Hearing this, Tanjiro carefully looked at the bamboo basket and said, "Senior, wait a minute!"
After saying that, Tanjiro started to modify the bamboo basket.
Ryuji watched Tanjiro quietly from the side. He naturally wouldn't know how to do this kind of manual work, because he wasn't from that era.
After modification, the bamboo basket's airtightness was much better, and sunlight could basically no longer shine through. They just needed to cover it with a piece of cloth on the outside.
Tanjiro took the modified bamboo basket and went into the cave. After putting Nezuko in the basket, Ryuji, Tanjiro, and Nezuko, the two humans and one demon, set off towards Mount Fujikasane again.
Night
Ryuji, Tanjiro, and Nezuko, who could now move freely from the bamboo basket, came to the outside of a Buddhist temple.
"Senior, there's a Buddhist temple, and we can see the lights. There should be someone inside. Let's go take a look!" Tanjiro said to Ryuji.
Ryuji naturally had no objections. After all, it was late at night, and it was a good place to rest.
"Okay!" Ryuji nodded and said, "Let's go take a look."
Just as Ryuji finished speaking, Tanjiro's face suddenly changed, and he said in a slightly terrified tone, "There's the smell of blood! This mountain path is dangerous. Someone must have been injured!"
After saying that, the kind-hearted Tanjiro immediately pulled Nezuko and ran into the Buddhist temple.
Ryuji didn't have time to stop him, so he followed.
Ryuji's nose wasn't as good as Tanjiro's, so he didn't smell the blood at first.
When Ryuji ran into the Buddhist temple, he could faintly smell the blood.
At this time, Tanjiro was already at the door of the Buddhist temple. He pushed the door open and asked inside, "Is everyone inside alright?"
But the next moment, Tanjiro stood frozen in place, his face turning pale.
Ryuji, who was a step behind Tanjiro, came to his side and looked into the Buddhist temple. He saw a scene that made him shudder.
There were several human corpses inside the Buddhist temple, and they had all been eaten. The demon who had eaten the corpses was currently squatting in front of one of the corpses, making chewing sounds.
Ryuji's expression was extremely serious, and he assumed a posture of drawing his sword and fighting.
"Take Nezuko and run!" Ryuji ordered Tanjiro quickly and forcefully.
Tanjiro was clearly scared and didn't hear Ryuji's words. He remained frozen in place, without any reaction.
"What are you doing? Hey! This is my territory!" The {demon} who was eating people felt the presence of Ryuji and the others and stood up impatiently, turning around.
"This special smell... are you humans?" The {demon} continued to mutter to himself.
As soon as he finished speaking, the {demon} shot towards Ryuji.
"So fast!" Ryuji was startled. Since he couldn't dodge this attack, he instinctively assumed a defensive posture.
In an instant, Ryuji was knocked away. In mid-air, he swung the Demon Slayer sword in his hand towards the {demon}'s neck.
The {demon} was cut by Ryuji and did a backflip to create distance between them.
Ryuji stumbled a few times before barely regaining his balance. After stabilizing, he didn't attack rashly, nor did he choose to activate demonification immediately.
The side effects of demonification were too torturous. Ryuji didn't want to experience that.
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