When the sand sculpture trial decides to make trouble

That night, the former "Water Column" and current trainer, Zuo Jin was stunned for the first time.

Over the years, almost none of the children he sent to Fujishiyama for the final selection ever came back.It is precisely because of this that even though he was asked by Tomioka Yoshiyuki, who is now the disciple of "Water Column", he did not want Kamado Tanjiro to participate in the final selection.

Unexpectedly, not only did he come back alive, but he also brought back a strange girl...

Buy one get one free?

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 233]

After he hugged Kamado Tanjiro who had returned and Kamado Nezuko who had woken up, he saw Minan Rinka following behind without embarrassment.And just when he was astonished, Minan Rinhua looked at his mask in a daze, and spoke.

"You're... you're kind of chic?" She subconsciously said, "Ah, no, you look pretty chic?"

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 333]

"...I am a mask." Zuo Zuo choked for a long time before replying.

After being told by Minan Rinka, he saw the unstoppable tears when his beloved disciple returned, and inexplicably stopped...

"Oh." Minan Rinka nodded, and finally began to feel a little embarrassed, "Your mask is quite unique..."

Can this be her fault?In the age of individuality when Minan Rinka grew up, a lot of people with strange looks were caught, Rinaki Zuojin once again wrapped half of his head tightly with a turban, causing Minan Rinka not to see the edge of the mask, and thought it was his face Just like that...

After Kamado Tanjiro told Ryodaki Sakon about what happened in Fujishiyama for the first time, Ryodaki Sakon felt both sad and happy for the first time—sorrowful that his past vendetta with the ghosts had killed his apprentices, He was also delighted that Zamon Tanjiro finally killed the alien hand ghost and returned safely.

The conversation came to an end, he looked at Minan Rinhua who was sitting aside, and pondered for a moment.

"You don't have a trainer, and you got into the final selection by chance. It is impossible to hide it from the eyes of the Lord Lord." Rinaki Zuojinji said, "But since the selection is over, the guide still equips you with a team uniform and a sun wheel Dao, your qualifications have been recognized, which means that this is also the instruction of the lord."

"Since my lord has recognized you, it's okay for me to help you with such a small matter." He said, "If you have something urgent, you can go to it first. After your sun wheel knife arrives, I will It will be kept for you. The forging time of the sun wheel knife is up to half a month, remember to pick it up after half a month."

Minan Rinka nodded.At this moment, Kamado Tanjiro finished watching Kamado Nezuko who had re-burrowed into the bed and came out from the side room.

"I want to go to Sagiri Mountain." After closing the paper door, he sat down on his knees in front of Rintaki Zuojin, and said solemnly, "I want to see Saitu and Mako again."

Ryotaki Zuo's eye sockets under his mask started to burn again.

"Yeah. I should go and see." He nodded and stood up, "It's rare to have such a big event today, and it's getting late, so I'll make dinner for you. Do you want potato stew or Oden? "Forget it, do both..."

Watching Ryotaki Sakina turn around and go to the warehouse for the first time, Kamado Tanjiro looked at Minan Rinka who was sitting by the wall.

"Would you like to go to Sawu Mountain with me?" he asked.

Sagiri Mountain is a mountain range with thin air and rugged terrain.The last hut where Lin Taki lived in seclusion was not far from the foot of Sagiri Mountain.For the past two years, Kamado Tanjiro has been training on Mount Sagiri every day.

"Master Lintaki hid a lot of traps in this narrow foggy mountain to train my ability to avoid obstacles. When I first arrived here, I had to go to the top of the mountain every night, and then avoid countless traps on the way down the mountain , Go back to the hut before dawn. This section of the road is very difficult to walk. During that time, I was full of old and new injuries..." Tanjiro Kamado reminded Minan Rinka as he walked, "Here There is a stumbling rope, connected to..."

Before she finished speaking, Minan Rinka kicked the rope and broke it...

It was too late and then it was too soon, the log dug out from the whole trunk, carrying the sound of the wind, slammed into Minan Linhua heavily!

