Demon Slayer: Upper 0 seems to be a waste

Chapter 137: Hide and seek, the kind where you bet on the winners

"Come to think of it, you're lighter than before, little one."

This was a name he hadn't heard for a long time. Lin Guang didn't even react at first that it was someone calling him. The claws gripping his shoulders increased slightly, forcing him to look up. Only when their eyes met did he realize it belatedly.

"Growing up isn't just about getting taller or stronger. I have my own style."

Lin Guang blinked at him, his tone gentle and calm as always.

"So the little guy turned into an even smaller little guy?"

"You can if you want."

As he said this, Lin Guang's body naturally shrank. The claw obviously didn't expect that the prey in his hand would suddenly change like this. For a moment, it almost missed. Fortunately, Kong Xi reacted quickly enough, slid down and accurately grabbed the boy's shoulder again.

"Oh! Not a bad skill! Just like the old man, he was originally a little fellow. If he were to hide now, no one would probably find him."

Kong Xi flew very fast, and Lingguang was confident that he could run faster than him, but he was not confident that he could find this "new home" without any guidance, even though in Kong Xi's eyes, all of this was as easy to remember as his own backyard.

"Be careful with your head—"

Lin Guang subconsciously looked up, but the next second he saw the sharp claws that he shouldn't have seen, and then he felt the feeling of weightlessness of falling.

Well, it turns out that this sentence was not meant for him.

Falling from a great height is a feeling that is hard to get used to no matter how many times you do it, especially when the person who threw him out obviously increased the force, and he fell faster due to inertia. If he landed like this, he would definitely become a firework lying flat on the ground.

"Long time no see——Little Bean——"

This was also a name he hadn't heard for a long time, but with experience, Lin Guang remembered whose voice it was this time.

"It's been a while indeed, so are you going to consider catching me or are you going to consider moving away a little to avoid getting splashed all over?"

Lin Guang turned in the air, and in the center of his vision gradually enlarged the image of Cola holding a fan in one hand, with the other hand pretending to block his eyes, and looking up lazily with his head held high.

Before he could get an answer to his question, he had already landed at a low enough altitude. Cola stretched out his hand and easily caught such a falling shell with one hand. The good news was that this time Lingguang's bones were not broken so easily.

"Is this true? Has he really turned into a little kid? So small?"

Cola grabbed his collar, lifted him up, and held him in front of him. The way he looked him up and down was not much different from when he rudely picked up a stray cat on the side of the road and tried to determine whether it was injured.

While being carried, Lin Guang slowly returned to his original form.

"On the way, I mentioned to Kong Xi that I could become a little smaller, so I demonstrated it briefly, but I didn't actually become smaller..."

Cola watched as Lin Guang grew bigger in front of his eyes, with a slightly surprised expression on his face. He picked up Lin Guang and looked at him left and right, and even turned his wrist and Lin Guang spun in a circle in his hand. The sight from behind made Lin Guang feel like he was now more like a caught fish, and he could only wait and prepare to accept his unknown fate.

"Please don't look at me so rudely. Wouldn't a dog become very small even in a half-day?"

Lin Guang didn't understand why Coke was so novel. They clearly had a living reference next to them, so why did they shrink one or two when they saw him as if they were seeing him for the first time?

"It's true that the old man can shrink, but it's a bit strange for a little kid to do this. It makes sense, after all, you're so small, you don't have any special abilities, you can't fight, you can only hide... but it's really rare. After all, you have words in your eyes, and yet you only learned this?"

Cola's original intention might not be to mock, but under his cheerful tone, all his emotions became sarcastic. Lin Guang could rely on his understanding of Cola and his guesswork on his expression and words to analyze the true situation, but he still frowned slightly when he heard such remarks.

"Although there are words in his eyes and he looks a little different, he's still a little guy. Look, Kele, he's deliberately sulking with a stern face again, hahahaha——"

The hearty laughter was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"That's not all I've learned...Want to play hide-and-seek?"

Lin Guang raised his head, tilted his face upwards, and gave the two men in front of him his usual gentle smile.

"Ah, it's still hide-and-seek after all. He's just a little kid after all. It's unrealistic to expect him to learn how to fight."

"Want to play in this open space? Don't cry if you lose—"

Just as Lin Guang expected, the men's reactions were all accepting and full of confidence.

The only one who was wary of this game whose outcome seemed to be predetermined from the beginning was Ji Nu, who stood aside with his arms folded, his brows furrowed, and the corners of his mouth turned down. Besides being dissatisfied, he also felt inexplicably uneasy.

Lin Guang undoubtedly knew Cola and Kong Xi very well. Even though they hadn't seen each other for a long time, Kong Xi and Cola still looked stupid after hundreds of years, but Lin Guang, after so many years, he looked different.

Compared with the initial memory, it is not just as simple as having more words in the eyes, there is also a fundamental difference in momentum and presence. In Ji Nu's memory, Rin Guang is an inconspicuous child, but objectively being inconspicuous and not noticed is different from deliberately paying attention but still finding it difficult to be on guard.

This not-so-conspicuous difference was obviously not enough to arouse the vigilance of the two idiots, but even if it was a powerful enough existence, Coke and Kongxi would not really be on guard, because they were both purely brainless.

Ji Nu firmly believed this.

So this is actually another level of hide-and-seek with a doomed outcome.

The game didn't take too long from start to finish. The rules of hide-and-seek weren't limited to seeing, but more importantly, touching. The ghost won only when it caught the 'person'.

There was nowhere to hide on the flat ground, and the encirclement of Dikong was undoubtedly a crushing blow to the boy, at least that was what Kele and Kongxi obviously thought.

After the announcement of the start, they began to hunt, and the boy just stood there until they got closer, the people on the ground stretched out their hands, and the birds in the sky stretched out their claws, then he suddenly smiled, and then he saw that the two guys had both missed their chance, and the other side was slowly retreating in front of them, but the two of them bumped into each other, noisy and noisy as if they had lost their direction.

The boy instantly transformed from prey to be caught to the beast in pursuit.

He jumped lightly, kicked with seemingly no power at all, twisted his waist and spun around, kicking Coke's head sideways.

Then he jumped high and clasped the heavy hammer in both hands, using the force of the fall and the rotation of the body to smash the head to the ground.

The winner was decided, but the game was not over. This one-sided beating continued for dozens of minutes until Kong Xidu fell to the ground, shouting that it was unfair, and Lingguang put down his raised leg again.

The boy's only response to the two men's complaints was to raise his hands, pull down his eyelids, and stick out his tongue at them.

"slightly--"

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【tips：

It's a bit of a mystery, but to put it bluntly, Rinko was really weak before, which is why her passive self-preservation mechanism, her inconspicuousness, and her non-existence in Kokushibo's perspective, are all due to her objective weakness. At that stage, the three of them could only play solo, after all, they had bugs and didn't even need eyes. For example, you can refer to Kokushibo and Muichiro, or Nightmare and Inosuke for a better comparison.

His current state is that he has mastered his own blood vampire arts, is clearly aware of his own abilities, and can subjectively control his sense of existence. The already thin sense of existence can almost disappear under the subjective influence.

To compare it with the same example, the three little ones are currently unable to brush the level, because they can not find it. Even if you finally find the trace, you can not catch it.

Rinko's current strength is second only to Kokushibo's speed (I really can't imagine how she could dodge that sword skill. Rinko could actually dodge it if she tried her best, it's like a burst of adrenaline, but Rinko herself doesn't have a strong desire to survive, so she has never particularly explored her potential).

In terms of strength, it is second only to Akaza. It can receive Akaza's skills, but it will be broken, physically broken, the kind that breaks all bones.