365 days of playing the knife

"Sakurai."

The boy whose name was called turned around, with a gentle smile on his face. He always wore a fox mask when killing ghosts so that the ghosts could not see their emotions. At this time, the boy he adored and admired (the contemporaneous student he saved) naturally showed his entire face in this place.

Flesh-colored half-long hair hangs over his shoulders, and there is a very obvious scar at the corner of Satu's mouth, but the scar that should have been ferocious didn't give him a bit of harshness, but instead accentuated his handsome and soft face—— A half-grown boy who hasn't fully grown up yet, his edges and corners haven't become cold and sharp, so he has always been looked down upon by ghosts because of this.

So Sato simply followed the example of Teacher Rinaki, and every time he killed ghosts, he would wear the fox mask prepared by the teacher.And before the final selection, his mask was only painted off a little bit.As the mission progressed, when he encountered a ghost whose difficulty was far beyond his current strength during an unintentional investigation a few days ago, the mask blocked him once.

So when he returned to the teacher's house, Mr. Rinaki, who had already received all the news from the crow, hugged him and heaved a sigh of relief—just like when he was finally selected back at the beginning, he just said one thing to come back, and planned to make a new comeback. He made another one.

The uninterrupted mission some time ago, and the mission to kill Xia Xiangui was too difficult, Satu has cracked ribs, a slight concussion, and a thick bandage on his left hand.In a short period of time, he can no longer do strenuous activities, and fortunately nothing happened to his feet, otherwise he might need to use crutches to walk now.

And since he wanted to cultivate, Satu naturally chose to stay in Sagiri Mountain where Mr. Rintaki lived, and a year ago, Mr. Rintaki also told him that he had taken in a new junior sister, the girl who is now called Satu .

"Yo, Makoto, have you finished the teacher's training yet?" Saito greeted with his still-moving hand.

Makoto is two years younger than Saito, and the 13-year-old girl is already the age when Satu volunteered to participate in the final selection.It's just that Mako's figure is smaller than that of women of the same age, and her strength is completely incomparable to that of men, so Rinaki-sensei has not allowed Mako to go to the final selection to become a member of the Demon Slayer Squad.

"Well, it's done." Makoto replied slowly, and then looked at Sato with disapproval, "The rib is injured, it's better not to move around."

"It's okay, it's okay, if I lie on the bed again, my body will turn into stone." Saito's tone is much gentler when he treats girls, he has always been a bit machismo - not derogatory, just Satoshi has high demands on men, and will unconsciously take care of the weak (not just women).

The most obvious manifestation is that he often says "being a man" and "do you still look like a man like this!" to teach others.

Not only that, the high requirement also includes himself.So his usual training is now far beyond ordinary people, and now he has to lie in bed to recover from his injuries. Satu, who hasn't exercised for a long time, can't get used to it.

I'm afraid that when I recover from my injury, my skills will deteriorate.

In the two years after the final selection, Satu went to countless places due to missions. Although it was not deliberate, but naturally his vision became much higher, his temperament began to change, and his strength was also due to actual battles. become stronger and stronger.

And that's also true, during the year when Zhenmu came to Sawu Mountain, the number of times the two met could be counted on two hands.On the contrary, it was because Sato was recovering from his injuries, and now the two of them can be regarded as seeing each other every day.The relationship has also become closer, at least Makoto's honorific name for Sato has become an ordinary name.

Knowing that she couldn't be persuaded, Zhenmo naturally changed the subject, which was the reason why she came to find Sato, "Yiyong is back, at the teacher's place."

The rabbit's eyes lit up, and he skipped the real wild rice and walked back in response.Zhenzhu, who was ignored, didn't say anything. He walked in the opposite direction for a while and squatted down, staring at a small white flower that emerged from the soil, his eyes focused.

She knew that her body was born with deficiencies, and she was trying her best to make up for them. He took a light and easy route that was completely opposite to that of Sato Yoshiyuki—but in the end, she also needed to cut off Oni's neck.Still need to continue training, Zhenmu thinks so.

*****

Yoshiyuki Tomioka and Satoshi are at the same time, and they have known each other for a long time before participating in the final selection.

At the time of the final selection, Yiyong always had the mentality that he relied on Sato to pass, which was not worthy of the name, but was persuaded by Sato, and he has been focusing on killing ghosts for two years.On the contrary, the chance of returning to Sagiri Mountain is even less than that of Sato, and the contact has always been by letter.Even Zhenmao was only seen once at the beginning.

When Satoshi saw the familiar figure, he happened to see that the other person seemed to have just turned his head after talking with Mr. Rinaki Taki, and the curve of the originally flat corner of his mouth immediately rose a bit.

I don't know how it grew up, but this guy who loves to laugh and cry quickly transformed in two years, not to mention the growth in strength, his personality also changed greatly.

Probably because the appearance is too deceiving. If Sato and Giyuu walk together, Sato will always be misunderstood as the person who is easy to bully.

"I heard that you killed Xiaxianliu." Tomioka Yoshiyuki's first words when they met were flat, even dry, "Congratulations."

Sato hooked Yiyong's neck with his intact hand, smiled and exerted a little strength, but Yiyong who was standing steadily was not brought backward by him, with a puzzled expression on his face.Then I heard my good friend ask back, "Congratulations?"

"Congratulations on your promotion." Yi Yong replied, "There is news in the team. When you recover from your injuries, you will be a 'Pillar'."

"It's just a rumor, it's not confirmed yet." Sato said hello to Mr. Rinaki, and then took Giyuu to their secret base when they were young, "And compared to me, you have killed more than 50 ghosts now, right? , there are many powerful ghosts among them."

