From Demon Slayer: Thunder Swordsman

"These next few words are very important. I hope you will remember them well!"

"In this world, there are terrifying creatures called 'ghosts'. They have sharp claws and fangs, and are as strong as wild beasts. They appear at night and feed on human flesh and blood. Ordinary swords and knives cannot harm them at all."

"Only sunlight and a unique weapon called the Nichirin Sword can cut off the necks of the demons and destroy them once and for all."

"And this Nichirin Sword is a weapon that can only be created by a special organization called the Demon Slayer Corps. The Demon Slayer Corps and the demons have been fighting against each other for thousands of years."

"Hehe, Ju, do you think your father is joking with you?"

"Father also hopes that this is just a joke, and he also hopes that Tachibana will never encounter an evil spirit."

...

Nichirin Sword, Demon Slayer Corps...these familiar words flashed through Kujo Tachibana's mind.

Memories of past lives come to mind.

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba?”

"not bad."

...

Three months later, in the courtyard of the Kujo family.

I saw Kujo Tachibana holding a long and narrow traditional Japanese sword in both hands, staring intently at the huge boulder in front of him.

This is the sword that Tachibana's father once wore.

The blade is 110 centimeters long, with an 80-centimeter-long blade. The light it reflects in the sun is startling. This is a real sharp weapon!

Jiujo Tachibana looked at the huge rock in front of him, maintained the momentum of his sword and did not chop it down, just slowly adjusted his breathing.

Although Ju doesn't know the breathing technique yet, he still knows how to simply adjust his breathing to make it easier for the body to exert force.

In the drama "Demon Slayer", before Tanjiro participated in the selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, his master, Urokodaki Sakonji, once set an extremely difficult test for Tanjiro in order to prevent Tanjiro from losing his life in vain.

The test was to split a huge round stone with a knife. In the end, it took Tanjiro a year, and with the help of the souls of Shinkomo and Satsuki, he felt the line of gap and finally cut the stone.

The huge rock in front of Kujo Tachibana is also a test he sets for himself.

Only after cutting it open will Tachibana leave the Kujo family and go out to look for the traces of the Demon Slayer Corps. Otherwise, it would be a bit dangerous to go far away.

If he meets people, Ju is not afraid.

I’m afraid that if I’m unlucky, I might encounter a stronger ghost in the wild, which would be troublesome.

Ju doesn't want to be reborn again, who knows if there will be a chance to start over.

Ju believed that he could still handle a ghost of average strength.

His swordsmanship skills are not inferior to those of the Pillars in Demon Slayer, and he has the blessing of the Clear Sword Heart.

Kujo Tachibana thought: "With the same physical fitness, the pillars in the Demon Slayer world should not be able to beat me, right?"

He just hasn't learned the breathing technique, and his physical fitness and explosive power are still far behind Zhu.

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As for the line of gap, Kujo Tachibana had felt it when he reached the realm of Kenshin Enlightenment half a year ago, but his explosive power was still a little lacking in cutting the huge rock in front of him.

In Orange's understanding.

The line of gaps will guide you to find the most vulnerable point in the object's structure.

And if the object is in motion, the end point of the line of gap will not always be in the same place, and the line will also keep changing.

However, considering the strength of the boulder in front of him, even if Ju felt the thread of the gap, he was not sure he could cut it.

Now, if he wanted to cut the stone, Jiujo Ju felt that there were only two directions.

First, learn the breathing method to increase your physical fitness and explosive power to split it.

But if I don’t travel far, I won’t be able to find any trace of the Demon Slayer Corps. If I can’t find any trace of the Demon Slayer Corps, I naturally won’t be able to learn the breathing technique.

So now Ju can only rely on the second method.

The second method is to continue studying the lines of gaps and develop the ability of the sword's heart to be clear, so that one can observe the structure of objects at a deeper level.

It's like a house. If you want to tear it down, the most labor-saving way is to destroy the mechanical structure of the house, and then it will collapse by itself.

Such as load-bearing walls, load-bearing columns, etc.

But the situation of Jiujo Ju is that I can find the load-bearing wall of the house, but I can't break it down!

then what should we do?

The solution that Jiujo Tachibana thought of was!

Find the "load-bearing wall" of the load-bearing wall and destroy the weakness of the weakness!

Kujo Tachibana: "I'm going to break the most important brick in your body!"

Of course, this is easier said than done.

...

Another three months later.

"drink!!!"

After a clear sound of sword, there was no round boulder in front of Jiujo Ju anymore.

"call..."

Ju exhaled a breath with a pale face, endured the stinging pain in his head, and slowly sheathed the knife.

Looking at the small gravel on the ground under his feet, Jiujo Ju rubbed his temples and couldn't help but sigh:

“This should be considered a split, right?”

"This move seems to be quite powerful."

"It just seems to consume a lot of mental energy. My head is about to explode."

A week later.

