Tanjiro had absolutely never imagined that the furtive black shadow behind the tree would be his younger sister, Nezuko. He froze on the spot for a moment.
"Brother..."
Nezuko called out.
"Nezuko!"
Tanjiro lowered his sword and stepped forward to walk over.
But after just a few steps, he stopped abruptly, shaking his head fiercely: "No, you can't be Nezuko!"
Nezuko was still calling: "Brother!"
Tanjiro raised his Nichirin Sword again, pointing at Nezuko behind the tree: "Nezuko is not in this world at all, so... who exactly are you!"
Although Tanjiro was roaring, the arm holding the sword pointing at Nezuko couldn't stop trembling.
As a swordsman of his level, even if exhausted, his sword-holding arm wouldn't tremble like this. This showed how contradictory his feelings were at this moment!
Because reason told him that Nezuko in front of him must be fake, but he desperately hoped that Nezuko could really come to this world and live peacefully with him in the deep mountains.
Nezuko looked terrified, looking around in panic: "Brother, I don't know what's going on either. What is this place?"
"This is the Shinobi World!" Pausing, Tanjiro said: "Did you come here following that lump of pitch-black stuff just now?"
Nezuko shook her head: "I only know our world was destroyed, and then after waking up, I was already here!"
Tanjiro walked over guardedly.
After arriving in front of Nezuko, he sniffed: "The scent is right, you really are Nezuko! No! You..."
Although the scent on the other party was exactly the same as Nezuko's, Tanjiro found that there was no aura of a living person on the other party at all.
Or more accurately, there was no blood that demons craved most in the other party's body.
If it were another demon, they might have noticed this long ago. But he had been suppressing his nature as a demon, so he overlooked this point. When he realized something was wrong, it was obviously too late.
Before Tanjiro could finish speaking, Nezuko turned into a black shadow and drilled into Tanjiro's body.
Tanjiro froze instantly, his expression slowly becoming dull. Then the spiritual light in his eyes gradually disappeared, his pupils turning pitch-black.
A long time later, Tanjiro regained his expression.
However, at this time, he no longer had the conflicted and nervous expression from before, replaced by a kind of indifference!
He glanced around, then silently sheathed his sword, his figure disappearing into the forest...
Hidden Leaf Village.
In the training ground exclusive to the Military Police Force, Shinji was instructing Shion one-on-one on cultivating the 'Twelve Zodiac Signs'.
Because she was a Miko possessing chakra at the Tailed Beast level, as long as the bell magical tool was put further away and the seal on Shion's chakra was released, Shion learned ninjutsu and taijutsu quite fast.
Plus some basic knowledge of the human body taught in the Ninja Academy, Shion got the hang of it in just one day.
Bam...
With a side kick, Shion directly snapped a wooden stake in half at the waist.
Shion looked pleasantly surprised, hurriedly shouting to Shinji: "How is it? How is it? Am I amazing?"
Before Shinji could answer, Mumei aside lightly struck with a knifehand, instantly snapping a wooden stake, then looked at Shion expressionlessly.
"You..."
Shion was speechless.
Shinji smiled: "Already very good!"
Mumei nodded: "Mhm, reaching this level in one day is indeed considered good. Pity, I only used half a day!"
Shion said angrily: "Hmph, just you wait and see, I will definitely surpass you!"
Just then, Shinji was suddenly stunned, hearing the long-lost notification from the 'Lamp', telling him that the Overlord's power had already penetrated into the Ninja World.
Following the indication of the 'Lamp', he turned to look in the direction of the Land of Demons, the expression on his face changing unpredictably.
For him, the Overlord targeting the Ninja World was a certainty, originally nothing to panic about. But when the Overlord's power really began to penetrate the Ninja World, he found himself starting to panic deep down.
Noticing Shinji's abnormality, Mumei leaned over and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
"Ah!"
At this time, Shion suddenly screamed.
Shinji and Mumei turned around together, finding Shion sitting on the ground with a look of horror, seeming to have just seen some terrifying scene.
Shinji hurriedly stepped forward to support Shion: "Are you okay?"
Shion murmured: "Blood! It's blood! Shinji, I just saw lots and lots of blood!"
"Blood?!"
Mumei felt somewhat baffled.
Shinji, however, looked serious because he knew that as a Miko, Shion possessed the ability to predict death. Especially after removing the bell magical tool, Shion's ability to predict death was enhanced countless times. So the anomaly that even the strong Mumei didn't notice was detected by Shion in advance.
"As expected of the Ninja World's Miko..." After sighing secretly, Shinji gently stroked Shion's back: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here! Recall carefully, besides blood, what else did you see?"
Shion was somewhat conflicted, seeming unwilling to recall those scenes. But when she met Shinji's earnest gaze, she suddenly found courage and recalled: "I also saw lots and lots of corpses!"
Shinji pressed: "Lots of corpses? How many? Whose corpses?"
"All kinds of people!" Saying this, Shion gestured: "This many, piled together like a small mountain!"
Mumei was frightened: "What, corpses piled into a small mountain? How many people must have died!"
Shinji took a deep breath: "Can you see clearly who killed these people?"
Shion shook her head helplessly.
Shinji patted Shion's shoulder: "Alright, don't think about those scenes anymore."
Shion grabbed Shinji's arm: "Shinji, do you think those scenes will become reality?"
Shinji sighed: "I don't know either."
Seeing this, Mumei hurriedly asked: "Shinji, what exactly is going on? What do the scenes Shion saw mean? Why would they become reality?"
Shinji explained: "Shion is the Miko of the Land of Demons, possessing a magical ability to predict death. Just now she triggered this ability!"
Mumei was somewhat incredulous: "Predict death?"
Shion said: "Before I only predicted individual deaths. Predicting so many deaths at once like this time is a first! And this time is different from before. I have a feeling, as if something weird entered the Ninja World. Shinji, I'm not lying, I feel the Ninja World seems about to encounter big trouble!"
Shinji nodded gently: "I know!"
Mumei reacted.
She finally understood what exactly Shinji had been plotting this and that to guard against!