"Ah, be careful!" Zamon Tanjirou hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull her, "If this trap is broken, the pieces of wood will come from behind..." Before he finished speaking, Minan Rinka raised his hand and slapped her. The log fell to the side... The rope connecting the log snapped, and the log itself tumbled all the way down, triggering a large area of ​​traps and clearing out a large area without traps.

"Then you get a piece of wood or a stone to push down the mountain, and let it roll all the way down to trigger the trap for you, isn't that all right?" Minan Linhua wondered, "What's so difficult?"

Tanjirou Kamado's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air.The boy fell silent.

Why didn't he think of the way to cut the rope, let the log roll all the way down the mountain for him to trigger the trap, and then swagger and go down the mountain easily?

[System prompt: Kamado Tanjiro's palpitation value is 333]

No no no!Kamado Tanjiro shook his head violently: "Master Rinaki arranged these traps to exercise my ability to dodge, if I used this tricky method, how could I train my body like I am doing now and survive the final selection? "

Minan Rinhua was silent for a moment: "I pushed the log, but I survived..."

[System prompt: Kamado Tanjiro's palpitation value is 444]

Tanjiro Kamado was stunned for a moment, then turned around and continued walking in the original direction.

"In addition to avoiding traps and going down the mountain, basic training also includes jumping into a deep pool to swim, standing in a waterfall and meditating..." He did not continue to answer Minan Rinka's words, but repeated the topic just now.

"Don't pretend you didn't hear me." Minan Rinka said dissatisfied.

[System prompt: Kamado Tanjiro's palpitation value is 111]

The two went all the way up.When encountering a trap, Minan Rinka violently cleared the trap just like before, which made Kamado Tanjiro a little suspicious of life.

"Rinhua, you are really... very powerful." He sighed without hesitation, "When I encountered these traps for the first time, I was completely at a loss...and these traps have to be experienced again every night, I only have a little time during the day to rest..."

Minan Rinka brushed aside the branches in front of her.Hearing this, she paused, and turned around: "Actually, this also means that your master, Lin Longzuo, will go up the mountain every day to check and restore all the traps you triggered the night before."

The boy froze.He stopped and stood where he was, unable to recover for a long time.

"So... Master Rinaki must have worked harder than me..." Kamado Tanjiro muttered to himself, "I just need to run down the mountain, and all the way down the mountain is just to trigger a trap on the way down the mountain. But the master doesn't know that I Specifically which traps were triggered, every day he has to check the traps of the entire mountain..."

"Yeah." Minan Rinhua nodded, "Hearing what you said, he is really a good master worthy of respect..."

While speaking, Minan Rinhua kicked the rock mechanism that was stuck in the hiding place, watching the huge rock overwhelm countless weeds and shrubs all the way, rolling down the mountain, and triggering a large number of other traps... …

Tanjiro Kamado: "???" Why are you talking about how hard it is for someone to restore the mechanism, while triggering other people's mechanism everywhere?

"What are you doing..." Zaomen Tanjiro panicked, and the dialect of his hometown in the mountains came out, "Knowing that Master has worked hard, why are you kicking?"

Minan Linhua withdrew her foot awkwardly: "I didn't see that your master hadn't re-arranged the trap for seven days. I was afraid that the old man would be lonely, so I wanted him not to open for seven days, and to work for seven days after opening..."

[System prompt: Kamado Tanjiro's palpitation value is 666]

She won't tell Kamado Tanjiro that she is the heart palpitation value of Takimoto Taki's last time...

The two walked and chatted all the way, and went to the top of Sawu Mountain.

There is a thin mist on the high part of Sagiri Mountain, and there is a gentle open space on the top of the mountain.After pushing aside the overgrown branches and leaves, Kamado Tanjiro froze in his footsteps.

"Here we are," he whispered, and stepped out of the bushes.

Rinka Minan followed Tanjiro Kamado.After the lush plants were gone, all she could see was a flat open space and a huge spherical stone in the center of the open space, which was as tall as a person.

Kamado Tanjiro walked up to the stone and stood silently.Minan Rinka took a few steps around the stone, and found that there was a huge crack across the center of the stone, cutting it in two.

"This is...the mark I cut out." Tanjiro Kamado said quietly, "Master Rinaki's last test is to split this stone with a sword."

