I Spy (CURRENTLY UNDERGOING A REWRITE)

Chapter 28: Uppermoons and a Chat

Date: October 19, 2024
Time: 6:23 PM
Location: ???
Weather: Lightly Sprinkling (Clearing up)

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Muzan POV


I was walking through the corridors of the endless fortress that housed the entire demon race if they weren't busy devouring humans or to serve as a save haven for them during the day. I am thankful but also frustrated to have something like this in my hands. One, it allows me to safely experiment make and test my new serums and medicines without the risk of the prying eye ever creeping upon me and exposing me to the public. Another beneficial factor of this infinity fortress is the fact you don't have to pay rent for something that can't be seen or entered randomly, hiding among the masses. I wouldn't be concerned about this issue usually, but it seems that Japan's economical state keeps degrading by the day. It wasn't like this in the Taisho era. 

I furiously shook my head and pushed off the conversation I was having in my head at the time, I had something more important to do. "Nakime." I called. As I waited for her reply, my thoughts began to linger on the event that happened only a few hours ago. The moment I even began to think about it, I felt a massive thump in my chest before feeling my heart drop. What I saw back there is not something to just shove off and leave for some lowly demon to deal with. 

"How could he have had a child... I thought Kokushibo said that he finally ended him..."

Though he said his name was Tanjiro Kamado, I had a feeling that he was lying. Even if his actual name surname was Kamado, I knew for a fact that he was connected to that monster in some other way shape or form. And right now, my most plausible assumption is that he's the child of that man. They share all the same features, so there's no doubt about it.

"He doesn't even have any different qualities that set him apart from his father! HE'S LIKE A CARBON COPY OF HIM, A CLONE!"

"EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING MATCHES THAT MONSTER. BUT THAT SMILE... THAT'S NOT SOMETHING A HUMAN CAN DO!"

I clench my fist so hard that my sharp nails pierce through my skin and my hand begins to bleed. Veins bulging from my neck to my face, I have never been this angry in 20 years and I thought I never would after that f*ckfest of a battle we had. "YORIICHI, YOU BASTARD, JUST DIE!" I screamed so loud the endless castle shook a bit, I punched a wall next to me causing that wall and the other 50 walls behind it to collapse in an instant. 

"NAKIME."

I was even more pissed that she didn't listen to the first time I called her, I would have to deal with that issue later as I needed her for now. "Call all the Uppermoons, NOW." I heard the single tang of one of her biwa strings as I was teleported to a large opening within the castle. There was a small wooden platform that I stepped on as one-by-one, my Uppermoons were summoned.

"What happened? Did someone die?" One of them said as he turned around while chowing down on a human arm. He had pink hair, pale skin, blue markings spreading all across his body, and a simple dark purple-pink sleeveless Haori. His eyes were yellow with a blue Sclera with one being marked with the kanji "Upper Rank" and the other being marked with the daiji "3". 

Upper 3:
Akaza

(I'll do full intros for them later, and yes I did get this info from the wiki)

I looked at him dead in the eyes with all my anger imaginable, how could he treat this so lightly after what I've been through? Fortunately for him, he bowed down on the ground before I could slice his head off a thousand times over.

"Oh? What's this? I've been teleported?" One says with a happy chuckle as he sits down in his place. 

He had long platinum-blonde hair, along with rainbow eyes, pale skin, long blue nails, and a long red turtle neck with a sort of black substance dripping down from his chest along with his arms, he also wore tan hakama pants as he kept a bright smile on his face. His eyes were also marked with the kanji "Upper Rank" and the daiji "2".

Upper 2:
Douma

"Huh?" A young woman says as she looks around and realizes where she is.

"Onii-san! Come out, we were summoned!" She says as her body begins to open up from the back and a skinny, gray, and hunch-backed man emerges from her body as he gets out and the girl's back closes.

"What happened, Daki?" He said as he scratches his head with a blood-red sickle. 

"Lord Muzan teleported us." The girl says as she and the man soon head down to the wooden platform.

The man also had black hair with lime green soon following afterward. He had different colored eyes, with one being red with a yellow Sclera, and the other being lime green with a yellow Sclera. His face had black ink-like markings that ran from his right cheek to his left eye. He also wore loose blue pants wrapped in a larger blue cloth from the waist to his knees. His eyes also bore the same type of markings as his "comrades" with his right eye containing the kanji for "Upper Rank" and his left having the daiji for "6".

The girl soon transformed into her true form in which she had white hair which soon faded to lime green, pale skin, lime green eyes, and two pink flower-like crests engraved on her face, she also wore a magenta two-piece with flower designs decorating it, along with thigh-high socks that had the same type of design as her two-piece. She was also marked with the same markings in her eye as her brother, with the right having the kanji for "Upper Rank" and the left having the daiji for "6".

Upper 6:
Daki and Gyutaro

"May I ask what happened my lord?" Gyutaro says while he kneels. I look at him silently, my rage was visible. "DO NOT TREAT THIS LIGHTLY!" I yell, the demon and his sibling now trembled on their spots while the others apart from Douma, that retard remained completely unphased.

