Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

"I'm tired. I hope Xiao Hei is alright!"

Looking at the unconscious Xiao Hei, Tianyi Mengxiang asked Li Lei with some reluctance.

After all, Little Black is now foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes, and it feels like he might ascend to heaven at any moment.

"It's alright, Sister Mengxiang. Xiao Hei has a strong vitality. This little dizziness will be fine soon. Don't worry about it."

"Look if you don't believe me!"

As he spoke, Li Lei took out an arm from his alternate dimension—the arm of some unlucky soul—and placed it in front of Xiao Hei as food.

The aroma of human flesh filled the air. Little Black, who had been hanging upside down and sleeping, instantly woke up after smelling the bloody human flesh, his eyes fixed on the severed arm in front of him.

"Is this delicious food for me?"

"Yes!"

Li Lei replied.

Wow, great!

The little black cat, hanging there, wiggled its body happily like a worm.

"but--"

Suddenly, Li Lei's tone changed abruptly, and he said something that caused Xiao Hei great pain.

"Little Black, you'll have to hang here and watch this severed arm for two hours before you can eat."

"what--!"

|???|「???」?(?–?)? (╯°Д°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Everyone present was shocked to hear Li Lei's words.

"I'm tired. Isn't this a bit too cruel?"

"Why don't we just put the severed arm away?"

Somewhat unable to bear it any longer, Amane Moka spoke to Li Lei.

"Alright, since Sister Moka says so, then I'll keep the severed arm."

Just as Li Lei was about to take action, the upside-down Xiao Hei immediately became unhappy.

"No—! It's not cruel at all, please don't take back the delicious food."

Before Li Lei could speak, Xiao Hei, who was hanging there, immediately said something, his tone extremely panicked. After all, the delicious food he was supposed to eat after hanging there for two hours was going to be gone.

For Xiao Hei, getting dizzy or being hung up for two hours is a minor issue; running out of food is the real problem.

"Look, it was Xiao Hei who wanted it this way, so it's not my fault." ╮(￣_￣)╭

Li Lei waved his hand at Tianyi Mengxiang and said.

The scene before her eyes left the kind-hearted Ten'i Moeka speechless. ...( ＿ ＿)ノ｜

"Brother, have you ever seen Xiao Hei like this? I always knew Xiao Hei loved to eat, but I didn't expect it to be this much."

A girl of about sixteen or seventeen asked the young man beside her.

"Chihiro, you know me. I don't usually pay attention to anything other than things related to swords."

Chigusa said to Chihiro.

"Yes, yes, yes—! Brother, all you see is swords, you don't even care about your own sister who's asking you questions."

"I don't!"

Chigusa's voice suddenly became louder as she answered her sister Chihiro.

"Waaah... Brother, you've changed. You never used to talk to me like this." (っ╥╯﹏╰╥c)

"But ever since you got the sword, brother, you've rarely spoken to me. You don't even care about your own sister anymore."

"I……"

_(′?`」 ∠)__

At this moment, Chigusa felt like vomiting blood, because her younger sister wasn't like this before.

The little bird in the tree, watching the two different "melons" below, silently suppressed its laughter, its black body trembling incessantly, like a vibrating little motor.

It's clear how much Xiao Wu wanted to laugh at that moment, and how difficult it was for her to control her body. To keep her chest heaving without uttering a sound was truly an extraordinary challenge for Xiao Wu right now.

"Alright, Xiao Hei, I'll leave the severed arm here. You can hang it yourself for two hours."

In front of Xiao Hei, who was hanging upside down by red silk threads, Li Lei put down his severed arm, said his last words, and left.

Tianyi Mengxiang, who was standing to the side, watched Li Lei leave and then followed him.

Chigusa and Chihiro followed closely behind, heading in the direction of Li Lei.

Soon, only two animals, Xiao Hei and Xiao Wu, were left on the scene, staring at each other.

"Little Black, you've made your master angry again!"

The little bird in the tree opened its mouth and spoke.

"Ok, I know."

The upside-down little black creature answered calmly.

