Konoha: Start with omniscience and omnipotence

However, he didn't wait for the wild and sharp laughter from the hand ghost's mouth to blurt out.

A short figure, also carrying a knife on his back, suddenly appeared from the bushes.

"ah."

"It's so ugly and smells bad."

"Hey, Niugui."

"Are you really sure your brother is around?"

"Are you lying to me again?"

The image of the man holding the knife did not see the two people in front of him at all, and was talking to the air.

The eyes of Tegui and Tanjiro turned to the figure who suddenly spoke.

The looks in their eyes were completely opposite.

Surprise, and panic.

"Where's the rare guest?"

The ghost with its neck and head wrapped in several arms turned to look at the speaker, and suddenly a smile of excitement and madness appeared on its face: "Has the Demon Slayer Corps actually started recruiting such young children?"

That's right.

The figure holding the knife is exactly a ‘child’.

Although he looks a bit strange, his skin is tanned all over his body, and even his hair is soft white with a light golden hue. He looks about seven or eight years old, and his height is only around the waist of an ordinary person.

Behind him was a red satin knife that was only slightly shorter than his own. There was a cloth belt tied with a strange iron piece on his forehead. He was wearing a combat uniform similar to a body armor, and on his feet were a pair of open-toed rubber shoes.

The whole person looks weird, but what he says is understandable.

"Well, it doesn't matter."

"Since this is a dessert delivered to your door, I won't be polite!"

The moment the voice fell, the skin of several arms that were originally coiled around the hand ghost's neck and shoulders suddenly bloomed with thick green veins. The swollen muscles swelled high like a balloon and then suddenly contracted, and then the entire

The stubby arm was like a bullet that had been preparing for a long time, and it shot straight in the direction of the dark child at an extremely fast speed with a 'pop' sound.

"Get away!!"

Tanjiro, who was originally in a sluggish state, had almost no 'thinking' process in his brain at the moment.

Seeing that someone was about to be hurt, his hand immediately pulled out the Nichirin Sword from his waist before he even had time to shout.

The sun wheel sword with blue and gold patterns reflected a faint arc of light under the dim moonlight at night. With the high-speed sword, it drew a moon hook-like arc in the air. His highly skilled movements allowed him to move in an instant.

, exerting the power of the human body to its limit.

"clang!"

However, just like this, the moment it struck the flying arm, it only cut half of it, causing it to hit the original landing spot and make a muffled sound.

"Run!"

The young man, who was full of justice and enthusiasm in his heart, almost didn't check on the child behind him. He stood between him and the hand ghost without hesitation, pointing the tip of the knife directly at the huge and terrifying monster in front of him, and hissed to himself.

Shouting:

"You can't deal with this guy! Leave quickly!"

Just by twitching his nose, the young man in front of him could tell from the strong 'smell' how terrifying the monster in front of him was.

How many people did it eat?

Ten? Twenty?

Or more?

When Tanjiro didn't notice, the hand holding his sword was trembling slightly.

It's not like he hasn't killed ghosts before.

But the moment he smelled the smell of the hand ghost in front of him, Tanjiro realized - compared with the giant monster in front of him, the ghosts he had killed before that had only eaten one or two people were all trash!

There is no exception.

"Oh?"

However, when the hand ghost in front of him saw the behavior of the 'little fox' in front of him, he seemed not to be surprised at all, and the disgusting smile on his face became even brighter.

"Sure enough, the children raised by Lintaki are all the same."

"Justice, passion, kindness. Everyone is like this."

"Whenever the people around me are in danger, they will rush forward stupidly - and then they will be torn into pieces by me."

The resolute expression on Tanjiro's face couldn't help but be startled, and he showed a somewhat stunned look, and subconsciously said:

"You, how do you know Teacher Lintaki's name?"

"Because of the evil fox face on your head!"

It seems that every time he says this, it makes the monster in front of him feel happy. The hand ghost subconsciously points the fingers on the arms with a strange smile on his face:

"It's been the forty-seventh year since I was captured by Lintaki. In these years, I have eaten a total of fifty people, and thirteen of them were Lintaki's disciples!"

"If I include you, I'm the fourteenth."

"Everyone! Everyone is wearing that mask!"

"Happy! Happy!"

Listening to his coherent and crazy words, Tanjiro, who was holding a knife in both hands, turned pale and felt that his body temperature was continuously dropping and his body was cold.

Both angry and fearful.

The strength of ghosts is directly linked to the total number of humans they have eaten.

