His mind was in a daze, and then Goku found that the surrounding scenery had changed.
However, he was already used to this kind of situation.
This time, he appeared in an alley again, but it was an alley made of wood, and the surrounding houses were all made of wood.
Walking out of the alley, Goku found that this was a small town.
"First, let's find a place to eat!"
Seeing a ramen shop directly across the street, his stomach immediately rumbled.
"Customer, what would you like to eat?"
As soon as he entered the shop, the somewhat bald middle-aged owner immediately greeted him warmly.
"We have Tonkotsu, Miso, Shoyu, Niboshi..."
"I'll have a bowl of each flavor!"
Goku wiped his drool.
The owner was stunned for a moment when he heard this:
"Customer, are you sure you want a bowl of each? We have twenty different flavors of ramen here."
A bowl of each flavor meant twenty bowls of ramen. Let alone a child, even an adult couldn't eat that much.
Moreover, his Kogoro Ramen Shop was famous in town for its generous portions.
Customers who came here to eat noodles had never eaten more than three bowls.
"I have money."
Goku thought the owner was worried he didn't have money. Remembering Dumbledore Grandpa's instructions, he reached into a box and pulled out a handful of Galleons, placing them on the table.
"Hiss!!!"
Looking at the glittering Galleons on the table, not only the bald owner but also the other customers sitting nearby all gasped.
Goku had grabbed at least ten Galleons, and each Galleon weighed about fifty grams, meaning five hundred grams of gold were placed on the table.
And in this world, the value of five hundred grams of gold was no longer a small sum.
"Customer, please wait a moment, it'll be ready soon!"
The bald owner no longer cared if Goku could eat twenty bowls of ramen and immediately started making them with a clatter.
A wealthy customer was like God; let alone twenty bowls, one hundred bowls would be fine.
"Customer, your Tonkotsu ramen is ready!"
In less than five minutes, the bald owner brought out the first bowl of ramen.
"I'll dig in."
Goku picked up his chopsticks and quickly finished a bowl of ramen, even drinking all the soup.
The entire process took no more than ten seconds.
The bald owner hadn't even had time to turn around.
"This child seems truly hungry."
He exclaimed, then immediately turned to the kitchen to start making the second bowl.
"This child can really eat!"
"This child can really eat, it's already the third bowl."
"This child eats too much, it's the eighth bowl."
"Is this child a hungry ghost reincarnated? He's a glutton! He ate a full twenty bowls!"
An hour later, the bald owner and the surrounding customers all stared wide-eyed at the twenty bowls of ramen piled next to Goku.
They had never seen anyone who could eat so much.
"I'm not even five-tenths full, Uncle, another twenty bowls!"
Goku rubbed his stomach and shouted to the still-stunned bald owner.
The bald owner came back to his senses, immediately put his hands on his hips, and happily responded:
"Alright, I'll make them for you right away!"
"Hahaha, the ramen I, Kogoro, make is indeed the best ramen in this world."
He was both the owner of the ramen shop and the ramen master of the ramen shop.
So making money certainly made him happy, but what made him even happier was that his craftsmanship was recognized.
This customer in front of him ate twenty bowls of different flavored ramen he made in one go, and after finishing, he wanted to eat another twenty bowls.
This was the highest recognition of his craftsmanship.
"Uncle, is that enough? If not, I have more!"
After eating another twenty bowls, Goku felt it was almost enough and gave the bald owner the handful of Galleons on the table.
"You've given too much, even one coin is enough for the meal."
The bald owner glanced at it and laughed heartily:
"But Uncle doesn't want even one coin. This last meal, is on the house!"
His craftsmanship was recognized, and he was very happy today, so he decided not to charge this little customer for the meal.
And he wouldn't lose out either.
Someone ate forty bowls of ramen at his ramen shop; he believed that if this news spread, his business would be very good afterward.
"You have to pay for food, that's what Grandpa Dumbledore said."
Goku stuffed a handful of Galleons into the bald owner's hand, then left the ramen shop directly.
He left behind only the somewhat bewildered bald owner and a group of envious customers.
"Grandma, are there any very strong and powerful people in your area?"
Walking on the street, Goku asked an old woman sitting on a roadside bench basking in the Sun.
The old woman was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then shook her head.
Afterward, he asked several other passersby, but still no one had the information he wanted.
