The world of Demon Slayer is truly outrageous.
Even a random passerby's wife is full of charm, and now, with her brows tightly furrowed due to injury, she evokes pity.
However, Yang Tao doesn't like wives; he likes Jean.
Tanjiro looked at the woman lying on the bed and said to Tamayo, a bit embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I left everything to you just now. That lady..."
Tamayo took a white lab coat from the hanger and put it on. Hearing Tanjiro's words, she said, "This one is fine."
"Although I feel very bad, her husband is still tied up and locked in the dungeon by me."
Tanjiro looked at Tamayo with a complicated expression and softly asked, "Doesn't it feel bad to treat people's wounds?"
No matter what, Tamayo is a demon, and the craving for fresh blood is etched into her veins. However, Tanjiro's words were truly impolite; it was like asking Tamayo, "Don't you want to eat a couple of bites when you see flesh and blood?"
Before Tamayo could say anything, Yushiro, who was standing nearby, punched Tanjiro in the chest and said fiercely, "As demons, we have to endure drooling at the smell of flesh and blood to treat humans!"
Having taken a punch, Tanjiro also reacted and apologized repeatedly.
Seeing this, Tamayo immediately said sternly, "Stop it! Why use violence?"
Yushiro lowered his head upon hearing Tamayo's reprimand.
Next, Tamayo introduced herself, telling the three of them her and Yushiro's names, then invited Yang Tao and the other two into a side room to talk about some things concerning demons.
Just as Yang Tao was listening with great interest, there was a loud bang, and a patterned spherical object directly flew through the wooden wall into the room.
The power of this hand ball was immense; the wooden wall was like paper in front of it, and the originally exquisitely decorated house was instantly destroyed beyond recognition.
Tanjiro nervously hugged his sister, Nezuko, while Yushiro also embraced Tamayo, his gaze fiercely looking out through the gap in the wall.
Yang Tao, alone: "..."
Why didn't he have a girl to hug??
Just then, a hand ball flew towards Tamayo and Yushiro. Yushiro immediately stood up, intending to block the ball, and loudly warned, "Lady Tamayo!"
But to his horror, the hand ball directly changed direction, dodged his arm, and directly struck Yushiro's head.
Pfft...
Yushiro's head was directly smashed into a bloody mist by the hand ball.
Tanjiro, seeing this scene, could barely believe his eyes: "Mr. Yushiro!!"
Yushiro's headless body fell backward, then was caught by Tamayo in her arms.
"Damn it!!"
In this situation, Tanjiro forced himself to calm down and said to Nezuko, who had already stood up and was back-to-back with him:
"Nezuko, go take the woman sleeping inside to a safe place outside!"
"It's very dangerous outside, and there's a basement. Please take her there!"
Tamayo, holding Yushiro, heard Tanjiro's words and quickly reminded him. Nezuko nodded lightly and immediately ran into the initial room.
Yang Tao didn't pay attention to the enemies outside; after all, this was the protagonist's trial. He walked to Tamayo's side, looking at Yushiro lying in her arms with interest.
"How interesting... Even with his head gone, it's just like a minor scratch."
Clearly, a demon's weakness is not its head.
'Is it blood?'
To be honest, at this moment, his curiosity had been piqued. He wanted to know what demons were truly capable of. Could they really regenerate from a drop of blood like A-Ge?
If that were truly possible...
Then the demons in this world would be valuable.
Just as Yang Tao was pondering, some wriggling flesh buds suddenly appeared at Yushiro's severed neck, and then these flesh buds began to grow at an exaggerated speed.
In just about ten seconds...
Half of Yushiro's head had already grown out, and before his brain had fully formed, he was heard angrily shouting, "Didn't I say it before?"
"I said from the beginning not to get involved with Demon Slayers!"
"My illusion is not perfect! You should also understand that while the aura and scent of buildings and people can be hidden, the fact of their existence cannot be eliminated."
"The more people there are, the more traces there will be!"
Tanjiro, holding his Nichirin Blade to block the hand ball, almost popped his eyes out seeing this scene.
However, at this moment, Yushiro was still saying, "I hate anyone who interferes with my time with you!"
By this time, his head had basically fully grown out.
"I hate it! I can't forgive it!!"
Then he turned his head to look at Yang Tao beside him and said, "With your strength, you should be able to deal with them, right? Why aren't you acting? That kid was about to die just now!"
"Me? Heh heh."
Looking at Yushiro, who had become enraged because his peaceful life was disturbed, Yang Tao showed a faint smile and said, "Initially, I only planned to be a background character, as this is Tanjiro and Nezuko's trial. But now, you've made me change my mind."
He took out a staff-like magic wand from his backpack.
"I've taken some interest in you demons. Besides sunlight and Nichirin Blade, is there really no way to kill you?"
With that, Yang Tao looked through the shattered wall at the woman standing in the courtyard.
The other party was also looking at him.
A smile appeared on her face, but within that smile, there was a hint of madness.
"Haha, how interesting, how interesting! You should feel honored to be killed by me, a member of the Twelve Kizuki!"
Even though Yang Tao wasn't very familiar with this world, he was clear about the Twelve Kizuki.
The Twelve Kizuki is the collective term for the twelve strongest demons under Muzan, divided into Upper Ranks and Lower Ranks, with the Upper Rank demons being the strongest among the Twelve Kizuki.
He wasn't clear about other things, but Yang Tao knew that the eyes of the Twelve Kizuki all had their own numbers.
That is to say, the woman in front of him was definitely not one of the Twelve Kizuki.
"Quite lively, aren't you!"
Pfft!
The woman's body directly turned into a sky full of bloody mist without even reacting.
This was the effect of Mage's Hand. The power of Mage's Hand is directly proportional to Yang Tao's own strength, meaning the stronger Yang Tao's own power, the stronger the Mage's Hand will become.
To verify his internal guess, he did not activate digitized attacks. Just a mere small demon, under his current various effect-enhanced strength, was easier to crush than a boiled egg.
He swung the staff in his hand again, and a man with tightly closed eyes flew out from behind a large tree.
"What?!"
His Blood Demon Art was an arrow pattern invisible to ordinary people, capable of moving objects it touched or using them for attack, activated by closing his eyes on his palm.
To suddenly have his body controlled by someone else, he was somewhat unable to accept it for a moment, but no sooner had he finished speaking than his head and arms were crushed by an invisible force.
Yang Tao disappeared from the room and reappeared in the courtyard, gently tapping the ground with a completely white Building Staff.
A human jar made of clear glass appeared.
Yang Tao directly threw the male demon, who had lost both hands and his head, into it.
"How interesting... It really can't be killed."
Looking at the wriggling flesh on the ground and the translucent figure left behind, a guess emerged in Yang Tao's mind.
'It seems these guys really are demons, not some zombies or vampires.'
The body is just a medium; the soul is the root.
To verify this hypothesis, Yang Tao decided to try some more mystical things on this group of demons.
For example, using weapons with and without the 'undead slayer' enchantment to compare the damage.
Black dog blood, glutinous rice, silver knuckle dusters...
Then trying poison, acid, radiation, corruption, and viruses to see what effect they had on them.