Demon Slayer: Upper 0 seems to be a waste

Muzan has no great interest in raising children, because out of pity, sympathy, or empathy from the past, or for some other reason, turning a child into a ghost is one thing, keeping the child by your side is another, but teaching a child personally is another.

He has no experience in raising children, and he doesn't want to make up for this lack of experience through personal experience.

Therefore, as a child, the reason why Lin Guang could stay by his side was mostly because of some good qualities that the other party possessed.

Yes, beautiful.

My dislike for the word "child" comes from experience. Noisy, boisterous, overly lively, too many negative words can be used to describe a "child".

The good news is that Lin Guang doesn't have any of these traits. He doesn't argue, he doesn't make a fuss, he doesn't yell, he doesn't make demands.

After becoming a demon, Rinkou's frail body is no longer a limitation for him. Even though he still looks weak, in fact, no child can compare with Rinkou's vitality now. Even if his neck is twisted, his limbs are broken, and his body is cut into three pieces, Rinkou will regenerate the moment he stops attacking. Rinkou, who has absorbed more blood, has a very strong self-healing ability.

Therefore, Rinko could easily cause some harmless trouble to Muzan, but Rinko didn't. He had his own brain and his own ideas, but he never tried to cause trouble. Muzan thought that this was a survival instinct left over from his human life, and it was not good or bad, but it made him like Rinko very much.

It is undeniable that such a child is a very suitable living creature to keep around and spend time with.

Teaching him to read and recognize words, recognize things, and understand everything around him is a very suitable leisure activity to kill time. And Lin Guang showed great interest in this behavior. He was keen to accept new knowledge and also liked to explore the unknown. After getting permission.

But after all, Rinkou is just a child. While he is as sensible as possible, he is bound to have some problems that Muzan cannot imagine or understand.

It’s not a big problem, it’s very interesting. To say it’s interesting is better to say that Muzan never thought that such a problem would arise.

Maybe it was because Lin Guang was still a child, and his undeveloped brain couldn't understand that his body was completely different from before, or maybe it was simply the regrets and pursuits left by his body. Regardless of the reason, the result was.

Lin Guang would always subconsciously put human food into his mouth, as if he were still a human. But after the food passed through his mouth, slid down his throat, and fell into his stomach, he would suddenly realize that he had eaten the wrong thing and spit it out completely.

After asking, Muzan realized that Rinkou's sense of smell, taste, and reason were out of sync. His nose could only smell the same things humans could smell. Those foods smelled like delicious food, but at the same time, the fishy smell of human blood also smelled like something edible. His tongue couldn't taste anything. Only when food entered his stomach would it begin to ask if it was the right thing to eat.

It wasn't really a bother. The ghost's body could withstand such harmless ordeals. Its brand new stomach wouldn't be easily damaged by eating something it shouldn't have. Even if it was the wrong thing, it wouldn't cause Rinkou to fall to the ground and be unable to move. It would just make him feel a little uncomfortable when he vomited.

So Muzan did not intend to force Rinko to change, but Rinko's desire to explore in terms of eating was more persistent than Muzan imagined.

Even though he knows that many things are not what he should eat, Lingguang will still keep trying them.

Ghosts couldn't eat human food; it tasted disgusting, and even if they forced themselves to eat it, they couldn't absorb any energy from it. Little Rinko, despite this pain, tried again and again, finally finding something that would go gently into his mouth without being spit out.

sugar.

This is irrational, completely irrational. Muzan watched Rinkou put the candy into his mouth, then kept it there, not spitting it out until he got home. While exploring the reason, he wondered whether he should encourage Rinkou's brave attempt or educate him on this meaningless behavior.

Rinkou received more blood than other ghosts, so logically speaking, after becoming a ghost, he should be stronger than other ghosts. Just like Rinkou has a faster regeneration speed than ordinary ghosts, he should also have stronger strength.

This is what experience tells me.

But in reality.

Whether judging by appearance, aura, or practice, this is not true. Rinkou has the necessary recovery ability, but lacks the corresponding combat ability. He has no interest in fighting, is not good at it, or simply cannot fight, cannot attack, and cannot kill. Even though his current strength should be able to easily strangle adults, in reality, Rinkou has an innate fear when facing adults.

In addition to being a little calmer towards Muzan, when he is outside, if an adult male walks towards him, he will run back and hide behind Muzan.

There is no difference between them and human children. It can even be said that even compared with human children, Lin Guang looks more fragile.

If I had to say what Rinko has that matches his abilities, it would probably be his ability to hide. Rinko is very good at hiding, whether it's actively playing cat and mouse or passively trapping herself somewhere and falling asleep, it would make it difficult to find Rinko. Once, Rinko fell asleep in a closet, and until Muzan used the power of blood to locate her, she didn't realize there was a sleeping child lying in the closet behind her.

Taking into account the individual differences among ghosts, Muzan believes that this is Rinkou's talent. When he was still a human, he longed to escape from that painful home and longed to not be noticed or discovered. So after becoming a ghost, he was good at not letting people notice his existence and not being discovered.

Rinko's lack of combat prowess might sound like a problem, but Muzan has no shortage of capable oni, so one more or one less wouldn't matter. Furthermore, given Rinko's height and weight, even if she learned to fight, her combat prowess wouldn't necessarily be comparable to the other oni. Therefore, this problem is negated as soon as it arises.

Moreover, Muzan felt that if his guess was correct, in addition to being good at hiding, Rinkou might be able to master other derivative abilities in the future, but the specific direction in which it would develop and what it would become was a surprise that no one knew when it would come. Muzan decided to leave the answer to this question for the future.

Oh, by the way, Muzan finally discovered the truth three months after Rinkou was able to eat candy.

Lin Guang is still a ghost and still cannot eat human food. It's just that after the candy melts on the tongue, the sugar water slowly slides down the throat into the stomach. It is not as obvious as those pieces of meat, glutinous rice or other foods with a stronger presence, so it is temporarily not noticed that they are not edible. But after eating a few more, the gradual accumulation and the stomach being aware of it, those things will still be vomited out.

At that time, Muzan belatedly educated Rinko.

"Ghosts can't eat human food."

"Then what should I eat?"

The story seems to have returned to the starting point. Muzan once taught Rinyo, who was a human, how to live, and now he has to teach Rinko, who has become a demon, how a demon should live.