Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began When I Became Yoriichi's Sister

Chapter 716 is about to be killed

"Oh, although I don't know what's going on, please lead the way, Long Gui!"

Ichigo kicked a suit of armor away, then turned to Renji and the other two and shouted, "Everyone, follow Tatsuki!"

"This way!"

Long Gui let out a low shout, and the Snow Fang in his hand drew a sharp white line in the air, cutting a wax figure that pounced on him in half and sending it straight toward a wall on the left side of the corridor.

Ishida frowned slightly. Was this a way of fighting purely using spiritual power?

It's really rare.

Immediately afterwards, to everyone's astonishment, the cement wall rippled like a curtain of water, and Long Gui's figure disappeared into it.

"Damn it! They didn't even prepare a way for us!"

Ichigo made a comment, exchanged a glance with Renji, repelled the monsters that surrounded them, and then Ryuki disappeared into the wall.

Without any hindrance, after passing through the wall, the view suddenly opened up. The narrow and dark corridor disappeared instantly, replaced by a wide staircase leading to the upper level.

Ishida looked up at the stairs: "I see. Those guys were using illusions to deceive our eyes from the very beginning."

"Hey, Ryuki," Ichigo asked in surprise, "How did you know?"

They were clearly just going around in circles.

Long Guiqing closed his eyes and said, "The direction of the wind."

"The wind in the corridor blows from the outside in, while the wind here blows from the inside out."

Ichigo closed his eyes, mimicking her gesture: "Wind direction..."

Three seconds later, he opened his eyes and said blankly, "I can't feel anything."

He didn't find the wind direction or the spiritual pressure particularly strange; at most, he felt a slight sense of unease.

Ishida calmly pushed up his glasses: "If you could sense it, then something's fishy."

Ichigo's temple bulged with veins: "What do you mean?!"

Renji looked at the two of them speechlessly: "You two are really something else."

"Oh, so you're Inoue's friend."

At this moment, the spirit behind Ishida finally saw Tatsuki's appearance clearly.

Long Gui paused for a moment, then pointed at it and asked, "What is this rag doll?"

She had been wondering for a while why a doll could talk.

Hun was slightly angry, but refrained from acting out of respect for the beauty: "A rag doll? I'm the leader of this bunch of idiots."

"The leader?" Ryuki raised an eyebrow, looking at the lion puppet dancing on Ishida's back, his confusion deepening. "But an idiot leader can't be that powerful, can he?"

"Hey! Who are you calling an idiot?!"

Soul stood with his hands on his hips, fuming, and said, "Listen up, little girl. Don't let their decent looks fool you. The only one in this team with a strategic vision and the brains in charge of commanding the battle is me."

"Lord Soul!"

As Hun spoke, he tried to strike a cool pose, but because he was sewn onto the backpack, he could only thrash his legs like a salted fish.

"Look, doesn't that orange-haired guy look stupid? If I hadn't been watching his back, he would have been ambushed eight hundred times over!"

Ichigo's temples were bulging with veins that looked like they were about to burst into a crossroads. He turned around with a sinister look on his face and said, "Kon, I think you're asking for trouble."

"Alas!" Soul clutched his head in his hands. "Violence! This is blatant violence!"

Long Gui said expressionlessly, "Lord Hun immediately covered his head."

soul:"……"

Long Gui sighed: "Although I don't know what this thing is, judging from its tone... it really gets along well with you guys."

Hun praised, "Oh, you have a good eye."

"What I mean is, you're all idiots."

"What...!" Hun was greatly shocked, stiffening as if struck by lightning.

"Pfft." Renji couldn't help but turn his head away and shrug his shoulders.

Hun flew into a rage: "What are you laughing at? You're the same!"

"Alright, stop fooling around." Ishida's expression turned serious. "Now that we've found the path to the upper levels, the other side definitely won't give up easily. The illusions that follow will only become more troublesome."

"What's wrong with that?" Hun waved his hands. "Can't Long Gui see through the opponent's illusions?"

“No, I didn’t see through the illusion.” Long Gui shook his head. “I could only sense the inconsistency between illusion and reality, like the illogical airflow in the passage just now.”

"But I can't sense those changing monsters."

