Monster Hunter Gathering

"It doesn't matter! He's completely trapped in the hallucination now, so retreat for now!"

Nie Chiwu also stopped Tanjiro and other members of the Demon Slayer Corps who were preparing to attack. In front of the confused eyes of Tomioka Giyuu and others, he explained: "He should be fighting based on instinct... While he is hallucinating, I want to share some information with you."

"Ms. Zhu Shi! The matter of delaying time is left to you!!" Nie Chiwu shouted in the direction of Zhu Shi.

Tamayo was also somewhat helpless. She silently enlarged the wound on her arm to allow the blood to flow out faster, and tried her best to release her blood demon art.

Looking at Tamayo's current appearance, Kocho Shinobu suddenly remembered how she had just bled two buckets. For a moment, she felt that... it was a bit strange that both of them were asked by the same person, Nie Chiwu, to bleed...

"Then why don't we just rush over and chop that guy to pieces while the tattooed bastard doesn't fight back?!" Inosuke said as angrily as ever.

"Inosuke, this won't work. Let's just listen to the Grand Commander's explanation." Tanjiro was keeping a wary eye on Akaza while persuading Inosuke to be more obedient.

"Hey, Nie Chiwu, isn't it a bit too dangerous to explain now?" Qiao Er finally relaxed from the mental fatigue of the continuous battle: "I don't think that Tamayo can control Akaza forever."

"That should be enough time. Let's cut to the chase." Nie Chiwu glanced back at Akaza, who was in some pain, immersed in hallucinations. "When I'm talking, try not to interrupt me. Only ask me if there's something you really don't understand."

"First, this compass beneath our feet is the core of Akaza's blood demon art." Nie Chiwu pointed directly at the snowflake-like patterns beneath their feet and said, "It can sense the fighting spirit of living things... Our current fighting instinct is also based on this, which makes things difficult for us."

"What is... fighting spirit?" Kanao asked in confusion.

"Battle spirit is hard to explain. You can think of it as the natural, perceptible emotions that emanate from a living being's consciousness," Nie Chiwu said. "Just like you can smell Tanjiro, right? For example, the emotions of others right now."

"Yes!" Tanjiro nodded vigorously.

"In short, once hostile behavior enters the compass, it will provoke a counterattack... unless one has mastered the Transparent World to restrain their fighting spirit." Nie Chiwu said: "The Transparent World allows precise control of one's breathing and movements, and can therefore sense the opponent's movements and weaknesses..."

"Tanjiro, you should have been able to master the Transparent World during the battle with Akaza, but in order to defeat Douma without casualties, we had to change the battle between you and Akaza... We apologize for this." Nie Chiwu said directly to Tanjiro, "So we will also take responsibility, just like before... We will kill Akaza without losing anyone."

"The transparent world... I could have controlled it?" Tanjiro was briefly confused. Although he didn't know why Nie Chiwu said it as if he could know the future, Tanjiro could feel that Nie Chiwu's aura at the moment was that he seriously wanted the Demon Slayer Corps to completely eliminate the evil spirits in the Infinite Castle with the least losses.

"I understand, Grand Commander." Tanjiro didn't hesitate, but said directly: "If you have any ideas, please let us know. We will fully support your actions."

"I believe you! That transparent world you spoke of... I will also find a way to master it!"

Tanjiro widened his eyes and spoke loudly to Nie Chiwu, who was holding his head and chest out, causing Nie Chiwu to gasp.

"What a decisive young man!" Nie Chiwu patted Tanjiro's shoulder, somewhat moved. "Then as a reliable adult... I must shoulder the trust of a young man like you!!!"

"If you want to master the transparent world, then think about what happened when your father killed the giant bear before his death. That was what your father wanted to teach you about the transparent world."

"And then……"

Nie Chiwu said to everyone he was facing: "Send Akaza to hell to atone for his sins, with the power of all of us."

While Nie Chiwu was explaining the plan, Akaza was also deeply immersed in hallucinations.

He could see the familiar figures in the hallucination, but he could never remember who they were.

Moreover, why did he feel particularly painful and sad when he saw those figures, and why did he have such emotions?

He didn't understand and wanted to know, especially the girl who looked at him crying. He was sure he once knew her name.

This feeling made Akaza extremely angry... It was as if there was something he wanted behind a transparent wall, but he could never break the transparent wall.

"what!!!!!!!"

Akaza roared angrily, but the next moment...

All the illusions in Akaza's eyes disappeared just like that.

But in front of Akaza, there was only one figure left.

"Yo."

Nie Chiwu was holding the bug stick at this moment. He swung it at Akaza and said, "Akaza, how does it feel to awaken from your past memories?"

"Where did the others go?"

Akaza asked sharply, and at the same time, he took a sudden step forward. A huge snowflake array rose from under Akaza's feet, covering a large area of ​​the surrounding area, but...