"?" Yoshiyuki looked over in bewilderment, not knowing why Sato suddenly said this.

"The condition for becoming a 'Pillar' is to kill more than fifty ghosts, and the second is to kill twelve moon ghosts." Saito explained, "And I have killed less than thirty ghosts in two years." Ghost, killing the lower string is only because of someone's support, it's an accident."

Sato's meaning is very simple, that is, compared to him, Yiyong is more qualified to be a 'pillar'.

Maybe there is really a word of luck, Satu's luck has not been good, in the past two years, he has been running around, but he has either met a ghost who is super good at dogs, or he just can't catch him.

On the contrary, Tomioka Yoshiyuki's side is just doing tasks, doing tasks, and doing tasks in a very ordinary way.

"We are different." Giyong expressed his disapproval, and then followed the meaning of Sato's words and asked, "What support?"

As Sabito grew up together, even if it was just to connect the context, he would not misunderstand Giyuu's meaning of satirizing him.Knowing that this point cannot be wronged no matter what, Sato had a helpless expression, "Do you still remember our final selection?"

"Remember." Yiyong's eyes sank immediately, he was not very willing to recall, at that time he was really afraid that Sato would die.

"It was the twin brother at that time," Sato said with a smile, "Although we haven't seen each other for a long time, the two brothers really haven't changed at all."

When he was on the verge of death, exhausted from killing too many ghosts, the boy with short silver hair suddenly appeared like the wind, and cut off the two ghost hands that should have penetrated Satu's abdomen.The young man who was as beautiful as a woman stood in front of him, said two short words, and then he picked up the Japanese sword again and attacked the hand ghost who had killed countless students of Mr. Rinaki.

But this time, in front of Xiaxian Ghost, it was as if the scene had reappeared.It's just that this time he was no longer alone, the silver-haired boy cooperated with his twin brothers, the appearance of the two interrupted the rhythm of the ghost, and also bought time for Sato.It is also because of this that Sato succeeded in killing the powerful Xia Xiangui.

Yiyong is not familiar with this pair of twins. After all, in the final selection two years ago, Yiyong was literally lying and winning, and hadn't had much contact with each other.

But in the Ghost Killing Squad, it might be due to the disharmony in the aura, few people would take the initiative to talk to him, and they didn't pay attention to him, so naturally they didn't know about Gemini's news.

If Sato hadn't mentioned it now, Yiyong might really not have remembered this special pair of twins.

"I heard that they have a good relationship with Butterfly House, next time we can go say hello or something." Saito ended with this sentence touching his chin.

And the twin brothers who were mentioned by them——

"Ah cut!" The two twins sneezed almost at the same time, cattail frowned and looked at the lush flowers that were cultivated in the butterfly house, and couldn't help muttering, "I haven't heard of swords I'm allergic to pollen."

"The seasons are changing now, be careful not to catch a cold." Hana Butterfly, who had just approached and didn't hear what Nanwei said, reminded me gently.

"Don't worry, Miss Kanae." Natsuo waved his hand and said with a smile, "We won't catch a cold!"

Kanae, who didn't know that Nanao was telling the truth, had some disapproval, but she didn't say anything.

In the past two years, Wakizawa Gemini traveled to many places, but the purpose was not to kill ghosts, but to find the mission target—the so-called Destined Child.Fox's help only gave a general direction, and they need to solve the specifics by themselves.

Moreover, Nanwei had already met the destined son, a boy whose hair color gradually changed from black to red, and even at that place—the future Yan Zhu. Purgatory Xingshou Lang, the twins had already met each other.

but!They just couldn't find a trace of the boy!What can Gemini do? Of course, keep looking.

On the way, you will often encounter ghosts. If you don’t see them, it’s fine. If you see Gemini, you will naturally solve them.I don't know why, but the Ghost Slayer Squad accepts well their existence that doesn't wear team uniforms, don't bring crows, and doesn't obey the dispatch and take tasks.It seemed that someone had said something to them, and there was a feeling of being included.

As a result, Gemini, who originally planned to stay away, was embarrassed to ignore the existence of the Ghost Killing Squad, but the internal renewal of the Ghost Slaying Squad was very fast, and it was difficult for Gemini to see the same person many times, except for the children of Butterfly House.This also led to the fact that Gemini's connection with other people is not very strong except for the Butterfly sisters who often appear in the Butterfly House and the group of children.

And the Butterfly House is a medical facility, and sometimes Gemini will bring back medicinal materials from other places just by chance or for other reasons.With the addition of Huazhu's younger sister, Butterfly Ninja is too petite, but still has the belief in killing ghosts. The twins who take the speed route will often guide each other, and the relationship will naturally become closer.

"By the way, I haven't had time to congratulate you on becoming a style!" Cattail said with a smile, shaking the package in his hand, "My brother and I brought some pastries, which taste a bit sweet, and I don't know if you will like them."

"It's been a few months since my sister became a pillar! Your congratulations are too late!" Butterfly Shinobu who didn't know when ran to the eaves jumped down, with a little heroic spirit and immature face. A little dissatisfied.

"Xiao Ren's speed is getting faster and faster." Cattail said with a smile, and Gu Gu also nodded, "The lightweight route is very suitable for you."

"Don't think that I'll forgive you if you say good things!" Obviously unable to hide his smile, Butterfly Shinobi still deliberately put on a fierce look, but in the end he couldn't hold back and failed.

"Okay, welcome back, how long are you going to stay this time?"