Demon Slayer: From the Upper Ranks of Muzan

The old man was so tired that he was lying on the ground.

"Woo..."

Tietsuka got up with his head covered and looked around.

"Hey, you're awake!" Komaji was beside him, looking at Tietsuka with a smile.

"I...why did I faint?"

"Oh, you were too close to that kid and got struck by lightning." Komaji said.

Tietsuka asked in confusion: "I was struck by lightning? Why is there a bump on my head?"

"Oh, the peach tree that was struck dropped a trunk and hit your head." Komaji said calmly.

Tetsuzuka was skeptical: "Really? Where's Gennosuke?"

Komaji said: "Oh, he went to the back mountain with the old man Kuwashima."

"Oh...ah, it hurts!" Tetsuzuka asked a few questions, and then he had an unbearable headache again and lay down.

Meanwhile, in the back mountain.

Shinya was holding a pot of wine and worshiping at a grave.

The name on the tombstone was Ryudoji Hyoemon.

"If you want to kill me, now is your chance. Don't worry, I won't fight back." Shinya poured a glass of wine in front of the tombstone and said to the back.

Kuwashima Jigoro behind him sighed: "We all know that I am not your opponent. Even if you don't fight back, I can't hurt you. It was like this when I was young, and now I am so old, let alone. I am old, so old that I don't have the strength to take revenge."

Shinya looked at the name of his master on the tombstone, and his heart was filled with emotion.

More than a hundred years ago, he practiced thunder breathing and swordsmanship in this place.

More than a hundred years later, I came back here again, and there were two younger generations who had nothing to do with me.

"You know, you are already very old. Then there are some things you understand yourself, so I shouldn't need to teach you from the beginning." Shinye said: "You know who Gyou is. People like him will kill his teammates sooner or later, and even kill you. You know this too."

Shinye turned his head and looked at Kuwashima Jigoro with a complicated expression and said: "There is something I didn't tell you because I was afraid you couldn't accept it. The reason I killed Gyou was because he begged for mercy in front of me and said he was willing to become a ghost. If I agreed, you should know what this means."

Kuwashima Jigoro lowered his head. He knew what Shinye said, but he had always treated Gyou as his own son before and couldn't let it go.

"More than a hundred years ago, I was very glad that my master had passed away when I became a ghost." Shinye said slowly.

The team law of the Demon Slayer Corps is that if a Demon Slayer colluded with a demon or turned into a demon, in addition to the member himself being executed, the trainer should also commit suicide.

Committing suicide by seppuku, and no kaishakunin is allowed.

The purpose of the kaishakunin is to end the life of the person who committed suicide and save him from torture.

Once a member joins the demon camp, the trainer of the member must commit seppuku without a kaishakunin and feel the pain of life slowly passing away.

Shin was also very fortunate that Ryudoji Hyoemon had died of illness a month before he turned into a demon, otherwise his master would inevitably be punished in this way.

Not only that, the entire Thunder Breathing lineage would also suffer humiliation.

Shin actually liked this kid Kuwashima very much. After all, he became the Sound Pillar sixty years later, making Thunder Breathing shine again.

So he couldn't bear to see this old man being dragged down by a scum like Gyoyue and finally ending up committing suicide.

"Grandpa~~~~Grandpa~~~~~!!! Where are you~~~~!"

Zenitsu's voice came from a distance, with a crying tone.

"How could this happen! Why? Why? I already had no friends with black hair, and now I'm like this, which girl would be willing to marry me? Why, why was I struck by lightning? I've never done anything bad in my life, why did the punishment come to me!!!"

Hearing Zenitsu's cry, Kuwajima Jigoro's face was embarrassed.

"Actually... Zenitsu's personality seems to be out of tune, but he is still very hardworking in his training." Kuwajima Jigoro scratched his head.

Shinya said: "I can see that there are obvious signs of training on his body, and his physical functions are obviously stronger than ordinary people. It's obvious that he worked very hard during training. It's just that he lacks confidence, so he can't make the effect of training come into play."

In addition to the fact that Shinya can see every cell in Zenitsu's body clearly because of the transparent world, he also has the memory of the original work.

Who is not a genius who can create his own sword type?

Zenitsu only knows the First Form of Thunder Breathing, and it seems that he has no talent.

But in fact, the essence of Thunder Breathing lies in the First Form. If you learn the First Form, you will learn 90% of Thunder Breathing.

The sword forms that follow are essentially auxiliary to the First Form.

"Ah! Grandpa, are you cleaning this tombstone again?" Zenitsu walked here and saw Kuwashima Jigoro and said.

From Zenitsu's words, we can know that Kuwashima Jigoro should come here often to clean and repair the tombstone of Ryudoji Hyoemon.

"Eh? You are the one just now..."

At this time, Zenitsu found Shinya, who was the one who came to find his grandfather when he was crying in the tree.

Kuwajima Jigoro said: "Zenitsu, this is the Thunder Pillar, Ryudoji Gennosuke."

"The Thunder Pillar?" Zenitsu looked at Shinya with an admiring expression: "Then you are also practicing the Breathing of Thunder, right? Are you grandpa's disciple? That means my senior brother?"

Shinya's veins popped up and he grabbed Zenitsu's collar: "Who is the disciple of this old man? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll cut off all your hair, little brat."

"Ah!!!" Zenitsu was trembling with fear.

Shinya came closer and said, "Kid, I heard that you don't want to train, right? It just so happens that I'm very free recently. I'll train you from today. Be prepared!"

"No~!!! I will definitely die. Grandpa's training is terrible enough. I will definitely die in the training of the Sound Pillar. Even if I don't die in training, I will definitely die in the final selection. Even if I don't die in the final selection, I will be disemboweled in a ghost hunting operation..."

"I don't want it!!! I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, ah ah ah!!!!"

Kujima Jigoro: "....."

Crack, crack...

Boom~!

Another golden lightning struck Zenitsu, knocking him unconscious.

Shinya's hand flashed with golden arcs, and his face was gloomy as he said, "The first training, electrotherapy."

"Grandpa... Grandpa, I... I feel like I'm dying..."

Zenitsu said with his dying breath.

Shinya picked up a cane... oh no, it was a branch, and hit Zenitsu.

"Hurry up and get up, warm up first, run down the mountain and run back."

When Jigoro Kuwajima saw this scene, his memory went back to fifty years ago, when he accompanied Urokodaki back to Sagiri Mountain and met Shinya that morning.

Jigoro Kuwajima came to his senses and was sweating profusely.

He didn't expect that fifty years later, his disciple would have to go through the devilish training he had endured.

Is this... the inheritance of the Sound Pillar?