UGB Chapter 46 Rescue
Chapter 46 Rescue
To the east, in the small town at night, it was eerily quiet.
A girl carrying a lantern walked along the road, looking around nervously every now and then.
"May God protect me and help me get home safely!"
The girl's trembling voice echoed in the silent air.
In the shadows in the distance, a pair of eyes glowing red were fixed intently on the girl's back.
"Who? Who's there?"
As if sensing something, the girl immediately turned around and looked over with her lantern.
The faint candlelight cast a small patch of darkness, where there was nothing.
The girl looked around warily, and when she found nothing amiss, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness, there's nothing there. That scared me to death!"
The girl patted her chest and said with relief.
But when he turned around, he found that there seemed to be someone in front of him as he slowly raised the lantern in his hand.
The candlelight slowly rose, illuminating the figure before him.
It was a deathly pale face, devoid of any color, with a wide grin that stretched to its ears, revealing gleaming white fangs.
A pair of scarlet eyes were staring greedily at her, saliva dripping from the corners of his mouth and making a sticky sound as it hit the ground.
The lantern in the girl's hand fell to the ground with a "clatter," and the candlelight rolled a few times on the stone slab before being blown out by the night wind.
"ah--!"
A sharp scream shattered the silence of the town. She staggered backward, but her legs went weak like noodles, and she fell heavily to the ground.
"Hehehe!"
The demon let out a low laugh, and as it slowly lowered itself, its shadow enveloped the girl.
"Help...help me! Someone please help me!"
The girl stared in terror at the demon before her, her cries for help coming out in broken sentences.
But apart from that scream that echoed through the town, there was no other sound in the dead of night.
The demon grinned and bent down, its fingernails suddenly lengthening, the gleaming tips aimed directly at the girl's neck.
At this critical moment, a pink figure burst through the air, its Nichirin Blade accompanied by azure waves, slashing fiercely at the demon's arm!
"Water Breathing - Second Form - Waterwheel!"
"Pfft!"
The sound of flesh being chopped off rang out abruptly, and the demon's outstretched hands were neatly severed.
The girl, using the faint candlelight on the ground, looked at the person blocking her way.
She was a girl wearing a pink cherry blossom haori and carrying a large wooden box on her back.
"Little sister, are you alright?"
Midouzi looked warily at the evil spirit in front of her and asked.
"I... my legs are weak..." the girl choked out, unable to even stand up.
Hearing the girl's words, Nidouzi was also glad that she had made it in time and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As soon as she stepped into the town, she heard a scream and quickly rushed over.
When she saw a ghost about to attack the girl, she didn't hesitate to use her sword skills and slash at it.
I managed to make it at the last minute.
The demon looked at Nidouzi, whose severed hands were rapidly regenerating.
Seeing this, Midouzi's expression turned cold, and she immediately shielded the girl behind her.
"That's getting in the way!"
The demon let out its hoarse voice and pounced on Midouzi without hesitation.
"call!"
Nezuko also took a quick breath, her grip on the Nichirin Blade tightening and loosening.
"Water Breathing - First Form: Water Surface Slash!"
Seeing the demon's attacks riddled with flaws, Midouzi quickly launched his own attack.
The blade, leaving a calm splash, slashed towards the demon's neck.
However, an unexpected scene unfolded.
Just as the blade of the Bean was about to touch the demon's neck.
As if sensing the approaching death, the evil spirit abruptly halted its forward momentum, its body jerking backward to narrowly evade the fatal blow.
"Um?"
A hint of surprise flashed in Mizuko's eyes, and her arm, which was halfway through the chop, suddenly stopped.
With a sudden flick of her wrist and a powerful stomp of her foot against the ground, she charged forward like a surging torrent towards the retreating demon.
"Water Breathing - Fourth Form - Tide Rising!"
A clear shout rang out, and the Nichirin Blade, suspended in mid-air, switched moves instantly with a flick of the wrist.
The surging waves, carrying the cold blades, fiercely spun back towards the demon.
The distance closed in an instant, and the cold light reflected from the blade was seen in the demon's pupils, filled with shock and disbelief.
The next second, the wave carrying the blade sliced through its neck with pinpoint accuracy, like a streak of light cutting through the water.
At that moment, blood spurted from the demon's neck, and the demon's head fell heavily to the ground as if it had lost its connection.
His eyes were filled with shock, and he murmured resentfully.
"Impossible... How could this be..."
Before the words were finished, the demon's head and body turned to ashes and disappeared from the spot.
Midouzi sheathed his sword, exhaled a long breath, and his tense shoulders finally relaxed.
She turned around, walked quickly to the girl who was slumped on the ground, squatted down, and spoke softly.
"It's all over now, the demon has been slain."
The girl was still trembling. It took her a long time to recover. She raised her tear-streaked face, looked at the little bean in front of her, and choked out.
"Thank you... thank you..."
Just as Midouzi was about to offer some words of comfort, a slight creak suddenly came from the wooden box on her back.
Her heart tightened, and she quickly reached out and patted the wooden box, whispering reassuringly, "Brother's done, what's wrong?"
Just then, a series of hurried footsteps and shouts came from afar, probably from the townspeople who had heard the commotion.
Midouzi was slightly taken aback, realizing that her brother had smelled someone on their way here.
She slowly stood up and gave the girl some instructions.
"Go home now, and don't go out alone at night anymore."
After saying that, Mizuko turned and left, recalling what Master Urokodaki had said as she ran.
"The more people a ghost eats, the stronger it becomes."
Midouzi frowned slightly, while thinking to himself.
According to the information provided by the raven, more than a dozen girls have gone missing in this town. If they were all eaten by the ghost, then it shouldn't be this weak. Could it be... there's more than one ghost here?
Midouzi quickly jumped onto a rooftop, watched as the girl was taken away by the people around her, and began to observe the surrounding situation.
In the darkness, apart from that street, everything else was deathly silent and dark.
"Am I overthinking it?"
However, just as Nezuko was deep in thought, Tanjiro suddenly kicked open the wooden box behind her.
"Bang...!"