Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Chapter 157 Genmi: Why? Brother, why is this happening?!

Xuanmi was deeply disturbed by Li Lei's words and was at a loss for what to do. He couldn't bring himself to hurt others so that his younger siblings could be revived.

"Sir, please, save my younger brothers and sisters! I know you must have other ways."

Xuanmi pressed his forehead to the ground as he made a humble request to Li Lei. At this point, he had no better options and could only shamelessly beg Li Lei.

Li Lei withdrew his gaze from the moon and turned to look down at Shinazugawa Genya kneeling before him.

"I do have a solution, but it might take a while. Besides, what benefit would I get from doing that? Why would I help you?"

"My lord, I am willing to wait no matter how long it takes. As long as they can live ordinary lives again, I am willing to give everything, whether it be my life or my soul. I can give it all to you, my lord."

"Although everything I have is of little use to you, it is all I can give you, please accept my offer."

Xuanmi kowtowed loudly to Li Lei to show his determination. Due to the excessive force, the wound on his face reopened, and blood gushed out, making his face even redder.

"Alright, alright, I promise you."

Seeing Xuanmi kowtowing relentlessly until his head was bleeding, Li Lei hurriedly agreed that if Xuanmi kowtowed a few more times, there would probably be another person turned into a ghost.

"Thank you, sir. As you just said, my life now belongs to you."

"Alright, alright, I know, stop kowtowing. If you hurt your head, I'll have to find a way to heal it. I don't have the time or energy for that." Li Lei quickly stopped Xuan Mi, who was addicted to kowtowing. Such a good child, but because of a family tragedy, he's almost gone crazy.

Afterwards, Li Lei sent Xuan Mi's five younger siblings, who had already become ghosts, into his alternate dimension for preservation. Since they had already been turned into ghosts by him, starving them for more than ten years would not be a problem at all.

As he watched his younger siblings being slowly carried into an unknown place, Xuanmi felt a mix of emotions. He had heard from the adults that this was his own unique alternate dimension, where he could store living things and all sorts of things, and that it would be very safe to put his younger siblings inside.

But is it really okay to just put them inside like this? Just now, he seemed to see something moving in the space the adults were talking about.

"Alright, let's go rescue the brother you mentioned who lured the monster away. Didn't you just say he was in danger and needed someone to rescue him?"

"I'm sorry to trouble you again, sir. After I rescue my brother Sanemi, I..."

"Alright, you don't need to say anything more. It's just saving someone. Even if it's your brother, it's just a small favor for me."

Li Lei didn't want to waste any more time, so he grabbed Xuan Mi's shoulder and immediately began using Blood Demon Technique to teleport, quickly arriving at a street.

It was late at night, and the streets were almost deserted, save for the silence, the cold air, and the silhouettes of a man and a woman in the middle of the road.

The young man sat on the ground, embracing a taller adult woman, lost in thought, as if he had lost his soul. His eyes were filled with sorrow as he looked at the woman in his arms.

Upon seeing the two, Genya immediately recognized the boy with his back to him as his older brother, Shinazugawa Sanemi.

"Thank goodness, my brother is alright."

Genya could not contain his joy and leaned forward as he ran quickly toward Shinazugawa Sanemi.

"Brother, brother, are you alright?"

Genya ran quickly to Sanemi's side and called out to him excitedly, but the scene before him instantly stunned him. His mother, covered in blood, lay helplessly in his brother's arms, in disbelief.

"Xuan...Xuan Mi?"

Hearing his younger brother Genya Shinazugawa calling his name, Sanemi Shinazugawa slowly raised his head to look at his brother.

"Brother, what's wrong with Mom? Tell me quickly!" Xuanmi said excitedly.

“Genya, the monster that broke into your house and attacked you and Kotobuki was…it was Mom. Mom somehow turned into a monster,” Sanemi replied in a hoarse voice.

"Brother, you're lying to me, aren't you! Tell me this isn't true! You're just teasing me like you always do, right?"

Xuanmi shook his head as he spoke, his body constantly retreating.

Seeing Genya's current state, Sanemi felt immense pain in her heart and couldn't help but call out, "Genya—"

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it!!"

"You're lying to me! You must be lying to me!"

Genya roared at his older brother, Shinazugawa Sanemi, his already dry eyes welling up with tears again. Having just recovered from the near-death experience of his younger siblings, he couldn't accept that the culprit was his usually gentle and kind mother.

Not far away, Li Lei lay on the ground, his eyes glowing red as he stared intently at Shinazugawa Sanemi, drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"I'm so hungry. Sanemi Shinazugawa looks delicious and smells so good. I want to eat him right now."

"No, no, I can't, I can't eat him, he's a good person. I can't do this."

"But...but he smells so good."

Upon smelling the extremely rare blood of Shinazugawa Sanemi, which possessed a deadly allure to demons emanating from his wounds, Li Lei's body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground, caught in an internal struggle between desire and reason.