Having eaten fifty people showed that the strength of this ghost was several times, even dozens of times, that of the other fish he had faced.

at the same time

Tanjiro felt the fox face on his forehead, recalling the earnest look in Teacher Lintaki's eyes before he left, and felt that

"that?"

However, before the fiery emotion in his heart could be brewed, or the BGM unique to the protagonist could sound, the whole process was suddenly interrupted by a figure who should have disappeared from the battlefield.

The short and weird figure who was standing behind Tanjiro suddenly appeared between the two of them, making strange gestures with his hands:

"Excuse me, have you ever seen an adult who looks similar to me?"

"I was sleeping next to my eldest brother before, maybe he kicked me down again."

"But, a friend told me he was nearby."

"Can you help me look for it?"

One person and one ghost who were originally confronting each other because of the 'feud' turned their heads at the same time.

The next second.

The hand ghost glanced at Tanjiro from the corner of his eye, as if he suddenly thought of something, and the smile on his face became more and more weird and crazy.

"Puff puff--"

Without any warning, thick arms shot like flying arrows at the young, ignorant child in front of him.

This child seems to be so young that he has almost no knowledge of the world. Even his fear of ghosts appears to be extremely weak, and there is absolutely no sign of any stress response in response to danger.

As long as you catch this little thing and gently dangle it in front of the little fox in front of you, won't he let you do whatever you want?

"Whoosh!"

as expected.

Facing the arms that flew out, the little guy in front of him, who only reached about the waist of an ordinary person, had no ability to resist at all. His limbs were tightly pulled by the numerous arms, and he seemed to have completely forgotten to move due to the sudden reaction.

.

"careful!"

Tanjiro, who was stunned by the child's ignorant remarks, only had time to stop him half a second after the attack was launched.

at the same time.

His pupils contracted, he took a deep breath, and his whole body entered the most familiar explosive state under the influence of instinct.

Breathe fully.

Swing the knife!

【Breath of Water·Three Forms·Flowing Dance】

The moment his breathing and footsteps unfolded together, the blade drawn by the young man seemed to be surrounded by thin and continuous water. The steps under his feet showed a fast zigzag shape that could not be locked. The whole person was like a water snake galloping in the jungle, with sharp edges.

The blade pointed directly at the arms restraining the young child in front of him.

"laugh!"

The swung blade split the air and slashed in the air.

However, he only had time to cut off two of the arms.

"Don't move!"

Just when he was about to strike again, he heard the weird and crazy scream of the hand ghost coming from his side.

The moment the hand ghost screamed, the big shit-yellow hand that was originally clenched on the toddler's left foot had already climbed up his torso.

"If you dare to move again, I will crush this kid's spine!"

Tanjiro's eyes suddenly solidified.

The blade that was about to be chopped down turned out to be fixed in mid-air and did not dare to move any further.

The hand ghost slowly picked up the dark boy in front of him and hung him upside down in the air. His smile became more and more malicious, and his voice became weird and sticky:

"Hey hey hey."

"As expected! As expected~!"

"As expected, he is the disciple taught by that guy Lintaki."

"His kids are always so stupid!"

"Gudong."

Tanjiro stood there, looking hard at the child held in the air by the hand ghost, and swallowed hard.

It is equally difficult for anyone to face the choice between their own lives and the lives of others.

Kind children are not necessarily stronger than anyone else.

They are just cruel enough to themselves.

'If I die, will the child survive?'

Tanjiro stood there, subconsciously asking himself this question.

However, the little guy who wasn't very good at 'reading the air' spoke again.

He hung upside down in the air, his eyes under his sunglasses turned to the hand ghost holding his calf and asked:

"I've been wanting to ask you this since just now. Uncle, why do you have so many hands?"

It seemed that because he could eat the 'little fox' again, he was in an extremely happy mood. In addition, the hand ghost helped him retain the little fox, so the hand ghost's voice was softer than ever before.

His star-shaped pupils shrank into a ball, and the weird smile on his face became more distorted, and he said softly:

"because."

"I'm a monster!"

"Hahahahahaha!!"

However, even though it has reached this point, the little thing in front of it still does not show the fearful emotion it imagined, and still talks to itself in the empty space:

"So, Niu Gui, are you also a monster?"

"What? Am I the monster?!"

"And more and more."

"Although eldest brother told me that I can't use your power to hurt people in any way. But it has done this to me, so it shouldn't matter if I kill him, right?"

"Yeah, I think so too."

Listening to this series of words talking to himself, the hand ghost was also a little confused, as if he didn't understand what this little thing was talking to, or maybe he had already gone crazy.

