The Chainsaw Man, but the Darkin Sword Demon

"...Thank you." After a moment of hesitation, Akira Hayakawa still took the Coke, but didn't drink it. "Today we are going to hunt down a demon and plan to arrive at the original ambush point before 11:30 am."

"What kind of demon?" Mu Bai asked.

"Its name is the E-cigarette Demon." Hayakawa Qiu was satisfied with the other party's positive question. "I will show you the specific information later. You can learn more about its deeds now so that you can understand the information later."

Mubai nodded.

Pava began to yell loudly, saying things like "Information is such a boring thing, so take me to find it quickly" and "No one wants to grab the prey with me today".

Hayao Chuanqiu directly ignored the blood demon, turned around and took out a file and handed it to Mubai.

Pava's mind is too abnormal, and it is better to get along with this new colleague-he looks like an ordinary person and can communicate normally.

"Thank you." Mubai took the portfolio and quickly browsed the contents:

[Demon Name: Electronic Cigarette Demon]

[First appearance time: 5:29 pm on May 18]

[Location of first appearance: an abandoned construction site in the south of Litang Town, Tokyo]

[Event 6: The e-cigarette demon first appeared in the e-cigarette smoke of 30 unscrupulous high school students. At first, it was disembodied and extremely small (a mass of about 30cmX6cm). After polluting the lungs of [-] high school students, it became stronger and disappear.There were no fatalities in this incident. 】

【事件二：于6月8日正午12时00分出现在东京千代田公园吸烟区，出现方式与第一次相同，共污染了十六名吸烟者和89名非吸烟者的双肺。此次事件共造成56人死亡（16名吸烟者和40名非吸烟者），直接致死原因皆为肺癌急性进展。】

[Event 6: Appeared in various places in Tokyo at 10:12 noon on June 30 (quick transfer location, unable to confirm the location of the first appearance), the appearance method is different from the previous two times, and appeared through channels (various channels have Possibly), causing a large number of people at home to be affected, and those who never cook at home survived.The scope of the incident was so extensive that it is difficult to count the number of casualties. 】

[Event 6: Basically the same as Event 11, the location of the first occurrence and the number of casualties cannot be confirmed, and the time is 12:30 noon on June [-]. 】

After reading the four events recorded in the file, before Mubai could speak, Hayakawa suddenly asked a strange question:

"Mubai, do you know how to smoke?"

The latter nodded, "Yes."

That is, the moment he gave the answer, he suddenly understood what the other party meant.

Although the whereabouts of the e-cigarette demons are uncertain, the four incidents have two things in common: First, the e-cigarette demons will appear in places with "smoke". Cooking fumes are fine; second, the e-cigarette demon appears at a relatively fixed time, and it seems to appear at noon when the fumes are the most.

Then, as long as the smoke produced is enough, big enough, and thick enough, maybe the e-cigarette demon will appear.

As long as it dares to show itself in front of the police's ambush, no matter how fast it moves, it will be useless.

"It seems that you have understood what I mean." Akira Hayakawa seemed to have guessed what the other party was thinking, and offered him a cigarette. "This is your first mission, I hope you won't make any mistakes later."

"Yeah." Mu Bai took the cigarette, but he still didn't smoke after taking a look at Pava, the blood demon who has an extremely sensitive sense of smell and doesn't smoke himself.

After a while, he asked Hayakawa Qiu the question he was most concerned about:

"Does that vaping demon have a physical body now?"

"It's hard to say." Akira Hayakawa replied, "Some people claim to have seen its entity, but others say it is always in the form of smoke."

"Is that so..."

"What's wrong? You're worried that it won't be easy to deal with if it doesn't have a body?"

"No."

"Then what are you worried about?"

"I was just wondering...how am I going to eat its flesh if it doesn't have a body?"

"...?"

Akira Hayakawa suddenly remembered a detail of the Tranquilizer Demon case: the Tranquilizer Demon’s body was found without the right half of its body.

He suddenly felt... maybe compared to this normal-looking new colleague, Pava is a little more normal...

