The weather is not very good today, it is foggy.
"If I cut down trees, I can earn 60,000 yen a month."
The worn and oversized sneakers made a clicking sound as they stepped on the dead branches on the forest road.
"A kidney sold two months ago was about 1.2 million yen."
An old coat that had faded after washing was wrapped around his skinny body, and the coolness of the morning made the body tremble slightly.
"Right eyeball, three hundred thousand."
I used my left eye to observe the road conditions on both sides of the highway, and then walked across the highway leisurely.
"Oh, I also sold an egg. How much did it cost? It was probably less than 100,000. After all, it's not worth much.
In this case, the debt owed is still..."
Looking through the passbook, the latest row of numbers is clearly written on the transaction information.
Owes 38.04 million yen.
The blond boy wearing an eyepatch put away his bankbook, and his remaining left eye was full of aimless confusion.
"Woof!" the little puppy's cry sounded at the feet of the blond boy. This is a cute creature covered with short orange hair. It has four short legs supporting its chubby body. Its tail is a chainsaw ring.
Between the two big eyes is half a chainsaw blade.
Awakened by the barking of the orange puppy, the blond boy showed the smile that a child of this age should have:
"I know, Pochita, let's get rid of it neatly!"
If you kill a demon, you can earn 300,000 yen!
Sure enough, being a demon hunter is the most profitable.
The blond boy named Denji held the orange puppy Pochita like a chainsaw and cautiously moved closer against the wall.
On the other side of the wall, there was a strange creature crawling slowly.
This is a monster with a body shaped like a staged tomato. The surface of the tomato's body is covered with eyeballs and a large vertical mouth, and its lower body has eight human legs.
Tomato Devil, the devil lives up to its name.
Devil, when did this kind of thing appear? Denci doesn't know, and he has no interest in understanding it. Who knows that he has never studied at all.
Strictly speaking, Denji is a demon hunter, as the name suggests, a hunter who specializes in hunting demons for a living.
As an ordinary person, especially a child who is missing a kidney and suffers from long-term malnutrition and insufficient food, it is natural that he is unable to deal with the devil. But Denji does not feel any fear or shrinkage, for two reasons.
First, Denji was hired by the gang to kill demons, with a fixed income of 300,000 yen per demon. Yes, his debt of 38.04 million yen was owed by his dead father to the gang, and the father's debt was repaid by his son.
If you don't pay the money every month or don't listen to the gangsters, Denci will only end up being cut into pieces and sold to black doctors. Hunting demons is the only 'job' Denci can do who has never read a book.
Secondly, Denji is not alone. The orange puppy Pochta in his hand, which is imitating the buzzing of a real chainsaw, is also a demon, although it doesn't look very powerful.
Demons absorb the fears of humans and become stronger. The more things humans fear, the harder it is for the demons to deal with.
Fortunately, there should be very few people who are afraid of [tomatoes], right? Except for those who are averse to tomatoes.
I wonder why some people hate tomatoes? If you let yourself choose, eating all-you-can-eat tomatoes is definitely an attractive option that is hard to refuse.
By the way, does Pochita hate tomatoes? I don’t know. After all, Pochita has only eaten dry bread slices with me all this time, and has never even tasted jam. Do you want to spend 100 yen to buy a tomato? Hmm...
…How much do tomatoes cost at convenience stores?
Pulling out the electric saw stained with tomato juice and blood from the wound, Denji held Pochita and stood on the shriveled tomato demon, and said to the old man who was walking slowly: "It will regenerate from the seeds, please."
Just burn it."
"Well done, Denji."
The white-bearded old man wearing an old-school windbreaker and gentleman's hat spoke slowly:
"This guy's body is quite valuable on the black market. I'll give you 400,000 yuan as a reward."
"Thank you very much!" Denci was so excited that he even used honorifics.
"Then, after deducting the arrears and interest, the amount is 170,000."
Denci's smile faded slightly.
"Remove the intermediary handling fees, transaction handling fees, management adjustment fees, and other expenses besides that..."
Opening the thin envelope, there were seven pictures of Fukuzawa Yukichi with a sad face.
"Seventy thousand left..."
Walking tiredly on the street, Denji held the envelope tightly.
