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SCREAMING AND SHOUTING WAS RINGING IN YOUR EARS.
you groan, your head was throbbing and your body was in immense pain.
am i dead? was that all a dream..?
you slowly open your eyes, a fire was crackling, you could hear it all around you.
sitting up slowly, imagining to be sitting in your bed. but as your eyes open you see it was very much not a dream, you were sat right where you had passed out, the whole city was destroyed. everything was on fire and the buildings were utterly destroyed.
uzzui-san, inosuke, zenitsu, tanjiro.. where are they??
you glance to the side, letting out a heavy breath as you catch sight of a limp uzui,
right...
you stand up slowly, wincing in pain. you felt like total shit, you look down at your hands,
the poison.. what happened? how am i still alive?
you look down at your wrist, there was one particularly purple wound but it was being covered with a thin layer of ice.
you sigh out,
i must have done that before i passed out
you grab your katana with what little strength you have left, grabbing a ripped piece of kimono that was sitting on the ground and wrapping your katana to your hand, just like tanjiro had done.
letting out a hoarse cough, you limp your way around to find anyone around the destroyed city..
your eyes go wide and you nearly fall back onto the ground as you make your way over to where tanjiro, zenitsu and inosuke last were.
you bring a hand to your mouth in disbelief, inosuke was laying battered on the ground. there was a large, striking hole right where his heart should be. his chest was the same purple as uzui's, it must have been done with gyuutaro's sickle.
and zenitsu was also nearby, he was covered in rubble and debris, bloody and beaten.
you let out a choked sob, they weren't dead.. were they?
you swallow thickly, swallowing back your tears and walking forwards more, at this point, there was nothing you could do. you had to find the demons and finish them off or die trying.
"fool!"
you flinch up, eyes darting around. where had that come from?
"dimwit! coward! loser! why were you even born?!"
your eyes go wide, rushing to where you heard the voice.
you grit your teeth, there gyuutaro was, he was standing over tanjiro, pulling his hair harshly. tanjiro's fingers were terribly broken and his head was bleeding.
you hold your hilt as tightly as you can, rushing over and kicking gyuutaro in the side, away from tanjiro.
you crouch in front of tanjiro, spreading your arms out defensively.
his eyes go wide, "[name]?! y-you're okay!" he cries.
you nod curtly, glaring over at gyuutaro who looked especially angry.
"huuh? so you're alive too, huh? i thought you would have died with that poison.." it clicks its tongue.
he walks over, crouching in front of you. you would have gone for his neck right then and there but your strength was failing you and you knew, without a doubt, he would kill you in a second if you tried.
"what're you gonna do with those weak, beat-up worthless human bodies? cut off my head? just try it! c'mon! c'mon, give it a try!" he shouts, grinning menacingly. you feel a shiver run up your spine.
you glance down for a moment, just a moment, tanjiro was holding some small pouches.
looking back up at gyuutaro in fake defeat, they must be wisteria pouches.
"heh!" you hear a loud giggle, glancing to the side, sitting on the roof in a carefree manner was daki, you grit your teeth slightly, looking down at the ground.
"hee hee hee! oh, i get it! at death's door, your spirits are finally broken! how terrible! you both truly are miserable! but i don't mind that"
he gets annoyingly close to your face, you scoot back more towards tanjiro.
"i like wretched, pitiful, filthy things! like.. those sad scars on your faces" he prods the scars on both on your faces, you frown deeply.
"i think they're cute! i have an idea! why don't you two become demons?! i have to bring you to that man anyways, girl! i can see why he wants you, that little ice trick you did over there was certainly interesting! and you, boy, you should do it for your little sister's sake! yeah! that'd be good! become a demon and help her! then you'll be the same! if you don't, i'm just gonna kill her too! cuz i don't care at all about someone else's little sister!"
you bite the inside of your cheek harshly.
"gyuutaro! don't! this is a bad idea! that man won't want her to be a demon! not yet, at least!"
gyuutaro doesn't listen, "as demons you'll instantaneously be stronger. goodbye to your pathetic bodies! so how about it?"
tanjiro swings his head up to the sky, sliding a kunai under your hand.
"you're ashamed of your own weakness!" gyuutaro concludes with a wicked laugh, "that's why you're looking up to the sky.. to stop your tears from pouring out"
"i...i.. i prepared for this moment!"
tanjiro smashes his head into gyuutaro's, and in the same moment you pulled out the kunai, sticking it right into his leg, but amidst the shock of the head-butt, he hadn't seemed to notice.
gyuutaro attempts at standing up but notices he can't, "gyuutaro, what are you doing?! stand up! hurry!" daki screams.
you wrap your fingers over your hilt, forcing the blade down into gyuutaro's neck along with tanjiro's blade.
you let out a determined shout, pushing it further in.
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