Volume 5: Demon Slayer Chapter 006 Ghost
It was daytime when Emiya arrived in the New World.
The location is inside a big mountain.
Although it was daytime, the tall trees around us with lush leaves blocked out the sunlight, making the forest in the mountains look eerie and strangely scary.
Moreover, Shirou also sensed a faint chill in the air, which made him feel uncomfortable.
No matter how you look at it, this is not a good place.
In a place like this, even if a ghost or a murderer suddenly jumped out from the woods, Emiya would not find it strange.
After all, this place looks like a horror movie scene no matter how you look at it.
bite!
At this moment, a clear sound was heard. It should be the sound of swords clashing. It was crisp and pleasant, echoing in the silent mountains and reaching Emiya's ears.
Emiya was a little curious and walked in the direction where the sound came from.
As Emiya got closer, the sounds of swords clashing became more frequent.
After a while, he arrived at the scene.
In an open space in the forest, two men with swords were fighting for their lives.
One of the men, wearing a red robe, was crying and waving a sword, slashing at the other's neck, shouting things like "If it weren't for you, Xiangling wouldn't have died at all, go to hell . "
The other man argued loudly that he didn't want to do it either, but if Xiangling didn't die, he would be the one to die.
After a fierce fight between the two sides, the man in red gained the upper hand and chopped off the opponent's knife-wielding arm.
In an instant, blood splattered.
The man who lost his arm hugged his shoulders and let out a hysterical wail.
The man in red walked up to him expressionlessly.
"Let me go, please, let me go, I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it, I didn't mean to kill her." The man shouted in despair.
But the man in red mercilessly chopped off his head and said, "Go and tell Xiang Ling this yourself."
Then, the man in red left.
Leaving behind a headless corpse.
But at this moment, an interesting thing happened. A ghost appeared beside the corpse, and from the face, it was the man who was killed.
The man turned into a ghost after his death.
When Emiya saw this scene, his brows raised. The appearance of ghosts indicated that this world was not simple.
You have to know that in the ordinary world, ghosts will not appear so quickly, or even not appear at all.
For example, when Emiya went to the Hunter World to take the Hunter Exam, many people died in the Hunter Exam, but Emiya did not see a single ghost.
Yet now, less than ten minutes after the man was killed, his ghost appeared.
And it's still daytime now.
Although the sunlight in the forest is blocked by a large number of leaves, it still does not change the fact that it is daytime.
This fully proves that this world is not simple.
So Emiya hid himself, eliminated his own breath, and wanted to watch what would happen next.
After the ghost appeared, he saw his own corpse and seemed unable to accept it. His face became extremely ferocious. He bent down and wanted to take his sword.
As a result, his fingers went through the hilt and he was unable to pick up his weapon.
For a moment, the ghost's ferocious expression turned blank.
He tried several times but still couldn't pick up the sword that fell on him.
Finally, the ghost stood up, locked his eyes in one direction, and chased after it like the wind. That direction was exactly the direction the man in red left.
Emiya's heart moved, and he took a step forward, following the ghost silently.
Because the ghost was freed from the constraints of the body, it came and went like the wind. After a few minutes, it caught up with the man in red. It flew towards him with a ferocious look on its face, stretched out its hands, and wanted to stab him to death.
But... the scene just now happened again.
The ghost's hands pierced through the red-clothed man's neck, and even his entire body passed through him.
But the man in red was not affected at all.
The man in red seemed unable to see the ghost and continued striding forward.
The ghost was unwilling to give up and tried several times. No matter whether it was strangling the man by the neck, tearing his heart out, or other actions, he was unable to hurt the man in red at all.
Gradually, the ghost became desperate.
He stopped what he was doing and stared blankly at the back of the man in red as he left and gradually disappeared from his sight.
After the man in red left, the ghost was still a little distraught.
But after a while, he seemed to have figured something out, and his body slowly flew up into the sky.
A few seconds later, accompanied by a soft light that ordinary people could not see, the ghost suddenly disappeared from Emiya's sight.
Emiya was stunned.
Is this... becoming a Buddha?
When he saw the two men fighting for their lives with swords, he realized that this was most likely Japan.
Judging from its attire, it doesn't look like modern times, but more like ancient Japan.
