nyslfriends Chapter 547: SFDI - 547
Chapter 547: SFDI - 547
Giyu Tomioka felt something constantly poking his face, and opened his eyes under the stinging pain.
The last scene in his memory was Drake, with black lines hanging on his forehead, swinging down a palm chop, and then he passed out.
Looking at the kasugai crow constantly pecking at his face, Giyu Tomioka got up and said, "Kanzaburo, please report what happened here to Lord Oyakata."
The kasugai crow, looking like it had dementia, cried out, and then spread its wings and flew away.
Giyu Tomioka sighed, looking at the gray sky.
He wasn’t actually as calm as he showed. Although he didn’t believe that demons would give up eating people, the sight of Nezuko and Tanjiro snuggling together did touch him.
So he did hesitate, which was why he was easily knocked out by Drake.
However, Giyu Tomioka was also thinking about what choice he would have made if he hadn’t been knocked out.
He shook his head, shaking off these extra thoughts. As a pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, he absolutely couldn’t waver.
...
On the flatbed cart, Drake, Stella, and the Kamado sisters were all sitting on the cart, and the one pulling the cart was naturally Tanjiro.
The cart’s handle was tied with a rope, and the rope was looped over Tanjiro’s shoulders.
Walking on the snow was already difficult, let alone pulling a heavy cart. Tanjiro’s face was flushed red, and his eyeballs were about to pop out.
White air sprayed from his nostrils, and Tanjiro seemed to hear his muscles and bones creaking.
Drake always acted decisively. Since he said he was going to train Tanjiro, he would naturally start right away.
At Tanjiro’s house, Drake knocked out Giyu Tomioka, and then buried his family together with Tanjiro. Then Drake set off with Tanjiro on a training journey.
The destination of this journey was of course to find Muzan Kibutsuji and kill him, the source of all evil.
And in the process, Drake would help Tanjiro learn how to fight and constantly become stronger, and the demons they encountered along the way would be his sparring partners.
And training of course started with enhancing physical fitness, after all, strong physical fitness was the foundation of all skills.
Tanjiro’s physical strength was actually quite good. Although he hadn’t exercised properly, he had learned breathing techniques and had been doing physical labor of logging and charcoal burning.
But this was far from enough. Not to mention fighting demons, he couldn’t even complete the Full Focus Breathing.
Sun Breathing was the strongest breathing technique, but at the same time, it was also the most domineering and most difficult breathing technique to master.
It was precisely because they couldn’t learn Sun Breathing that the swordsmen of a hundred years ago developed other breathing techniques under the guidance of Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
In the original plot, even Tanjiro, who had completed the Water Breathing: Constant training, couldn’t use Sun Breathing to fight for a long time, and had to develop a method of mixing Water and Sun Breathing.
And the current Tanjiro couldn’t even do the Full Concentration of ordinary breathing techniques, let alone Sun Breathing.
And unfortunately, there was no shortcut to this kind of training. He could only endure the pain and carry it out.
In order to adapt to the pain, a person’s muscles, nerves, bones, and internal organs would naturally constantly strengthen. To put it bluntly, training was exchanging pain for power.
Fortunately, Tanjiro was a strong and resilient man. Although he staggered, he never gave up taking steps forward.
On the cart, Stella was combing Nezuko’s hair like she was dressing up a doll, and Nezuko obediently let Stella do as she pleased, looking blank.
Hanako Kamado, looking at her former gentle sister turning into a child, couldn’t help but show a sad expression.
Hanako Kamado, who had fully recovered before setting off, had woken up. After learning about what had happened to her family, the girl showed great strength.
Perhaps gentleness and strength were the excellent qualities flowing in the Kamado family’s bloodline, starting from Sumiyoshi Kamado.
Hanako Kamado remembered the way her mother had blocked in front of her, so more than sadness, the girl valued her current life and the only family members she had left.
Drake patted the little girl’s head and said, "Don’t worry, your brother will definitely turn her back! Isn’t he working hard for that?"
Nezuko also leaned over, reaching out her small hand to touch her younger sister’s head.
Looking at this warm scene before him, Drake turned his head and shouted, "Tanjiro, your breathing rhythm is messed up!"
"I know!"
Tanjiro answered and then quickly adjusted his breathing.
The so-called breathing technique was a special way of breathing that could inhale more oxygen to allow the body’s various organs to be exercised and strengthened.
And mobilizing the entire body and investing it in the breathing technique, maximizing the effect, was the so-called Full Concentration Breathing.
Even if it wasn’t Full Concentration, using the breathing technique also had a good training effect. But this way of breathing was completely different from a person’s instinctive normal breathing, so the burden on people was really not small.
Especially in this cold weather, the air was cold, but using the breathing technique required inhaling an extra amount of air.
The human respiratory system could indeed adjust the temperature of the inhaled air, but that also had its limits.
Tanjiro only felt that his lungs were about to be frostbitten, and had a feeling that they were about to explode at any time. That was why his breathing had unconsciously become disordered just now.
But after being reminded by Drake, he quickly adjusted it.
In this way, bearing this feeling of dying at any time, Tanjiro pulled the cart down the mountain.
Drake’s goal for him was that he could only stop when he saw a place where people lived, and there was a small village in front of him.
It was now the Taisho era. Although the Meiji Restoration had made several large cities in the island country unprecedentedly prosperous, places like this in the countryside were still backward.
This village was full of quite traditional wooden buildings, but the villagers weren’t so xenophobic.
Although Drake’s group looked quite strange, perhaps seeing the exhausted Tanjiro looking so pitiful, the villagers still took in the group.
Training of course had to be moderate, otherwise not only would they not become stronger, but their bodies would collapse. This was also the reason why normal training wasn’t very efficient.
But with Drake around, how could this be a problem?
After a bottle of vitality potion that Drake had concocted himself was poured down, Tanjiro was surprised to find that the fatigue and soreness on his body had disappeared.
Then the rest time he had been thinking about was gone, and what followed was Drake’s combat training.
"The movements of the Hinokami Kagura are the sword forms of Sun Breathing. What you need to do now is to apply them in battle."
"Your movements are messed up again. Didn’t I tell you to maintain your balance in battle!"
"Don’t forget to coordinate with your breathing. The body of an ordinary human can’t compare with a demon. Only when you use the breathing technique can you fight with a demon!"
As Drake spoke, the wooden sword in his hand slammed into Tanjiro, sending him flying out.
Tanjiro smiled wryly as he got up. Although this was training, he really felt like he could be killed by Drake at any time.
But even so, after hearing Drake’s guidance, he still answered energetically, "I understand, please continue!"
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