Of the 70,000 yuan, you have to pay the water bill first, otherwise you won’t be able to drink enough water from the water pipe when you’re so hungry late at night that you can’t sleep.
Then I paid off the debts from other places...it was incredible, and all of a sudden I only had 1,800 yen left.
I don’t have any food at home, so I can only live on this money this month.
"Pochita, today's meal only has one piece of bread?"
"Woof!"
Watching Denji's figure gradually disappearing, the gangster sitting in the driver's seat of a car on the roadside exhaled smoke from his mouth: "Boss, why do you hire a kid like that to be a demon hunter?"
"Of course it's to make him repay the money he owes us."
The old man in a windbreaker and gentleman's hat replied in a cold voice:
"To be precise, it's the money owed by his stinky father who died without authorization."
"It's so weird that the person who breeds demons is actually a demon hunter." The gangster turned his head and stuck his head out of the car window, looking at the orange puppy following Denji.
"A serious demon hunter will not sell the body of a demon to the underworld like us. And the advantage of Denji is that he will not resist,"
The corners of the old man's mouth slowly raised:
"it's time."
On a rainy night, in an abandoned cabin in the wilderness, Denji was sharing the only meal of the day, a piece of bread, with Pochita.
"I heard a while ago that bread slices must be spread with jam before eating. Alas, we will never be able to live an ordinary life like this for the rest of our lives. We probably have to pay off our debts until we die."
Seeing Pochita take two bites on the piece of bread, Denji twisted the piece of bread and took a bite himself. While chewing, he said to Pochita:
"It's impossible for me to find a girlfriend until I die, right? I really want to have sex with a woman before I die..."
Denji looked at the pattering raindrops outside the window. When did this hopeless life begin?
My mother died of a heart attack and vomited blood a long, long, long time ago. Later, my father, whose face he couldn't remember, owed money to the gang and didn't pay it back. He hanged himself, leaving him alone to face the gang's debt.
At the simple funeral attended by himself alone, the gangsters came. The old man in the trench coat and gentleman hat seemed to have never changed clothes in his life. He told him that he must come up with the 700,000 yuan for this month to repay the loan the next day, otherwise he would be cut into pieces and sold.
Lose.
When he was desperate, Denji met Pochita in front of his father's grave.
At that time, Pochita was already dying, with two bleeding gunshot wounds on his body.
Perhaps out of sympathy for the same illness, or perhaps in order to fight against the hopeless dark future, Denji took the initiative to extend his arm to Pochita and let it suck blood.
"Bite it! The devil can recover from his injuries as long as he drinks the blood, right? But my blood is not given to you for free, it is a contract!"
Denji ignored the pain in his arm and looked at Pochita who was biting his arm with a fierce expression:
"I helped you, and you will help me too!"
In this way, when the gang came to collect the money the next day, he did not hand over 700,000 yen, but gave them a pile of demon corpses. Denji remembered clearly that it was the bubblegum demon, and he cooperated with Pochita
The first demon killed.
In this way, he became a demon hunter hired by the gang... Pfft!
Denci suddenly covered his mouth and coughed loudly, blood dripping down his fingers.
My mother died of vomiting blood due to a heart attack, and now even I...
Pochita walked around Denji worriedly, barking.
Denji put down his blood-covered palms and smiled bitterly: "Do you still remember our agreement, Pochita? If I die, you will take over my body. Aren't some demons able to take over human corpses and become devils? Then you will
Just stay far away from here and live an ordinary life on my behalf to realize my dream."
"Woof!"
"I vomited blood and ate bread... It's decided. Tonight's dream will start with Pochita. We will eat bread with four kinds of jams together. We will be full. Then we will go on a date with a girl.
, kissed, played video games together, and finally we hugged each other and slept together."
There was still blood on Denji's face, but he looked out the window with longing, then hugged Pochita: "You also think this dream is pretty good, right?"
"Woof!"
Boom, boom, boom!
The voice of an old man wearing a gentleman's hat came from outside the dilapidated wooden door: "Dianji, the devil has appeared, it's time to get to work."
Denji leaned weakly against the dilapidated wall and sighed.
At least...let me have a dream.
PS: I apologize to those who have already subscribed. I forgot to open a new volume and the first chapter was put into the Naruto volume. SORRY! I will add another chapter over the weekend to apologize!