Demon Progenitor Development Project

Chapter 117 Taking the Demon Slayer Corps' Path, Leaving the Demon Slayer Corps with No Way Out

"He does have some guts."

Shugo looked at the information about the Shinazugawa family in his hand and muttered something to himself.

Since they're targeting the Demon Slayer Corps, how could they not target the Nine Pillars and the main characters' group?

The wind column is gone.

Hashibira Inosuke is still drinking milk, but he is expected to contribute to the Eternal Paradise Cult in the future.

Seeing Shinazugawa Sanemi press his handprint onto his hand, Shugo put the employment contract aside.

The contract essentially states that Evergreen Company will pay money to buy out Sanemi Shinazugawa's future.

It's just a small amount of money anyway.

It's not bad to deal with such a threat.

Most of the pillars have been found.

Changqing Hospital collects blood not only for medical purposes but also to supply ghosts with drinking water.

After Changqing Chamber of Commerce became Changqing Co., Ltd. during the Taisho era, its business grew bigger and bigger, covering almost every aspect. In order to expand its intelligence network, Changqing had businesses all over the country.

That's how the Nine Pillars were exposed.

Hiiragi picked up another piece of information.

Yoshiyuki Tomioka, the only son of the Tomioka family, has an older sister, Tsutako Tomioka.

What's even more interesting is that Yoshiyuki Tomioka's parents were employees of Evergreen Company, probably in middle management positions. They died in the line of duty and were therefore protected by Evergreen Company, living a relatively comfortable life thanks to their inheritance.

Otherwise, with their parents dying young and leaving behind a young brother and sister, their inheritance would have been stolen long ago.

As the visible power and protector of Oni, Changqing Company is naturally well-managed by Shugo, who has set excellent welfare benefits and ensured the company is very united.

At least on the surface.

A few words from the company's top management are all it takes for subordinates to eagerly go and offer condolences to the children of employees like Giyu Tomioka who sacrificed their lives for the company.

The water column was brought under surveillance.

The main characters are down to only one, Zenitsu Agatsuma, who is now just a newborn child and an abandoned baby. It's uncertain whether he can be found now.

There's also the Serpent Pillar—Obanai Iguro.

In the original story, the Iguro family maintained their luxurious lifestyle by killing and plundering with snake demons. In return, the Iguro family would offer their own babies to the snake demons, who had a penchant for eating infants.

This refers to using infants from the clan as sacrifices in exchange for wealth.

Now that the snake demon is gone, the Iguro clan is not a wealthy family, except that for more than three hundred years, the clan has only had daughters.

This time, a baby boy with heterochromia was born.

"The foolishness of human nature."

Looking at everything Obanai Iguro has experienced since birth, Shugo couldn't help but offer his assessment.

Even without the snake demon, the Iguro family is a family of scoundrels who have made a living through various illegal activities for generations.

In a family where all the girls work as con artists and kite smugglers, the only boy, Obanai Iguro, faces a lot of discrimination and exclusion because of his heterochromia.

In modern times, those heterochromatic eyes would likely be envied by children and teenagers with delusions of grandeur.

Teenagers with delusions of grandeur: So cool! You can have unique eye colors without wearing colored contacts!

Shugo put Obanai Iguro's report aside; there was no need to deal with it anymore.

Such a living environment would break even an adult, let alone a young child.

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Hachijojima, the Iguro family.

The thin boy walked slowly in the shadows when suddenly a pebble hit him in the face.

The boy looked up, his long black hair obscuring his heterochromatic eyes, and silently watched a group of laughing and joking children in front of him.

"The little monster of the Iguro family!"

"wrong!"

"The Iguro family has no boys, and the little monster isn't from the Iguro family!"

"It should be a bastard!"

The children laughed at what they heard from their parents.

The Iguro family has a bad reputation here, and has been despised and scorned for centuries.

Obanai Iguro lowered her head again, her back hunched even lower, and walked away quickly.

He did not argue back, nor did he erupt in anger to beat up the children who were mocking him.

If you beat them up and lose, that's fine. But if you win, the child's parents will definitely come after his mother.

The child he hit was held by his mother with a look of heartache on her face, while she reprimanded him without any politeness.

