Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Li Lei slowly raised his hands, which turned red instantly.

"Blood Demon Art: Blood Silk Hand"

Instantly, thousands of blood-red threads appeared on Li Lei's blood-red hands, and under Li Lei's control, the blood-red threads quickly intertwined with each other on his hands.

In just a few seconds, a pair of blood-red silk threads, far harder than steel, were woven into his hands.

Upon seeing this, Motohisa Furukawa sensed something was wrong and instantly activated his Blood Demon Art - Weight Stacking. Under the effect of Weight Stacking, Motohisa Furukawa's dodging speed instantly increased.

The principle is to use the Blood Demon Art to add weight to the earth, making oneself lighter and thus increasing one's speed.

Li Lei looked at Furukawa Motohisa, who was moving at high speed, leaned his body slightly forward, and suddenly pushed off with his hind leg, rushing towards him in an instant. From the side, it looked like a red streak of light flashed by.

Sensing Li Lei approaching at high speed, Furukawa Motohisa instantly dodged to the right, avoiding his attack. However, Furukawa Motohisa was not pleased that his dodging speed was faster than Li Lei's.

Instead, he became extremely vigilant, because Li Lei might have learned about the characteristics of his Blood Demon Art during the battle with the Ghost Hunter.

In contrast, regarding Li Lei's Blood Demon Art, all he could see now was Li Lei's hands turning blood red, and the technique he used to grab the Demon Hunter with threads. He recalled how the Demon Hunter was instantly wrapped into a ball by the threads.

Could it be that his Blood Demon Technique instantly wraps a person into a ball with threads? Never mind, it's best not to get touched by those blood-red hands.

Li Lei looked at Furukawa Motohisa, who had dodged his attack, and quickly attacked him again, but Furukawa Motohisa dodged it once more.

What followed was like a cat-and-mouse game, with Li Lei chasing from behind and Furukawa Motohisa running ahead.

As he dodged, Furukawa Motohisa thought to himself: his Blood Demon Art could only make him lighter, and the increase in speed wasn't that significant; running away in a straight line was not an option.

The improvement in agility is quite good, so all I need to do next is use my agility to keep dodging in the forest, making it give up on me when it can't catch me.

For the next ten minutes or so, the chase between Li Lei and Furukawa Motohisa was intense, with Furukawa dodging every time Li Lei tried to catch him.

Despite his repeated failures, Li Lei remained calm and confident. He reasoned that he could fail countless times, but Li Lei could only fail once. Besides, he had secretly laid a trap during the chase, waiting for the evil spirit to fall into it.

The reason is this: when he blocked Tanaka Naoki's sneak attack from Furukawa Motohisa, he was knocked away by him. After returning, he secretly watched Tanaka Naoki fight Furukawa Motohisa from the side. He seized the opportunity and successfully launched a righteous sneak attack on Furukawa Motohisa, and then discovered that...

After avenging himself by being knocked away, Furukawa Motohisa's weight was different from when he was knocked away, leading to speculation that his Blood Demon Art was something like altering his own weight.

After gaining a general understanding of the properties of Motohisa Furukawa's Blood Demon Art, he secretly used his Thread Blood Demon Art to create very fine but tough threads to set up many traps on the ground during the chase with Motohisa Furukawa.

At that moment, Motohisa Furukawa felt a sharp pain in his foot and then fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing that his feet were firmly bound by silk threads, Furukawa Motohisa immediately thought to himself, "Oh no, it's a trap!"

But it was too late. Li Lei had already arrived beside him in an instant and wrapped Furukawa Motohisa into a mummy with countless silk threads.

Li Lei looked at Furukawa Motohisa, who was wrapped up like a mummy, and said, "I gladly accept your power."

"Blood Demon Art - Parasitic Cage"

Li Lei used his Blood Demon Art, Parasitic Ball Cage, on Furukawa Motohisa. The small, blood-red fleshy ball fell from his palm onto the mummy Furukawa Motohisa, and immediately turned into fleshy spikes that burrowed into his body.

After feeling the thing that had burrowed into his body absorbing and devouring his flesh and blood, Motohisa Furukawa was filled with fear and couldn't help but recall many of his past acts of cannibalism.

He has terrifying memories of being nearly beheaded by the so-called Pillars of the Demon Slayers after he ate too many people in his territory, and he only escaped with his life by taking hostages.

There are also memories of eating others, most of which are of people being eaten in fear and dread.

But there was one exception, which happened more than ten years ago. On a calm night, in a sparsely populated forest, there was a family living there. On that cold night, a mother was putting her child to sleep.

