People in Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began with Demon Slayer

Yosuke readily admitted, "That's right, I'm not the kind of person who would risk everything for humanity. When I first became a demon, I thought I could do whatever I wanted. After gaining power, I felt like those powerless people around me were nothing more than ants..."

"There's still a chance, Yosuke Ubuyashiki, come with me! I can give you half of everything I have, or even more!" Kibuy Muzan offered Yosuke a condition he believed he couldn't refuse.

Yosuke didn't answer Kibuy Muzan, but instead asked, "Kibuy Muzan, do you still remember Ubuyashiki Mikako and Ubuyashiki Takuto?"

Kibuy Muzan felt that these two names were somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember them: "Who are these two people?"

Yosuke's expression was somewhat sorrowful: "These two people are our parents! Have you even forgotten the parents who gave us life and raised us?"

Kibuy Muzan sneered, "Parents? How ridiculous! I have no interest in the dead. They gave me life but didn't give me a healthy body, leaving me to face the fear of death from birth. I hate them. Ubuyashiki Yosuke, aren't you the same? Don't you hate them?"

"Hate? I only feel gratitude towards them. My father and mother gave me life and love. Even though I might not live to see the next day, they never gave up on me. I have endless gratitude for my father and mother."

And this is the biggest difference between us. From the moment you became a demon, you abandoned your humanity, your responsibilities as a human being, and the care and concern given to you by those around you. Even if you become the strongest being in the world, are you truly satisfied? When you look back and find yourself all alone, don't you feel lonely? Don't you feel sorry for yourself?

Kibuy Muzan retorted, "I have created countless loyal demons for me, what is there for me to be lonely about? It is truly pitiful to be weak and at the mercy of the strong. Humanity, responsibility, and care are the most useless things. Only eternal life is the truth. After death, everything is gone, so what is the point?"

"You only used force to suppress those demons. When the scales of power tipped, the demons you thought were so loyal would do nothing but overthrow your rule."

When a person dies, nothing is truly left behind. Humanity's greatness lies in its legacy—passing on one's will to the next generation. The eternity of life is not true eternity; it is the human will that is truly eternal.

Kibu Muzan clenched his fist and said as if making a vow, "I don't need such an ethereal thing as inheritance. What I want is to become the strongest demon who is immortal and unafraid of sunlight! As long as I am the strongest forever, no one will dare to defy my will!"

Even if you become the strongest demon and rule the entire world, what will happen after that? Loneliness will still shroud you. At that time, eternal life will become a curse. You will be unable to live and unable to die. Is that really what you want?

"Ubuyashiki Yosuke, you don't need to try to sway my heart with words. For a thousand years, I have always had only one goal, which has never changed. But you, with your endless platitudes, choose to oppose me, which is nothing more than satisfying your own empty heart. Compared to me, you are just an incredibly hypocritical and pretentious guy!"

"I admit that it is true. My heart is incredibly empty. At first, I only came this far because of the responsibility my mother gave me. But along the way, I met many kind people who gave me the motivation to keep going and fill the emptiness in my heart. I don't have such lofty ideals. I just want to fulfill my share of responsibility."

Kibuyaku Muzan mocked Yosuke, saying, "You're fulfilling your duty to a bunch of ants, just like a tiger fulfilling its duty to a lamb waiting to be eaten. Do you think that makes sense? We are completely different from humans. If I die, the next demon that humans will hunt down will be you. Humans are an infinitely xenophobic and internally conflicted race. Even if there were no demons in this world, they would still kill each other, constantly fighting each other until they perish."

"Humans may have many flaws, such as greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and doubt, but they also possess many wonderful virtues, including love, kindness, forgiveness, humility, creativity, courage, perseverance, integrity, vitality, and countless other virtues. But the most important virtue they possess, which is also the one we lack, is... hope!"

Kibuy Muzan raised his arms and shouted, "I represent the hope of all demons!"

Yosuke shook his head and said, word by word, "No, you are not. You are fear, you are trembling. You will never represent hope!"

Kibuyaku Muzan looked at Yosuke with a gloomy expression: "Ubuyashiki Yosuke, it seems you have made your decision."

“My decision has never changed. Many people have placed their hopes on me, and I cannot let them down.”

Kibuy Muzan sneered, "They only used you as a tool to control me. I've said it before, after I die, you'll be next. You can never live in peace with humans! You're a demon, don't forget your identity!"

"Perhaps...but at this moment, I am facing you as your nemesis!"

