153, Ghost Extermination (Eleven) Guardian of the Dawn
"Tantantantantanjiro is missing!!! What should I do? Glory——"
Obviously, Zenitsu's reaction was much greater than mine. The next second I was stunned in front of the wall, his whole body was trembling and he was stuck on me.
It's the "gooey" in the physical sense. I feel like it has transformed directly into a sticky mollusk at this moment, firmly adhering to my back. It is also accompanied by high-frequency trembling, causing me to have to act like an electric motor.
It shook with him like a toothbrush, and any uneasiness that had surfaced was wiped away by him.
"...Anyway, you come down first." I tore him off my back with a dead eye, and snored at the golden hair on his head:
"It feels good - ahem, Tanjiro should be safe now. The fact that the room will change seems to be related to the child. He may have obtained something to control the room..."
I paused for a moment. Why does this become more and more like a group playing a dungeon? Or is there a clear division of labor? My dps leads assassins to trample pits, and my teammates with residual health over there trigger important NPCs. Will it take a while?
Are you going to clear out the mobs?
"Let's take a walk first and see if we can come across the room Tanjiro was in just now. It doesn't matter if we don't come across Tanjiro or a ghost - we just need to be careful not to be separated this time."
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In a room filled with manuscripts, there was a little girl curled up in the corner.
Brother...brother...
A young girl named Teruko had her hands folded around her knees, her thin back pressed against the corner. Leaning against a solid object behind her back and having her hands folded around her knees could only bring her little sense of security. In this house where there were several man-eating monsters,
Here, Teruko could only hide in a dark corner and bury herself with thick paper——
"tread"
She and her brothers were abducted by man-eating monsters, but in order to compete for the distribution of "food", the monsters fought. In the chaos, Teruko rolled to other rooms and heard a "bang", and her ears became quiet.
, there was no sound of monsters fighting, nor was her brother who was captured together, she suddenly appeared in another room.
"tread"
How are the brothers? Teruko is so scared. Teruko doesn't dare to move. She even breathes softly. Will she be discovered hiding here? Will she be caught by the chasing monster if she doesn't move? But will she leave here?
Won't you also encounter monsters?
"Tap tap tap"
The monster said that the eldest brother has thin blood. What is thin blood? The eldest brother's leg is injured and it hurts. Are Brother Zhengyi and the eldest brother together? The gentleman with wounds all over his body wants to protect them, but the gentleman with wounds all over his body wants to protect them.
It's so serious. How is he doing now?
"tread--"
The little girl shivering in the pile of papers couldn't control her fear and couldn't help but think wildly. Tears flowed down her cheeks and wet the paper. It was sticky and sticky and she didn't feel comfortable at all, but she didn't
She dared to reach out and tear off the wet paper, but she didn't dare to move.
From just now, she could hear soft footsteps. The frightened little girl thought it was the sound coming from next door, but it sounded like it was coming from the corridor outside. It wasn't until it stopped that Teruko was so scared that she held her breath.
——This is the step that stops in front of you!
The paper covering the little girl was lifted open, and the thin protective layer disappeared in an instant. At this moment, the fear reached its peak, and a horrified scream pierced the entire house.
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"Uhhhhhhhh-"
"...Zenitsu-san, you will be discovered by monsters if you scream so loudly."
"But but but but, Zhengyi, let me tell you, I just heard a scream! It's so scary!!!"
"...Ah, is that so?"
"Don't look at me with that look! I really heard it!!! If Glory was here, he would definitely believe me - Wow ah ah ah ah Glory, where are you?! I'm so
Weak people can’t defeat ghosts!!!”
"...I'm sorry, Zenitsu-san, but I see you...well, your sweating, breathing, and trembling are a bit serious..."
As soon as he felt the hand holding him, he was sweating and cold, and it was also accompanied by high-frequency shaking. Yes, at this moment, Zenitsu Santa was shivering and leading him through this haunted house -
It was so frightening that he felt uneasy.
He was caught here with his brother and sister. Fortunately, the man-eating monster had an internal dispute. During the fight, they ignored and dispersed the three brothers and sisters. The eldest brother and sister did not know where they would be or whether they were being attacked.
Whether he managed to escape after being caught or not, he was lucky enough to meet Zenitsu-san during a room change.
Although Zenitsu-san was so timid that he was a little surprised, but compared to walking alone in this scary house, having someone hold his hand and say "I protect you" at least made him feel nervous.
A little relieved from the fear...just a little.
Because Zenitsu-san is more afraid of this place than him!
"It's okay, Shoichi," Zenitsu-san comforted him with a trembling voice while shedding tears: "Let's go find my companions. Although I am weak, they are still strong. We were just separated due to an accident.
We’re just here, there’s a high chance we can find the two of them, as long as we keep quiet now!”
