“Too bad if her shrinking ability could improve a little more, down to the size of a fist, I could make a Poké Ball and put her inside.
Then she’d be even more like a Pokémon.” Obviously, the people of this world didn’t understand what a Pokémon was, nor could they comprehend Nathan’s desire to become a Pokémon Master.
However, seeing Nezuko perform so many tricks, the Demon Slayer Corps’ members present were a little tempted.
The Flame Hashira said: “If we become your familiars, can we also gain these other abilities?” “No, these abilities are actually Nezuko’s own.
They were just activated early by my magical energy’s nourishment.” Nathan said.
“As for you all, I’m not sure how much stronger you could become.
But by then, your ownership would belong to me.
I would be able to easily control your bodies, and you wouldn’t be able to refuse any command I give.” The Hashiras fell silent.
With Muzan on the brink of death, making them someone else’s possession in such a complete way was still hard to accept.
After all, once Muzan was dead, all Demons would disappear, and they would return to ordinary lives.
There was no need to become Nathan’s possession for a negligible power boost.
Of course, the perceptive Stone Hashira also keenly noticed that Nathan’s words implied he wasn’t particularly eager to make them his familiars.
It made sense, considering how valuable such techniques were.
The Stone Hashira had no idea that Nathan’s real reason for being unwilling was simply that they weren’t beautiful young girls.
It was late at night.
Except for the Hashira guarding the Coward Demon, everyone else had fallen asleep.
Only Nathan was still carving barrier magic.
And Kanae, who had become a ghost, was there with him.
Ghosts didn’t need to sleep.
Just then, a small figure crept over and sat down beside Nathan.
It was Shinobu.
Shinobu looked at Nathan and said: “You said that by gathering enough causal connections, you could find Kibutsuji Muzan through Astromancy.
Those connections are the Twelve Kizuki, right?” “Provoking Kibutsuji Muzan into sending the Twelve Kizuki to kill you, and after seeing enough of them, you can find him.” “That’s right.” Nathan said with a smile.
“According to the indications of the stars, by tomorrow night, I’ll have gathered all the clues.
That means the Twelve Kizuki will basically all be here.” “Then there’s a good chance that Upper Moon Two, Doma, will also come.” Shinobu’s face clouded over.
Kanae, standing beside her, also sighed.
That was the Demon who had killed her.
Shinobu solemnly bowed to Nathan, prostrating herself, her forehead touching the ground: “I want to personally kill that Demon, Doma.
Please turn me into a familiar and strengthen me.” Nathan raised an eyebrow: “Even if from now on, everything you have belongs to me?” Shinobu raised her head and smiled: “After seeing my sister again, I’ve already made up my mind.” “Then I’m really losing out on this one.
Using something that already belongs to me to trade for my own strengthening.” Nathan stood up.
“However, I accept this deal.” “Go prepare a brand new wooden tub.
When I sign the contract, I’ll add a little extra strengthening for you.” Nathan took out a small straw doll.
“You’re skilled in using poison, so I’ll add a little curse attribute for you as well.” “Torturing him to death bit by bit should be enough for your revenge.” “Thank you.” Shinobu smiled, a beautiful smile.
Not long after, Shinobu stepped into the wooden tub.
The water was nearly forty degrees Celsius, with steam rising.
Nathan smelled a strong fragrance, the scent of wisteria flowers.
“You’re practically like a wisteria flower spirit.” Nathan shook his head.
“You’ve ingested a large amount of wisteria flowers, haven’t you?
Trying to poison Doma with the wisteria poison in your body after he eats you.” Shinobu nodded: “Yes.
Even if he doesn’t die, Doma would be in a state of extreme weakness and would be killed by the other Hashiras.” Kanae sighed: “Why do you have to go this far?” “This is racial hatred.” Nathan said.
“Since Demons feed on humans, one side must be exterminated.
This is a war of races, unrelated to good and evil.
Kanae, you’re still too naive.” Kanae nodded.
After learning that her sister was also prepared to die, she no longer held any hope for humans and Demons coexisting peacefully.
Her parents had been killed by Demons, she herself was killed by a Demon, and even her only surviving sister might be devoured by a Demon.
For the first time, she felt that Demons should just go extinct.
As usual, Nathan cut his index finger and let a drop of blood fall.
But unlike with Nezuko, this drop of blood contained a black mist.
At the same time, he crushed the straw doll he had taken out earlier and put it into the tub.
Magi are very careful about storing their hair and blood, to prevent them from falling into the hands of others and being used as a medium for curses.
This common knowledge precisely shows that the vast majority of Magi have some knowledge of curse techniques.
Nathan also knew a little.
What he was going to do now was to pick a relatively powerful curse, inscribe it onto Shinobu’s body, so she could use it as instinctively as a natural ability.
Swish— A sharp flash of sword light descended, cutting a tree cleanly at its base.
Then, black patterns spread from the wound.
Both the roots and the severed trunk began to wither.
That was the curse spreading, through Shinobu’s body to the sword in her hand, then released onto the living being wounded by the sword.
Soon, the entire large tree withered into a pile of wood fragments.
“What a terrifying curse power.” Shinobu sighed, a gentle smile on her face, which looked a little creepy.
Kanae shrank back, floating behind Nathan: “Shinobu’s gone dark.
So scary.” At this moment, Nathan was holding a syringe filled with bright red blood.
This was Hantengu’s blood.
He held down a sparrow and injected the blood into it, a strange light shimmering in his hand.
Around him were many sparrow corpses, all of which had spontaneously exploded after failed experiments.
“Your side seems even scarier.” Kanae’s mouth twitched.
“We’re supposed to be the good guys in the Demon Slayer Corps, so why does it feel like we’ve become the great Demon King lurking in the shadows?” “The path of research inevitably involves the sacrifice of life.
That’s unavoidable.” Nathan said.
“Even if you don’t take the magic route, but the scientific one, the number of lab mice that die in laboratories is in the tens of thousands.” Just then, the sparrow in Nathan’s hand struggled violently.
Unable to escape from Nathan’s magic, it remained trapped in his palm, writhing.
Soon, the sparrow stopped moving.
But this time, it wasn’t dead.
Its eyes had turned crimson.
Nathan sensed a strange power being born within it, very similar to a Blood Demon Art.
He released the sparrow to see what it would do.
Then, Nathan watched as the sparrow flew over to the other sparrow corpses and began pecking at them.
Nathan frowned, and Kanae also felt uncomfortable.
Cannibalism among the same species is repulsive on both a physiological and psychological level.