Chapter 127 The Alliance of Kibu, Muzan, and the Priest

Kibuy Muzan sarcastically said, "You really are stubborn, but I can understand it. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been clinging to me like a mad dog for a thousand years. If you suddenly agreed, I wouldn't understand."

Yosuke chuckled self-deprecatingly: "A mad dog? That's quite an apt description."

After taking a deep breath, Yosuke questioned, "The conversation should be coming to an end soon. Where are Kibu, Muzan, and Inosuke?"

"Nekome!"

After Kibuy Muzan gave a shout, a door appeared out of thin air, and a man and Inosuke, who was frozen in ice, walked out of the door.

The man greeted Yosuke familiarly upon their first meeting: "Nice to meet you, Yosuke Ubuyashiki. I think you already know who I am."

Yosuke looked at the unfamiliar man and realized that this was the mysterious god: "How ironic. I thought he was the god of the priestly clan who stood on the side of humans, but he actually stood on the side of demons."

The sage was unfazed by Yang Jie's mockery: "This is what people often mean by the impermanence of life. If you didn't exist, perhaps none of this would have happened."

"So this means all of this happened because of me? I didn't realize I was so important."

The deity said mysteriously, "You are more important than you think, and of course, this doesn't just refer to yourself."

"If it doesn't represent me? Then what does it represent? I've discovered that you priests really like to play riddles."

Kibuy Muzan deeply agreed with Yosuke's words, and he also had a very bad feeling about the mysterious God Lord.

"Instead of going through all the trouble of explaining it to you now, wouldn't it be better for you to experience it firsthand?"

Yosuke tentatively asked, "Now that I'm here, can you release Inosuke? He should be of no use to you anymore."

Kibuy Muzan sneered, "You let him go and then ran away? Do you think I'm that stupid?"

The God Lord interrupted Kibu Muzan seriously, saying, "No, Kibu Muzan, he is serious."

Kibuyaku Muzan frowned: "What? How is this possible?"

“I saw the future. If I hadn’t appeared, Yosuke Ubuyashiki’s goal was to rescue Inosuke and then retreat. But when he saw me, he no longer intended to retreat. His current target is not you, Muzan Kibutsuji, but me. He wants to kill me here at all costs.”

After saying that, the god clapped his hands at Yosuke: "To be honest, Yosuke Ubuyashiki, you are indeed a person who knows everything. I admire your will. You want to kill me here. If I die, the biggest change will disappear, and then fate will be as you know, and Kibu Muzan will perish."

Yosuke sighed inwardly; the ability to foresee the future was truly troublesome: "In that case, can we release Inosuke?"

"I really want to agree, but I'm sorry, I can't! As you probably guessed, there's a limitation to my ability to foresee the future."

Seeing the God's candor, Yang Jie also shared his guess: "That's right, you now have two possible answers for the future: one is a future where you don't appear, and the other is a future where you do appear."

The god nodded and said, "Fate has become chaotic, and my ability to foresee the future is now full of uncertainty. Therefore, Inosuke is now my tool to stabilize the future. As long as he is there, the future I foresee will not change."

Yosuke immediately entered his Demon King state, his blood-red hair casually draped over his shoulders, his scarlet demon eyes wide open, facing Kibuyaku Muzan and the God Lord directly.

"Looks like the negotiations have broken down! There's no need to waste any more words! Blood Demon Art? Shadow Wolf!"

Countless shadow wolves appeared out of thin air, howling and baring their fangs, charging directly at Ki-Wu-Yi-Muzan and the God Lord respectively.

Yosuke's goal was very clear: to get rid of the frozen Inosuke.

Yosuke didn't take Kibuy Muzan seriously; he knew exactly what Kibuy Muzan was capable of.

However, the god before them was a complete mystery. Being able to get along with someone like Kibu Muzan, who worshipped power, on equal terms, his strength couldn't be weak.

Kibuyaku Muzan easily destroyed all of Yosuke's Shadow Wolves, but unexpectedly, the God was bitten by a Shadow Wolf.

Inosuke was within reach, but just as Yosuke was about to touch Yosuke...

"Word of Power? Guard!"

As the God Lord finished speaking, all the shadow wolves that were biting the God Lord disappeared, and a transparent energy shield appeared around Inosuke, blocking Yosuke's progress.

"Blood Demon Art? Blood Domain!"

Yosuke's blood domain appeared, and a blade made of blood appeared in his hand.

"Blood Breathing? Third Form? Storm Flame Blood Blade!"

The blood-red blade, burning with blood, struck the transparent energy shield, but the shield remained completely intact, without even a ripple.

