The Warrior of Love

"I don't want to tell my name to someone like you!"

The girl showed an extremely disgusted expression: "Anyway, you just confess to anyone, as long as it's a girl, it's fine, right?"

"Yes-No!"

The blond boy shook his head vigorously: "I confessed to you because you are cute!"

"Terrible! Scumbag! Pervert!"

The girl couldn't shake off the man's hand, and unable to bear it any longer, she raised her leg and stepped on him, leaving clear footprints on the boy's face.

However, the boy did not let go, but murmured to himself: "Girls, girls' feet... thighs..."

"Well!"

With a moan, the girl quickly lowered her legs and pressed the hem of her kimono with her other hand to cover up the glimpse of spring light that had been exposed earlier.

But at the same time, she hated the boy so much: "Let go, I'm going to call for help!"

"No, I'm serious! I really like you, um... a girl whose name I don't know!"

"You scum!"

The girl was about to cry: "Then tell me what you like about me? I will definitely change."

"She has a cute face, oh no!"

Zenitsu hurriedly changed his words, but for a moment he couldn't think of what to say. After all, he just grabbed a girl at random and didn't know her at all.

Suddenly, he noticed the little hand he was holding.

"Ah, yes, that's it!"

"what?"

"Hands, your hands are beautiful!"

Zenitsu kept stroking the little hand with an obsessed look.

“Ahhh, so soft and smooth, every inch of this skin seems to be a work of art. Hehe, it’s a bit embarrassing to say this, but when I first held this hand, I—”

"Don't come near me, pervert!" The girl pulled her hand suddenly and finally escaped from Zenitsu's clutches. Without thinking, she slapped the other person in the face.

Snapped!

A red mark with five fingers immediately appeared on Zenitsu's face.

"I'm really not a scumbag..."

Zenitsu said with great sorrow: "I just want to find a cute girl to marry before I die!"

Chapter 45: We Don’t Know Him

"Zenitsu...what are you doing?"

A familiar yet unbelievable voice came from behind him. Zenitsu turned around and found that it was Tanjiro with a subtle expression on his face, and Jiang Liu who was standing aside and looking into the distance as if it had nothing to do with him.

"Tanjiro?" Zenitsu said blankly, "And Jiang Liu? Why are you here?"

"I just wanted to ask!"

Tanjiro couldn't help but say, "Let go quickly, can't you see that this lady is in trouble?"

"but……"

Zenitsu wanted to say something, but the girl had already seen through his daze and pulled her hand out fiercely, leaving a palm print on the other side of his face.

"Now it's symmetrical." Jiang Liu nodded after catching a glimpse of this scene, feeling inexplicably comfortable.

"Pervert, don't come near me again!"

The girl cursed him angrily before glaring at Tanjiro and Eru.

"Are you his acquaintances?"

"Forehead……"

Tanjiro, who originally wanted to answer truthfully, scratched his head and his eyes wandered.

“Actually, we are not…”

"Nothing!" Jiang Liu said seriously, "We just happened to have met once so we know his name. In fact, we are not familiar with him at all."

"That's really suspicious... Never mind, if you know him, keep an eye on him and don't do such disgusting things again!"

The girl left in a hurry as if she was hiding from something dirty, leaving Zenitsu wailing there.

"Don't go! You're all I have!"

If you didn't know the inside story, you would definitely think that he was calling for the love of his life, but Jiang Liu and the others understood that Zenitsu was just a little weird.

Well, probably more than a little.

"What a weird guy." Jiang Liu felt shaken when he saw Zenitsu crying without any ambition.

Is this person really one of the protagonists in the Demon Slayer world?

Although he is essentially a good person, the way he looks really... makes it hard to have any expectations of him.

"Okay, stop crying! What does it look like for a grown man to cry all the time?"

After all, they were acquaintances who had participated in the final selection together and had spent some time together. Tanjiro sighed and walked forward to pull Zenitsu up.

"Of course you won't be successful in pursuing girls like this. Anyway, why do you do this?"

"Wow...I'm so scared!"

Zenitsu leaned on Tanjiro, almost burying his head in his arms, and spoke while crying.

"I get so scared when I think about fighting a ghost. A weak guy like me won't live long and will definitely be eaten by the ghost... Woohoo, but I don't want to be single before I die and end up being lonely for the rest of my life!"

“It’s actually for this…” Tanjiro was speechless. He really couldn’t understand Zenitsu’s feelings.

After all, he hasn't figured it out yet.

However, the tolerance of the eldest son came in handy at this moment. Although he could not understand Zenitsu, Tanjiro still touched his head and comforted him.

"It's okay, Zenitsu."

The young man said gently, "As long as you don't give up, you will definitely find a girl who truly loves you in the future. But you have to promise me that you will never cause trouble to strangers like this again. Girls don't like men who suddenly come up to them and kneel down to propose to them."

"Yeah, I remember. You're so nice, Tanjiro..."

Wiping away his tears, Zenitsu smiled and said in a tearful voice: "Tanjiro is still the most gentle. If I were a girl, I would definitely like someone like you."

"Forehead……"

"By the way, Tanjiro, do you have any sisters? If they are as gentle as you, Tanjiro, please introduce them to me - Eh? What's wrong? You look so weird?"