Kujo Tachibana, who sold the Kujo family's ancestral home, left the small county town where he had lived for fourteen years, carrying a wooden box like the one Tanjiro used and a long cloth bag.

In fact, regarding the matter of selling the ancestral home as soon as his father passed away, Jiujo Tachibana felt that he still had something to say!

It’s not that Tachibana wants to be an unfilial descendant, it’s just that the Kujo family is really poor!

His father, Kujosuke, is ill and has spent all the last bit of money in the family. There are also funeral arrangements to be made, and Tachibana wants to send his father off in style.

I have already borrowed a lot of money from outside, all of which was mortgaged with this ancestral home.

Plus the training and life of Ju in the next six months...

So at this time, Tachibana, who was alone and away from home, was not much better off financially than Tanjiro's family.

...

Looking at the setting sun on the distant mountain, Jiujo Tachibana murmured softly:

"I heard that the benefits of the Demon Slayer Corps are very good?"

"It seems I have to hurry up and find the traces of the Demon Slayer Corps."

...

Chapter 3: Hammering Xiaoyue

He stacked the thick logs on his shoulders neatly on the woodpile in the backyard of the hotel.

Jiujo Ju slowly exhaled a breath of foul air, looked at the short but sturdy old man behind him, and said with a smile:

"Old man, I've done so much work for you, it should be enough to pay for my meal, right?"

Inoue Changwu snorted coldly and said angrily:

"Boy! Do you know how many precious ingredients from our restaurant you consumed in that meal?"

"Want to leave? Work for another half a year!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Inoue Changgo quickly turned around and walked into the store, not wanting to give Kujo Tachibana any chance to refute.

Although Ju can eat the meal of three people in one meal, he can do the work of five or six people. Even if he needs to pay wages in the future, this deal will not be a loss no matter how you calculate it.

Kujo Tachibana looked at Inoue Changgo's back and rolled his eyes helplessly. He knew very well what this old man was planning!

It has been two months since he left Toyama Prefecture. During these two months, Kujo Tachibana has not only not found the Demon Slayer Corps, but has not even encountered a single demon.

All the money he had on him had long been spent, and after two months of Bear Grylls-style survival in the wilderness, Ju felt like he was almost becoming a special forces soldier.

It’s not that bad in places with good ecological environment, and you can even hunt some wild animals in the wild.

When we got near Ping'an Town, something seemed a little weird and we didn't know why.

In the forest outside the town, Ju had never seen even a mouse.

There are very few fish in the river!

After going hungry for nine meals in the last three days, Jiu Tachibana had no choice but to go out of the mountain and into the town, where he had a free meal and was forced to work to pay off his debts.

But it was for this reason that Kujo Tachibana suspected that there was something wrong with this place.

There is a high probability that there is an evil ghost living nearby!

Otherwise, I can't find any other reason.

If there are evil spirits, Tachibana believes that the Demon Slayer Corps will always find this place.

In this way, Tachibana, under the pretext of working to pay off debts, waited for the arrival of the Demon Slayer Corps, while going into the mountains during the day to cut trees and look for traces of evil spirits.

After practicing sword for so many years, Ju really wants to find an evil ghost to fight with.

..

That afternoon, Ju was in the backyard of the hotel, splitting the logs into pieces of equal size as usual.

Just when Kujo Tachibana was practicing the "Splitting Wood" sword technique without distraction, a burst of hurried shouts came from the road outside the wall.

"Can anyone help me? The kid in front is a thief. Don't run... Stop..."

"That's all the money I have..."

"Oh God... Can someone help me..."

The owner of the voice was a woman in her thirties with a pale face. She was leaning against the wall with one hand and holding her chest with the other.

Panting heavily, he chased the boy in black in front of him with difficulty.

Daoyu Xiyue's right hand was tightly grasping the cloth bag that had faded to white. He was panting and running forward madly, looking back from time to time.

Looking at the woman who was getting farther and farther away from him, had fallen to the ground, and was no longer able to chase him, Xian Yue could not help but laugh triumphantly.

Ever since that night when, in order to survive, he brought the ghost to the temple where Xingming and the orphans of Beiming Island lived.

After leaving the free cafeteria of Gyomei on Beiming Island, Inayu Gyoyue once again lived a life of stealing.

It’s just that now, Inayama Shigengaku has become more “smart”.

He no longer attacked healthy people wherever he went.

Daoyu Xiyue would go to the local clinic and lurk quietly at the door.

Choosing his target.

This woman today is just like that.

In order to prevent himself from being eaten by ghosts, he must become a "ghost hunter"!

And this is what Daoyu Shiyue did all the time while searching for the "ghost hunter".

...

Daoyu Xiyue ran all the way out of the town, holding his knees with both hands, panting loudly and cursing:

"This woman is as stupid as a pig."

"Even if I leave this money to you, it can't save your life!"

"You might as well give it to me and just lie there and rot."

-

"Oh!" Jiujo Tachibana couldn't bear to listen any longer. He sighed and slowly walked out from behind the tree in front of Xiyue.