"Where are the others." I demand as the Akaza and Douma walk in front of me and sit down next to the siblings.

"I am here, Lord Muzan." A voice said from the distance as he slowly begins walking towards the group while navigating the floating corridors and hallways.

As he emerges from the darkness, his glowing six eyes are the first to be seen, long black hair with red tips, a purple-checkered haori, and a katana as well as its Saya that looked like it had been "demonized". He takes a seat and begins to bow in prostration to me. I scoff at him, knowing that this entire thing was his fault for not making sure that all loose ends were tied. If he was just another lowly demon, I would've disposed of him immediately, but since he is my Uppermoon 1 as well as my most valuable asset considering he became Uppermoon 1 in only 20 years I can't do anything about it for now.

Upper 1:
Kokushibo

Kokushibo's eyes reveal as his kanji is marked with the number "1".

"Ov-over here my lord..." A fearful voice says as a man is seen hiding behind a staircase near the main congregation

He looked old and shriveled with a big bulge on his head along with two horns located near the bulge. His eyes were completely red showing no pupils or irises. I roll my eyes at him, tired of his constant cowardice attitude. If only Zohakuten was his main body, then I would be completely fine with him.

Upper 4:
Hatengu

His kanji said as the old geezer peeked out from behind the staircase.

"Who called me?" A voice said from a pot that was located on the side of the room as a man emerged from the pot (or what used to be remnants of one).

He had a malformed face as his lips were his eyes and vice versa. He also had one eye on his forehead which had honey-brown pupils and a kanji that said "Upper Rank" in one of his eyes, and the other had "5".

Upper 5:
Gyokko

He had no hair and instead had four arms that protruded from fin-like objects that were purple in color. His entire skin was pale and covered in what seemed like scales as several small arms protruded from his lower body.

I turned to face the main group of demons kneeling in front of me. "Kokushibo." I say with a stern and furious tone. I turn my eyes to him as I see him raise his head to meet mine. "Don't.Even.Bother." I threaten.

"As of now, you have no right to look me in the eye." 

"Did Kokushibo-san do something?" I heard Daki's thought, the other Uppermoons also looked at their superior in confusion.

"Tell me... Uppermoon 1... did you make sure to kill the entire family when we killed your brother?"

I couldn't see it, but I knew Kokushibo was as shocked as I was when I learned that there is one more living member of that bastard's family. "I.... I thought we did, Lord Muzan." He sounded near breathless and speechless, I could tell he was trying to come up with words to say due to the prolonged silence that occurred. I walked over to him and stood right in front of his face.

All of my rage and frustration in that moment shot out in a show of a massive aura outburst that caused the all the Uppermoons that weren't already on the ground to collapse. I raised my hand and put out two fingers in front of his face, pointed right at his forehead. 

*SssshHHK*

Blood spurted out as I drove my fingers through his forehead. I broke through his skull to reach his retarded a*s brain as I forcibly began to inject the memories and image of what I saw a few hours ago of that boy.

After I was done injecting the memories I pulled my fingers out as blood spurted from the wound and onto the ground. The wound healed almost instantly as I saw him place his hand on his forehead. His eyes and pupil were wide with both shock and confusion. "It can't be." He said to himself. "WELL IT IS." I shouted at him.

"YOU JUST HAD TO NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT HE HAD A CHILD. HE HAD A WIFE, SO WHY NOT A CHILD? YOU DIDN'T TAKE THAT IN DID YOU?" 

"AND NOW, YOUR BASTARD OF A BROTHER'S SON IS HERE AND COULD BE A MASSIVE THREAT ONCE MORE." 

"His son...? That man had a son? The man who cornered Lord Muzan all those years ago had a son?" I heard Akaza think in self-doubt. I looked at the other Uppermoons and they mostly all had the same reaction, except for Douma, that emotionless piece of shit would treat anything casually. I scoffed and raised my hands once more as black, skeleton-like tendrils jut out from the at blinding speeds, stabbing all the remaining Uppermoons in the forehead as I forcibly inject my memories into them of the boy and his looks. 

After that battle 20 years ago, my blood has been filled with memories of that man. Meaning that any new demons I have created or blood I have given to other demons now contain images of that man. Since I created all of the Uppermoons apart from Kokushibo nearly hundreds of years ago, they don't know who the man I was talking about is when I first reported it. I shoved it off for now as I thought that was the end of it, I would no longer meet that man again. But it seems that I have made a misjudgment now. So along with the memories of the boy, I also injected the memories of that battle. 

They all looked silent, Hantengu, as usual, looked terrified. Most of them had stern and straight faces, processing the information that had been forcibly shoved into their brain. Douma just smiled, I swear, just looking at his face disgusts me. "I have a simple assignment for all of you." I said while overlooking the speechless beings in front of me.

"Kill him." 

"And whoever does, will get an immense amount of my blood."

"If I see any of you slacking off, I will not hesitate to dispose of you."

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND!"

"Yes, Lord Muzan!" I heard most of them say in unison as Douma, being the emotionless little gay-a*s Elsa f*cking copy-paste, said, "Of course, Muzan-sama!" I rolled my eyes once more before telling Nakime to dismiss the Uppermoons.

