Sauichiro: rebuilding Ashina from the obliteration of the pillar

Chapter 196 White Windmill
Two months later, Sagiri Mountain, morning.

The man wearing the tengu mask carried two carp, and shuttled through the mountains with extremely flexible steps. The flowing water auspicious cloud jacket on his body fluttered with the mountain wind, making hunting sounds.

His figure is like a ghost in the bamboo forest, even the vigorous lynx will shrink back screaming when it sees it, sighing to itself.

No one would have guessed that the owner of the Tengu mask is already 70 years old this year, although his feet are extremely fast.

He is the current teacher of Mizujo Tomioka Yoshiyuki, trainer of Breath of Water, Rinaki Sakonji.

He is also the oldest member of the Ghost Slayer Squad, and with his experience as a water column, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most respected senior in the Ghost Slayer Squad.

But since Tomioka Yoshiyuki passed the trial of the Demon Slayer Squad, Rinaki never accepted any disciples, and has been living alone in the mountains and forests.

The reason why he has two carp in his hand at this time is not to entertain guests, but the "thank you gift" he received after saving a fisherman from a water ghost when he went out last night.

"Speaking of which, the ghosts that can still be found today are getting more and more difficult."

Zuo Rinaki sighed sullenly for the last time. Obviously, the battle last night was not easy for him, the former pillar, otherwise he would not have rested at his house for a night to replenish his strength before returning to Sagiri Mountain.

There are fewer and fewer ghosts, but the surviving ghosts are getting stronger and stronger. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.At least the strength of that ghost last night was not weaker than Xia Xian who was killed by him.

With anxiety in his heart, after walking through the mountains at high speed for a few minutes, Zuo Jinji finally saw the familiar stone stairs.

It was built by his past disciples, saying that the place where he lived could not be too crude.

One of the earliest slabs, 30 years old, had cracked, but he never considered replacing it.

"If those children are still alive..."

Lin Takizuo didn't finish this sentence last time, but sighed deeply, stepped on the stone slab with a somewhat stooped figure, and walked step by step to the wooden house where he lived.

But when he was less than 30 meters away from the wooden house, Rinaki Zuojin suddenly stood still, and he could feel his face changing drastically through the tengu mask.

"This smell..."

Under the mask, the sound of the slight sniffing of the nose is almost indistinguishable.

But anyone who knows Zuo Jinci of Rinaki knows that he has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, which is not much worse than that of some canids.

"Is it a ghost?!"

Glancing at the sunlight cast through the bamboo grove, Rinaki Sakumo doubted his own conclusion.It's broad daylight.

Since I can smell the smell, it means that the ghost is alive and not far from here.

But the problem is...

He is very familiar with the surrounding terrain, there is no place where ghosts can hide during the day.

unless……

Ryodaki raised his head for the first time, looking towards his destination.

Unless that ghost, just hide in his house!

"Think I'm not at home, so you broke in?!"

The old man muttered a few words strangely, took out his sun wheel knife and continued to step on the stairs slowly, but there was no sound from his feet.

As the smell became more and more obvious, he knew that his guess was correct.However, there seemed to be another familiar smell mixed in with the smell of ghosts, but considering that this was his home, this second smell was ignored by him.

"It's not in the firewood room, but in the room where I entertain guests... Judging from the smell, it should be just an ordinary little ghost. It seems that your luck is good..."

Came quietly outside the simple wooden door, the old man stood still for a while, listening to the movement inside.A grunting sound came from the door panel, obviously, the guy was sleeping.

If the other party is not a ghost, the voice is even a little cute.

"...Can ghosts snore too?"

With this thought in mind, the old man suddenly split the wooden door in half with a knife without any warning, flashed into the room with incomparable agility, and pointed the sun wheel knife at the suddenly awakened animal on the table——

White pussy cut off!
Wait a moment!This guy……

Lintaki's next blue blade was hanging above the cat's head, but the latter was too frightened to move. His two blue eyes were filled with tears, and he wanted to scream aggrievedly but couldn't make a sound.

"Is it a cat?"

The old man asked in surprise and doubt, whether he was asking himself or the soft and cute unexpected guest in front of him.

Although the smell is correct, but...he has never seen a ghost in animal form (in the original book, the invisible cat Chachawan who has been following Tanzhilang is also a ghost).

At this moment, there was a sudden movement from the inside of the wooden house, and Zuo Kon Ryodaki immediately turned his head to look there, ready to strike with all his strength.

The next moment, a somewhat familiar handsome face poked out from the inside, revealing a pair of deep eyes like a cold pool.

"Yiyong?"

……

1 minute later.

The master and the apprentice sat at the table at a right angle, while the ghostly cat hid in Yiyong's embrace, with two vertical pupils looking hostilely at Lintaki Zuoji, and a threat like an engine came out of its throat Voice.

"Yiyong..."

Ryotaki Zuo spoke first for the last time, and he could feel doubts in his heart through the mask.

"Yes, Your Excellency Rinaki Sakonji."

Yiyong sat upright like a soldier who was called by his boss, which made the old man feel a bit of bitterness in his heart.

