Jack of All Trades: Male Reader x Kanae Kocho

Three of Spades: Queen

Day 5

You're happily jumping along on the trees' branches, not feeling the mood to run. By now, you and Ken have already slain some demons. And your reaction was as cute as ever(to Ken anyways).

"Yatta! I finally got my first solo kill! Wooo!" You cheered, running around the remains of the demon's clothes with your hands up in the air along with your katana.

That, was cute indeed.

Suddenly coming to a halt, Ken also stopped. Curious, he scale up the tree and stood beside you.

"What's wrong--" He didn't get to ask fully when his untrained nose caught a whiff an awful stench that smelled like rotten oil.

Covering his nose, he looked at you who had a serious expression.

If looks could kill, Ken would've run away far from you.

"Ken, there" he spoke, startling Ken a little.

He nodded and jumped to where you pointed at.

Landing safely, Ken's eyes went wide at what he saw.

A giant demon, with an awful color of green and hands covering his body. The thought of 'gross' immediately crossed your mind. It was shoving a body inside its mouth, probably a contestant.

"Aagh!!" You then heard a scream, a battle cry.

It was a pink or peach-colored hair boy that was accompanied by a ravenette boy.

The peach-colored hair boy was about to slice the demon's neck but upon contact...

...His sword snapped.

"Sabito!!!" The ravenette boy screamed in agony.

By then, you didn't know what came over you. Snapping back to reality, you had already had a body in your arms, a dead one.

Seems like, when you heard the agonizing blood curdling sound, you briefly remembered the same type of scream, which you let out five years ago.

Landing, you looked at the headless body that you're holding.

That damned demon crushed his head off.

You were filled with rage.

How dare he disrespect this person.

All demons are the same.

They all. Must. Die.

You were about to jump at the hand-fetish demon when Ken got a hold of you.

You were about to scream to him, but he looked at you with sympathetic eyes. Quickly you softened, and look at the ravenette.

His eyes were dull, full of tears and expressionless. Mostly scarred from his friend getting killed

You faintly heard Ken say that they need to move before the demon kills you all.

Unwillingly running away, you saw that the demon tried to get to you, but stopped, as he saw another victim that would fall in his hands.

Turning around, refusing to look back, you continued to run, cursing to yourself for your incompetence.

You were supposed to save people from dying in the hands of Demons as a Demon Slayer, but what was that...?

•.•.•.•.•.•.•.

7 days went by just like that, and the Final Selection had finished. Tomioka Giyu, the raven-haired boy whom you and Ken saved before from the hand Demon.