Demon Slayer: Tanjiro becomes a ghost, Nezuko becomes a pillar!

Chapter 65 What do you take life for?

Meanwhile, inside the manor.

Tanjiro was tightly bound by the snake-like tail that had transformed from Lower Moon Six.

"Tsk tsk tsk, that brat who betrayed Lord Muzan, I've gotten this incredible credit too!"

Lower Moon Six's scarlet eyes were fixed on Tanjiro. Its snake tail slowly tightened, dragging him close to its eyes. Its fingertips caressed the flame scar on Tanjiro's forehead. The more it looked at him, the more manic it became. It burst into loud laughter, a sharp and piercing laugh.

Tanjiro was in so much pain that sweat beaded on his forehead as he struggled with all his might.

But the snake's tail tightened more and more like a steel cable, causing him to groan involuntarily, while his heart was filled with anxiety.

【Nezuko, Zenitsu... how are they?!】

He gritted his teeth, trying to concentrate on smelling the scent of the distant battlefield, but instead, a few strong whiffs of fear entered his nostrils first.

Tanjiro looked up sharply and saw three children huddled together in a dark corner of the manor, trembling and covering their mouths tightly, not daring to make a sound even when they cried.

A pair of eyes, filled with extreme fear, stared intently at them.

Tanjiro's pupils contracted sharply, his heart pounding: [There are still children alive!]

His gaze shifted downwards, and his pupils widened in even greater shock.

Scattered around the children were piles of pale bones.

Lower Moon Sixth also noticed Tanjiro's gaze and slowly turned his head to look.

"Oh? You can smell the blood on them too!"

Lower Moon Six spoke dismissively, leading Tanjiro step by step over.

"These three rare bloodlines were hard to find; just one of them can greatly increase our strength!"

Xiaxian Riku looked at the three trembling children as if they were three weak lambs.

"Thin...thin blood?"

Tanjiro murmured to himself, looking at the three children whose faces were filled with fear and who were covering their mouths tightly. In an instant, the image of his family members dying tragically flashed before his eyes.

The eyes of his younger siblings before they died overlapped with theirs, and his heart felt as if it were being squeezed tightly, the pain unbearable.

Anger and murderous intent surged to his head instantly, his scarlet eyes bulged with bloodshot veins, and the red flame ghost patterns became even more vivid and dazzling.

Lower Moon Sixth, however, was smug and ignored Tanjiro, until he heard Tanjiro's voice.

He then grabbed a trembling little boy who was covering his mouth and said excitedly.

It threw its head back and laughed wildly, its tone maniacal and greedy: "What? You don't even know what rare blood is? Rare blood, huh... Hahaha, today I'll let you watch with your own eyes that I eat it!"

As soon as it finished speaking, it closed its eyes, opened its blood-red maw, and was about to bite down on the boy's neck, its face contorted with a look of utter enjoyment.

But just as the fangs were about to touch the child's skin—

"Whoosh! Sizzle—!"

Two excruciating pains exploded at the same time!

Lower Moon Six felt its tail and arms suddenly lighten. It opened its eyes abruptly, its smugness instantly turning ashen, and its pupils shrinking to pinpoints!

The serpentine tail that bound Tanjiro was burned off by the raging flames. Flames surged from the broken end, and the snake's head twisted and roared on the ground before it was burned and turned to ashes in an instant.

The arm that was gripping the boy was severed at the shoulder, blood splattered down, and the severed arm quickly dissolved into ash in the dust!

In front of it, Tanjiro had somehow broken free from its tail's control and severed its arm that was holding the child.

At this moment, Tanjiro's red hair was burning with flames, he was holding a child in one arm and holding a Nichirin Blade wrapped in flames in the other, and he was slowly turning around with his back to it.

Tanjiro slowly turned around, each step carrying a heavy killing intent, the ground slightly blackened by the lingering heat.

The moment he turned around completely, Lower Moon Six trembled violently, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

At this moment, Tanjiro's forehead was covered by a flame-shaped demon mark, and his eyes had become extremely cold.

"What do you take life for?"

As Tanjiro finished speaking, a primal fear trembled violently within Lower Moon Six's body.

Its vision began to blur, and Tanjiro's figure overlapped with a blurry, unreal image.

The phantom's face was indistinct, yet it carried an unparalleled aura of dominance over evil spirits, its questions cutting into its body like sharp blades.

"What's so funny?"

"What do you value life?"

"You...you are..."

Lower Moon Six's teeth chattered, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and he roared fiercely to forcefully suppress his fear, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace.

"No! Impossible! You're nothing but a traitor who betrayed Lord Muzan, how could you possibly instill fear in me?!"

Amidst its roar, its severed arm regenerated at a visible speed, its tendons, bones, skin, and flesh rapidly healing.

The severed snake tail suddenly swelled up, its scales regenerated, and it instantly reverted to a thick, ferocious snake-shaped tail.

He then swept his sword fiercely across the surrounding beams and pillars, sending shards of stone flying, before hurtling towards Tanjiro.

The child in Tanjiro's arms, seeing this scene, buried his head in Tanjiro's arms in fright.

Tanjiro, however, gripped the flaming Nichirin Blade in his right hand and swung it fiercely.

The snake's tail was severed the instant it touched the flaming Nichirin Blade.

At that moment, Lower Moon Riku also felt the pain of being burned by the flames.

Tanjiro held the child steadily, sheathed his Nichirin Blade, and held it horizontally in front of his chest, firmly protecting the children in his arms and behind him.

"court death!!!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lower Moon Six's entire body began to twist and mutate!

Its head transformed into a wolf's head, its body was covered in jet-black bird feathers, its wings tore through its robes, and the tips of its feathers carried a deadly black light.

Its lower body is still a giant snake with a long tail, and its scales stand up like sharp blades.

(Note: In the original work, we only know the name of Lower Moon Six, but since the author named him after the Nue from Japanese mythology, and since he designs Blood Demon Arts based on these, I changed it. Just take a look!)

"Vampire Art: Nue Ming Prison Sound!"

Xiaxian Lu raised his head and let out a strange, piercing shriek that was neither wolf, bird, nor snake. The sound waves were like tangible blades, causing the manor's beams and pillars to crack, bricks and tiles to fly, and the ground to split open with spiderweb-like patterns!

The piercing sound waves rushed straight towards Tanjiro, causing even the air to tremble. Two children in the corner were so shocked that they covered their ears and cried.

Tanjiro held the child in his arms tightly in front of him, his flaming Nichirin Blade blocking the attack. The flames on the blade surged into a shield, but he was still shaken by the sonic waves, causing his blood to surge and blood to trickle from the corner of his mouth.

Oh no, the kids won't be able to hold on!

Tanjiro's injuries healed instantly after he became a demon, but the children in his arms and behind him were bleeding from their ears and mouths.

Tanjiro was burning with anger. In the next second, he suddenly shielded the child in his arms behind his back, took off his haori, crumpled it up, and stuffed it into the eldest child's hand.

"Cover your ears! Hide in the innermost corner!"

But just as Tanjiro was taking care of the children, Lower Moon Six immediately patted his back with both hands.

"puff!"

Tanjiro was instantly sent flying, and the children, seeing this, covered themselves with Tanjiro's haori.

"You don't eat people, and you even protect them...you're truly an anomaly!"