Demon Slayer: The Second God Who Walks the Earth

Zenitsu sat down next to Chiba Yo, but not knowing why he was feeling down, he didn't know how to comfort him.

"Yang, I want to visit Grandpa Sangdao after dawn. Why don't you come with me? Grandpa's cooking is really delicious."

Zenitsu guessed that Chiba Yo might be thinking about his family, so he thought of having him have a meal with his grandfather at Kuwajima, so that it would feel like home.

When he was swindled out of his money and became homeless, it was when he was taken in as a disciple by Grandpa Sangdao and ate with them that he felt the warmth of home. Although his senior brother disliked him, that period of life remains one of his most cherished memories.

As the sun rose, its rays shone through the gaps in the trees onto Chiba Yo, who was still sleeping against him. Zenitsu hadn't slept the night before, as he needed to be alert to his surroundings.

The old man had also woken up by then. Feeling the sunlight on his face, the old man's anxiety subsided.

Finally, we can continue our journey...

He quickly realized something, turned to look at Chiba Yo, and asked with some confusion, "Why didn't you wake me up last night? You didn't sleep all night, did you?"

He had originally planned to take turns spending the night with the two children, but he was so tired that he couldn't wake up all night. Unexpectedly, the two children didn't wake him either.

"I wasn't that sleepy, and I didn't think there was any need to wake you up. Besides, you looked very tired last night," Chiba Yo replied with a smile.

Protecting the weak is the duty of the naturally strong.

Chiba Yo always remembered what Kyojuro said to him and put it into practice.

Looking into the boy's sincere eyes, the old man was moved, and it also stirred up some memories of his past.

"Thank you, child." The old man sincerely thanked Chiba Yang, and then took out a crimson jade pendant from his pocket and handed it to Chiba Yang.

"This is something passed down in my family. It's believed to protect people and bring them peace. I originally intended to pass it down to my descendants..."

Chiba Yang waved his hand quickly after seeing the old man's behavior.

"I certainly can't accept something so precious. You should keep it and pass it on to your descendants."

Chiba Yo took what he had done for granted and naturally refused the old man's gift. However, the old man's next words stunned him.

“I have no descendants... My wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson have all passed away…”

The old man looked at Chiba Yang, his eyes filled with grief mixed with a touch of kindness.

"Sorry……"

Chiba Yo realized he had said the wrong thing and apologized to the old man with a heavy heart.

After hearing his apology, the old man shook his head and said to him, "No need to apologize. You should keep this jade pendant. It's useless for me, someone who will be in my coffin in a few years. I might as well give it to you. Maybe it will really help you someday."

If my grandson were still alive, he would be about your age. Giving it to you is a way of passing it down.

The old man was originally a traveling merchant with a happy family: a son, a daughter, and a one-year-old grandson. However, more than a decade ago, after returning home from a business trip, he found only a large pool of blood in the house, and his family members had all vanished without a trace.

Chapter 75 The Stubborn Little Girl

He searched frantically everywhere, but he couldn't find a single corpse, let alone a living person.

He was devastated and reported the incident to the police. However, after searching his home for many days, the police were unable to find any clues and ultimately had to conclude that the incident was the work of a wild animal.

However, there were no wild animals near his home, so this claim could not possibly be true.

At this moment, he remembered the local legends that he had never believed in before, and he had to connect this matter with evil spirits. From then on, he began to firmly believe in the existence of evil spirits. He would tell everyone he met that his family members were killed by evil spirits and to warn others to beware of evil spirits. However, no one believed him. They just thought that he had lost his mind because he was too shocked by this incident.

After being distrusted for a long time, he stopped talking to people. After the grief, life had to go on. He remained a traveling merchant, traveling from place to place selling small trinkets to make a living, making his home wherever he went.

Although he was reluctant to talk about these things, he would still give a few words of advice to people traveling at night, hoping that no one else would be killed by evil spirits. He lived alone like this for more than ten years.

Looking into the old man's eyes, Chiba Yang was somewhat moved. After hesitating for a moment, he accepted the jade pendant that the old man handed to him.

"Thank you, I will take good care of it," Chiba Yo said, looking at the old man.

Seeing that Qianye Yang had accepted the jade pendant, the old man smiled, as if he had been relieved of a worry.

"That's good..." the old man murmured, then looked up at the sun.

"Now that the sun has risen, the evil spirits dare not appear outside anymore, and I must go on my way. Goodbye, child."

The old man shouldered his luggage and said goodbye to Chiba Yo.

