Rencarnation Room {Other Story line}

A fresh nostalgic memory slightly crossed his mind. A look of pitying emotion flashed in his eyes. "The creatures called demons remind me of the infected in the last human."

"Now they have turned into creatures that are inhuman, cruel and like to eat other humans. However, they were also humans before. I feel a little guilty for killing them." El said with pity and recalled his memories in the last human world.

Raising both hands and slapping his own cheeks. Then, El took a deep breath and exhaled it through his mouth. "I'm still not used to it. Let's be strong, El."

After regaining his composure, El crouched down on the ground and concentrated fully. Right now, El was focusing his senses of hearing and taste to search the forest for demons.

If she encountered a demon, she would use Kagura's Hinokami move to kill it. El is doing this to practice the basic Hinokami Kagura moves again, so that he can master them properly.

His sense of hearing and taste extended to her surroundings. Until finally, El found several demons fighting each other for prey.

A smile was etched on his handsome face. "Over there!"

Rising from a crouching position, El stood up and drew Nichirin from its scabbard. Taking as many breaths as possible, he held Nichirin with his right hand and positioned it high. "Hinokami Kagura." El said in a flat voice.

"Gen'nichi Kō." Making a slight twisting motion at high speed. In one blink of an eye, El's figure suddenly vanished and left behind the sound of space distortion.

This move was a modified version of the original, based on his understanding of one of Yoruichi's 108 moves that El had managed to comprehend.

With a few modifications, such as too much spinning, El made a stepping motion to move at the speed of a blink of an eye.

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"Ugh, my injuries are too severe. Having to deal with 4 demons, it's too much for me." said a woman with a weak voice and severe cuts on her shoulders and back.

The woman was leaning against a tree, enduring the pain she was suffering. The woman was light-skinned, with dark hair tied halfway to the right side, long bangs that were let down, a pretty face with large, round blue eyes.

The woman was wearing a purple yukata with a black suit underneath, she was also wearing a butterfly hairpin that was worn on the right side of her head as a hair tie. In her hand, the woman was also holding a katana.

"Get out of the way, bastard!"

"No, you get out of the way! She's my prey!"

"What are you saying? I hurt's first!"

"I'll kill you if you touch my prey!"

Right in front of her, the woman saw herself being fought over by four demons who wanted to eat her. The demons were also the ones who made her troublesome. They even injured her quite badly.

The demons looked very hungry and full of madness. They clawed at each other, fighting over a woman who was badly injured.

Then, the woman closed her eyelids in resignation and regret. "I'm sorry, big brother!"

'Argh, what the hell with you guys! First come, first served!" said one of the demons, ignoring the fight. The demon jumped at the injured woman.

"What? You bastard!"

"Damn it, I'll kill you!"

Realizing that one of their fellows had made the first move, with great irritation and hunger, they ignored the argument.

They began to attack the woman who was unconscious from her injuries. Preying on whoever was faster among them.

Slash!

Crot

The demon's head suddenly flew into the air. Instantly, the demons felt that they were threatened.

Suddenly, a vague shadowy figure appeared near them and slashed at the demon's head. "Nichiun no Ryū Kaburimai!" Constantly moving, Nichirin swung. Numerous slashes were released in succession in a fluid motion, vaguely forming a Japanese dragon made of fire.

Slash... Slash... Slash!

One by one, the heads of the demons that were there were cut off without offering any resistance, let alone fleeing for their lives.

Before long, the faint figure seemed to emerge from the void. His breathing was labored and his face looked very pale. The six tomoe in his left eye, which were like ripples in a pond, disappeared one by one.

That figure was El, who had just saved the life of a woman who was badly injured.

"Damn it!" El uttered swear words. "Using 2 moves at once in a row without a break is very taxing on my body. Especially my stamina!"

Because of the Hinokami Kagura's movements that he had not yet mastered, plus he had not yet mastered the total concentration breathing skill. Using more than 1 move without any rest time was very taxing on her physique.

El can use the Hinokami Kagura moves more than once, the maximum limit is two. However, he needs to rest for a while to be able to use it again.

All of this happens because El's total attribute value is 54 points. When added with the degree effects of equipment and abilities, the total equaled 70 points.

According to El's estimation, the amount of attribute value at the beginning of Tanjiro when he became the demon slayer Tanjiro was about 20 points. That was if Tanjiro didn't use total concentration breathing or constant breathing. If only Tanjiro used it, it would have a value of 40 attribute points, almost equaling a Hasira-level demon slayer.

For a moment, El watched the demons he killed disappear as if burned by sunlight. "It's a bit pointless, right now I don't have an injection device or a container to collect demon blood for my mission" El muttered.

Until finally, the bodies of the demons completely disintegrated into dust. Then, El turned his head towards the woman.

"The wound is quite severe." El looked at the scratch wounds that ran along the shoulder and back area with blood flowing.

Walking over to where the woman was, El took out a mid-level healing potion from the space storage ring.

Arriving right in front of the woman, El squatted down and removed the cover of the healing potion. Then, El forced the woman to drink the mid-level healing potion.

Cress....

The incision wounds on the woman's shirt and back sizzled slightly, until they emitted white smoke. Before long, the blood flowing out had stopped and the wound miraculously closed slowly.

Plak... Plak... Plak!

"Oi, wake up." said El who beat the woman's face to wake her up.

After healing the woman, El tried to wake her up, asking her a thing or two. "Wake up, I have something to ask you!" as El continued to hit the cheek of the woman's face.

Finding the pain becoming more intense as her face was slapped, the woman's eyelids twitched. "Ugh, that hurts! Is this the realm of the dead? Why does the torment make my face hurt. Why is my karma so strange?"

El stopped beating the woman's face and gave his a flat look. Then, El took a deep breath. Then, his right hand was positioned high. "Modified movement, Hinokami Kagura: Enbu!"

Plaaak!

El swung his right hand like when he was holding Nichirin. Strongly and violently, his palm made a red mark and felt extremely hot. Instantly, the woman opened her eyes.

Both hands were clutching the painful area of her right cheek, as if it had been burned with a hot iron.

''Argh! It hurts!" The woman immediately cried out in pain, clutching her cheek area.

"Finally came to my senses." El said that flatly. "Oh, yes." Then immediately covered the mouth of the young man who was shouting quite loudly. "Shut up, more demons will come!"

The woman nodded quickly. She agreed with El's opinion, considering that it was currently in a forest full of demons. If they shouted too loudly, they would surely attract the attention of many demons.

"Good, if you understand." Then El opened her palm that was covering the woman's mouth.

"Since you're awake and I've healed all your wounds, now I'd like to ask you a question. Total concentration breathing, what is the essence and how to do it properly. Give me an example." El demanded his certainty with a cold tone of voice.

"Huh?" The expression on the woman's face immediately felt confused. She did not understand the question that had just been asked by a handsome man right in front of her.

"Don't understand? I'm asking how to do total concentration breathing correctly. Give me an example? I still don't really understand." El asked again.

"Uh, okay." the woman replied and stood up. "But, this body of mine is injured- Eh? Has it healed? When?" Suddenly the expression on her face was filled with question marks again.

With her mind increasingly filled with question marks, the woman practiced total concentration breathing. There, El watched her carefully, every stream of breath that blew and inhale taken by the woman El studied seriously.

The woman inhaled as much air as possible and made her lungs expand slowly. Inside her body, the woman felt her blood flow speeding up as her heart continued to beat at a rapid pace.

As a result, the woman's inner body temperature increases. This causes her bones and muscles to get excited.