I, who became an avatar, just want to survive

Chapter 23 Tanjiro Kamado

Half a year has passed since Kocho Kanae joined the team. With Hanazuli's help, slaying demons has become much easier. However, Kocho Kanae's Nichirin Sword has not been repaired for a long time and is a little damaged.

So now the three of them are headed for a knife shop in Tokyo.

"Xiao Yu..." Kouhou Kanae grabbed Ying and looked him up and down, "What did you add to this knife? It's been used for so long, and there's not even a nick on it, let alone a damage."

"It's specially made." Lin Yu held the back of his head and looked at the big moon in the sky, "Today is a full moon."

"So what if it's a full moon? You can't turn into a werewolf." Chang Dian hit Lin Yu, "I don't know if that guy can open the door."

The owner of the blacksmith shop was an acquaintance of Changdian.

"Mr. Chang Tsuku's weapon is easy to hide. Where is your weapon hidden, Xiaoyu?" Kanae Kocho always asks this question every time she watches a movie.

"It's just like usual." Lin Yu pulled out the scabbard from his back, "Sister Kanae, have you ever thought about returning to the Demon Slayer Corps?"

"I think it's pretty good now." Butterfly Kanae returned the weapon to Lin Yu, "Shinobu is working very hard, Butterfly House is also being run very well, and Mr. Tomioka has become a water pillar. Everyone is working hard towards the goal of that year."

As they were talking, the three of them came to the blacksmith shop on the outskirts of the city.

Through the window, he could vaguely see the light of a fire inside. Chang Dian stepped forward and gently knocked on the door. Not long after, a thin old man wrapped in a towel pushed open the door and said, "Little kid, what are you doing here?"

"Mr. Fujiwara, do you still remember me, Chang Tsuku?" Chang Tsuku pointed at himself.

"You...you are Changdian's child, right? After so many years..."

"I was accidentally attacked and turned into a demon." Chang Tsuna seemed to be talking about a trivial matter, "Let me introduce my junior, Lin Yu, the former flower pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kocho Kanae."

"Good evening." Butterfly Kanae greeted obediently.

"I remember Huazhu died. Did you save him?" The old man made way for a few people to enter the house while speaking. "You are the ghost hunters that are rumored among the people recently, right?"

"You are really well-informed."

"That's right. Don't you think about what I used to do?" Fujiwara looked around and saw that no one was paying attention. He quickly closed the door and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"We got some ore and we want you to do some maintenance on it."

"Your weapon still needs maintenance?" Fujiwara was a little surprised. "Isn't your weapon specially made?"

"My weapon is fine, but Kanae's weapon is just an ordinary Nichirin sword." Tsunetsu took out Kanae's Nichirin sword and handed it to Fujiwara. "Your father was a famous weapon forger around here. Let's see how this sword can be repaired?"

Fujiwara took the Nichirin sword and looked at it carefully with the help of the light.

"Grandpa, aren't you afraid of Tsune?" Seeing Fujiwara acting so calm, Kocho Kanae couldn't help but ask.

"Are you afraid of Chang Dian? If I were afraid of Chang Dian, I would have been eaten by the devil more than ten years ago." Putting down the Nichirin sword, Fujiwara took out a pipe from the side, "My family's lives were given by Chang Dian. If he wants to take them back, I will give them back to him at any time."

"Don't say that." Tokido supported Fujiwara, "If you hadn't taken me in, I would have starved to death."

"Have you been slaying demons for all these years?" After satisfying his craving for a cigarette, Fujiwara continued to observe the Sun Blade.

"I have this ability, I can't waste it." Chang Dian found a place to sit down, "To be honest, becoming a ghost actually makes me calmer."

"It's good to be calm." Fujiwara put down the Nichirin Sword, "Give me the special materials for the Nichirin Sword, and stay in the city for a few days. The Demon Slayer Corps has been running to the village recently. Come and get the sword in a week."

