[Ghost Slayer] There is no me here

The doll is kept by a child who looks about ten years old, named Xiao Tie.

For some reason, Xiao Tie, who was originally hostile towards me approaching Yuanyi dolls, immediately patted his chest with pride when he heard me praise the lifelikeness of the dolls, and chattered about a bunch of dolls.

"Let me tell you! The prototype of the puppet is a real swordsman. Only with six hands can he show his superb sword skills!"

"It's amazing! That's a swordsman from the Warring States period!"

"And I am the owner of this doll!"

He raised his face proudly, obviously wearing a mask similar to mine, but I could guess the expression on his face begging for praise under the mask.

I also clapped my hands and praised: "Oh, that's amazing!"

Hearing this, the little boy's face rose even higher.

Well, it really is a child.

I think so.

Although he didn't intend to continue to exchange feelings with the little boy, but this guy named Xiao Tie seemed to not feel my alienation at all, so he posted up to chat with me.

And just like that, he and I became friends—or so he thought we were.

Sure enough, I'm not good at dealing with children, and I can't be bothered by him. When he was talking about interesting things every day, I just hummed after a few sentences, pretending that I was listening carefully, but in fact, it went in one ear and out the other.

One day, when I came out of the forest again, I saw Xiao Tie arguing with a man. The stranger's clothes were obviously from the Ghost Slaying Squad.Sensing the surging fighting spirit, I paused and didn't go forward. At the same time, I also found another person hiding in the bushes, but it had nothing to do with me.

Speaking of which, did you encounter one of the two pillars that you felt when you first entered the village?

But soon I was also very glad that I didn't rush to help, because a certain red-haired boy appeared again!

I can see him no matter where I go, it's just haunting me!

After a while, the dispute between the two sides turned into a three-party dispute, and the pillar cut Tanjiro unconscious with a knife in his hand.

Looking at the boy who fell unconscious on the ground and Xiao Tie who hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation, I scratched my hair irritably, and saw the person who was hiding behind the tree over there come out.It is a taller man, also wearing a fire man mask.

The man and Tetsu were discussing something, but in the end the two had to stop their conversation because Tanjiro woke up, and the man ran away before he woke up.

I hid behind the tree and quietly observed the movement there. It wasn't until the red-haired boy looked towards me while talking, that I slammed into the grass and stayed away from there with the same ulterior motive.

After walking a few steps, there was the clanging sound of swords clashing from a distance. I took a sneak peek and found that it was the boy with two ponytails who knocked out Tanjiro from before, and he was fighting Zero Type.

The moves and the way of using the sword are very neat, and the neatness is not like the knife skills that a child of his age should have.

...genius?

It's genius.

The Yuanyi Zero Style, which is specially used for combat practice, even though it is only a doll, its sword technique is not comparable to that of ordinary Ghost Slayers.

Although in my opinion the standard of the puppet is far from the original one, even a half-assed person like me who hasn't touched a knife for hundreds of years can take a few tricks.

"Ah, you are here."

A voice suddenly sounded from behind, my body shook, I raised my hand to hit him but stopped abruptly when I saw someone coming.

The face under my mask instantly rolled its eyes.

Tanjiro smiled and waved at me, and seeing his reaction, I knew that this person recognized me again.

...dog nose?

Dogs don't have such smart noses.

"Just now I noticed that someone was looking at me there, and it really was you."

I:"........."

I didn't want to pay attention to him at all, and continued to watch the little dwarf Zhu fight the puppet.

When Tanjiro was about to say something, Xiaotie followed closely behind him and interrupted him, so he simply stopped talking and followed my gaze.

"That face...I've seen it before!"

He suddenly yelled, "In a dream! I saw him in a dream!"

I turned my head in shock, with disbelief in my eyes.

"Quack, you're laughing so hard, are you stupid? Did you come to the village before or did you know a warrior from the Warring States Period? How old are you?"

A crow with very long eyelashes flew over and laughed at Tanjiro's remarks, and sneered after he finished speaking.

For a moment, my thoughts coincided miraculously with this crow. After all, as it said, it was too unrealistic for people in the Warring States Period to say they knew anything.

Tanjiro: "..."

Tanjiro: "Sorry, I'm so weird."

"No, no, it should be memory inheritance." Xiao Tie hurriedly waved his hand to comfort and explained the matter of memory inheritance, "The dream you have must be the memory left by your ancestors!"

Inherited memory.

If Tanjirou Kamado is the successor of Hi no Breath, then it is not surprising that Enichi is in the memory he inherited from his ancestors.

"Are you right!" Xiao Tie slapped me on the back, slapping me out of contemplation, "A Teng!"

"You're right." I replied slowly.

The last time Xiaotie asked me what my name was, I was so pestered by him that I had no choice but to make up a pseudonym. When he called me like that, I didn't react for a while.

"A Teng?"

When Tanjiro heard the name, he looked over with doubts on his face, and I agreed without changing my expression.Anyway, I'm wearing a mask, and seeing him like this won't just reveal my identity in spite of everything.

click-

Just as we were introducing ourselves, the pillar over there chopped off the doll's shoulder armor, and the doll's body was also damaged in many places.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Tie's thin body trembled, turned around and ran into the depths of the forest.

"Little Tiejun!"

Tanjiro took one look at me and followed them with a yell. I stood still and watched them leave.

The world is clean.

I turned around, and the pillar over there had cut the puppet so that it couldn't move, and it collapsed on the ground, with one of its six arms broken.

The boy with twin tails picked up the arm that was cut off from the doll, and took it with the knife.

His bland eyes glanced over me, "Who are you... Oh yes, my knife was broken so take this." He pulled out the knife beside him and threw it to me, "Throw it away for me. "

After speaking, he left without looking back.

Holding the knife in my arms, I remained silent, walked slowly to the side of the disabled doll, and stood still.

After a long time, I pulled out the knife that was thrown away by the boy with two ponytails. The blade was cut off from one-third of the blade, and it was pure white.But in my hand, the bright white color quickly returned to the normal color of the blade.

I'm a little disappointed.

Knowing that he doesn't know how to breathe, he shouldn't have any expectations of the Rilun Saber, but he still harbors that silly fantasy.

I took a deep breath, held the truncated sun wheel knife in my hand, recalled the feeling of holding the knife, and swung hard towards the grass.

There are no fixed sword moves, and there are no other redundant actions.

With just such a blow, the strong wind brought by the swing of the knife cut off the cluster of bushes in the middle, and even cut a deep hole in the thick trunk of the three people hugging each other.

In the next second, the blade of the sun wheel knife in his hand was completely shattered and turned into powder, leaving only the handle of the knife in his hand.