The world he came to this time seemed to have no particularly powerful experts that he could challenge to improve himself.
"I'll look again. If there isn't one, I'll move on to the next."
The White space had so many doors leading to different worlds. If he couldn't find an expert worth challenging within three days, then he decided to abandon this world and enter the next world.
"Why do you want to find very strong and powerful people?"
Just as Goku was about to leave this town to look elsewhere, a middle-aged man with a long sword at his waist and wearing a strange uniform blocked his path.
"I am training and want to find experts to challenge and improve myself."
Goku replied honestly.
The middle-aged man nodded upon hearing this and pointed to a stone by the roadside that weighed four or five hundred catties:
"So you must be quite strong. Can you lift that stone?"
"Is it like this?"
Goku walked to the stone and easily lifted it over his head with one hand.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's face immediately showed surprise and joy:
"Indeed, he is like Lord Kanroji, someone with a special physique."
He quickly walked up to Goku, extended a hand, and introduced himself:
"Hello, my name is Mita. If you want to find very strong and powerful people to challenge, I know where they are, and there are many."
"Really?"
Goku's eyes instantly lit up.
Mita nodded proudly:
"Really, their strength is beyond your imagination; they are already some of the strongest humans in the world."
He was a Kinoe-ranked member of the Demon Slayer Corps. His strength was not strong, but his luck was good, and he had never encountered a too powerful demon during his missions.
So, besides carrying out missions, he would also look for some talented members for the Demon Slayer Corps and send them to cultivators for training.
In his opinion, this boy in front of him was very talented.
He was also present when the boy was eating at the ramen shop. The boy eating forty bowls of ramen in one meal immediately caught his attention.
Because, as far as he knew, a normal person couldn't eat that much in one meal; only people with special physiques could do it.
And these people with special physiques were geniuses in cultivating Breathing Styles.
Just like the Love Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Mitsuri Kanroji...
Kanroji Mitsuri, when she was one year and two months old, could easily lift a thirty-pound pickling stone.
By the age of two, no man in the city, including exceptionally strong sumo wrestlers, could beat her in an arm wrestle.
It is said that even before she practiced breathing techniques, her muscle density was already eight times that of an ordinary person.
Her appetite was even more astonishing; she could easily eat one hundred and seventy cherry blossom mochi in a day, far more than the combined intake of three sumo wrestlers.
After joining the Demon Slayer Corps, she quickly developed her own Love Breathing technique from the Flame Breathing technique, becoming one of the strongest Hashira.
The time it took for her to become a Hashira was second only to Lord Tokito Muichiro, the Mist Hashira.
This child in front of him looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old, could eat forty bowls of ramen in one sitting, and could easily lift a four to five hundred pound stone with one hand.
If he were to practice breathing techniques later, it might not take many years for the Demon Slayer Corps to gain another Hashira.
Thinking this, Mita's heart swelled even more.
"Then let's go find them quickly!"
Feeling the respect and admiration in Mita's tone, Goku's heart swelled even more than Mita's.
He felt that his training in this world should be very fruitful.
"Give me one day. I still have a mission to complete. After the mission is done, I'll take you to find them."
Mita shook his head.
Bringing Goku back to the Demon Slayer Corps was important, but completing the mission was also very important.
Because if he didn't complete the mission, it would mean that more innocent people would be killed by demons.
Fortunately, the mission location was not far from this town; he should be able to reach it in half a day.
Solving that demon and then returning to pick up the boy wouldn't delay him for long.
"Or, you can come with me."
After thinking for a moment, he changed his mind.
He felt that he could use this opportunity to let the boy see a demon with his own eyes, which would be beneficial for Goku joining the Demon Slayer Corps in the future.
"By the way, are you from this town? Do your family live in this town?"
After all, the boy was underage, so to take him away, it was best to follow his parents' wishes.
Although the Demon Slayer Corps recruited talented members, the premise was willingness; they would not force anyone.
Because joining the Demon Slayer Corps, while it could improve strength and earn rewards, also meant that one could be killed by a demon during a mission at any time.
No matter how extraordinary the boy's talent, if he was unwilling, or if his family disagreed, Mita would not forcibly take him away.
Similarly, letting the boy see a demon, and witness its power and cruelty, was also to give the boy a fair chance to choose.