"Goodbye, and I wish you peace," Chiba Yang replied to the old man with a smile.

The old man waved goodbye and walked away into the rising sun...

Chiba Yo held the jade pendant in his hand, feeling a slight warmth, and then tucked it into his bosom.

After a while, Zenitsu also woke up.

"Huh? Did that old man leave?" Zenitsu asked curiously, seeing that the old man was nowhere to be seen.

"Hmm." Chiba Yo stood up, stretched his shoulders, and nodded. Zenitsu had been leaning on his shoulders all night.

“Now that our mission is complete, can I go visit Grandpa? Yang, come with me too. He lives not far from the foot of this mountain,” Zenitsu said to Chiba Yang.

"Let's go." Chiba Yo nodded in agreement.

Having just finished his mission, Chiba Yang had nothing else to do. He still had no clue about Muzan's location, so he decided to wander around somewhere else and maybe he would run into him.

On the streets at the foot of the mountain, there weren't many pedestrians in the early morning, but some vendors and stalls had already started selling their wares.

"It smells so good..." Zenitsu couldn't help but drool over the aroma of various breakfast foods. Then he remembered Chiba Yo's promise and chuckled as he said to him, "By the way, Yo, you said you would treat me to a meal, right?"

After hearing his words, Chiba Yo understood what he meant and said to him, "Just take whatever you want to eat."

He was also a little hungry.

Upon hearing Chiba Yo's words, Zenitsu jumped for joy and then ran to a stall selling oden.

"I want four of these, four of these, four of these!"

Zenitsu selected several kinds of dumplings, as well as some radish and eggs.

"Okay!" the stall owner replied, then quickly packed the food that Zenitsu had chosen and handed it to him.

Chiba Yo came over and chose the same thing as Zenitsu, and then paid the stall owner for both of them.

The two then ate as they made their way to Jigoro Kuwajima's residence, led by Zenitsu.

Not far away, Chiba Yang saw a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old giving wisteria flower sachets to passersby.

The little girl was wearing a printed kimono and had short black hair. She looked very cute. She was also carrying a cloth bag with many small ornaments hanging on the outside of the bag. Behind her was a small stall with many small ornaments on it.

"Please accept this; it will protect you and keep you safe," the little girl said, handing a wisteria sachet to a passing woman.

The woman smiled and waved her hand upon hearing this.

"No need, I already have a sachet." The woman said, showing the little girl the sachet she was carrying. It was an osmanthus sachet, and it did smell much better than wisteria.

"You should keep this sachet and sell it to someone else," the woman said to the little girl with a smile.

"Madam, I think you should accept it, otherwise she definitely won't let it go."

Seeing this, another breakfast stall owner nearby smiled and said to the woman, clearly knowing the little girl quite well.

Just as the stall owner had said, the little girl did not give up after hearing the woman's words and continued to say to her, "This is free, and its smell is not strong, so it won't conflict with the smell of your own sachet. Wearing it will also protect you and keep you safe."

Seeing the little girl's determined and stubborn eyes, the woman had no choice but to accept it. Then she took out a banknote from her bag and handed it to her.

"Then I'll accept it. But I see you've had a tough time, so I don't need you to deliver it. You can keep the money."

Although the little girl was clean, her clothes were obviously old, and there were patches on the cloth bag she was carrying. The woman felt embarrassed to take her things for free.

"No, I can't take your money. This is a gift for you, I don't want any money." The little girl did not accept the money the woman offered her.

"If you don't take the money, I won't take your sachet." The woman was really embarrassed to take the poor little girl's things for free, and the sachet she made looked quite exquisite, probably taking a lot of time to make.

After hearing the woman's words, the little girl stubbornly shook her head and said to the woman, "I can't take your money, but you must accept this sachet."

After saying this, the little girl stuffed the sachet into the woman's hand, and the woman, in turn, gave the money to the little girl.

"You gave me the sachet, so I have to pay you!"

"No! I can't take your money!" The little girl returned the money to the woman.

"Then I don't want your sachet either!" Upon seeing this, the woman returned the sachet to the little girl.

"No! You must accept this!" The little girl stuffed the sachet back into her hands.

The two of them kept pushing the food back and forth like this for a long time, and gradually their voices grew louder and louder, almost like they were arguing. The surrounding vendors were already used to this situation.

Those unaware of the facts might think this is a quarrel over not paying for something, but the situation is quite the opposite.

Chapter 76 Shadai

This must be the little girl the old man was talking about...

Chiba Yo watched the two people politely declining each other's offer and remembered the little girl who had given him the sachet that the old man had mentioned.

