find solace (belong) [KNY/BNHA]

[03] man-child at best, menace at worst

Charlotte opened a new notebook to a fresh page, hands gripping the pencil so hard that if she were a few years older, it would've split into two.

What to change, what to leave the same. Charlotte needed to make a rough plan at the very least, lest she goes insane. She has the advantage of knowing the future due to a book that her parents had read to her about the time period of demons. It wasn't a well-known book, nor was it a popular book — many believed it to be make-belief, a story that the author had spun from a fantasy. Those who knew treasured it and held it close to their heart.

Charlotte made up her mind, she was going to do her best and try to make a difference. If she can even save one life that would've died but didn't, she'd be satisfied. There had been a lot of casualties originally, so she hoped to at least cut some of them away.

The battle at the infinity train.

After the death of the Flame Hashira, the other pillars were alerted of his death and therefore tread more carefully. At this point, simply exterminating demons that terrorised villages wouldn't be enough. The incident that happened with the Mugen Train triggered the start and preparation of the full-on battle between the demons and the demon slayers.

Of all things she could think of, the Mugen train battle was probably the most pivotal when it came to future approaches to dealing with demons.

The appearance of a dream demon

Dreams that seemed too sweet to be real

The dream demon's body is the actual train itself

Death of the dream demon, but severely injuring some other lower demon slayer corps members so that they could not participate in the battle between the upper moon and the flame pillar

Upper Moon 3 vs the Flame Hashira

The death of the Flame Hashira

Charlotte jotted down quick bullet points from what she could remember, grimacing as she finished writing the last point. Death.

For someone to be able to protect two hundred passengers on a moving demon train was already an amazing feat, and yet, they too hadn't been able to escape the jaws of the grim reaper.

Charlotte felt her lips twitch into a frown.

There were other events before then, but they weren't significant enough to make too big of a difference, except for the fact that the person who wrote the biography centred the events around a man named Kamado Tanjirou, who was the one to fight Muzan off in his mind as the latter tried to take over the former's consciousness.

The person who wrote the book was actually a person called Agatsuma Zenitsu, one of the survivors of the fights between the upper moons and the pillars. Also one of the five members of the non-hashira demon slayer corps that fought alongside the pillars against the demons.

Her parents read to her night and night again, so she could never forget the name. Granted, it probably wasn't a very smart choice on their part, since who would read a biography about murder and cannibalism to a child every night?

Agatsuma Zenitsu was described as having yellow hair, but the story mostly circled around his close friend and ally, Kamado Tanjirou.

Charlotte frowned. Would she have to scour Japan, finding one boy in order to match updates to events?

The main points of Kamado Tanjirou's story started off during a certain winter season, when the boy, a thirteen-year-old, who supports his family by selling coal, comes back only to find his family brutally massacred by a demon. No survivors left except for his younger sister, Kamado Nezuko, who had been turned into a demon.