Demon Slayer: The Demon King is actually a weak girl?!

After dragging Muzan to the training room, Shimizu started teaching him seriously.

From endurance to accuracy, no slackness is allowed.

Wuzan was very dissatisfied with this.

Originally, he wanted to just do some paddling, but now that it had come to this, he changed his mind and decided that Feng Hu should still practice hard. So he put aside his anger and became her obedient disciple.

"Second form - Claw Claw - Koto Wind." Shiya demonstrated, "Blow away all the false accusations and smears, kill the evil, and with anger towards the demons, go at it with all your strength!"

The atmosphere was already created, and Muzan raised his wooden sword and shouted, "Good! Kill the evil spirits, die, ghosts!"

——"Including me!"

Of course, she only shouted the following words in her heart.

“Swish, swish, swish—!”

The blade quickly cut through the air, leaving only the sound of thunder echoing in the air.

The green wind blade that Shimizu had just displayed did not appear, and what Muzan swung with his sword was just a half-finished product.

It looks green but not green, and it looks half red but not red.

She stared at her right hand holding the knife in silence for three seconds, then asked Shiya suspiciously, "Master, is there anything else you forgot to tell me?"

——Or is it that not just anyone can learn a certain type of breathing technique, but that there are different physical conditions, just like Mitsuri couldn't learn the breathing of fire?

Shimizu looked at Muzan with contempt, but suddenly he thought of another level and felt that this was also a good idea.

He showed an even more ferocious expression: "You can't even learn the simplest Ichi-no-kata, you stupid woman, get out of my house now, and you still want to join the Demon Slayer Corps and get money? Dream on! You might as well find someone to marry and stop wasting my time here!"

Being scolded 800 times a day, Muzan really regretted choosing the wrong master. As long as it's not this person and Iguro Kobanai, any other pillar, although it may be strict, at least he won't suffer such spiritual damage. (???)

Muzan suddenly didn't want to maintain his character anymore.

She tensed her face, her former gentleness gone, her eyes showing a coldness without any warmth: "Who do you want me to marry?"

"Huh?" Shimi was suddenly stunned by the question, "Who knows you?"

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Wuzan stared at Shimizu with a frosty face, not pretending to be weak as usual, and said word by word: "In this world, no one can marry me, and I will never get married. No one has the right to change this. What do you mean by this? Don't think that just because you are my master, you can..."

As Muzan was talking, a black crow suddenly appeared from nowhere and flew in front of her. She heard its voice before she saw it: "Caw! Pass the message! Lord Shimizu, there is a ghost in the northwest! Go and kill it!"

Shuanglai yelled loudly, his voice completely filling the entire room, and the feathers fanned Wuzan's head and face.

Wuzan was forced to stop abruptly: "..."

"What? There's a ghost. Where is it?!" Shimi was immediately attracted by what the crow said.

Shuanglai flapped his wings: "Follow me! I'll lead the way!"

"I'll go!"

Shimi quickly reached for his Nichirin sword, and after getting the hard-headed thing in his hand, he discovered that there was a little woman at home standing in the distance, looking at him resentfully.

His thoughts suddenly became confused, and Shiya planned to say a few words to her and leave: "Xiao Wu, you just said..."

His tongue was a little tied and he didn't know which direction to move his tongue for the next sentence.

Gee...

What kind of weird topic is this? How can he bring it up? Although he was the one who started it, it's too...

Emmmm......

"Master!" Shiya was still struggling, but he didn't expect the other party to change his expression in a second, and the dark clouds turned into clear skies. "Are you going to the battle? Have a safe journey! You must return safely, I will prepare dinner for you at home!"

"……what?"

Shimi was confused by this sudden change and wanted to roll his eyes but didn't want to.

This feeling is both good and bad.

After thinking quickly, he still said to Wuzan with a straight face: "Next time, taste the seasoning before adding it. Don't make mistakes all the time, you stupid guy."

He wanted to scold her eventually, but time was running out and he couldn't think of a suitable curse word, so he decided to let her go for now.

“Well, okay…” Muzan blinked like a fool, his eyelashes fluttering up and down like moth wings.

Did she... make a mistake?

"I'm leaving." Shimizu said this lightly and turned away, clipping the Nichirin sword on the belt of his uniform pants without even giving her a smile.

Despite the other party's extremely bad attitude, Wu Can still said to him with a smile: "Master, take care, I will miss you at home!"

His smile was so bright that it was hard to believe that he was inexplicably angry just a few minutes ago.

But Shimi really didn't understand what she was so angry about at that time? What did he say?

What exactly is her anger?

He had clearly scolded Xuan Mi so much that he ran away, and the other team members were also in awe of him, so why wasn't she afraid and instead smiled at him?