Akaza didn't detect any Dou Qi nearby except Nie Chiwu.

"Of course it's somewhere you can't feel it."

Nie Chiwu pointed the bug stick at Akaza, and the hunting bug obediently flew to Nie Chiwu's side: "As for now... it's time for our one-on-one duel!"

Chapter 25 Monster Hunter's Deliberate Provocation!

"Yiwo seat."

At this moment, Nie Chiwu stood alone in front of Akaza, and took off the shivering eel mask on his head. He said to the Upper Three in front of him: "Before the real battle, let me introduce myself first."

"I, Nie Chiwu, am a... monster hunter."

Nie Chiwu stood tall in front of Akaza and said, "The Joseph Joestar you fought earlier is my companion. He was a Hunter and Ripple Messenger from the First Group, and I am the current Grand Leader of the Monster Hunter Group."

"……you?"

Akaza looked at Nie Chiwu, his forehead veins faintly visible as he said, "Don't be ridiculous. I don't sense any tempered fighting spirit from you. You're just an ordinary person who has never experienced combat."

"A fellow like you can't possibly be from the same place as Joseph." Akaza said, "You are not qualified to fight me! You are just a weakling!!!"

"Where are those other guys!!"

The veins on Akaza's forehead became more pronounced. After waking up from the hallucination, he only saw Nie Chiwu, which made Akaza even more furious: "Let them out! Or I will kill you and then go find them."

"Fighting spirit is meaningless."

Nie Chiwu said directly to Akaza: "You don't have to look for them. I just made them leave the sensing range of your compass, and... this is a hunt for you, Akaza."

Nie Chiwu tapped the insect stick in his hand. "Joseph and I are indeed not from the same place. I don't know exactly what the fighting spirit you mentioned is. I just know that it's something related to spiritual will..."

"So do you know why I left myself behind?" Nie Chiwu grinned and gave Akaza a provocative smile: "That is to say, for an opponent like you, it's enough to let someone like me who doesn't have much fighting spirit to face him head-on."

"Strength? Fighting spirit? Thousands of hammers?" Nie Chiwu said provocatively to Akaza: "Does that really mean anything? Does your thousands of hammers mean anything?"

"What are you angry about?" Nie Chiwu raised his hand, grinned at Akaza, and tapped his temple lightly. "Your temple is bulging with anger, and veins are popping out on your forehead."

"What are you angry about? Is it because I, a 'weakling', provoked you?"

"No way?" Nie Chiwu said with a teasing expression, "You're not angry with me at all. You're angry with Tanjiro because of those hallucinations before, right?"

"You don't even know why you're angry and furious." Nie Chiwu continued to tap his temple gently. "The more you fight us, the angrier you get, and the less you can figure out why you're angry and furious... So don't you think your current situation is pathetic?"

"What do you want to say?" Akaza was now even more displeased by Nie Chiwu's words: "Are you trying to delay time with words? That kind of thing... is meaningless."

"As long as we wait until Master Muzan recovers, your battle will be meaningless." Akaza said, "Besides... a weakling like you can't stop me at all."

"I'll be able to kill you quickly, and then I'll find the other ghost hunters and kill them one by one." Akaza slowly faced Nie Chiwu and said, "The words of the weak are not worth listening to."

"My ideas are different from yours."

Nie Chiwu also put away the smile that he had been deliberately trying to tease the other party: "Strength and weakness are just your words."

“Life is a cycle, and this cycle is nature.”

Nie Chiwu said: "Muzan is the monster who destroyed this process, so he will eventually be defeated under the watchful eyes of the world, and you..."

"Akoza, you're just a pathetic fellow." Nie Chiwu said as he looked at Akaza, "You haven't figured out what you're angry about. You've even forgotten the original purpose of your pursuit of power."

"Actually, this is also part of our discussion among the four hunters." Nie Chiwu calmly said to Akaza, words that Akaza could hardly understand: "What should we do with you?"

"And finally, we reached a consensus on our goals..."

Nie Chiwu gently stroked his neck with his thumb: "We will follow the wishes of your father, your master, and your wife and personally send you to hell to willingly atone for your sins."

"So listen to me, you ghost. The sins you committed as a ghost will never disappear. Therefore, Akaza must die and atone for them."

Nie Chiwu raised his voice towards Akaza, speaking loudly, "I'm telling you openly now. I'll use every possible means to get rid of you. As the one who devised the plan, I'll fight you head-on, and everyone else..."

Nie Chiwu bared his teeth at Akaza: "These are all chess moves that have been arranged. They will send you to hell in the dark."

"so……"

Nie Chiwu hooked his finger at Akaza and said, "Come here and kill me head-on."

"Then...as you wish!"

Akaza no longer suppressed his anger at this moment. In almost an instant, he crossed the short distance between him and Nie Chiwu and came in front of Nie Chiwu.

Destroy and kill...

