Daybreak's First Light - Chapter 55

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Nezuko threw her blood on the wooden womb igniting it

Zane: (Its slow now thanks to Nezuko's flames! Its going to work!)

He held his sword above his head as his blue stream erupted from the tsuba

Zane: (Second Form: Asteroid Strike!)

He slashed down cutting deep into the womb

Zane: (I still didn't hit the demon! This isn't going to end until this demons head!)

As Zane stepped forward he noticed the tiny demon was gone 

Zane: (What? It ran away during the fire!)

He looked up at the bush past the split womb hearing the steps of the demon and he ran up to it and swing his blunt end at the bush moving it and revealing the demon

Seeing the cowardly demon made Zane's veins bulge

Zane: You bastard! Don't run away! Don't run from the consequences of your actions! 

Everything went back

Zane: You demons who kill and devour humans...

The demon running away 

Zane: Come on!

He Tanjiro and Nezuko ran to the demon as Zane vaulted over a fallen tree and weaving in between trees 

Zane: (Why are you running away?)

He dashed forward

Zane: (Isn't this just what you've been doing to humans?)

He pushed past the weaker branches breaking them as he slowly got faster and faster all while hearing the pitter patter of the demons feet 

Zane; (Why are you all... So self-serving?)

The demon hopped on rocks 

[Gyokko: Behold, "Death Throes of the Smiths"!]

From a pot appeared the dead bodies of the swordsmiths sewed together

[Gyokko: Just twist the sword like so, and...]

He spun the blade causing one of the swordsmiths to let out a pained scream

"Upper Five"

As Zane ran his eyes glowed brightly as a blue glow appeared on his face running through the forest while the demon lunged into a small rock hole 

"Upper Four"

[Hatred: Just now, you tried to team up on a small, weak being who could fit in the palm of your hand. Utterly atrocious...]

The demon ran along some rocks as Zane held his sword back his blue stream swirling around his blade then he swung his sword but was just too late as the demon made it through

So Zane flipped over the rocks

Zane: (And yet... We humans are...)

He thought to Rengoku in his dying moments 

Zane: (Always powerless!)

Then to Tengen and his wives, then to Muichiro and the swordsmiths 

[Muichiro: You're getting in the way, so go hide.]

Genya: You piece of crap!

He lifted the tree out of the ground 

Genya: Enough is enough... You stupid moron!

He threw the tree like a javelin at the fleeing demon but due to its size he missed as Nezuko jumped into the air 

The crescent moon shined down on the world as many fought for their lives

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