Chapter 50

Picking out some more important information about 【Upper Moon One】 to record, he then began to view the information of other Upper Moon demons.

"Now, let me see how the information of 【Upper Moon Three】 is?"

【Searching... Search successful】

【Name: Akaza—Demon of Fighting】

【Human Period: Hakuji】

【Identity: Twelve Kizuki Upper Moon Three】

【Superior: Muzan Kibutsuji】

【Father: Keizo (Deceased)】

【Fiancée: Koyuki (Deceased)】

【Master: Keizo (Deceased)】

【Demon he hates: Doma】

【Age: 200 years old】

【Ability: Fighting Spirit, Breaking Limits (Not yet)】

【Blood Demon Art: Destructive Death. Luo Zhen】

【Destructive Death. Luo Zhen: The core of the Blood Demon Art, sensing the opponent's fighting spirit like a compass, making his own attacks and evasion actions become as precise as if being attracted by a magnet.

The stronger the opponent's fighting spirit, the stronger the compass's reaction, and the higher the corresponding strength and precision.】

【Techniques: Destructive Death. Disorder, Destructive Death. Air, Destructive Death. Leg. Flowing Flash Group Light, Destructive Death. Leg. Crown Split, Destructive Death. Leg. Flying Star Thousand Wheels, Destructive Death. Crush. Ten Thousand Leaf Flash Willow, Destructive Death. Annihilation, Destructive Death. Demon Core Eightfold Core, Destructive Death. Final Form. Blue Silver Disorderly Scattering Light】

【Personal Information:...】

"Eh?! This is?" Zero saw the information of 【Upper Moon Three】, especially seeing the name in the human period, and always felt very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere?

Including the names of the three people associated with him...

Thinking back and forth, he finally remembered where he had seen it.

"Those three small graves!"

Yes, Zero remembered a remote village he once wandered to, where he saw three small graves, on which were written the names of these three people, and the person who set up the monument was Hakuji!

"In this way, it makes sense!"

At first, Zero heard the legend told to him by that woodcutter, and then based on that legend, he inferred that the missing young man had become an evil demon!

Didn't expect... it was really like this!

Hurriedly opening the notebook, he flipped to the page of the Twelve Kizuki.

Looking at the six lines divided below, he wrote the two words 【Hakuji】 under the 【Upper Moon Three】 heading, thought for a while, and wrote the three words 【Akaza】 beside these two words.

Writing this, Zero remembered another thing. When fighting the Upper Moon demons in the Infinity Castle, the Upper Moon Three, which was Akaza, the twelve-pointed snowflake that appeared under his feet when he unleashed his techniques, he had also seen it.

It was at the small grave of the one named 【Koyuki】, where he also saw the pattern of the twelve-pointed snowflake.

Therefore, Zero made an inference that Akaza perhaps... still retained some kind of obsession in his heart!

His master Keizo, plus 【Soryu Dojo】, perhaps Akaza's Blood Demon Art was every technique his master taught him before he died.

Starting form, leg techniques, etc...

As for that twelve-pointed snowflake, it was something his fiancée loved... probably...

"Hehe, I'm really stupid, instead of guessing here, I might as well check the information."

"Really, my old problem has flared up again..."

After saying this, he continued to view the personal information about 【Upper Moon Three】 on the projection screen.

【Personal Information: Hakuji's relatives in his youth passed away one after another, and the only relative left was his father.

However, his father was suffering from a serious illness, so Hakuji could only try every possible way to buy medicine for his father.

However, at that time, medicinal herbs were simply not something that a child from a poor family like Hakuji could afford. Therefore, in order to save his father's life, Hakuji had to choose to steal to exchange for money to buy medicine for his father.

Out of the intuition of a poor child, Hakuji determined that if he was too weak, he would definitely not be able to escape the revenge of the theft victims and the pursuit of the magistrate.

Therefore, Hakuji kept honing himself while stealing. During this period, although Hakuji was caught by the magistrate's office many times because of theft, because he was still young, he was often released helplessly by the magistrate after receiving punishment.

After this situation continued for several years, Hakuji received the punishment of one hundred heavy boards in the magistrate's office, which would have knocked even an adult man unconscious.

Because he had been honing himself to become stronger since childhood, his physique was stronger than ordinary people, so Hakuji remained conscious even after receiving such a heavy punishment.

Although Hakuji had long become numb to this kind of punishment, what he didn't expect was that after returning home, he actually learned the bad news of his father's hanging suicide from the grandfather next door.

It turned out that his father had long been heartbroken by his son's continuous criminal behavior, and also thought that he, who was suffering from a serious illness, was dragging his son down; in order to let his son be a good person and start over, he chose to end it in this way...

Not long after, Hakuji was banished from Edo by the magistrate! Being expelled, he wandered alone outside like this.

Recalling his efforts to save his father in the past, and even being able to use unscrupulous means for this, but his father finally ended his life so tragically.

