Chapter 25 The Return of Sakonji Kintaki
Tanjiro, who was lying on the ground and exhausted, began to not believe in himself.
"Tanjiro, your breathing is too stiff, causing your body to be forced to react. In the past six months, you have simply memorized what the old man taught you. You have not integrated the breath of water into it. Deep down, if you don't overcome this, you won't be able to cut off the boulder." Bai Yu slowly pointed out Tanjiro's fatal flaw.
Although Tanjiro has indeed grown a lot after one and a half years of training, his body has not completely sublimated and absorbed what he has learned during his training.
Tanjiro's breathing was so stiff that he was unable to use his water breathing to its full potential. An attack launched at this level cannot cut through the boulder.
In a flash, half a year passed, and the world repeated its reincarnation of the year. The winter snowflakes fell into Bai Yu's hands. Bai Yu stood outside the wooden house, looked up at the snowy sky, and murmured: "Start again." It’s snowing! Another year has passed!”
During this year, Lintaki Sa did not appear again recently. Everything in the wooden house was taken care of by Bai Yu, and Nezuko was also taken care of by Bai Yu.
Because after that duel, Tanjiro never came down Mount Saagiri.
So for the past six months, Nezuko has been taken care of by Bai Yu. Regular wiping of the body is naturally indispensable. In Bai Yu's opinion, this is a beautiful thing.
In this way, Bai Yu naturally had close contact with Nezuko.
When Tanjiro was here, he, as the older brother, would naturally do this.
When he helped Nezuko wipe her body, Bai Yu didn't mean to take advantage of Nezuko, but if he ignored it, it would smell bad.
At first, seeing that Tanjiro did not return to the cabin, he noticed something was wrong with Bai Yu, so he went up the mountain to look for it himself, only to find Tanjiro talking to the air near the boulder, as if he was possessed.
However, just when Bai Yu was about to wake up Tanjiro, Tanjiro began to dance with the sword in his hand. Feeling that Tanjiro's movements when drawing the knife were no longer stiff and his breathing control became smoother, Bai Yu felt that Tanjiro might have entered a subconscious state of selflessness, which was his destiny.
Therefore, Bai Yu did not choose to interrupt Tanjiro's creation, but let him completely sublimate himself in this creation.
Unexpectedly, the wait would be another half year. In the past six months, Bai Yu has regularly checked on Tanjiro, but what he saw was that he was either dancing with a sword or meditating, and sometimes talking to others.
The most puzzling time was when Bai Yu tried to stand in front of him, and he seemed to be unable to see Bai Yu's existence.
Finally, under the prompts of the system, Bai Yu used the power of ghosts and gods to open the ghost eyes and finally figured out Tanjiro's situation. It turned out that the undead from Mount Sagori locked Tanjiro in the spiritual world they built.
Judging from Tanjiro's changes, these undead should be helping Tanjiro grow, so Bai Yu did not interfere too much, but chose to wait quietly.
At this time, Bai Yu saw a person walking in the distance. Bai Yu took a closer look and found that it was Sakonji Rintagaki who had been away from the wooden house for a year.
Bai Yu looked at Sakonji Nedaki who was walking in front of him, then smiled and said: "He's back! Old man~"
Kintaki Sakonji stood in front of Shiro Yu, looked at Shiro Yu for a while, then nodded, responded, and asked: "Well~ Where is Tanjiro and others?"