Chapter 72: God of Fire (Ch 72)

“Kagura…”
The young Takeo whispered the name the man uttered.
This is the Kagura dedicated to the God of Fire, passed down from generation to generation by the Kamado family.
This is how the father beside him explained.
“Yes, the Kagura dedicated to Lord Kagami will be performed by Tanjiro for Lord Kagami during the annual festival in the future.”
“Can I dance, too?”
Takeo looked up at the man and asked.
“Hehe, then you have to ask Tanjiro, but I think… Tanjiro won’t refuse you.”
The man continued to caress Takeo and turned his eyes to the boy in the middle who was practicing the Fire God Kagura.
This boy is Tanjiro Kamado, Takeo’s older brother.
The boy who was practicing Fire God Kagura seemed to have something wrong and suddenly fell to the ground, breathing heavily.
Seeing this, Takeo and several other children immediately stepped forward to help Tanjiro up. The father who was sitting at the door did not move. He just looked at Tanjiro with a gentle smile and said to him:
“Just be careful about your breathing, Tanjiro.”
“Yes…yes, father!”
“Breathing is very important.”
Tanjiro took his father’s words to heart, and Takeo, who was beside him, also engraved this incident firmly in his memory.
…
Breathe… Kagura…
Takeo no longer had time to think about why he was thinking of these things at this moment. His body was controlled by instinct, and more violent, powerful breaths poured out of his lungs, replacing his original wolf’s breath in the blink of an eye.
Unexpectedly, the side effects of forcibly switching breathing methods were smaller than expected.
Not only was Takeo able to move, he also felt that his strength and speed were greater than before!
This is the breathing method of Kagura, the God of Fire, which has been passed down from generation to generation in the Kamado family!
“The God of Fire…Kagura…”
It seemed as if there was a flame spewing out between breaths, a flame that was hotter and more violent than the Breath of Fire, and more capable of dispelling darkness and shadows, burning on Takeo’s blade!
Under the scorching flames, Shadow Ghost’s laughter stopped. He stared in shock at Takeo, who changed his breathing and released raging flames, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
What is that?
What is that??
Why… why do I feel so scared? The other party just changed his moves… Oh no, he’s coming! !
Because of the momentary shock, Shadow Ghost was unable to chase Takeo immediately, which gave Takeo a chance to counterattack.
The scorching flames waved with his movements, and the flames that fell to the ground burned the shadows covering the entire room.
Takeo is extremely fast, and the attacks of the Fire God Kagura after the transformation are also swift and fierce!
In the blink of an eye, Takeo, who was knocked flying, arrived in front of the wall where the shadow ghost was hiding!
“…Bone-burning flaming sun!”
The rotating blade indiscriminately hit the wall where the shadow ghost was, and this time the shadow ghost screamed… a very miserable scream.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!! What is this!! What is this!!!”
The shadow of the shadow ghost wandered on the wall, and the wounds on his body kept gushing blood like a fountain.
Unable to heal, after being cut by a blade with flames attached, Shadow Ghost was unable to heal the wound immediately!
The healing process was very slow, even slower than he had imagined. The remaining burning sensation made him suffer unbearably. The first thing Shadow Ghost thought of was to hide on other people’s bodies.
The opponent’s attack can hit him in the wall, but it may not be able to hurt the possessed human!
Shadow Ghost thought so, and then… he saw Yoshitsugu Chendou standing on the corpse of the Demon Slayer Corps and had just drawn his sword.
“What?!”
This kid… actually killed his comrades! ? Aren’t they forbidden to hurt each other among the Demon Slayer Corps? ! ?
Shadow Ghost was shocked by Chen Dou’s behavior.
Chen Dou wiped off the blood on the blade, and a hideous smile more terrifying than a ghost appeared on his bloodstained face:
“Hey, are you planning to run away? The Twelve Demon Moons.”
“Damn it!!”
Shadow Ghost no longer cared about Chen Dou and went straight to the next person.
But at this moment Chen Dou suddenly burst out with a speed that was not inferior to the shadow ghost, and arrived at the side of the scholar who was about to be possessed by the shadow ghost one step faster than Chen Dou.
“Wait–” The scholar raised his head and saw Chen Dou, and just wanted to beg for mercy, but Chen Dou’s blade was faster than the sound of his begging!
Swoosh——
The blade flashed, and the scholar’s head was chopped off and fell to the ground.
The shadow ghost was shocked for a moment, and then became furious: “You, the Demon Slayer Corps, actually attacked your own kind?!”
There are not many rules within the Demon Slayer Corps, but there are some that cannot be violated.
The first is to attack your companions, and the second is to attack humans.
And just now, Chen Dou violated both of them! Of course, he violated them, and Yinggui was not a member of the Demon Slayer Corps, so he couldn’t be angry about it.
What really made Shadow Ghost angry was that there was only one ‘hiding place’ left here at this moment!
Chen Dou killed all humans whose shadows he left behind, whether they were teammates or ordinary people!
He is the only one left!
“What’s wrong, Twelve Demon Moons? There’s nowhere to hide!”
Chen Dou asked loudly with his mouth wide open, looking even more ferocious than a real ghost.
The shadow ghost was angry. He dodged in the shadows and finally chose the only person present who still had his shadow seed.
Yes, it was Chen Dou himself.
Through shadow seeds, shadow ghosts can travel freely between shadow seeds, but unfortunately there is a distance limit and they need to be very close.
Otherwise, the puppets that Shadow Ghost supports can also become his substitutes.
What Shadow Ghost has to do now is to find a way to escape. As long as he can escape from here, the puppets he left outside can keep him alive!
Whether to kill Takeo is no longer within Shadow Ghost’s consideration at this moment. The most important thing now is to survive, and he must do everything he can to survive!
There is hope only if you survive!
Ignoring Chen Dou’s provocation, the shadow ghost drilled directly into Chen Dou’s body. His image appeared on his abdomen, and then he continued to laugh wildly:
“Hahaha!! So what! I’m hiding here, what can you do to me! Can you kill yourself? That little brat over there, do you still dare to attack him? This guy is very important to you, he’s your friend, right? You can’t do it! Hahaha!”
After entering Chen Dou’s body, the shadow ghost laughed crazily.
This is the bad thing about human beings. They are swayed by emotions and affected by those boring emotions such as “family”, “friendship” and “love”.
But when relatives and friends are hurt in front of you, no matter how hard-hearted a person is, he or she will get angry and furious.
Once relatives and friends become puppets of the Shadow Ghost, it will be difficult for anyone to attack him directly.
Shadow Ghost had used this method to escape from ghost hunters before the Twelve Ghost Months, and it’s the same now!
Shadow Ghost thought he had a sure win, but what he didn’t expect was that the moment Chen Dou came in, he suddenly adjusted his breathing and concentrated his breathing on all parts of his body.
At that moment, Shadow Ghost felt something was wrong.
“Hey, it’s breathing, right?” Chen Dou’s voice sounded like a devil’s whisper in Shadow Ghost’s ears: “You can’t control me, you just torture me, because I fill my body with breathing, which will affect your ‘shadow’, right?”
“…You…you…! What are you going to do!!”
The shadow ghost sensed something was wrong. He felt that the body he was originally attached to seemed to have become a cage that trapped him.
It’s breathing!
Chen Dou’s breathing trapped him! !