Demon Slayer: The Forest Pillar

"Muichiro's "nothing" is useless nothing!"

This is the saddest sentence that Muichiro has heard from his brother Ichiro these days. Since he and his brother had a big fight over whether to join the Demon Slayer Corps, the two brothers have not spoken to each other for several days.

Every time, Ichiro would ask Muichiro to eat or fetch water or chop wood, and there was basically no communication.

But what made Ichiro feel relieved in the past two days was that the cold-faced man and the beautiful woman visited him much less frequently, which saved Ichiro a lot of saliva.

Dong! Cutting the white radish in his hand with a knife, Ichiro's heart slowly sank into the memories of the past. On that stormy night, he had clearly tried very hard to persuade his father not to go out to collect herbs. His mother's illness was too serious. What's the use of collecting a few herbs?

And his mother, he had clearly persuaded her many times not to be so tired, but why!

Dong! Cutting with a knife again, a large piece of white radish rolled to the edge of the chopping board.

And Muichiro, this naive boy, didn't he listen to what the woman said? The legend of the evil ghost is true, so how dangerous would it be to join the Demon Slayer Corps? So what if his ancestors were the first generation of swordsmen? Now the poverty of their descendants doesn't just show that being a swordsman is not a good thing?

Dong! Dong! Dong! The white radish was cut into cubes one by one.

Yuichiro's heart is actually very soft. Every time he pretends to be strict and reprimands Muichiro, his heart is actually aching. He doesn't want a kind child like Muichiro to join the dangerous Demon Slayer Corps. You can say he is selfish, but he just wants his brother to live in peace.

Dong! With the last cut, a dish of neat white radish pieces was cut, and the sauce was ready in the pot. Let's cook a sauced radish that Muichiro likes most in a while. Yuichiro stuffed the firewood into the stove. Under the light of the fire, his originally stern face softened rarely.

Thinking of how he said this morning that Muichiro's "nothing" was useless, which made Muichiro so depressed that he went to fetch water without even having breakfast, Yuichiro said with some self-blame: "I'm sorry, brother didn't mean it."

By the clear stream, two figures, one tall and one short, sat on the rocks.

Shinichi broke off half a piece of Dorayaki and handed it to Tokito Muichiro, who took a look, whispered a thank you and took it.

Shinichi smiled slightly and didn't eat the half piece of Dorayaki in his hand. The child's taste was different from his, so he wouldn't eat this tasteless thing.

Seeing that Muichiro was a little depressed, Shinichi said, "Did you quarrel with your brother again?"

After a pause, Muichiro nodded sadly, and then said with some inferiority: "My brother is right. Sometimes I am really useless. When my parents were still alive, my brother helped them with things. He always disliked me for being clumsy and didn't let me help.

Later, when my parents passed away, he still disliked me as always, always saying that I couldn't do something well. Brother Shinichi, do you think that people like me are really useless?"

Hearing this, Shinichi laughed dumbly, stretched out his hand and patted Muichiro on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Some people are sharp-tongued but kind-hearted. They are obviously kind-hearted, but they are like knives that pierce your heart. Muichiro, you have to remember that sometimes your best friends may not be your relatives, but the ones who care about you the most are definitely your relatives."

Tokito Muichiro: "? I don't understand."

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At noon, Muichiro returned home with water, and a plate of fragrant sauced radish was placed on the table.

Originally, Ichiro's expression was still very gentle, but when he saw a piece of Dorayaki handed over by Muichiro, Ichiro's expression was out of control.

He almost lost his mind and roared at his brother: "Didn't I tell you not to contact them? What are you doing, you idiot!? Stupid Muichiro! Useless Muichiro! Sooner or later you will be sold and count money for others."

And Muichiro, who had been enduring, finally broke out. With tears in his eyes, he kicked over the bucket and spilled water all over the floor. He shouted at Ichiro: "Brother is so annoying!!"

The relationship between the two brothers became tense again, and the two began to ignore each other again, and this situation lasted until late at night.

At night, the summer night was still scorching hot. The sultry air was warm even with the wind blowing on the body, and the sticky sweat on the body made it difficult to fall asleep.

Crash! Unable to bear the heat, Wuyilang stood up from the quilt, endured the pain in his throat, and went to the water tank, wanting to drink some water to cool down, but when he looked, the water tank was empty. Then he thought,Because of the quarrel with his brother at noon, the water that was originally carried was spilled.

After thinking about it, Wuyilang looked at his motionless brother again, and finally lay back on the quilt with gritted teeth, but the sound of swallowing saliva from time to time was still so conspicuous.

Swish! After Wuyilang fell asleep again in a daze, Youyilang stood up suddenly, looked at his brother with sweat on his forehead, and then looked at the dry water tank. Without saying a word, he got up carefully and walked out of the wooden house.

Picked up a shoulder pole and a bucket and walked towards the stream.

At the same time, in the darkness, a pair of vertical pupils that turned green due to hunger suddenly opened their eyes in the dark night, and the hoarse roar was creepy and terrifying, "It smells so good~ It's the smell of human flesh and blood, it smells so good~ It smells so good~ Slurp!"

Tokito Youyilang carried the bucket and walked silently on the road. He soon came to the stream, squatted down and started to fetch water, but suddenly a disturbing sound rang in his ears.

"Hey, isn't this someone's kid? Why are you here to get water in the middle of the night?"

Yuichiro looked up, and sure enough, in the dark, Shinichi, who was sitting cross-legged on the rock, was looking at him with a pair of different-colored eyes and smiling.

Ignoring Shinichi, Yuichiro just got the water and was about to go home.

But at this time, Shinichi also jumped down from the rock and landed next to Yuichiro.

"I say, you kid, are you really so rude? It's okay to us, but you're so bad to your own brother? You don't know how frustrated Yuichiro is because of what you said. I'm not being long-winded, you really should learn how to be a good brother. It's not advisable to deny blindly, and what's more important is to encourage."

Shinichi kept talking beside Yuichiro like a long-winded old man.

Finally, the veins on Yuichiro's forehead were so angry that he yelled at Shinichi: "Go away! You're so annoying!"

Hey! Shinichi stopped, not tall but with a bad temper, shrugged his shoulders, and said nothing more. After watching Yuichiro go away, Shinichi turned around and said, "You're just being stubborn."

But Shinichi stopped walking not long after, frowned slightly, and looked in the direction where Yuichiro went away, "I feel something is wrong."

(Double update coming!)