"Tianyi, this is my mission, and I must explain it."

Yi Yong spoke up, saying that after all, he had come all this way, and they couldn't let him leave empty-handed.

"You have the nerve to say that? If it weren't for your Kanzaburo, you would probably be locked up by now, and you were just attacked."

Giyu retorted, "I was just playing with the dog, and I wasn't attacked."

Tianyi hardened his fist; he really wanted to hit him right now.

“Demons feed on humans and appear at night. They fear sunlight and Nichirin Blades. Our Demon Slayer Corps is here to deal with demons, so where did you encounter them?” Tenichi said with a smile.

Yae said, "What attacked me wasn't a demon, it was a bear here."

"Is it the bear that killed your father? I can help you kill him and avenge him while I'm at it," Tianyi said, revealing what was on his mind.

Yae looked somewhat dazed. "I'm a hunter! I must avenge this myself." After saying this, Yae decisively got up and walked outside.

Giyu stood in front of Yae.

"If you want revenge, why did you go up the mountain alone? What are you hiding?"

Yi Yong's words surprised Tianyi.

"You're so annoying, can you just get away from me?"

Giyu didn't give up. Instead, he said calmly, "At least I've never seen a human who can be restored."

Yae remained silent for a moment, but still took the dog and left.

On a snowy night, the wind howled coldly, and Yae had her dog track her father's scent.

Tenichi and Yiyong were following Yae, and they were following him very carefully. If they were discovered, they would be in big trouble. After all, following someone without their consent is like being a pervert.

"Why is the weather so cold? We must find Father quickly, or he will freeze to death in this cold weather."

Just then, a dog's pitiful cry suddenly came from ahead. Yae rushed forward and saw the dog's miserable state.

Even though he was beyond dead, Yae continued forward; he couldn't let this opportunity slip by.

Tianyi slowly walked forward from a distance, looked at the dog that was barely clinging to life, shook his head helplessly, and gently stroked the dog's head.

After a dozen seconds, the dog came back to life, jumped up and licked Tianyi's face. Tianyi shook his head helplessly.

Yae walked heavily to the top of the mountain, looking down at the dark figure below. He initially thought it was a black bear, but then realized it looked like a person, and he couldn't tell what it was eating.

Just then, Yae remembered Giyu's words, "At least I have never seen a human who can be restored."

In fact, his father was not eaten by a bear at all. If he did not make up this reason, he would not be able to go up the mountain to find his father, and the villagers would stop him from going up the mountain.

Yae remembered her father's teachings: "Don't panic when you encounter prey, quickly set up your hunting rifle."

Overwhelmed with grief, Yae raised her gun and pulled the trigger, the bullet striking the demon in the head, causing him to instantly collapse to the ground.

Yae broke down in tears, burying her face in her hands. She shouldn't have complained about the fantasy that her father was still alive, which had ruined the dog that had been with him for so many years. She was truly filled with regret.

Just then, Yae noticed something amiss. His father, who had been shot in the head, got up and ran towards him quickly.

Yae began to recall why her father had become a demon and why he had run away when he saw her return.

The demon pounced on Yae, who then pressed her gun against the demon's mouth to prevent it from biting her.

“Father, since you can’t turn back into a human, at least let me kill you as a hunter. But if you’re going to leave such painful memories, why didn’t you eat me back then?” Yae said haltingly, her eyes filled with tears.

At that moment, the father, who had become a hungry ghost, called out "Eightfold" intermittently, but suddenly lunged forward to bite.

The demon was pierced through; that's right, pierced through by the Totsuka Sword.

Tianyi gently lifted the evil spirit and sucked it directly into the gourd.

Seeing this, Yae slowly took off her shoes, put the gun to her chin, and prepared to pull the trigger with her toes, but the gun suddenly jammed. At that moment of jamming, Yae, who was about to commit suicide, was stopped by Giyu.

"Why did the shotgun suddenly jam? Why? I took good care of it. My father turned into a man-eating monster, the dog and everyone else are dead, and now I have nothing left."

Just then, the dog walked by and licked Yae's face with its tongue, as if to say, "Don't cry, I'm here for you."

"Your father told you to live on before he died."

Tianyi spoke calmly.

"But why, do you understand what it feels like to lose a loved one?"

These words silenced Yi Yong, who then turned and left.

"Miss Yae, please be strong. We have lost everything just like you." After saying this, Tenichi turned and left, following in Giyu's footsteps.

Yae knew why the gun wouldn't fire: it was because her father's blood had congealed and frozen the bullet, so she had to forcefully remove the jamming device.

As dawn broke, Yae seemed to see her father smiling at her.

……

"What's Yiyong going to do next? Is he going back, or is he going to stay here and play a little longer?"

Yi Yong remained silent. This morning he had met a charcoal-selling boy whose sister had turned into a ghost. However, the ghost protected her brother, so he let the ghost go. He didn't know whether he should tell Tian Yi.

Yiyong sighed and said, "I let a ghost go this morning."

Tianyi stopped eating, swallowed his food, and turned to look at Yiyong.

"What did you just say?" Tianyi asked uncertainly.

“This morning I came to this area looking for traces of evil spirits, but I found a charcoal-selling boy and his sister who had become a ghost. I felt a little sorry for them, so I let them go,” Giyu said.

Upon hearing this, Tian was stunned. You said you let a ghost go, which means you created a hidden danger.

"Quickly, follow me and chase after them. If we catch up now, we might still make it in time. If the lord finds out, we're doomed."

Tianyi tried to turn around and leave, but Yiyong grabbed his wrist.

Tianyi couldn't understand why Yiyong was doing this. What if the female ghost killed someone?

"Let them go! I guarantee that the female ghost won't hurt anyone, and she even protected her brother with her own body."

Tianyi shook his head helplessly, "If the investigation traces back to you, I'll take the blame with you."

Tianyi continued eating his noodles with his head down, but suddenly he felt that the noodles didn't taste so good anymore.

"Thank you, Tianyi. You really are my good brother."

Tianyi smiled and said, "Yiyong, why do you talk so much?"

"That seems to be true. I've become more talkative since I met you," Yiyong said calmly.

After Tianyi handed the money to the boss, the two turned and left.

The scene shifts to Tanjiro, who is holding his sister's hand as they search for a place to rest.

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