He pointed at Mei and Gyutaro in front of him: "You two have now become demons. You should have felt the strangeness in your bodies, that powerful strength and the invulnerability of your bodies. This is a demon, a creature evolved from humans!"
Ryuji's face was expressionless, like a detached bystander, as he calmly recounted everything to them: "To become a demon, you must abandon your human identity and devour more humans to become stronger."
'Give up your human identity?' Gyutaro looked at Mei in front of him, his eyes gradually becoming firm, as if he had made up his mind: 'It doesn't matter anymore, as long as I can protect Mei, I'm willing to become anything.'
"I feel great about this!"
By candlelight, Mei admired her fingers: "I will never grow old, I have endless life. I am truly grateful to you for giving me a second life."
"No need to say thank you for that kind of thing."
Longli said calmly, "I wanted to select more powerful subordinates for that lord, but you and your sister are too weak, so you just need to try your best to survive."
"That sir?"
"That is the king of all our demons!" Longli said.
When Gyutaro heard Ryūri complain about his weakness, he immediately became anxious: "I am a very strong man! You saw the samurai I just killed, right? I can definitely help you!"
Hearing Longli's words, Mei felt a deep sense of self-reproach and guilt. She felt she was a burden to her brother.
She lowered her head, tears welling in her eyes, and whispered, "It's all my fault for being so useless, a burden to my brother. If it weren't for me, he would definitely be stronger..."
"How could you say that, Mei! You are the most important person to me. What meaning would my life have without you!" Upon seeing Mei about to cry, Gyutaro was at a loss for what to do.
Gyutaro looked at Ryūri and asked, "Sir, what constitutes strength?"
Ryuji thought about it carefully: "I have only been a demon for one day, and that person was only satisfied after killing a Pillar. Therefore, the condition for becoming powerful is to kill a Pillar within one day of becoming a demon."
"A pillar!"
Gyutaro nodded seriously, then changed the subject and asked, "What is that?"
"ah?"
Longli was taken aback. "You look so serious, it's like you know the answer!"
Gifu Taro scratched his head sheepishly.
Mei also looked over curiously.
"That must be our enemy."
Longli looked up at the night sky in a daze.
"Kill a Pillar?!"
Taro the Gyufu muttered to himself.
It's still early in the day, he has plenty of time!
"One more thing, once you become a ghost, you can only move at night. The sun is the only weapon that can kill us."
Mei asked doubtfully, "So, besides sunlight, we have no other weaknesses?"
Ryuri said, "I don't think so... Lord Muzan told me that the neck is also our weakness. If a demon slayer cuts off our neck, we will die. But I've already had my neck cut off once before, and I'm still alive. So it must vary from person to person."
He looked at the Mei siblings: "But you'd better be careful not to have your necks cut off."
"It's not a problem if we can't go out during the day."
Mei thought to herself with delight, "Anyway, people only go out at night."
"That's true."
Ryuji looked out the window: "This place is surprisingly suitable for the living environment of ghosts."
...
At night, Gyutaro sneaked out alone.
He hadn't walked a long way when he suddenly stopped and turned back helplessly: "Come out."
Mei peeked out from behind the trash can: "Brother, how did you find me?"
"It would be strange if I hadn't noticed you."
Gyutaro rubbed his head in distress: "Why aren't you at home? What are you doing out here with that man?"
Mei blinked: "Then why did you sneak out by yourself, brother?"
Gyutaro licked his lips: "Of course, we're looking for food."
"Brother, you're so cunning! You found food for yourself without calling me! You actually wanted to eat it all by yourself!" Mei said angrily.
"How could you think of me like that, Mei?"
Gyutaro sighed, "Even though we've become demons, it doesn't mean we're safe. Ryūri-sama said there are still demon slayers outside, so you just need to stay with Ryūri-sama. Leave the problem of finding food to your brother."
"That won't do!"
Mei said, "Brother, have you forgotten what you said before? We are one! How can you be the only one to do something so dangerous!"
Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Gyutaro confessed directly: "Ume, actually I wanted to try to kill the Pillar that an lord mentioned."
Mei paused for a moment: "But brother, didn't Lord Longli say we're too weak?"
How would you know if you didn't try?
Gyutaro grinned: "That man saved us. If I can't help him in any way, I'll be in a lot of trouble!"
"The only way to gain that person's approval is to kill a Pillar. Doesn't that seem like a simple condition?"
Mei pondered for a moment, then suddenly rushed forward a few steps and jumped onto Gyutaro's back: "Then I'll definitely go with you, brother!"
We siblings are one, so we have to do this together!
Before Gyutaro could say anything more, Mei extended a finger, a tiny ribbon appearing at the corner of her finger. She said proudly, "Brother, I feel like I can easily do things I couldn't do before, so please don't refuse me!"
Gyutaro opened his mouth as if to say something, but swallowed the words back.
"Alright, Mei! Let's go together then!"
"Hehe, that's more like it, brother!"
The brother and sister quickly traversed the snowfield in search of the "pillar" that Longli had mentioned!
"By the way, brother, what is a pillar?"
"Didn't you hear what Lord Ryūri said just now?"
"No!"
Mei's eyes were filled with innocent naivety: "I was just so focused on looking at Lord Ryuri's face. Ryuri is so handsome, I couldn't take my eyes off him!"
Gyutaro scratched his body, unaware that he had scratched himself until he was bleeding. "I don't know either, but it would be too stupid to go back and ask Lord Ryūri now. Let's try our luck and see if we can meet a Pillar."
Mei immediately became anxious upon hearing this: "Brother, are you an idiot? What were you doing when Lord Longli was speaking? Why weren't you listening properly!"
"How dare you say that to me? You clearly weren't listening!"
"Can we be the same? Lord Ryūri loves to pat my head, so of course I just need to offer my head to Lord Ryūri for him to pat!"
"Then you're not allowed to say that about me either!"
"I'll say it! I'll say it! My brother is a big jerk! A big idiot!"
"Baka!"