Chapter 32: Settling the Kamado family

Upper Moon Three—Akaza

While waiting for the reply from the leader of the Demon Slayer Corps, Zero stayed at Tanjiro's house.

During this time, he checked Muzan Kibutsuji's data by the way.

【Analyzing... Analysis successful】

【Name: Muzan Kibutsuji】

【Identity: Progenitor of Demons—Demon King】

【Gender: Unknown (Can be male or female)】

【Age: Over 1000 years old】

【Birth Era: Heian Period】

【Personality: Cowardly, tyrannical, hot-tempered】

【Subordinates: Twelve Kizuki】

【Abilities: Perfect mimicry, breaking limits, blood curse, splitting, giant baby transformation】

【Weapons: Thorn whip, tube whip】

【Blood Demon Art: Black Thorny Thorns, Energy Storage Impact】

【Personal Information: Cruel and cold-blooded personality, hot-tempered, but also unusually cowardly, afraid of death, has a great obsession with eternal life, and calls himself "the creature infinitely close to perfect."】

【Notes: Individual Muzan Kibutsuji has broken the limit and cannot be beheaded and killed by a Nichirin sword; only sunlight can eliminate him!】

"Hmm... It seems my previous guess was indeed correct! Although there might be some deviations... But what I didn't expect is that this Muzan Kibutsuji actually overcame beheading..." Zero thought to himself.

Then he used the 【Analysis Glasses】 to start searching for Muzan Kibutsuji.

【Search: Muzan Kibutsuji】

【Searching... Search successful】

"Whoosh~ Finally, I can!" Zero was a bit excited, but quickly calmed down and began to view the relevant information about Muzan Kibutsuji.

【Muzan Kibutsuji】:

【Original name: Ubuyashiki Muzan, born in the distant past of the Heian era. Before he was born, Muzan almost died because of his weak body, and was even born into the world as a stillborn baby.

But Muzan relied on the obsession to live and climbed back from the gates of hell, but still remained bedridden due to a terminal illness before he was twenty years old.

A kind doctor developed a medicine for him to extend his life, but the side effects of this medicine made Muzan think that his condition had worsened, so he killed the doctor in anger.

It wasn't until after the doctor died that Muzan discovered that not only had his body recovered, but he had also obtained an immortal and tougher body, but he also began to crave human flesh.

Although this was not a problem for Ubuyashiki Muzan, who had obtained powerful strength, the fact that he would die as long as he was exposed to sunlight became Muzan's most fatal weakness. Being unable to walk in the sunlight for a lifetime made Muzan feel incomparable humiliation and anger.

After studying the medicine formula developed by the doctor for himself, Muzan discovered that the finished product of the medicine needed to add a plant that the doctor called "Blue Bianhua."

However, only that doctor knew where the Blue Bianhua grew and how to cultivate it.

So, in order to become the strongest immortal monster, Ubuyashiki Muzan began to create a large number of demons to find the Blue Bianhua for himself.

He had the ability to turn humans who were given blood into demons and control the other party. If a demon said anything about Muzan's information, their body would collapse and destroy itself.

Besides that, he could also read the thoughts of demons when he was close to them, but the further away, the less obvious it was, and he could only feel their approximate direction and position.

At the same time, Muzan Kibutsuji could seal all the abilities and immortality of demons transformed from his own blood.

Afterward, he changed his name to: Muzan Kibutsuji.】

Seeing this information, Zero also understood some things, and based on this information, he guessed that it might be from this time that the Ubuyashiki clan was cursed with the so-called "curse"!

"I guess the Demon Slayer Corps was founded after this?" Zero thought to himself.

After thinking for a while, he continued to look at the information of 【Muzan Kibutsuji】.

【After Muzan Kibutsuji became a demon in the Heian era, hundreds of years passed. In order to find the Blue Bianhua that could make him a perfect life form, he created countless descendants in various parts of Japan during these hundreds of years.

At the same time, because of the chaos caused by demons everywhere, a group of people spontaneously formed an organization specifically to fight against demons—〖Demon Slayer Corps〗.

But the Demon Slayer Corps, which was only ordinary humans, simply couldn't threaten evil demons with powerful alien abilities, so Muzan Kibutsuji didn't deliberately eliminate the Demon Slayer Corps, but ran around to find the Blue Bianhua or medicine that could overcome the sunlight.

Finally, Muzan found an excellent doctor, Tamayo, who was suffering from an incurable terminal illness, and used Tamayo's wish of "wanting to see her child grow up" to lure her.

Tamayo, who was deceived by Muzan Kibutsuji, became a demon, and Tamayo, who killed her child and husband with her own hands in a state of being unable to control her consciousness, fell into a state of self-abandonment and rampage, while Muzan used his power to completely control Tamayo.

However, the struggle between demons and the Demon Slayer Corps did not stop. The Demon Slayer Corps, which learned Breathing Techniques from the Sun Breathing swordsman Yoriichi Tsugikuni, reversed the situation of being suppressed by demons for hundreds of years, and a large number of evil demons created by Muzan Kibutsuji were wiped out in these few years.

