Because of the death of her parents, Emi Matsuo cried bitterly.
Mitsuko and Ogiya Junpei frantically tried to comfort Emi Matsuo.
However, neither of them had any experience taking care of children, and the more they tried to soothe them, the worse the effect seemed to be.
Emi Matsuo cried even harder, leaving the two of them extremely anxious and at their wits' end.
Suddenly.
Emi Matsuo's crying suddenly stopped.
Junpei Ogiya thought his words of comfort had worked, wiped the sweat from his brow, and sighed softly, "Finally, she's stopped crying..."
"No, it's not that she stopped crying, it's that Emi lost her mind."
As soon as Mitsuko finished speaking, Emi Matsuo's eyes turned red, and saliva was already overflowing from the corner of her mouth. She suddenly bit down on Ogiya Junpei beside her.
Junpei Ogiya was no longer the weakling he once was, unable to fight. He grabbed Emi Matsuo's hands and bound her tightly.
"Junpei, just keep Emi under control like this, and I'll feed her my blood."
Mitsuko cut open his palm and fed his blood to Emi Matsuo.
After consuming Mitsuko's blood, Emi Matsuo began to clutch her head and wail in agony.
The process of transforming into a half-human, half-demon is painful.
Having endured such pain himself, Ogiya Junpei turned his head away in unbearable sorrow; he was just a child, yet he had to suffer such torment.
Some time has passed.
Mitsuko successfully established contact with Emi Matsuo.
Having gained access to Emi Matsuo's memories, Mitsuko also learns that Emi Matsuo's parents were not killed by her.
Before Emi Matsuo became a demon, her parents had already died from the demon's blood.
Mitsuko sighed deeply: "That's good..."
If Emi Matsuo's parents were killed by her, Mitsuko is unsure whether Emi Matsuo will break down after regaining consciousness.
After all, Emi Matsuo was just a child who hadn't even formed her own worldview yet.
The thought of killing one's beloved parents is enough to make anyone feel hopeless and devastated.
Just like Junpei Ogiya, if it weren't for his parents appearing and enlightening him at that time, perhaps Junpei Ogiya would no longer be in this world.
The process of transforming into a half-human, half-demon is extremely painful.
Emi Matsuo has already lost consciousness.
Junpei Ogiya hugged Emi Matsuo tightly, feeling sorry for her: "She really has no bottom line!"
Junpei Ogiya looked extremely angry.
When Ogiya Junpei became a demon, although we didn't see who did it, the person who could do such a heinous thing, not even sparing a child, must have been a cruel and heartless beast!
Mitsuko never told Junpei Ogiya about Muzan Kibutsuji.
The Muzan Kibutsuji in his memory was far too powerful, so powerful that Mitsuko didn't even have the right to look at him directly.
Even if they encountered Muzan Kibutsuji, they could only run for their lives.
So even if they told Ogiya Junpei, it wouldn't help; it would only add to their troubles.
Mitsuko patted Junpei Ogiya on the shoulder and said, "Alright, at least Emi is safe now. From now on, we'll take care of her. We'll have more and more companions, so Emi won't be lonely."
...
Time flies.
Three years have passed.
On a lush green mountain, Mitsuko is maintaining her Nichirin Blade.
Mitsuko is now fifteen years old, and has gradually grown from a naive child into a mature young man.
Mitsuko is 1.8 meters tall and looks very tall. His long hair is casually tied into a ponytail with a rope, which makes him look somewhat unruly. However, there is always an unyielding sadness between his brows, which makes him seem very serious and unapproachable.
"Mitsuko, I'm back."
Junpei Ogiya rested his sword on his shoulder, holding a slain wild boar in his left hand.
Mitsuko helplessly advised, "Junpei, you don't need to go hunting. We can be self-sufficient now."
Junpei Ogiya placed the wild boar on the ground, twisted its neck, and made a 'crackling' sound: "Just treat this as a hobby. Your body will rust if you don't move."
Junpei Ogiya is twenty years old this year.
Over the past few years, Ogiya Junpei has practiced his swordsmanship day and night, and his skills have reached a level of perfection.
Based on the swordsmanship taught by Mitsuko, and after witnessing a tiger hunting by chance, Ogiya Junpei created his own swordsmanship, called the Tiger Claw Swordsmanship.
At this point, Ogiya Junpei was already a true swordsman.
"Brother Junpei, you're back from hunting!"
A young girl's voice came from the woods.
Emi Matsuo, whom I rescued three years ago, is now six years old. She has two buns in her hair and is very cute.
"Yes, I'm back, Emi. Call the rest of you out. I hunted a wild boar today."
Over the past three years.
Mitsuko traveled to various places and rescued nearly 20 people, making them his companions.
Unfortunately, there should have been more than ten people who could have become companions.
But like Risa Amagi back then, they couldn't accept the tragic deaths of their family members and their own actions, and they didn't have the courage to live on, so they chose death.
In the end, it was Mitsuko who saw them off on their final journey.
As the number of participants increased, corresponding problems also emerged.
With the increase in the number of people, Mitsuko could no longer travel to various places as freely as before.
Because Mitsuko's enemies are not only demons, but also the Demon Slayer Corps.
Although they have no intention of opposing the Demon Slayer Corps, the Demon Slayer Corps seems to have a way of identifying demons.
They are all half-human, half-demon, and still carry the aura of demons, which makes them mistaken for demons by the Demon Slayer Corps and forced to fight.
With a large number of people, Mitsuko cannot guarantee everyone's safety.
If a formidable enemy appears and Mitsuko is unable to attend to him, then the rest of the group, who lack combat capabilities, will be lambs to the slaughter.
So Mitsuko found a deserted, desolate mountain, Ishikakuyama, to be his home.
With the issue of homeland resolved, the next step is the issue of blood supply.
Mitsuko's method of mixing his own blood with human blood can only preserve the blood for 30 days.
It will be unusable after 30 days.
More than 20 people need to drink blood every seven days, and the demand is very large. The stored blood will be used up in less than 30 days.
The blood that Mitsuko found on his own was simply not enough.
To solve this problem.
One of Mitsuko's companions, named Asuka Izaka, was a doctor in a hospital during her human days. She opened a small clinic in a town at the foot of the mountain that only operated at night, which provided some relief in her immediate crisis.
But this is just a drop in the ocean.
Moreover, as Mitsuko gets older, his need for blood gradually increases.
Normally, only about 200 milliliters of blood would be enough to control his loss of control, but now it takes a full liter of blood to suppress it.
Therefore, Mitsuko needs to leave periodically to search for blood.
However, in many cases, the blood that Mitsuko obtains is only enough for others to use, and not enough for himself at all.
So Mitsuko always kept a bottle in his arms, filled with a purplish-black liquid.
This purplish-black liquid is the sap from wisteria flowers.
Although it will cause Mitsuko immense pain, like the effects of blood, it can suppress the loss of control.
This was Mitsuko's last resort, a last-ditch effort.