Controlling the Butterfly Effect from Demon Slayer

This is one of the questions that Horitake is most curious about.

Why don't the ghosts eat these children after they capture them?

The children seem to have a hard time answering Horitake's question. They are all very entangled, and then they answer at the same time:

"That monster really likes to eat people. We have seen this before."

"Yes, it eats a person every now and then, bloody, it scares me"

"We don't know why she doesn't eat us."

"Yes, she doesn't eat us, but keeps us by her side."

"Maybe because we were kids?"

"We don't know, and we don't dare to ask. After all, if we ask, what if she really eats us?"

Hori Yue was keenly aware of their words and interrupted the children:

"Wait! You said...she?"

(In Japanese, he and she are pronounced differently.)

Several children nodded tremblingly, indicating that it was indeed her.

Horitake continued to ask suspiciously:

"She is a female ghost. Could it be that this female ghost is a half-human, half-snake ghost?"

Several children were shocked:

"You...how do you know! ?"

Hori Gaku began to doubt his life.

It was impossible. Wasn't the snake demon from the Iguro Obanai family killed by Rengoku Kyojuro's father? How could another snake demon appear and cut the faces of these children as well?

Hori Gaku was in doubt. Among these children, the one who looked the most timid raised his hand weakly and said cautiously:

"I... I think I know why she... doesn't eat us."

Horitake, Mitsuri and the other children all focused their attention on this timid child. The child became even more nervous when being watched by everyone.

Mitsuri took a step forward and played the good cop and the bad cop with Horitake. She tried to ask the child gently:

"Don't be afraid, tell me what you know."

After hesitating for a moment, the child whispered:

"Sometimes, that monster... that ghost, would go insane and talk to itself in a neurotic way.

I was close to her at the time, so I heard some of her mumbling.

Her words were a mess, and I can't remember them clearly, but I still remember the general meaning, which was... it seemed that this ghost mistook us for her younger brother, and said something like, her younger brother's face looks like this, so she cut our faces into this shape.……"

As he spoke, the child became more and more depressed. He covered his slit face and fell into autism and depression.

Horitake widened his eyes and Mitsuri opened his mouth.

This sentence contains a lot of information!

The half-human, half-snake female ghost took these children back and raised them instead of eating them because she was mentally ill and regarded these children as her younger brothers.

And his younger brother has a slit snake-shaped mouth, so the female ghost also cut the faces of these children!

So the younger brother of the female ghost is...

Horitake and Mitsuri looked at each other and could see shock in each other's eyes.

The younger brother of this half-human, half-snake female ghost may be... Iguro Obanai!

In other words, this female ghost is the only survivor of the Iguro family, the cousin of Iguro Obanai!

The people of the Iguro family are basically scum. Although Iguro's cousin survived, she blamed the escaped Iguro Obanai for the destruction of the family!

If it is said that cousin Iguro became more and more paranoid and psychopathic afterwards, and then accidentally turned into a ghost, and turned into the kind of half-human, half-snake ghost that his family worshipped... this makes sense! It makes sense!

Hori Gaku felt that his guess was very likely.

If this is true, Iguro Obanai is a bit pitiful.

Although Iguro Obanai had long been separated from his scum family. Even if Iguro Obanai and his cousin have no feelings at all, and no longer have any contact.

But... after all, he is the only blood relative in the world, and he turned into a ghost, and turned into a ghost that harms others.

This Snake Pillar is really a bit miserable.

For a moment, the amount of information was too much, he thought too much, and the guesses were a bit shocking, which made Hori Gaku's brain a little overwhelmed.

He pressed his forehead, calmed down, and continued to ask:

"So, the reason why the female snake ghost caught you but didn't eat you is that she treated you as her brothers.

Well, it sounds outrageous, but ghosts are not mentally normal, so it is understandable, and this logic is smooth.

In other words, you have been living with ghosts before, unable to escape or die, and have been trapped in a terror worse than death, right?"

The children nodded one after another, looking like they understood.

"So where is the female snake ghost lurking?"

The oldest child pointed in a direction outside of Kusatsu County:

"It’s a long way from here in the mountains over there."

Then, Horitake asked the children another question he wanted to ask the most:

"What are you doing in Kusatsu County?"

Horitake said in a serious tone, looking at these children with a stern expression:

"I originally thought that you were from Kusatsu County, and that you were controlled by the ghosts in some way, and that you went to the mountains with empty backpacks to do something.

Now it seems that this is not the case, and the situation should be exactly the opposite.

You were originally with the ghosts in the mountains, and were ordered by the ghosts to come to Kusatsu County to do something. It was getting late, and you had finished these things, and were about to go back to the mountains, back to the ghosts.

Unfortunately, I stopped you."

Hori Gaku looked at these children sternly:

"What did the ghost order you to do? What did you do in Kusatsu County during the day? What was in the empty basket behind you?

Tell me clearly!"

Horitake���I have a feeling that this matter is definitely not simple!

Mitsuri also realized the seriousness of the matter.

Kusatsu County is a large town with a developed tourism industry, and there is a ghost who wants to do something to Kusatsu County.

If the ghost really succeeds, there will definitely be a big turmoil in Kusatsu County!

Mitsuri was no longer gentle in front of these children. This matter was serious. She also frowned and looked at these children sternly.

These children were trembling, looking at each other, not knowing what to say.

Hori Gaku very"kindly" helped them start:

"Let's start from the beginning. How did the ghost order you to do this? What happened in the beginning?" After a moment of hesitation and panic, the oldest child stood up and struggled with his words:

"We don't know what's going on. We are just following orders. If we don't do what they tell us, our lives will be in danger."

Hori Gaku noticed the word the child used: they.

It seems that the one who ordered these children was not just Snake Ghost, but several ghosts.

However, Hori Gaku did not interrupt him. The oldest child recalled and said:

"This incident started last night.

We were all fine, staying with the female snake ghost. Although we were scared and had a hard time, at least we were not eaten.

But last night, the female snake ghost went out and asked us children to follow her.

We didn't know what we were going to do, but we had no choice but to do it.

In this way, we were taken to a nearby mountain by the female snake ghost, where we saw other ghosts!

We only found out last night that there was more than one ghost in that mountain!"