Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Li Lei looked at the heavily wounded Oishi Yoshinobu opposite him and smiled, "Brother Ghost Hunter, I was just eating when it was such a good opportunity. Why didn't you make a move?"

"Such a good opportunity! If you just point your Nichirin Blade at my neck and chop hard, you can destroy me and Lower Moon Six."

As Oishi Yoshinobu looked at Li Lei, who was smiling at him, he was panting heavily, and the Nichirin Blade in his hand unconsciously tightened its grip.

He had intended to strike, but the hundreds of wounds all over his body and the massive depletion of his strength made it impossible for him to swing that blade.

Looking at Oishi Yoshinobu, who was no longer able to fight, Li Lei called out to Xiao Wu, who had been hiding in the corner.

"Let's go, Little Crow."

"Okay, Master"

Hearing its master call, the little bird trotted out from a dark corner and finally came to Li Lei's feet.

Goodbye, Mr. Ryoshin.

Li Lei grabbed Xiao Wu and instantly used his controlled Blood Demon Technique—Weight Stacking—to stack his and Xiao Wu's weight onto the ground. Then he pushed off with his foot.

Li Lei and Xiao Wu leaped up like springs, quickly jumping towards where Xiao Hei was.

Little Black was lying on the ground, idly counting stars, when suddenly a dark shadow fell from the sky and landed next to him with a thud.

Little Black looked up and stared intently. He immediately stood up. "Isn't this my dear master!"

"Master, you finally remembered Little Black!"

The black bear immediately tried to hug Li Lei, but Li Lei grabbed its neck and pressed its weight onto the ground.

"We should go, Xiao Hei."

Li Lei then used the same method to reach the entrance to Chiba Town. Soon after, the parasitic tree controlled by Li Lei also sprouted from the ground.

The townspeople, after Li Lei devoured Chiba Illusion Princess, had their Blood Demon Arts dissipate because Chiba Illusion Princess was no longer there to sustain them, and they awoke shortly afterward.

"Little Black, we're leaving."

The parasitic tree was once again turned into a carriage by Li Lei, and Xiao Hei, very unwillingly, started pulling the carriage.

As Li Lei and Xiao Wu boarded the carriage, Xiao Hei began to pull it, slowly leaving the town.

Li Lei and Xiao Wu, sitting in the carriage, watched the slowly receding town of Chiba, their hearts calm and at peace.

Soon after, the carriage disappeared from sight. And the Demon Slayer Corps' reinforcements finally arrived.

On an unnamed street in the small town, Yoshinobu Oishi lay on the ground, slowly breathing in the air.

He didn't know why Li Lei would let him go, even though he was too weak to fight anymore due to his severe injuries and excessive physical exertion.

If he had wanted to kill me, he could have done it in just a few moves. Why did he spare me?

"Help! There's a wounded soldier here!"

Hearing the noisy footsteps and shouts, Yoshinobu Oishi slowly raised his head to look in the direction from which the sounds came.

Several panicked figures came into view; it was the "Kakuna" members of the Demon Slayer Corps' logistics unit who had arrived to provide support.

"Swordsman, please don't move. You are seriously injured. We will bandage your wounds right away."

Oishi Yoshinobu looked at the Hidden member who was bandaging his wounds and asked.

"Have the townspeople been found?"

"We've found them underground in the town center, and they're all safe and sound, swordsman. You don't need to worry."

"What you need to do now is get some rest!"

When Oishi Yoshinobu heard that the townspeople were all safe and sound, he finally felt relieved and slowly drifted off to sleep because he was too tired.

"He's asleep?"

"Ignore member (Number 1)?"

"Yes! After all, he encountered Lower Moon Six and survived the battle against it."

"The hidden member (number 2) answered."

Hidden Member (Number 3): Did you know? According to the information relayed by the Kasugai Crow, this swordsman not only encountered Lower Moon Six, but also witnessed other demons launching a positional battle against Lower Moon Six. He only survived because of the positional battle between the demons.

