Demon Slayer: From the Upper Ranks of Muzan

The old man was very happy.

"Hmm? Giyuu, what are you doing?" Santu looked at Giyuu who was sitting in the corner and said, "Everyone is training hard, so don't be too unsociable."

The boy in front of him, the future water pillar, Giyuu Tomioka, was still an autistic boy at this time.

"It's nothing, training doesn't matter." Giyuu Tomioka's voice couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry.

Santu said helplessly, "It's started again!"

Among these boys, Santu was the only one who could talk to Giyuu.

Most of these children joined the Demon Slayer Corps because their relatives were killed by demons, so Santu understood Giyuu's depression very well.

"Anyway, it's better to die like this." Giyuu Tomioka said.

"What nonsense are you talking about, Yiyong!" When Santu heard what Yiyong said, he couldn't hold it anymore.

He grabbed Yiyong and said, "Listen, Yiyong, if you keep talking about death, our friendship will end here."

"Hmm! It seems that the teenager who just entered puberty is getting restless." Shinya suddenly appeared behind the two of them and teased, "Well! Adolescence is like this. Some people are passionate, while others think that the world is meaningless."

"Brother Gennosuke?" Santu was stunned when he saw Gennosuke who suddenly appeared.

Shinya patted Santu's shoulder, then walked to Yiyong and said, "You... go down the mountain."

"Huh?" Not only Yiyong, but also Santu and other children were stunned.

Giyuu looked at Shinya: "What...what?"

Shinya looked at Giyuu and said: "The Demon Slayer Corps does not need people who are afraid of death, but it does not need people who have no will to live. Trainers train demon hunters to let them survive, not to die. Instead of letting you die in the final selection and ruin the reputation of Urokodaki, it is better to get out now."

"Wait, Brother Gennosuke, you are too much!" Even though it was Santo, although he was very worried about Giyuu's negativity, he was also very disgusted with Shinya's words.

"Do you have any misunderstandings about the Demon Slayer Corps?" Shinya looked at the teenagers present, and his expression was no longer as casual as before: "The Demon Slayer Corps is not a psychological counseling organization that specifically solves your psychological problems. In other words, if you have relatives killed by demons, if you don't have the determination to avenge your relatives, but instead want to die, it is better to get out of the Demon Slayer Corps as soon as possible."

"Brother Gennosuke..." Santo looked at Shinya, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute.

Shinya walked up to Giyuu, looked at him and said, "I heard from Urokotaki that your sister was killed by a demon on her wedding night, right? And right in front of you, you saw the demon killing your sister. Why? I don't see hatred for demons in your eyes. What do you think you should do as a younger brother now?"

As he spoke, Shinya got angry and picked up the wooden sword and swung it at Giyuu.

Giyuu was shocked and instinctively raised his sword to block.

Bang~!

With a crisp sound, Shinya's wooden sword actually broke Giyuu's real sword and slammed him out.

Shinya snatched the sword from Santo's hand and threw it in front of Giyuu: "Pick up the sword, now I am the evil demon who killed your sister. Pick up the sword and kill me."

"I said, you have been talking since just now, but I haven't said anything yet." Giyuu picked up the sword, endured the pain in his body and stood up, saying.

Shinya had a blank expression: "It doesn't matter. I think there is something wrong with your thinking and it needs to be corrected. Whether it is your understanding of the Demon Slayer Corps, demons, or even the world, there are problems."

Giyu almost lost his balance: "Hey, that's too much."

Shinya said: "You think it's too much for me to just slander you verbally. Why don't you have any hatred in your heart after your relatives were killed by demons? Don't you hate demons? Don't you want to send the evil demon who killed your sister to hell? Don't you want to prevent the tragedy that happened to you from happening to others?"

"Of course I do!" Giyu roared. Shinya's words seemed to pierce his heart like a blade. He was originally holding on, but now he couldn't calm down: "How can I not want revenge, but what can I do? I can't do anything, what's the difference between me and death?"

"Giyu..." Santo looked at the roaring Giyu, not knowing what to say.

He wanted to go up and comfort him, but he also knew that now was not the time to comfort him.

"Well, if your knife can touch me, I will tell you.

Tell you what to do," Shinya grinned, revealing a slightly cruel smile.

Although Shinya's goal has been achieved by arousing the hatred and anger hidden deep in Giyuu's heart.

In fact, there is no need for Giyuu to fight with him.

But...

The atmosphere has been set here, and I always feel that something is missing if I don't beat him up.

Everything is afraid of coming here, so I'll beat him up first.

Then, until noon, Giyuu went down the mountain with the children with a pig head.

When Urokodaki Sakonji looked at Giyuu with a bruised face, he was dumbfounded.

"Giyuu, are you okay?" Santo asked worriedly.

Giyuu, who was exploding, was still twitching on his face. He looked at Santo: "That guy definitely did it on purpose."

Santo: "Huh?"

Giyuu gritted his teeth and said, "I obviously figured it out, why did he have to drag me to fight him? ”

Xiantu said seriously: "Yiyong, I think you misunderstood Brother Gennosuke, he is not that kind of person."

"Hey! Have you forgotten that he was riding on that big iron lump to chase you?" said Yiyong.

Xiantu said: "That was training."

Yiyong: "..."

Xiantu smiled and patted Yiyong's shoulder, just on the bruise he got from Shinya: "It's okay, didn't Brother Gennosuke say that as long as you can meet him, he will train you? Brother Gennosuke is a pillar, very strong."

Yiyong didn't hear what Xiantu said clearly, because the pain from his shoulder made him have no energy to listen to others.

"Yiyong, are you okay! "Seeing Giyuu getting stronger painfully, Santo grabbed Giyuu's shoulders and shook him vigorously.

Giyuu suddenly felt his brain go blank, as if the pain had disappeared.

Then, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

"Giyuu? What's going on? Brother Gennosuke is really something. He was too heavy even in training." Santo was even more worried when he saw Giyuu fainting.

Urokodaki Sakonji punched Santo on the head: "Let him rest well, idiot."

Santo covered his head and squatted on the ground: "Sorry."

In the afternoon, Giyuu, who was beaten, rested in his residence, and the other children continued to train.

However, Shinya put most of his energy on the Butterfly Sisters and Santo.

After all, he could tell who had talent in the crowd at a glance. Although the talents of the other children were not bad, they were still much worse than these plot characters.