The compass took shape in an instant, and Akaza also confirmed that within his perception range, there was no other person with fighting spirit besides Nie Chiwu, so Akaza punched Nie Chiwu without hesitation.

The opponent had never experienced any battle. Even when he was already in front of him, this "weakling" had just reacted and wanted to raise his weapon.

But in Akaza's eyes, these movements were too slow...

How could this guy say those things? How could he act so confidently, as if he really knew about his past?

He became a ghost hundreds of years ago! How could this human possibly know all that?

When Akaza thought that Nie Chiwu was most likely lying to him, he felt his internal organs churning, and then he punched Nie Chiwu's head hard, ready to destroy this guy's brain directly.

But... as soon as he touched it, Akaza felt something unusual about the touch.

Chapter 26: The hunter’s brave fight!

hard!

The head of this guy in front of me is harder than that of an ordinary person.

The degree of hardness was beyond the scope of the human body, so the impact of the punch did not directly smash the opponent's head. Instead, the entire head completely absorbed the impact of Akaza's fist, causing the opponent's body to fly backwards.

At the moment when the opponent flew backwards, a ball of liquid with a strange smell was thrown out directly from the insect stick in his hand and stuck to his body.

Akaza instinctively thought it was an attack and smashed the liquid with a punch, but was covered in the smell of the liquid.

"what!"

Akaza was about to chase after Nie Chiwu who had flown away, but suddenly he saw an extremely huge and strange insect flying directly towards Akaza's face and attacking him directly.

"!"

Looking at the bug that suddenly attacked him, Akaza instinctively attacked, but when his fist reached the bug, the bug flapped its wings at a very fast speed, dodged Akaza's fist like a flash, and tore off a piece of flesh from Akaza's cheek.

The speed of the bug was so fast that Akaza couldn't react... Although the bite didn't cause much damage to Akaza, the speed at which any attempt to block it was completely useless surprised Akaza.

The moment the hunting insect hit him, it also released a cloud of orange glowing dust that floated in the air, and the next moment... the insect stick came down on his head. Akaza instinctively dodged, but when the insect stick's attack hit the dust, a violent explosion occurred.

The impact of the explosion also caused Akaza to suffer some injuries. Although he is recovering quickly, he is still a little confused.

What kind of creature is this bug? It doesn't have the aura of a ghost, yet it can even dodge my fists and release such a powerful explosive dust...

As Akaza was thinking this, Nie Chiwu spat on the ground in front of him, then stared at Akaza with the insect stick in his hand: "You don't understand! This is insect hunting! Boy!"

"You, like Joseph, have this strange recovery ability." Akaza stared at Nie Chiwu's face and said the same thing: "But even if that bug has the ability to create explosive dust, what can it do? Do you think you can threaten me with just that?"

"Of course!" Nie Chiwu snapped his fingers: "...No."

"I'm still not good enough for direct combat." Nie Chiwu said with a bright smile, "So I can only use some conspiracies and tricks openly!"

Just as Nie Chiwu was saying this, Akaza suddenly heard a shattering sound, and the ceiling above the two of them could no longer support the explosion and shattered.

A large amount of blood fell from the ceiling, and the red color almost drowned Akaza's vision. Akaza instinctively wanted to use his fists to scatter the falling blood, but as soon as the blood got close to Akaza, he realized that it was...

Almost all of them are full of strong wisteria poison!

A large amount of blood almost instantly drowned Akaza and Nie Chiwu. Akaza couldn't even imagine when such a huge amount of wisteria poison appeared in the Infinite City...

Did Mingnu bring it in? How could it be possible? She couldn't bear to see the purple wisteria poison brought into the Infinite City.

Could it be that these Demon Slayers brought them in? They were clearly brought in suddenly, and the number doesn't match. How could such a large amount of Wisteria poison suddenly appear above their heads and be used so lavishly?!

And why blood? When exactly was it set up...

"A lethal dose of wisteria poison! Jointly researched by Ms. Kocho Shinobu and Ms. Tamayo! We're sorry for the poor service!!!"

At this moment, Nie Chiwu was also bathing in the blood of the falling wisteria flowers, with a proud expression on his face: "How is it! Akaza! Can you sense the fighting spirit in these poisons? This blood... every drop is the hatred that Kocho Shinobu feels for the evil spirits."

"You guy..."

At this moment, Akaza felt that his body seemed to have been affected by the wisteria flower poison, and his original strength had begun to decline.

Poisoning, poisoning again!

Akaza was furious, not realizing that the word "again" had appeared in his thoughts.

"I'm going to kill you!!!" It was as if a string of rationality in Akaza's brain broke at this moment.

Even though his body was still stained with the poisonous blood of the wisteria flowers, Akaza still rushed towards Nie Chiwu in anger.

"As a man-eating evil ghost, don't be angry here!" Nie Chiwu also went towards Akaza. At the same time, the brown light representing defense on his body was faintly emitted as the potion took effect.