Demon Capital Slayer

Chapter 100 Flying Dog Head
Sakurai Toshio said there were some things to prepare and asked Mitsurugi to wait on the rooftop.

As soon as he left, this nominal senior student breathed a sigh of relief.

"Terrifying! A sixteen-year-old swordsman? There's never been anything this exaggerated in history!"

"Yes, there are traces of a purification ritual on him, so he has probably personally slain demons. And the aura he exuded when he first arrived was as majestic as that of a great demon." Inugami Milo also sighed with admiration.

"Moreover, I just casually gave him a couple of tips on how to conceal his presence, and he became no different from an ordinary person. If he were to become a ninja or an assassin, he might just be the next Night Demon."

"That's outrageous! But I remember, old man, wasn't that a technique for suppressing the aura used by ninja dogs? How can a human use it too?" Sakurai Toshio asked, quite surprised.

“The techniques used by ninja dogs are actually modified from ninja techniques.” Milo rolled his eyes at him.

"Moreover, in the Warring States period, the status of a genin was even lower than that of a well-trained ninja dog."

"Yes, yes, the old man is right," Sakurai Toshio said repeatedly.

What do you think of this junior?

“He doesn’t seem to have much experience, and he seems… pretty honest? At least he’s not as thick-skinned as you.” Milo paced back and forth a couple of times.

"Alright, let's consider this a friendship." Toshio Sakurai smiled and raised his hand to make a gesture representing money.

"On another note, a swordsman's favor is very valuable."

"Don't be so calculating, kid," Milo snorted.

"Sigh, what can I do when I have such a big family to support?"

As the two were talking, the barking of dogs could be heard in the background.

After discussing the matter, Milo went to the rooftop on his own.

Using his spiritual abilities, he passed directly through the iron gate and saw Yujian standing in the sunlight, demonstrating some kind of sword technique with one hand.

In an instant, a sharp aura seemed to cleave the floating clouds in the sky in two.

The dog god Milo had his mouth half-open, his tongue sticking out and forgetting to retract it.

"Oh, Mr. Milo has arrived." He stopped using his sword, and his entire demeanor quickly became ordinary and harmless, clearly having memorized the method of controlling one's aura through his body.

The white-haired boy smiled and greeted them, looking very friendly.

"Okay, let's go anyway." Milo swallowed hard.

Then Yujian saw the dog's head start to grow bigger, while its body gradually shrank, eventually becoming a dog's head with a diameter of over several meters... a hot air balloon?

"Huh?" Yu Jian revealed a clear but ignorant look in his eyes.

"Nothing to be surprised about, is it? This is what our Inugami's true form is like." With only a head remaining, Milo's voice became even deeper.

"Won't people see you growing this big?" Yu Jian couldn't help but ask.

“I used the Cloud and Mist Technique. Ordinary people with insufficient perception will only see a cloud or a wisp of smoke, at most it will look a bit like a dog’s head.” Milo said, turning his body to bring his cheek close to the sword.

"Grab the fur on my cheek and climb up. Cultivators can directly contact spirits, just be careful not to slip. We Samoyeds are long-haired dogs, we shed twice a year, each time for half a year."

Milo even had the leisure to joke around, truly a very calm old dog.

"Okay." Yu Jian felt it was very magical.

Before he could react, he had already climbed onto the head of the dog god Milo.

Then, filled with immense excitement, the young swordsman took to the skies for the first time.

It's not fast, but it's flying! Not by airplane, but by Dog Brand Flying Express (not really) hot air balloon.

"Oh, oh!" Yu Jian made a very ignorant sound.

“There are many dog ​​gods that can fly, but not many that can carry people.” Seeing this, Milo’s voice rose as it spoke, just like its raised nose.

A soft, yielding sensation came from beneath his feet, making Yu Jian want to reach out and touch it, but he was worried about offending the other party, so he couldn't help but show a very conflicted expression.

"It's fine, feel free to touch it if you want." Milo rolled his eyes at the passenger, looking completely unfazed.

"Is it really okay? Wouldn't that be disrespectful?"

