Kamado Tanjiro Vs Muzan Kibutsuji

Chapter 22 { Inosuke Hashibara }

(Tanjiro's POV)

What's going on with this man? He's wearing a boar head? And he's carrying blades!

The boy suddenly shouted, 'Come on, monster! I'm going to make die out here in the wild! You're going to make me stronger and be my stepping stone to higher places.' He immediately charge at him to cut him down.

The demon ignore him and continue to mumble, 'Pisses me off, pisses me off...' He suddenly hit the drum on his right shoulder and the whole room turned again. Me and Teruko fall on the floor again.

I yell, 'Teruko! Hold on to the furniture!' Suddenly there is leave appear beside me. I block it with my arm. The boy kicked my arms and launch himself toward the demon.

I warn him, 'That thing is a demon with abilities! Don't swing your swords blindly at it!'

The demon mumble, 'Pisses me off... these little bugs making as mess in my house.' while hitting the drum on his left shoulder. The whole room turned to the left and I follow the direction that the room is moving. The boy also jumps and landed stepping on Teruko. Teruko yell in pain.

He yells, 'Ahahahaha! The room is spinning around and around! So interesting! So very interesting!' When I saw him stepping on Teruko really hard, I quickly dash toward him and grab his leg. I take in a deep breath and throw him to the other side to the room with one hand, 'Don't step on other people like that!' with a furious tone.

He landed and stared at me, 'What are doing you little brat...'

I yell at him, 'How could you step on top of such a small child!'

He got into a stance and yells, 'Ahahaha! Not bad, Not bad! That was a good throw there! This is the first time I've ever thrown by a human!' He rushed toward me in great speed. Why is he coming after me? Isn't he one of the demon hunters?! I jump back to avoid his blades.

He yells, 'Getting sliced by one of my blade is going to hurt! This isn't a blade that can be used by little children. It can make the person that was sliced experience the feeling of being sliced by a thousand blades!'

I yell back, 'Stop messing around! The demon is right there!' while carrying Teruko.

He replies, 'I don't care!'

Suddenly the demon hit his drum on his chest, 'Damn bugs. Vanish from my sight. Die.' Suddenly a claw slash appear and slash me and the boy with a boar mask. We jump to the side to dodge the attack. The tatami was suddenly torn apart. They appeared at the same time and speed as the sound of the drums. These shapes that look like the claw marks of a beast. The demon hit the drum again and claw slashes appear at the boy. The boy quickly do a quick filp and dodge it.

The demon mumbles, 'Damn bugs... Damn bugs...' while hitting the drum on his right then on his left. The room started to turn right and then left. I landed each time when the room is turned. The boy fall through the door and hit a wall. I'm starting to understand his abilities. Suddenly the whole room changed. I widen my eyes and look around the room. The room transformed again! But isn't this situation weird? That demon didn't beat his drums. There are multiple demon scents in this room. Are there other demons with drums as well? Also... There's a scent of blood.

I say to Teruko, 'Follow closely behind me.'

She replies, 'Okay...' I open the door and look left and right outside. I widen my eyes when I see a dead body. Again with the humans that were eaten and then discarded by demons.

Teruko hold my haori and says timidly, 'Big brother Tanjiro, what... What is it?'

I reply, 'It's okay. There aren't any demon here. Lets go over there. Don't turn back. Go straight ahead.' I walk behind her to prevent her from seeing the dead body. There's also another unique smell of blood that I've never encounter before. There doesn't seem to be a lot of it though. I make a slient gesture toward her and slowly open the door infront of me. I saw a boy holding a drum. His eyes widens and gonna hit the drum.

At Zenitsu side...

He was breathing heavily while hold Teruko brother's hand tightly. Teruko's brother is very exhausted because Zenitsu keep screaming and shaking in fear. He asks, 'Excuse me, Zenitsu-san.' with a tired tone. Zenitsu suddenly jolted up and scream. He hug the boy and says, 'Signal Signal Signal! You need to give me a signal! If you want to say something, don't just suddenly say it! My heart almost lept out of my mouth! It that actually happened then you're going to be a murderer! Got that!?'

The boy replies, 'I'm sorry... It's just that... no matter if it's your sweating, your erratic breathing or the shaking, it's all getting worse... so...'

He yelled, 'So what! I'm doing my best here!'

The boy continue saying, 'But seeing you like this makes me feel unsafe...'

He replies, 'No way! I'm sorry, okay! But, but your know!? If we keep talking we're going to be discovered by demons, you know that! We really might be discovered, okay! Which is why I thought it's for the best to remain as quite as possible. Right?!' while holding the boy's shoulder. Suddenly a demon crawl out from nowhere.

The demon licks its tongue and says, 'Neck... neck... it's a child. Bitting down on it might feel really good on my tongue.'

His eyes widens in fear and shouted, 'You see a demon appeared! A demon really appeared!' The boy just look at him with uncertainty.

End