Offer a savior to the infinite world!

[Because... as long as you accept the baptism... you will forget the unhappy past forever... and you will only remember the good things forever... In this way... everyone will be happy forever...]

The girl's voice sounded a little anxious, as if she thought Tanjiro would accept her actively after knowing the reason.

"Ah, that's the reason."

With a soft sigh, Tanjiro's face showed a hint of helplessness.

"As long as you forget the sadness and pain you have experienced forever, and only keep the happy and beautiful memories, such a person will indeed be in happiness..."

[Then... Tanjiro-nii-san... you come too...]

"But this won't work. I won't accept this. Your grandfather, old man Bob, didn't accept this either, right?"

Without any hesitation, he rejected the girl in front of him.

Tanjiro saw Lillian's face, which had shown a little bit of happiness, and then it became gloomy.

[Grandpa... He certainly didn't accept it...]

[It’s because of the death of his parents…he has been very sad…he has been in pain…]

[I just hope... that he can be happier... that's all... but my grandfather refused...]

The black shadow became difficult to capture in the already dark woods, but fortunately, Tanjiro could smell the special smell on the shadow, so he could determine the specific location of this thing.

These shadows are expanding and twisting.

They seemed to change with Lillian's mood. No, it was also possible that they were affecting Lillian's emotions more strongly and interfering with her thinking more strongly.

[It is because of those sad memories that Grandpa is so sad...]

[I must... make Grandpa happy... Mr. Bessi said... baptism can make everyone happy forever...]

[So…so…I must…bring happiness to everyone…]

A soft, gentle voice.

As it swelled up, it seemed to transform into a huge black fat body, a strange creature attached to Lillian's back.

At this moment, Tanjiro felt the surging murderous intent coming from the flying shadows, and in an instant it reached where he was standing.

Chapter 41: The overlapping appearance

"Huh...huh..."

Supporting his body with great difficulty, Old Bob climbed out from the rubble.

He fell directly to the ground from a height of five stories, with someone on top of him. Considering Old Bob was over eighty years old, it was impossible for him to survive under normal circumstances.

However, under the strange posture of lily of the valley, the soft fox fire healed the injuries on Old Bob's body and allowed him to stand up again.

"Hey, hey, if you are injured, just lie down. What are you doing?"

Lin Yi, who was not far away, noticed the situation here. Seeing Old Bob forcing himself to stand up again, he couldn't help but shout.

Linglan here was trying her best to suppress Rest and Bessie, while Lin Yi was looking for ways to kill them. Although Nezuko tried to get close to them, her attack could not break through Rest's skin defense, and Bessie could release that weird black shadow, which could not be cracked for a while, so the scene fell into a stalemate.

"I have to go to Lillian..."

After taking a breath, Old Bob steadied himself and walked towards the direction where Tanjiro and Lillian disappeared.

"Your granddaughter is in this state now. Are you going to die if you go there?"

Lin Yi raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding the significance of Old Bob's doing this.

"I know Lillian... She was bewitched, bewitched by this bastard, bewitched by the thing attached to her back."

Old Bob took a deep breath and said to Besi who was restrained by Lily of the Valley's position not far away.

Biexi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Lin Yi shot him in the mouth again, forcing him to keep quiet.

"I have to go. Lillian is a very stubborn child, just like her father. Only I can persuade her. I have to go!"

With his fists clenched, Old Bob turned around, walked out of the lily of the valley's territory without hesitation, and disappeared into the rain.

"..."

Subconsciously want to stop it.

But in the end, Lin Yi just stopped where he was and watched the other person leave silently.

I always feel that this scene is somewhat familiar.

Have you seen similar situations anywhere?

……

Rumble!

In an instant, several large pits were blasted into the muddy ground.

Tanjiro dodged it narrowly and moved quickly in the rainstorm. The black limbs also moved quickly. Explosions continued to sound one after another, and many trees were broken by the tearing sounds, and fell to the ground, splashing a lot of mud and water.

The fallen leaves were dancing and the rain was falling. The boy kept moving and changing his position to avoid the continuous attacks from the black figure behind Lillian.

Should we try to attack these phantoms with the Sun Blade?

Tanjiro looked back at the black thing that was chasing him closely, and couldn't help but think in his heart.

No, I'm afraid not.

Although I haven't tried it yet, I have a vague feeling that if the Sun Blade comes into contact with this black shadow, it will probably explode immediately and be destroyed on the spot.

It's really an unreasonable and weird ability. In comparison, the blood magic of those ghosts is much easier to understand.

However, the focus now is not to determine the winner in the battle.

"Lillian, do you want your grandfather to forget his son and the memory of losing his child?"

Tanjiro retreated a few steps again, dodged several attacks, suppressed the severe pain from the wound in his abdomen, looked at the girl not far away and asked.

[Yes... As long as I forget the sad memories... Grandpa will definitely be happy...]

Amid the vague voice, a smile appeared on Lillian's face.

