Demon Slime | Demon Slayer x Rimuru

Chapter 10: A Battle

(Edited)

I went back and edited some earlier chapters.

Listen, I don't know what I was on when I was writing those but it definitely wasn't anything good. I cringe looking back at them. Plus, the first three chapters are the most important of an entire book so it saddens me to know they were written like that.

I'll back later and edit them with more detail.

Anyways, enjoy the chapter!

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Narrator POV

"Tch." Rimuru quickly moved his hand to his side to look for his blade. He gapsed. 'Nothing.' He thought. 'Oh, that's right. I don't have it with me.'

"Tanjiro." Rimuru said. "Stay back."

'I can easily overwhelm him with my skills.' Rimuru thought. 'This one's aura is nothing like that Demon with the pink hair. This one's a lot weaker.' Rimuru grinned. 'I can win this.'

Nezuko could only stare. Not at the demon. Past the demon. There, the family. It looked so... Enticing. She could feel drool falling out of her mouth, her pupils dilating. She wanted to eat...

She needed to eat.

"Ah?" The demon said, licking the blood of his hands. "There's something off about you." The demon stood up. "Are you three humans?" Tanjiro flinched at the question.

The candles flickered out.

...

'Raphael! Thought Acceleration!'

In not even an instant, the demon charged at Tanjiro. Breaking the door as he pushed Tanjiro out of the temple. Tanjiro, quickly reacting pulled out his hatchet and sliced the demon's neck. The demon flips off of him in response. Tanjiro landed painfully on his back. The demon stood there, raising his hand up to his sliced neck. He let out a laugh. "A hatchet, huh? Not bad."

"But a scratch like this..." The demon looked up. "Should heal in no time." Mere seconds after he said that, the wound closed itself. "See? The bleeding's stopped already." Suddenly, a flash appeared right behind the demon.

"Hah?"

"You forgetting somebody?"

In the blink of an eye, Rimuru had pushed the demon's face into the concrete. "Tanjiro." Rimuru said, appearing kneeling down right next to Tanjiro. "Just leave this to me."

"Really?" Tanjiro questioned. Rimuru nodded.

"Basically, the de-"

Rimuru was cut off by the demon attacking Tanjiro in a flash. It was so fast and unexpected, Tanjiro had no time to think. 'He's so fast!' Tanjiro thought. 'And he's unbelievably strong!'

"All right." The demon said in a mocking voice. "I'm gonna snap your neck!" Nezuko couldn't do anything. She was too busy trying to repress the temptations. 'Eat, eat, eat, eat...' Were the only thoughts running through her mind.

'No good. I'm going to die.' Tanjiro thought, struggling as hard as he could. Then, out of nowhere. Nezuko appeared and delivered a kick to the demon's head, kicking it clean off. The demon's head on the stem of a tree, leaving a blood splatter on the floor. She had managed to avoid the temptations.

'Eh?' Tanjiro thought staring at the head. "Eh!" He looked up at the body, hands still around his neck. Ready to kill. 'Sh-She killed him!' Tanjiro thought staring up at Nezuko. 'Oh, but wait! He's a demon, so-"