On the side of Mingming Island and Tanjuro,
Tanjuro was raising his brows and pointing at himself:
"...Let me go to the pillar?"
"Yeah." Wei Mingyu nodded.
Before opening the world of transparency, he had developed the "penetrating mind" that could see through people's hearts.
For example - when Tomioka Giyuu and Butterfly Ninja are chatting, both of them will look happier.
Before Immortal Sakawa Saneya, when talking to Butterfly Kanae, she would become much more awkward.
Recently, Iguro Kobanai has also become very close to Anjurou's stepson.
The other pillars were not aware of this.
Not only that, Bei Mingyu also discovered many qualities from other pillars.
And Tanjuro——
After the previous and current contacts, Bei Ming Island was discovered.
The other party seems to be someone who is not willing to show off his strength.
During the Hashira meeting, if Fusugawa hadn't taken the initiative, Mr. Tanjuro probably wouldn't have fought with him.
So... if you want him to teach the pillars.
I can only propose it on my own initiative.
…
…
at the same time.
the other side.
Tomioka Giyu's mission location.
A certain town.
"Gah! Karma!!"
Dark crows hovered in the sky.
People on the street looked at this side with strange eyes and deliberately walked around, as if they had seen some ghost.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Mizuna was holding her box camera and standing on the side of the street. The blood on her face had already been washed away.
But everything she saw that night left an indelible shadow in her heart that could not be washed away.
The people in the town, because everyone in the martial arts hall died and she was the only one who survived, wondered whether the culprit was related to her.
Some radical people even directly identified her as the murderer.
After that, the owner of the photo studio was unwilling to let her stay as an apprentice due to the rumors in the town.
However, she was given this camera as compensation.
If Mizuna hadn't had a big heart that could withstand fright, she might have chosen to commit suicide by drowning herself in the river.
Shortly after.
Mizuna met the man in front of her, Tomioka Giyu, who claimed to be from the Demon Slayer Corps, and said he could solve her troubles.
in front of her.
The expressionless Tomioka Giyuu was holding a blurry black and white photo and looking down.
After reading it several times, he raised his head and said to Mizuna:
"Is that all?"
Hear the words.
Mizuna, who was crying, stopped suddenly.
She put down the hand that wiped her tears in a daze, looked at Tomioka Giyuu in disbelief, her lips trembled slightly:
"What...what do you mean?"
——She almost died!
Mizuna looked surprised.
Tomioka Giyuu's mind recalled what Tanjuro had said to him before, "You are often hated by others."
Although he didn't know why, he probably realized that he had said the wrong thing.
so.
Tomioka Yoshiyuki chose not to speak and continued to lower his head and study the photos in his hands.
on the photo.
There was only a blurry figure.
It seems that the appropriate parameters, light source, and position were not adjusted properly, which resulted in extremely blurry photos.
Even the angle is tilted.
I could just barely see that it was night, there was a moon, and a figure beneath it.
There are also very obvious tattoos on his arms, and he seems to be wearing beads on his ankles.
Other than that, no information was available.
Tomioka Giyuu's heart is gloomy - he looks like a ghost. This kind of information is almost useless.
Yes, as a member of the Demon Slayer Corps, your mission is not just to destroy ghosts.
Sometimes, you have to start by looking for clues about ghosts.
At this stage, you need to talk to a variety of people, understand it, and even investigate further.
But Tomioka is brave and not good at words.
In the last mission (see the official Tomioka Giyu Gaiden for details), if Butterfly Ninja hadn't been there, he might have been captured while talking to others.
A long while.
Mizuna looked at Tomioka Giyu blankly, and suddenly the idea that this person was unreliable arose in her heart.
Thinking.
Snap.
She lowered her eyes, her expression full of irrepressible loss and frustration:
"Sure enough, let's forget it. The police can't find the murderer..."
She said, stretched out her hand, pinched the photo and was about to withdraw it.
But after two hard pumps, it failed to twitch.
"Huh?" Mizuna raised her head and looked at the expressionless Tomioka Giyu in surprise.
Tomioka Giyuu stood quietly, took the photo away from Mizuna's hand, put it into his clothes, and said:
"I probably know what happened."
He raised his hand and let the crows in the sky land on his arms. He nodded to Mizuna:
"plz follow me."
After saying that, Tomioka Giyu turned around and left.
In his opinion, if the ghost didn't kill Mizuna, then there would be a possibility that it would come to visit him again.
With almost no clues, protect her for a while and then make plans.
Tomioka Yoshiyu's death.
Mizukina, who stretched out her hand and held it empty, stared blankly at Tomioka Giyuu's back as he walked further and further away.
Standing in place dully.
Later, when she realized that the photo had been taken away by Tomioka Yoshiyuki, she quickly shouted and chased after him:
"Hello!!"
"Wait for me!"
At the same time, I cried out in frustration.
——Why do these things happen to me?
The side of the street where Mizuki Na ran.
on the wall.
It was attached and some had been torn off, but there were still remnants of the paper.
On the remaining paper, words such as "reward" can be seen intermittently.
It’s not the Edo period anymore. Papers offering rewards to others were hung up so openly. They were probably torn off by the passing police.
"Gah!!"
The crow detached itself from Tomioka Giyuu's arm, and he flew into the sky, overlooking the entire town.
…
soon.
At night.
On the roof of a house somewhere in the town.
Snap.
He gently tiptoed, and his almost silent figure landed on the tiled roof.
The visitor squatted slightly on the roof. He leaned down and leaned his ear on the tiles, listening to the sounds inside the house.
Subsequently.
He took out the paper from his waist, spread it out, and scanned the portraits and various written messages on it.
Obviously, he tore up the reward notice during the day.
The thick iron plate on his forehead reflected pale light in the moonlight, and his plum-red eyes were emotionless.
You can probably tell from his appearance that he is around eighteen years old.
…This is it.
Lowering his head, he saw that the tiles in front of him also had notes left by others.
Put away the paper.
He pulled out a sharp kunai from behind his back.
He gently pried open the tiles that he had already prepared.
Under the tiles, there is light leaking out of the house. This roof has been cut off by others long ago.
Kunai, neatly dressed, silent movements.
Yes, he is a ninja.
They are the ninjas who survived in the ninja family that still continues to this day when almost all ninjas became extinct in the Edo period.
His name is Yusui Tianhong.
He is the younger brother of Yin Zhu Yusui Tianyuan in the Demon Slayer Squad.
(End of chapter)
