A person in Japan, a sword that soars to immortality.

Chapter 39 Upper Moon Two - The Crying Ox Demon

So, if you become a ghost, how do you make money?

Taiyi had seriously considered this question before, but the answer he finally arrived at was...

They've all turned into ghosts, how can they possibly make any money now!

Although Tamayo has lived for four hundred years since leaving Muzan, Taichi is certain that the money she used for research was not earned through honest work.

In the era before advanced communication, the social structure was based on personal connections, making it very difficult to integrate into a community.

In short, it is absolutely impossible to make money by practicing medicine in the traditional way.

So the only option is Blood Demon Art, but if Blood Demon Art can solve the problem, who would use any other method?

What? You're talking about morality? Please, that person is a ghost, not human anymore!

Okay, so here's the question.

"How can I get the medicine back from Tamayo?"

On the way back, Taiichi kept thinking about this question, and even when Zuoqie talked to him, he only responded half-heartedly.

He thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution.

Taking it by force is unrealistic. Tamayo has lived for four hundred years. Although she didn't eat people during that time, she has been drinking blood all along, so her strength should not be weak.

Therefore, only by providing her with what she needs can I obtain what I want. Since that's the case...

Gyutaro, my good friend, how have you been lately?

"Zoccher, take the things and go back first."

"Huh? Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Yoshiwara."

"Oh, what! Yoshiwara!"

As if struck by lightning, Zoche's entire brain went blank, and he stood there like a statue.

But by this time, Taiyi, having found a solution, had already left excitedly.

......

Yoshihara, go down to the bamboo building.

At this moment, Flame Pillar Rengoku Matsujuro stood at the door with a look of utter despair, struggling desperately to move forward, but he couldn't budge an inch.

It was only because his haori was being held tightly by Ah-Xing and Ah-Feng.

"No, Lord Matsujurou, you can't leave yet!"

"I'm all better now! Why can't I leave!"

"Master Taiyi said that you can only leave after he has confirmed it."

"Ah!!! Let me go!"

Although he was the Flame Pillar, Matsujuro felt that being too hot was not a good thing.

The whispers and pointing fingers around him, along with the words that called him a heartless man and a freeloader, made his ears burn with embarrassment, and he wanted to disappear into the ground.

"Taiyi, where are you?!"

"Eh? Matsujuro, you look great!"

"Ugh~ Taiichi, I've missed you so much!"

"Get away from me, you've snot on my clothes."

In the Japanese-style room, Taichi and Matsujuro sat on the tatami mats, enjoying a leisurely drink of sake.

He was grateful for Taiyi's miraculous healing. If it weren't for the fact that they were both men, he really wanted Taiyi to touch him more.

That's right, Taiyi's treatment method is stroking. One stroke makes him feel a little better, another stroke makes him feel even better.

"Brother Taiyi, thank you so much for your treatment, but I have to go now. If you need any help in the future, please don't hesitate to ask. I'll be right here..."

"Kanagawa Prefecture, Komazawa Village, Ebara County?"

(In Demon Slayer, it's called Tokyo Prefecture, but during the Edo period, Ebara District belonged to Kanagawa Prefecture.)

"you!"

With a clatter, the tempura on the chopsticks fell onto the table, and Rengoku Matsujuro was completely dumbfounded.

But Taiyi ignored the other person's surprise, propped his elbow on the table, held the wine glass in front of him, and said calmly:

"I do have something to do, and I know about the Demon Slayer Corps and the Sasashiki family, but I really need your help."

"First, I need a spirit bird."

Taiyi held up one finger and gestured.

“Simple,” Matsujuro said dismissively.

It's just a Kasugai crow, the Demon Slayer Corps has plenty of them.

“Not a kasugata.” Seeing Matsutaro’s obvious surprise, and the look on his face as if the other had guessed his thoughts, Taiichi chuckled inwardly and continued, “I want a large spirit bird, like a peacock.”

"What? Brother Taiyi, what you've done..."

"Secondly, I need the training method for Water Breathing."

Taiyi held up two fingers and gestured.

“That’s impossible.” Matsujuro said seriously, then slowly raised his hand and pressed Taiichi’s second finger back down. “The first one is more like it.”

Shaking his head, Taiyi downed the drink in his cup, a slight smile playing on his lips. He lowered his head and said with amusement:

"I think it's possible. What if I could help you kill an Upper Moon demon?"

A quarter of an hour later.

In the Japanese-style room of Takeshita-ro, Taiichi had already left, leaving only Matsujuro sitting there in a daze.

His mind was in complete chaos, as if everything around him was unreal.

"Killed an Upper Moon demon?...Is he insane?"

Matsujuro muttered to himself.

......

Inamoto-ro.

At this moment, a fierce argument is breaking out in Daki's tatami room.

"I won't eat it! I won't eat it! It's hideous! It tastes awful! I don't like eating corpses! I want to eat living people!"

"Shut up! I haven't even said anything, and you're already getting worked up!"

"You're the one who should shut up! If you were really capable, a little stronger, we wouldn't be being threatened by that samurai!"

"What? Why are you blaming me? If you're so capable, then you do it!"

"Why should I do it? I'm a woman! You're a man, and my brother. How can you let a girl do this? Don't you have any sense of responsibility? Isn't this your duty?"

"Fuck..."

In an instant, Gyutaro tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and suddenly felt a little suffocated, and his hands were trembling.

thump.

A figure fell into the room through the window, immediately interrupting the siblings' argument.

"You wretched samurai, what are you doing here! I haven't eaten a person in ages!"

Upon seeing Taichi, Gyutaro's eyes instantly turned blood red, and two scythes appeared in his hands.

Taichi tilted his head, picked at his ear, then took a glass tube from his pocket and tossed it to Gyutaro.

"what is this?"

Gyutaro instinctively caught the test tube, and Daki next to him also leaned over. The two of them stared blankly at Taichi.

"Test tube, give me some of your blood."

"what?"

Gyutaro tilted his head, watched quietly for a while, then suddenly smiled and disappeared from the spot.

"I can elevate you to the Upper Moon."

Taiichi, with his left hand on the scythe, spoke without changing his expression, even as the tip of the scythe pressed against his chin.

"what?"

Gyutaro tilted his head again, but this time he was genuinely shocked.

"You can do that? Don't be ridiculous."

Taiichi extended his finger and moved the scythe away from his chin.

After he withdrew his finger, the purple part immediately returned to normal, making Gyutaro's eye twitch.

Taiichi shook his head, sighed, and walked towards the window. Then, with his back to Gyutaro, he said softly:

"How do you do it? It's very simple. Let Doma go up first, and then you can take Doma's place."

what!

Who is he?! How does he even know Lord Doma's name?!

At this moment, Gyutaro panicked completely. He had only ever experienced this feeling of being seen through before in front of Muzan Kibutsuji.

"What makes you think that Lord Doma would join forces with you?"

Gyutaro continued to be stubborn.

"Haven't you heard that competitors are enemies?" Taiichi opened the note he had just received from Matsujuro, which had been carried by Ubushikiya Keiya via a raven, and continued reading after looking at the information on it:

"Just let Doma know where I'm going, and you can embellish the story if you like."

Taiichi looked at the note and smiled dismissively.

[Yamato County Yama Domain (now Nara), Yamabe County, Shoyashiki Village, Tenri Sect. 】

[Cult Leader - Zhongshan Beauty, Upper Moon Two of the Twelve Demon Moons - Weeping Ox Demon]