Chapter 118 Muzan Scared To Look..

...

That Spider Mountain.

In the bushes.

Rustle...

A white figure stopped.

It was the [elder sister].

She had intended to take advantage of the opportunity when her family and Rui went out to hunt, and also used the excuse of hunting to gain the freedom to act and secretly ran down the mountain.

As a result, she just happened to witness the scene where her younger sister and father were killed.

The [elder sister] slowly squatted down, her face showing fear, and cold sweat dripped from her forehead.

"...Dead, dead?"

Her trembling gaze was fixed on the younger sister's skull on the ground.

"It can't be...Rui...The power of the Upper Rank given to us...should have been very strong..."

She swallowed nervously, pulling at the corners of her mouth, her face pale and shaking her head.

Having witnessed her younger sister and father being killed without the power to fight back, the elder sister suddenly had the idea of retreating.

——Or...better run away quickly.

Then she propped her hands on the ground and instinctively wanted to leave.

The demons who huddled together to avoid the Demon Slayers——naturally, they would all think of [running away] at this moment.

At this time.

Plop.

The back of the elder sister's head, who was retreating in place, suddenly bumped into something relatively soft.

There's someone behind!

The elder sister was slightly stunned, her body stiffened in place, and her pupils shrank.

Her stiff neck slowly looked back.

What caught her eye was gray hair, beast ears, a boar's nose...

A boar?

She was puzzled for a moment, her silver eyes trembling with horror, and she made eye contact with the huge boar's head behind her.

"Hehehe!"

White steam sprayed out of the boar's nostrils.

The elder sister was stunned in place, she couldn't believe she was looking at the boar squatting behind her, and her mind went blank for a moment.

After a while.

Her horrified scream echoed from the bushes:

"——Why is there a boar here?!"

...

Soon.

Inosuke squatted in the bushes, looking somewhat troubled at the elder sister who had fainted in front of him.

——An unseen creature, not a human.

He scratched his head in confusion.

His brain, which was not often used, was used too many times today.

...

Not far away.

"...Did you hear anything?"

Yuichiro held his sword, he looked around vigilantly, frowning.

Just as the Tokito family was alert to the reflective eyes in the dark forest around them.

Rustle!

Whoosh!

One of the bushes shook violently!

A dark shadow quickly sprang out from it!

"Hehehahaha——!!"

A rough laugh echoed from the leaping shadow, who was tumbling in mid-air.

Plop!

He landed in front of the astonished Tokito family, squatted down to unload, slowly straightened up, and two white mists sprayed out of the boar's nostrils.

He raised his head, and his clear blue eyes clearly reflected Muichiro's astonished expression:

"The great me, enters the stage!"

As he shouted dominantly, he also spread his arms wide, shining like gold.

The unconscious figure on his shoulder almost rolled off.

Creak!

Inosuke, swinging his fists, suddenly stood up, clenched his fists in front of Muichiro, leaned his head close, and shouted:

"Let's have a match!"

His boar's head was currently adorned with a few scattered leaves, giving him a ragged appearance.

Behind him, in the position of the bushes, was a path where the plants had been torn apart on both sides.

"Ah! It's daytime..." Muichiro, not knowing what to do, looked at Inosuke in front of him, his mouth agape, his gaze shifting from alert to surprised:

"...A boar!"

As he pointed at Inosuke in surprise, his gaze slowly moved to the other's shoulder.

On Inosuke's shoulder was a white figure, who seemed to have fainted.

After being stunned for a few seconds.

"What did you bring over?!" Muichiro, frightened, took a step back, his grip on the sword hilt tightened, his gaze alertly on the figure on Inosuke's shoulder.

"Ah?!" Inosuke, hearing this, was taken aback, instinctively shouted, and then waved his hand:

"That's not important!"

"The match between us is the main thing!"

Saying this, he casually threw the [elder sister] on his shoulder to the ground.

Bang!

"Ouch!" The unconscious elder sister fell heavily to the ground.

"It hurts..." Having been hit hard, the unconscious her slowly opened her eyes in a daze, looking around in a daze.

Then, she made eye contact with Tadaichiro, who was slowly approaching with a smile and a sword in his hand.

!!

——It was the guy who had just killed her sister!

"Hee hee ah ah!!"

The elder sister's pupils shrank to a point, she was immediately scared so that her already pale face became even more bloodless, desperately crawling backward trying to escape.

——Why am I here?!

She looked around in panic, her peripheral vision suddenly caught a strange boar standing nearby.

