Chapter 60 Meeting Tanjiro Again
Tokyo, Asakusa Prefecture.
This is the political and economic center of the country that has lasted for hundreds of years. In modern times decades later, the Tokyo metropolitan area formed including the Tokyo metropolitan area, the Tama area, and the islands is very famous in the whole world. One of the famous and prosperous metropolitan area.
In Lucia's era, the population of the Tokyo metropolitan area even reached more than 30 million, concentrating nearly one-third of the country's population, and its prosperity can be imagined.
Although Tokyo in this era is far from being as prosperous as it will be a few decades later, it is still the center of the country in this era, with a prosperity that is completely different from the rural areas that still retain their ancient living habits.
Street lamps, wires, trains and other equipment have begun to spread in this city, giving this city a prototype of prosperity decades later, and its appearance is very different from the villages and towns Liu Xia passed by before.
Asakusa Prefecture is a very inconspicuous area in this metropolitan area.
Under the night.
The street lamps laid on both sides of the concrete road have been turned on, illuminating the road under pedestrians' feet, occasionally accompanied by the light of lanterns raised by roadside shops, making the whole city glow bright yellow under the night.
Even at night, there is still an endless stream of pedestrians on the road. Men and women wearing Japanese-style haori and jackets, as well as dresses and long skirts imported from the West, come and go in the night, chatting and laughing.
Occasionally, there are even a few cable cars and private cars passing by, which further embellishes the prosperity of the city.
Liu Xia was carrying a suitcase and carrying a piano case close to a person's height on her back, walking on the road at night in the city.
With strong insight, Liu Xia keenly discovered the difference between this era and decades later.
Decades later, in 1995, people walked on the road, but they hardly talked. Most of them were silent, their faces were numb and mechanical, and they were dressed mostly in the same suits and leather shoes. carrying a briefcase.
But this era is different. People are walking on the road, and there is no strangeness and dead silence between them after decades. They talk to each other naturally, and everyone exudes extraordinary vitality.
"With the different times, the way of human existence is also changing."
While walking through the crowd, Liu Xia observed the human phenomena of this era, "Compared to the indifferent era decades later, this era is even more lovely."
Modern society is very convenient.
But it is precisely because of convenience that people become empty.
More and more technologies have created many conveniences, but at the same time robbed human beings of their obligations, resulting in people generally losing their material busyness, making their hearts empty, and at the same time losing a lot of ways to realize their self-worth.
"About the earlier era, when human beings' obligations were not taken away by machines, and life was fulfilling, human beings would not become numb and indifferent."
Through the comparison of the times, Liu Xia realized a new law.
It's not a truth, it's just a rule.
It was already night, and Lucia, who had been on the road for half a day, planned to find a ramen shop first to fill her stomach.
"... Lucia Sauce..."
A vague shout came from behind, which attracted Liu Xia's attention and made him turn his head to look back.
Then, he accidentally saw an acquaintance.
Wearing the uniform of the Demon Slayer Squad that is the same as Lucia, and a green plaid coat, a young man with dark red hair and a scar on his forehead is standing in the crowd dozens of steps away, happily facing Lucia waved her hand.
"Kamado Tanjiro?"
Liu Xia raised her brows slightly, but she didn't expect to see this boy with an overly nice personality here again.
Compared with half a month ago, there is almost no change in him,
Apart from wearing an extra Ghost Slayer uniform and changing the knife on his waist, only the scar on his forehead has become much deeper.
It's obviously not a recent scar, why did it suddenly turn black? The overall look seems to form an alternative texture...
"Liu Xiajiang, did you also come to Asakusa Mansion to complete the mission?"
When Liu Xia was slightly surprised, Zamon Tanjiro had already crossed the crowd, came in front of Liu Xia, and greeted Liu Xia with the same sincere smile on his face.
"That's right."
Liu Xia nodded, although it was no longer necessary, but he still maintained his personality.
But then, his eyes turned to a girl behind Tanjirou.
She looked only about fourteen or fifteen years old, with soft black hair reaching to her waist, exquisite and lovely facial features, a little ignorance in her pink pupils, and unusually fair skin on her cheeks, without any blemishes.
He was wearing a pink kimono with black feathers on his body, and he was biting a green bamboo tube in his mouth, which swayed slightly with the squirming of his mouth.
Judging only by the appearance, she is undoubtedly an outstanding Japanese beauty.
But Liu Xia, who has seen more than a dozen evil ghosts so far, can say with certainty that this is a ghost.
Although her body does not have the rancid smell of ordinary evil spirits, and there is no trace of peculiar smell all over her body, her sense of alienation belonging to ghosts is very clear, enough to make any ghost killing team with experience in facing ghosts The swordsman recognized her identity.
Surprisingly, she and Tanjirou held hands forehand, and their demeanor seemed very intimate.
The two seem to trust each other very much, Tanjiro is not worried at all that she will suddenly violently bite him, and this girl ghost seems to have no intention of biting him.
The girl just stood there, turning her head with the flapping of the moths that were flying towards the street lamp, causing her soft black hair to shake slightly, her pink eyes were focused on the moths, with a very focused appearance.
"she is?"
Liu Xia looked at her, with obvious interest in her eyes.
If he didn't know Tanjiro's character, he would have started to wonder if Tanjiro had mastered some method of controlling evil spirits. He controlled a beautiful girl ghost on the way, and regarded it as a little fun during the boring journey.
In all fairness, if it were Liu Xia, he would have the same plan.
Although he has no feelings, he is still a human being, has physical needs, and desires for the opposite sex, but because his secondary sexual characteristics have not yet developed, he has not yet developed such thoughts.
When he is two or three years older and has the ability and impulsiveness, he might play like Tanjiro, and maybe even have more fun than him because of his unfettered personality.