Chapter 160: Ghost
"Hey! Do you really know my brother?!"
Xuan Mi, who was talking to Wolf, suddenly stood up from the bench after learning that Wolf knew Busei Kawai. His voice suddenly became louder and he looked straight at Wolf, attracting the attention of other guests in the restaurant.
Seeing that the other party was emotional, Wolf did not continue speaking, but just looked at him silently. The shocked Xuan Mi also noticed the gazes of the people around him. After sitting down awkwardly, he looked up at Wolf cautiously.
"... Did my brother ever mention me..."
Looking at the other party's hopeful eyes, a hint of hesitation flashed in Wolf's eyes, but in the end he told Xuan Mi the truth.
"No…"
Hearing Lang calmly say the words that he least wanted to hear, Xuan Mi's heart sank to the bottom in an instant. His back, which was originally thin but always straight, bent down and fell on the table.
This made the wolf a little at a loss for a moment. The owl, which had been pecking at Xuan Mi's hand angrily, also stopped, raised its head and saw the other's face lowered with tears.
Gu Gu…
Moving slowly, the owl leaned its warm body against Xuan Mi, providing some warmth to the other's thin figure, and Xuan Mi also raised his head.
Looking at the owl in front of him and feeling the warmth from it, the tears in his eyes stopped and his expression became firm. He reached out to wipe the tears from his face and clenched his fists towards the silent wolf in front of him.
"I must get my brother's forgiveness!"
Although he didn't know what happened between the two brothers, when Lang saw Xuan Mi regaining his strength, he thought it was time to say goodbye to him and officially start his journey.
"Come on...see you later."
After a brief encouragement, the wolf first carried the owl away despite the owl's resistance, then turned around and was about to leave. However, before he took a step, he felt a heaviness on his legs.
"Please, sir! Please take me with you. Although I know this is shameless, I am worried that I won't survive this winter and won't be able to meet my brother!"
Xuan Mi's voice was heard behind him, and many guests around him cast strange looks at the wolf, but even so the wolf ignored them and raised his leg to shake the other party off, but at this moment, the somewhat terrifying face of Busei Kawai appeared in his mind.
After all, the person behind him is Fuzukawa's younger brother. Thinking of this, Wolf slowly put down his raised leg, and Xuan Mi behind him saw that Wolf paused, and hurriedly spoke in a low voice.
"My physique is different from that of ordinary people. I can gain the power of the devil by eating its tissues."
Hearing this, the wolf was immediately puzzled, wondering how could there be such a strange physique. He pulled the other person up from the ground, looked at him, and took out a cloth bag from his arms and threw it into the other person's arms.
"for you…"
After saying that, without waiting for the other party to react, he turned around and disappeared from the other party's sight, leaving Xuan Mi alone in the restaurant, looking at the heavy cloth bag in his hand, lowering his head in thought.
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boom! Wow!
The hook pierced into the tree, and the sound of the wolf breaking through the wind echoed in the forest. Behind it, an owl spread its wings and followed closely, with a human expression of pity on its face.
Because of his interactions with the Tokito brothers and Inosuke, he really likes children. Thinking about this, it has been many days since I last saw them...
Just as the owl was reminiscing, the wolf that had been flying between the trees in front of it suddenly stopped moving forward, stood on a tree branch, pulled out the wedge ball from its waist, turned around and pounced towards the snow under the tree!
Just as the owl was puzzled, a snowflake exploded in the snow, and the sharp blade in the wolf's hand pierced through the splashing snow curtain and stabbed the person hiding behind it.
"…Well…"
The tip of the knife sank half an inch into the neck, and the hidden person groaned. The wolf frowned when he heard the sound, stopped the action of chopping off the opponent's head with the knife, and pulled out the knife.
The snowflakes that were stirred up also dissipated at this moment, revealing a familiar face behind it. It was Xuanya Busei who had just parted not long ago. Looking at the pain on the other's face and the other's obviously demonic face.
The wolf shook off the blood on the wedge ball with his hand, sheathed the knife, pulled the opponent up from the snow, and looked at him, waiting for his words.
At this time, the wound on Xuan Mi's neck had healed by itself. He was looking at the wolf in shock. His mouth trembled for a moment and then he spoke intermittently.
"Good, good...strong."
Then, noticing the questioning look on the wolf's face, he bent down and took out some bottles and jars tightly wrapped in black cloth from his arms, while beginning to explain to the wolf.
"These are the flesh and blood I picked up from the demons that the Demon Slayers killed while they were not paying attention. Some demons' blood magic is related to speed... That's why I can keep up with you..."
After saying that, he looked at the wolf with some fear, but saw that the wolf still had no expression, as if to say that this was not what he wanted to hear.
Seeing this, Xuan Mi gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, knelt down in the snow, lay on the ground, and said to the wolf.
"Please take me with you. I will have more opportunities to see my brother if I follow you. I will definitely not hold you back!"
Xuan Mi's tone was particularly sincere as he knelt on the ground, but the wolf shifted his gaze to the other's trembling legs. It was obvious that even if the other party turned into a ghost, it would be quite difficult for him to catch up with the wolf's speed.
Just as the wolf was hesitating, the last ray of sunlight in the sky dissipated, and the sun gradually set over the mountain. The forest suddenly fell into darkness, and the wolf's keen ears immediately heard many panting sounds like those of wild beasts.
The Kaimaru, which had just been sheathed, showed its sharpness again under the moonlight. Looking at Xuan Mi in front of him, who had obviously heard something and was now full of fear, he took out a portion of [God's Flying Snow] from his arms, scattered it into the air and said to the other party.
"…Follow me…This may be the easiest battle…"
Powder flames ignited on the wedge-shaped knife, illuminating a hideous ghost face in the darkness behind it. The other party's eyes were murderous and he stretched out his ghost claws to grab the wolf's head.
But the wolf remained calm and composed, and spoke again under Xuan Mi's anxious and sweaty gaze.
“…We must cherish…the hard-earned life…”
The wolf slightly turned his body and swung a knife to his side as he finished speaking. The ghost hand that was grabbing the wolf flew straight into the sky and landed in front of Xuan Mi. The evil ghost whose arm was cut off suddenly felt the pain as if the wound was corroded by sulfuric acid.
He hugged himself and roared to the sky. The next moment, the wedge ball burning with powder flames pierced straight into his brain through his eye sockets, and then slashed it with a horizontal sword. Although he was not beheaded, he still felt his life slipping away.
The evil ghost turned into ashes and disappeared in front of the wolf, but as soon as the wolf thought about it, a light curtain lit up in front of him.
【Scattered beads x1】
Soon after, more and more red lights lit up in the forest, and one hungry evil spirit after another pounced on the wolf from the darkness, while the wolf waved the sharp blade in his hand to kill the evil spirits one by one.
The battle lasted until the sun rose in the sky. Xuan Mi's bloodshot eyes watched as Wolf waved the sharp blade in his hand like dancing, slashing out vacuum blows with powder flames around him, chopping all the evil spirits that pounced on him into minced meat.
All the evil spirits lurking in the mountains were wiped out overnight. The wolf, who did not look tired at all, shook off the blood on the wedge-shaped sword and put it back into the scabbard.
With his back to the rising sun, he looked at Xuan Mi who had been stunned for a long time. The ghost blood all over his body dissipated like white steam when it met the sunlight, so Xuan Mi could not see the expression of the wolf hiding in the shadow for a moment. He only heard what the other party said.
"...Do you still want to catch up..."
Mumu looked at the wolf with its back to the sun, and the dullness in Xuanmi's eyes turned into determination.
"Yes!"