Demon Slayer: I am a Demon.

"Ah."

Shinazugawa Genya gripped the double-barreled shotgun in his hand and pressed the Nichirin Blade beside him.

"I won't let you down."

Shinazugawa Genya spoke in a low voice, but his tone was very firm.

Su Mu paused for a moment, then laughed: "You don't need to disappoint me. As long as you don't disappoint yourself, that's enough. I won't interfere in the battle with the ghost. Even if you are killed by the ghost, I still won't do anything. If the ghost hunter dies, he's really dead."

"I see."

Without hesitation, he nodded, then gripped the double-barreled shotgun and walked into the pitch-black night ahead.

Chapter 175 The Back View Protected with One's Life

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The silence was terrifying.

Shinazugawa Genya gripped his double-barreled shotgun tightly and strode forward. Before long, by the dim moonlight, he saw a figure squatting on the ground ahead, and heard the sound of chewing coming from it.

Despite the darkness, Shinazugawa Genya still managed to spot a human arm.

These...ghosts...are all like this, feeding on humans, so terrifying.

Shinazugawa Genya didn't speak, but silently approached, holding his double-barreled shotgun.

"pat..."

My foot accidentally stepped on a branch, making a snapping sound.

The demon, who was devouring its food, raised its head warily, its scarlet eyes falling on the approaching Shinazugawa Genya.

"The Ghost Hunter?"

A hoarse, cruel voice came from the ghost's mouth.

Genya Shinazugawa gripped the double-barreled shotgun tightly.

He felt the tension of hunting a demon for the first time, as well as the anger of seeing a demon devour a human. This reminded him of his mother, who had once fallen into demonhood and was just like this demon.

"Damn thing."

He spoke in a low voice, almost through gritted teeth, to the ghost.

The demon was initially wary, but it quickly realized that Genya Shinazugawa was alone, and that the demon didn't seem to have a very strong presence.

"Food delivered to your door?"

The demon licked its lips, a cruel glint in its crimson eyes: "Then let me see what this food delivered to my door tastes like. Come to think of it, I've never tasted the flesh of a demon hunter before. I wonder if it's even more delicious."

After uttering a low sound, the demon stomped its feet hard on the ground, producing a series of dull thuds. Almost instantly, the demon's terrifying figure leaped up from its spot and rushed towards Shinazugawa Genya.

Genya Shinazugawa raised his double-barreled shotgun, feeling a little nervous, but he stood silently in place, though his hand gripping the gun tightened slightly.

Were you stunned?

Seeing that he was almost upon him, still standing there holding a seemingly harmless fire poker, a sneer appeared in the crimson eyes of the demon. If you're going to take something, take that Nichirin Blade at your waist!

I was absolutely terrified.

With that kind of guts, you dare to hunt ghosts?

A cruel smile crept across his lips, but his speed remained unchanged; in his mind, he was already thinking about how to devour the delicious food in front of him.

The ghost's figure drew closer and closer.

Getting closer.

The horrifying face, with crimson blood still clinging to the corners of its mouth, became increasingly clear even under the moonlight.

A feeling of fear suddenly welled up inside me.

But he quickly suppressed this fear in his heart.

At that moment, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind: 'Will I die?'

But then he gritted his teeth. He had already prepared to die when he set out on this path of ghost hunting, so what was there to be afraid of?

"I will never let you down, and I will definitely go further, stand shoulder to shoulder with my brother, and hunt down evil spirits together."

As he murmured to himself, the boy's gaze grew increasingly resolute, and his hand holding the gun became more and more steady. His eyes watched quietly as the ghost's figure drew closer and closer, and the terrifying ghost face became clearer and clearer before his eyes.

"boom……"

When the demon's figure broke through to within two or three meters of him, and the terrifying figure pounced on him, Shinazugawa Genya finally pulled the ring, and bullets shot out from the double barrels in an instant.

The sudden gunshot startled the approaching ghosts, who then saw the terrifying bullets hurtling towards them. Because of the close proximity, they could hardly dodge.

The bullet struck the ghost's head almost instantly, tearing through its flesh and bones, and flying out with its brains and blood.

The double-barreled shotgun, while sacrificing its advantage in shooting range, is far more powerful in close combat, almost smashing half of the ghost's cheek.

"It hurts...it hurts, it hurts so much!"

The ghost had never imagined that something that looked like a fire poker could unleash such power, and at that moment, it even felt fear.

The only saving grace is that this terrifying thing doesn't seem to possess the sun's energy to annihilate evil spirits like the Nichirin Blade.

At that moment, Shinazugawa Genya put down his double-barreled shotgun, switched to his Nichirin Blade, and stepped forward to slash at the demon whose face was almost torn apart by bullets, wanting to end the battle once and for all.

The sharp blade gleamed with a cold, indifferent light under the moonlight.

Just as the blade was about to strike the demon's head, the demon, in its agony, reacted and stretched out its hand to block the blow.

