chsdbacks Chapter 30 Lady Rose
Chapter 30 Lady Rose
"Eye-and-ear ghost".
"Is that what you call it?!"
In a rather secluded tavern, Lin Bei looked with great interest at the ghost-exorcising token in his hand.
The image above is drawn with just a few strokes, depicting a slender demon with arms covered in eyes and ears.
A beautiful woman in her thirties, dressed in a kimono and with a beauty mark between her eyebrows, squinted her eyes, holding an agate pipe in one hand and resting the other on her chin, like a lazy Persian cat lying on the counter.
"Yes, the hunters have been chasing it for a long time."
"It's either a one-way trip or we'll never catch it."
"Many powerful veteran hunters have fallen to it; it's incredibly troublesome."
"Are you sure you want to accept this exorcism order and deal with it?"
"It would be such a shame if a handsome man like you died like this."
"Why don't you stay here and be my bodyguard, protecting me closely?"
"For the sake of that person, I will definitely not treat you unfairly."
After saying that, she parted her lips slightly and exhaled a puff of smoke carrying the scent of roses, which landed on Lin Bei's face.
Lin Bei remained calm in the face of Madam Rose's provocations.
Through the thin smoke, he looked at Madame Rose's seemingly watery eyes and alluring face, his tone playful.
"I don't need to be your bodyguard. I've never liked being a kept man."
"If you really care about me, then prepare enough food for me and warm my bed first."
"After all, winter has just ended, and the nights are cold."
"If I come back after killing a ghost, and there's no delicious food or a warm bed, wouldn't that be too pitiful?"
Upon hearing this, the Rose Lady was slightly taken aback; she hadn't expected that her attempt to flirt would backfire and she would be the one teased instead.
However, she wasn't annoyed.
Firstly, Lin Bei was introduced by some important person, so he was a distinguished guest to her.
Secondly, Lin Bei was already quite good-looking, and with his pale skin due to his "living dead" constitution, he had the air of a sickly nobleman, making people want to hold him in their arms and cherish him.
In Lin Bei's opinion, Madam Rose was an absolute stunner.
Snow-white skin, eyes that seem to drip water, alluring red lips, and a languid demeanor.
Every move she made exuded a natural allure, making every physiologically normal man want to possess her.
This can be seen from the jealous looks the other hunters gave Lady Rose.
However, this is the Rose House, although Lady Rose is always elusive and rarely seen.
For many people, let alone wanting to get close to her, even just meeting her is not an easy thing.
But if anyone causes trouble, they will eventually be killed.
Therefore, the hunters all believed that there was an extremely terrifying figure behind Lady Rose.
So when Lin Bei came to their door with the token given to him by Urokodaki Sakonji, he was not only personally received by Madam Rose, but also flirted with her. How could they not be jealous?
As for why Lin Bei didn't train with Tanjiro on the mountain but came here instead, we have to go back a few days.
Because of Lin Bei and Tanjiro's large appetites, they ate up all the food that Urokodaki Sakonji had stored in just a few days.
Urokodaki Sakonji realized that if things continued like this, he would go bankrupt.
So they gave Lin Bei a letter of recommendation and a token, and sent him to a folk ghost-hunting organization called Rose House to hunt ghosts.
On the one hand, it would eliminate one bottomless pit of food, and on the other hand, it would allow Lin Bei to comprehend breathing techniques while hunting ghosts.
Lin Bei finally learned that the reason why Urokodaki Sakonji was poor was not only because he was used to this lifestyle, but also because he often funded civilian ghost-hunting organizations.
Yes, Lin Bei also learned from Urokodaki Sakonji that there were other demon-slaying organizations besides the Demon Slayer Corps that were destroying the world.
However, it makes sense, since demons have existed in the Demon Slayer world for hundreds of years and their numbers are quite large.
How could it be that only the Demon Slayer Corps is fighting demons?
There are definitely other organizations, but none of them have the strength and scale of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Most civilian ghost-hunting organizations attract hunters to hunt down evil spirits by offering bounties.
Besides local officials, some nobles or ordinary people whose families had been harmed by ghosts were also among those who issued the missions.
The bounty for the Eye-Ear Ghost was jointly issued by the local government and the public.
The reward was quite generous; as long as he completed the task, he wouldn't have to worry about food for the foreseeable future.
On his way from Rose House to the place where the Eye-Ear Ghost often appeared, Lin Bei recalled the information about the Eye-Ear Ghost that Lady Rose had just told him.
In the past two years, more than 20 people have died at the hands of the Eye-Eared Ghost.
Moreover, this ghost is not only powerful, but also extremely alert.
Ordinary hunters in the Rose House are no match for it, but once a team is formed to hunt it, the Eye-Ear Ghost will lie in wait until the hunters leave before reappearing.
Therefore, the Rose House doesn't have much information about the Eye-Ear Ghost.
All that is known is that after killing someone, the perpetrator's favorite thing to do is eat their eyes and ears.
Furthermore, its strength increases by one point for every pair of eyes and ears it consumes.
That's how the many eyes and ears on the arms of the Eye-Eared Demon in the painting came about.
However, since they had not been able to hunt down the Eye-Ear Demon, this information about it was from a year ago.
Now, a year has passed, and it's unknown how much stronger the Eye-Ear Ghost has become.
While Lin Bei was pondering, he did not delay his journey.
About an hour later, he had walked out of the main road and onto a narrow path full of mud and gravel.
The path was narrow, but long and winding.
The path was lined with dilapidated wooden houses.
Most of the houses are single-story bungalows, with a few scattered two-story buildings irregularly embedded among them, making the area look rather messy.
I just don't know why, even though it's only just nighttime, the time when residents are lighting their lamps to eat.
But this vast town was pitch black.
Not only was there no light to be seen, but there wasn't even the sound of chickens crowing or dogs barking.
It was as if there was no living creature left inside.
"Is this where the Eye-and-Ear Ghost roams?"
Looking at the dark and quiet residential town before him, Lin Bei frowned slightly.
The current situation is different from the information he received from Lady Rose.
The intelligence indicated that this place, while not as densely populated or vibrant as a major city,
However, due to its proximity to the suburbs and convenient access to the city, it is a town with nearly one hundred households and five or six hundred residents.
It is at least as big as, if not smaller than, the town at the foot of Tanjiro's mountain.
According to intelligence reports, only twenty or thirty people died at the hands of the Eye-Ear Ghost.
Even during this year of lack of intelligence, the Eye-Ear Ghost continued to kill people.
But humans are not domestic pigs, and there are local government offices, so it's impossible for the Eye-Ear Ghost to kill everyone here in a year.
If the Eye-and-Ear Ghost is truly that powerful, it would not only attract strong intervention from higher-level government agencies,
Even the Demon Slayer Corps couldn't just sit idly by; they would have sent out Pillars long ago to eliminate the Eye-Ear Demon. They couldn't have allowed the Eye-Ear Demon to still be alive.
Therefore, after only a little thought, Lin Bei felt that there was definitely something wrong with this.
As for whether Lady Rose deliberately gave him the wrong information or if there was something else going on, Lin Bei didn't know.
However, before finding the answer to this question, Lin Bei had one more thing to do.
That is to get rid of the little bugs that kept following him.