"I want…"
"I want…"
Tanjirou trembled all over, slowly getting up.
"I want to slay Muzan Kibutsuji! To avenge my mother, younger brother, and younger sister!" Tanjirou stood up completely, raised his head, and roared with all his might.
"Hoo~"
"Hoo~"
After roaring, Tanjirou's chest heaved, and he looked at Lan Mingang with resolute eyes.
"And, to turn Nezuko back into a human!"
Seeing this, Lan Mingang finally showed a satisfied smile.
"Good, this is the demeanor a Demon Slayer should have."
"Tanjirou, I know you're not sure if you can turn Nezuko back into a human, but now I can give you a definite answer. Do you… want to hear it?"
Tanjirou said without the slightest hesitation:
"I want to hear it!"
"Then listen carefully, your sister Nezuko… can turn back into a human!"
Upon hearing this, Tanjirou was overjoyed and bowed in thanks:
"Arigato!"
"Although Nezuko can turn back into a human, the process required is extremely difficult. Not only that, but there are also many demons lurking in the shadows coveting Nezuko's flesh and blood. So, work hard to become stronger, young man!"
"Don't forget Sun Breathing—Hinokami Kagura. Whether you fully master Sun Breathing is the key to whether you can slay Muzan Kibutsuji!"
Lan Mingang took out two Senzu Beans and threw them to Tanjirou.
Nezuko hasn't turned back into a human yet, so her older brother Tanjirou can't suddenly die, just in case.
"These are Senzu Beans. No matter how severely injured you are, no matter how exhausted you are, eating them will instantly restore you to your optimal state."
"Whether you want to use them after desperate training to continue training desperately and accelerate your growth, or save them for rescuing people or saving your life later, it's all up to you."
"Oh, and eating one Senzu Bean will keep you from being hungry for ten days."
Tanjirou unconditionally believed Lan Mingang's words, wrapped the beans up, placed them in his 懷中, and treasured them.
Such precious Senzu Beans should, of course, be used to save people.
After putting away the Senzu Beans, Tanjirou bowed again in thanks:
"Arigato!"
Lan Mingang looked at Tanjirou, who kept bowing, and beckoned:
"Stop saying Arigato there. Come here, I have a question for you."
Tanjirou came to Lan Mingang's side, and Lan Mingang took out a blueprint and handed it to Tanjirou.
The pattern drawn on it was none other than the blue spider lily that Muzan Kibutsuji yearned for in his dreams.
"Have you seen this flower before?"
Tanjirou nodded and said, "I have. My mother took me to see this flower. This blue flower only blooms at noon on July 15th every year, and it withers and dies in less than five minutes."
It only blooms on July 15th. It's June 15th now, so the blue spider lily will bloom again in another month.
"Specific location."
Tanjirou closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, then said, "About one kilometer east from my house, there's a small mound. The other side of the small mound is covered with these blue flowers every July 15th."
"Well done. Nezuko is very beautiful and very cute. Protect her well."
"Let's go!"
Bidding farewell to Tanjirou, Lan Mingang and Mitsuri flew towards the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters under the guidance of Kasugai Crow.
"Ming Ang Ge, can Senzu Beans really keep you from being hungry for ten days?" Mitsuri asked doubtfully in the air.
"Want to try?" Lan Mingang took out a Senzu Bean and handed it to Mitsuri.
"Hehe, thank you, Ming Ang Ge." Mitsuri took the Senzu Bean and swallowed it in one gulp.
Her body, which had already expended a large amount of stamina, instantly recovered to its optimal state, and she felt no hunger at all.
"Wow! It's so amazing, I really recovered to my optimal state, and I'm not hungry anymore," Mitsuri exclaimed in surprise.
It's so good to be with Ming Ang Ge; I can eat all sorts of delicious things.
Lan Mingang, who possessed ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Senzu Beans, didn't care about the loss of these two or three Senzu Beans at all.
When he has the strength and can travel through worlds via the system core in the future, he will directly go to the Dragon Ball world, wish for infinite Senzu Beans, or grow Senzu Beans himself, wishing for accelerated time.
There's no need to worry about a shortage of Senzu Beans.
"Oh, by the way, Ming Ang Ge, what is that blue flower?" Mitsuri couldn't help but be curious, thinking that their trip to Mt. Sagiri to find Tanjirou seemed to be for a flower.
"The blue spider lily. It's said that if a demon eats this flower, they can become a perfect being who isn't afraid of the sun, isn't afraid of a nichirin blade, and won't die even if their head is cut off. But whether this is true or false, even I'm not entirely sure."
"Oh~" Mitsuri was a little surprised.
"So even Ming Ang Ge has things he doesn't know."
Lan Mingang gently kneaded Mitsuri's cheek and said:
"Silly girl, I'm not an immortal, how could I know everything?"
Regarding whether the blue spider lily can truly turn a demon into a perfect being, even the original author of Demon Slayer, Koyoharu Gotouge, didn't explicitly state it.
It was all something Muzan Kibutsuji took for granted.
Muzan Kibutsuji became an immortal, undying demon who feared sunlight because the medicine he took was missing one ingredient: the blue spider lily.
Therefore, Muzan Kibutsuji believed that if he completed the formula by adding the last missing ingredient—the blue spider lily—and then made and consumed the medicine, he would become immortal, undying, unafraid of sunlight, and a perfect being.
However, Lan Mingang felt there was another possibility: that eating the blue spider lily and completing the formula would turn him into an ordinary human.
As for the exact effects of the blue spider lily, Lan Mingang decided that after picking the blue spider lily on July 15th, he would find an opportunity to capture a few demons and experiment.
...
After half an hour of flying, Lan Mingang and Mitsuri finally arrived at the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters under the guidance of Kasugai Crow.
A Kasugai Crow flew into the air, connecting with Kasugai Crow and exchanging information.
When it saw Lan Mingang and Mitsuri flying in the air, its eyes blinked a few times, and it shook its head.
It suspected it was mistaken.
Since when could humans fly in the sky?
"Are you two flying in the sky?" the Kasugai Crow asked incredulously.
"What do you think?" Lan Mingang retorted.
"This, this, this, how is this possible!" The Kasugai Crow responsible for greeting Lan Mingang and Mitsuri was almost doubting its bird life.
It flew back and forth around Lan Mingang and Mitsuri.
"You… never mind, I'm just a crow. This kind of thing is better left to Kagaya Ubuyashiki-sama."
The Kasugai Crow, unable to figure it out, decided not to think about it. Its short bird life couldn't be wasted on such matters.
"Mr. Lan, please follow me. I'll take you to see the Master."
With that, the Kasugai Crow flew towards the villa where Master Kagaya Ubuyashiki resided.
Lan Mingang and Mitsuri followed behind it.
The Kasugai Crow occasionally looked back, wanting to see how the two were flying.
The result was, it couldn't tell, it simply couldn't tell.
These two humans could move without using their hands or feet.
This was too bizarre.
Truly, the older the bird, the more strange forests it sees.