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Chapter 155. Lower Rank Two, Rokuro

"No need to waste time."

The two ran extremely fast, passing through the terrified gazes of pedestrians without concealment. Mukago was like a nimble antelope, able to leap ten meters with just a light touch of her toes. But halfway there, she suddenly stopped.

It turned out that in the alley in front of her, two heavily drunk men were laughing and blocking Mukago's path.

Mukago looked pitifully at Xia Shang. "I'm hungry. Can I eat something first? This feeling of hunger is so uncomfortable."

"Whatever." Xia Shang looked up at the moon embedded in the night sky and continued, "Five minutes."

"Thank you, then I won't be polite." Mukago first bowed to Xia Shang, then used her claws to tear open the strong man's throat. Seeing his companion's neck ripped open by the girl, blood gushed out. The other drunk man was instantly terrified, backing away repeatedly. He leaned against the wall, his legs trembling uncontrollably.

"Demon... Demon, it's a demon!" The residual alcohol in the drunk man's body flowed down his thighs onto the ground. Recovering his senses, he scrambled to run outside, but before he could take two steps, Xia Shang's projected sword qi sliced off his head.

"You're really different from those Hashira. They seem to hate it when I eat, but to me, people are like fragrant rice. If I don't eat, I'll be hungry." Mukago said, enjoying her meal while showing Xia Shang a satisfied, cute smile.

"Eat quickly. I'll remind you when time's up."

Xia Shang wasn't idle either. He opened his panel to check the fusion progress.

[Super Perception is fusing, current progress 16%]

"This fusion speed, although slightly slower than absorbing Compound V, is still much faster compared to natural fusion."

Actually, this is easy to explain. Breathing Style can enhance all of a person's senses, and Xia Shang, who constantly maintains his Demon Slayer Mark, is essentially maximizing his perception ability at all times. With the two stacked, the fusion speed of Super Perception is naturally increased by more than two, or even three times.

The gentle evening breeze blowing from afar carried the whispers of people's chat. Xia Shang could even detect subtle differences in the bloody scent permeating the air.

Wherever his gaze fell, everything became incredibly clear. The details of any object were constantly magnified in his eyes. For example, an ant carrying food by the corner of the wall; Xia Shang could even see the traces of its fine hairs swaying.

Five minutes later.

Mukago reluctantly wiped the bloodstain from the corner of her mouth. Touching her bulging stomach, she said to Xia Shang, who was resting with his eyes closed, "I'm done eating. Although it wasn't clean, I still finished it. After all, wasting food is a shameful act."

Most foul demons show some strange expression when eating people. But Mukago showed none at all. She acted quite naturally, no different from an ordinary human eating. This couldn't help but make Xia Shang curious about her past.

As the two walked out of the alley entrance, Xia Shang asked, "How did you become a demon?"

Mukago showed an expression of memory. "It was winter. My family and I lived in this town. They gave me all the provisions for winter, but they starved to death themselves. But those provisions weren't enough for me. To survive, I could only beg in the town. But those people not only didn't give me provisions, they also punched and kicked me, calling me a hateful beggar.

I was really too hungry. That feeling of being close to death was terrifying, but I didn't want to die. So I killed a drunk man who had fallen in the snow. I hated drunk people because brewing alcohol requires a lot of provisions. If they gave those provisions to me, it would be enough for me to live for a long time. However, just as I was about to eat him, that person found me. He told me that consuming other lifeforms for survival was a natural rule. Then, he told me to hold out my hands and catch the blood dripping from his fingertips."

"So that's it." Xia Shang finally understood why Mukago was so afraid of death and hunger.

"Your speed is too slow, I'll do it."

Xia Shang grabbed the purple butterfly knot on Mukago's kimono. His legs erupted with speed far exceeding rapid movement. Although there was no instrument to measure his current speed.

However, based on his past experience, Xia Shang judged that his current speed was about twice what it was before, which is Mach 3, or even faster!

"So fast!" Mukago was surprised to find that everything around them was receding. Even if she used her two main Blood Demon Arts, she couldn't achieve such terrifying speed. At this moment, the last trace of thought about escaping in her heart vanished like light smoke.

Soon.

The shadow of a village appeared in Mukago's line of sight. Along with it, a faint scent of blood appeared.

After several breaths.

Xia Shang, carrying Mukago, saw the so-called Lower Rank Two Rokuro. He was standing in the middle of a mountain of corpses, selecting his meal for the night.

At first glance, Rokuro looked like an ordinary middle-aged uncle. He wore a long black robe with a matching black cloak over it.

The upper half of his face was covered in black patterns, dense at the top and sparse below, resembling cracked porcelain.

"Mukago... and an unfamiliar Hashira."

"It seems you exposed my location. To save your own life, you actually brought a Hashira to me." The characters 'Lower Two' were carved into Rokuro's right eye.

He looked at the two with a gloomy gaze. "Mukago, if that person finds out you dared to betray him, he will kill you without hesitation. And you, to deal with a Lower Rank Demon like me, actually overdraw your life to activate your Demon Slayer Mark. Truly the height of foolishness."

"But that's fine too. If I can kill you and eat you, the gain will be higher than eating a hundred ordinary humans!" Rokuro was different from Mukago. He reached this position by stepping over the corpses of previous Lower Rank Two Demons through repeated Demon Moon promotion battles.

"So much nonsense."

Xia Shang put Mukago down, and Mukago wisely ran to the side, hiding behind a stone block, poking out her little head, ready to observe the combat between the two.

"Blood Demon Art: Rotating Slash!"

With Rokuro's angry roar, a circle of enchanting blood light appeared around his body. Countless blood threads were mixed within it, and these blood threads continuously rotated around him, creating whistling airflow, as if anything entering the blood light would be instantly shredded.

"Die." Rokuro revealed a ferocious smile.

With a push of his hands, the rapidly rotating bloody disk flew towards Xia Shang. Moreover, the center of the disk erupted with extremely fierce suction, shredding and absorbing all the corpses in its path, adding a cruel crimson hue to the already enchanting blood color.

"You dare come find me without a Nichirin Blade? You're just seeking death!"

(End of Chapter)