"Thank you." Chang Dian took out the 'Orangutan Crimson Iron Sand' and the 'Orangutan Crimson Ore' and placed them on the ground, then led the two away.

"It will take a week for the new sword to be made, so we can just relax a bit." Chang Dian stretched lazily in front of the two men without any image. "Why don't we go to the mountain to check and find out what time it is now?"

"Okay." Lin Yu nodded.

"Why do we need to go up the mountain when we are sure?" Butterfly Kanae was a little puzzled, but she quickly put it behind her. During the six months of getting along, Lin Yu and Chang Dian always said something that she couldn't understand. At the beginning, Kanae would still ask out of curiosity, but as time passed, Kanae's interest became lower and lower. Anyway, she still couldn't understand even if she asked, so she simply pretended not to hear it.

The past six months have been quite boring indeed. Apart from killing demons, rescuing people and avoiding the Demon Slayer Corps, I have had no time to rest, let alone relax.

So this time when she came to Tokyo, Kanae also wanted to have a good stroll around.

After going up the mountain, the three of them soon arrived near a house.

The dilapidated house looked like it had been destroyed by some sharp object, and the spider webs all over it told everyone that no one had lived here for a long time.

"Gone?" Chang Dian touched his chin, "Such a dilapidated house..."

"Let's go down the mountain and ask." Lin Yu scratched his head, "I remember that the Kamado family is very famous at the foot of the mountain."

Soon they got the answer. The Kamado family was attacked by wild beasts at night a year and a half ago, leaving Tanjiro Kamado alone and his whereabouts unknown.

"A year and a half." Chang Dian scratched his head. "How many years has he been learning his craft?"

"Three years." Lin Yu replied.

"Would you like to go back and take a look?"

"Take some time to go back."

Butterfly Kanae at the back smiled gently and said nothing.

These two people are talking about things they don’t understand again.

After a week of fun in Tokyo, Kocho Kanae got her brand new Nichirin Sword.

After saying goodbye to Mr. Fujiwara, the three of them set off for Mount Sagiri.

"I haven't been back here for a long time." Pulling down the brim of his hat, Lin Yu looked around nostalgically, "I hope no one will recognize me."

"This must be Mr. Urokodaki's retreat, right?" Kouhou Kanae came over from a distance with two house tags. "Aren't you afraid of being caught by Mr. Urokodaki if you come here?"

"Be careful, nothing will happen." Chang Tsukumi took the house card handed to him by Kanae, "Going up the mountain at night?"

Lin Yu nodded quietly.

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Because Tanjiro Kamado's entire family was killed by demons, he took his sister Nezuko, who had turned into a demon, to become Urokodaki Sakonji's apprentice. It has been more than a year since then, and his training has changed from going up and down the mountain every day to actual combat training.

But a few days ago, Mr. Urokodaki asked him to attack a rock. When he could cut the rock, he could participate in the Demon Slayer Corps selection.

So today, Tanjiro is also working hard to cut the rock!

The last knife was swung on the rock, creating sparks.

Wiping the sweat off his face, Tanjiro looked at his hands covered in scars.

"It's not enough. The power is still not enough."

"Mr. Urokodaki taught you to fight demons with brute force?" A pleasant but cold voice sounded all around, and a wooden sword shot out from the jungle and flew towards Tanjiro Kamado.

Chapter 24: Is it the rabbit?

"Who?!" Just as Tanjiro Kamado picked up the wooden sword, a white figure jumped down from the air, hit him in the chest with a palm, and knocked him away directly.

While Tanjiro was standing up, the white figure grabbed the wooden sword and assumed an attacking posture.

"I thought you had some brute strength, but I didn't expect you to be completely useless."

"Who are you?" Tanjiro looked at the girl in white clothes, white hair, and a white fox mask in front of him.

"It doesn't matter who I am." The other person lowered his body slightly, "Tanjiro Kamado, if you are just like this, you will never be able to save your sister."

"No matter how much effort it takes, I will save Nezuko." Tanjiro already understood the other party's purpose and also took an offensive posture, "I will definitely pass Mr. Urokodaki's test!"