"You... well, forget it."

I have asked him to change his words many times, but since the death of Sato, the child Yiyong has called himself in this very unusual way, and never explained the reason, as if he wanted to draw a line with himself.

But every year on important festivals, he would send gifts, and sometimes ask him for ointment.

This distanced but friendly way of getting along makes Rinaki feel powerless. Of course, he hopes to see more righteous people, but when he sees the two, he can only get along stiffly like this. There is almost nothing to say except to share the experience of practicing pranayama.

After all, the two of them can talk about something, and there is a sad past hidden.

"Tell me, what's going on with this cat..."

The old man had no choice but to talk about serious matters with Yiyong as usual.

"If I'm right, this guy is a ghost, right?"

Sensing Rinaki Sakuji's hostility, the white cat slid directly under Yoshiyuki's haori, with only one head sticking out.

"Your judgment is correct, it is indeed a ghost."

Giyuu nodded seriously.

"This is a special breed bred by the ghost named Zhu Shi who cooperated with us. It is said to be used as an anchor point for teleportation. All the pillars are assigned one."

Giyuu explained, "Through them, a ghost under Jushi can know the location of all the pillars at any time. If there is an emergency and we need to go to support or retreat, the ghost can use these cats as anchors to release blood. Hell, teleporting us to any similar cat."

The ghost of Zhu Shi's men he was talking about was naturally Naruto who had been released from the confession.

Her vampire technique is no different from the past, it still uses long-distance teleportation through the infinite city.

It's just that the oni she uses to locate her is no longer the subordinate of Oni Mai Tsuji, but the oni under Genichiro, and these cats are also counted among them.

However, in the eyes of the Ghost Killing Team, Naruto is just a "cooperating ghost" who was arrested by Genichiro and transformed by Zhushi. No one knows who she is really working for.

"..."

Lin Takizuo was stunned for a long time before he understood what his disciple said.

"But in this way, wouldn't that ghost be able to put you to death at any time?"

Yiyong replied: "Fengzhu and Yinzhu also have the same worries. But the lord Yanzhu thinks Zhushi can be trusted, and Wei Ming's Xianichiro is also willing to vouch for Zhushi and her ghosts, so we all agreed. Yes. With this ability to travel long distances, we can save a lot of time traveling.”

Time is life for the demon slayers and humans who are attacked by demons.

Furthermore, using Naruto for teleportation can save a lot of human-caused troubles, such as the train breaking down and being delayed.

"If the lord thinks so..."

Ryotaki Sakuma relaxed a little recently, as he was older, he was very clear about the Ubuyashiki family's "special ability".

"Then there's no problem."

Then, he pointed at the cat and changed his voice, "However, how do you feed this cat?"

Yiyong was silent for a second, and stretched out his left index finger with a small cut, "Just a few drops of blood can feed it, and it eats very little."

"Also, my own cat stayed at home as a coordinate."

Yiyong picked up the white cat, ignored the latter's struggle and handed it to Rinaki left, "This is only assigned to you by the lord."

"give me?"

Zuo Rinaki didn't intend to accept the cat last time, "But I haven't accepted a reserve player for three years, what can you do for me..."

Isn't this a waste of resources?

What did the old man think.

"Apart from this cat, this letter is the main purpose of this visit. If you have any questions, Mrs. Tianyin should answer you in it..."

Tomioka Yoshiyuki took out a letter, placed it on the table respectfully, and then pushed it towards Rinaki Zuokinji.

On the envelope was written "From His Excellency Ryodaki Sakonji", and the signature was "Ubuyashiki Amane".

The old man felt a little baffled, although Mrs. Tianyin would send a letter every year to express condolences to him as a lonely old man, but the time was usually around the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Obon Festival, and the messengers were usually crows, not people.

Send Tomioka Giyuu here, there must be some other purpose.

Zuo Rinaki recently opened the letter with a slightly apprehensive mood, but he secretly prayed in his heart that it must not be a request for him to start training reserve players again.

In the past 30 years, he has taught a total of [-] disciples, but the only one who finally passed the Fujishizan examination was Giyu Tomioka.

Occasionally, in the dead of night, the old man would inevitably wonder whether his longevity was based on the premature death of these children...

Otherwise, how could a genius like Sato, who had at least G-level strength before leaving the teacher, die so unexplainably?
Those locked there are all the weakest ghosts in the world.

No matter how you think about it, this is too inappropriate.

There must be something wrong with me.

Therefore, his refusal to accept the reserve team was not to maintain his reputation as the former water column, but to avoid sending these children to a dead end.

As the disciple of his long-lived old man, the risk is too great.

When he unfolded the letter paper and saw Mrs. Tianyin's beautiful and tough handwriting, he fell into a long silence.

Although it is not for him to re-accept students...

But that's about it.

"Your Excellency Rinaki Sakonji, because of the setback two months ago, both Zhuru and the ordinary team members realized their own weakness and felt deeply ashamed."

Seeing that the old man had seen enough, Yi Yong reiterated the main purpose of Mrs. Tianyin's letter.