Before Yosuke could think any further, Kibuy Muzan's attacks came one after another, with the nine whips on his back stabbing towards the vital points of Yosuke's body.

Yosuke had no choice but to temporarily abandon Inosuke, who was right in front of him, and instead focus on blocking Kibuy Muzan's nine whips.

Yang Jie, who hastily raised his sword to defend himself, was sent flying by the immense force of the whip.

Yosuke regained his balance in mid-air and landed steadily, solemnly assessing the current situation.

Now, not only is Kibuyaku Muzan watching him intently, ready to attack at any moment, but the God King is also standing beside Inosuke, clearly preventing him from getting close to Inosuke.

Furthermore, Inosuke is surrounded by an indestructible energy shield. To rescue Inosuke, it is necessary to find a way to destroy that energy shield before any subsequent attacks can be effective.

Kibuy Muzan glared bloodthirstyly at Yosuke: "I can't wait to see you get killed! This is my newly acquired power! Word of Power? Attack!"

Yang Jie's hair stood on end, feeling an invisible attack rushing towards him.

Yosuke rapidly flapped the blood wings on his back and rose into the air. The next second, the spot where Yosuke had been standing was blasted into a large crater by an invisible attack.

Kibuyaku Muzan looked at Yosuke, who was in mid-air, with disdain: "Flying? Ha, Word of Power!"

A terrifying gravity enveloped Yosuke, who was suspended in mid-air, and he crashed to the ground.

Gravity relentlessly pressed down on Yosuke, making even standing extremely difficult.

Kibuyaku Muzan gave Yosuke no time to breathe, using his trump card: the eight tube whips on his legs moved so fast that they created a sonic boom, stabbing towards Yosuke who was being suppressed by gravity.

"Blood Breathing? First Form? Crimson Corruption!"

A giant, blood-red flower appeared out of nowhere, enveloping Yosuke's entire body.

The whip pierced the blood-red flower stamen, but because Yang Jie had lost sight of it, it did not hit Yang Jie's vitals.

Yang Jie narrowed the blood domain, adding another layer of protection outside the blood-red flower stamen, and hid inside to think about countermeasures.

Chapter 128 Special Power

The current situation is completely unfavorable to Yang Jie.

Yosuke could sense that Kibuy Muzan's Word of Power was not a type of Blood Demon Art, so this power was given to him by the God.

The invisible attacks, defenses, and gravity of the Word of Power made Yosuke feel extremely troubled, especially with Inosuke in their hands, preventing Yosuke from fighting with his full strength.

Beyond the crimson flower stamen, Kibuy Muzan continued his relentless attacks, and Yosuke's crimson flower stamen couldn't hold out for long.

Just then, the system suddenly spoke up to remind the host: "[Host, the God Lord is aware of all your attack methods! The system can provide assistance to the host when necessary.]"

Yosuke frowned and asked, "Is this within your rules?"

[The current deity represents destiny. As the system previously stated, this is also a struggle between the system and destiny. Therefore, providing assistance to the host is within the rules. However, there is a price to pay for this assistance. Each time it is used, one of the host's hearts will disappear. So please seize this opportunity.]

“So, it’s an equivalent exchange…” Yosuke’s expression was extremely solemn. “We have no choice but to take a gamble. Bloom! Crimson stamen!”

The petals of the blood-red flower bloomed, and a huge shockwave swept across the entire area, accompanied by countless sharp, knife-like, and highly poisonous scarlet petals.

Kibuyaku Muzan used a wide-area shockwave to scatter the petals, while Yosuke charged towards the God Lord with a very clear objective.

The God Lord raised his hand and pointed it at Yosuke: "Word of Power? Attack!"

Faced with an invisible attack that could not be observed with the naked eye, Yosuke closed his eyes and used his bodily senses to perceive the invisible attack.

Yosuke suddenly opened his closed eyes: "Now! Blood Demon Art? Blood Reversal!"

Yosuke instantly created a clone made of blood. The invisible attack hit the blood clone and it exploded instantly.

Meanwhile, Yosuke's true form had already teleported to the front of the God Lord.

Yosuke silently called out in his mind, "System!"

On Yosuke's blood blade, a layer of light that was neither black, nor white, nor gray was covered, and Yosuke could clearly feel that one of his hearts had disappeared.

As the origin of the demon, the multiple organs in his body are the source of his near-immortal regeneration ability, and the sudden loss of a heart made Yosuke feel weak.

[Host, please note that the added power lasts only one minute. Please be mindful of the time limit!]