Chapter 10 too pure ladies

If you want to ask Hayakawa Akira what he is good at, it must be hunting demons, smoking and cooking.

So, can these three things be done together?

The answer is yes.

"Mubai, soy sauce."

"Pava, salt."

"Arai, are the carrots ready?"

"I'm running out of oil, which one of you can borrow some from the next door?"

At 11:40 in the morning, in a private house in southern Tokyo, police demon hunter Akira Hayakawa was cooking and smoking seriously.

The range hood was not turned on, and the terrible oil fume and second-hand smoke filled the kitchen like thick fog, making people choke and hurt their mouth and nose every time they took a breath.

"Oil...there is oil here!" Pava dug out a large bucket of oil from nowhere.

"Oh, thanks." Hayakawa Qiu poured half a pot of oil into the pot without even looking at it—you must put more oil if you want to smoke more.

But just as he was about to throw the dewy vegetables into the frying (oil) frying (frying), a strange smell suddenly penetrated into the nostrils.

Looking at the oil pan again, it was actually a piece of blackness.

"What kind of oil did you give this?" He suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Oil...it's oil..." Pava stammered, "Anyway, it's oil..."

"Where did you find it?"

"Just... the utility room..."

"This is engine oil!" Hayakawa was so angry that he wanted to curse.

Fortunately, Mu Bai came out in time to persuade the fight: "Don't get excited, don't get excited, Pava didn't intentionally punish you."

Hayakawa Qiu took a deep breath, trying to calm down, but was choked by the foul-smelling oil fumes.

Pava showed a rare look of gratitude to Mubai.

But she was too happy.

Because Mu Bai's words haven't finished yet:

"She just doesn't want to eat vegetables. She deliberately gave you engine oil to ruin your pot of food. By the way, she will punish you. This is at most you deliberately tricking you, but it cannot be regarded as deliberately punishing you."

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After asking Arai, who couldn't help, to look at Pava, who would only be of no help, Mubai and Hayakawa Qiu seriously smoked.

As for how to produce it, it is still the same as the old three:

Burning paper money with a stick in his left hand, frying vegetables with a spatula in his right hand, smoking desperately with two electronic cigarettes and ten cigarettes in his mouth, and then desperately trying to turn on the range hood on the top.

With their unremitting efforts, the two ordinary humans, Akira Hayakawa and Araki, began to experience different degrees of lung discomfort before the e-cigarette demon appeared.

Fortunately, this hellish torture didn't last long.

At 12:19 noon, just as Hayakawa was about to put down the e-cigarette that stuck his throat, there was an abnormal noise in the ventilation duct.

Immediately afterwards, a strange wind blew out from the ventilation duct, but they obviously didn't turn on the range hood—even if they turned on, the direction of the wind was wrong, and it was blowing backwards.

Hayao Chuanqiu lit another cigarette, and Mubai also took two big puffs of the e-cigarette.

Within a moment, the iron net of the ventilation duct was violently knocked open by a powerful force, and the screaming wind also turned into the scream of a demon at the same time.

"Here we come!" Hiroichi Arai, a public security demon hunter who is young but very serious in his work, took the lead. He quickly gestured and uttered the spell to call out the contract demon: "Shut up!"

The fox demon summoned by the contract immediately stretched an arm into the kitchen through the space crack, attacking the e-cigarette demon while also blocking the ventilation duct.

There are four of them. They are not afraid of being defeated by the e-cigarette demon, but they are afraid of being run away by it. According to past incidents, this demon moves very quickly and is difficult to track. It may not be so easy to catch if it escapes.

"You damn guy finally appeared!" Pava also summoned a sledgehammer with blood in an instant, and rushed towards the e-cigarette demon regardless. "It's you who caused my uncle to inhale second-hand smoke for an hour!"

Seeing the two companions make a move, Hayakawa didn't wait any longer, and rushed straight up after throwing away the spatula and cigarette in his hand-maybe he won't want to smoke for a long time after today.