"No, this is not right. This will not bring happiness to your grandfather, or to old Mr. Bob."

The next moment the girl heard Tanjiro's firm denial.

【how come……】

Mumbling, the smile on Lillian's face gradually disappeared.

[I’ve seen this many times…Grandpa’s sad look…]

[When I found my father's belongings... Grandpa's expression at that time...]

[It is because he remembers dad... It is because he remembers the past... Grandpa is in pain... It must be like this...]

What happened at that time, an expression I can never forget until now.

When little Lillian found a small golden crown made of paper from the pile of junk and gave it to her grandfather with some excitement, this was the expression on her grandfather's face.

"Well... this is Lillian's father. He made it when he was a child."

"At that time, he was still a child like Lillian, always dreaming of becoming a king."

"He also said that when he becomes king, he will appoint me as a forest ranger general and give me a large forest for hunting. Haha... This is true. I still remember it..."

Grandpa was smiling, but the expression on his face looked so sad.

Occasionally, you can see my grandfather sitting by the window looking at the street outside, as if he is missing someone and expecting to see that person walk out from the end of the street and approach the door of his house, with a sad and longing expression on his face.

He must be missing his child, missing Lillian's father, right?

She had always felt it, always sensed it.

Even though she didn't know what to do, even though she could do nothing as a child, she actually always knew that the grandfather who loved her was hiding sadness and pain beneath his usual appearance.

So, if there is anything that can be done...

If there is really something I can do to help Grandpa, if there is really something I can do to make Grandpa no longer immersed in pain...

[As long as you forget the unfortunate past... you will definitely be happy...]

[Because... it's because of remembering these bad things... that grandpa can't be happy...]

[This will definitely work... It will definitely help Grandpa... It will definitely help everyone... I can make everyone... happy...]

The murmuring girl spoke seriously to the boy in front of her.

The black shadows stopped attacking. It seemed that as the conversation continued, Lillian's consciousness became slightly clearer, so she was able to stop the subconscious attack. Of course, this did not mean the end. With her self-consciousness severely deflected, the next attack would likely become even more terrifying.

If you want to quickly solve the problem at hand, this is probably the best opportunity, right?

After all, this is what Lillian is doing, refuting Tanjiro with all her heart.

To the point that he even stopped attacking and only focused on refuting and expressing his own ideas.

However, Tanjiro just stopped where he was, listening carefully to Lillian's words and what the girl was trying to express. He then gently lowered the Sun Blade in his hand and slowly exhaled.

"I know what you mean, Lillian, I know."

Tanjiro looked at the girl in front of him calmly and spoke slowly.

"I can understand that you are sad because you have lost the happiness you once had and cannot forget the pain of loss."

"But I still want to tell you that your idea is wrong, and what you do is also wrong."

"This approach cannot change the reality of lost happiness. Moreover, it is even more cruel to the beauty that once existed and to the people who have left forever. Stop it, Lillian. What you are doing is only further hurting Mr. Bob."

As if he was teaching a younger brother or sister a lesson, with a bit of helplessness, Tanjiro looked at the girl floating in the air not far away and spoke.

[No... No... This will definitely work... Tanjiro-nii-san doesn't understand... The way Grandpa misses Dad...]

Lillian shook her head stubbornly, and the darkness behind her began to tremble again, with vague signs of losing control.

But in the next moment, as Tanjiro spoke, the trembling completely stopped, and Lillian's stubborn expression became stunned.

"I understand."

Tanjiro smiled gently, and the sadness on his face made the girl's voice and movements stop.

"I can understand the sadness and pain of your grandfather, Mr. Bob."

"I can... empathize with the pain of missing the deceased and missing one's family and relatives..."

"Because... I also lost my family, my mother, my brothers and sisters, almost all of my family..."

It was just like the girl’s memory, the gentle voice and the uncontrollable sadness on her grandfather’s face when he mentioned her father.

At this moment, the two things seemed to overlap on the boy in the rain.

Chapter 42: Things You Must Carry

How should I tell the story that happened to me?

Telling such a story to others, telling such a thing to others, is something that has never happened before.

However, it must be conveyed.

I must make the girl in front of me understand.

"My father died very early, so I have been chopping wood and selling charcoal to support my family."

"My mother is a very kind and gentle person. She has been working hard to take care of this family and all of us."

"My younger brother Shigeru was a very lively child. Before the accident, he and Hanako had said that he wanted to leave home with me to sell charcoal... It would have been nice if he had followed me at that time..."

"Well, there's Hanako, she's my sister, she's always been very clingy to me and wants to be with me."

"My other brother, Takeo, has always wanted to work hard with me to become someone who can contribute to the family's livelihood. He is a very hard-working child."

"Rokuta is the youngest child in the family. He often sleeps on my sister Nezuko's back. He is also a very cute child."

"They are my family, my most important and dearest family..."

Softly, in the cold woods under the rain, Tanjiro faced Lillian in front of him and spoke slowly.

"They have all left me."

"They can never come back to me again."