But Muzan Kibutsuji still believed that ordinary humans could not defeat him, and after observing the most excellent marked swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps, he noticed that the Demon Slayer Corps exchanged their lifespan for strength, so he was even more convinced that he, as a perfect creature, could not be defeated.

Because he was interested in Breathing Techniques, Muzan Kibutsuji met Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who was sighing there because of the side effects brought by the marks!

Afterward, he lured Michikatsu Tsugikuni with eternal life.

Because Michikatsu Tsugikuni wanted to defeat his brother Yoriichi, who was a genius, and was afraid of the side effects brought by the marks, he finally decided to drink the demon's blood to overcome the side effects of awakening the marks, betrayed the Demon Slayer Corps, and became Muzan's "partner."】

Seeing this, Zero paused, hurriedly took out the notes he had made at the Ubuyashiki mansion from the 【Nano Space】, and compared them.

"Sure enough, everything I guessed before matched! Breathing Techniques, marks! Sure enough, Michikatsu Tsugikuni became an evil demon because he was afraid of the side effects brought by the marks! Then, I can now be 100% sure that Upper Moon One is Michikatsu Tsugikuni!"

"And, the information mentions that Michikatsu Tsugikuni always wanted to defeat and surpass Yoriichi Tsugikuni, which shows that he is indeed a competitive person with a strong sense of jealousy!"

Thinking of all this, Zero's train of thought finally became clear again. For all his previous guesses, Zero had always maintained his firmness.

And now they had all been verified, although there were still some "mists" in his mind that had not dissipated.

But he firmly believed that all of this would be verified later.

Then his gaze looked at the information on the 【Analysis Glasses】 again.

【Not long after Michikatsu Tsugikuni transformed into an evil demon, on a night, Muzan Kibutsuji walked on a small path in the bamboo forest with Tamayo and met Yoriichi Tsugikuni.

Muzan Kibutsuji initially thought that Yoriichi was just a bit stronger than other Breathing Technique swordsmen, so he launched an attack on Yoriichi without thinking.

But what Muzan never expected was that Yoriichi Tsugikuni not only easily resolved his attack but also severely damaged him with the strongest sword technique "Sun Breathing · Thirteenth Form."

Facing Yoriichi Tsugikuni's questioning of "What do you take human life for?", Muzan Kibutsuji, who was dominated by anger and fear, did not answer his question, but instead abandoned Tamayo and split his body into more than 1,800 fragments and fled in all directions.

Although Yoriichi Tsugikuni used all his strength to eliminate most of the fragments, Muzan Kibutsuji still saved his life with the remaining fragments.

Because the wounds on his body could not heal at all and he could only hide, Muzan felt deep fear for the man who seemed to be born to defeat him, and hid in the dark for hundreds of years without appearing in front of the world.

At the same time, his desire to become a perfect creature became more intense. Finally, in order to completely eliminate the Demon Slayer Corps, Muzan Kibutsuji decided to create twelve strongest evil demons 〖Twelve Kizuki〗.

But Muzan Kibutsuji did not expect that Tamayo, whom he had abandoned, regained her sanity after he was significantly weakened, and was not eliminated by Yoriichi Tsugikuni, who let her go.

She not only revealed all his information to Yoriichi Tsugikuni but also used her medical knowledge to completely break free from his control.

And on the night of the blood moon decades later, after Michikatsu Tsugikuni reported the news of Yoriichi Tsugikuni's death, Muzan personally came forward to attack the Demon Slayer Corps and completely eliminated all swordsmen who knew how to use Sun Breathing, finally cutting off the inheritance of Sun Breathing.

However, the Demon Slayer Corps and the Ubuyashiki family that led it were pushed to a dead end by evil demons several times, but finally, the Ubuyashiki family used their unique ability to predict the future to hide, making Muzan unable to find the whereabouts of the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters again.】

After reading the information about 【Muzan Kibutsuji】, Zero took a deep breath and exhaled.

He didn't expect that his initial guess would lead to so many problems and answers.

And the female demon he guessed was let go by Yoriichi Tsugikuni and her identity, he thought those were just his guesses.

But after going to Asakusa, Tokyo, it was verified. Now seeing this information, Zero felt that he was getting closer to the truth of a certain matter.

"I guess it was from that time that the Demon Slayer Corps received the information that Michikatsu Tsugikuni betrayed the Demon Slayer Corps and became an evil demon, plus Yoriichi Tsugikuni let Tamayo go, so they were expelled from the Demon Slayer Corps by the leader of that generation of the Demon Slayer Corps?" Zero thought to himself.

Looking at the last paragraph of information in the 【Analysis Glasses】, Zero fell into deep thought again, and the notebook in his hand turned to the page recording 【Yoriichi Tsugikuni】's information.

"Decades later, on the night of the blood moon... Yoriichi Tsugikuni died at the age of 80... which means Yoriichi Tsugikuni fought Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who had become an evil demon, in the year he was 80?!"

"But Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who became an evil demon, is still alive... Either Yoriichi Tsugikuni was old and his strength was not as good as before! Or it was just when Michikatsu Tsugikuni was at the end of his rope..."

Zero's mind emerged with these two guesses, but he was more inclined to the second guess!