"Without the help of Sato and Mako, I couldn't complete this task." He murmured.

When Minan Rinka was in the final selection, he heard Kamado Tanjiro mention the strange-shaped hand ghost, and the disciple who had been killed by the hand ghost, but appeared in Sagiri Mountain and accompanied him in training, Sato and Makoto.

Satoshi is a disciple of the same class as Mizujo Tomioka Yoshiyuki of the Demon Slayer Team.Yoshiyuki Tomioka is now a young man in his 20s, but Sato, as Tanjiro Kamado said, still looked like a teenager in his teens when he died.

It is said that in the final selection that Sato participated in, he protected all the other candidates, and was finally killed by the hand ghost because of exhaustion, becoming the only one who failed the selection.

...It's really amazing.Minan Linhua thought to herself, this time she participated in the final selection, three people died on the first night.

If she hadn't been confused by the strength of Oni Mai Tsuji Muyou met in Asakusa and was too cautious and gathered everyone together at the beginning of the exam, wouldn't she... be able to protect everyone?

But in this world, there are too many "I could have", but there is no medicine for regret.Time is like a wave, pushing the boat of life forward. Too many people want to go against the current, but the power of the wave cannot be challenged.

Even a god judge who can use a compass to travel to history can only experience the same time point once.Otherwise, it will collapse along with its own existence.

Just as Minan Linhua was meditating, a dozen or so figures suddenly appeared indistinctly in the white mist.Most of the shadows were hidden behind the mist, but there were only two people standing in front of them.

One of them is a boy wearing a fox mask and a yellow-orange-green kimono, while the shorter one is a girl wearing a flower handle kimono with a fox mask on the side of her head.

"Saito...Mako..." Kamado Tanjirou slowly opened his eyes wide.

Saito was wearing a fox mask, and Kamado Tanjiro shouldn't have been able to see his face clearly.But for some reason, he felt that Sato must be smiling at him right now.

"Good job, Tanjiro." The fox-masked boy whispered, "Thank you. This way, we can escape without any regrets..."

The real parting was before his eyes, Tanjirou Kamado's eyes were involuntarily soaked with tears and blurred.

"Yeah." He nodded, and smiled at Sato, "I am, thank you very much."

The figures in the fog began to recede gradually.And Sato took Makoto's hand, and before turning around, he said in the end: "If it's you... maybe it can be done, and all those ogres..."

He turned around and murmured: "Take the king of the ogre-Gimai Tsuji Wumi, also..."

Saito is about to lead Mako into the mist with the other children, and finally escape and stay in this Sagiri mountain forever.Unexpectedly, before he took two steps, someone grabbed his sleeve suddenly.

Sato turned around in astonishment, and met Minan Rinka's surprised face.

"What did you say?" she asked, "Did you just say a name? What ghost king? What ghost dance Tsuji? Nothing bad?"

Sato pulled back his sleeves with a confused face: "Who are you? Let go, my soul is about to escape..."

Minan Rinhua suddenly became a little unhappy: "Yi, why disperse? Who allowed you to disperse before answering my question? I will give you a chance to reorganize the language..."

[System prompt: Sato's palpitation value is 233]

[System prompt: The heart palpitation value of real wild rice is 233]

"Even if you don't let me go, I will escape, I just don't want to disperse in front of Tanjirou..." Satoshi saw that his companions who walked into the dense fog earlier were all integrated into the dense fog, and his heart began to become anxious .

Minan Rinhua sneered, and her abundant spiritual power passed along the contact surface between her fingers and Satu's sleeve: "Did I let you escape and you escape? I don't want to lose face... "

[System prompt: Satoshi...]

"Let go, entangled woman... let go quickly, I'm going to escape..."

"Just leave if you have the ability, I don't believe in this evil..."

[System prompt: Kamado Tanjiro's palpitation value is 555]

Kamado Tanjiro watched in astonishment as Minan Rinka engaged in a tug-of-war with Saito and Manko.After the two chatted for more than three minutes, he raised his finger in a daze and pointed at Xitu, and asked, "So, Xitu, are you escaping or not..."

