The Warrior of Love

He knew very well what level Feng was as a high-ranking member of the Demon Slayer Corps, so he naturally regarded Jiang Liu as a combat force with great potential.

Back to this mission, as soon as Jiang Liu received the news, he packed his luggage, said goodbye to Feng who was recuperating from his injuries, and embarked on a journey to defeat the evil spirits.

It was almost evening when he found the town based on the direction and location provided by the crow.

After wandering around town for a while longer, I came across Tanjiro who was sniffing around in an alley.

"Jiang Liujun! It's you!"

Tanjiro was surprised to see Jiang Liu. He ran over with a big box on his back and grabbed Jiang Liu's hand.

"I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon. Well, it's reassuring that my first mission is to be carried out with Jiang Liujun."

"Just call me Jiangliu, Tanjiro."

Jiang Liu also smiled at the boy, and then looked at the half-person-high wooden box behind him.

If Jiang Liu remembered correctly, the wooden box should contain...

"Hey, Jiang Liu-kun, ah no, Jiang Liu, you are a dual-sword style?"

Tanjiro looked at the two swords on Jiang Liu's waist with some surprise.

If the Bai Lei is hidden in the sheath, it looks like just an ordinary samurai sword, but Jiang Liu's Nichirin Sword is of a specification that ordinary people cannot use, and it is quite eye-catching.

"No, it's a little complicated. I'll explain it to you when I have a chance."

Jiang Liu laughed and passed it over, then asked, "Speaking of which, have you found any clues?"

"Hmm!" Speaking of this, Tanjiro also became serious.

"You should know that my nose is a little more sensitive than the average person."

Is it just "a little more sensitive"? That's almost like a special ability, okay?

Jiang Liu secretly complained in his heart, but still listened carefully to Tanjiro's explanation.

"I came to this town in the afternoon and walked almost all the way around. However, there were too many smells and I couldn't find any trace of the evil spirit at first. But just now, I found out where one of the victims disappeared, which is here."

The dark red-haired boy said solemnly, "And I've already smelled it - the smell of an evil ghost! It's just like a rotting corpse and a dark swamp, a smell that makes people feel creepy from the bottom of their bones. This is undoubtedly an evil ghost that has eaten many people!"

"Really? We've found the clues." Jiang Liu thought, "Tanjiro, can you find the hiding place of the evil spirit?"

"It's hard, it's been a while, the smell is thin, but I'll try my best."

Tanjiro said righteously: "Let's find the demon together and defeat it!"

"Yeah, of course." Jiang Liu smiled and nodded, "By the way, aren't you tired of carrying such a big gift? Let me help you."

"Um, that's not necessary." Tanjiro looked around and said, "It's not that heavy actually."

Jiang Liu gave him a playful look, but did not continue teasing him. Instead, he turned around and looked at the sun.

"Dusk...is coming soon."

After thinking about it, Jiang Liu took out a lunch box from his package and gave the cold rice ball inside to Tanjiro.

"Let's eat something first. I don't think we'll have time after nightfall."

"Oh, thank you." Tanjiro took the rice ball and said embarrassedly, "I have always been taken care of by you since the time of Fujikiyama."

"It's nothing. Soldiers can't go to the battlefield on an empty stomach." Jiang Liu kindly reminded, "But eating too much will also affect your movements, so you have to be moderate."

Both Tanjiro and Eru have undergone rigorous training, and even their eating time is the same. They can finish their meal in no time, probably less than one-third of the time taken by ordinary people.

"Okay, now that we're full, let's cheer up, because this night is going to be a long one."

The afterglow of the sun gradually faded, and when the light of dusk completely disappeared, the moment of the devil officially arrived.

Jiang Liu said nothing and stood quietly aside, afraid of disturbing Tanjiro who was concentrating on looking for the evil spirit.

"It's getting more and more..."

Tanjiro concentrated on sniffing the air, muttering to himself from time to time, his body pressed against the walls and the ground. Outsiders who didn't know the truth might even think he was a little neurotic.

However, Jiang Liu knew that this young man's nose was so sensitive that even a hunting dog would be ashamed of itself. His seemingly funny behavior was actually a reconstruction of a murder that had occurred here.

