Demon Slayer: Muzan, will you dance too?

When Kiyokawa Izumi woke up in the morning, he stared blankly at the ceiling, his mind blank. In just a few days, he had fought quite a few battles.

It's unclear when exactly, but the Butterfly Mansion has almost become the Pillars' daily training ground.

Here, you can always see different pillars.

Kiyokawa Izumi, who hasn't had any missions lately, is either on his way to a fight or in the middle of one.

The intensity is absolutely off the charts!

They would play for an entire afternoon, and sometimes even into the evening.

His opponent was also a Pillar, but his breathing technique and swordsmanship were far superior to his own, and he would suffer a loss if he was not careful.

The slightest slackness will result in injury.

Kiyokawa Izumi is definitely the one who has suffered the most setbacks.

It wasn't because he was too weak; he was the only one who played the entire game, only taking a break once.

"Inosuke, very good! You have a lot of presence!"

I could hear the eldest brother's hearty laughter as soon as I woke up early in the morning. He really has a great personality. Even Senior Brother Yiyong was too lazy to respond to Piggy's challenge. He even found it annoying and tied him to a tree.

Only the eldest brother readily agreed, even pointing out the pig's shortcomings.

Piggy has been quite withdrawn lately.

Having seen too many pillars and being unable to defeat any of them, I inevitably began to question my own existence—broadening my horizons while also feeling my own insignificance.

But Piggy's personality is easy to manipulate. When Kiyokawa Izumi saw that he was a bit withdrawn, he said with a hint of provocation, "Piggy, is this all you're capable of?"

Want to become stronger? Impossible! Just give up, you definitely can't do it.

Spurred on by this, the pig immediately regained its spirits and began training even more intensely.

One day, he will become stronger and then defeat this guy in front of him to prove him wrong.

"Is there something you can't understand?"

Kiyokawa Izumi looked at Kanzaki Aoi, who was hanging clothes to dry, and suddenly asked.

"Wh...what?"

"You've been watching Inosuke and those hard-working teammates the whole time, and you've been a little distracted."

With her keen intuition, Kiyokawa Izumi quickly recalled the original plot and guessed the girl's inner conflict.

"It's nothing... I just feel like I'm really useless."

Once she came to her senses, Kanzaki Aoi silently lowered her head and continued working.

She actually envied Kiyokawa Izumi very much, envying his talent, his strength, and that he could become a pillar at such a young age.

Unlike himself, who doesn't even have the courage to wield a Nichirin Blade, even though his family was brutally murdered by demons, he was determined to join the Demon Slayer Corps, but now he doesn't even have the courage to face demons.

In actual combat missions, he was even too afraid to take action because of his fear of death. He was so pathetic and utterly useless.

Seeing the team members training so hard, she felt very inferior, feeling that she was far inferior to them.

This kind of emotion is probably incomprehensible to Kiyokawa Izumi, who is already a pillar. If she said it out loud, she would probably feel cowardly and weak.

"Do you remember the question I asked you a long, long time ago?"

"What?"

Kanzaki Aoi looked puzzled, wondering what Kiyokawa Izumi was talking about.

"I asked you if you knew about the Hand Demon, and you said no... Everyone feels fear. When you first saw the Hand Demon, guess what I did—draw my sword or run away?"

Kiyokawa Izumi smiled nonchalantly, "Of course I turned and ran without hesitation. After all, it has eaten so many people and possesses such terrifying blood demon magic."

At the time, I even felt that it was an existence I couldn't defeat; if I didn't run away, I would die!

Kanzaki Aoi, who had never heard of these things before, looked at Kiyokawa Izumi with some surprise.

"Even someone like me, a pillar, has a very shameful and unbearable past."

So what if you're too afraid to fight in a real combat mission because you're afraid of death?

Even I have backed down because of fear.

"It's no exaggeration to say that your combat talent is far inferior to mine. Even if there were ten of you, the number of evil spirits you could kill would still be far less than mine."

Similarly, when it comes to helping the wounded, even ten or twenty of me wouldn't be as useful as one Kanzaki Aoi.

Kanao is a quiet and reserved person, and Shinobu is usually very busy. If it weren't for you, the Butterfly Mansion would probably be in a lot of chaos right now.

Team members who get injured during training need care, food needs to be prepared in advance, there are so many things that depend on you... These are all contributions you've made.

Seeing Kanzaki Aoi standing there in disbelief at his words, Kiyokawa Izumi tried to soften his tone and said with a smile.

"If you don't believe me, why don't you let those team members go hungry for a day, and don't prepare any ointment for them to apply... and see if they can continue training tomorrow."

"How can this be allowed?"

Kanzaki Aoi blurted out instinctively, then quickly realized that the guy was just joking.

"Just do what you're good at; everyone is important."

The Pillars are needed to deal with powerful demons, ordinary team members are needed to deal with common evil demons, support personnel like Kakuzuki are needed to clean up the mess, and you, who are in the Butterfly Mansion, are needed to rescue the injured team members.

"Now, I should do what I'm good at."

As soon as the words were spoken, the raven that had landed on his shoulder delivered the latest order—the child is disappearing, go immediately!