Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon fly like a shuttle.

A few minutes later.

Under the "torture" or venting torture of the Butterfly Ninja, Yamada, who considers himself a descendant of a samurai, said everything he needed to say.

The sword given by the Emperor was owned by King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace. This person was a descendant of the Fushimi Miya family who had the right to inherit the throne and was of the same lineage as the imperial family.

Two years ago, Prince Hatohiko graduated from the Army Academy and will marry the daughter of Emperor Meiji next year.

Therefore, the emperor specially gave him a sword to enhance his reputation and status in the royal family.

As Butterfly Ninja said before, most of the privileges of the royal family in Japan are concentrated on the emperor.

Even though he was a prince, in an era without war, King Jiuyan did not have the opportunity to kill people with a sword.

So, under the introduction of his classmates, he asked a descendant of the executioner family, Yamada Asaemon, to test the sword for him and sharpen it with human blood to enhance his martial arts skills.

Moreover, King Jiuyan also had many demands, and said that the first person to be killed by the sword should preferably be a woman.

It can be seen that he has strong resentment towards this marriage that he dare not express openly.

Therefore, the trio of knife testers waited on this road for several days, waiting for Butterfly to bear a female. Many brave male workers escaped because of this.

That's all Yamada knew about this knife.

But with just a few words from him, Butterfly Ninja's favorable impression of this prince whom he had yet to meet fell down again and again.

Even Genichiro couldn't help but sigh, he didn't know what kind of beasts there were among the royal family now.

However, when it comes to the disposal of the body, Yamada's statement is no different from that of the follower, and he seems to know nothing about the existence of ghosts and only thinks that the police have moved the body away.

"You lied!" Butterfly Ninja said with a ferocious expression, using more force on his hands.

"I really... don't know! I've never seen such a thing before!"

Yamada's face was constantly in contact with the cold ground, almost all of his teeth were smashed by the butterfly ninja, and his speech and pronunciation were somewhat unclear.

His tears, snot and blood were mixed together and condensed together in the cold wind, looking very miserable.

It was like being run over by a car in the face.

Seeing that the butterfly ninja was about to take action, Genichiro hurriedly stopped her: "If you hit her again, you will die."

Genichiro never expected that these words would actually come from his mouth, or that they would be addressed to the sister of the female Bodhisattva Butterfly Kanae.

Although this man deserved his death, he had a lot of information about Tokyo's powerful people in his mind.

Just talking about King Hatohiko, after all, the appearance of such a scum in the royal family is simply a slap in the face of Emperor Meiji.

There must be many senior officials in the cabinet who are willing to spend a lot of money to conceal this matter to prevent it from being exposed by foreign newspapers.

Coupled with the scandal that broke out about the naval hero before, it can be said that Genichiro has two big killer weapons in his hands, which are enough to make the senior officials from the two feudal clans of Changsa suffer a lot.

And this is the opportunity for Mr. Wei to enter the top management of this country.

Therefore, this Yamada is of great use to Genichiro. He cannot be allowed to die just like that. He needs to be completely drained of his remaining value.

"He even confessed to the prince. There is no reason to cover up for a ghost."

Genichiro said to the still angry Butterfly Ninja: "So he probably didn't lie about this part. Those corpses are most likely used as food by the ghosts living nearby."

"..."

Butterfly Ninja frowned, "If it only dares to pick up corpses and eat them, then this ghost shouldn't be very powerful. However, there are mountains and forests everywhere here. If you want to search the mountains, you have to go there as long as possible."

Genichiro shook his head: "There's no need to go through all the trouble of searching the mountain."

"What do you mean?" Butterfly Ninja asked.

"In the past month, they only tried a knife every few days, and the time was not fixed. But every time someone disappeared, when the police and workers came to find them the next day, the bodies were gone."

Genichiro pointed at his feet, "It can be seen that the ghost should be near this path every night to check the situation."

As he said that, he kicked the follower who was trembling violently because of the butterfly ninja's fright, "Let me ask you, when was the last time you killed someone?"

"Four, four days ago."

What the hell were these two talking about? They were cannibals. They obviously frightened him.

The guy replied intermittently: "He is a drunkard who is alone."

"Then how long was the longest interval between killing people on this trail?"

Genichiro continued to ask.

The guy thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it should be seven or seven or eight days... Anyway, it's just a lot more."

It seems like this guy doesn't remember very clearly.

