Inosuke Hashibira climbed to his feet, adjusted the boar head he wore, and looked the White-Haired Swordsman up and down.
He was tall and solidly built, but more importantly, he radiated a fierce presence... This guy was strong!
His eyes lit up beneath his boar-head mask.
"Come on!" He gave a loud, boarlike snort. "Fight me! Fight me!"
Brandishing his jagged, serrated swords, he charged at Haruto with a howl.
What a strange guy.
Reckless, no sense of order to anything he does, and even his moves are bizarre... What kind of cultivator trained this swordsman?
Haruto grumbled inwardly, pivoted on the toes of his right foot, and swung his body aside, easily dodging the blades the boar-headed boy swung at him.
Then he reached out swiftly and grabbed the boy's boar head before he could stop his momentum and turn around-
Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
Haruto smacked the back of his head. "Reckless! Reckless! Reckless!"
"Aaargh!" The boar-headed boy shrieked in fury, twisting around to hook a backward kick toward Haruto's chest.
His limbs were surprisingly nimble. His attacks all targeted the lower body, constantly bringing one thing to mind-a wild beast!
Haruto raised his palm and struck the top of the incoming foot with a smack. The boy wore furry animal-hide shoes, too, as though he had lived in the mountains for a long time.
Haruto thought he had used a little too much force, but the boy did not make a sound. He quickly pulled his foot back and rubbed it against the ground a few times.
"Who are you?" Haruto pointed toward the flagstone path. "A Demon Slayer Corps swordsman here for the trial?"
The boar-headed boy grunted twice and finally stopped holding himself ready to attack.
"The Demon Slayer Corps... Yeah, I just passed that