“Oh, you really are a young man.” Although he said that, Milo’s tone revealed a hint of joy. “Even if you live together for thousands of years, the concepts of humans and dogs will still be different. For example, a year may not be a long time for a human, but it is enough for a dog to spend its entire childhood and adolescence, and the same goes for other aspects.”

"Young man, remember this, you'll need it when you venture into the mortal world. Especially, don't use human values ​​to judge the thoughts of demons, or you'll suffer greatly." Milo lowered his voice as he spoke, his tone filled with nostalgia and a faint sadness washed away by time.

"Mr. Milo wasn't an ordinary dog ​​before he became a dog god, was he?"

Miken keenly sensed this and tried to subtly change the subject like Yurika, but this was clearly not his forte.

"Don't worry, I'm almost a hundred years old in human terms, I'm not that fragile." The Inugami laughed heartily.

"The days before I became a dog god? I was a professionally trained ninja dog back then, and I participated in many missions to exorcise spirit disasters with my lord."

"That's awesome."

"Haha! Let me tell you, back then I entered the mortal world as a search and rescue dog, originally only responsible for rescuing disaster victims. But then I encountered an emergency, and ended up biting a demon to death with my own teeth!"

……

Next, Miken heard many stories about exorcising spirit calamities from the dog god Milo. Some of them were probably exaggerated, but there were also many valuable lessons to be learned.

He suddenly remembered something, so he asked.

"Does Mr. Milo know what skeleton gold is?"

Milo, who had been engrossed in conversation, frowned and asked, "Where did you hear that word?"

"Rumor has it that someone uses this thing to make equipment." Upon seeing this, Yu Jian frowned slightly, realizing that there was something wrong.

"That's not surprising." Milo snorted twice.

"That thing is a type of material from the Netherworld. It is a product of the mineralization of the bones left behind by powerful monsters. It often carries very heavy resentment and yin energy. Equipment made from it can easily cause the wielder to lose control."

"There are several demonic swords with great reputations. It is said that their main material is bone metal, and they have been associated with a lot of human lives."

"So, although the performance of skeleton metal is quite excellent among materials in the same price range, no decent person would use this stuff to make things casually."

“I suggest you stay away as well,” Milo advised earnestly.

"Yes." Yu Jian nodded solemnly.

"Speaking of which, since Mr. Milo was a ninja dog, why did he later become a dog god?" He then asked about another matter.

"Because I'm old, and because I need to participate in battles, ninja dogs don't even live as long as ordinary pet dogs, so... that's just how it is." Milo said it quite casually, but the meaning behind his words was shocking.

"How could they do this!" Yu Jian felt an overwhelming sense of anger.

"Haha, kid, don't be angry. That's all in the past." Milo laughed when he heard this, and simply stopped calling the young man with the sword and started calling him kid directly.

"Speaking of which, Toshio was like that when he was in junior high school. I guess that's just how young people are. Hey, I remember when I died, he had just finished drawing the Kikyo seal and was crying his eyes out. He couldn't bear to burn my body."

"And then?" Yu Jian's attention was drawn, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Then, I felt lightheaded all over, flying higher and higher in the air, but seeing that kid crying like that was really heartbreaking. I've known this little brat since he was just a tiny kid."

Milo gestured with his two ears to indicate an unlikely size, but Mikami remained silent, not wanting to spoil the atmosphere.

"As a result, without realizing it, I condensed my soul body and became a dog god. I even broke through according to the general evaluation standards. Hahaha, wouldn't you say that counts as advancing three levels after death?"

"Oh, we're almost there." Milo suddenly ended the casual conversation.

Yu Jian looked down and saw a towering luxury apartment building below that looked very expensive. With his eagle-eye vision, he could clearly see the scene there.

At that moment, on the balcony of one of the apartments, a woman wearing a light, moss-green dress was looking up in this direction.

Despite the distance between them, Yujian subconsciously lowered his voice.

"Mr. Milo, your magic shouldn't suddenly stop working, right?"

"Of course, I am a retired ninja dog and active dog god with decades of work experience!"

"Then why is someone watching us?"

"What?!"

(End of this chapter)