☘︎︎ 𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙟𝙞𝙧𝙤 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙢 ☘︎︎

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟻𝟹

Lol, ran away today. Only got about two hours away from my town until some fucking whore snitched on me by calling the police.

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{third POV}

"Any leads on where Tanjiro went?" Rengoku asked Tomioka whom had just met with him after a day of searching "unfortunately not no"

It was incredibly hard to find his whereabouts to be honest. It took Tanjiro a week to find the infinity fortress, and their only on day one.

However... something may have just turned their luck.

"CAW CAW! FOLLOW ME FOR TANJIRO KAMADO'S WHERABOUTS! FOLLOW ME! HURRY!" Tanjiro's crow flapped violently, circulating and gathering as many hashira as it could while repeating the message.

The crow had been silently following Tanjiro the whole time and keeping track of where the infinity fortress appeared and reappeared; keeping the pattern in its mind till the crow was sure that it had solid evidence.

And sure enough... the crow was right.

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"W-what did you do to me?" Tanjiro hissed, his hands trembling as Nakime made a mirror appear in front of Tanjiro.

"You are mine Tanjiro, there's no way you can escape now" kibutsuji stated, his tone filled with a weird satisfaction and enjoyment as he stared down at the boy by his feet.

Tanjiro shakily looked into the mirror, the kanji for 'zero' being etched into his right eye.

No.

How could this be?

How did Tanjiro let himself fall into such a trap?

Stupid.

How naive you were Tanjiro.

"I'll let your sister go since I have no use for her anymore" the demon king announced, waving his hand towards Nekime; giving Tanjiro the slightest bit of relief.

However, all he could do that moment was cry.

As he stared into his distorted reflection, he saw nothing but a monster.

Blood trailed from the corners of his mouth; large fangs crimson stained as his left eye resembled that of a slitted cat eye. The mark on his forehead stretched right to the other side of his face, hands twitching with long blood red claws sprouting from his fingernails.

In contrast, Muzan thought Tanjiro to look euphoric.

The way Crystal like tears poorer from his glazed vibrant eyes, trailing down his pale porcelain like skin as his mouth trembled alluringly.

He was like the sun.

Even in his current state, so filled with despair; Tanjiro still had this comforting and warm aura which would pull anyone into a trance.

Now this sun was Muzan's only.

His to treasure and preserve.

"Tanjiro, let's get you a change of clothes" Muzan stated, his tone a little soft as he placed a hand upon the boy's shoulder.

'It's working... perfect' he thought gleefully, twisting his way into Tanjiro's mind to make him think that Muzan had saved him; and it was working splendidly.

Tanjiro stood up on shaky legs, gazing at the demon king with admiring eyes "thank you for taking care of me Muzan-sama" Tanjiro smiled, his memories becoming faint.

Muzan smiled with satisfaction, the sound of Nakime's biwa sounding as the two appeared in quite a luxurious and cosy room. A large double bed stood next to the wall, a futon on the other side of the room accompanied by a small coffee table in the middle with a selection of treats and sweets.