"nothing."

After looking Zenitsu from head to toe and pondering for a while, Tanjiro suddenly put his hand on Zenitsu's shoulder and spoke half-threateningly and half-sincerely. It was unknown what he was thinking.

"If you want to be liked by girls, you have to at least be as strong as a man, understand? Also, I have a younger sister but I won't introduce her to you."

"Huh?! Why?"

"By the way, Zenitsu, do you have a mission now?"

"Changing the subject! Why don't you dare look at me? How bad is your impression of me?"

"If you don't have a mission, come with us on the road."

"Don't ignore me, look at me straight in the eye. Am I really that disgusting?"

Shanyihua, who had just finished crying, turned to Jiang Liu with a sullen face: "What do you think, Jiang Liu? I am quite confident about my face. A girl once commented that I look very innocent!"

Although he was cheated by her afterwards and had to bear a huge debt that he had to pay off for the rest of his life - Zenitsu did not tell the other half of the truth.

Looking at Zenitsu's tear-stained face, Jiang Liu smiled slightly: "I think Zenitsu... still has a lot of potential, you should work hard."

Jiangliu-kun is so gentle—Tanjiro couldn't help but turn his head away and cover his mouth.

-

The team expanded, and on the surface it became a team of Tanjiro, Eru, and Zenitsu, but in fact there was another Nezuko on Tanjiro's back in his box, but Zenitsu didn't know this.

"My ears are very sharp and I can hear sounds from far away, so we can avoid the evil spirits in time."

"I have a very good nose. I can smell the scent of evil spirits. This way we can find the enemy quickly."

Tanjiro & Zenitsu: "..."

Jiang Liu's mouth twitched, and he walked a few steps faster to leave the two behind. If he stayed with them any longer, he felt that he would not be able to hold back his laughter.

"Huh? What's this smell?" While walking through a forest, Tanjiro suddenly stopped, attracting Jiang Liu's attention.

At the same time, Zenitsu also frowned and his ears moved slightly.

"It seems... there is a child crying, in this direction!"

Jiang Liu's face became serious and he ran in that direction without hesitation, and the remaining two followed him.

After running about one or two hundred meters, passing through dense grass and woods, Jiang Liu saw a very open space in front of him, in which sat an ancient Japanese-style house.

"It's actually in a place like this... It looks suspicious no matter how you look at it." Jiang Liu thought to himself.

Then, the crying sound of the child that Zenitsu mentioned earlier also reached Jiang Liu's ears, leading him to the edge of the open space.

Under the shadow of the big tree, two children, a boy and a girl, hugged each other, looking at the house in fear, with tears on their faces, looking extremely panicked.

The two children looked no more than eight or nine years old. Generally speaking, they would never appear in the depths of the forest without a guardian... and judging from their reactions, it seemed that this was not a normal situation.

Instinctively feeling pity for the children, Jiang Liu slowly approached them, even bending down and trying to keep his eyes level with theirs to avoid scaring them.

Looking at the pitiful child who looked like a frightened animal cub, Jiang Liu asked softly, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. What happened? Tell big brother, okay?"

Chapter 46: Ghost Mansion

Perhaps because they felt that Jiang Liu didn't look like a bad person, the two children first looked at each other, then mustered up the courage to answer Jiang Liu's question.

"Monster, monster... a monster has captured our brother."

The little boy raised his finger tremblingly and pointed to the mansion: "Then he entered the house."

"Monster?" Jiang Liu asked thoughtfully, "What kind of monster is it?"

"It has grey skin and it was too dark for me to see its face clearly, but it has hands and feet like humans."

The little boy hugged his sister tightly, choking with sobs, and said, "There were three of us... The monster only took my brother away, without even looking at us. No matter how hard we pulled, we couldn't keep my brother... Woo woo..."

"Okay, okay, stop crying."

Jiang Liu gently touched the heads of the two children and smiled at the boy, "Who of you is older?"

The boy glanced at the girl in his arms, paused and said, "I'm older."

"Really? Then you are my brother."

Jiang Liu looked directly at the boy: "If you are a brother, you should act like a brother. If you can only cry at a time like this, who can your sister rely on?"

"Hmm...yeah!"

The boy nodded vigorously, wiped away his tears with his sleeve, and looked at Jiang Liu with red eyes.

"I understand. I will protect my sister and I will rescue my brother!"

However, Jiang Liu shook his head again: "No, it's enough for you to stay here to protect your sister. You are not needed to go into the mansion to rescue people. I can do it."

"Big brother, are you willing to help us?!" the boy exclaimed in surprise.

Jiang Liu smiled cheerfully: "I am older than you, so leave this matter to me. This is the so-called responsibility of an adult."

"But there are man-eating monsters in there..."

"Big brother has this..." Jiang Liu patted the two long swords on his waist, "Don't be afraid..."

"Then, I'm counting on you. You must rescue my brother!"

"No problem... Oh, those two are here too, don't be afraid, they are my companions."

Jiang Liu briefly explained the details to Tanjiro and Zenitsu who came over, but their reactions were very different.

"Let's go rescue people right away!"