For many centuries demons have roamed the earth amongst humans.
Demons are malevolent, man eating monsters. Who's sole purpose is to server their master... kibutsuji muzan. Demons need to consume the blood of humans to gain strength. They can only be killed from sunlight or from a nichirin blade. A nichirin blade is a special blade forged with sunlight, it's used to slay demons by members of the demon slayer corps.
Orion was a young demon slayer around the age of 17 and he was of the kinoto ranking, he wielded a black nichirin blade and had mastered a old breathing technique that was passed down to him from his family. Star breathing. Star breathing is a old breathing technique that originated from a mix of sun breathing and moon breathing. The two oldest known breathing techniques.
Star breathing is a delicate form with the ability to do major damage to all of the unlucky victims that happen to come across someone who uses sun breathing in combat. To use the technique the user has to be able to have good control over their own breathing. The quicker the user moves, the more damage that can be done.
Orion often found himself using the technique during battle and getting worn out almost immediately, the technique takes years of practice to even be able to use, but to get used to using it without draining ones body is another skill that needs to be learned.
Orion was now outside the butterfly mansion. He had been injured badly on his last mission and needed some medical help... That's what the insect hashira is best at after all.
The blonde haired man stood infront of the long purple patterned shoji door, awaiting a answer from the hashira that he was seeking. After a minute or so the door slid open.
He looked down and was met by a shorter girl with dark hair put up onto two pigtails with butterfly clips at the base of them. Her eyes were a peircing blue colour and judging by her expression she looked slightly ticked off.
"Greetings Aoi-chan! Is lady kocho free?" Orion spoke, his voice was happy despite how injured he obviously was. He was holding his upper arm tight whilst looking down at the short girl.
"Lady kocho is currently available... What is it you require her for?" Her voice definitely matched her facial expression. You could tell she was annoyed at something. "I need some medical assistance, I got injured on my last mission. I just need to make sure I'm still fit to continue my duties." Aoi nodded in acknowledgement and stepped to the side of the open shoji. "She's just down the hall in the first room to the left."
Orion gave a thumbs up before walking past her and into the room he got told shinobu was in.
He pushed open another Shoji, the paper on this one had the same design as a butterfly's wings. The colour of the paper was a light purple, fitting for the hashira. Once he had stepped into the room all he could smell was insense burning, mixed with the smell of various different herbs, presumably for different medicines.
He examined the room around him before his eyes finally fell onto the hashira. Her hair was up in a bun with a single butterfly clip laying above it. Her hair was black and The ends were a vivid purple. she was rather pretty and looked delicate like a purple butterfly. she held a small vial filled with a purple liquid that was swirling around. It looked like it had little sparkles in it.
He must've spaced out whilst admiring the beauty of the woman sitting at her desk as he didn't notice she moved towards him. She was slightly waving her hand Infront of Orion's face before he snapped back to reality. "Ah you're alive.." she smiled, her tone was soft and inviting. It drew Orion even more to her beauty. She continued on talking. "What can I help you with dear?"
Orion took his dull orange haori off revealing the cut through his uniform. The fabric had been cut open to expose a deep wound that went across his upper arm. It stung as the air hit it, but, he's felt worse pain.
"Oh my!" Her smile faded as she gazed upon the wound, inspecting it as well as she could without directly touching it. "May I ask what happened?"
"I got hurt on my last mission... I got distracted and a demon managed to get me" her smile returned and she nodded before gesturing for Orion to sit down on the table.
Once he was sat she came over to him and took the shirt of his uniform off before discarding it to the side. It needed to be replaced at a later date. Shinobu inspected the wound once again before grabbing something out of a drawer. "What's that?" Orion asked "just some things do disinfect the injury. We don't want the chance of it being infected, now do we?" Her tone of voice never changes. No matter what her mood is.
Honestly, you can't tell what her mood is she almost always has that same smile on her face, she always seems happy. Her tone of voice doesn't change regardless of the situation. She always seems calm and happy. It was admirable. No wonder she was a hashira. She was very skilled and never let any emotional weakness show.
She patched up the wound, the disinfectant liquid she had used stung. Her hands were very soft and her touch was gentle so it removed some of the pain.
He looked over to his uniform that had been placed on the desk next to him, there was a blood stain from the attack. Apparently the blood hadn't fully soaked into the fabric as it had dripped onto the table forming a little pool under it. "Sorry about the mess..." She gently laughed. "Don't worry about it. Well get that uniform replaced shortly. It should be with you tomorrow!" Orion nodded.
He picked up the dull orange haori and put it on, it helped him feel a little less exposed. His haori had two honey coloured diamond's on the sleeves. It was very comfortable but not necessarily the warmest. That's usually a good thing because the uniform got warm sometimes.
"You may head back to your own estate in just a moment. If you would like I could get you a spare shirt to try keep you warm?"
"Thanks for the offer! but no thanks, I'll be fine."
She nodded.
"Sayonara orion-kun!" she smiled and gave a small wave. Orion waved back before leaving the butterfly mansion and heading back along the path into the forest which he came from.