It was that boar!

Seeing the sword getting closer and closer to her, she could even clearly see her own reflection on the sword.

In a hurry.

"I escaped!"

She suddenly closed her eyes and shouted:

"There are Twelve Demon Moons on this mountain! It's an Upper Rank!"

"Everyone was by him..."

Saying this, feeling that her neck had not been cut off, she opened her eyes.

She quietly looked forward.

The result was..... Tadaichiro, who was originally walking towards her with a sword, was now.

He was now alert, holding the sword, facing the position behind him.

The elder sister was slightly stunned, she turned her head and looked behind her.

Behind, in the distance.

Unknowingly.

There was already a figure of a child standing there.

"...So that's it, sister."

The cold voice of the thirteen-year-old Rui sounded flat, the elder sister's body instantly became stiff and trembling.

Rui, with an indifferent expression, was twirling the spider silk between his hands, his gaze stayed on the flower rope from beginning to end:

"That's what you think."

"——The bond between our family members."

Suddenly.

Creak——!

The spider silk flower rope in his hand was suddenly pulled tight.

"No."

"...The real sister wouldn't say that."

Rui slowly raised his head, his tone gradually becoming gloomy:

"So, you, are not my sister."

Under the moonlight, the words [Upper Rank] were clearly engraved in his silver-white pupils.

Hearing the sound, the elder sister's eyes trembled, her body stiffened in place, her throat suddenly choked with fear:

"No, it's not!"

She raised her trembling arm, opened her mouth, breathed hurriedly, her eyes terrified trying to explain:

"Rui! Listen to me, it's not like that..."

Tadaichiro was alert, his sword pointed in Rui's direction, the strong aura emanating from the other's body was almost the same as the strange fish he encountered in the Swordsmith Village!

Suddenly.

"Shut up."

Rui, with an expressionless face, slightly lowered his head.

His arm swung violently!

——Zhi!

The piercing sound of tearing suddenly echoed all around!

The crystal clear spider silk reflected the moonlight slightly in the dark night sky.

Tadaichiro raised his head, his pupils shrank, he suddenly turned his head to look at the two children behind him.

He shouted:

"Retreat!!"

At the same time, he leaped forward, pushing hard towards Muichiro and Yuichiro, who were slightly slower to react!

He fell backward!

"What is that?!" Inosuke shivered all over, his body instinctively bent down, twisted towards the back, and retreated quickly like a beast.

The next moment!

Splat!!

The sharp spider silk instantly pierced through the body of the [elder sister], her whole body shook violently, and a faint trace of blood appeared on her pale face as she raised it.

The elder sister, who was stunned in place, trembled her eyes, and tears squeezed out of the corners of her eyes.

Blood splattered from the wound.

She stood still in place.

Soon.

Plop, plop.

Her body split from the grid-like bloodstains, the chunks of flesh fell smoothly, and plopped onto the ground.

The eyeballs rolled onto the ground, trembling uncontrollably, emitting a silent wail.

Because she is a demon, she won't die.

But the pain is real.

"...Unbelievable."

Tadaichiro let go of his brothers who had reacted, he slowly got up from the ground, his eyebrows tightly furrowed, and glanced at the [elder sister] who had been shattered on the ground.

His gaze moved between Rui and the elder sister.

——Why would they attack indiscriminately without any hesitation?

He looked just like a child of the same size as Muichiro, but he was so...

Yes...

Tadaichiro suddenly realized.

——It's all because of the existence of demons.

After pondering for a moment in his mind, Tadaichiro's hand holding the hilt of the sword tightened even more, but he still wanted to question:

"...Aren't you guys family?"

He spoke in a low voice, looking at the boy in front of him who was only in his teens.

"Yes." Rui's eyes were cold, agreeing with his idea, and affirming: "We are family."

"Family connected by tight bonds..."

As he spoke halfway, his tone gradually slowed down, and his half-drooping eyes suddenly opened.

He looked somewhat surprised at the Tokito family across from him.

"Wait..."

Rui stretched out his hand, pointing at Tadaichiro, he who was already an Upper Rank sensed something from the blood's aura in a moment:

"You..." His finger pointed back and forth between the few people in front of him, his voice suddenly seemed a bit at a loss: "...Are you guys a family?"

His gaze rested on the back of Tadaichiro, who had been scratched while protecting his two brothers.

Without waiting for Tadaichiro to answer, he pointed out on his own.

"You are...the father."