Although he had already walked a long distance with Shuanglai, Shimi still couldn't understand Xiaowu's train of thought.

"what."

If you can’t figure it out, just stop thinking about it!

He muttered quietly, not knowing that his cheeks were already burning hot.

***

After Sanemi left, Muzan calculated the time with peace of mind and secretly went to Mount Sagiri.

It was night time, and Tanjiro was climbing the mountain with great effort when he suddenly heard an unusual noise. He thought it was another trap set by his master, Urokodaki Sakonji, so he turned around quickly and raised the steel knife in his hand.

Then, when he saw clearly who was coming behind him, he suddenly stopped.

"Xiao Wu?!" He couldn't believe his eyes.

Half a year has passed, and he thought he wouldn't be able to see her until he took the selection exam!

Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise if he was slow for even a second, Xiao Wu would have been really dead.

Muzan curved his eyes and smiled sweetly at him: "Tanjiro, I came here specifically to play with you."

Tanjiro was overjoyed: "Is that so? Thank you for coming to see me!"

Although he seemed to have little time to play, he was already very happy when Xiao Wuneng came to see him.

It's actually quite boring to be in the mountains all the time. Nezuko can't talk either. After all, there is a generation gap between him and Master Urokodaki, who can talk to her, and they can't chat like friends.

Muzan looked beside Tanjiro and asked, "By the way, how is Nezuko? Did she turn back into a human?"

"No." Tanjiro's expression darkened. "It's been half a year, Nezuko has been in a deep sleep. Mr. Urokodaki consulted a doctor, but the doctor couldn't figure out what was wrong. He said there seemed to be no problem. But it's too strange for her to be sleeping all the time..."

Muzan comforted him, "No one and no demon can escape the control of the Demon King, but Nezuko did it. Isn't that the strangest thing? So Nezuko herself is a special existence. She doesn't eat people, so maybe she has no strength and has to sleep like a hibernating bear."

"That's it..."

It seems to make some sense when you put it this way.

After this topic was over, Tanjiro looked at Muzan with bright eyes, and suddenly found something surprising: "By the way, Muzan, did you come up here alone?"

"Yes." Wuzan nodded, "Who else could it be?"

——In fact, when she came up, the original owner, Muzan, had been chatting with her. But for some reason, when she changed various difficult postures to avoid the trap, the trash boss refused to show up.

Seeing that Tanjiro's mouth had opened into an "O" shape, Muzan explained with a smile: "Are you talking about the traps at the foot of the mountain? Those are really funny, just like fighting bandits in a storybook. After all, we are fighting ghosts, so how can those crude traps be useful, don't you think? Tanjiro?"

"Ah? Uh..." Tanjiro quickly took stock and fortunately he hadn't fallen into any traps recently, so it was okay.

So, I nodded affirmatively.

Wuzan smiled again and said, "Then take me to see Nezuko first."

Tanjiro nodded again.

……

Following Tanjiro's steps, Muzan walked into the cabin where they slept.

The living environment here is similar to that at Shirou's place in Gotanda, except that the fog here in Sagiriyama is particularly thick, just like entering a bathhouse. Even the air is humid, and people with arthritis seem to die here.

In the dim light, through the moonlight, you can vaguely see a girl in pink clothes lying on the bed, biting a bamboo tube, sleeping like Sleeping Beauty.

Muzan knew that it was Nezuko who was undergoing her own genetic mutation, and that they, the protagonist Bug's family, were beginning to become the "third species".

She gently held Nezuko's hand and said to the sleeping Nezuko: "Nezuko, can you hear me? Your brother has been waiting for you to wake up. I know you are gathering your strength. You must give your brother a big scare when you wake up."

Muzan said this gently, and then pretended to shake Tanjiro's hand, like a kind old grandmother.

But in Tanjiro's eyes, she is not an old lady.

Tanjiro blushed in embarrassment, quietly retracted his hand, and led Muzan out the door: "By the way, Xiaowu, you were able to come up from the bottom of the mountain by yourself, and you said before that 'we are going to fight demons', did you also find a master to learn the swordsmanship of the Demon Slayer Corps?"

"Yes, what I learned is the breathing of wind. What breathing are you learning?" Muzan asked pretending to be ignorant as they walked out of the door.

Tanjiro said as he closed the door, "I'm learning water breathing."

"Really?" Muzan's eyes sparkled with admiration. "I heard that water breathing is the easiest breathing method to learn, so you must have learned it very well, right? Can you show it to me?"

"Okay then!" Tanjiro didn't think much about it, took out the steel knife he used for practice, and demonstrated one by one in the open space.

"This move is the most basic move. This move is the fastest thrust. This move can be used to deal with multiplayer battles..."

He explained while performing the moves.

Muzan observed carefully, not missing any of his movements.