"Smack!"

I barged in and saw the mother and son who had been awakened by my presence. My appetite surged, and I immediately reached out to grab them. For her son's safety, the mother grabbed a wooden stick and charged at me, shouting to her son, "Naoki, run!"

The child was so frightened that he ran away through the back door, while the child's mother picked up a wooden stick and started hitting me.

But how could a human possibly be a match for a ghost!

The child's mother was severely injured by my blows and lay on the ground. As I was about to chase after the child, I felt my foot sink. I looked down and saw the child's mother clinging tightly to my left foot, preventing me from going after her son.

You're asking for it! (╰_╯)

I raised my right foot and stomped hard on her back, and I heard a cracking sound from the child's mother's back.

Bright red blood flowed from his mother's mouth, but her hands did not loosen their grip in the slightest. A low, menacing voice emanated from her mouth: "Naoki, you must run—run away! And you monster, you will surely die a horrible death!"

After saying those words, the child's mother's heart stopped beating.

Furukawa Motohisa glared angrily at the dead mother of the child, and forcefully pulled his left foot out.

"You say I'll die a horrible death? I'll eat you first and see who dies a horrible death then!" said Furukawa Motohisa, opening his mouth to take a bite.

The sound of footsteps approached from outside the door. Furukawa Motohisa looked out and saw a figure holding a Nichirin Blade and wearing a Demon Slayer Corps uniform, rapidly approaching.

They're demon hunters!

Furukawa Motohisa was immediately alarmed and knew he had to run!

Motohisa Furukawa jumped out of the window and ran away, and the memory ended at that moment.

Am I going to die? To be absorbed and devoured until death? Has that mother's curse come true?

Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through my body. I felt my flesh and blood being mercilessly compressed, as if my entire body was being squeezed bit by bit into a small bottle. The compressed flesh and blood was in constant pain.

"Be devoured to death? Furukawa Motohisa, you're dreaming! After doing so many bad things and eating so many innocent people, you'll wish you were dead," Li Lei said angrily.

Motohisa Furukawa: "How did you know? Could you be the child who ran away back then?"

Li Lei sneered, "How would I know your name or what you've done! You don't need to know. What you should know is that your good days have begun!"

Li Lei was certainly not that child; it was Tanaka Naoki. As Li Lei absorbed the power transmitted from Furukawa Motohisa's flesh and blood using the Blood Demon Art—Flesh Parasite—he also absorbed his memories.

When Li Lei first absorbed power, memories flooded back, much to his surprise. The memories flowed through his mind like a movie. Li Lei saw Tanaka Naoki as a child and his tragic experiences within them.

"Aaaaaahhhhh..." Furukawa Motohisa screamed incessantly as he was compressed into a ball of flesh the size of a ping-pong ball in agony.

Li Lei picked up the fleshy ball and said mercilessly to the suffering Furukawa Motohisa inside, "Once your Blood Demon Art is no longer effective against me, I'll send you to hell!"

Li Lei absorbed the fleshy ball into his body, sensing the essence of Furukawa Motohisa's Blood Demon Art—weight superposition. Was it a Blood Demon Art that could superimpose the weight of one or more objects onto a single object?

This kind of blood demon technique is practically a waste on Motohisa Furukawa.

"Let me make it shine!" Li Lei said, using his Blood Demon Technique to draw about five times his own weight from the earth and add it to himself.

This allows one to train without weights, in a comprehensive way, using the demon's super regenerative abilities to train without fear of injury, and using the demon's adaptability to continuously strengthen the body.

"Let's try another usage."

Li Lei arrived at a large tree and used the Blood Demon Technique - Weight Stacking to transfer the weight of the tree to the ground. He then used silk threads to cut the tree off at the roots. Holding the severed tree in his right hand, Li Lei felt its weight; it was lighter than a wooden stick.

It was thrown forward. While still in the air, the weight that had been pulled away was returned, causing the tree to suddenly fall and create a large crater in the ground.

At this moment, Li Lei picked up a small stone from the ground and used the Blood Demon Technique - Weight Stacking to extract more than 20 times the weight of the small stone from the ground and stack it onto the small stone, instantly throwing it forward.

With four sharp, thudding sounds, the pebble pierced through three trees before stopping at the fourth, but it also became deeply embedded in the trunk.

Looking at the masterpiece he had left behind, Li Lei couldn't help but feel pleased, thinking, "It seems I'll have many more attack methods in the future!"