"The smell of blood..."

Tanjiro chased the increasingly strong smell towards a more remote place, and Jiang Liu also followed quietly until they stopped in a deserted dead end.

"Hmm, it's coming again? The smell has become stronger. Is this...is this another trace?"

Tanjiro suddenly raised his head: "No, this is not a residual smell, it's fresh! The evil spirit has appeared!"

Jiang Liu's eyes turned cold when he heard that, and he tightened his grip on the Sun Blade at his waist.

Chapter 32: Shadow Ghost (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone!)

In the small town under the darkness, originally no one was wandering the streets at night due to the girl's constant disappearance, but at this moment, there were two nimble figures moving quickly under the moonlight.

They came to a remote alley one after another, and a young man with short dark red hair and strange earrings spoke anxiously.

"This is where the smell is the strongest. There are two smells. One is the stink of evil spirits, and the other is the stink of young women!"

When the other young man heard this, he drew his sword without saying a word. Before his companion could tell him the specific location, he had already rushed out and slashed fiercely at a certain point on the ground!

"Eryu... eh?" Tanjiro was about to ask, but what happened the next moment made him open his eyes wide.

"how come?!"

puff--

Jiang Liu's knife cut the ground, but what flew around was not real soil, but a liquid like silt.

As Tanjiro looked on in astonishment, a one-foot square "swamp" spread out with the place where Jiang Liu had pierced, and the figure of a girl in a kimono also emerged.

Jiang Liu narrowed his eyes, stretched out his left hand as fast as lightning, grabbed the girl's waist and jumped back decisively.

Sure enough, almost at the moment when Jiang Liu retreated, a ghost hand with gray-brown skin and sharp nails stretched out from the swamp and almost grabbed the girl.

"Tanjiro!" Jiang Liu took the girl away, and at the same time shouted the boy's name loudly.

"呲-"

A cold light flashed in the darkness, and without much words, Tanjiro rushed over tacitly. The blade that could cut through huge rocks passed through the night and immediately cut off the ghost hand.

But before he could expand his victory, his severed hand shrank into the swamp with a whoosh, and soon even the swamp disappeared.

"Hmm! It actually came out of the soil..." Tanjiro suddenly became nervous, "Is it a ghost with super powers?"

Jiang Liu also narrowed his eyes as he looked at the clean kimono on the girl: "This kind of blood demon technique... does not create a real swamp."

The girl abducted by the ghost was not covered in mud. Perhaps the so-called "swamp" was just an illusion, and the evil ghost's blood magic was not to turn the mud into a swamp and travel underground. In essence, it was something like a field or a barrier.

After a few seconds, a swamp appeared again on the ground behind the two of them. Jiang Liu and Tanjiro, sensing something, immediately turned around.

A one-horned evil ghost, with his body above the chest exposed from the ground, was staring at the two of them with an extremely ferocious face, and his severed right hand was slowly beginning to regenerate.

"Your ability is very interesting. If you were determined to escape, most swordsmen would not be able to catch you." Jiang Liu said calmly, "But you didn't run away. It seems that you are very confident in yourself."

The evil ghost stared at Jiang Liu, or more accurately, at the girl in Jiang Liu's arms. His face became more and more distorted with jealousy, and he even ground his teeth like a mouse, making a sharp and piercing sound.

"Oh? You want it?"

Jiang Liu glanced at the unconscious girl, then cast a playful look at him.

"This girl is probably only fifteen or sixteen years old. If human flesh has different tastes, she should be a rare delicacy for evil spirits. Do you want it?"

The evil ghost stared at Jiang Liu silently without saying anything, but his teeth were grinding more and more violently, and one could feel how anxious he was from the sound of his voice.

"Jiang Liu?" Tanjiro couldn't help but feel worried when he heard Jiang Liu's words as if he was provoking the evil spirit.

"Don't you want her?" Jiang Liu looked directly at the unicorn and smiled, "Then I'll take her away."

"asshole!!"

The evil ghost couldn't help but roar loudly, and his body disappeared into the swamp with a plop.

Tanjiro saw this and immediately warned Jiang Liu: "Be careful!"

