Hunter [35]: The Temari Demon and the Arrow Demon (Patreon)

"Let's rest here for tonight."

Lin Jiu carried Toko and found an empty house.

The place was dust-covered and showed signs of damage from long ago. It seemed that after the previous owner was attacked by demons, others considered the place unlucky and dared not approach.

Lin Jiu cleaned the bed and laid down the exhausted and already sleeping Toko. He sat to the side; he still had a treasure chest and a blood card to open!

Rubbing his palms together, Lin Jiu felt the excitement of opening a chest. He took out a green treasure chest and opened it.

Disappointment hit him—no flash of light!

[You have opened a green treasure chest and obtained the following item:]

[2000 Paradise Coins.]

That was it...

Lin Jiu stared blankly at his hand...

Controlling his emotions, he checked the two green items traded from the Demon Contractor.

One was a green ring.

[Awakening Stone]

Origin: Flowing Light Jewelry Store

Grade: Green

Category: Ring

Durability: None (Jewelry-type equipment has no durability and does not need repairs)

Equipment Requirement: 12 Intelligence points

Equipment Effect: Awakening (Active). When activated, it performs an intelligence check between the user and the enemy. If successful, the user ignores control skills for 3 seconds (there is a 20% chance of failure if the control skill's quality is one tier higher than the equipment).

Note: The cooldown time for Awakening (Active) is 24 hours.

Rating: 28

Description: "I can't sleep yet..."

Price: 3100 Paradise Coins.

This nice control-breaking ring lifted Lin Jiu's mood a bit. He put on the ring. The other item was a green recovery item, slightly less effective than the Moomoo Milk he had used before, but still better than nothing!

The scarlet card yielded two useless daily items and a recovery item, though of white quality. Including several white recovery items from the Demon Contractor, Lin Jiu's stock of unused recovery items was quite abundant.

Those contractors who turned into demons could use their blood as recovery items, so they preserved their recovery items well.

From the information Lin Jiu got from the Demon Contractor, he could predict that there was another group of contractors, and the contractors from the Demon faction were not easy to deal with. However, they could join the demon faction through a small amount of demon blood, working within the Reincarnation Paradise mechanism and not being controlled by Kibutsuji Muzan, which was unexpected.

...

"Toko, don't show such a cold smile."

During a rest on the journey, Lin Jiu noticed Toko smiling coldly, which was too inappropriate for a child of her age. He didn't know who she had learned it from and needed to correct it immediately.

"Okay, Brother Red."

Toko, upon hearing the reprimand, switched to her original smile and responded.

Brother Red's smile, although cold, was very gentle. I must have only learned the surface, not this gentleness. I need to practice more! You can do it, Toko!

...

...

"Toko..."

Lin Jiu poked the dazed Toko beside him to bring her back to reality.

"It's so big and bright here!"

Toko, who had never been to a big city, was incredibly amazed by the night view of Tokyo.

Lin Jiu patted her head without saying anything. Should he say that in the future, she would witness even more spectacular sights? She probably wouldn't live until then!

Walking along the streets of Tokyo with Toko, Lin Jiu had already changed into his tracker hunter leather armor. After letting Toko eat a bowl of udon noodles, he began to search for a route.

"Found it."

Lin Jiu noticed a busy street where people avoided a bloodstain. Approaching the bloodstain, he used the tracking ability of his hunter leather armor. He locked onto the woman whose husband had been turned into a demon by Kibutsuji Muzan and was injured.

The demon had been taken back by Tamayo. As long as he tracked the demon, he could encounter the two demons, who had been enhanced by Kibutsuji Muzan and were close to the Lower Moons.

Using the tracking skill, the scent turned into a blood-red line in Lin Jiu's vision, extending in a certain direction. Lin Jiu followed the trail with Toko, gradually entering a sparsely populated, remote alley.

But there, the blood-red scent line completely disappeared, clearly obscured by Yushiro's Blood Demon Art near Tamayo. However, this was enough. Lin Jiu could already hear a demon laughing wildly!

"The demon slayer with the flower-patterned sun earrings, it must be you! Just bring your head back to our master, and the master will surely praise me! Hahaha!"

The Temari Demon, Susamaru, laughed as she looked at Tanjiro.

Four additional arms grew under her armpits, along with her original two arms, making six arms holding handballs, launching an attack on Tanjiro.

These handballs, thrown with great force, were also guided by the Arrow Demon Yahaba's usually invisible arrows, tracking and attacking Tanjiro.

And with the aid of Yushiro's vision, Tanjiro saw the arrows and easily dodged them.

Meanwhile, in the wooded area of the courtyard, Nezuko was constantly looking for the demon Tanjiro mentioned, the Arrow Demon Yahaba.