Satoshi: "???"

He finally noticed something was wrong—the hand of Minan Rinhua clutching his sleeve was sending some warm power towards him continuously, even from the hand he held with Zhenmao to Zhenmao's. body.

This power is helping them to further solidify their spirits and reshape their bodies.In the past, even if Satu could move freely in the state of soul, his movements were always a bit vain, but now he once again felt the heavy and solid feeling when he was still alive.

Sabito tried to wave his arm, and the sleeves "huhu" dispersed a small amount of mist.

Originally, he and Zhenzhu should have turned into spirit sons contentedly a few minutes ago and scattered between the heaven and the earth.

——Come on, he really can't escape...

[System prompt: Sato's palpitation value is 999]

It's harvest time again.The night when the disciple returned without incident was the time when Rinaki Sakonji and his disciple enjoyed the most precious gift of nature in a year.

In the hut at the foot of Sagiri Mountain, Ryodaki Sakinji was busy nervously.He put the pot on the charcoal fire, and the water in the pot was boiling, floating countless tiny bubbles.

The old man who lived in seclusion in the mountains took out the black dry kelp from the warehouse and put it into the pot.These kombu are special products sent by his proud disciple Yoshiyuki Tomioka along with the letter.Seaside delicacies are hard to find in the mountains, but now, this small and warm house is filled with the delicious smell of the sea.

Rinakizuo bent down for the last time and pulled out a bamboo basket from under the cabinet, which was filled with potatoes he had grown himself and delicious bamboo shoots dug from the mountains.There is still a bit of fragrant earth on the surface of the potatoes, and the body of fresh bamboo shoots is full of joy of life.The combination of kombu and bamboo shoots in the pot is the lingering connection between the mountain and the sea. This is the sagiri mountain on the tip of the tongue...

At this moment, the door of the house was pushed open with a "bang".Kamado Tanjiro ran in like a cannonball, with his hands on his knees, panting heavily.

Ryotaki Zuo paused for the last time.

"Tanjiro, you have just gone through the seven-day final selection, and your physical strength has reached its limit. Don't run so fast anymore." He said kindly, "What's wrong?"

Kamado Tanjirou was still panting in front of him.At this moment, Minan Rinka's head popped out of the door.

"Mr. Lin Taki, I have a bad news here, and a good or bad news, which one do you want to hear first..." She opened her mouth and said.

Lin Taki was taken aback for the first time: Where did the good news go?

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 100]

After pondering for a moment, the old man tentatively said, "Shall we tell the bad news first?"

Minan Rinka nodded: "It's like this... If you go up the mountain after dawn and find that the traps on the mountain have broken a lot, don't be sad, don't be impatient. Calmness is needed on gloomy days. Believe it, happy days will come ..."

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 600]

The old man's eyes went dark, and after a while, he asked, "I don't know if it's good news or bad news..."

Minan Rinka hadn't had time to speak, Kamado Tanjiro suddenly raised his head after recovering from his breath, and shouted: "Saito and Mako—"

Lin Taki was taken aback for a moment, and his heart immediately jumped into his throat: "What's wrong with them?"

Minan Rinka hesitated for a while, then pushed the stiff young girl behind her into the room.

Sato and Mako have never seen their benefactor since they died in Fujishishan.Now that the two suddenly saw their old friend, even the tips of their hair exuded a sense of bewilderment.

"Master Lintaki..." After a while, they called out cautiously.

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last heartbeat value was 999]

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last heartbeat value was 999]

[System prompt: Rinaki Zuo Jinji...]

In just one day, the old man who has always been physically strong feels that his heart seems to be unable to bear it...

He walked forward step by step, stood still in front of Satu and Mako, and stroked their hair with trembling hands.

I thought that my fingers would pass through the void, but I didn't expect to actually touch their hair.

Sato's slightly hard flesh-colored hair, Makoto's soft black hair...

Ryotaki Sato stroked the hair of the two children for the last time, tears leaked from the jaw of the bright red tengu mask.

He paused, raised his hand and took off the mask, revealing a kind and gentle face engraved with traces of weather.

"You guys... are back too..."

