Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began When I Became Yoriichi's Sister

Da da da……

In the empty museum corridor, Long Gui's footsteps sounded particularly clear, even somewhat lonely.

The surrounding space seemed strange, filled with a sense of incongruity.

She may not have visited many museums here, but surely a museum shouldn't be completely empty of everything, right?

I've already passed several intersections, but all I've found are similar rooms.

"breathe……"

Longgui stopped at an intersection, enduring the burning pain in his back, and tried his best to maintain the rhythm of Snow Breathing.

With each breath, the cold air fills the lungs, forcibly suppressing the body's fatigue and pain, keeping the brain clear.

……

Meanwhile, in a monitoring room deep inside the museum.

"Hehehe, this is really interesting. Ichigo Kurosaki looks completely disoriented."

Lilline was lying in front of the monitor screen, watching Ichigo and his two companions wander around the maze like headless flies, and couldn't help but laugh triumphantly.

"After all, it's an illusionary labyrinth that I designed meticulously. Even Death wouldn't be able to escape it easily."

"that……"

The usually taciturn Ninja suddenly spoke, pointing to another split-screen view.

"Huh? What's wrong, Zhiba?" Lilyn followed his finger and then paused, "Eh?"

"Who is that guy?"

The image shows Long Gui standing hesitantly at the crossroads.

"They seem to be just ordinary humans." The Tibetan elegantly held up his teacup, leaned closer for a look, and asked, "Did they wander in by mistake?"

Lillian couldn't help but complain, "Who would come to a museum at this hour?"

"Is he a thief?"

Zhiba paused for a moment, then said, "It doesn't look like it. Is that thing on her back... a sword?"

The Tibetan man said casually, "Judging from her Taoist robes, she probably uses a wooden sword for training."

"So... you mean... you stumbled upon this by mistake?" Lillian puffed out her cheeks, somewhat annoyed.

This game is a special training program prepared specifically for Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends. If ordinary people get involved and injured, they will definitely be scolded.

"This is so annoying! Why would an ordinary person have to barge in at a time like this?!"

Lillian scratched her short, golden hair, looking somewhat distressed.

"Zhiba, should we throw her out?" the Tibetan suggested.

Before Zhiba could reply, Lily continued:

"Let me do it."

She snorted, a mischievous smile playing on her lips. "Using illusions to lure an ordinary person away is a piece of cake."

As she spoke, she snapped her fingers.

"Watch closely, as long as you give her a little hint, she will obediently leave on her own."

……

At the intersection.

Long Guizheng decided to walk around and see what was going on. He hadn't gone far when he came to another intersection.

On one side of the intersection, there is a sign with the word "Exit" prominently displayed, and an arrow pointing directly to the passage on the left.

"exit?"

Long Gui paused for a moment, then stopped in his tracks.

In the monitoring room, Lily saw this scene, clapped her hands, and turned to look at the two of them: "See, it's solved."

Zhiba and the Tibetan did not speak, but silently pointed to the screen behind her.

"..." Lillian paused for a moment, then turned her head away.

Then, in the surveillance footage, Long Gui decisively turned around and strode into the other passage.

"Eh?!"

Lily was completely dumbfounded as she watched Longgui walk without hesitation toward the right passage leading deeper into the museum.

"Why?! There's a sign over there saying 'Exit'! Shouldn't a normal person follow the exit?"

The Tibetan shrugged: "Who knows? Maybe they just didn't see it."

Lillian gritted her teeth: "Damn it! How dare they ignore my good intentions."

"Then do it again!"

Once again, she conjured a path leading to the exit on Long Gui's journey.

Looking at her masterpiece, Lillian put her hands on her hips and said, "This time it should be foolproof, right?!"

……

Long Gui walked along the right-hand passage for a while, and the scenery ahead changed again.

At the end of the dimly lit corridor, a half-open door suddenly appeared.

Through the crack in the door, you can see the familiar street scene outside, and even hear the occasional car horn in the distance.

Next to that door, there was a somewhat worn-out museum evacuation map with a red circle marking your current location and a red line leading directly to the door, next to which was written "Emergency Escape Route".

