𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 | 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐤𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐲𝐮𝐮

❄️ 85

~ The Fall of the Third ~

the first coma.

"Now that I know her complete appearance, it would be now easier for me to find her," Muzan said and chuckled devilishly. "She's a hashira, she'll always be outside and finding demons on her own."

"Muzan-sama," Nakime called. "I'm afraid that finding her won't go easy."

The man frowned at her words and almost tried attacking her but waited for her to speak.

"Before you get mad, I can currently see Akaza suffering from pain. I'm afraid it isn't from yours." She strummed the biwa two times.

"And?"

"Something worst must have happened to the human form of Yoru," she answered. "The only thing we can do now is to find her before they hid her like how they are hiding Ubuyashiki. I'm pretty sure that they'll do something like that too."

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"F/N...Why? I've told you many times..." He tightly held his chest and head due to the pain it emits. It was unbearable and too much that he just wanted to kill himself to end it all.

Until the pain suddenly disappears and all the remaining power of Yoru within him is gone. "No."

"Akaza-dono?" Chizuko called after seeing him in pain. Her eyes widened at the realization. "Did it..."

No. There were no remaining power. It's all the same level as it was when he first ingested her blood. Her powers didn't outwear, it weakened down to its end.

And the thought of it gave him fear. Akaza gripped his hair tightly and panicked as he shook his head in denial. "No, no, no. She can't die yet. Please, wake up."

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2 months later.

A lot of things happened. Tokito Muichirou and Kanroji Mitsuri along with Kamado Tanjiro and Shinazugawa Genya had successfully defeated both Upper Moon Four and Five inside the first month after F/N fell into coma for the second time.

After a week of recovering, the annual meeting of the hashira is held and it is also the first time that they are incomplete. So many unexpectable turns had occurred after the last meeting like Rengoku Kyojuro dying from the Upper Moon Three, Uzui Tengen retiring after his battle against the Upper Moon Six, and now Soyama F/N falling into coma.

Ever since the time she went unconscious, never once have F/N showed a sign of waking up nor a recovery. Giyuu and Obanai never missed a day of visiting her in the Butterfly Mansion which is now guarded by many demon slayers.

Shinobu asked Ubuyashiki Kagaya a permission if he could allow several Hinoto to Kinoe ranked slayers to guard the Butterfly Mansion until F/N wakes up, with the idea that the mansion might get ambushed knowing that the news about the hashira being unconscious have reached the demons and its lord.

The other hashira had also visited her atleast twice a week, even those who had retired from their ranks, namely, Rengoku Shinjuro, and Tengen. Shinobu didn't expect Kyojuro's father to visit the Ice Hashira when he had no connections with her at all, yet she received an answer from him that somehow, F/N tried avenging Kyojuro that night.

About Sanemi, before F/N fell into coma, their last conversation was the time he randomly visits the Butterfly Mansion and asked how she is and left right after. Yet after hearing what happened, he immediately ran and apologized to her slumbering body. Sanemi even dropped a tear that if he wasn't so prideful, he could help her in balancing her use between Yoru and her breathing forms, knowing that his brother had as much as the same case as hers. Since then, he'll always visit her day by day, hoping that she'll see him once she open her eyes and his apology will be the first words she'll hear.