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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5

After Lin Guang made his decision, he picked up the treasure chest but did not open it immediately. Instead, he set it aside for the time being, planning to open it once and for all after the final selection.

Tanjiro prayed for the demons that had been killed.

Suddenly, a panicked voice called out, "Ah! I haven't heard of this! I haven't heard of this!"

Tanjiro was drawn in and walked over. "What happened?" Tanjiro asked, confused.

As soon as he approached, he saw a huge ghost wrapped in arms. Tanjiro quickly leaned against the tree next to him. "Senior Lin Guang, look at the ghost over there... Is it the ghost you mentioned?"

At this time, Lin Guang also noticed the ghost enveloped in countless arms. The hand ghost opened its large mouth and swallowed a human, causing its whole body to grow slightly larger.

"That's right, it was the one that ate several of my companions." Under the mask, Lin Guang's eyes were cold, and a chill emanated from his body involuntarily.

On the other side, countless arms of the hand ghost intertwined together, then shot out to grab the human who tried to escape. In that moment, Lin Guang made his move.

"Water Breathing! Second Form! Waterwheel!"

The water spun into a circle, severing one of the hand ghost's hands and saving the human.

The hand ghost looked at its broken arm and then at the person who was preventing it from devouring more prey. At that moment, the hand ghost spotted the mask on Lin Guang's face, and its irritation turned into excitement.

"Here it comes again! My cute little fox!"

Lin Guang slowly sheathed his knife, his eyes under the mask focused on the hand ghost. "Yes, I am here to end all cause and effect."

"Oh, it seems you know everything. So, little fox, what year of the Meiji era is it now?" the hand ghost asked.

"Unfortunately, it is already the Taisho era," Lin Guang replied.

"Taisho? Huh? Ahhh! The era name has changed! It changed again! It changed again while I was imprisoned in a place like this! Unforgivable! Damn Urokodaki! Damn Urokodaki!" The violent hand ghost scratched its skin but recovered the next second.

"Yes, it's been 47 years; it's all over, you should die," Lin Guang stated.

The hand ghost suddenly calmed down. "Yes, it's been 47 years. I can't forget 47 years ago, when that guy was still hunting ghosts! Edo period, Keio period!"

"Liar! There shouldn't be ghosts that have lived that long! The ones here should be ghosts that have only eaten two or three people! Ghosts that were hacked to death during the selection! And ghosts that killed each other...!" The man rescued by Lin Guang glared at the hand ghost, accusingly.

The hand ghost spread out more than a dozen hands and said, "But I have survived. In this prison of wisteria flowers, I probably ate 50 little ghosts."

"11, 12, 13, and then you are the fourteenth disciple of Urokodaki to be eaten by me, hahahaha!"

"I had already decided to kill all of that guy's disciples. I think the two people who left a special impression on me were probably the strongest one—the kid with the rare hair color. He had flesh-colored hair and a wound on his mouth."

"The other one was a girl wearing a kimono with flower patterns. Although she was short and weak, she was very agile. Hehehehe!"

The hand ghost danced excitedly, as if recounting the happiest moments.

"Your mask, your fox mask, is the mark. I remember the wood grain of the mask carved by Urokodaki was done in the same way as the Tengu mask that guy wore."

"Is it called the Disaster Mask? Because with it, everyone gets eaten. Everyone is in my stomach, just like Urokodaki killed them himself, hehehe."

"When I said this, the girl started crying and got angry, and then her movements became stiff, so I tore off her arms and legs, and then..."

"Ah! I won't allow you to speak nonsense here!" Tanjiro suddenly jumped out, slashing at the hand ghost with the blade in his hand.

When the hand ghost saw that Tanjiro was also wearing a fox mask, the smile in its eyes grew even more intense, and it stretched out countless hands to grab Tanjiro.

The knife flashed; Tanjiro cut off the hand ghost's arm and tried his best to get closer, aiming the blade at the hand ghost's neck.

With a ding! The long sword in Tanjiro's hand broke!

The hand ghost wore a conspiratorial smile, and one hand quickly reached out to grab Tanjiro!

At that critical moment, Lin Guang made a move.

"Water Breathing! Second Form! Waterwheel!"

Lin Guang severed the arm of the hand demon that was grabbing Tanjiro, saving him, and shouted, "Calm down, Tanjiro! Your breathing is disordered!"

"But..." Tanjiro wanted to say something but was interrupted by Lin Guang.

"I know, but if you want to avenge them, then the most important thing is that you can't die. Understand?"

Tanjiro took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "I understand."

The hand ghost saw that its prey was rescued once again by Lin Guang, and it was filled with resentment towards him. "Rescued again!"

As soon as the words fell, countless arms flew towards Lin Guang and Tanjiro. With the flash of their knives, Tanjiro and Lin Guang cut off the arms of the hand ghost that were coming towards them.

The two worked together and quickly approached the hand ghost. Suddenly, Tanjiro smelled the ghostly scent coming from the ground and leaped into the air.

"Senior Lin Guang!"