This is exactly what they wanted, making sure you saw it.

However... Long Gui only glanced at it before turning around and going in the opposite direction.

"Pfft~"

Lilyne coughed up a mouthful of blood, nearly dying of anger at Long Gui.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Lillian grabbed her hair, screamed frantically, and jumped around in the monitoring room.

"That idiot! That huge idiot! That's the real exit! Even though it's an illusion, there really is a side door leading out from there!!"

Lillian stomped her feet in anger, making a loud thud on the floor.

Zhiba, a Tibetan: "..."

"Damn it! I refuse to believe I can't deal with her!"

Lily gritted her teeth, a small flame burning fiercely in her eyes.

Lillian calmed down, a sly smile appearing on her face: "Since she likes to do the opposite and play mind games with me, then I'll grant her wish!"

She quickly regained her enthusiasm and set up another intersection on Longgui's road, placing an exit sign.

Lillian gave a cold laugh: "This is what they call reverse thinking! She definitely didn't expect that the real exit was on the other side."

Zhiba, a Tibetan: There's always a bad feeling about it.

……

Long Gui walked down the dimly lit corridor. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but the pain in his body seemed to lessen considerably over time.

"breathe……"

As her breathing deepened, her five senses became increasingly acute, and she could vaguely perceive the unsettling feeling in the air.

Ahead, the third fork in the road appears.

In the monitoring room, Lillian held her breath: "Hehe, according to her logic, she definitely doesn't want to go out the exit, so she will choose the opposite path from the exit, and then she will actually walk out! I'm a genius!"

Long Gui stood at the intersection, looking at the large exit sign on his right, his brows furrowing slightly.

An intuition exploded in her mind.

This is fake.

Someone is deliberately interfering with her judgment; someone is deliberately showing her these things.

She'd been wandering around here for a while now, and she was pretty sure that the museum didn't have that many identical rooms.

“If someone is deliberately leading me astray…” Long Gui’s eyes sharpened, “then it means that the other party doesn’t want me to take this path.”

Although Long Gui usually seems carefree, she is actually a very thoughtful girl.

"Perhaps the direction of export is the right one."

She walked straight toward the exit.

"Snapped!"

A muffled thud came from the monitoring room as Lily slammed her head directly onto the table.

After a long while, she raised her head, opened her mouth wide, and stared blankly at the figure disappearing around the corner on the screen, as if she had been petrified.

The deathly silence lasted for three seconds.

then……

"Aaaaaaah! I can't take it anymore!!"

Lillian exploded, so angry that white steam rose from the back of her head and her face turned bright red, clearly already flushed.

"What's wrong with that woman?!"

"I clearly anticipated her prediction! How could I still make a mistake?!"

Zhiba was silent for a moment, then said, "Is it possible that she did it on purpose?"

The Tibetan added, "Is it possible that she has already seen through your illusion?"

"How is this possible!" Lillian's eyes were red. "Isn't this guy just an ordinary human?"

"Enough!" Lillian had lost her patience. "This time, I'm going to make both passages lead directly to the exit!"

"Let's see what you choose!"

……

"Aren't there any signs?"

Long Gui stopped at the fork in the road again. Based on her previous experience, there should have been a sign here, deliberately leading her astray, but it was gone.

Did she make the right choice?

Do not……

The surrounding space remained the same; she had not escaped the illusion.

Do you want to just pick one?

Long Gui took two steps to the left.

In the monitoring room, Lillian stared intently at the screen: "It moved! It moved! Once it gets out, it won't be coming back!"

Long Gui took two steps forward, then abruptly stopped.

"This guy is definitely messing with me!" Lillian slammed her hands on the table in anger. "Just give me any guy, you bastard!"

Long Gui naturally couldn't hear her voice, so she stopped.

"Something's wrong."

That sense of unease was getting worse.

A strange feeling.

Long Gui closed his eyes slightly, adjusted his breathing rhythm, and began to follow that mysterious feeling.

Soon, she seemed to have grasped that feeling.

A wisp of something, like a breath, appeared in her senses and slowly drifted to the other side.

The gossamer threads brushed against my skin, bringing a slight coolness.

