Anime Crossover: My Cheat Code is Myself

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Since the Upper Moon demons, which have remained unchanged for over a hundred years, have now lost five of them to one person in succession, even with Nakime as a substitute, only two remain.

Although the images transmitted back showed neither the markings nor the red katana, they did not give him the same sense of crisis as Yoriichi Tsugikuni.

However, being a coward, Muzan still chose a defensive strategy.

He decided to live in the Infinite City for several decades, allowing only the ghosts he created to roam outside.

When that human named Xia Yan gets too old to wield the sword, he can be easily defeated.

It's not too late to form a new Upper Moon demon by then.

After experiencing the taste of old age, perhaps when I appear before him, he will beg me to turn him into a ghost!

This will be a victory for the demons!

I never expected that not long after I moved in, a ghost would contact me.

Unlike the Demon Slayer Corps, which is a highly organized group, even the Upper Rank Demons do not have the right to command other demons. All demons are ruled and commanded by Muzan alone.

Therefore, each demon can actually contact Muzan individually.

However, if you disturb Muzan without a legitimate reason, the consequence will be instant death.

Therefore, out of fear, other demons never fall into a woman's trap and take the initiative to contact Muzan.

Judging from my impression, this is just a piece of junk that I casually created not long ago for experimentation.

Because it was too weak, it didn't even have a name of its own.

If only we could find information about the blue spider lily...

This thought involuntarily flashed through Muzan's mind.

But then he chuckled self-deprecatingly, not because he looked down on the bunch of useless people under his command.

If something like this were found so easily, wouldn't it make me look incompetent for searching for thousands of years without any clues?

Well, I have nothing else to do anyway, and I'm getting tired of listening to Nakime play the biwa every day. I'll just see what he dares to do to bother me.

If it's not something important, just kill him.

Thinking of this, Muzan turned his gaze over.

"Oh, this must be our first meeting, Muzan Kibutsuji..."

The first thing that caught my eye was a guy with a very strange hairstyle, looking like a carp streamer being blown by the wind.

The very culprit who killed his nameless Upper Moon demon and forced him to retreat into the Infinity Castle, is the Storm Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps—Natsuhiko Narukami!

The sight of that annoying guy the moment he opened his eyes made Muzan feel incredibly unlucky.

Is it because you've been captured that you're trying to beg for mercy? What a coward, you don't even deserve to be a ghost! Disgraceful piece of trash.

Thinking of this, a cold killing intent flashed in Muzan's crimson vertical pupils. He was about to kill this reckless fool who had contacted him so abruptly when he hung up the communication. However, his gaze was completely drawn to what Xia Yan was holding.

It was a blue flower with a unique shape.

Strangely, only one branch supports the blooming flowers, and not a single leaf can be seen.

The perianth is funnel-shaped, fused at the base into a tube. The perianth tube is short, with scales at the throat. The lobes are narrowly oblanceolate, with wrinkled edges.

The style is slender and longer than the stamens, with a very small stigma. Both the filaments and style radiate outwards to the outside of the perianth.

That touch of blue was so beautiful that it defied description, drawing Muzan's gaze in like a magnet!

"What it is!?"

"So beautiful! Absolutely stunning!"

"I want it so badly! I want it so badly! I want it so badly!"

It was as if he had found the last piece of the puzzle in his life; every cell in his body was sending this message to Muzan!

Muzan's five brains worked at lightning speed, and he instantly found the answer!

"Could it be...? No, it's impossible. I've been searching for a thousand years, how could this be...?"

"That's right, a blue spider lily! And it's the last one~"

Seeing the eyes of the random little devil in front of him turn into scarlet vertical pupils and its voice change into a deep and magnetic male voice, Xia Yan chuckled and shook the flower in his hand.

Then a fire was set on fire and burned it to ashes.

"￥￥#@％ You bastard—!?"

Muzan's eyes widened in fury in an instant, and he instantly forgot all about the self-proclaimed composure of a perfect being, letting out a torrent of slang and profanity accumulated over thousands of years.

The powerful aura even ripped off the floorboards beneath their feet, turning them into fragments.

But then, as if he had remembered something, he suddenly calmed down.

"Hmph! How boring! It's just a fake flower. I've been searching for it for thousands of years, how could you possibly get it so easily? This crude trick is far from enough to provoke me..."