However, Jiang Liu smiled slightly, exerted force with his feet, and jumped up holding the girl. In the next moment, two ghost hands stretched out from the ground, just touching the lapels of the two people.

"Ah!"

With a sneer, as his body fell, the cold light of the knife pierced into the swamp one step ahead.

"Ahhh!"

Screams were heard from the swamp, but Jiang Liu frowned.

"Too shallow!"

From the feeling he received, he could tell how deep the knife had stabbed. The ghost seemed to be more cautious than he had imagined. Even though it had angered him so much, it still hid most of its body and the vital parts of its neck under the swamp.

He drew out the Sun Blade and slashed it hard, tearing some part of the demon apart. With the help of this force, Jiang Liu carried the girl and fell out of the swamp.

But at this moment, Tanjiro suddenly moved his nose and shouted hurriedly: "Don't stop! It's not over yet!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a three-foot square swamp appeared on both sides of where Jiang Liu was standing, and two evil spirits with almost identical appearances rushed out from them.

"I know!"

Jiang Liu's face darkened, as if he had expected it. He swung his silver-gray sword in a circular shape, just in time to cut off the four arms of the two evil spirits.

The movement was so smooth that it looked as if the evil spirit had taken the initiative to approach it.

Tanjiro did not fall behind either. He started sprinting while speaking, and when Jiang Liudao was slashing the evil ghost, he was already close.

Although he was carrying a wooden box half a person's height on his back, he was still agile. With a flick of the scabbard, the jet-black Sun Blade popped out. He swung the blade along the trajectory he had practiced countless times, chopping off the head of one of the evil spirits.

However, these guys were like nimble moles, their reactions were so quick that it was astonishing. They actually avoided the neck. Tanjiro only had time to chop off half of their heads before they escaped into the swamp. Their blood demon technique was activated, and they disappeared from the ground in an instant.

Jiang Liu and Tanjiro frowned at the same time: Apart from anything else, this blood demon technique is really annoying!

"Damn, damn, damn, damn!"

Another swamp appeared, and three evil ghosts with the same appearance poked their heads out, glaring at the two of them madly.

"How is it possible?! How could you possibly know where I am?!"

His blood magic has no direct killing power, but the effect is similar to the legendary earth escape technique. He can move freely in the "swamp area" created by himself and travel underground at will, which is already in the category of spatial ability.

Generally speaking, even if one is much stronger than him, there is no way to enter the swamp to hunt him down, let alone block his actions in advance!

However, Jiang Liu and Tanjiro didn't think about it at all. It was as if they knew where he was from the beginning to the end. They blocked the exit like a polar bear hunting seals... Quick reaction and accurate prediction alone cannot fully explain the battle just now.

"I have a keen nose." Even though he was an enemy, Tanjiro still answered.

"I have a better intuition." Jiang Liu said calmly.

Evil Ghost: "..."

Although the enemy's blood magic is so strange, Jiang Liu doesn't care.

His spiritual perception transcends the five senses. Even if the evil ghost hides in the swamp, it cannot conceal his spiritual fluctuations. Jiang Liu can know where he is even without using his eyes.

To him, this battle was just a slightly more troublesome game of whack-a-mole.

Chapter 33: Nezuko

"Damn human, hand that woman over to me quickly! Don't get in the way!"

The ghost in the middle gnashed his teeth and said, "She's already sixteen years old. If we don't eat her quickly, her freshness will continue to decline!"

"Calm down, 'I'." Another ghost said, "I've eaten a lot of sixteen-year-old girls in this town. It's time to leave."

"I'm not satisfied yet!" said the grumpy ghost.

The remaining one said nothing, but just stared at Jiang Liu and the others and gritted his teeth.

It seems that their thoughts are not unified.

While they were arguing, Tanjiro had already tightly gripped the hilt of the knife, with uncontrollable anger in his eyes.

“Actually…actually…”

The boy's body and voice were trembling slightly, but it was definitely not because of fear.

"How dare you do this... What do you think humans are?!"

"Food bar..."

Unexpectedly, the person who answered him was Jiang Liu who was standing beside him.