Demon Slayer: The Forest Pillar

"It's hard not to arouse suspicion when you look like this." Shinichi squinted at Shoku, who looked like Muzan Kibutsuji.

In the quiet reception room, there were a few simple coffee tables, but since the three people present were all ghosts, there would naturally be no tea on the coffee tables.

Shinichi sat cross-legged, while Wugui and Shoku sat very upright on their knees. Shinichi was very disdainful of this. They were all old ghosts who had lived for hundreds of years. Who were they pretending to be like this for?

Hearing what Shinichi said, Shoku smiled slightly. It was hard to imagine that Muzan's cold face would show such a gentle smile. "This is a very old story. If Shinichi-san doesn't mind me being long-winded, I can tell you my story."

At this time, Wugui frowned and interrupted, "Hey! Hey! Shoku, don't make that long speech again, just tell it briefly. This little guy probably doesn't have the patience. Even if he has it, I don't. Take it easy, or I'll get angry first!"

Hearing this, Shoku shook his head helplessly, "You, you really don't know how to appreciate it. Only Shunichi was willing to listen to me finish this story seriously." As he said that, Shoku looked at Shinichi again, and the latter also looked at Shoku with a bored look.

Alas~ Sighing with some regret, Shoku's peach-colored eyes showed a touch of reminiscence, and began to slowly tell an ancient story, which was also the story of the birth of evil spirits.

About a thousand years ago in the Heian period, a baby boy was born in a powerful noble family in Kyoto. However, this baby boy was extremely weak since birth, and people even mistakenly thought he was a dead baby. If it weren't for the fact that the baby boy finally cried out after five minutes, there might not be any stories about evil ghosts in this world.

The baby boy was naturally the ancestor of ghosts, Muzan Kibutsuji. He was so weak that he seemed to have a terminal illness and was dying. He might not live past the age of 20.

For this reason, Muzan sought countless famous doctors since he was a child, but no one could cure him. Under the shroud of this despair, Muzan's character gradually became dark and violent.

But just when Muzan was completely desperate, he met a kind doctor. In order to prolong Muzan's life, the doctor devoted himself to developing a drug. The doctor said that this drug could strengthen Muzan's physique, but the treatment process was long and the effect was slow.

At first, Muzan was able to receive treatment, but as time went on, his condition remained unchanged and even worsened. He mistakenly believed that the doctor's treatment was ineffective. In his inner violence, Muzan cruelly killed the doctor.

However, soon after killing the doctor, Muzan found that the medicine began to take effect, and his body became extremely strong, gaining an extremely strong and tough body and terrifying regeneration ability.

But before Muzan could be happy, he was shocked to find that he could no longer walk under the sun, and could only survive in the dark, and became a cannibalistic evil spirit that thirsted for human flesh and blood.

It turned out that the doctor's medicine had not yet completed the final stage. The last step of the medicine was to allow Muzan to overcome the sun and become the last step of a new life form! The most critical medicine recorded in the dead doctor's notes was the blue red spider lily, which was also what Muzan had been pursuing for thousands of years. He, no, it, wanted to become the most perfect creature!

This is the story of Muzan, the story of the world's first evil spirit.

However, behind this story, there is a small episode.

At that time, the baby boy Muzan was born in the noble family. In fact, he had a twin brother. However, compared with his brother, the younger brother, who was equally weak, had never cried. He only cried faintly when he was about to be buried by the servants.

However, even if the younger brother survived, according to the strict eldest son inheritance system in the Heian period, his fate would be to enter the temple to spend the rest of his life.

However, perhaps their noble father could not bear it for a while, or perhaps he felt that the younger brother, who was weaker than his brother, might not live to adulthood, so he also left the younger brother in the mansion. While his brother was receiving treatment, the younger brother also received the same treatment. This younger brother was Shoku.

However, compared with his brother Muzan's tyranny and ruthlessness, his younger brother Shoku was gentle and generous. The two brothers were like two extremes.

However, in Muzan's eyes, he never took this younger brother seriously. He was just a poor guy who had no inheritance rights at all. This was Muzan's view of Shoku.

Shoku wanted to change his brother Muzan's increasingly violent attitude, but he was powerless. The class system of the Heian period was too strict.

In order to prevent tragedy as much as possible, even though Shoku's own health was worse than his brother Muzan, he resolutely dissuaded many people who had originally tried to go up.The doctor who treated Muzan was not allowed to come to the door, because if he failed to cure Muzan, he would really be killed.

It was not until that day that an unknown wandering doctor suddenly visited him and was confident that he could cure Muzan's terminal illness. At that time, Muzan had fallen into despair and regarded this doctor as his last hope, so he naturally would not refuse.

Xiang Jiu was very surprised, because Muzan's terminal illness had long been spread throughout Kyoto, and even the emperor's imperial physician was helpless. How could an ordinary wandering doctor have a way?

Privately, Xiang Jiu secretly found the doctor and persuaded the doctor not to lose his life for the sake of wealth. He persuaded the doctor to escape and was willing to give the doctor some of his own money. However, the doctor smiled and rejected him, and saw at a glance that Xiang Jiu also had the same terminal illness as Muzan.

"Money is meaningless to me. It is my duty to cure patients, that's all." The doctor's words still echo in Xiang Jiu's ears.

From that day on, the doctor would also send medicine to Shoku every day. Gradually, Shoku was also impressed by the knowledgeable doctor, and even wanted to follow the doctor as a disciple, and always called the doctor teacher.

However, what happened later was beyond everyone's expectations. Muzan suddenly attacked, killed the doctor, and became a terrible cannibal!

Before Shoku could accept all this, his body also changed dramatically. That day, the doctor brought medicine to Muzan and Shoku.

Shoku also became a ghost, but maybe it was different from the medicine prepared by the doctor, or maybe it was fate, the ghost Shoku turned into was not very powerful, and he only got a long life.

Muzan and Shoku, who became ghosts, were all expelled from the noble family and completely removed from the family tree. From then on, Muzan became the ancestor of the ghost, Muzan Kibutsuji, and Shoku was still the gentle Shoku, and the noble family was the Ubuyashiki family.

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"This is my story. I'm sorry. My brother, Muzan, has caused countless murders over the past thousand years. My teacher and I are also responsible. So, I only have one goal left while I'm still alive, to send my brother Muzan to hell." Xiang Jiu said with a smile.

And Shinichi was already stunned.

(Thank you all for your support! Mori Pillar finally got a score of 8. Mu Zi is very, very, very grateful for your support! Thank you!)