His mother, however, would not protect him; instead, she would slap him to teach him a lesson, while smiling obsequiously and refusing to pay any compensation.

They kept at it, wearing down the other party's patience, and succeeded without spending any money.

Even though she didn't pay, Ihei Mama was still unhappy about being criticized, so she took it out on Obanai, yelling angrily, "You're not eating today!"

Banerjee was sent back to his small room. On the way, his sisters looked at their only brother, whispered among themselves, and laughed.

Obanai Iguro, who had considerable experience with being bullied, quickly ran away.

As dusk faded and night deepened, smoke rose from every household's chimney, and the aroma of cooked food filled the air.

Obanai Iguro wandered alone through the streets; he didn't want to go home.

"Gulu~"

Obanai Iguro's stomach growled; he was hungry.

Even so, he simply touched his stomach, ignored it, and walked quietly through the streets and alleys with his head down.

When Xiaoban looked up by chance, a heartwarming scene of a family eating together caught his eye, which pierced his heart.

The family's window was open, and he saw it clearly.

"Pear Blossom, you can't be picky about food, eat all the natto!"

The mother frowned and criticized her daughter for putting natto into her father's bowl.

"No way! Natto doesn't taste good!" The daughter stuck out her tongue.

"Alright, Hanako, if you don't want to eat it, then don't," the father said after finishing the natto his daughter had 'given' to him in a few bites.

Little Banai stood stiffly for a moment, then left like a mouse spying on someone else's happiness.

Obanai's mind was filled with the image of that family she had just seen. After lingering outside for a long time, she finally returned home.

After all, she had nowhere else to go.

The lights in the house were still on in the house. Xiaoban's room was in a small storage room at the very back, and it was very narrow. You had to pass through her mother's and sister's rooms to get there.

With an empty stomach, Little Banai went to the kitchen first.

The kitchen was already deserted, with no extra food left for Xiaobanai.

Clearly, neither Mom nor her sister cared about this.

Xiaoban searched around but found nothing to eat, so she looked up at the tall cabinet.

The cabinet was large and locked, and was too high for Xiaoba to reach.

Little Banai remembers that the locked cabinet contained rice and grains, and only her mother had the key.

With a barely perceptible glimmer of hope, Xiaoban went to her mother's door.

Before knocking, Obanai hesitated for a long time, then stepped forward and listened carefully. She froze completely upon hearing what she heard.

Male voice: "Darling, you're so nice to me today~"

Female voice: "You rascal! Be gentle!"

As Xiaoban listened to the sounds inside the house, his heart grew colder and colder. The faint hope he had been clinging to gradually shattered, leaving him bleeding profusely.

Suddenly someone patted Obanai's hand.

Startled, Xiaoban's heart skipped a beat. He took a step back, looked up, and saw that it was his sister.

Little Banai's older sister looked at Little Banai with the smugness of a cat spotting a mouse and said, "You were eavesdropping! I'm going to tell Mom!"

"I……"

Xiaoban's face flushed red, and she was about to retort, but she was speechless.

Little Banerjee doesn't like her little brother.

She's grown up now and knows the difference between boys and girls, the superiority of men over women, and that sons are more valuable than daughters. She's very worried that her mother is too biased towards her son. Fortunately, her younger brother has strange eyes, which her mother doesn't like.

Even so, she and her sisters disliked their younger brother and always ignored him.

Little Banai took a few steps closer and poked Little Banai with her finger, almost poking into her eye socket.

"You're here to ask about food?"

Little Banai's sister figured out why after a little thought. Little Banai didn't show up for dinner tonight, and no one mentioned him at the table, so no one probably left him any food.

"No need to knock anymore. Let me tell you, Mom didn't leave you any food. She even said that you, this little monster who's never home, don't need to eat!" Little Banai gave a wicked smile.

Little Banai's eyes flickered, and she suddenly pushed her sister away and ran away.

"Oh dear!"

The older sister was pushed and stumbled. She got up in annoyance, but the person had already run away. She could only snort and walk away on her own.

She didn't dare bother her mother, whose temper was terrible.

After that, her sister never saw Xiaobanai again.