But Zenitsu-san, we are not quiet at all now, are we? Rather, our volume is very, very loud now, right?
Shanyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva:
"If you talk too much, you will be spotted by ghosts, right?! So I try my best to stay quiet! Right?!"
"...But, Zenitsu-san, the chances of us finding two people in this house are higher than the possibility of four monsters finding us first."
"Ah, Shoichi, don't say such depressing words! We have to believe that we can meet Glory or Tanjiro! There's nothing we can do if we don't think so! I'm so weak...what's wrong with you?"
The little boy who had been hanging his head with a tired expression suddenly changed his face and stared behind him as if he was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe. Zenitsu broke out in cold sweat instantly. He couldn't be so unlucky, could he? So
Thinking about it, he stiffly twisted his neck one by one -
The ghost with the long tongue was lying on the ground, slowly crawling over on all fours. Its blue-grey skin was as wrinkled as the bark of an old tree. The ghost with the long tongue grinned and salivated at them.
saliva:
"It's a kid. It tastes good."
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"The pigs are advancing! The pigs are advancing! The pigs are advancing!!!"
The upper body is naked, and two knives with many saw-toothed slits hang on the waist. The figure with a wild boar's head is running rampant in this narrow and winding corridor, and does not stop when it hits the wall.
He turned around due to the force of the impact and continued running.
Inosuke Zuhira felt extremely irritable. After all, he had been trapped in this huge house for three days. In the past three days, he had chased the ghost with strange things (drums) on his body several times, but without exception, he would always be there.
After a "bang" sound, he was thrown into some other room, and his frantic search process was repeated again.
Damn it, he's not good at moving forward in such a narrow building! He always bumps into things! He also bumped into two too brightly colored obstacles before. After a "bang", he kept sprinting and was thrown
When he got to another room, there were two things in the room, one yellow and one red, blocking his path... But Inosuke-sama knocked them away! Hahahaha——
There was another corner ahead. Inosuke lowered his body and rushed over without slowing down. The scenery around him quickly receded in the retinal image. The moment he turned the corner, a huge, blue-gray palm suddenly blocked all his sight.
"!"
He suddenly bent over and retreated, and with a few bounces he retreated some distance. The blue eyes without matrix on the boar's head stared directly at the hand.
"Ah ha ha ha... I escaped. What a spiritual human being." The owner of the hand slowly moved himself out of the narrow corner, from his thick and wide arms with tangled muscles to his broad body, like a
With the physique of a mountain of meat, the man holding a knife next to this ghost doesn't look like a match for him.
...Ah, he read it right. Inosuke tilted his head wearing a boar hood. At the T-shaped corner, a man wearing strange clothes came out of another detour. It looked like tight clothes, with a round neck.
He is actually wearing a rope (tie)? What kind of strange outfit is this?
"Well...you are a ghost." He glanced at the big-bodied ghost with pork eyes, completely showing that he didn't take the ghost seriously, even if the ghost just tried to get him out of the narrow passage.
□□Crushed half of the wall.
He turned his head and looked at Inosuke again.
"Are you... a pig, a pig-headed man? Are there any goblins here?"
Inosuke: "Huh?"
"Forget it, pig-headed people don't seem to eat people? Only ghosts can eat people." The man in strange clothes muttered again, "Oh no, there is too little attention over there, my feet are sprained, and high heels are really painful."
"
The ghost who was completely ignored was angry. He raised his heavy palm and slapped the man with a whistling sound:
"--You look very energetic too! You are worthy of being photographed into a pulp by me!"
The huge slap is like a mountain pressing down on the top, and with the force that is like a crucible, this ghost is very powerful just by looking at its size. In comparison? The man who is not dominant in size but much weaker is more like a flexible type - how can he
He has no intention of hiding at all! If he confronts someone head-on, he will really be beaten into pieces!
"Hey! You--" If you don't run away quickly, you'll die!
This reminder was not spoken, because this man, who was judged to be "flexible", "will be slapped to death" and "not a strong type", raised his hand and slashed with an expressionless expression.
Kubihira Inosuke: "..."
With one knife, just one knife, the entire meat-mountain-like ghost was split in two and squirmed on the ground - even he would look for vulnerable places like the neck to attack! He went straight to cut the thickest part head-on.
Isn’t this guy afraid that the knife will get stuck inside and not be able to pull it out?!!
Facts have proved that people are really not afraid, they will fight against the toughest problems head-on, and they really succeeded.
"Go back underground." The man swung the knife easily and said in a disgusted tone.
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On the other side, Luna, who was holding the little girl's hand, stood firm.
"...Big sister?" Teruko raised her head in confusion and asked the woman in the dress, "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing." I stood up straight holding an umbrella with an expressionless face.
"I just sprained my foot without paying much attention when walking."