Rui pointed at Tadaichiro, his gaze slowly moved to the Tokito brothers who had stood up behind him:

"...Brothers."

Then, he looked at the fourth person.

The gaze of the fourth person collided with Rui in mid-air for a moment.

"What the hell are you looking at?!" Inosuke turned his head, he angrily raised his fist and shouted.

He had just narrowly avoided the attack, and his arm was bleeding from the scratch.

——Damn it!

Inosuke's arm was trembling due to the injury, he gritted his teeth and looked around vigilantly.

Although he knew when he came in that there was something bad about this mountain.

But he never thought——there are such strange creatures in the world!

His gaze moved to the ground, where the [elder sister] was slowly trying to regenerate herself.

"...A boar?" Rui frowned in confusion.

But then, he took back his gaze.

"Well, it doesn't matter."

Rui looked at the vigilant Tokito family, perhaps because he found them very pleasing to the eye, his tone became much more relaxed:

"Hey, you three over there."

Whoosh——!

He waved his hand lightly, and the dense spider web immediately covered the Tokito family from the sky above the forest.

The sharp lines reflected the cold light under the moonlight, as if they were about to cut down the next moment.

Rui's mouth curled up in a strange smile, as if he had thought of something, he said to Tadaichiro:

"...You three, become demons."

"What?" Yuichiro frowned, he stood behind his father, and looked at Rui in horror when he heard the words.

Whoosh! Rui raised his hand, pointing to the place behind Tadaichiro where the [father] had just turned into ashes, and started talking to himself.

"Because [Father] is dead, you will be the new father."

"And the other two will be my brothers."

Saying this, he took a few deep breaths, his body trembling involuntarily.

Rui had never tried to integrate a real family into his own clan.

Just thinking about it make him excited.

At this moment.

"I refuse."

Yuichiro frowned tightly, he clicked his tongue, while his eyes observed the surroundings:

"...You are actually persuading a Demon Slayer to become a demon."

"Your brain, it must be full of spider webs."

He muttered quietly: "Just like this damn forest."

Taking advantage of Yuichiro's loud moment.

His younger brother, Muichiro, squatted behind him, quietly put the awakened crow on the ground.

Threw it towards the bushes in the distance.

——Let it go back and send a message.

After Yuichiro finished these words.

The atmosphere in the air suddenly froze to the extreme.

Rui's excited expression became stiff, then slowly darkened, black as if it was about to drip water.

Whoosh!

He extended a spider silk from his fingertips, connecting to the spider web above the Tokito family's heads, his voice low:

"It's okay."

"I can turn you into demons by torturing you to half-death."

...

At the same time.

Inside the Infinite Castle.

"That's right, Nakime."

Muzan's expression was joyful, as if he had forgotten everything before, he sat in front of Nakime, raising his hand triumphantly:

"I know, you can bear more."

"Yes, Muzan-sama."

Nakime sat upright, her head against the wall, dense nerve tendrils extended from the back of her brain, clinging to the wall, spreading like ivy.

On the branches of the nerve tendrils, hung many eyeballs.

In each eyeball, the word [Three] was engraved.

At this moment.

Muzan was holding an eyeball, through visual sharing, casually connecting to the wandering tentacle eyeballs in the outside world, controlling their movements.

——Just as if he himself was freely moving outside.

Suddenly.

Muzan had a sudden thought, he thought of Rui, who he had mentioned to the Upper Rank a few days ago.

He had a very high opinion of that child, and because of certain things, he had a good impression of him.

"What is Rui doing?"

He muttered to himself.

...

That Spider Mountain.

Drip.

On the tree branch.

An eyeball disguised as a fruit slowly opened, the short nerve tendrils at the bottom were squatting on the tree branch.

Muzan controlled the eyeball, looking down the tree.

His gaze was curiously exploring under the tree.

Then.

He saw Tadaichiro with a sword.

The moment he caught a glimpse of Tadaichiro's braided head.

Plop!

The eyeball, as if it had been pricked by a needle, suddenly closed, the flesh tendril contracted, and fell from the tree.

...

Inside the Infinite Castle.

Muzan, with a full face of cold sweat, opened his eyes, taking two quick breaths.

He only saw the dark red top of the head, and the braids.

His eyes stared fearfully at the floor in front of him.

He knew clearly in his heart, the possibility of seeing it wrong was very high.

But——

Recalling the scenes that he had just happened to bump into several times before, he slowly swallowed his saliva.

Better not look.

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