Demon Slayer: From the Upper Ranks of Muzan

The snow was thick, but the snow was still thick.

"Watch me!"

"Take it!"

"Hahaha..."

...

Lei stood in the snow, looking at the children who were playing snowballs, his eyes full of envy and yearning.

He wanted to go forward, but his weak body had consumed most of his energy even just walking.

After walking a few steps, Lei stumbled and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the snow was thick, so he didn't get hurt.

"Cough cough cough..." Lei barely turned over and breathed hard.

"Lei! Lei! What's wrong with you?" A woman ran to Lei and picked him up: "Didn't you say that you should rest more and can't come outside?"

Lei didn't say anything, just looked at the children playing snowballs.

He longed for a healthy body and a childhood like these children.

At night, Lei couldn't fall asleep and just looked at the snow outside the door.

"How pitiful! Child, I will save you."

Muzan, who suddenly appeared in front of him, said so.

It is certain that when he said this, Muzan paid some sincerity.

But...

There are some small differences between his understanding of salvation and the understanding of salvation by ordinary people.

Lei got a healthy body and a powerful blood ghost art.

But he couldn't go out during the day, and he would eat people from time to time.

In the end, he was discovered by his parents.

His parents originally planned to kill Lei and then die with him.

But Lei's power as a ghost is not something that humans can kill with ordinary weapons.

In the end, Lei killed his parents.

Muzan came here and looked at Lei's soul-destroying appearance, and felt a little bit sorry.

After a long time, he comforted her: "Everything is the fault of your parents who refuse to accept you. Don't worry about it. Be proud of your strength."

Lei didn't know what to say. He was so young that he didn't even have a basic sense of right and wrong.

He could only choose to forget all this and keep deceiving himself.

His amnesia was not due to Muzan's blood, but his own choice.

Although the memory was hidden, it would not disappear and would still affect his instincts.

After becoming a ghost, Lei morbidly longed for family affection.

However, he understood family affection as the duties of family members and responsibilities.

Therefore, no matter how many family members he looked for, the loneliness in his heart always existed and intensified.

Family affection is a kind of emotion, and emotions are sometimes unreasonable, illogical, and irrational.

Lei superficially understood family affection as everyone in the family abiding by their duties, which was not conducive to the output of emotions.

Crows feed their parents, and lambs kneel to suckle.

Animals know that they can do things beyond their survival instincts, but Lei, who has become a ghost, does not know this.

This is the fundamental reason why Zhen Ye hates all ghosts, including himself.

Even animals with weak self-will and lack of intelligence will repay their parents after growing up.

But ghosts will not do this. In Lei's cognition, it is natural for parents to protect their children and for older brothers and sisters to protect younger brothers and sisters. It is their responsibility and obligation, not the affection from the heart.

The real ugliness of ghosts may not be eating people. After all, ghosts and humans are essentially different. Eating people is just treating humans as prey.

The real ugliness of ghosts is that they have self-will that is no less than that of humans and a physique that is far superior to that of humans, but they willingly succumb to animal nature.

Between the good and evil sides of humans, ghosts almost without hesitation choose the evil side.

This evil is not because of eating people.

It is because they succumb to animal nature and even indulge in animal nature.

They have self-will but no positive emotions and feelings.

For example, Komaji, he became stronger in the hope of protecting his master and lover.

But Akaza became a pathological pursuit of physical strength, saying that he hated the weak and wanted to vomit when he saw the weak.

Little did he know that in his cognition, Keizo and Koiyuki were also weak.

Therefore, Akaza is not Komaji, he is just an evil spirit who suppressed Komaji's personality.

But Rui would not know this. He chose to escape from reality, chose to cut off his family affection with his own hands, hid behind the evil spirit's personality like an ostrich, and pretended that he didn't care.

And the culprit who made Rui like this was Muzan Kibutsuji.

Rui's body dissipated, but his consciousness became clearer as his memory revived.

