Fang Hao, who had just arrived, also felt quite helpless, not because he had any issues with Inosuke. The crucial point was that he seemed to always arrive just in time to save someone, just like when he saved the girl from the Swamp Demon, and it was happening again now.
"I haven't practiced this before, is this protagonist treatment?" Fang Hao thought to himself.
This perfectly timed arrival truly scared him a little; if he had been a second later, he would have seen half of Inosuke and another half of Inosuke!
Fortunately, he arrived just in time, not only saving Inosuke but also taking the opportunity to slay the Spider Demon Father. The strike he used to slay the Spider Demon Father was, of course, his secret sword, Danku. This time, he didn't foolishly aim for the head but instead struck at the neck.
From the results, this secret sword was indeed excellent; it was powerful, and he just checked the nichirin blade, and it was indeed undamaged. If he hadn't been so reckless that day, he wouldn't have hurt the enemy by a thousand while damaging his nichirin blade by eight hundred.
"Uh, can you get down first?" He was currently holding Inosuke, and Inosuke was looking at him. Fang Hao only needed to move his head to see a boar's head, and he felt this posture wasn't ideal.
"Who would stay like this forever! I know without you telling me!" Inosuke's face flushed, but fortunately, with his boar's head on, no one could tell.
He had indeed been stunned just now; such a powerful demon had fallen in an instant. The strength Fang Hao displayed truly astonished him.
One must know that he and Fang Hao had sparred before, just outside Spider Mountain. After all, he was the type to pester strong individuals he encountered, so how could he possibly hold back after seeing Fang Hao?
Although it was a friendly match, he had indeed lost, but it had been a back-and-forth fight at the time. How could a demon I couldn't defeat be instantly killed by you with one strike? Are you that good at acting?
Thinking about how confident he had been before setting out, eager to test his nichirin blade on the demons in the mountain, only to be beaten into a sorry state by that demon, his dual nichirin blades broken, and himself rescued by Huang Tao, while that demon couldn't even withstand one proper move...
At this thought, Inosuke's face flushed even redder. However, he was, after all, the type to grow stronger with each setback, and he quickly regrouped, "Guang Tao, I won't give up! I want to... become stronger!"
Looking at Inosuke, who had suddenly become so passionate, Fang Hao merely showed a deadpan expression, "I don't object to your fighting spirit, but can you please get my name right just once? You haven't gotten it right even once, have you?"
"Eh! Sang Hao, did I not get it right?" Inosuke asked, puzzled.
"Not only did you not get it right, but the wrong names you've called me haven't even been repeated," Fang Hao replied.
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"No, the scent of demons is getting stronger and stronger. There are at least three, no, four demons. I need to find them," Tanjiro said sternly to Zenitsu shortly after Fang Hao left.
"I can detect the location of demons. I need to go help Fang Jun and Inosuke, otherwise, they might be ambushed by demons, and that would be terrible."
"Tanjiro, no, are you going to leave me alone?" Zenitsu clutched Tanjiro's sleeve tightly, "Big Brother is so strong. If he goes to find Inosuke, there will definitely be no problem!" Zenitsu tried to make Tanjiro change his mind.
"No, let go of me, Zenitsu, I must go." He pushed Zenitsu's hand away and chased in the direction Fang Hao had left.
"Take care of yourself, Zenitsu."
"What should I do? I'm all alone!" Zenitsu hugged his nichirin blade tightly, looking around in a panic. Although there was another Demon Slayer Corps member beside him, he was unconscious and completely unable to protect him.
Zenitsu was restless at this moment, not daring to relax for a second, "It's okay, it will definitely be okay. I'm so far away, the demons won't come over."
He tried hard to comfort himself: "I'm not married yet, and I haven't even had my first kiss. How could I die so young! Marrying a cute girl is my dream!"
"Big Brother, Tanjiro, Inosuke, anyone, please, can someone come!" By the end, his voice was laced with a crying tone.
A rustling sound came from the nearby bushes, but the panicked Zenitsu didn't notice it at this moment.
After leaving, Tanjiro twitched his nose. He was indeed very good at finding people. "The scent of Fang Jun and Inosuke is getting closer," he thought with a bit more joy, but the sense of urgency didn't diminish at all. He had to get there as quickly as possible.
Suddenly, the red-haired boy's expression turned serious, and his hand rested on the hilt of his nichirin blade, "Who's there, come out!"
On a branch illuminated by the moonlight, a white-clad, white-haired boy responded to Tanjiro, "Hmm? You can even detect me? You're indeed not an ordinary human."
The boy looked down from above, his pale skin and spider-claw-like hairstyle making him appear exceptionally terrifying.
"Who are you?" Tanjiro watched the boy in front of him warily.
"This is my home," the boy replied calmly. "They in the mountain are my family."
"Family? Do demons have families too?" Tanjiro was puzzled by this.
"Hmm, however, they are a bunch of useless trash," the boy said calmly, uttering words that would be extremely horrifying to ordinary people. "Now they all seem to have been killed."
"You!" Tanjiro was furious. Although he probably guessed that those the boy in front of him called family were demons, and they had been subjugated, the boy's attitude towards his family was unacceptable to Tanjiro, who always valued family.
"Family is not some trash as you say! Since they are family, how can you speak of them like that!"
"They are indeed a bunch of trash. Fathers should protect their children, mothers should take care of their families, and older brothers and sisters should protect their younger siblings. Those like them can only be considered trash!" The boy calmly spoke of his aspirations for family, and also explained why he called his previous family trash.
"You were able to find me, that's very good. Do you want to be my older brother?"
Tanjiro's anger reached its peak. He felt that the demon in front of him was truly too malicious. His casual contempt for family was something Tanjiro could absolutely not forgive.
"Water Breathing, First Form: Water Surface Slash." Tanjiro drew his nichirin blade and charged towards the boy. Water gathered, flowed, and poised on his nichirin blade, ready to strike.
"You don't want to? If you don't, then die!" The boy's fingertips extended spider threads, attacking Tanjiro with lightning speed.
Tanjiro tried to dodge the attack but was still knocked back. Fortunately, he reacted in time, blocking with his nichirin blade in front of him, so he didn't suffer too much damage.
Tanjiro got up from the ground, looking incredulously at the boy in front of him who appeared to be less than ten years old.
"I say, do you think you can defeat me?" The boy fiddled with the spider threads in his hand, saying casually, "Perhaps you've killed many demons until now, but I am fundamentally different from those guys."
The boy's voice was full of disdain and indifference, "As one of the Twelve Kizuki, I possess extraordinary talent among demons. My caliber is different from those guys." He revealed his left eye, which was covered by his hair, and the two characters "Lower Five" were clearly etched within it.
"Twelve Kizuki!"