"My family has passed away. I've been wandering around, training and challenging stronger people to make myself even more powerful," Goku replied after thinking for a moment.
Grandpa Dumbledore said that if anyone asked about his past, he should answer this way.
But it was also the truth.
"That's great!"
Mita was overjoyed to hear this, but quickly realized that saying so was inappropriate, and immediately explained:
"I didn't mean it that way. I meant that you are very suitable to join our Demon Slayer Corps."
"What is the Demon Slayer Corps?"
Goku's face showed curiosity.
"Let's talk as we go!"
Mita led Goku out of the small town and headed towards the next town.
Along the way, he began to introduce Goku to information about the Demon Slayer Corps and demons.
"Our Demon Slayer Corps is an organization dedicated to hunting demons, and demons are a kind of…"
After Mita's introduction, Goku roughly understood what was going on.
It turned out that in this world, there were creatures called demons, who fed on humans, hunted them everywhere, and were extremely cruel.
The Demon Slayer Corps was an organization formed to hunt down evil demons and protect humans.
The strongest in the Demon Slayer Corps were the Hashira, and there were currently nine of them.
As noon approached, Mita and Goku arrived at their mission destination, Hakugo Town.
"My child! My child!"
As soon as they entered the town, the two saw a disheveled woman frantically searching for something in the street.
However, she was quickly caught and stopped by a man who chased after her.
"Mae, it's okay, it's okay. I'll definitely find our child, I'll definitely find our child. Let's go home first."
The man hugged his wife and comforted her with red eyes for a long time before finally calming her down and taking her away.
At this moment, an aunt next to them gritted her teeth and said:
"It's truly pitiful. The child was barely two months old when he was stolen last night.
Child traffickers deserve to die!"
"According to intelligence, this town has lost seven children in just one month.
The youngest was just one month old, and the oldest was seven years old.
Ordinary people think they are child traffickers, but we suspect it's the work of an evil demon."
Mita explained to Goku.
Goku's face showed anger upon hearing this.
"If it was an evil demon, did he eat all the children!?"
"If it's an evil demon, he definitely ate them."
Mita sighed, then nodded:
"Some demons like to eat children, some like to eat young girls, and some like to eat strong young men.
The more people they eat, the stronger they become.
So they usually eat them as soon as they catch them, at most after one night; they rarely can wait until the next day."
He often encountered such things. Although he could usually kill the rampaging demon in the end, it was generally very difficult to rescue the disappeared people.
Because it takes time for a demon's rampage to attract the attention of the Demon Slayer Corps, and it takes time for Demon Slayer Corps members to arrive.
This time is enough for the demon to eat all the people it caught.
"The aunt's child was lost last night. If we find that demon now, we might still be able to save him."
Goku clenched his fists.
Mita shook his head again:
"Demons are most afraid of the Sun; even the strongest demons will be killed by the Sun.
So they all hide during the day and only come out at night to move around.
We must wait until he comes out again at night to catch children before we have a chance to find and kill him."
In such a large town, if a demon wanted to hide, he simply wouldn't be able to find it.
"You said that the more people a demon eats, the stronger it becomes. This demon has eaten so many children, so its strength shouldn't be weak, right?"
Goku asked after thinking for a moment.
Mita nodded:
"It shouldn't be weak."
"Then I have a way."
Goku immediately closed his eyes and began to sense.
If the demon's strength was not weak, then its aura would naturally be stronger than that of ordinary people. He just needed to carefully sense and differentiate.
He would definitely find it.
"Follow me!"
His sensing range for aura was fifteen kilometers, which could not completely cover this small town.
But it didn't matter; he just needed to walk around the town once to scout the entire town.
Mita saw Goku close his eyes and walk forward. Although he didn't understand what he was doing, he still followed him.
"Found it!"
Just as Goku reached the center of the street, he suddenly opened his eyes, and then disappeared from his original spot with Apparition.
He had sensed two auras in the town that surpassed ordinary people: one was Mita behind him, and the other was in the westernmost part of the town.
At the same time, there was also a very faint aura next to that one, which might be the baby who was abducted last night.
Worried that the baby might be eaten by the demon at any moment, after locking onto the demon's location, he instantly teleported over.
"Where is he?"
Mita rubbed his eyes in disbelief, looking at the suddenly disappeared Goku...