"Ah, you know!"

Upon hearing this, the little black bird in the tree was quite surprised. Could it be that Little Blackie was finally getting it today?

"Yes, Little Wu, I just discovered that it looks pretty good to eat it upside down."

"I wonder what it tastes like to eat something hanging upside down? Ψ(●°???????? ? °??????????●)Ψ"

"You...!"（｀へ′）

"You glutton, I'm ignoring you now. You can hang there and enjoy the cold air all by yourself!"

The angry little crow flew away, leaving the clumsy little black bear hanging there, starving.

"Wait a minute, Xiao Wu, give me the food on the ground before you go! Just like the last few times."

The little black bird, hanging upside down, called out to the little black bird.

"Figure it out yourself, I'm not helping you this time."

After leaving those words, the little bird flapped its wings and flew away.

"No...! Don't go, Little Wu!"

"I haven't eaten yet! I..."

But no matter what Xiao Hei said, it couldn't change Xiao Wu's mind to leave.

……

On the other side, Li Lei continued to practice the Thunder Breathing Technique in an open space. At first, Li Lei's figure could still be seen with the naked eye, but as Li Lei's speed increased, his movements became more and more rapid.

Li Lei's figure slowly began to resemble a white lightning bolt, leaping back and forth between the open space and the woods, like a lightning bolt dancing around.

Ten'i Moka and Chigusa Chihiro were stunned. Just then, an accident happened. Li Lei's body suddenly crashed into a large tree.

With a series of loud bangs, five or six trees thicker than a person's waist were snapped in two by Li Lei's body. It's easy to imagine how badly Li Lei's body must be in this state.

"I'm tired! Are you alright? You're tired."

"My lord, how are you? My lord."

Ten'i Moka ran quickly towards Li Lei with great anxiety, followed closely by Chigusa and Chihiro.

Ten'i Moka arrived at the spot where Li Lei had fallen, picked up the injured Li Lei, and looked at the wounded Lei.

Tianyi Mengxiang was at a loss for what to do. The sudden accident caught her off guard. She looked at Li Lei in her arms, whose body was covered with broken bones protruding from his skin and whose flesh was not intact.

Seeing this, Ten'i Moka was so heartbroken she almost cried.

"Sister, it hurts so much!"

Li Lei, lying in Tianyi Mengxiang's arms, said softly.

"You're tired, but you'll be fine."

Moka Ten'i's tears began to fall incessantly.

Chigusa and Chihiro, who were standing nearby, also felt so sad that they wanted to cry.

Several dozen seconds later, Li Lei's injuries began to heal. As his body recovered rapidly, Li Lei finally came to his senses from the pain he had just endured.

Recalling what had just happened, Li Lei felt a sense of fear. He never expected that suddenly switching to a different breathing method during the practice of a breathing technique would cause him such serious harm.

However, this was also due to Li Lei's overconfidence in his own strength. As a demon, he thought that his own recovery ability was very strong and that he could ignore the damage caused by the transformation of the breathing technique.

When reality slapped Li Lei hard in the face, even though he had strong regenerative abilities as a ghost, it didn't mean he could ignore the backlash damage from the breathing technique.

For Li Lei, whose strength is closest to that of an Upper Moon demon, this injury can be described as extremely serious.

Such severe injuries were mainly caused by a combination of internal and external injuries.

The reason is that Li Lei suddenly switched to water breathing while practicing thunder breathing.

If you suddenly change the breathing method you are using while practicing breathing techniques, your body may not be able to adapt to the new breathing method, which could lead to injury.

The sudden change in breathing techniques caused Li Lei to suffer a backlash from the conflict between the two breathing methods, and the sudden backlash caused Li Lei to instantly lose control of his body.

His body then went out of control and crashed into a large tree at high speed, causing Li Lei to suffer serious external injuries.

Normally, Li Lei could recover from this level of external injury in a few seconds, but the backlash from the breathing technique weakened his recovery ability instantly.

The consequence of this is that the backlash from the breathing technique will make it difficult for Li Lei to recover in a short period of time after being injured.