Demon Slayer: The Undead Swordsman of Thunder

Hmm?

Tanjiro turned his head and looked at the darkness beside him. He always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him, and he felt panic inexplicably.

He stared at the dark place in front of him. Time passed by, and there was nothing else except the branches swaying in the wind.

His nose trembled slightly, and Tanjiro immediately rushed over with the Sun Wheel Sword. There was a smell of evil spirits in that place, and it was a guy who had eaten many people.

He took a deep breath, and all the cells in his body were exerting strength. He swung out the Water Breathing·Pick-up Form·Life Flow, and saw that the faint blue fighting spirit, as if given life, jumped flexibly with the twisting of Tanjiro's body.

After twisting ten times, a faucet condensed and took shape. He shouted and cut it down with a knife.

Tanjiro was not bluffing. His intuition warned him that if he didn't use his full strength, he might die.

There was a rustling sound in the bushes, and countless branches fell. There was nothing there, not even a trace of people.

Just then, Kanao rushed out from the other side. She and Tanjiro looked at each other, and the air suddenly became quiet. It was obvious that she was also chasing that smell.

"Kanaao?!" Tanjiro exclaimed, with joy and doubt in his tone. He was sure that the smell just now could not be Kanao.

Kanao took out a coin and threw it high. As the coin fell, the front side was facing up. She said with some difficulty:

"I, follow, that thing, what are you doing here?"

Tanjiro smiled slightly and explained how he met Zenitsu, Xuanya and Zhuzhu.

"Yeah!" Kanao nodded. She felt that the thing deliberately led her here.

"Come here, let's do it together, it's safer!"

Tanjiro made an invitation. After what happened, he didn't want the other party to act alone. He always had a bad feeling in his heart.

The coin was thrown high again, and Tanjiro's eyes followed the coin. He didn't like the way Kanao decided things.

At least it was like this when they first met, but until he heard about Kanao's miserable childhood from his elder brother, Tanjiro felt ashamed of his original thoughts.

Not everyone can be like him, with parents accompanying him, brothers and sisters around, and having a happy childhood.

Kanao certainly didn't want this, but her heart had been closed for a long time.

It was those who loved her who finally opened a little gap.

Just when the coin was about to fall, without waiting for Kanao to make a move, Tanjiro took the lead in clamping the coin with both hands.

He showed the result and said happily: "It's positive, stay!"

"Okay!" Since the coin gave a solution, Kanao naturally would not refuse, and she walked towards the campfire without looking back.

At this time, Tanjiro spoke up and asked:

"Kanao, is staying what you want to do now?"

Being asked again, Kanao subconsciously touched the coin, but the coin was not with her.

In an instant, she froze, and sweat kept flowing from her hair and sliding down her forehead.

This is Kanao's self-protection mechanism. Once she is asked about her thoughts, she will panic, then sweat all over and freeze.

There is visible panic in her pink and purple eyes, but she can't even decide whether to ask for the coin back.

Seeing this, Tanjiro realized that he was rude and hurriedly returned the coin.

Kanao who got the coin back was like getting her soul back. She threw it high up, and it landed on the front again, so she said with a trembling voice:

"That's my idea!"

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Looking at the various mechanical behaviors of the person in front of him, Tanjiro actually felt heartbroken. Over the years of getting along with Kanao, the impulse in his heart became stronger and stronger.

Just today, just at that moment, this impulse reached its peak.

If a person always lives like a machine, she will not be happy, because such a person has no heart.

"Kanao, can you make a bet with me?"

The other party did not answer him, but threw the coin again. Perhaps the goddess of fate stood on Tanjiro's side, and it landed on the front.

"Yes!"

"Okay!"

Tanjiro stared at the coin and said seriously: "Toss the coin again. If it's heads, I...I hope..."

He paused, and then seemed to have made up his mind, and raised his voice a few points, "I hope you can follow your heart to do things.

Happiness is happiness, sadness is sadness, do it if you want to, don't do it if you don't want to...

Follow your heart and do things!"

"But if it's tails, I...I can promise to do anything for you, and just pretend I didn't say that!"

Tanjiro was very excited, that was Kanao fromA side she had never seen before. In her impression, this person had always been a warm and steady flame.

But today, the flame burned violently.

She smiled, very lightly, and then threw the coin high up again.

The small coin flew high up, flipping rapidly in the air, and as it continued to rise, the light flickered.

In a brief and wonderful moment, the coin and the bright moon hanging high in the sky miraculously overlapped!

The moonlight sprinkled on the coin like water, making its surface glow with a layer of silver-white light, like a miniature moon descending to the world.

At this moment, time seemed to freeze, and two eyes were fixed on the coin.

Flying high into the sky and then falling, this is the fate of the coin, but not the fate of a living person.

Tanjiro caught the coin, and he slowly raised his right hand that was holding the coin, and the answer was revealed...

It was facing up.

At this moment, he showed the brightest smile, like a rising sun.

"Kanaho, please follow your heart and live freely!"

"Isn't this what the coin told you?"

Tanjiro threw the coin again, and the small coin rolled into Kanao's palm, making a crisp sound.

"Before throwing this coin, you didn't use it to decide whether to accept my bet, right?"

As soon as the words fell, Kanao's delicate body trembled, and the floating heart seemed to fall to the ground, and the mist wrapped outside dissipated.

She was moved!

Because Tanjiro was right, the bet was not caused by the coin, but she agreed.

Of course, she didn't know why, after all, every time she saw the boy's smile, she always felt at ease.

"Kanaho, do you want candy?"

Tanjiro suddenly took out a candy from his arms, which was Nezuko's favorite fruit candy.

He asked a question, and Kanao was stunned at first. Although she still felt nervous, she put away the coin and replied a little awkwardly:

"Okay, okay!"