That seems to be... the movement of air.

The passageways on both sides seemed to carry a flow of cold air, while there was little air circulation directly in front.

Are both sides fake?

Long Gui suddenly opened his eyes, went to the wall directly in front of him, tentatively reached out his hand, and then...

Got in.

……

"Aaaaaah! What's wrong with this woman?!" Lillian clutched her head in despair, yelling, "She won't leave even if we give her the real exit, she won't leave even if we give her the fake one, and she still won't leave even if we don't give her the real one!"

"Is she here specifically to bring me bad luck?"

After making a fuss for a bit, Lily slumped onto the table, her face ashen. "That's enough, I'm going home."

The Tibetan's eyes widened: "It's unbelievable that this human actually saw through Lillian's illusion."

If the previous choice was just a lucky guess, then this one cannot be explained by mere chance.

Zhiba said calmly, "That's not something an ordinary person can do. Even those two Shinigami and Quincy are still stuck in the same place."

That human was definitely not an ordinary person.

Upon hearing Zhiba speak, Lily jumped up from the table, startling both of them with her sudden action.

"Oh no! I was so focused on this guy that I forgot about Ichigo and the others." Lillian explained as she pulled up the surveillance footage.

The two were stunned: "Huh?"

As Ryuki walked forward, Ichigo, Renji, and Ishida stood in the very center of the room.

The museum wasn't actually that big. Ichigo and Tatsuki were just wandering around the museum within Ririn's illusion; they just hadn't bumped into each other earlier.

"It's all over!!! Quick! Illusion!"

Lillian was shouting in a panic; anyone who didn't know better would think she was giving orders to the Ba and the Tibetans.

Lillian realized what was happening and was about to cast an illusion when a hand reached out from the side and grabbed her arm.

Those were a pair of fair arms, with jet-black nails that gleamed with a hint of cold light.

"who!"

The three of them were instantly shocked and looked at the owner of the arm. Their hearts, which had just been raised, immediately fell back down.

Lillian swallowed hard: "Yuko... Miss?"

So fast... no, when did she arrive? I didn't even notice.

Yu Zi stared intently at the monitor: "Wait a moment, we're about to reach a fun spot."

Lillian blinked, looking puzzled: "A fun...place?"

Yu Zi's lips curled slightly: "That child can be considered my disciple, and now he's about to show his skills."

"disciple?"

The three of them suddenly understood.

The Tibetan revealed an expression of understanding: "So that's how it is. That girl is your disciple. No wonder she was able to see through Lilin's illusion."

Yu Zi smiled and said, "I was surprised too."

I didn't expect that Ryuki would formally become a disciple so quickly, and he can even sense his surroundings, which is better than Ichigo.

……

"Damn it! What went wrong?!"

Ichigo looked at the familiar wall in front of him, and the ball of thread used as a marker in the corner, and his mentality began to crumble.

"We were clearly walking in a straight line!"

Uryu Ishida pushed up his glasses, his brow furrowed: "No, if that guy named Ziba's ability is space folding or teleportation, then the concept of a straight line simply doesn't exist here."

"That ninja with the hood?" Renji scratched his head in frustration. "That's an infuriating ability."

Ishida revealed a confident expression: "It's alright, the red rope has already connected these rooms, so this time we can deduce the appropriate route from the opposite direction."

"Oh, that's so reliable." Ichigo's face lit up with delight. "Which way do we go next?"

Ishida looked at the three corridors, and without hesitation, pointed to the left.

"there."

"Yoshi! Hurry up and find that guy and take care of him!" Renji swaggered ahead.

The two exchanged a glance and then followed.

Just as they reached the corner and were about to enter the passage, ripples suddenly appeared on the hard wall beside them, like a pebble being thrown into a calm lake.

"Ok?"

The three men's eyes narrowed, and their bodies tensed instantly.

"what?"

"Is it an enemy?"

"What? I can't see!" Soul turned his head desperately from behind.

Under the intense gaze of the three, ripples suddenly appeared, and a slightly dirty shoe stepped directly out of the wall, followed by a white trouser leg.

"what?"