non-human secret history

"It's the sunset."

"It's beautiful. It's a pity it's the coldest sun."

The girl sat on a branch and swayed her legs, looking at the fading glow in the west.The red gold smudged on the cheeks also gradually faded away, leaving only a slightly cold whiteness.

But the girl's smile was warm.She bent her eyes and said to Gu Tianyingyi who was standing under the tree: "Today's sunset is so gorgeous, tomorrow will be a good weather."

"Naoko."

The boy also called out in a warm voice.

"Hey, Young Master Yingyi, come up and have a seat too!" The girl waved her hand at Gutian Yingyi, but she couldn't stabilize her figure because of her too much movement, and fell straight towards the tree.

Gu Tianying hurriedly ran in that direction, trying to catch the falling girl, but the girl's body collapsed like a bubble the moment his fingers touched it——

wake up.

Gu Tianying who sat up abruptly took a while to come back to his senses.

"Did you have a nightmare again?" The girl with the butterfly hair ornament sat beside Yingyi's bed, her voice was gentle.

"No..." Eiichi Gutian turned his head awkwardly.

"Really." The girl lowered her eyes and smiled lightly, but she didn't ask any more questions, she just said: "But if you have something on your mind, you can tell me about it."

"Why don't you know what's good or bad!" After the gentle woman left, a sharp scolding voice came from next to her ear: "Sister Kanae is a flower column, she is very busy all day, and she has to be distracted to take care of you .But you are totally ungrateful."

"With the momentum to deal with my sister, you pulled out your knife and killed those raging evil spirits, which can be regarded as revenge for your people."

revenge?

Eiichi Gutian read these words in a daze.

The blood-soaked village suddenly appeared in my mind——

He used to be the young master of the landlord's family.Because the father who is the head of the house is kind-hearted, he doesn't charge too much rent, and he often prepares some timely gifts for the villagers on New Year's Day, so the Gutian family has always been very popular with the tenants.

That year a down-and-out wanderer came to the village, who didn't know much about farming, so Gutian's father lent him a place, allowed him to run a business in the village, and even sent Yingyi there.

Naoko is the ronin's daughter.

Eiichi Gutian thought that he could spend a long time with Naoko.

He still thought so when he embarked on the road of traveling.

"When I come back, I will discuss with my father about marrying Naoko."

But that day never came.

When he saw the familiar village again, the whole village had been dyed scarlet—more brilliant than the sunset he had seen with Naoko.

There was a disgusting smell in the air.Everyone, everyone is gone, only—

Gu Tianying raised his head and looked at the girl standing in front of him.The originally beautiful face was distorted and appeared ferocious, there was still a smear of blood on the corner of her lips, and the sharp fangs and nails shone coldly under the clear light that hung down from the west.

But he could clearly see that those eyes that had turned ash-colored due to bloodthirsty were covered with mist, and he saw something crystal clear across the gully on her face.

She is struggling and afraid.

She is crying.

Gu Tianying opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.The fishy sweetness rising from the throat almost merged with the surrounding air.

"Master...Master..."

The dry and hoarse voice completely covered up the last touch of moonlight.

The girl forced herself to squeeze out this sentence with what little reason she had left.

"The coldest sun is not the setting sun..."

The twilight from the east tore through the long night and nightmare. When the first ray of sunlight touched the girl's face, her petite figure instantly shattered like a bubble.

There was only a voice in the air that hadn't completely dissipated.

"...It's Dawn."

-

When Eiichi Furuta joined the Demon Slayer, Kanae was no longer there.And the little girl who used to be a bit cold-faced has turned into a gentle appearance like Kanae.

People grow, and so does he.

Killing more ghosts and saving more people was the only thought left in his mind.

He had nothing left to lose and nothing to gain.

Only occasionally when he saw the sunset, he would subconsciously look up the branches, as if he could still see the girl swinging her legs innocently.

He dreamed of Naoko less and less, because the voice became more and more clear in his mind——

She's a murderer, she's turned into a ghost and she kills other people.

She deserved to die, even if she didn't die in the sun, he would personally kill her...beheaded!

——To kill her...beheaded?

But can he do it?

Gutian Hideichi was unwilling and did not dare to think about such a question.

She is a ghost, an enemy, an unforgivable object, he shouldn't and can't hesitate——

He finally became a qualified ghost killer.

Evil ghosts retreat.

This is his only mission.

"It's the sunset—"

"The coldest sun..."

Eiichi Gutian never thought that he would walk with ghosts one day.I never thought that I would watch the sunset with the ghost and burn the western sky red.

It turns out that ghosts are also greedy for warmth?

But I don't know if a place like hell will be cold.

Such a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

If ghosts also long for warmth, then Naoko will feel cold...

Gutian Hideichi hated ghosts.

But he still really liked Naoko.

When the scenery in front of him was rendered in red, Eiichi Gutian finally seemed to understand Naoko's feelings.

The uncontrollable thirst for blood, the endless power gushing out, and the gradually weakening self-awareness.

So the tear stains that ran across Naoko's face became very clear in his mind.

Uncontrolled impact and collision, exciting bloody smell.

And all of this was cut off instantly when the first ray of morning light penetrated through the leaves and reflected on Gutian Eiichi's face.He just felt an indescribable heat enveloping his body.

The glaring light made him dizzy for a moment, and a thin shadow faintly swayed in the bright light in front of his eyes.

"Master—"

Gu Tianying subconsciously stretched out his hand in that direction, and then he touched that familiar body temperature.

"It's Dawn."

he murmured.

"Naoko, you're wrong."

"Dawn, it's very warm."

The author has something to say:

In fact, I have been hesitant to post this side story that has little to do with the main storyline. After all, I am not a crocodile teacher. Didn’t I say that whoever makes a bento must send a memory kill [Hey!

But Gu Tian and the heroine are also in the relationship of having sunbathed together, and they have written all about it...

However, the setting of the heroine's obsession with warmth does play a decisive role in the direction of the entire plot (accurately speaking, the development of the emotional line), so it is not completely irrelevant to the main line.

And although the middle process was a bit tortuous, this pair can barely be regarded as sugar, right!Right!

... Forget it, the boss of the scraps should come out and get beaten. Anyway, it's his fault [Light speed hides in the trash can