Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Chapter 156 Miracles Come at a Price

Seeing Genya Shinazugawa weeping while holding his younger siblings' corpses, Li Lei felt terrible. If his crow subordinates had found the family sooner, this tragedy might have been avoided.

Wait, there seems to be another way to save them who just died, but... never mind, let's try it first.

Once Li Lei thought of a method, he immediately took action. Although this method had significant side effects, it at least offered a possibility of reviving Xuan Mi's younger siblings who had recently died.

"Who are you! What do you want?"

Xuanmi looked at Li Lei, who had suddenly appeared, with some fear, thinking he was a thief, but his heart was quickly overwhelmed by sadness.

The thought of his younger siblings being dead, coupled with the fact that there was nothing of value in the house, made him just let it go.

"I want to try and see if I can save your younger siblings."

Li Lei answered casually, then immediately took out five parasitic flesh balls mixed with his own blood and fed them to the five dead people one by one. He then turned to look at Xuan Mi.

Is this the future Demon Eater, Shinazugawa Genya?! He can obtain the Blood Demon Art of a demon by eating its flesh and blood; even demons would fear this ability.

Imagine a demon that's been catching and eating people. Just as it's about to bite Genya Shinazugawa, the demon suddenly pounces and grabs the demon, who's in a good mood and about to devour him, and starts gnawing away.

It grows stronger the more it eats, turning the predator into prey in an instant. How much psychological trauma does the ghost suffer?

Even a ghost would want to say, "No? Are you the ghost or am I?"

"Really? Can they really be saved? But—but…."

When Xuanmi thought of his younger brother and sister who had died, he lost all hope. And the person in front of him was not a god, so how could he possibly bring the dead back to life?

Thinking of this, Genya felt depressed again. Just now, his brother Sanemi had gotten into a fight with a monster to save him, and he didn't know where he was.

My mother still hasn't come back. What happened tonight? And can I really trust the person in front of me?

At this moment, Xuanmi's mind was in chaos, unsure whether to trust the person in front of him.

"Believe me, my method should be able to save their lives."

"But……"

"No buts, I am your only hope now."

Just as Shinazugawa Genya was about to continue questioning Li Lei, his younger siblings lying on the bed suddenly twitched slightly. Their skin color began to return to normal, and they began to breathe.

"Hong, Qin, Jiuye, Sadako, Shoumei."

"Thank goodness you're not dead, that's wonderful."

Seeing his younger siblings come back to life, Xuanmi was so excited that tears streamed down his face; he could hardly believe his eyes.

However, Genya Shinazugawa soon discovered that his younger brother and sister had only come back to life, but showed no signs of waking up.

"Qin, wake up, I'm your older brother..."

"Mako, Kotobuki, wake up! If you don't wake up, I'll eat your candy. Wake up now!"

Genmi kept shaking his younger siblings, praying for a response, even just one of them.

"My lord, why haven't Shoumei and the others woken up yet?"

Xuanmi knelt down and asked Li Lei.

"This was something I did on purpose. They were practically dead just now, and I used special methods to bring them back to life. Although I could wake them up now, they would become monsters and no longer be human when they do."

"But why is that, sir!"

Upon hearing Li Lei's account, Xuan Mi was unable to accept reality for a moment.

“Resurrecting the dying comes at a price. I have already paid that price, but the price for waking them up is not something you can accept.”

“Of course, this price is nothing to me,” Li Lei said calmly.

"Sir, could you tell me the price for waking them up?"

Xuanmi clenched his fists, determined to wake his younger siblings up, no matter the cost.

"Sure, but you should be prepared."

"Speak, my lord, whatever the price, I can accept it."

"Oh—then you'd better listen carefully."

……

"What! The price is to eat people? Why? Why do the others have to eat people when they wake up?"

Xuanmi looked at Li Lei in disbelief, shaking his head repeatedly to indicate that this was not true.

"To revive someone who has just died, you have to make them a non-human being, and a non-human being is one that eats people."

"This is the price you have to pay."

Li Lei, with his back to Xuan Mi, looked at the moon in the sky and repeated in a calm tone.