Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Chapter 112 Development of Self-Blood Demon Art

"I just heard you say you wanted to cut me into a thousand pieces, making me wish I were dead?"

Li Lei drew his katana from the pockmarked warrior's waist, held it in his hand, and gently wiped it with the warrior's body, looking at him with a half-smile.

"No, sir, I was just joking. Please don't take it to heart. I—I wouldn't dare lay a hand on you," the pockmarked warrior said in utter fear.

The samurai felt like dying. Why did such a monster exist in the world, and why did he have to encounter it?

"What you say must be kept, and what you decide to do must have consequences."

"Are you ready, pockmarked warrior?"

Li Lei revealed a bloodthirsty smile, raised his sharp blade, and spoke to the warrior.

"My lord, please—please don't do this! I'm still useful. I can give you all my money. I can find people for you to kill, people for you to play with. Don't kill me, my lord!"

On the verge of death, the warrior desperately begged for mercy, but Li Lei's response was merely a cold stare.

"Click"

Li Lei's hands, gripping the sword, fell instantly. With a flash of white light, the pockmarked warrior was cleaved in two diagonally by Li Lei. Countless drops of blood spurted from the warrior's wounds into the air, like a brief but beautiful crimson fountain.

"Aaaaaaaaaa..."

The pockmarked warrior, split in two, howled and screamed in agony on the ground, his face contorted and grotesque, the whole ordeal horrifying.

"Cherish this time you have while you're alive. Pain is proof that you're alive. You don't need to thank me for letting you know the fragility of life and the value of living."

"Finally, may your death be pleasant, you nameless, incompetent warrior."

Li Lei didn't care whether the pockmarked warrior heard him or not; he simply finished speaking and left.

From the deserted woods came screams. The pockmarked warrior screamed incessantly, his eyes filled with rage and hatred for Li Lei that ran deep in his bones. He vowed that if he could live, he would find Li Lei and take revenge, making him taste ten or a hundred times the pain he was experiencing.

"Do you want revenge, human? Do you want revenge on the brat who hurt you just now? Do you want to obtain unparalleled power?"

"Human, if you sell your soul to me, I can fulfill your requests and desires."

Before the pockmarked warrior appeared an unknown being dressed entirely in black, with glowing red eyes and an unseen face.

After the appearance of the unknown entity, the pockmarked warrior felt his pain lessen considerably.

"Really? Then I'm willing. I'm willing to sell my soul, everything I have, as long as it gives me the power to take revenge. I'm willing to do anything."

The pockmarked warrior nodded in agreement.

Kid, you wait. I don't care what kind of monster you are. I'll soon have invincible power and show you my cruelty.

"You should think this through carefully. Once you sell your soul to me, you will no longer belong to yourself. You will become my servant, my subordinate, or my food."

"I'm willing to do anything to get revenge, even trade my soul."

The pockmarked warrior answered with absolute certainty.

"Alright! I agree. Your soul is now mine, and in exchange, I will give you great power right now."

As he spoke, the unknown being took out a blood-red cone from his robes and plunged it vertically into the heart of the pockmarked warrior.

As the red cone pierced his body, the samurai felt an endless surge of power coursing through his body, and his two limbs were restored to one another by this unknown force.

The pockmarked warrior raised his hand and clenched it, his arm instantly swelling several times its original size, unimaginable power flowing through his body.

"Kid, your time to die has come, hahaha."

The unknown entity nodded in satisfaction after seeing its own work.

"Excellent, excellent. This experiment was a great success. I'm very satisfied with your performance."

Pockmarked Samurai: o_O???

What does "experiment" mean? Does it mean I've become an experiment?

"Sir, I..."

The pockmarked warrior was about to say something when he was interrupted by a sudden, sharp pain within his body.

"I've given you some pretty good power, haven't I? It can turn you into a non-human being in an instant."

"But forces of unknown origin can be dangerous, especially when you don't know who they are."

