"She's … my little sister."
Tanji Jiro hesitated for a moment, but he still told Ryuga the girl's identity. "I told you during the final selection, right? My family was killed by ghosts, and only my little sister survived."
Tanji Jiro couldn't help but look a little disappointed when he said this.
"Oh!"
As if sensing his mood, the young girl beside him tilted her head, as if wondering why he was so disappointed. Then, she softly hummed, trying her best to comfort him.
Tanji Jiro came back to his senses and smiled warmly at the girl. His face regained its optimism.
"However, I didn't tell you at that time that my little sister, Mi Dou, also became a ghost because she was infected with the ghost's blood when my family was killed by ghosts. The reason I wanted to join the Ghost Killers was to find a way to turn Mi Dou back into a human through the Ghost Killers."
Because Ryuga's background was almost exactly the same as Tanji Jiro's, his entire family was killed by evil ghosts, Tanji Jiro felt a sense of resonance with him.
People who had the same tragic experience were always easy to get close to each other.
In addition to the friendship they formed during the final selection, the relationship between the two was actually quite good. Therefore, he didn't mind telling Ryuga about this.
"My little sister turned into a ghost … this kind of thing again."
Ryuga looked at the brother and sister in front of him. He didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing twice in such a short time.
In the village controlled by one of the Last Quarter Ghosts, Ryuga also met the Murakami brothers. The elder brother was still human, but the younger brother had turned into an alien ghost.
However, compared to the Murakami brothers, the Zaomen siblings in front of him were obviously different.
Murakami himself was extremely afraid of his younger brother who had turned into a ghost, but he used brotherly love to hypnotize himself, making it seem like the brothers had a deep relationship, but in fact, it was just a beautiful canvas covering the cruel reality.
But the brother and sister of the Oomen family gave a completely different feeling from the Murakami brothers at first glance. The atmosphere of mutual trust, comfort, and care could not be faked.
Looking at the brother and sister in front of her, Ryuga's interest, which had disappeared because she saw through Brother Murakami's true thoughts, resurfaced in her heart.
"Aren't you afraid that the swordsmen of the Ghost Killer Team will run into you? Are you planning to eliminate all evil?"
Ryuga stared straight at Tanji Jiro, and a rare look of interest appeared in her amber eyes. "For the Ghost Killers, ghosts are not divided into good and evil. They always kill them."
This was something that could not be helped.
After becoming a ghost, the memories of the original human period would gradually disappear from the mind. They would forget their previous identity, forget their former family, and forget everything about the human period.
After becoming ghosts, the only desire they had was to eat humans.
After a human turned into a ghost, the newly born ghosts would often have an unbearable sense of hunger and an unbearable desire to eat humans, probably because of the excessive energy consumption.
At this time, any human in their eyes was no different from their food. They would pounce on the other party and eat them all alive like wild beasts that had been starving for days.
In the records of the Ghost Killers, there were even many examples of cannibal ghosts who directly attacked their family and ate them all after turning into ghosts, not to mention neighbors or irrelevant passers-by. Because when they turned into ghosts, the people who were still around them were often their family members.
Therefore, many tragedies such as eating their family members alive would brew. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters … all the people who were close to them in the past would become food in their mouths.
Moreover, they would unconsciously escape and continue to prey on other humans, causing more tragedies and harming the human world.
Therefore, when the Ghost Killers faced ghosts, they were not allowed to show any mercy. Any evil ghost that ate humans must be killed mercilessly.
Even if it was a ghost that had never eaten humans before, it was probably no exception.
Because no one could guarantee that a ghost that didn't eat humans before wouldn't eat humans for the rest of its life. Even if the ghost only ate one person and caused the collapse of a family, it would all be the Ghost Killers' sin.
In order to prevent possible tragedies in the future, the Ghost Killers couldn't let go of any ghost.
There was nothing wrong with using the word 'abhorrent' to describe the Ghost Killers.
Tanji Jiro's sister, Mi Douzi of the Stove Sect, was the same.
As long as she was found to be a ghost, regardless of whether she had eaten humans before, she would most likely face the fate of being killed.
This was also the reason why Tanji Jiro hesitated when answering Ryuga's question. He was also worried that Ryuga was the kind of person who would show no mercy to ghosts and directly attack Mi Douzi.
It couldn't be helped. Ryuga's identity was that his entire family had been killed by ghosts. Under such a background, it was understandable that he would have the idea of 'killing all evil ghosts'.
Moreover, just like Shan Yi had extraordinary hearing and could hear the emotions in other people's words, Tanji Jiro also had extraordinary sense of smell. He could also smell other people's emotions and even smell the weaknesses in other people's moves. It was a very powerful and convenient ability.
Shan Yi couldn't hear the emotions in Ryuga's words, and Tanji Jiro couldn't smell Ryuga's emotions. Neither of them could distinguish whether Ryuga was good or evil, good or bad.
The reason why he established a friendship with him was because he wanted to believe in him. In other words, he was simply a good person.
"Of course I'm afraid, but even if that time comes, I will definitely protect Mi Douzi!"
Tanji Jiro's voice had a firmness that made Ryuga look sideways. His eyes surged with an unshakable will.
"… Do you have the resolve to protect your sister even if you have to sacrifice your own life?"
Ryuga looked up and down at Tanji Jiro. Her eyes were locked on him, trying to find a trace of fear on his face.
However, Ryuga was disappointed.
"Of course … But I also hope that that kind of situation won't come, haha!"
Tanji Jiro scratched his cheek, and a somewhat embarrassed expression appeared on his face.
The siblings of the Stove Sect were indeed different from the Murakami brothers.
"Interesting."
As if she saw something she wanted to see, Ryuga's mouth showed a very faint smile. "In that case, don't easily expose your sister to the Ghost Killers. Otherwise, it will lead to the situation you don't want to see in advance."
In Ryuga's eyes, Tanji Jiro's action of easily exposing his sister in front of her was still too naive. If he hadn't completed his spirit base upgrade mission I, he probably wouldn't have minded using his sister as a substitute.
If he wanted to protect his sister, this mentality was completely not enough.
After Ryuga finished speaking, she ignored the two and turned around to walk to the nearest ramen shop.
"… Ryuga Jann?"
"Let's eat dinner first. If you don't mind, you can come, it's my treat."
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