The so-called Buddhahood in Japan certainly does not mean going to the Western Paradise, but reincarnation. Of course, it can also be called salvation. So the ghost just now should have saved himself?
I'm not sure, but that's probably what happened.
So, he should have entered the Land of the Underworld now?
To be honest, Emiya had no idea how the other party entered the Land of the Underworld.
But no matter what, since ghosts can appear immediately after a person dies, it proves that this world is definitely not mysterious. In addition to ghosts, there may also be things like demons and monsters.
So, what kind of world have I entered?
In ancient Japan, there were ghosts, and maybe even demons and monsters...
For a moment, many similar worlds flashed through Emiya's mind, the young Onmyoji was one, Inuyasha was one, and um... Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan was also one.
Although Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan begins in modern Tokyo, the plot actually also involves ancient times.
It is the scene where the protagonist's grandfather Nura fights with Yuyuko in Kyoto, and finally defeats Yuyuko and becomes the lord of ghosts and monsters.
In addition to this, Noragami is also one?
However, Emiya thinks it is unlikely. At present, when he travels to the two-dimensional world, the plot has basically not begun or has just begun. He should not travel to such an early point in time.
If this is the case, then Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan doesn't seem to be very suitable.
Forget it, I'd better not guess.
Go ask around nearby first, maybe you can find some relevant clues.
After making up his mind, Emiya walked out of the darkness and followed the direction the man in red left. He planned to ask the man in red where this place was.
After a while, Emiya caught up with the man in red again.
But to Emiya's surprise, the man in red was already dead.
What killed him was not another human, but a monster of gigantic stature with numerous wrists wrapped around its body.
When Emiya saw this monster, he immediately understood which world he had traveled to, because this monster looked so familiar.
Isn’t this guy the Pillar Slayer, oh, no, it’s the hand demon from the Demon Slayer world who almost killed Tanjiro Kamado.
In other words, I just thought about so many things, but none of them matched.
This is neither the world of the young Onmyoji, nor the world of Inuyasha, nor the world of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan.
It’s the Demon Slayer world.
If you think about it carefully, although the world of Demon Slayer is not as scary as the previous worlds, it is still quite mysterious.
First of all, this world has ghosts.
Tanjiro Kamado was sure of this. After all, it was with the help of Urokodaki Sakonji's disciples, that is, his senior brothers and sisters, Satoshi and Makomo, that he was able to split the huge stone, laying a solid foundation for defeating the hand demon in front of him.
Secondly, the ghosts in this world possess blood ghost arts.
There are many types of vampire magic, ranging from element manipulation to dream entry, from body splitting to body strengthening, and even involving high-end techniques such as space conversion and space teleportation.
To say that this world is not mysterious, Emiya doesn't believe it at all.
Take the ancestor of demons in this world, Muzan Kibutsuji, for example.
The reason why this guy turned into a ghost was not because he was cursed by God, nor because he offended some peerless master and turned into a ghost, but simply because he took a medicine, an incomplete medicine.
When Muzan Kibutsuji was still a human, he had poor health due to congenital reasons and might not live past the age of twenty.
But at this time, he met a doctor.
The doctor prepared a medicine for Muzan Kibutsuji, but the side effects of the medicine made Muzan think that his condition had worsened, so Muzan Kibutsuji killed the doctor.
Then, he realized that he had acted too quickly, because after the doctor's death, he discovered that not only had his body become extremely healthy, but he was also immortal. Apart from his inability to bask in the sun and his liking for eating human flesh, he seemed to have no other shortcomings.
At this time, Muzan Kibutsuji transformed from a human into the ancestor of demons.
After he looked through the information left by the doctor, he found that the medicine the doctor had prescribed for him was actually incomplete, and it lacked a plant called blue spider lily.
The doctor is the only one who knows where this blue spider lily grows and how to cultivate it.
In other words, if Muzan Kibutsuji had been calmer and had not killed the doctor, perhaps he would have been able to take a complete dose of medicine without any defects.
Doesn't that mean that he can become a truly new human being who is immortal and not afraid of the sun?
A dose of medicine can create an immortal human being, which is a bit exaggerated no matter how you look at it, so Shirou concludes that this world does not seem to be simple.
Before Emiya traveled through time, many people thought that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was a world with little mystery. In Emiya's opinion, this was actually a misunderstanding.