Chapter 205: Just one step left...
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"here it is…"
When he was able to open his eyes again, Jifutaro was already standing in darkness. He looked down at his gray skin and skinny body, and found that he had returned to his original appearance.
“…Am I dead…”
He murmured softly, then suddenly looked up, and Jifutaro looked around quickly, trying to find the familiar figure, but in the end found nothing.
"how come…"
Just as he dropped his hands helplessly, a red light appeared in his eyes.
His eyes paused, and Jifutaro moved subconsciously, striding towards the light. Although he didn't know what that light was, it was his last hope.
As he continued to run, the light became brighter and brighter, and finally his true face appeared in front of Jifutaro. The running figure slowly stopped, and everything in front of him shocked him.
Figures of all shapes and sizes appeared before his eyes. Some stood on high platforms, turned into white light, gradually flew up, and finally merged into the constantly flowing river.
Curiously walking towards the shore, Jifutaro half-knelt on the ground and slowly reached out to touch the flowing river water, but a huge force instantly descended upon him, causing him to fly backwards like a cannonball and hit the shore.
Struggling to stand up, Jifutaro looked at the ordinary river with fear. He was about to leave quickly, but before he left, a dark aura on the shore caught his attention.
This is…
Before he could think about it, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly rang out. Jifutaro looked back and saw a young figure trapped in the darkness, and countless strange hands stretched out from the flames in front of him, tearing off his flesh and blood in an instant.
Looking around, there seem to be quite a few people being tortured like this in this darkness.
Could it be that Mei also...
Thinking this in his heart, Jifutaro frowned and searched around for Mei's trace, but he saw his sister's figure on the other side in the distance.
This was a raging sea of fire, the scorching heat distorted the space, but countless people still had unwillingness written on their faces, but in the end they still walked in, twisting their bodies in pain and turning into strange human shapes.
Mei was standing in front of the sea of fire, her face pale. She stood there at a loss, not wanting to go in. But the instinct of her soul told her loudly that if she didn't go in, something even more terrifying would happen.
Just as Mei was trembling with fear, a pair of warm arms slowly embraced her and held her in their arms, and her brother's constant whispers of relief rang in her ears.
"Still here...still here..."
Looking at this obviously ugly arm, Mei hugged it tightly.
"Brother... I can handle it alone..."
Gently patting the back of his trembling sister in his arms, Jifutaro looked at the sea of fire in front of him, carried his sister on his back, and walked towards the sea of fire step by step.
"…We brothers and sisters…will be together forever…"
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On the battlefield, the wolf looked at the resentful ghost with lifeless eyes in front of him. After a moment of stunnedness, he waved his hand and dispersed it into a huge amount of karma, which returned to the wolf's body.
The red sparks on their bodies extinguished and flew towards the wolf's chest, finally turning into a red fire that was taken back into the wolf's arms.
Without the scorching breath of the ghost of resentment, the heavy rain poured down on the hot, cracked ground, stirring up a thin layer of steam.
At this moment, Zenitsu and Zenitsu ran towards the wolf excitedly and looked at it excitedly, but found that the wolf's expression was not happy, but rather a little solemn, so they asked the wolf carefully.
"Mr. Hirata...what happened?"
Hearing the two people's questions, the wolf did not answer, but just frowned, clenched his fists, and felt the strange feeling that suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart.
...This feeling...something is going to happen...
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In the Infinite Castle, Mingnu, who was originally kneeling quietly, suddenly played the pipa lightly and talked to herself in a strange accent.
"There are less than ten days left before the plan begins..."
Then he gave it a heavy bounce and continued.
"But Master Muzan is still at the bottom of the Infinite Castle... recuperating, and the upper ranks are unable to contact him."
Qiang~
Thinking of the violence that Muzan had inflicted on her without any explanation, Mingnu hesitated for a moment and plucked the strings of the zither hard.
Clang!
"Well then... I will use my new power to investigate the whereabouts of the Demon Slayer swordsman..."
The hair floated up out of thin air and stuck to the wall behind them, spreading out in all directions like branches and leaves. At the top, small balls of fruit were cones, but when they landed on the ground, it was clear that these fruits were actually strange eyeballs with several thin limbs.
As soon as it landed, it rushed in all directions and disappeared in the blink of an eye, while the sight of each eye was clearly projected into Mingnu's eyes, maximizing the speed of intelligence gathering.
One after another, the "fruits" fell and crawled from the Infinite Castle to the world, and at the bottom of the Infinite Castle, at the moment when Daki and Jifutaro were killed by the wolves, Muzan, with his chest wide open, suddenly opened his eyes.
The expression on his face suddenly became extremely ferocious, and the two ominous karmas that had originally calmed down now clashed again, causing Wuzan's body to gradually swell.
"Well!"
Peng! !
With a muffled groan, the other part of his heart also exploded. The strange thing was that there was not a trace of blood at the crack, only a dark aura that was about to condense into liquid, surging under the surface of his body.
"Huh...huh..."
After taking a few deep breaths, after a moment Wuzan's expression changed from painful and hideous to the previous numbness, and he lay on the ground and whispered softly.
"…almost…just one step away…"