Chapter 79 – Blade of Demons (2)
The first thing Seo-jun did after entering the work was to make an Ilyundo.
With his sword creation ability, he created a sword that was second to none in the world with the same performance as the one-wheeled sword, and then scattered his magic power to deal with the goblins around him.
In roughly two days, when the seed of a nearby goblin dried up, a crow approached him, as if the rumor had spread.
For reference, a crow is a talking crow messenger of the Demon Slayer who hunts goblins.
“Caw! Are you the one taking care of the goblins around here!”
“However?”
“Kyaaak!! This is the owner’s suggestion!! Take the screening test and officially enlist in the gwisildae!”
I thought that Seo-joon would come.
It was what he was aiming for from the beginning. Without expressing such feelings, he acted as if he was lost in thought for a while, and then he replied that he knew.
So he was guided by a crow and arrived at the place where the screening test was being held.
It was a place where wisteria trees that goblins hate bloomed 365 days a year.
The screening test was to go around a mountain with it, trap the goblins in it, and then shove the prospective demon slayers inside and ask them to survive for a week.
‘It’s an inefficient test.’
Now that I think about it, this screening test was really crap.
The passing criterion for the screening test is not the number of goblins treated, but survival for 7 days.
Seeing that elimination is death and only a small number of people survive, it was no different from a death game, and even if you are still alive after the test, if you do not walk directly to the exit, you cannot receive rear support such as rescue and treatment at once. You can’t even take a step out before a week passes.
In addition, no matter how starved the goblins are, I wonder if it is sane to ask newbies to survive for a week in a mountain teeming with them. Rather, because they were starved, they were more likely to turn a blind eye and act more aggressively, and they actually did.
Usually, in the case of events or tests with a high mortality rate, something unimaginable is offered as a reward in order to convince readers or viewers of the motivation to voluntarily risk their lives.
However, in the case of this test, the only thing that comes out if you pass the test is the position of a rookie in the Demon Slayer, the uniform of a member, and even after passing the test and becoming the Demon Slayer, you have to risk life and death by continuing to hunt goblins.
‘I have no choice but to change.’
There is no choice but to change it by formally recommending it as a main.
Because he wanted to fix it properly at least once, Seo-joon wanted to quickly become the master.
Well, apart from that, Seojun quickly glanced around.
Around thirty boys and girls gathered to take the exam. And in the middle, I was able to find the face I was aiming for.
‘You came properly.’
The figure of a beautiful girl with a mysterious atmosphere wearing a floral kimono with a fox mask called Axo Mask slanted on her head.
It came exactly at the time he wanted.
As he looked at him for a moment, the girl looked back at him, perhaps feeling the gaze.
Seojun lightly shook his hand.
At that, the girl also made her expression as if she was slightly surprised, but she soon accepted it.
It was then.
Black and white twins in kimonos appeared.
“Everyone, thank you for participating in the final selection tonight. On Mount Fujikasane, the ghosts captured by the swordsmen of Demon Slaughter are confined, and it is impossible to get out.”
“It’s because from the foot of the mountain to the middle, wisteria that goblins hate is in full bloom throughout the year.”
The twins took turns talking to each other.
“But from this point forward, wisteria do not bloom, so there are goblins. I will survive in this for a week.”
“That is the condition for passing the final selection. Then please begin.”
As soon as the horse leaves, the people go into the forest all at once.
Seo-joon followed the girl in the fox mask from the back with his eyes and followed her. The girl quickly ran through the forest with bouncy footwork.
It was pretty quick.
About an hour into the forest like that.
In the meantime, the girl cut the heads of several goblins. She was so agile that no goblin she had ever met had touched her hair.
‘It’s definitely as strong as it appeared in the original story.’
However, she eventually dies in this test.
It’s because the stupid demons left the goblins that were growing while eating humans.
The more you dig these bastards, the more ghost stories come out.
‘But I can’t let it go like that.’
Seojun has already marked that girl as one of the heroines of this work.
More than that, I will never let you die.
“Haha! Human discovery! Thank you for this food!!”
The goblin that jumped out from behind Seo-joon opened her mouth and rushed at her.
And the guy was cut in half just like that and fell to the floor. His eyes suddenly seemed to him that he didn’t understand why he was lying on the floor.
Seo-joon’s sword, which he looked up at, was still in its scabbard.
Who then?
Contrary to what he thought, Seo-jun properly drew out his sword and swung it.
It was just that he threw the sword at a speed that was hard to follow with the eyes, and then he delivered the sword again.
Anyway, quite a bit of time has passed since I started following her while dealing with the mischievous people.
