Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Chapter 177 The Eve of Departure

He'd been careless; he'd completely forgotten they didn't even know who he was. Li Lei felt incredibly embarrassed for making such a small mistake without realizing it, thankfully no one else around had seen it.

"Have we met before? Why did you save me and Makomo?"

Qiantu was the first to raise the question in his mind to Li Lei.

Upon hearing Qian Tu's question, Li Lei tilted his head slightly and replied with a smile.

"Yes, I've met you. I even had dinner with you. You haven't forgotten, have you?"

Upon hearing the white-clad boy's answer, Sako frowned. According to the boy, they seemed to really know each other, but he had no memory of Li Lei at all.

Looking at the bewildered Sabito and Makomo, Li Lei sighed. He felt this was really troublesome; they still hadn't figured it out. It seemed he'd have to give them more hints.

Li Lei had no choice but to stretch out his hands and rub his face haphazardly, trying to make it look like the first time they met.

"You've seen this face before, haven't you? I'm the passerby who asked you for help in Sagiri Mountain. Now you should remember me, right?"

After his appearance changed, Li Lei pointed to his face and said.

"You? You're that powerful, freakish guy from that night!"

Li Lei: (ー_ー)!!?

Upon hearing Sabito's shocking statement, Li Lei was speechless for a moment, and suddenly found Sabito less pleasing to the eye.

What's wrong with me? You're the weird one! Your whole family is weird. I'm perfectly normal, okay?

Li Lei restored his transformed appearance to its original state, looking at Sakoto with displeasure.

Oh no! I spoke too fast and accidentally blurted out what was on my mind. What should I do?

Sabito was panicking. Looking at the white-haired youth who had easily sent the demon to its death with a single blow, who was staring at him with hostility, Sabito felt that his life was in danger.

After seeing that Li Lei's changed appearance was the lost person that Sagiri Mountain had fed, Makomo had a different opinion. She felt that the boy in front of her was quite kind and approachable, and had no intimidating aura at all.

The way they dealt with the demon was rather inhuman, which made Makomo quite conflicted, unsure whether to go up and greet them.

Just then, a faint white glow appeared on the eastern horizon, indicating that the sun was about to rise. Seeing this scene, Li Lei, who had originally intended to tease the two of them, realized that time seemed to be running out.

"Sigh! It seems there's not enough time; we need to finish this quickly."

Li Lei muttered to himself, casually opening his alternate dimension. A red vortex, shimmering faintly, began to expand at his feet, spreading under Li Lei's control into a continuously rotating red circle with a diameter of five meters.

"You two come with me, it's a one-way trip."

Li Lei extended a sincere invitation to Sabito and Makomo, and then awaited their reply.

Faced with Li Lei's invitation, Sakoto's expression was not good. From the moment Li Lei put the knife into his body and now summoned the strange red circle, it all indicated that the boy in front of him was not human.

Sabito was 90% certain that the white-haired boy in front of him was a demon, and one that was extremely powerful among demons.

"This is troublesome, there's no way to fight this ghost."

The thought of taking down a Hand Demon with a single blow, without even breaking a sweat, gave Sabito a headache. Was this place a training ground or a demon-breeding ground?

Powerful ghosts are popping up one after another; are we even allowed to live like this?

"That's not good. Master Urokodaki is waiting for us to go back. He'll be sad if he finds out we disappeared during the trial."

Just as Sabito was worrying about the current situation, Makomo replied quietly.

Seeing that Sabito and Makomo didn't want to leave with him, Li Lei knew he would have to take action to persuade them later.

With the sun about to rise and time running out, Li Lei didn't want to waste any more time trying to persuade them and decided to just take action and snatch them away.

Suddenly, Li Lei's figure blurred, and the swords in Sabito and Makomo's hands vanished without a trace. Before they could react, the Japanese swords were already in Li Lei's hands.

Sabito, Makomo: This!

Sabito and Makomo were dumbfounded. Just now, it was the Hand Demon who was shocked, and now it was their turn to be shocked.