Back in the Edo era.
If a place saw a large number of suspicious deaths at night.
The first to find it strange and take notice.
Would not be the Far East's painfully slow authorities.
Nor would it necessarily be the Ninkyō who roamed the streets.
It would be the Demon King who dispatched demons to various regions, Muzan Kibutsuji.
Ever since taking a beating from Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
This Demon King, who had once been so full of himself, had acted with considerable discretion for the next several hundred years.
At the very least, he would not let his subordinates cause a major disturbance in human society without his permission.
And when he heard that sixty-seven trained swordsmen had been killed in a single night.
In a place where he had not stationed any demons, no less.
It immediately piqued his curiosity.
Muzan had thought it was a trap the Demon Slayer Corps had set for him, or a disturbance caused by a traitor like Tamayo, who had betrayed him.
Yet he never expected that what he found...
Would be a human boy covered in blood, wandering the streets in a daze.
And that night.
Was also a turning point in Hakuji's fate.
If the person standing before him had been the Ubuyashiki Family's Oyakata-sama.
Perhaps the Demon Slayer Corps would have welcomed its first swordsman of what Xia Xi called [Strong Hashira Level] during the Edo period.
But the one Hakuji encountered was a scumbag boss with no conscience and a fondness for cross-dressing...
Like an injured guardian dog.
The boy bared his teeth at Muzan in warning.
Don't get in his way...
Otherwise, he would slaughter Muzan.
But would Muzan pay any heed to a threat from someone like a stray dog?
Of course not. After all, the