Finally, he saw his parents.

After being killed by him, the souls of his parents always

Did not leave, but waited for him.

Until now, they have given up the chance of reincarnation and accompanied their son to hell to atone for their sins.

The three little ones looked at the dissipated tiredness, and they all felt sad at the same time.

Tanjiro smelled it, Zenitsu heard it, and Inosuke felt it.

Under normal circumstances, Inosuke should cheer loudly at this time and say that this uncle is the strongest.

But he suddenly remembered the revolving lantern that flashed through his mind when he was forced into a desperate situation by the spider father just now.

Tanjiro was the most seriously injured, and at this time he could only stand up with the support of Zenitsu and Inosuke.

"Huh!" Seeing the three little ones escape, Santo and Giyuu breathed a sigh of relief.

Shinya looked at the two of them and smiled: "Shinobu."

Shinobu was stunned: "Master Gennosuke?"

Shinya looked at the unconscious Nezuko and said: "That girl is a ghost, kill her."

Shinobu heard this, looked at Nezuko with a flash of murderous intent in her eyes, and immediately drew her sword and rushed forward.

"Wait, Butterfly." Both Santoshi and Giyuu were shocked.

But Shinobu was too fast, and they had no time to stop her.

The three children felt the danger, and Zenitsu and Inosuke immediately protected Nezuko.

And Tanjiro fell directly and hugged Nezuko.

Ding!

The huge force made the two retreat again and again.

Although Shinobu's power is the weakest among the nine pillars, she has reached the full concentration and the middle level a few years ago, which is the basis for becoming a pillar.

To say that she is weak is also compared with the current pillars. The power of swinging a sword is not something that two newcomers who have not even reached the middle level can easily resolve.

However, the two of them worked together and barely blocked it.

The first attack was blocked, which bought time for Santo to rush over.

Before Shinobu launched the attack, he blocked it.

"Wait, Butterfly, that girl is different from other ghosts. Giyuu and I have seen her with our own eyes, and Brother Gennosuke is also there." Santo shouted hurriedly.

Shinobu smiled and said, "In any case, it is against the team rules to bring a ghost. And since it was Master Gennosuke who asked me to do it, it means that he doesn't trust her as much as you do."

As she said, she looked at Tanjiro: "Little guy."

Tanjiro was stunned: "Yes."

Shinobu smiled and said, "You are holding a ghost, it's very dangerous."

Tanjiro said quickly: "Yes, but she is my sister, and..."

"Really? That's too pitiful."

Shinya jumped down from the tree and interrupted Tanjiro's defense.

As for Giyuu, he followed behind Tanjiro, looking confused.

As if saying, "Who am I, where am I, why the hell are you fighting?"

Shinya smiled and said, "There's really nothing I can do. I'm a compassionate person. Since you two are so pitiful, pick up your sister now. I'll give you ten seconds to run away."

Tanjiro was shocked: "Please wait a moment..."

"Ten...nine...eight..."

"What are you standing there for? Take your sister and run." Satsuki shouted.

In the end, Zenitsu and Inosuke reacted quickly and directly carried Tanjiro and Nezuko and ran down the mountain.

Satsuki got ready: "Brother Gennosuke, don't even think about passing through here."

Shinya smiled and suddenly shouted, "Kanao!"

In the surprised eyes of everyone, a girl wearing the uniform of the Demon Slayer Corps, wearing a flower shadow, emerged from the forest and chased in the direction of the three little ones.

"Giyuu, go stop her." Satsuki shouted.

Yiyong came to his senses and hurriedly moved.

"I say, you two don't think you can get away from me, do you?" Shinya smiled, and electric arcs flashed under his feet.

In just a moment, Yiyong was grabbed by the shoulders and thrown back.

Shinya looked at Santu and Yiyong and said, "Stay here and wait for things to end, puff... er, cough cough cough..."

After saying that, he quickly turned his back, fearing that he would laugh.