Chapter 232 Prayer
Sagiri Mountain
The sky was brightening, illuminating Giyuu's curled-up figure lying in the forest. Beside him, Master Urokodaki was also slumped on the ground with red eyes.
The ground around seemed to have been plowed by a giant's plow, the soil was turned upside down, and many trees fell down.
In front of them, Xuantu and his sister looked at the chaos around them in confusion, as if they had no idea what happened last night.
Wondering what happened, Santo walked over to the curled up Giyuu and was about to ask him, but Giyuu's sudden trembling body and the tears in Mr. Urokodaki's eyes stopped him in his tracks.
"What happened?"
But neither Giyuu nor Master Urokodaki wanted to speak.
after all…
...What happened last night... is something no one wants to recall...
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Butterfly House
The Butterfly couple, who were originally sipping tea, had their eyes widened and dropped the teacups in their hands when the blood-red sunlight of the setting sun shone on them.
Click!
Like a command, with the sharp sound of shattering, time turned blood red at this moment.
The world that suddenly turned blood-red attracted the attention of the wolf in the tree. With a frown, the wolf jumped down from the tree and stood in front of the Butterfly Sisters. Facing such a resurrected person, he did not hesitate and reached out to touch the ancient sword behind him.
But before the blade was unsheathed, the wolf's face changed drastically, because it seemed as if a huge force was pressing down on his body. No matter how hard he tried, he could not move his body. He was fixed in place and unable to move.
The Butterfly sisters were surprised at their parents' strange behavior, and when they thought of the wolf that had been staring at them since today, an ominous premonition arose in their hearts.
But even so, Xiaonin still forced a smile and asked softly to her parents who were hugging her trembling body.
"Mom and Dad...what's wrong with you...are you feeling unwell..."
Hearing Xiaonin's question, her mother looked up at Xiaonin, a forced smile appeared on her pale face, but her body was constantly collapsing.
"It's okay... Mom and Dad are just... cough!"
I just said the comforting words, but the next moment, my mother vomited a pool of blood from her mouth, and large pieces of skin peeled off from her body. She could no longer bear the pain, and collapsed to the ground, screaming in heart-wrenching pain.
Seeing this, the Butterfly sisters rushed to their mother to check on her condition, but at this moment, their father beside them also groaned in pain.
"Well…"
Looking at the two people's collapsed bodies, the Butterfly Sisters were extremely anxious. They raised their hands to help their parents reduce the pain, but they didn't know how to do it.
Blood oozed out of the broken body, flowing down the bodies of the two people to the ground, slowly forming a pool of blood.
Kneeling in a pool of blood, the Butterfly sisters' red eyes could not stop shedding tears. They choked and covered the wounds on their parents' bodies, trying to stop the bleeding but to no avail.
The sun sets and a bright crescent moon rises, but in the eyes of Shinobu, whose eyes were stained red by her loved ones, the blood moon is like the smile of a devil.
Time passed slowly, and the eyes of the two had become numb, but at this moment the painful groans of the parents suddenly weakened, as if time was flowing backwards, the collapse of their bodies gradually stopped, and the fallen skin grew back.
But just when the Butterfly Sisters' eyes lit up and they were overjoyed, thinking that everything was finally over, their parents' bodies, which had just recovered, began to collapse again...
"Why... is this happening..."
Completely losing hope, Xiaonin sat in a pool of blood, mumbling to herself, thinking about everything that happened today...
She thought today would be a beautiful day, her parents who had passed away long ago would come back to her and she would be ready to confess her love to the person she loved.
But... why did things turn out like this...
"Kanae... Shinobu..."
Just as Xiaonin kept asking herself this question in her mind, her mother's hoarse and gentle call sounded in her ears. She was startled for a moment, and when they came to their senses, they quickly put their ears close to their mother's mouth.
"Mom and Dad want to be with you forever...watch you grow up...watch you get married...watch you be happy..."
Hearing this, the Butterfly sisters' eyes were already filled with tears, and their mother's sobbing voice continued to ring out...
"But... it really hurts... Mom and Dad can't hold on any longer..."
After saying that, another mouthful of blood spurted out and merged into the pool of blood, reflecting the crying expressions of the Butterfly Sisters, and the mother's body collapsed to the ground...
Tears kept flowing from her eyes. Xiaonin couldn't bear to look at her parents who were in pain. She remembered the wolf's action of wanting to draw his sword just now.
His eyes flashed, he bit his lip and stood up from the ground, then walked step by step to the immobilized wolf under Kanae's gaze.
Looking at Wolf's determined gaze, Shinobu reached out and held Wolf's hand that was holding [Bai Lei], and said with a trembling voice.
"Please... please let them... be free..."
bass!
The blade slowly unsheathed, and blood-red karma gushed out, dispersing the blood-red around the wolf!
Having seen everything that happened before, the wolf held the [Bai Lei] horizontally in front of him, his eyes darkened, and he spoke softly.
"…learn…"
With a step of his foot, the wolf came in front of the Butterfly parents who were constantly collapsing, raised the [Bai Lei] in his hand, grasped the handle tightly, wrapped the blade with karma, swung the knife down, and at the same time performed a Buddhist salute to the two of them with one hand.
"Falling Shadow...Farewell..."
The karma slash passed through the necks of the two men without splashing a drop of blood. The bodies of Butterfly's parents stopped collapsing and a smile of relief appeared on their faces. At the moment the sun rose in the sky, the two figures disappeared into the sky.
Waiting quietly for the two figures to completely disappear, Wolf then withdrew the Buddhist ritual, retracted the Undead Slash, and looked at the Butterfly sisters with numb expressions.
Knowing that such a thing could not happen only to the Butterfly Sisters, Wolf wanted to solve it all, but he had no clues and didn't know where to start.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and the wolf took out the dim starlight from his arms.
【Scattered Wishes】
As One... Showing the Way Forward...
If I get two, maybe I can find a way to solve all this.
As soon as this thought arose, the dim starlight in his hand suddenly burst into dazzling light, shooting a ray of light towards the sky.
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Tamayo Residence
The moment the sun rose, Tamayo, who was eating heartily, slowly stopped chewing. The blood red in his eyes dissipated and became blurred. The others who had regained their mobility also saw this change.
"Lord Jushi..."
Looking at Tamayo's distracted eyes, Yushiro felt heartbroken and spoke softly to comfort her.
But Tamayo ignored her and just held up the blood-stained photo in her hand in front of her eyes, reaching out her trembling hand to touch the person in it.
Then he turned his head to look at Yushiro, Yoshiichi and others who were worried about him, and smiled slightly.
"Yushiro... I'm leaving Tanjiro's father's medicine in your hands..."
Then he stood up, holding the photo in his hand, and rushed out of the house where the sun was rising...
"Lord Jushi!"
His pupils trembled, Yushiro roared and wanted to rush out, but Yuanyi and others behind him stopped him.
Finally... under the gaze of everyone, Tamayo was bathed in the sunlight, turned into ashes and dissipated, leaving behind a shadow quietly watching everyone.
He smiled gently, then followed the two figures, one big and one small, behind him and left, disappearing from everyone's sight.
And at the original place, a star slowly rose, and a ray of light flew from the distant sky, landed on the star, and burst into dazzling light!