That's quite a stubborn personality...

The little girl and the woman argued for nearly ten minutes. In the end, the woman gave in, accepted the sachet the little girl gave her, and didn't try to put the money back.

"You're too stubborn, child. I'll take it," the woman sighed helplessly, stuffing the sachet into the bag she was carrying on her shoulder.

Seeing that the woman had accepted her sachet, the little girl smiled with relief.

"Thank you. Please keep this sachet with you, especially at night. It will surely protect you and keep you safe," the little girl said to the woman.

"You're such a strange child. I accepted your gift, and you're thanking me instead. Alright, I'll carry it with me from now on."

Seeing the little girl's stubbornness, the woman reluctantly agreed and then walked away.

Watching the woman leave, the little girl felt a little relieved.

This should lessen my sins a little...

The little girl thought to herself, and then took out a wisteria sachet from her bag and gave it to other passersby.

"Has this little girl always been like this?"

Chiba Yang became curious about the little girl and asked a stall owner next to him.

The stall owner had seen this kind of scene too many times and was already used to it. He hadn't even paid attention to what was happening over there. When he heard Chiba Yang's question, he immediately understood who he was talking about.

"You mean Shadai? She's been doing this ever since she came back here three years ago. Every day she makes some wisteria sachets and gives them to passersby. She even gave one to each of us vendors and told us to take them with us when we go out at night. Look."

As the vendor spoke, he pulled out a wisteria sachet that was exactly the same as the one the girl was holding.

After showing the sachet to Chiba Yo, the vendor continued, "She probably did this because she believed in the legends of evil spirits and thought that evil spirits would come out at night. But what era are we living in now? People don't believe in this anymore. No one has ever seen any evil spirits in all these years."

Although they didn't believe her, they didn't want to refuse her kindness, so they all accepted it and took it with them whenever they went out at night, as she had suggested. They would also help her if she encountered any difficulties, after all, she was such a kind and lovely child.

The vendor looked at Sade in the distance with a smile, as if he were looking at his own daughter.

"I see. You just said she returned here three years ago, how did that happen?" After listening to the vendor's words, Chiba Yang understood the little girl, but he was a little puzzled by the vendor's statement about her returning here.

According to him, this little girl must have been from here before, then went out and came back.

"This child said she used to be an orphan here. She was adopted by an elderly couple when she was four years old, but they passed away not long after. So she came back here and made a living by the skills that the elderly couple taught her," the vendor explained to Chiba Yang.

Then he remembered something else and continued to say to Chiba Yang: "Besides being stubborn, she has another strange habit. Every six months, she has to go up the mountain. I don't know what she's going to do."

It wouldn't have been a problem before, but recently several people have mysteriously disappeared from the mountain. We suspect some wild animal has entered their territory, so we tried to persuade her not to go anymore. But we couldn't convince her at all; she insisted that she had a wisteria sachet with her on it and that there would be no danger.

At this point, the vendor sighed, looking somewhat helpless.

“This child is really stubborn and has a vivid imagination. If she insists on going again in a couple of days, we plan to bring some people with her to see if we can solve the problem in the mountains and also see what she wants to do there.”

After listening to the vendor's words, Chiba Yang also felt that the little girl was a bit strange. Fortunately, he had already killed the evil spirit on the mountain. Otherwise, if this group of people really went up the mountain in a couple of days, they might encounter that evil spirit, which would be dangerous.

Of course, what Chiba Yo found strange was that she would go up the mountain every six months.

"Yang, let's go."

At that moment, Zenitsu ran towards Chiba Yo, carrying a can of tea in his arms. He had just said he was going to buy something, and it seems he had brought it back.

"That little girl is right. It's best to bring a wisteria sachet when going out at night," Chiba Yang added to the vendor before leaving.

He knew it would be difficult to convince people who had never seen a demon of these things, so he didn't say much.

"It's strange, why are all the superstitious people these days a bunch of kids?" The vendor scratched his head after hearing Chiba Yang's words, feeling somewhat puzzled, but he still carefully put away the wisteria flower sachet.

"Is this a gift for the former Naruto Pillar?" Chiba Yo asked, looking at the can of tea that Zenitsu was holding.

"Yes, Grandpa likes to drink tea when he has free time. I've been a member of the Demon Slayer Corps for a while now, and I was thinking of buying some for Grandpa when I got my reward," Zenitsu nodded and said.

"Should I buy something to send over?" Chiba Yo muttered to himself, thinking about what to buy and take with him.

"Please accept this; it will protect you and keep you safe."