Hakuji finally realized: what forced his father to death was precisely this ugly world where the rich could do whatever they wanted, but the poor were not even allowed to live!

In order to vent his sadness for his father's death and his hatred for the world, he then beat up seven adults who annoyed him to vent his anger.

However, just at this moment, Hakuji met his benefactor—Keizo.

When Hakuji was fighting with adults before, Keizo saw Hakuji's talent in martial arts at a glance.

Because he didn't want him to degenerate like this, Keizo showed his strength, and after easily defeating Hakuji, he brought him back to his Soryu Dojo.

After arriving at the dojo, Hakuji discovered that there were no other students in the entire dojo except himself.

Regarding this, Keizo smiled bitterly and said: because he had no ability, he made his wife and daughter suffer a lot in the past, and his wife even committed suicide by jumping into the water not long ago.

At the same time, because he had to go out to work to maintain his livelihood and the operation of the dojo, he really couldn't find time to take care of his sick daughter, so he planned to ask Hakuji to take care of his daughter Koyuki.

However, Hakuji always considered himself a sinner, so he felt that he was not suitable for this kind of work.

However, when he asked Keizo if he was at ease handing over the house with only his daughter at home to him, a sinner, the master told him that he had already cleaned up Hakuji, who was a sinner, so there was no problem!

Afterward, Hakuji met Koyuki. Because he saw that the sick Koyuki had a similar experience to his father, in order not to let the tragedy that happened to him repeat itself on Koyuki, Hakuji finally decided to stay in the dojo and take care of Koyuki.

During this period, because Hakuji revealed his gentle nature when taking care of Koyuki, Koyuki gradually fell in love with him while living together day and night.

But because Hakuji always determined that he was a sinner, and never thought that anyone would like him, he never discovered Koyuki's feelings for him...】

Seeing this, a wave appeared in Zero's heart. Had he encountered such a thing somewhere else too?

But he just couldn't remember where he had encountered it?

A somewhat delicate figure appeared in his mind, very blurry, but also very familiar...

"What on earth... is this memory from? Why can't I remember it? How much memory... have I lost?"

"Who are my parents? When I was a child... what on earth happened? Why is my memory... always feeling locked up?"

A bunch of questions appeared in his mind, and a wave of intense pain struck!

His head felt like it was about to be blown up, as if something was about to break through that barrier!

Shaking his head, he shook out those strange and familiar scenes, forcing himself to calm down, which made the pain disappear.

"Forget it, don't think about these, one day, I will personally find these memories back! Let's continue to look down first..."

Phew...

Taking a deep breath, his gaze looked at the projection screen again.

【With the passage of time, Hakuji had grown into an eighteen-year-old youth.

Because the kendo halls near the Soryu Dojo were always looking for trouble with the dojo, the dojo had not been able to recruit any students other than Hakuji in these few years.

However, Hakuji also gradually returned to the original self who only fought to protect others while living with Koyuki and his master day and night.

One day, his master suddenly called Hakuji to the bedroom and asked him if he was willing to inherit his dojo.

Hakuji was confused at first, but didn't expect Keizo to directly ask Hakuji if he was willing to marry Koyuki, who had always liked him, as his wife.

Hakuji, who suddenly heard that someone had always liked him, didn't react for a while.

Afterward, Hakuji remembered his father's last wish before he committed suicide, hoping that he would start over, so he also began to consider whether he, as a sinner, could live a normal life.

Finally, Hakuji agreed to his master's request, and at the same time made up his mind: even if he had to pay with his life, he would protect Koyuki and his master!

Not long after the two confirmed their relationship, Hakuji and Koyuki went to watch the fireworks display at the festival together. Because Koyuki had been weak since childhood, she never had the chance to watch fireworks.

Under the fireworks filling the sky, Koyuki expressed her feelings to Hakuji: she had never thought that she would have the day to live to see fireworks before meeting Hakuji; and Hakuji seemed to be able to see through her future, always encouraging her to persist in living.

Koyuki asked Hakuji if he was willing to become husband and wife with her.

Hakuji then no longer hesitated to confess to Koyuki: he would definitely become stronger than anyone else and protect her for a lifetime...

A few days later, in order to tell his father in the nine springs the good news that he was about to get married, Hakuji returned to Edo on the eve of his wedding to sweep his father's grave.

However, when returning to the dojo, Hakuji suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, after returning to the dojo, Hakuji learned the bad news of his master and fiancée's death from the neighbor.

Deeply saddened and very confused, Hakuji finally learned the truth after investigation!

It turned out that the nearby kendo hall had always been coveting and jealous of the Soryu Dojo, which had only one student but owned a large piece of land, but because they couldn't beat his master and Hakuji, they meanly chose to poison the well in the Soryu Dojo...

Hakuji, who failed to protect important people again, finally had his will completely collapsed.

Finally, having nothing left to protect, he went to attack the kendo hall alone in a daze, killing 67 people with his bare hands.