The sharp blade of the Nichirin Blade easily sliced ​​through flesh, but when it reached the bone, it got stuck due to a lack of follow-through force.

Without a 'breathing technique,' Genya Shinazugawa, being just an ordinary person, clearly lacked the power to cut through the demon's hard bones.

"Looks like his strength is pretty poor!"

The demon suddenly reached out and grabbed the blade of the Nichirin Blade that had slashed his arm, straining hard as he did so, despite the blood flowing from his cut hand.

The power of an ordinary person is simply no match for the power of a demon. Almost instantly, Shinazugawa Genya felt an immense force coming from the hand gripping the hilt of his sword, and his entire body was pulled toward the demon.

Almost instantly, Shinazugawa Genya dropped his grip on the hilt of the sword and rolled to the side.

The demon snatched the Nichirin Blade, grabbed the hilt of the blade that carried its repulsive aura, covered its face with one hand, and watched as Shinazugawa Genya fell to the ground and picked up a handful of bloody mud.

"It hurts, it hurts so much... What kind of weapon is that? Why does it hurt so much?"

The demon gripped the hilt of his Nichirin Blade and stared at Shinazugawa Genya.

Shinazugawa Genya didn't speak, but stared at the blood-stained soil in his hand. On it, he could see disgusting white residue, which must have been the brain matter of a demon.

At this moment, both physically and mentally, I felt uncomfortable.

After waiting for a moment without receiving a reply, the demon's scarlet eyes were filled with rage as he gripped the hilt of his sword: "Although I don't know what kind of weapon that is, it looks very powerful, but for a demon... it's useless!"

"It's impossible for him to kill me."

A ferocious glint appeared in the crimson eyes of the demon. In that instant, he leaped up, gripped the hilt of his sword, and swung it down towards the head of Shinazugawa Genya, who was kneeling there.

"As the price for hurting me, you shall pay with your own flesh and blood."

The crimson eyes of the ghost were filled with cruelty. It had already seen through this person's true nature. A person who did not even have a 'breathing technique' and only had the strength of an ordinary person dared to hunt ghosts?

Isn't this food delivered right to my door?

The only thing that's truly frightening is that firewood-like thing we just saw. After we kill that person, we need to study it carefully to find out exactly what it was.

The Nichirin Blade swung its blade, and this strike was almost ten times sharper than the one Shinazugawa Genya had just delivered; the blade was so fast that only afterimages could be seen.

The demon could almost picture what the other would look like when he chopped off their head. He even closed his eyes, vaguely savoring the delicious sensation of blood splattering on his face.

At that moment, Shinazugawa Genya also ate the soil stained with blood and white slurry.

The moment he ate it, he also raised his head.

……

As expected, the sensation of blood splattering onto someone's face after the knife sliced ​​through their head did not occur. Instead, the blade seemed to encounter immense resistance and came to a stop.

This made the ghost open its scarlet eyes with some confusion.

The boy squatted on the ground, his palms clasped together, the muscles in his arms bulging, and the veins crawling all over his forearms like earthworms, firmly gripping the knife that had just slashed down. He had been so weak just now, but now he possessed such great strength.

Not only that, the other person's hair also grew longer at this moment, almost reaching their shoulders, and changed from black to a mix of black and yellow.

A gentle breeze blew, causing his black and yellow hair to sway.

Shinazugawa Genya, who was kneeling on the ground with his hands clasped together, raised his head at this moment, revealing his terrifying face. The veins on his forehead bulged, and sharp fangs of a demon gleamed with a cold light appeared on his mouth.

It even sensed the presence of another ghost on this person.

But clearly, the other person was alone just now.

"you?"

The ghost's eyes widened.

Genya Shinazugawa didn't give the demon a chance to speak again. He twisted his hands, which were gripping the sword, sharply to the side, and simultaneously launched himself off the ground. The ground beneath his feet collapsed the instant his knees left the ground.

Almost instantly, Shinazugawa Genya's forehead slammed into the stunned demon's face, a solid headbutt.

The demon's nose almost collapsed on the spot, and blood and snot gushed out together. His body fell backward, but Genya didn't give him a chance to fall. He pounced on him instantly and bit down on the demon's neck.

The chilling fangs, gleaming in the moonlight, easily tore through the flesh and blood of the ghost's neck.

"Ho ho..."

The demon's breathing was like that of someone with tetanus, and it felt as if all the blood in its body was being sucked away by this human. It had always been the one sucking the blood of its food, and it had never had its blood sucked away like this before.

An unprecedented anger

There was also a chill that came from the bottom of my heart.

It seemed to have become the monster's 'food'.

It was an almost desperate resistance.

But at that moment, Genya Shinazugawa also threw a punch, which landed almost instantly on the abdomen. The sound of the fist sinking into flesh was dull and terrifying. The demon's back arched violently, and the force even caused a tear to appear in the back of his clothes.

Punch after punch.

Throughout this time, Shinazugawa Genya's teeth continued to tear at the demon's neck.