Seo-joon’s feeling caught something huge.
‘He finally woke up.’
Kurung, Kurung.
Something gigantic crawling across the floor.
Perhaps sensing the sound and vibration, the girl turned her head and began to be alert.
And before long, a giant appeared.
“Kuhuhu, the cute fox is here again!”
The whole body covered with hands and a slightly protruding face.
It was a hand goblin with countless hands who killed the girl in the original work.
***
The girl in the fox mask, Makomo.
She was an orphan who lost her parents to goblins.
Such a girl was raised by her ex-ghost great water-bearer Uro Kodaki.
She trained in the breath of water under the Urokodaki, and her skills also improved, gaining strength that could be counted on three fingers even compared to her peers of her generation.
Although she was like that.
Now, unlike before, there was almost no time left.
‘This goblin is strong!’
The attack of her goblin, which reached her countless hands toward her, was stronger than any goblin she had ever encountered.
If I get caught by one of them, my flesh and bone will separate.
Fortunately, however, she was a swordsman who focused on speed rather than strength.
She evaded the attack of her hand goblin by moving lightly, as if bouncing over her water.
She was so fast that she couldn’t even brush her collar.
“Profit, a nimble year!”
Enraged at that, the hand goblin increased the number of hands.
Now, twenty or so hands stretch out their magical powers toward Makomo all at once, like a thousand-handed Kannon.
But all of her couldn’t reach her.
At that time when the hand goblin was giving off a fever, he came up with a good idea.
The eyes of the guy who was exposed all of a sudden drew an arc.
“That mask! You’re a disciple of Urokodaki’s son, aren’t you?”
At those words, Makomo trembled.
She, who had never spoken a word with her goblin, opened her mouth.
“How about Mr. Urokodaki?”
“Kufufu, kuhahahaha!!”
The hand goblin burst into laughter as if caught in her reaction.
“Don’t you know!! The reason why you caught me and put me here is Urokodaki!! That guy is still hunting goblins! Edo period… It was around Keio!! It has survived ever since! Eating forty little kids!! Let’s see… Ten, eleven, and you are twelve.”
“… What are you talking about?”
Sigh.
The hand goblin smiled and replied.
“The number of disciples raised by the Urokodaki I ate. Because I decided to kill all of his students.”
“…”
Makomo seemed to be at a loss for words for a moment.
Either that or not, the hand goblin continued his words.
“That fox mask you wore is a mark. I remember the wood grain of the mask Urokodaki sold. The same texture as the tengu mask he wore. Did you say ‘Axo’s mask’? Everyone got eaten because I wrote that. It’s all in my stomach This is the same as killing Urokodaki. Ah! I should thank Urokodaki!! You prepared such a delicious meal for me!!”
Pudeuk.
Hearing her words, Makomo’s body trembled.
Water droplets trickle down from her eyes.
“Don’t insult Urokodaki-san!!!”
Having said that, Makomo rushed towards her hand goblin.
However, perhaps because she was angry, her movements were very different from usual. And her hand goblin didn’t miss that gap.
Before Makomo’s sword was swung.
Her hand goblin grabbed her arm.
“I finally got it~!”
Poududeuk!
“Kuk!”
A moan of pain escapes from Makomo’s lips at her tremendous grip.
Even so, there was still fighting spirit in her eyes. The hand goblin didn’t like that, but he didn’t really care.
After all, she would be torn limb from limb by her own hands!
“Goodbye, little fox. I will use you as food to escape from here and then send you to Urokodaki.”
“This, profit!!”
Overwhelming power.
As a result, Makomo had a hunch about her death.
While doing so, she thought of Uro Kodaki, who was her orphan and raised her to this point.
“I’m sorry, Urokodaki-san…’
Before she left, his words that told her to come back safely ran through her head.
It seemed difficult to keep the promise. But she didn’t give up completely and found her way out.
That was the moment.
Chow ah-!!!
Something cut through the arm of her hand goblin that held Makomo.
Her hand goblin’s arm, neatly severed, falls to the floor, and Makomo, who was caught in it, also plummets to the ground several meters under the influence of her gravity.
She closed her eyes tightly at the shock she was about to come, but the shock she was waiting for did not come.
When she slowly opened her eyes, she could see why. Someone was holding her body.
The one holding her was a boy.
A boy with a beauty she has never seen since she was born.
‘Who is this child?’
She recalled.
That before her screening test started, she was the boy she had been exchanging greetings with.
Said her boy laughing at her doing her bewildered.
“Hi? We met again.”
Makomo felt an unknown reassurance in that voice.
Makomo