Finally, Hakuji, who had nothing left to protect, lost his direction. Just as he was wandering around nearby, he encountered that man—Muzan Kibutsuji.

The other party was originally coming to check because of the rumors of demons appearing where he didn't have any demons, but he accidentally met Hakuji.

Although Muzan was bored at first because he discovered that the culprit of the demon rumors was just a human.

But Hakuji's strength, which was far stronger than ordinary people, made Muzan interested in him again.

Afterward, in order to create a powerful demon, Muzan forcibly transformed him into a demon after easily defeating Hakuji.

Finally, Hakuji gradually lost all his memories after becoming a demon, and only the obsession to become stronger remained in his heart. Later, he became Upper Moon Three and changed his name to Akaza.】

Crack! Crack!

The information ended here. Zero saw the last sentence of the information and clenched his fists, making a cracking sound.

Didn't expect that his previous guess actually hit the mark!

But he didn't expect that the final result of this matter was the participation of Muzan Kibutsuji.

But what he didn't expect even more was that the 【Kendo Hall】 would actually use such mean methods...

Hehe...

No wonder that time he smelled an extremely faint and very light bloody smell coming from the 【Kendo Hall】!

Although hundreds of years have passed, for someone like Zero who has experienced thousands of years of fighting, he is quite sensitive to the smell of blood.

Coupled with the information he sees now, Zero can only say that the Kendo Hall is purely self-inflicted and cannot live!

Just like Kokushibo being jealous of his younger brother!

However, Zero also noticed the words 【Breaking Limits (Not yet)】 in the information and fell into thought...

"This so-called breaking limits should be the same as Muzan Kibutsuji, overcoming decapitation! It's just that he hasn't found the opportunity yet, so the 【Not yet】 prompt appeared."

"Since Akaza is the Demon of Fighting, then his opportunity should be related to fighting! It seems that in the future, when fighting him, I must be careful and cautious!"

Afterward, he picked out some more important information about 【Upper Moon Three】 to record on white paper, and marked the characteristics of Akaza's Blood Demon Art and techniques!

After recording some more important information about 【Upper Moon Three】 and checking it carefully again, he finally felt relieved.

"Didn't expect that every Upper Moon demon among the Twelve Kizuki is so not simple!"

However, seeing the information about the demon Akaza hates, Zero fell into thought again...

Doma, this guy is indeed a bit annoying, not only long-winded but also has a kind of self-righteous confidence that everyone likes him!

His smile is also particularly fake, always revealing a particularly annoying and punchable fake smile.

I suppose this is also one of the reasons why Akaza hates Doma.

And Zero also clearly remembered that when he first met Doma, it was like this, long-winded, and even almost killed his Kanae!

"I remember one thing I investigated with Xiao Yue, it seems to be called... Wan Shi Paradise Faith?! It looks like it should be Doma's lair!"

"Hehe, since that's the case... Doma, when I have time, I will go to your place to ask for advice! By the way, vent my anger for my Kanae!"

Afterward, he continued to look at the information of other Upper Moon demons on the projection screen!

Wan Shi Paradise Faith.

In an airtight and somewhat dim room, a sneeze came.

Achoo~

Doma, who was playing with female believers, suddenly sneezed and felt a chill! He didn't understand why he had such a strange feeling?

"Strange? Why would I sneeze? Could it be... Lord Akaza is thinking of me? Aiya~ I really wasn't hated by everyone!"

Thinking confidently in his heart that it was Akaza missing him, he was immediately happy.

"Lord Cult Leader, what are you thinking about?" The female believer looked at Doma, who was stunned with a silly smile, somewhat confused.

"Nothing, let's continue playing! And then let you enjoy eternal life!"

"Okay!"

Just as he finished speaking, the female believer was directly kissed, but not long after, the female believer felt more and more wrong!

A sweet taste came from her mouth, accompanied by pain!

Hurriedly using all her strength, she pushed Doma away with both hands.

Pfft!

Just after the female believer pushed Doma away, a large amount of fresh blood sprayed from her mouth, and she looked at what Doma was biting in his mouth with horror in her eyes.

That was her own tongue!

And right in front of the female believer, he directly swallowed that tongue.

She wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound!

In a panic, regardless of her messy clothes and the blood flowing from her mouth, she ran toward the door in horror!

After running a few steps, she found something wrong; the scene in the room began to turn upside down, and then she saw her own body lying straight on the tatami.

The position of her neck was completely cut open, and a large amount of blood was spraying crazily from the cut of her neck like it was free!!

The female believer then understood that her head and body were separated!

It turned out that the so-called Wan Shi Paradise Faith Cult Leader was an evil demon who ate people!

Regret! Unwillingness! And... anger surged into her heart.

However, all this was just futile.

Gradually, the female believer closed her eyes, and a tear flowed from the corner of her eye...

"Aiya~ why are you running? But don't worry, I will let you become one with me and enjoy eternal life!"

Not long after, chewing sounds came from the dim room...