Ichigo interrupted everyone: "Why say so much? Let's go."

……

Meanwhile, inside the monitoring room.

"That's too much! This is cheating!" Lillian covered her head with her hands, squatted on the chair, her face flushed red, looking like a poor wretch who had been bragging to her friends and ended up getting beaten up.

"Why is that? My Infinite Corridor is perfectly designed. Anyone who steps into it will lose their sense of direction, but that guy always manages to find the right way."

The Tibetan man, holding a cup of red tea, said calmly, "Without a doubt, that young lady is human."

“Humans? Those aren’t human at all…” Just as Lillian was about to break down, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

She stiffly turned her neck behind her, and saw Yu Zi leaning against the wall, holding a cup of black tea she had received from the Tibetan. She looked elegant... well, if she could change her clothes, she would actually be quite elegant.

Noticing Lily's gaze, Yuko looked up in confusion: "Why are you looking at me?"

"No, it's nothing." Lillian breathed a sigh of relief.

That inhuman girl is this guy's disciple. If she had said anything bad just now, I feel like her life would have been in danger.

Although she didn't know Yuko's identity, or whether she was a Grim Reaper or something, she could tell from Urahara's attitude towards her.

This guy is definitely someone important.

If you anger someone, you'll lose your life.

Yuko wasn't sure if she understood Lillian's thoughts, but she just smiled slightly: "What's wrong, Miss Lillian? The game has only just begun. As the one who sets the questions, if you lose your composure, the test takers will look down on you."

"I, I didn't do anything wrong!" Lillian's voice instantly changed, like a duck being choked. "Watch how I do it..."

Her voice froze, and she forced a smile that looked more like a grimace, softening it considerably: "Don't worry, Miss Yuzi, I still have many... many trump cards I haven't used yet."

"Oh? Really? Then good luck." Yu Zi paused for a moment, then smiled.

What's going on? Why does she feel like this little girl is afraid of her?

Was her expression terrifying? No, it wasn't.

Although being a teacher for a long time inevitably leads to a stern face, she still looks beautiful even with a stern expression, right?

Lillian swallowed hard, turned to face the control panel, and a desperate rage burned in her eyes.

"Damn it! How dare you embarrass me in front of Miss Yuuko... Tatsuki Arisawa, is that you? Ichigo Kurosaki, is that you? Prepare yourself!"

"Since you can sense the direction of the wind, then I will turn the wind into an illusion as well."

……

The second floor of the museum features a long corridor leading to the exhibition halls.

The floor, which was originally covered with a red carpet, suddenly became scorching hot, the temperature in the air rose sharply, and the surrounding scenery began to distort.

"Hey, what's going on now?" Renji wiped the sweat that had suddenly appeared on his forehead. "It's so hot! Is this another hallucination?"

Ichigo frowned, looking ahead. The once flat corridor had now turned into a cliff flowing with dark red lava, and a wave of heat rushed towards him, with even the pungent smell of sulfur in the air.

"This is too realistic!" Ichigo subconsciously took a step back, the burning sensation on his skin was still clearly visible. "This must be an illusion, right?"

You can't have a volcano in a museum, can you?

"Hey, Ishida, what do you think?"

“I’ll stand and watch,” Ishida joked, pushing up his glasses, the lenses fogged up slightly by the heat. “I think I can just step on it and see.”

Soul yelled from Ishida's back, "It's burning hot! My fur is going to be singed! This is absolutely true! We're going to be burned to ashes!"

"I'm not going over there!"

"Why don't we give it a try and see?" Renji boldly made the attempt.

That's what he said, but deep down he was actually quite panicked.

Renji swallowed hard and slowly stretched out one foot to step into the lava.

Nourishing~

A plume of white smoke rose, and everyone seemed to smell the aroma of pig's feet.

"It's so hot!"

Renji pulled his foot back as if he had been electrocuted, and saw that the sole of the wooden clog was indeed charred.

"Hey! This is real!" Renji's eyes widened as he pointed at the rolling lava. "This isn't an illusion! The soles of my shoes are scorched!"

Just as the group hesitated in front of them, a white figure walked straight past.

"Tatsuki?!" Ichigo exclaimed in shock. "Danger! Don't go any closer!"

