this world all alone, but Tanjiro's family took him in and gave him the warmth of a home.

Tanjiro lost his family, leaving only him and Nezuko.

Lin Bei also lost his family, leaving only Tanjiro and Nezuko.

He waited quietly until Tanjiro had finished venting before forcing himself to speak with feigned disgust.

"Tanjiro, how many times have I said it?"

"A real man sheds blood and sweat, but not tears."

"I am also in great pain and sorrow because my family members were killed by ghosts."

"But what's the use of just feeling pain and sadness?"

"Just like Giyu Tomioka said before, can crying kill a ghost or bring your family back to life?"

"Instead of wasting your time crying, we might as well go find the person that Giyu Tomioka mentioned."

"Only after we find that person can we avenge our family members."

"Also, could you please stop wiping your tears and snot all over my clothes? This is my only new outfit."

"You made it dirty and you won't even wash it for me."

Hearing Lin Bei's words, Tanjiro subconsciously stood up and retorted.

"I'm not a startled rabbit, and I didn't wipe my snot on your clothes. Besides, haven't I always been the one washing your clothes?"

"And yet, you're clearly alive, but..."

However, after getting up, he stopped halfway through his sentence.

Because only now did he truly see what Lin Bei looked like.

Pale skin, dull and lifeless eyes, disheveled and tattered clothes, and a shocking wound on his chest and abdomen.

This is not a living human body at all.

Tanjiro's tone was filled with sadness.

"Lin Bei, have you become a ghost too?"

Seeing the atmosphere become heavy again, Lin Bei immediately spoke up.

"What ghost nonsense! If I became a ghost, the first thing I'd do is eat you, and then I'd come to save you and Mi Douzi."

Lin Bei's words immediately broke the heavy atmosphere and made Tanjiro temporarily put aside the question of whether Lin Bei was a human or a demon.

But Tanjiro immediately frowned.

Tanjiro held Lin Bei in his arms, groped around Lin Bei's arms for a while, then released Lin Bei to examine him carefully before asking a question with a puzzled look.

"Lin Bei, am I seeing things?"

"Your left and right arms look reversed!"

Hearing Tanjiro's words, Lin Bei was immediately furious.

"You'd be better off not saying anything, because it makes me angry."

"That bastard Giyu Tomioka sewed my left and right arms backwards."

"They even said it's all the same anyway."

"And then they just dusted themselves off and ran away."

"I suspect he did it on purpose."

Upon hearing this, Tanjiro said indignantly.

Why would he do that?

"We haven't offended him, have we?"

"You knocked me out, and then you did something so outrageous to me."

Upon hearing Tanjiro's words, Lin Bei immediately chimed in.

"That's exactly what I was saying!"

"I just gave his second brother a rocket headbutt."

"But he also slashed me!"

"Also, I praised him for being very generous, saying he must be very likable and have many more friends..."

Lin Bei stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

Because he finally realized what he had said.

Although Lin Bei had been knocked unconscious, he was still conscious.

Lin Bei thus knew perfectly well what Tomioka Giyu had done while they were unconscious.

Yoshiyuki Tomioka thoughtfully covered Nezuko, who wouldn't get cold at all, with a piece of clothing.

Secondly, he made a bamboo plug for Midouzi to prevent her from biting it randomly.

Even Tanjiro's broken axe was reattached with a sturdy handle.

After Lin Bei regained consciousness, he made a special effort to thank Tomioka Giyuu.

"You must have many friends; no one would dislike or dislike you!"

It's just a combination of Giyu Tomioka's personality and his interpersonal relationships within the Demon Slayer Corps.

This seemingly sincere compliment sounded more like sarcasm.

For Giyu Tomioka, it was like Lin Bei had stabbed him in the chest and then rubbed salt into it.

This is only possible because of Giyu Tomioka; anyone else would have chopped Lin Bei into mincemeat.

It's just that they deliberately reattached his two arms to the wrong ones.

Thinking of this, Lin Bei immediately changed the subject.

"The sky is clearing up soon, let's hurry up and bury the family members who were killed by the ghost."

"Then hurry up and go find Urokodaki Sakonji."

"And since we only had needles and thread at home, we had to go home to get them and reattach my arm."