In the end, Sagiriyama on the tip of his tongue continued.A meal intended for three turned out to be five.Recently, Lintaki temporarily added a lot of mushrooms and sliced ​​meat, and additionally grilled a few freshwater fish caught in the stream.

Minan Rinka's method of transmitting spiritual power to Satu and Mako is the same as the way she transmits spiritual power to men with swords when she forges knives, and she is very familiar with it.Therefore, men with swords can eat and drink normally, switch freely between physical and spiritual bodies, and so can Sato and Mako.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten these, I miss them so much..." Satoshi took off the fox mask on his face, revealing his scarred face.He put a wild mushroom into his mouth and said in a low voice, "Master's craftsmanship has not changed..."

Zuo Rinaki smiled the last time, and the wrinkles on his face deepened: "Eat more..."

Minan Rinka looked at him in astonishment—no wonder Rinaki Zuojin often wore a tengu mask, and now he looked without majesty, not like a ghost hunter with strong sword skills, but like an ordinary man with grandchildren old man...

After drinking and eating, Zuo Rinaki piled all the bowls and chopsticks aside, looked at Sato and Mako, and suddenly made a decision.

"Rinka." He stopped Minan Rinka, "Although it's my merciless request... But can you let the two children Sato and Mako follow you?"

Minan Rinka was stunned—she originally interrupted Sato and Mako’s escape, but just wanted to confirm from their mouths that “the king of ghosts and ghost dances are not miserable”, and then went down the mountain in a noisy way. After eating dinner in a hurry, she didn't think about it again.

While eating dinner, she thought that Saitu and Mako would still be staying in Sagiri Mountain after this.But I didn't expect Rinaki Sakinji to make such a request.

The third disciple Lintaki who was sitting on the side was also stunned.

"Why?" Minan Rinka asked.

Zuo Rinaki was silent for a moment, didn't answer, but instead asked a new question: "Rinka, if Sato and Mako still stay here after you leave, what will happen to them in the end?"

"After they use up the spiritual power I gave, they will be able to escape as they wish." Minan Linhua thought for a while and replied.

[System prompt: Sato's palpitation value is 555]

[System prompt: The heart palpitation value of real wild rice is 555]

Ryotaki lowered his eyes for the next time.He heard Zamon Tanjiro talk about the cause and effect, and he knew that there was a quarrel between Sato and Minan Rinka on Mount Sagiri.But during the dinner just now, he found that Sato and Mako actually had no intention of escaping.

It's fine to call him selfish, but Rinaki Zuo recently didn't want them to experience death again.

Perhaps the two children were embarrassed to say, then, as the master, he should be ashamed to beg.

"Please, let them stay by your side." Facing the astonished gazes of Satu and Mako, Ryotaki Sakinji sat upright and said, "Even if there will be new disciples in the future, I can't leave them alone. Can you look at my face-"

Having said that, the old man paused.He smiled wryly in his heart—he is not Minan Rinhua's master at all, and I'm afraid he doesn't have much face with her...

Rinaki Zuojinji just wanted to bow his head to beg, but unexpectedly, Minan Rinka nodded in the next second: "ojbk!"

If it's ok, it's ok, it's over, it's still ojbk...

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 100]

"Don't beg me either, I can't stand someone as respectable as you bowing your head..." She didn't let Rinaki Zuo Jinji really bow her head to beg her, but said, "The place where I came from is beautiful, and everyone is happy. Feed the chickens, plow the fields, make money, save money... there is no way, because I am really poor..."

【system hint:……】

"But it's okay to add two more people." Minan Rinka glanced at Sato and Mako, "As long as you don't mind feeding chickens, plowing the fields, making money, and saving money with everyone..."

[System prompt: Sato's palpitation value is 233]

[System prompt: The heart palpitation value of real wild rice is 233]

"Then I'm counting on you!" Zuo Rinaki bowed solemnly the last time, "Maintaining the spiritual power for their activities will cause you a great burden..."

"Well, how should I put it..." Minan Rinka thought for a while, "Probably used...[-]% of the total spiritual power?"

[System prompt: Zuo Lintaki's last palpitation value is 999]