Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - Shining Swordsman

Never Give Up - Chapter 43

Zane: (I'm...)

He and Tanjiro were falling back to the ground being pushed by Zenitsu time was moving slow at a snails pace

Zane: (Worthless.)

Everything around his falling body was cut by the Daki's belts 

Zane: (I'm a failure.)

His eyes widened in shock at everything around him

Zane: (I'm a mistake. Maybe... Yami was right. Maybe I should have died in the womb.)

The thought to Uzui, Inosuke and the all people he couldn't save

Zane: (I let all those people die and get hurt. I couldn't help Uzui. I failed to protect Inosuke.)

Everything sped up and Zane fell hitting the ground everything going black around him his mind flashed back to a time when he was younger beating sounds could be hear through the darkness

A image of a house appeared inside was Yami fist bloody standing over a beaten, bloody, and bruised Zane cowering in fear only his blue eyes and the crimson red blood visible through the dull grey color

Yami: You worthless brat! Why are you even still here? Nobody wants you around! You might as well leave and rot away in a ditch!

He turned around and walked to the door

Yami: Not that anyone would care. You should've bit it in the womb. 

He slammed the door closed leaving Zane alone

Zane: (Ever since I was five. Since my mother passed. I've been all alone.)

The boy was walking down the street with his head down and people looking at him 

Zane: (Everyone always stared at me like a stranger. Like a nobody. I was treated like an outsider. I still am.)

The area around Zane darkened only a light shinned on him

Zane: (Old man Yamato and Yua cared, but not enough to ask me if I'm okay. Not enough to really care.)

His child body changed into his Demon Slayer self

Zane: (I might always will be... Alone.)

His body was then swept away by the wind before a group of children playing appeared

Zane: (The children of the town would play games and fly kites together.) 

The boy was sitting on a swing nearby

Zane: (While I sat on a swing and looked to the sky. Alone.)

The children at food in a circle together

Zane: (The children would eat and laugh together. While I ate my food on a bench. Alone.)

Then Zane was surrounded by space between a large group of people paying no attention to him

Zane: (I've never been accepted by anyone. I might never be accepted by anyone. Ever.)

Then all the people were blown away and replaced by Tanjiro, Inosuke, Zenitsu, and Nezuko all talking in a group backs facing him

Zane: (Not even the ones I call my friends, could help me with this loneliness.)

They were all blown away along with the village as snow began to fall and Zane walked forward 

Zane: (But yet... I keep on fighting.)

Around him a endless snowy forest appeared as Zane still injured held his cut left peck the blood from his anger still under his eyes while he trudged through the thick snow