Blessing Or Curse?

✘ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 5✘

• Chapter Five •

¡Dead Or Alive Part Three!

| Third Person's POV — Inside The Demon Slayer's Dream |

The ropes created by the Sleep Demon Enmu, have a special power that enables people to penetrate the dreams of those connected to them.

"Whoa, the 'real' body is there... I have to make sure he doesn't notice me. Quickly... To the 'edge of the dream'..."

A young female with twin braid hair thought to herself as she hurries off the road, running slowly taking twists and turns until she finally arrived at an invisible barrier that stops her from going any further. Holding up her sharp weapon, she stabbed through the barrier and cut it downwards.

The dream the Sleep Demon Enmu shows you do not stretch to infinity. The dreamer ends up in the center of a circle. There is an area of unconsciousness outside the dream. Somewhere inside, the spiritual core lies in the midst of the unconscious area of the dreamer. If this is destroyed, its owner will become mentally crippled.

'This is the unconsciousness area... It's hot. I'm burning up..'

The young female thought again as she wipes the sweat on her forehead, upon stumbling on the spiritual core of a certain blonde. Desperation filled the female's adrenaline as she readies her sharp weapon and lunged forward at the brittle-looking spiritual core.

The teen stopped as her oxygen was cut off, leaving her choked. Outside of the dream, the female is being choked by the flame hashira. Upon sensing the girl's presence, his body reacted out of instinct and reached for the girl's throat.

Under normal circumstances, when humans fall under the technique of a Sleep Demon, they cannot move their bodies. This is because their consciousness is completely cut off from their body. As a result, they're trapped inside the dream.

Enmu gave the teens a particular warning. That even though they've fallen under his technique, Demon hunters are sensitive to a thirst for blood and there is a possibility that they can break through the technique.

That is exactly why he planned to use 'humans' to destroy the 'spiritual core' of the demon hunters and make them mentally crippled. He intended to kill their physical bodies. When people lost their 'spiritual core' and are about to be killed, they won't offer any resistance.

But Rengoku moved when he was trapped in a technique that shouldn't allow him to move. The girl who entered his dream didn't give off a thirst for blood, but Rengoku's body sensed her presence through his instinct.

If his 'spiritual core' was destroyed, he would become incapable of battle. Which means he would be unable to fight. The girl can not move because she is suffering from a lack of oxygen and stress in the real world. And Rengoku cannot move any further because he has no reason to kill humans. The two of them are now caught in a deadlock.

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"Huh? Where's Nezuko?"

Tanjiro asked slightly hushed as he looked around for his little sister