"Boss, this char siu of yours, it's not made from R meat, is it...?"
The Balding Boss wiped the sweat from his head with a white towel and said with a fawning smile, "The customer is truly joking. My small shop has been open here for over ten years; how could I possibly do anything illegal?"
"Heh heh, the shop has been open for over ten years, but the person might not be anymore—" From the back room of the kitchen, another voice came, and another Uchiha Nagi walked out.
"Customer, you... how do you have two?!" The Balding Boss looked at the Uchiha Nagi who appeared in the kitchen, then at the Uchiha Nagi who appeared at the table. They were identical.
"Still trying to argue? I could tell at a glance that you're not human."
The Uchiha Nagi sitting in the ramen shop's main hall directly drew his nichirin blade, while the Uchiha Nagi at the kitchen door held Heiji's nichirin blade.
It turned out that in the kitchen, the scroll Uchiha Nagi gave Heiji was a scroll that sealed a Shadow Clone inside, just like when Naruto opened a scroll after passing the Chunin Exams and found a Chunin sensei jumping out of it. Both were prepared with a Shadow Clone beforehand and then sealed inside.
This was Uchiha Nagi's protection for C-rank members. As long as they encountered danger and opened the scroll, Uchiha Nagi would rush over with all his might. With the Shadow Clone's delay, they could escape smoothly, and the crows in the sky would guide Uchiha Nagi.
When morning came and the sun appeared, Heiji entered the ramen shop to eat, but his crow did not go in. Instead, it stood outside patrolling. When the crow saw its master being carried into the kitchen on the ramen shop owner's shoulder, it flapped its wings and flew off to find support.
However, this Balding Boss, being the talkative villain he was, had to pray to a Buddha statue for a while before preparing to act. Uchiha Nagi arrived at the critical moment, but he was a step late; one victim had already perished, and when the scroll thrown into the fire burned, the Shadow Clone inside also emerged.
"I'm very curious, why aren't you afraid of the sun? Heiji was unable to move because he ate your noodles, right? You must have put something related to your Blood Demon Art in the noodles, something that can paralyze people, correct?" Uchiha Nagi said.
Sweat continuously flowed down the Balding Boss's head. Looking at those red, sinister eyes before him, he finally couldn't withstand the pressure. With a ferocious expression, he quickly pulled out a knife from his stove and fiercely stabbed at Uchiha Nagi. Uchiha Nagi had already entered a battle state, easily dodging the opponent's strike, and at the same time, he casually severed the hand holding the knife.
"Ah~~" A severed arm flew into the air. The Balding Boss screamed, clutching his arm, and stumbled out of the ramen shop with surprisingly agile movements.
Uchiha Nagi frowned. The opponent's strength was indeed not bad, three times stronger than an ordinary person, but what puzzled him was that it was daytime outside, the sun had already risen, yet it had no effect on him whatsoever.
"Watch Heiji; I'll go after him and see." Uchiha Nagi said to the Shadow Clone. The clone nodded, and the main body immediately got up and chased after him.
Outside, people had already begun to appear sparsely. After all, this small town was not a big city; many people still worked from sunrise to sunset.
Some people saw the Balding Boss and were about to greet him warmly, but then they suddenly noticed that he had a severed hand, bleeding, and was stumbling towards them.
"Help, someone is chasing me! He's the killer from the recent disappearances at night!" The Balding Boss's face showed a look of fear.
"Everyone, please help me, call the police!"
Poof!
While the Balding Boss was yelling, Uchiha Nagi's blade had already pierced through his body again. If Tanjiro and his companions had come, they wouldn't have smelled the demon's scent on him, so they definitely wouldn't have attacked.
"Ah, help, save me, he's killing me!" The Balding Boss screamed.
"Too bad you met me. I am a Ninja, not a native of this place..." Uchiha Nagi said expressionlessly.
The Demon Slayer Corps only kills demons, never people. They only save people. Even if a person was misled by a demon and attacked them, they still wouldn't kill them. This is their principle, and Tanjiro is exactly like that.
However, Uchiha Nagi came from the Ninja World, a world where killing people was even more common than killing demons. Even if this Balding Boss was truly human, he would still kill him without hesitation.
When this Balding Boss drugged and paralyzed C-rank member Hattori Heiji, then carried him into the kitchen to prepare to act, Uchiha Nagi had no intention of letting him go.
What puzzled him now was that the opponent had no demonic aura at all, was almost like a human, and was not afraid of sunlight. What was going on? If he could be immune to sunlight, Muzan would have devoured him long ago; how could he still be alive now?
Muzan's obsession with becoming a perfect being had lasted for over a thousand years. Once he knew the method, he would probably go completely insane with joy.
"Quick, quick, call the police! There's a murderer here!" A farmer carrying a hoe frantically dropped his farm tool, screamed in terror, and ran off.
"You... don't come any closer, or we won't be polite to you!"
The people around, holding things they could use for self-defense, trembled as they watched Uchiha Nagi approach.
Uchiha Nagi paid no attention to those ordinary people. Instead, he narrowed his eyes, raising his vigilance to the highest level, guarding against the Balding Boss in front of him.
He always felt that the opponent wouldn't be so simple, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was.
The Balding Boss finally realized that this Demon Slayer Corps member was completely different from the usual ones. He didn't care about public opinion at all, as cold as a ruthless killer.
Uchiha Nagi was unmoved even by the patrolling police officers hurrying over from not far away. He continued to torture and kill him, swinging his blade—
"Ah..."
With a scream, the Balding Boss's other hand was also severed by Uchiha Nagi.
"Stop! We're going to shoot!" Two people in police uniforms pulled out their firearms and aimed at Uchiha Nagi, preparing to open fire.
Uchiha Nagi turned his head to look, and the Sharingan's genjutsu activated.
The two people stood blankly, then put away their firearms and slowly walked back the way they came.
Seeing that no one could save him, the Balding Boss finally became afraid. He struggled to get up, supporting himself with his severed arm, and tried to run forward.
Uchiha Nagi narrowed his eyes, his face filled with killing intent, and one of the Balding Boss's legs was immediately severed by him.
"Ah... Help, don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm a good person!" The Balding Boss cried, tears streaming down his face.
Whoosh—
A head flew high into the air, then rolled onto the ground. Uchiha Nagi didn't like torturing enemies anymore; he simply beheaded him.
The Balding Boss's body immediately stopped moving, lying on the ground, dead—
The surrounding civilians who had been watching had long since run away completely.
"Was he really human? Was he perhaps bewitched?" Uchiha Nagi scratched his head, looked at the sun, and walked away, puzzled.
After Uchiha Nagi left, the surrounding people slowly gathered. Someone recognized him; it was the ramen shop owner.
But the corpse lying on the ground was truly horrifying. The perpetrator was truly cruel, having tortured and dismembered the ramen shop owner...