Genichiro took the butterfly nin and walked a little further and said: "Since there was an interval of more than a week before, the ghost didn't give up coming here to look for food. So now it's only four days since he last ate, so it has no reason

We don’t come here to try our luck. So, we just need to use these guys as bait and wait for the rabbit. If the prediction is good, this ghost will definitely come here again tonight."

"Here," Butterfly Ninja's eyes suddenly widened, "Are you going to use humans as bait?"

Obviously, Genichiro's idea had a big impact on her.

Although the two guys on the ground couldn't hear what they were saying, they only felt a sense of creepiness.

"What else do you want to do with these guys?"

Genichiro looked around to make sure that the crow was not nearby, and then whispered like a seducing demon: "If we send them to the police, we have no evidence of their murder. Besides, think about the knife.

Maybe these three guys will be saved by the prince. After that, these guys will move to another place to test the knife or something, and it will be difficult to find them."

Although he most likely thought that these three guys would be killed and silenced before the prince called the police.

But this statement is enough to fool a child like Butterfly Ninja who has no sense of politics.

Hearing this, Butterfly Nin couldn't help but nodded.

These guys are no less dangerous than ghosts. If they are handed over to the police, what's the difference between letting the tiger go home?

"But if you notify the Demon Slayer Squad to take them away, you have rules like this, such as not killing humans and so on."

Genichiro continued: "Think about those dead workers. Even if these three guys don't know the whereabouts of the bodies, based on what they have done... Do you think these guys really deserve to survive?"

The Butterfly Ninja had a huge hatred for these guys, so he gritted his teeth and said, "It shouldn't be."

To be honest, she wished she could kill these people with her own hands and cut them into pieces.

But killing people and killing ghosts are two completely different things after all.

"That's it. Since you are a member of the Demon Slayer Corps, you can't kill..."

Genichiro glanced at the trio with sideways eyes, and his tone was a little sinister.

"But it seems a bit too easy for me to give each of them a knife. In this case, why not let the ghosts punish these guys so that they die a worthy death? Since they like to cut people into pieces and let the ghosts eat them one by one

Eating them seems to be a very suitable way for them to die."

After saying that, he stared into Butterfly Ninja's eyes, as if he wanted to force her to make a decision.

In fact, no matter what the butterfly ninja decides, he will first protect Yamada, the culprit.

He just wanted to see how different the attitudes of Butterfly Ninja and Butterfly Kanae were towards people and ghosts.

After hearing his words, Butterfly Ren could not help but shudder.

My sister had mentioned to her that Genichiro might have killed someone.

Although such a cruel way of dealing with things sounds relieving, people are just people.

It made her even more disgusted with ghosts to deal with these disgusting people. Butterfly Ninja thought that she couldn't accept that kind of scene.

The duty of the swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps is not to act chivalrously, but to protect humans from the mouths of ghosts. Preventing ghosts from harming people is the meaning of their existence and the bottom line.

However, she couldn't say anything about letting Genichiro deal with them, and she couldn't accept letting these guys live.

After a long while, Butterfly Ninja let out a sigh of relief and made a decision: "It's okay to use them as bait, but we can't let the ghost eat them. We have to get rid of the ghost before the ghost bites him."

Genichiro looked at her for a while, "Then what should we do with these three guys after this is over?"

Butterfly Nin pursed his lips and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Let them freeze to death in the snow to comfort the souls of those workers who died here."

Genichiro showed a stiff smile: "Then I'll do as you say."

I sighed silently in my heart.

[Essentially, this child is just like Immortal River and Hua Ji, he is a steadfast and good person. 】

But the Butterfly Ninja decided to give up on these three guys, so Yamada could accept it without anyone noticing.

Now that he had made a plan to wait and see, Genichiro immediately climbed onto the boulder, kicked down the guy who was nailed to the tree with a bow and arrow, and stacked the three people together.

Then, the two walked around for a while and found a short pit with huge rocks on three sides on the hillside beside the trail, and dragged the three knife testers into it.

In this kind of terrain, once the ghost enters, there is only one way to come out. As long as the two of them block the exit, it will have no way to escape.

In order to prevent the trio from making any noises and revealing their secrets later, the Butterfly Ninja didn't even bother to explain and knocked them all out very considerately.

Since he didn't know how long it would take for the ghost to appear, in order to prevent Yamada from freezing to death, Genichiro secretly stuffed a few grains of rice into the guy's mouth to ensure that he could survive the cold wind for several hours.

As for those two people, since they are of no use, they should die as soon as possible.
To be continued...