Thinking this way, it subconsciously shook the little thing in its hand and cursed dissatisfiedly:

"Hey! Give me some fear!"

"You brat!"

"I'm going to chew you up bit by bit, idiot!"

"Snapped."

Without any warning, the young child hanging upside down in the air reached out and grabbed the shit-yellow wrist.

Then, I saw the dark-skinned little dot in front of me open her mouth, revealing a pair of bright white teeth and a cheerful smile.

"I'm not called Hey, my name is Kira."

"In addition, Niu Gui said"

"I'm a monster too!"

The hand ghost was a little dazed, looking at the little one with puzzled eyes.

next moment.

The surface of the seemingly ordinary little thing was suddenly covered with a red film that was as hot as a flame, and a tail of bubbly bubbles quickly extended from the back of the buttocks.

"Ahhhh——"

The hand ghost's shit-yellow skin was quickly burned to the point of bubbles, corrosion, and ulceration under the influence of the tailed beast's coat. The originally thick arms were eroded in the blink of an eye until the muscles and bones were visible.

It was so frightened that it opened its eyes wide, and its star-shaped pupils looked angrily at the kid in front of it, and roared:

"Damn it! You are a ghost too!"

"What kind of vampire magic is this? Why the hell are you looking for me if you're not in a hurry to eat people!"

Not only it, but Tanjiro in the distance was also frightened, staring blankly at the scene happening in front of him.

However, the dark-skinned child named Kira did not pause at all. He pulled out the short knife from his back with a simple movement. Under the horrified gaze of the hand ghost, he easily cut off his thick wrist, humming in his mouth that no one could hear.

I understand, but it’s a little tune with a certain rhythm.

The light of the flying sword in Qira's hand shone like a star chain, easily cutting off several wrists that came at him, and he rushed towards the monster in front of him with an unstoppable force.

However, it is not so easy to cut off all the dense wrists at this extremely close distance.

Just a slight slip through the net, and Qi La's current sword skills are not pure at all, and one or two big hands will grab the limbs or torso.

"Pah! Pah!"

After paying the price of breaking all six arms, the hand ghost grabbed Kira's thin legs and neck in mid-air.

"Ah, got caught."

Kira read with an expressionless face.

The hand ghost's wide-open eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and the sinister smile on his face became even brighter.

"Whatever you are!"

"Die to me!!"

Roaring, the hand ghost grabbed Kira's arm and suddenly thick veins popped up on the surface, and the swollen muscles stretched the skin into a round shape. It was obvious that he had exerted his strength to the maximum.

However, the child's body wrapped in that strange red coat seemed like a complete piece of stubborn iron.

No matter how hard the hand ghost tried, it had no effect at all.

It's like tearing a flexible rubber band.

It doesn't understand.

Neither ghosts nor human bodies should feel this way, right?

Just when it was at a loss, it heard Qira ask mid-air:

"Niugui."

"You said, since we can't find our eldest brother, how about we just let him come to us?"

"yes."

"What does it have to do with it? You're so old, it's easier to find you!"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! I was the one who got beaten afterward anyway."

After he finished saying this, an ominous premonition gradually arose in Hand Ghost's heart.

Kira looked at it with a somewhat apologetic expression, like a normal child who was caught doing a prank and said shyly:

"I'm sorry, I might have to trouble you."

The hand ghost looked at him blankly.

The next second, some indescribable power seemed to be suddenly released from the child's body. The red coat that originally only covered the body suddenly began to expand outwards without limit! Expansion!

At the moment of expansion, a bull's head made entirely of crimson suddenly opened its mouth in the direction of the hand ghost.

Take a bite with a "pop" sound.

Compared to human beings, the Hand Ghost, which is extremely huge and obese, in front of this huge head that is as big as a natural disaster, is like a jelly that has no resistance and cannot even escape. It is really as he said, "

Chew it in one bite'.

It also exploded.

Until the end, the expression on the face of this ferocious ghost was always "sluggish" and "stiff".

Silly.

Suddenly, the huge volume instantly crushed everything around it.

"Moo——"

Under Tanjiro's dull gaze, a giant monster that was at least over fifty meters tall, with an upper body like a bull's head and a human body, and a lower body with octopus claws, suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

that moment.

The kind-hearted young man in front of me has a young heart that only wants to kill ghosts.

Suddenly he was shaken.

He raised his head and didn't notice that the knife had fallen to the ground. He just stared blankly at the huge thing in front of him.

Such a monster

Is it really something humans can handle?