Hidden member (number 4): But I learned from the Crow that the Thread Demon who succeeded in the challenge was busy running away, so he wasn't killed, and that's how he survived.

Hidden member (number 5): But I heard that he wasn't killed because he knew the Thread Ghost.

Hidden member (Number 1): I should believe whoever said that.

Suddenly, a middle-aged figure wearing a red tengu mask quietly walked up behind the group of hidden members.

"Why aren't you taking the wounded back? What are you chatting about here for?"

"Ah! Okay, right away, we'll get started right away."

Several members of the hidden group quickly replied.

The person who arrived was none other than the current Water Pillar, Sakonji Urokodaki, who was Tanjiro's master in the original work.

Looking at Oishi Yoshinobu, who had been hidden away, Urokodaki Sakonji recalled what Tanaka Naoki had said about Li Lei two months ago.

This time, he saved his junior brother again. What is his purpose? Is it really as Tanaka Naoki said, that he can control man-eating demons?

But how did he become so strong if he doesn't eat people? Urokodaki Sakonji looked up at the slowly brightening sky, still unable to understand.

……

A week later, in the darkness, on a path that had been deserted for a long time, Li Lei leisurely rode his little black motorcycle, slowly cruising along the path.

Suddenly, Li Lei, who was wandering along the path, saw an eyeball the size of a fist with tentacles emerge from the bushes beside him. The eyeball walked over with its roots-like tentacles.

Li Lei looked at the eyeball that had walked up to him and felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before. But where was it?

Just as Li Lei was wondering where he had seen this eyeball before, the eyeball in front of him sprouted a mouth and said, "Lei, Lord Muzan wants to see you."

"Muzan wants to see me?" Li Lei heard the message transmitted by the eyeball in front of him. He was immediately at a loss. What had he done? Why did Muzan want to see him?

"bump--"

A melody from a zither drifted over, and a door appeared out of thin air in front of Li Lei. Looking at the door, Li Lei remembered that this was the Blood Demon Art - Infinity Castle - that Nakime had seen in Demon Slayer in his previous life!

"Please come with me, Lord Muzan is waiting for you in the Infinity Castle."

*Snap!* The door in front of Li Lei opened, and Nakime's eyeball went inside.

"Little Wu and Little Hei are waiting for me to come back."

"Yes, Master," the voice replied twice.

Then, Li Lei followed Nakime's eyeball into the Infinite Castle.

"Little Black, you're always by your master's side, do you know who your master is going to see?"

"I don't know! I'm just a tool bear that pulls the master's cart. The master doesn't tell me anything anymore. Besides, Little Wu, weren't you the first one to follow the master? Don't you know that?"

"Little Black, what are you saying? Little Crow only started following Master a few days earlier than you. In terms of the length of time we've spent with Master, Little Black, you've been with him much longer than I have."

When Xiao Hei heard Xiao Wu say that it had spent more time with its owner than it had, it felt a surge of joy.

So I'm the most senior one after all... Wait, something doesn't seem right!

……

Inside the Infinite City of the alternate dimension, Li Lei was stunned by the scene before him. Although he had seen it in the anime Demon Slayer before his transmigration, witnessing it firsthand was still incredibly awe-inspiring. Only one word could describe this place—"spectacle."

The Infinity Castle is a massive alternate dimension created by Nakime using her Blood Demon Art. It has no vertical or horizontal orientation and is filled with various Japanese-style houses. Muzan frequently lived here after acquiring Nakime, and the epic battles between the Demon Slayer Corps and Upper Moon One, Two, and Three also took place here.

As Li Lei was recalling information about the Infinite City, a zither melody rang out, and Li Lei felt the scene before him instantly change.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at a wooden platform 50 meters long and 50 meters wide, and there was a male figure a dozen meters in front of them.

Without even looking at his face, Li Lei knew that the person in front of him was none other than Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of demons in Demon Slayer.

"Tired, how have you been doing since you became a ghost?"