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warning(s): swearing, kny spoilers (?)

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❝ 𝙞 𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚, 𝙢𝙚 ❞

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Tanjiro landed lightly on his feet after the slightly disorientating warp portal, Nezuko landing next to him a second after.

Looking around, the demon slayer took in the crackling fires around him and ruined buildings. Remembering from Thirteen's speech from earlier, he realized this must've been one of the scenarios the students were meant to learn from that day.

"Hey! Uh, Kamado Tanjiro and Nezuko, right?"

Ah, there was the other person they tagged along with.

The sibling pair turned to look at the other unfortunate soul who had wound up at the landslide zone: a dude with blond hair and a muscly tail.

'Staying with the weakest' meant staying with the the one who would have gone alone.

"Yes! Glad to know you're here."

"Yeah, same... I'm Ojiro Mashirao, by the way. Nice to meet you both," he smiled kindly. "Even if not in very nice circumstances..."

Tanjiro smiled back at him, sweating a bit. "Yeah, but we'll be fine! We should first—"

"Hey look, guys," a new voice drawled out, its owner swinging around a bat. "Three itty bitty students... Just waiting for a beating."

Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Ojiro huddled closer together, backs facing each other, looking out at the twenty or so villains that had surrounded them, perched on whatever ruins were on the scene.

Though Tanjiro had originally been hesitant on hurting other human beings, he had to steel himself and accept the fact that these villains intended to hurt innocent people.

"They look kinda unassuming, boss," a lanky, greasy ass guy said.

This 'boss' scoffed. "Why don't you try to take 'em out yourself, then, eh? I'd like to see you try, wimp."

"W-well—!"

Some of the others in the group snickered quietly at their comrade, Tanjiro frowning lightly at the scene.

"They must be waiting for us to make the first move..." he muttered to Ojiro, his classmate discretely nodding back. "Though I don't doubt your abilities, I'm not sure if we can take all of them at the same time..."

"Mm!"

Tanjiro blinked, looking to his side.

"A-ahhh!"

"Oh— what the—,"

Nezuko had shortly set some of the humans on fire.

"Eh?!" Tanjiro panicked, imagining a scene of charbroiled piles of flesh, until he remembered Nezuko's Blood Demon Art could never actually harm humans when she used it before. "Oh, right—"

Taking advantage of the villains' extreme confusion and initial panic, Tanjiro lunged forward with the butt of his sword braced. "Ojiro! Let's take this chance!"

Ojiro, despite having been terrified himself for a moment, nodded and sprung off his tail to go beat up some people.

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