A Genius Among Humans

Final Battle

As I'm falling over the air I accept what's coming to happen. My heart starts to calm itself.

I feel the wind pushing against me as memories of my life flashback. My life with my so-called family. Mitsuri, Shinobu, Kanao, Aoi, Tamayo. They all come into my mind.

I close my eyes and continue to let myself fall.

I think about life. My life was pretty shitty, doing everything I could from a young age just to feed a family who didn't care about my work, To killing demons who could kill me in a flash if I'm not careful. 

'Have... I made a difference?' I wonder

Most people have goals, ambitions they want to fulfill. I always tell people my goal is to live, however, there was something more to that. Yes, I want to live but I can give up on that once I make a big enough difference to the point where I don't have to.

I think about Mitsuri again. The one who I could truly call family. Had I been meaningful to her? What about the others?

As I think these things I feel that I'm getting closer to the ground.

However, a way of thinking that had never appeared before showed in my brain.

'Would Mitsuri want her only family to die?' the voice asked

'She doesn't see me as her only family, everyone is family to her,' I thought back

'Not you, I'm sure you figured it out a long time ago. She...'

'... I know, but I'm afraid that someone as terrible as me deserves a dog's death rather than a happy end,'

'That would make her and the other girls all have a miserable end as well. If you can't live for yourself, then live for them,'

As he kept on talking the more I started to understand just what the words family and love meant. It wasn't something that just was used when saying 'oh because we're family,' or 'Thank you so much Tanjiro, love you!' It was something more, unexplainable you could say. Someone you would give everything up for just to see them smile again.

I open my eyes and resolve myself. I look below the ground is coming fast. I pull out my love katana and wrap the blade around a wooden house to try and reduce the damage of my fall.

I get pulled closer into the house while destroying most of the outside of it.

I land on my stomach and broke a few ribs. I got up slowly and started my breathing technique to try and heal the damage a bit. Once I was good enough I headed towards where most of the destruction was.

(Mitsuri POV)

'No...way,'

All 11 Hashira's with talented slayers. We're all on the ground. Some of us dead. The ones still alive barely hanging on.

Muzan grips Muichiros neck and rips off his head like nothing. I glance over at Shinobu who is also on the ground with me. 

I tried to get back up but fell again. My left leg was completely broken.

I then feel Muzan start walking towards me. He grabs me by his hand and raises me into the air.

As I look into his eyes he looks so...Scared? His eyes were focused but not on us, on someone or something else

"I can't believe those idiots died," He muttered as he strengthened his grip on me

'So you did it Tanjiro. That's good. I hope when I see you next, we can finally be together, as a true family,' I thought with closed eyes and a tear shed.