"Really? With your current self?" the other party said, and turned into a shadow and ran towards Tanjiro.

"So fast!" Just as this thought flashed through his mind, the wooden sword stabbed Tanjiro's shoulder hard.

"Is this your determination?" The other party retracted his weapon and took two steps back.

Tanjiro put aside all unnecessary thoughts and rushed towards the other party despite the pain.

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There was another round of confrontation, and Tanjiro, covered in wounds, flew backwards, while the girl opposite had no wounds, and even her clothes were not messy.

"He's much stronger than he was a month ago, but still a newbie." The girl put away her weapon and prepared to leave.

"Um...what's your name?"

Hearing this question, the girl pointed to the boulder and said, "When you can split it, I will tell you my name."

"I'll try my best!" Tanjiro clenched his fists, "I'll come again tomorrow night."

The girl didn't say anything, but just watched Tanjiro limping down the mountain.

After the other person was no longer visible to her, the girl took off the mask on her face.

"Tanjiro is making great progress." Just as he was about to leave here with admiration, a familiar voice rang out from all around him, "What do you think, Lin Yu?"

"Xiantu..." Lin Yu froze and looked at the figure on the huge rock. "Long time no see."

But the one who answered her was the Sun Blade in the hands of Santo.

Lin Yu did not dodge and let Xuantu attack him.

The other party did not kill him. He stopped when he was only a few centimeters away from Lin Yu, but his face was full of anger. "Why...why did you betray Zhengu, why did you betray Mr. Urokodaki? Since you have already betrayed him, why did you come back?"

Lin Yu looked at the furious Xuantu and reached out to push away the Sun Blade. "I don't know why. I was very angry at the time, very angry. When I came to my senses, I was already wiping the bloody Sun Blade on the top of the mountain."

"I'm not talking about those damn scumbags, but why you ran away." Santu threw away the Sun Wheel Sword and grabbed Lin Yu's collar, "You promised me, you promised Mr. Urokodaki! You said you would protect Makomo well, you said you would always be with Makomo."

Xuantu's body trembled as he spoke, "Why did you abandon us... and come back as if nothing had happened?"

"As if nothing happened?" Lin Yu held Xuantu's hand, "I'm just trying not to let those emotions that shouldn't exist appear."

"Does this make you look mature?" Xuantu pushed Lin Yu, "Stop being so smug here."

"I..." Lin Yu turned his face away, not knowing how to answer. Should he argue? Or admit his mistake?

"You know very well that you are becoming more and more violent. When you were training with Shinkomo in the past, you always controlled the strength very cleverly, which could both train Shinkomo and prevent him from getting seriously injured. But now, Tanjiro goes back home with scars all over his body every day, and drags his bruised body back to continue training the next day. You are not training, you are killing people!" Santu forcibly turned Lin Yu's face back.

"It's the same when you've been killing ghosts in the past few years. At first, you wouldn't do something as stupid as sticking your weapon into the ground, but now, every time you finish a mission, you need to pull the weapon out of the ground, and the damage you cause is getting worse and worse."

"I didn't." Lin Yu's excuse seemed very weak.

"Do you think suppressing yourself is mature?" Xuantu threw off Lin Yu's collar, "Do you think you can act calm by forcing yourself to smile? Stop pretending to be so arrogant. You are not the peerless master in the books. You are just an ordinary person who can't even beat a pillar!"

Gently grazing the blade, Santu performed the standard posture of water breathing.

"You are no match for me." Lin Yu threw away the wooden sword and took out the shadow. "Just from the perspective of weapons, you have already lost."

"So what?" Xuantu aimed at Lin Yu, "Do you know why you can't comprehend other types of breathing? You have mastered all ten types of water breathing, but are you really proficient? Lin Yu, after all these years of hard work, do you still remember what the most basic things about water breathing are?"

"Enough!" Lin Yu's emotions exploded at this moment, "What do you know..."