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Between the hillsides of the low mountains.

A wooden house with a steady decoration is located here.

now.

There was a thin man holding an axe in his hand, tied with long dark red hair and a shallow scar on his left forehead, standing at the door of the wooden house.

The pale-faced man raised his head slightly, squinted his eyes and looked at the distance in the sky.

He looked at the light that penetrated through the clouds, and his calm and peaceful voice muttered to himself:

"It's almost dawn."

After clenching the axe in his hand, the man slowly breathed out: "Huh..."

It is clearly the dawn of summer, and although the temperature is lower than during the day, it is still much hotter than in autumn and winter.

But the air he relaxed turned into steam-like white mist and slowly drifted away.

Just when a man is about to take a step towards the bottom of the mountain.

Crack...

The door of the wooden house behind him was slowly pushed open.

A crimson-haired child rubbed his sleepy eyes appeared behind the door. The boy said stickyly as if he was not awake:

"…Father? Are you going to chop wood?"

The thin man heard the sound and turned around, looking at the boy who was not awake outside the door.

He spoke in a gentle tone and nodded with a smile:

"Well, that's right, Tanjiro wants to come together too."

As he said that, the man raised the axe in his hand to chop wood.

When Tanjiro, who was already sleepy, immediately became energetic when he heard his father say this:

"Can I be together?" He opened his eyes and his expression became happy: "Really? Is it okay?"

The man smiled and nodded: "Well, it's okay, come on."

The young Tanjiro's sleepiness was instantly swept away, and he opened his mouth and exclaimed happily:

"Thank you! Father!"

As he said that, Tanjiro stepped out of his calf and ran towards his father excitedly.

Then he stood beside his father.

The father stretched out his rough hands, gently rubbed Tanjiro's head, then picked up the axe, and the father and son slowly walked towards the forest at the foot of the mountain.

...

Inside the wooden house.

"call……"

Several children were huddling together, hugging each other, and sleeping loudly.

Among them, the older one was a girl. She was sitting up in a daze and rubbing her hazy eyes.

"Ha-ah..." He stretched.

Turning his head, he looked at the wooden door that was exposed to the crack of the door, and there was a dazzling light coming from it.

The girl tilted her head slightly, and she looked at the empty space beside her and muttered to herself:

"…elder brother…?"

After sitting for a while, I seemed to be still a little sleepy, and the girl's body shook back and forth for a few times.

thump!

Then, he lay down again, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

My mother, who was also sleeping aside, naturally woke up.

After quietly waiting for the girl to fall asleep again, the mother slowly sat up and stood up with her hands and feet twisted.

Looking back at the sleeping children, she smiled.

Then he slowly left the room.

The long hair is tied into a low bun behind the head and tied a white turban.

Put on a white coat, my mother walked outside the room, next to the stove at the entrance, and began to prepare for breakfast for the whole day.

"Hmph~"

Humming a song.

...

...

Close to the foot of the mountain.

There is a not very narrow path.

It leads straight to the small wooden hut between the hillsides.

"It should...be up."

Shang Quannai walked slowly in the forest with a wine pot. He looked up at the mountainside, which was still far away.

He said to himself:

"Well, it's almost dawn."

After saying that, he continued to take steps, slowly moving forward like a walk.

That’s right, the person Shang Quannai visited this time was the Saucemen Family.

The Saucemen family, because the Saucemen Sumi joined the Ghost Killing Team and Tanji for various reasons, the Saucemen family is not the original Saucemen family.

Although he was still doing Tchai Fu's work, "the eldest son joined the Demon Slayer Team" seemed to have become a common practice for the Zaomen Family.

That is to say...

Now the backbone of the Zaomen family is Tanjuro.

Now, he is actually a member of the Demon Killing Team who has retired and returned home.

It is also now, the only one who can use Sun's breathing.

But Nao Nao, because he had been on the journey, had never met him.

Although the ghost killing team teaches people about past history, the portraits in the picture books are really different from those of me.

Difficult to distinguish.

...

...

Among the forest.

The thin man and the young Tanjiro were standing in the forest.

Although the man looked weak and pale and thin, he was unexpectedly powerful and relaxed when he waved his axe, and seemed so handy.

Pong!

The axe was held in the man's hand, and it drew a perfect arc in the air, and it slashed heavily into the tree trunk.

The trunk vibrates slightly, and the sound of leaves shaking comes from the top of the head.

The young Tanjiro stood aside, holding a small wooden axe in his hand, watching his father's movements, a pretty imitator.

Crack...

With a slight tilt of the axe blade, the axe broke away from the trunk. The man raised the axe again and prepared to swing it again.

Just as the axe was about to be swung down.

"young!"

A sound of greeting came from a direction not far below the mountain.

The thin man stopped the movement in his hand and looked in the direction where the sound came.

Nao Nao was standing on the mountain road. He smiled and waved his arms at the two of them, and carried the wine in his hand:

"Hello."

The thin man standing in the forest looked at Shangquanna - he had never seen Shangquanna before.

However, there was a vague sense of familiarity in my heart.

But out of politeness, he smiled and nodded:
To be continued...