The attacks of the three demon hunters fell at the same time, instantly breaking up the thick cloud of smoke.

However... physical attacks might still not have much effect on things like smoke.

In the blink of an eye, the scattered smoke gathered again, and even became thicker and larger because it absorbed the original smoke in the kitchen.

"Stupid demon hunter..." The e-cigarette demon let out a playful laugh, "Is there any difference between attacking smoke with a hammer and cutting water with a knife? Cheese smoke, hehehe..."

Hearing this, Pava, who was named and praised, became even more angry.

She continued to attack regardless, and the huge blood hammer spread to the surrounding walls, and all the falling dust was absorbed by the e-cigarette demon.

"Stop! Pava!" Hayakawa quickly stopped the other party, but how could this simple-minded devil know how to listen?

Tragedy still happened.

When Pava spared no effort to attack frantically, the e-cigarette demon secretly used its ability.

A thin wisp of smoke entered along Pava's nasal cavity, and then passed through the trachea to the alveoli.

In an instant, her lungs were impacted by harmful substances equivalent to hundreds of disposable electronic cigarettes, and within a few seconds, they changed from bright red to dark red.

Advanced lung cancer.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth, and the strong sense of weakness caused her to fall to the ground instantly.

"Damn..." Akira Hayakawa and Arai hurriedly held their breaths—for this kind of weird ability, even wearing a hundred gas masks couldn't resist it, so they could only resist the attack by holding their breath.

But... what is the longest time a person can hold his breath?

The world record for holding your breath is 24 minutes and 3 seconds, while ordinary people can only last for about 2 minutes.

This is on the premise of staying still.

If you want to fight, maybe 30 seconds is enough.

If they can't defeat the vaping demon in 30 seconds, they will die.

"Shut up!" Hayakawa Qiu no longer held back, and summoned the head of the fox demon at the cost of letting out a small breath.

A huge fox head appeared out of thin air, and then directly swallowed the dense smoke in one gulp.

But just when the two demon hunters thought they were sure of winning, two puffs of smoke suddenly spewed out from the nostrils of the fox demon.

Immediately afterwards, the disgusted voice of the fox demon sounded: "The disgusting taste... I can't swallow it, you can solve it yourself."

The fox head disappeared.

The e-cigarette demon floated out again.

At this time, 15 seconds have passed.

"Did you try your best to lure me here just to let me eat yours? Hehehe..."

The bantering laughter of the e-cigarette demon sounded again, and there was even a trace of greed in the tone - the outcome of this battle is already very clear, and it can feast on the blood of the demon hunter.

Akira Hayakawa did not expect that a mere e-cigarette demon would be so difficult to deal with. Seeing that his side was about to be wiped out, he made a difficult decision:

He drew the long knife on his back.

Seeing this, the e-cigarette demon's playful laughter stopped abruptly.

It recognized the long sword—the cursed katana sword.

Or... spikes.

It was the weapon given to the contractor by the cursed demon Cass. As long as he was stabbed three times by the long knife, no matter who he was, he would be strangled on the spot by the cursed demon summoned thereupon.

"I didn't expect you to have a hole card, human..." The e-cigarette demon didn't dare to be careless, and immediately gathered his own smoke—the smoke was also its own body, and if it was stabbed by a long knife, it would naturally count as well.

"Since this is the case, then I will use the entity to fight you..."

"Although your long knife is terrifying, how long can you hold your breath if it's a close combat? Hehehe..."

"Just move your windpipe and I can get the smoke into your lungs and give you cancer..."

"Hehehe..."

Akira Hayakawa ignored the other party's provocation, and directly stepped forward with a knife, preparing to stab the materialized e-cigarette demon three times and then summon the cursed demon.

But just when he and Arai were about to fight, a hand grabbed his shoulder.

Looking back, I saw that Mu Bai, who had been motionless just now, slowly drew out the dark red giant sword he had hidden in his cloth bag.

"Come on, I just happened to have my lunch ruined by Pava, and I'm a little hungry now."