Innate marks, Transparent World, Nichirin sword, Sun Breathing, and various other reasons, plus his brother Michikatsu Tsugikuni called him 【favored by the gods】.

So even if Yoriichi Tsugikuni was old, his strength was definitely not much different from his peak period!

Therefore, Zero boldly concluded: Yoriichi Tsugikuni fought Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who had become an evil demon, because he was at the end of his rope at the last moment, which allowed Michikatsu Tsugikuni to escape death!

Zero also made another guess, I'm afraid Michikatsu Tsugikuni always kept the idea of wanting to defeat and surpass Yoriichi Tsugikuni in his heart.

Even if he became an evil demon, it was the same!

"If I'm not mistaken, Michikatsu Tsugikuni still retained the memories of his human period even after becoming an evil demon, right? After all, the information mentions that Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who became an evil demon, and Muzan Kibutsuji were just 〖partners〗!"

"Then according to this inference, Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who became an evil demon, had a status second only to Muzan Kibutsuji among the Twelve Kizuki..."

He stopped thinking about it and recorded all this information.

As for other information, Zero believed that in the days to come, as long as he investigated slowly, he would definitely be able to find the answer!

Including information about the 【Twelve Kizuki】.

Sunset.

The Messenger Crow, Yuki, flew from the Demon Slayer Corps to Mount Yunxue again and delivered Kagaya Ubuyashiki's personal letter to Zero.

"Master, I'm back."

"Yuki, thank you for your hard work, you should have a good rest."

He took off the letter strip hanging on the Messenger Crow, Yuki's leg and checked it:

【Zero, do everything according to what you think. If you need anything, just tell me, and the Ubuyashiki family will do their best to help you.】

The content was brief, and it also showed Kagaya Ubuyashiki's thoughts. It was understandable that Zero wanted to settle the Kamado family in his mansion.

Seeing this, Zero smiled slightly, and he also understood Kagaya Ubuyashiki's trust in him.

Because of this, the following things were much more convenient.

"Brother Zero."

Tanjiro walked out of the house and shouted behind Zero.

"Tanjiro, have you... already thought it through?"

"Yes, Brother Zero, I have already thought it through, and I have decided!"

"Well, since that's the case, we will set off tomorrow. I will take you for a ride, and the rest of the road will have to depend on yourself."

"Thank you, Brother Zero."

Nezuko, with the help of Kie Kamado, changed into a new dress and walked out of the inner room, coming to Zero's side and lying on his lap.

She seemed to like Zero giving her a lap pillow very much, and she would stay by Zero's side whenever she had the chance.

"Nezuko, you naughty little baby, you really like lying on my lap!"

"(*^▃^*) Ugh~"

Nezuko's eyes curved into crescent shapes, wearing a muzzle on her mouth, looking very happy.

Seeing Nezuko like this, Zero put his hand on her hair and stroked it gently, occasionally pinching Nezuko's little face.

Nezuko also grabbed Zero's hand and pressed it against her face, rubbing it like a little kitten.

Kie Kamado walked out of the room and saw this situation, and her heart was full of relief.

Once, everyone in this family had only spent one day with Zero, but now, he didn't expect Zero to do so many things for their family.

Tanjiro looked at Zero and Nezuko getting along so harmoniously, and felt very happy in his heart.

"Brother Zero is really gentle." Tanjiro thought to himself.

(Evil demon:...)

"Aunt Kie, are you feeling better? How are Takeo and the others?" Only then did Zero notice Kie Kamado standing on the side watching them.

"Much better, the children are all asleep, Zero, thank you."

"You're welcome. Also, everyone will leave with me tomorrow. I will arrange everything later."

"But..." Kie Kamado wanted to say she wanted to stay, after all, this house had too many memories.

Just when Kie Kamado was a bit hesitant, what Zero said next made her have to accept the fact of leaving here.

"Aunt Kie, although that monster has been beaten away by me, what if that monster comes back again? You also have to think about yourself and your children. Besides, it's just a temporary departure. When that monster is eliminated, you can come back then."

Kie Kamado thought about it carefully and felt it was true. It didn't matter if she wasn't there, but the children were still young. What if that monster came back again?

"Alright, then... then I'll trouble you, Zero. Thank you for everything you've done for us."

"You're welcome. Didn't you tell me to treat this place as my own home a year ago? Since family is in trouble, how can I stand by and watch?"

"Yes, if you could also become a member of this family, I would be relieved." When saying this, Kie Kamado looked at Nezuko lying on Zero's lap, and then looked at Zero, full of expectation.

Zero felt a bit strange being looked at with that gaze. That gaze... it was like looking at a son-in-law, and he suddenly wanted to find a crack to crawl into.

"It should be... I thought too much, hmm, that's right, I must have thought too much." Zero thought silently in his heart.

"Aunt Kie, Tanjiro, have a good rest tonight, we will leave tomorrow."

"Yes, Brother Zero."

"Hmm."

(There will be no updates for the next three days. I am going to draw an illustration of some female characters from Genshin Impact playing on the beach in swimsuits. Please forgive me.) ===== CHAPTER 33 =====