Everyone in the Demon Slayer Division knew that Ye Jiu was an ignorant fool.
He always messed up the missions, holding a pile of broken wooden puppets and giggling all day long, and was treated as a joke by his senior brothers - until the abyss rift broke out, and seventeen gold-medal demon-slayers died tragically. He was the only one holding the puppet box, squatting in the pile of corpses and counting ants.
"Is this idiot scared out of his wits?"
Before he finished speaking, he tapped the wooden thorn on his fingertips, and the puppet in the box suddenly opened its eyes. The bone joints clicked, and silver threads sprang out like living snakes, crushing three high-level monsters in an instant. Ye Jiu patted the blood on the puppet's shoulder and smiled innocently: "Oh, the thread is tangled."
But no one saw the cold light in his eyes when he lowered his eyes.
When the hypocritical presiding judge framed him for being a demon and wanted to take away his secret puppet skills, Ye Jiu was still giggling, but quietly crushed a bone whistle with his fingertips. In an instant, all the puppets in the city turned their heads, and their wooden eyes reflected the fear of the presiding judge - the toys in the hands of the salesmen, beggars, and even children all over the market were all his eyes.
"You... Who are you?"
Ye Jiu scratched his head. The puppet had broken the neck of the presiding judge. He kicked the corpse on the ground and suddenly stood up straight. His innocence was gone, and his voice was as cold as ice: "I forgot to tell you that my master is the 'Puppet King' who was nailed to the Demon-Slaying Pillar by you."
When the abyss monsters leveled the city gate, he stood on the top of the mountain of corpses, with thousands of puppets behind him bowing their heads.
The world only knows him as the stupid Aoba Jiu, but they don't know that the devil in the abyss knelt down to call his master when he saw his puppet talisman. They also didn't know that the "Bone Wire Guest" who overthrew the Three Great Daosong back then was squatting in the backyard of the Demon Slayer Division, painting the puppet with varnish.