To be honest, some of the moves Tanjiro learned were pretty good, and the teacher didn't know where to start. But some of them were just for show, and once they were applied in actual combat, it was another matter.

Anyway, Tanjiro finally learned it and was much better than her.

"What's going on? Is it because I'm a ghost? Or is wind breathing harder than water breathing?"

Muzan began to doubt her life, but she immediately shook her head.

“No, no, no, stop making excuses.

If you can’t learn it, keep learning. If you still can’t learn it, find another way.”

"Tanjiro." After Tanjiro finished his demonstration, Muzan handed Tanjiro the handkerchief he had looted from Shima's house and said seriously, "Your hair is red, and your name contains the character 'fire', but water and fire are incompatible. By the way, later I met someone who used the Breathing of Flame, and he became the Flame Pillar before me! So I think that perhaps you are more suitable for the breathing method related to fire than the Breathing of Water."

"What are the Pillars?" Tanjiro asked.

Seeing that the other party not only failed to grasp his main point, but also started talking about another topic, Muzan was speechless for a moment, and had to briefly explain the relevant concepts to Tanjiro by giving examples.

Tanjiro's wine-red eyes widened in disbelief: "What? Xiao Wu? You've actually seen so many pillars!"

This is almost like collecting all the pillars, right?

But how many people are there in total? He guessed that the number should not be too many, after all, things are valuable because they are rare.

Wuzan said helplessly: "So what if I have seen it? They can't issue me a relative card."

“That’s true.” Tanjiro chuckled and scratched his head.

"That breathing method related to fire..."

"I've been learning for half a year, and I've been working very hard." Tanjiro said confidently, "Although my strength is far from enough, now that I've entered the door of water breathing, I might as well practice it first! If I'm half-hearted, I might not learn anything in the end. Besides, even if I want to learn, he may not be willing to accept me. I finally got Mr. Tomioka's introduction, I can't let Mr. Tomioka down!"

Tanjiro had already said this much, so Muzan couldn't continue and just nodded in agreement.

……

The next day, Muzan and Tanjiro went running in the mountains together.

This time, Muzan did not pretend to be weak, because Tanjiro was too weak now. She was afraid that when she pretended to fall, Tanjiro would die in the trap in order to save her.

If this is the way he died, it would be too outrageous.

Although Tanjiro is just a paper man, he will be able to appear again when she dies and regenerates. But she has worked hard to play the role until now, and she really doesn't want to start over again.

So, this time, Muzan used a little bit of his strength so that Tanjiro would not be distracted by having to save her.

A faint sound of breaking air was heard in the darkness. Muzan hesitated for a moment, but decided not to take action and let Tanjiro solve it on his own.

"Water Breathing Type 4 - Wave of Strike!"

The tide surged up along with the blade, and Tanjiro swung the sword violently. After a deafening bang, he successfully knocked away the hidden weapon that was attacking him.

Muzan held his cheeks and praised him generously: "Tanjiro, you are amazing! You have mastered the water breathing technique so well in such a short time, and I can't even do it yet."

"Thank you, but I think I'm still a long way from that." Tanjiro smiled modestly.

“But…” Muzan changed the subject, “The move you made just now was a little…”

She looked embarrassed, as if she couldn't say it.

Tanjiro suddenly became nervous: "What's going on?"

"That's it..." Muzan looked up at the shadows of the trees dancing in the dark night, choosing his words carefully, "I told you that I had seen the Flame Pillar, right? The Flame Pillar had an apprentice who never learned the breathing of fire, but she had figured out her own breathing method. I saw that your move just now was a little inadequate, so I was thinking, maybe you should try some breathing related to fire."

"Uh……"

Why are we talking about this topic again?

"The disciple of the Flame Pillar is very flexible. Her every move is like a Western dance like gymnastics or ballet. Tanjiro, can you dance?"

"...Huh?" Tanjiro was stunned by the overwhelming amount of information. "How can I dance? I'm not a dancer."

"Really? But I can dance."

"Xiao Wu, you have studied the major, of course you can do it."

"……Too."

What's wrong with Tanjiro? She has hinted at this extent, but he still can't remember anything about the Goddess of Fire Kagura?

"You really haven't seen anyone else dance? Not even once?" Muzan still refused to give up.

At this moment, in Tanjiro's mind, there was only a Xiaowu who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and wore a pearl hairpin on her head, holding a fan, smiling and tapping her toes like a little swan.

He nodded confidently: "I live a very poor life, so I haven't seen those."

"……Fine."

Wuzan guessed that maybe he didn't understand what he said at once.

But she couldn't say it out loud. Even though she knew everything, if she continued she would be exposed, so she had to give up.

"I'll find a suitable opportunity to bring up this topic later."

……

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