Chapter 2288 Family Tree
Tanjiro found the old man and learned about the history of demons and the Demon Slayer Corps. He also learned about the existence of the demon ancestors who transformed demons. He learned that his family was most likely eaten by demons, leaving nothing behind. After learning this, Tanjiro decided to become a demon hunter and join the Demon Slayer Corps, but before that he needed to practice swordsmanship, otherwise he, a charcoal-selling boy, would just die.
And Nezuko fell into a deep sleep, because she had to rely on sleep to replenish energy to overcome bloodsucking, otherwise she might die.
Tanjiro is only thirteen years old now, and it’s not too late to start training. The old man prepared the most severe training for him. Because joining the Demon Slayer Corps is no joke, it’s better to bleed and cry now than to die later.
But even the most cruel training still can’t ensure that Tanjiro can survive, because this is not the first time the old man has taught disciples. He has lost many disciples and knows how cruel the Demon Slayer Corps is. It’s really dancing on the edge of a knife.
First physical strength, then reaction, and then swordsmanship and breathing.
Tanjiro runs up and down the mountain all day long, and he has to avoid traps on the road. Even if he has been doing physical work, he has suffered enough. But there is a rage for revenge in his heart, so Tanjiro must persist and will never give up.
Compared with the old man's training, Duran's training is not much worse. He is more straightforward and directly throws Kanae and Aoi to the Warring States Period. Just like "Inuyasha", the well of Duran Shrine can also travel through time and space, allowing them to break through in actual combat.
Two years is not long or short, enough for Duran to do a lot of things.
Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "The Charcoal Seller", in which there is a sentence "Poor clothes on the body are thin, worried about the cheap charcoal and wish the weather is cold", which tells the sadness of the charcoal seller. In the end, all his charcoal was confiscated by the court, and only a small amount of cloth was exchanged, criticizing the harshness of the Tang Dynasty court at that time.
However, Tanjiro's family has always been optimistic, and the family has been thriving for more than 300 years, and the charcoal business has been going on. It is really an incredible miracle. Although Tanjiro is different from the protagonists of other stories, he does not have a prominent family and a super father.
But the charcoal-selling family that has been passed down since the Warring States Period is also a miracle in a sense. Moreover, although his father is just an ordinary charcoal seller on the surface, he is secretly a super hermit who can fight a big bear even if he is weak and sick. Although he has no name, his strength is not inferior to those super fathers.
Duran can imagine how many bullies and evil officials the Kamado family has killed with the power they have inherited in order to keep their business for more than 300 years. Of course, they are willing to be ordinary and make a living by selling charcoal, maintaining the mentality of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains". As long as others don't disturb them, they are always happy to sell charcoal to make a living.
It's like there is a sense of mission that makes this family wait silently for 300 years, waiting for someone to appear. The appearance of this person will break the 300-year history of this family and let them unload their mission.
Just like the tomb keepers, the tomb keepers will live by the tombs from generation to generation and will not forget their mission for hundreds of years. The Kamado family is an alternative tomb keeper. They pass down their power from generation to generation, but they don't think that this power belongs to them. Instead, they want to pass it on to the chosen one.
Duran thought that the Kamado family was a large local family. With so many brothers and sisters in each generation, they should have branched out. But in the story, Tanjiro never mentioned his relatives. I don't know why. It's not like every time there is an accident like Tanjiro's generation, leaving only one or two people. Even if there are only two left, Tanjiro still has a sister. Then is there only one person in his father's generation, without uncles and aunts? And there are no uncles and aunts on his mother's side?
After encountering something, Tanjiro seems to have replaced himself with the character of relying on his sister for life, lonely and helpless, without a relative to rely on.
In theory, a family of more than 300 years should have many relatives, but the story is just a story after all. If the protagonist has many passionate relatives to help, the story can't unfold.
In the shrine, Duran helped the Kamado family to make a genealogy, and found that this family actually had many members. People in that area were related to the Kamado family, but they were not allowed to help the Kamado family.
The Kamado family was very powerful for being passed down for three hundred years, but there were also many families that had been passed down for a thousand years in this country. It can be said that if there was no Warring States period, I am afraid that the solidification of this country would be worse than it is now.
No matter which country it is, the Warring States period represents a critical period of social transformation. Although chaos deprived countless lives, it also brought about various reforms. In the chaos, everyone cried out to the sky and the earth, but they didn't respond. They would understand that the gods were illusory, thus achieving de-religionization.
At the same time, society will also seek a brand new system to enable the people to explode greater productivity.
Therefore, any country that has had a Warring States period will eventually evolve to a new dimension. The Warring States period is the process of breaking the old system and embracing the new system.
The Kamado family is considered a beneficiary of the Warring States period, and they began to prosper during the Warring States period.
After dealing with the three-hundred-year-old Kamado family, Duran began to make a genealogy for the thousand-year-old family where the ghost ancestor was. After becoming a ghost, Guizu started looking for food from his family members. He first ate his wives and concubines, and then attacked other family members. Therefore, the first people to know about the existence of ghosts were his family members, and the first ghost hunters were also composed of his family members.
It can be said that the war between humans and demons is an internal fight within a family, which has been passed down for thousands of years. The leader of the Demon Slayer Corps is inherited from this family, which means that the boss of the Demon Slayer Corps has always been the descendant of the Demon Ancestor.
Of course, a thousand years is longer than three hundred years, and even the tomb keepers may not be able to persist for so long. The reason why this family has been so determined from generation to generation is because of the curse. Because of the existence of such a rebellious thing as the Demon Ancestor, as long as the Demon Ancestor is not eliminated, the descendants of this family will not live beyond the age of thirty, and they will all die very ugly. The way to break the curse is to kill the Demon Ancestor, only in this way can they live beyond the age of thirty.
It is the curse that drives them to hunt demons tirelessly. If there is no such curse, it is still a question whether the Demon Slayer Corps can be passed down.
So how long can human will be passed down? The Kamado family is three hundred years, and it is estimated that it will end with Tanjiro's generation, because Tanjiro has obviously walked out of the path of selling charcoal. After all, there is no curse in his family to support him to keep his original intention.
As expected, the will to inherit still needs the blessing of external forces to allow them to persist from generation to generation. As long as the ghost ancestor is not dead and the curse is not destroyed, let alone a thousand years, even three thousand years must be supported.
Sorting out the genealogy of the two families can make Duran more fully prepared for the next story. This story can be said to be the end of three hundred years and the starting point of one thousand years. The end of the ceremony is the beginning of the curse.