"Really? Heh, heh, heh."

Before Muzan could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Xia Yan's sarcastic laughter. "Is that how you comfort yourself? Well, I'll prove it to you then."

He then pushed open the wooden door behind him.

Outside was a seemingly ordinary courtyard, with a few weeds growing sparsely, but the location seemed to be quite good.

Sunlight streamed across the courtyard ground, casting no shadows.

Four beautiful women, each with their own unique features, stood obediently in the sunlight, as if they were in a talent show.

There were even two women holding babies.

No, it's not human!

They're all ghosts!

As the progenitor of demons, even though Muzan wasn't present in person, he could tell they were demons at a glance.

Moreover, the other party made no attempt to conceal themselves; each of them had ghostly markings on their faces, and two even had bright ghostly horns on their heads, as if they were afraid of not being recognized.

Not to mention there's Tamayo, that 3.5-year-old woman!

However, those two babies also had demon horns on their heads. Who knew that ghosts could give birth...?

No! None of that matters! What matters is that it really is a blue spider lily!

That bastard! How dare he give such precious things to those lowly scum!

A raging fire ignited in Muzan's heart.

"Oh, right! That was really the last one. I burned all the other blue spider lilies~"

Xia Yan stepped into the sunlight, surrounded by the reproachful gazes of the female ghosts, with a sly smile on his face.

"You bastard, you'll forever hide in that dark, shadowy corner. Goodbye!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the little devil who had been captured as a communicator was pushed into the sunlight and turned to ashes.

Chapter 430 The Calm Before the Storm

"How dare they do something like that..."

"—Naruto, Kami, Tsuki, Natsu, Hiko!!!"

Muzan called out Xia Yan's name slowly and deliberately, and the anger he exuded made Nakime, who was in the center of the Infinity Castle, shrink into a ball and dare not utter a sound.

But then, Muzan's laughter echoed through the Infinite Castle again.

"Hmph, hahaha, it doesn't matter! Although the blue spider lily is gone, it doesn't matter anymore! As long as I get those six ghosts who have overcome the sunlight, no! As long as I have just one of them, that will be enough for me to overcome the sunlight!"

"Natsuhiko Narukami, well done! Hahahaha!"

"Nakome!" Muzan, having finished laughing, looked at the new Upper Moon Two with great delight.

"Lord Muzan," Nakime said obediently, lowering her head.

When facing Muzan, she dared not complain or grumble in her heart as she did when facing the other Upper Moons.

"Drag all the demons into the Infinity Castle! And use all your abilities to search for those six demons who overcame sunlight—no, find the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters as well."

"This time, I will wipe out all enemies in one fell swoop and become the supreme, perfect being!"

……

"Is this all there is to it?" Kanae tilted her head in confusion as she held her youngest son.

She couldn't understand what the connection was between letting Muzan see them standing in the sunlight and giving the other Pillars some free time for special training.

However, although the reason is unknown, Xia Yan must have had his own reasons for doing so.

"Okay, that's fine." Looking at Kanae tilting her head and acting cute, Natsuhiko ruffled her hair.

"Muzan has two goals. One is to find a way to overcome sunlight, either by finding the Blue Spider Lily or by creating a demon that can overcome sunlight."

"Secondly, it is to eliminate the Ubuyashiki clan, who have been his adversaries for thousands of years, also known as the Demon Slayer Corps."

"Now that you are here with me, it is as if Muzan can overcome sunlight by eliminating the Demon Slayer Corps. In other words, his two long-cherished wishes have been combined into one."

"He will absolutely not let this opportunity slip by!"

"I understand!"

"In that case, Muzan will no longer hide, but will choose to come out and fight us to the death!"

Kanae's eyes lit up, but then a new problem arose.

"But what does doing this have to do with buying time? Won't doing this just send him into battle?"

"..."

Xia Yan remained silent for a moment.

He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt that neither Kanae nor Tamayo seemed as clever as before after giving birth.

However, Kuizhi, who gave birth after the New Year, did not seem to have this problem.

After two months of quiet recuperation, she seems to be no different from before, and even seems to have become more shrewd and capable.

She manages everything at home and outside the house perfectly.

Perhaps this is what they mean by everyone's constitution being different.