"Don't worry, I'll give it a try." Long Gui stood on the edge of the churning lava, her eyes slightly closed, feeling the flow of the air around her.

The heat was rising, and the breath surged upwards.

it's wired.

Long Gui opened his eyes, his aura completely flawless.

Ichigo asked, "How is it?"

Long Gui frowned. She could feel that the heat was real and not a visual illusion.

However, the enemy's previous actions have shown that she can only affect their vision to a certain extent, and cannot directly distort their perception.

Otherwise, even if they found the true path, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

However, if we completely ignore the lava, it might cause harm to the enemy if they were to fall into its trap.

Something's definitely wrong...

Long Gui stood before the rolling, flowing lava, the intense red light reflecting off her sweat-covered face.

The heatwave was real, and the stinging sensation of skin almost being baked dry was real too. Renji's charred shoe soles were irrefutable evidence.

"Hey, Ryuki! Come back quickly!" Ichigo shouted anxiously. "Since it's real lava, let's think of another way! Like... like breaking through the ceiling and going up there?"

Uryū Ishida calmly poured cold water on the situation: "Don't be silly, Kurosaki. The space here has been distorted by that guy named Ziba. Breaking through the ceiling might cause you to fall into an even more troublesome space."

"Then what do you think we should do?!"

"call……"

Long Gui ignored the arguing behind her. She forced herself to ignore the scene in front of her and slowly closed her eyes.

Sight can be deceived, touch can be misled, and even pain can be misjudged by the brain.

However, the opponent's abilities are not yet powerful enough to completely control their perception, and they will surely be able to find the flaws.

Long Gui adjusted his breathing, and in the dark world of perception, he saw it.

The distribution of heat waves...

The heatwave is like square floor tiles, evenly distributed in two channels.

If I had to describe it, it's a bit like laying a heated floor.

"I see."

Long Gui opened his eyes and said to the people behind him, "The only problem is the floor under our feet."

Everyone: "W-what do you mean?"

"...like this."

Long Gui demonstrated directly with her body. She took two steps back, took a running start, and pushed off the air with both feet, feeling a solid sensation under her feet.

Without a doubt, that was a wall.

Long Gui leaped through the air, covering nearly ten meters in just a few steps, before finally landing not far in front of Kurosaki and the others.

She stood firmly in the very center of the lava, yet the lava flowing beneath her feet had no heat whatsoever.

This location marks the end of the airflow pattern.

Because of her enhanced jumping ability, she almost overshot her target.

This body is now stronger than she imagined.

"Huh?" Ichigo's mouth dropped open.

“That was just hot air.” Long Gui turned around, his forehead already wet with sweat. “There must be some kind of heating device on the floor, which, combined with visual illusions, made us think it was lava.”

Ichigo paused for a second, then broke into an excited smile: "Hey! You're really something, Ryuki!"

……

"Are you kidding me? This is allowed?"

In the monitoring room, Lily's eyes had lost their luster.

The monitoring clearly shows that the heating device was only laid out over a short distance in the passage.

Zhiba reminded them, "They're getting close to our position."

The Tibetan turned to look at Yuko: "What should we do now, Miss Yuko?"

Yu Zi paused, startled. "Huh? What was your original plan?"

"The original plan was to let them pass through once they saw through the illusion, and then return Inoue Orihime and Chad to them."

"Of course, I will impersonate one of them."

Yu Zi nodded slightly: "I see. Then let's proceed according to your original plan."

"I'm just more concerned about Long Gui's growth. Now that I've seen him, I'll take my leave first."

As soon as she finished speaking, she disappeared from the room.

The Tibetan man squinted slightly: "Zhiba, can you see clearly?"

"No, but that shouldn't be a spatial ability."

"Just speed?"

"Not ruled out."

Lillian climbed up from the table, a strange smile on her face: "She just said that it doesn't matter who else is involved, right?"

Zhiba paused for a moment: "No, she just said she cared more about that girl."

Lillian, brimming with energy, instantly revived: "Oh! Now, let me trap you in my deadly illusion!"

"This time, I absolutely won't let you see through me so easily!"

The Tibetan sipped his tea gracefully: "Has this child gone mad?"

Zhiba: "..."

……