The black clothes of the unknown entity suddenly turned into threads and scattered, revealing a child with white hair, blood-red eyes, and wearing a white kimono with a spider web pattern.

"You are! You're the kid from before. No way, this can't be! Why is it you? You're lying to me, you're lying to me!"

The pockmarked samurai clutched his head in disbelief at the scene before him, his face contorted in shock. The one who had given him power was none other than the murderer who had cleaved him in two.

"Surprised? Unexpected? Happy? Do you want to cry? The feeling of finding hope in despair and then having it shattered must be unbearable."

"Haha, the way you look sad right now is so funny."

Li Lei smiled and said with feigned happiness, but his words were full of rubbing salt into the wound.

"Why are you torturing me like this? I have done nothing to provoke you."

The pockmarked warrior, looking dejected and contemplative, asked Li Lei.

"No enmity? Hahaha, you're too naive. When you came with me, you were my mortal enemy."

"If I didn't have great power, I would be the one who suffered this tragedy today. And judging from your attire, this isn't the first time you've stalked someone. How can you, who frequently commits murder and robbery, think you're innocent?"

The warrior, rendered speechless by Li Lei's words, was at a loss for words.

"I...I'll fight you to the death, you monster."

The pockmarked warrior suddenly lunged at Li Lei, his eyes filled with hatred and murderous intent.

"Hmph! I don't know whether to live or die."

Seeing the pockmarked warrior charging towards him, Li Lei looked disdainful and offered no defense whatsoever.

The pockmarked warrior, whose muscles bulged and was about to attack Li Lei, suddenly froze and remained motionless.

"What's wrong with me? Why can't I move?" The samurai looked bewildered.

"Kneel down, you insolent fool," Li Lei calmly shouted at the warrior.

In an instant, the samurai's body went out of his control and he knelt down, completely powerless to resist.

Li Lei lowered his head slightly to look at the pockmarked warrior kneeling on the ground. A red light flashed in Li Lei's eyes, and the pockmarked warrior was immediately controlled by Li Lei's thoughts to raise his right hand towards the woods beside him.

In an instant, a water ball formed in his palm, and then he suddenly launched it straight out in the direction his arm was pointing.

"Blood Demon Art - Water Cannon"

With a bang, the tree branch that was hit by the water ball snapped instantly.

It's done. The method of implanting a controlled evil spirit into someone else's body to make them use blood demon magic has been successfully implemented.

Li Lei was overjoyed at the results before him, a satisfied smile spreading across his face.

"Alright, today's experiment is over. You're useless now. Become food for the evil spirit inside me."

With the completion of Li Lei's final experiment, the pockmarked warrior lost his usefulness.

The pockmarked warrior felt excruciating pain coursing through his body, as if a hole had appeared inside him, relentlessly devouring his flesh and blood.

The pockmarked warrior's feeling was correct; his body was being continuously devoured by the evil spirit controlled by Li Lei, who possessed the Water Cannon Blood Demon Technique.

"Farewell, pockmarked samurai who will become a demon's lunch."

As soon as Li Lei finished speaking, the pockmarked warrior was instantly compressed into the stomach of the evil spirit inside Li Lei's body, leaving only the parasitic ball cage controlling the evil spirit in place.

As soon as Li Lei raised his hand, the parasitic ball cage flew back into his hand and was absorbed into his body.

Li Lei looked up at the mangled corpses of the dozen or so men in black present, and adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, he took out the demonic parasitic sphere cage that controlled the Memory-Changing Demon Eye from his body.

Li Lei threw the parasitic ball cage containing the Memory-Changing Demon Eye Demon onto the fragmented corpse. After leaving Li Lei's palm, the parasitic ball cage instantly grew several thin tentacles with barbs, which continuously swept up the fragments of the corpse on the ground and dragged them into the parasitic ball cage containing the Memory-Changing Demon Eye Demon.

Before long, the ground was cleaned up by the tentacles, and Li Lei left the place after retrieving the evil spirit that possessed the Eye of Memory.