"Therefore, in order to enhance the strength of the team members and better protect the people, the Zhuhe meeting decided to carry out training in turn for the weaknesses of different team members. So I am here this time, on behalf of the lord and Zhongzhu, and I request you to take charge of this intensive training. One of the instructors!"

The situation is similar to what Genichiro thought.

Although Tong Mo died that night, more than 200 victims (and more than 100 nobles) still caused an uproar.

After all, the folks and the government don't know what it means to be wound up after death, so they insist on the number of casualties, and the people, under the instigation of caring people, blame all the deaths of these people on the incompetence of the ghost killing team.

Suddenly, the Demon Slayer Squad, which was widely praised before, has gradually become like the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in public opinion.

This is the first blow to the Ghost Killing Squad.

In addition, because Yuya Ubuyashiki did not conceal the fact that Tongma was killed by Genichiro, the members of the Demon Killing Team also began to question their own meaning.

Because judging from the data that the Demon Killing Squad knew——

Er Tongmo of the upper string, Four Half Tengu of the upper string, Five Jade Pot of the upper string, Six Singing Girls of the upper string, Six Sick Leaves of the lower string...

Half of the twelve ghost months are solved by outsiders, and they are still half-grown children!

On the other hand, the Ghost Slayer Squad, the only major feat they have achieved recently is that Immortal Kawa Minya escaped from Ghost Mai Tsuji Muzan alive and brought some useful information.

In such a comparison, the players seem to have gradually recognized the outside world's evaluation of them.

In addition, in the past few months, those miscellaneous fish ghosts have almost been eliminated, so the remaining ghosts are all cunning and powerful ruthless characters, and many of them should not be there until the twelve ghost months strength.

Even with pills and other supplies, the casualty rate of ordinary team members inevitably gradually increased, and finally the shame of the team members soared to an unhealthy height, and there were even cases of teammates committing suicide and apologizing after sacrifices.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that a resolution was made at the meeting of the public pillars. There is only one way to fundamentally solve this problem, and that is to make the team members stronger!In the face of powerful enemies, you must no longer be helpless and powerless!

So, there was this training plan.

However, due to the shortage of senior swordsmen, it is impossible for the pillars to guide the ordinary team members for training, so only the former pillars are invited to be responsible.

Of course, Kuwashima Jigoro agreed directly and straightforwardly, and he also expected to select some of the players to practice Thunder's Breath.

As for the predecessors Mizuju and Yanzhu who had their own knots, Ubayashiki sent a special person to invite them.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki is here for this.

After reading that letter for the last time, Ryotaki Zuo looked at Giyuu with those empty eyes on the Tengu mask, and said firmly, "Please allow me to refuse."

However, he immediately found that his disciple's expression hadn't changed at all, as if he had expected him to say this a long time ago.

"For this result, I also have some guesses..."

Tomioka Yoshiyuki said slowly, but there was some expectation in his eyes, as well as some struggle and hesitation.

"But can you please follow me to a place first, and then make a decision? Lin Takiz...Master."

This long-lost master sounded like a battering ram, hitting Lin Taki's Zuo Jinci's nasal cavity.

What he originally planned to say, "If you don't go, you won't go, there's nothing to say", now under the "Master", it turned into a trembling "Where are you going?"

"Come with me."

Yoshiyuki Tomioka got up suddenly, and walked out the door without looking back, while the white cat consciously hid in a corner of the room where the sun could not shine.

Lin Takizuo followed silently for the last time, at first he was a little puzzled, but after walking dozens of steps, he realized the destination of Yiyong, and the doubts in his eyes became even more serious.

It was not only a place he avoided passing by, but also a place that Yiyong had never dared to approach since that day.

this kid...

The change this time is really a bit big.

A few minutes later, they came to the high place of Sawu Mountain, where there was a faint white mist, and the sunlight became hazy and ambiguous.

In this way, the master and the apprentice came to a huge boulder tied with Shimenawa.

Yiyong looked at this familiar place, took a deep breath, and took out a white windmill from his arms.

"Master, are you ready?"

"what to prepare……"

"Of course I'm ready, see them again."

Yiyong stretched out his fingers, and gently turned the windmill counterclockwise. The surrounding fog became thicker almost visible to the naked eye, and the temperature dropped sharply, almost to the level of two months ago, but it did not make people feel Creepy.

For some reason, Rinaki Zuojin felt a wave of familiar kindness for the first time.

He couldn't help looking out towards the deepest part of the fog, but suddenly noticed that thirteen figures, tall or short, standing or sitting, slowly appeared around the spherical boulder.

The shortest one among them, the moment he appeared, rushed out of the fog like a gust of breeze, and hugged Rinaki Zuokinji's waist tightly.

Immediately afterwards, the other figures also walked up to Rinaki Zuo Kinji one by one, and at the same time took off the fox disaster relief mask worn on his face.

At the same time, Rinaki Zuojinji's tengu mask unexpectedly fell off automatically, revealing an old face full of wrinkles but full of tears.

(End of this chapter)