Soon, Yahaba, who was leaning against a tree branch, was discovered by Nezuko, and she launched an attack. To fend off the dust raised by Nezuko's attack, the power controlling the handballs disappeared.

"Now's the time... Total Concentration, Water Breathing, Third Form: Flowing Dance!"

Tanjiro's movements and sword technique suddenly transformed into a gentle stream of water, slicing off the six arms of Susamaru.

As for why he didn't cut off the head, Tanjiro looked at Tamayo and asked, "This demon's blood should be very close to Kibutsuji Muzan's, right?"

"Perhaps..."

Tamayo, who had always avoided Kibutsuji Muzan and his subordinates, wasn't familiar with the internal power hierarchy of the demons. She only had a general understanding of the Twelve Kizuki.

The Handball Demon, Susamaru, instantly grew six arms and laughed, "You want to take the blood of someone from the Twelve Kizuki! Although I don't know your purpose, I can't let that master be displeased!"

At the same time, Nezuko was slammed to the ground by the power carried by Yahaba's arrows. Yahaba also fell from the tree!

"Did you learn it?"

"Yes. This brother's sword technique is amazing!"

"Who's there?!"

The sudden conversation startled both the demons and humans present.

Then Susamaru arrogantly boasted, "Are there more people coming to die?!"

"..."

Lin Jiu remained silent as he dropped down from the wall. Toko, who followed behind him, gave Susamaru a sympathetic look.

As expected, the next moment Lin Jiu said to Tanjiro, "Didn't your Cultivator teach you how to identify the Twelve Kizuki? The Twelve Kizuki are divided into Upper Moons One to Six and Lower Moons One to Six.

The demons of the Lower Moons have a single eye engraved with a number, usually something like 'Lower Six.' The demons of the Upper Moons have both eyes engraved, one side with 'Upper Moon' and the other with their rank. Look at the demon in front of you, which category does it fit?"

Just as Tanjiro showed a look of realization, Susamaru frantically denied, "That's impossible! I am one of the Twelve Kizuki, I have the power granted by master!"

Lin Jiu didn't want to say anything more to the hysterical Susamaru. Instead, he charged at the Arrow Demon Yahaba.

Seeing the sudden appearance of a person attacking him, Yahaba opened his palm, revealing an eye in his hand. The eye, with an arrow-shaped pupil, glared, and an invisible red arrow appeared under Lin Jiu's feet, ready to use the same trick to move Lin Jiu away.

"Watch out!"

Now able to see the arrows, Tanjiro hurriedly warned.

Lin Jiu suddenly exerted force, stepping on the ground, and the soft ground immediately sank into a pit. He could feel a resistance trying to move him away, but after exerting more force, he directly broke through this resistance.

The red arrow instantly shattered, and blood tears flowed from the eye in Yahaba's palm. Just as Yahaba felt pain in his eye, the next moment, a flash of the sword, and the demon's head fell to the ground.

"So strong..."

While Tanjiro was still marveling, Lin Jiu's figure had already approached Susamaru.

"Killing me won't be that easy!"

Susamaru's face showed a fierce light, and all six arms, each holding a handball, fiercely threw them at Lin Jiu.

The handballs, carrying fierce force, flew through the air, and the airflow they stirred was clearly sensed by Lin Jiu. He easily dodged the handballs that were no longer controlled by the Arrow Demon and appeared in front of Susamaru, killing her with one sword strike.

[You have killed the two primary antagonists, Susamaru and Yahaba.]

[Susamaru and Yahaba were special ability demons, gaining 2% of the World Source, now having a total of 5.2% of the World Source.]

[Your talent Soul Condensation has activated, permanently increasing a portion of soul power, current soul power has not reached display value standard.]

[Gained 40 Demon Slayer Corps Contribution Points.]

Tanjiro and the others were stunned. The two demons, who had caused such destruction here and had made them decide to fight with all their might, were now dealt with in half a minute by someone else.

This half a minute included the time taken to explain the characteristics of the Twelve Kizuki. In reality, it only took about ten seconds!

"Hey, big brother, your sword technique is quite good, but it's still a bit inferior to Brother Red!"

Toko said with a smile.

Tanjiro followed the sound of Toko's voice and saw the Demon Slayer Corps uniform she was wearing, "Are you also a demon Slayer?!"

Just then, Lin Jiu's gaze swept over Tamayo and Yushiro, stopping on Tanjiro and Nezuko.

"She's really cute!"

Lin Jiu sighed as he looked at the dazed Nezuko.

Cold sweat broke out on Tanjiro's body as he raised his sword to protect Nezuko, feeling something was wrong, "This demon slayer's gaze is so strange, will he kill them? I must protect Nezuko!"

Lin Jiu glanced coldly at Tanjiro. This guy was stingy; he couldn't even look at his sister. Siscon!