I heard the string, and I was teleported to my lab. 

"At least someone knows what I'm thinking." I thought as I walked to my desk with hundreds of papers stacked on it. I rummaged through the pile, looking for some sheets to collect and analyze. I stared at the main part of my lab, the expensive equipment that was neatly organized and set. "I just need a few more ingredients, and as luck will have it... these are the rarest ones..."

A tick mark appeared on my forehead, my impatience growing ever-slow slightly. "I DON'T HAVE TIME. I NEED TO MAKE THIS SERUM AS FAST AS I CAN." I slam my desk as a few stacks of paper fall on the ground, I groan out of annoyance as I go to pick them up again.

"Tanjiro Kamado... Tsugikuni... whatever the hell your name is... I'll make sure to rip you limb from limb if I ever see you again, no matter the situation."

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Date: October 21, 2024
Time: 4:43 PM
Location: Kimetsu High School Gymnasium
Weather: Mostly Cloudy

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Third Person POV

"How haven't we finished with the activities yet?!" Sanemi said as he carried a box, "Because someone had to trip over a piece of cloth and completely destroy the DJ set that was in it!" Iguro said as he looked at Tengen.

"Hey! I didn't know that was there!" Tengen said as he carries another box with the new DJ set in it. "How did that brat and his friends manage to decorate the entire dam school in under 4 days, meanwhile, we still haven't completed the activities for the dance?!" Sanemi complained, "Ara ara, don't be like that Sanemi-kun, Tsugikuni-kun and his friends are just really good at what they do, you saw the ramp that they built to host their games that happened a few weeks ago." Kanae said as she turned around while posted on a ladder with a paintbrush and a banner that hung above the main entrance of the gymnasium with the words "Happy Halloween" painted on it with red paint as a few drizzles of red paint added to the text to make it look like blood.

"Ok, fine..." Sanemi whispered to himself as he huffed. Meanwhile, Rengoku and Mitsuri were filling a large tub with water, "This apple bobbing idea was amazing Mitsuri!" Rengoku proudly stated, Mitsuri started to blush and wave her hands in the air out of embarrassment, "Th-thank you for the compliment Rengoku!" She said as she couldn't look at Rengoku's face anymore due to how bright his face was.

"I'm gonna kill him!" Iguro thought as he looked at the two with absolute jealousy, Sanemi noticed this and looked at Iguro with a stoic expression before turning his attention toward the contents of the box.

Giyu and Shinobu were at a nearby table with Giyu setting down some tape on the floor with his gym uniform on and Shinobu put some chemicals into a cauldron as some started to come out of it. She had several empty flasks along with other materials such as water, hydrogen peroxide, food coloring, dry yeast, dish soap, and many other chemicals such as Hydrochloric acid, ammonia, sulfuric acid, sodium, bromine, etc. Shinobu had gloves, safety goggles, and a lab coat on while handling the chemicals (She's a chemistry teacher what do you expect?), "Ara ara Tomioka-san, may I ask why are you on the ground?" Shinobu said as she looked over her table and saw Giyu place some blue tape on the ground, Giyu looked up at Shinobu with a whistle in his mouth as he started to talk.

Shinobu could only hear muffled voices coming from Giyu as she genuinely looked confused about what he was saying, "What?" She asked, Giyu took the whistle out of his mouth before speaking again, "Sorry, what I meant to say was that I was placing the tape down so I could mark the areas where troublemakers could go to be punished so we could keep the dance safe and free from interruptions." Giyu said, "Ara ara Tomioka-san that's nice, but does it have to be so close to my table?" Shinbou said, "I know you could keep some of them in check because I've seen your bad side before, you're perfect for this job." Giyu said before returning back to his job. Shinobu was surprised at the compliment that Giyu made to her, "Thank you Tomioka-san, I guess." Shinobu said before returning back to her job. "Well that was unexpected... guess he is opening up a little bit" Shinobu thought to herself with a little smile as she continued her mixing.

Kanae saw this a looked at the two with a smug face, "I see you sis." She thought before returning back to painting and decorating the banner.

Gyomei and Muichiro were sitting on one of the bleachers as Muichiro was on his phone and Gyomei was sitting down next to him, "Why is he here?" Sanemi asked as he pointed to Muichiro, "He's one of us now, so he is allowed to be here." Rengoku replied. "But he's not doing anything!" Sanemi complained, "It's because all of this work is supposed to be carried out by adults, he's just a kid, anyways, if we ask for his help, then he will come to aid us." Rengoku said as Mitsuri walks past him with another bucket of liquid that she accidentally split as she walked behind Rengoku.

Rengoku went silent for a moment before turning around and asking Mitsuri what happened, "Mitsuri what happened?" Rengoku stated. Mitsuri was on the ground with a bucket on her head and was completely drenched with red liquid. "I tripped!" Mitsuri said before she started crying a bit. Rengoku huffed as she helped her get up, "Come on go get dried up, I'll take the dyed water to the dunk tank." Rengoku said as she offered Mitsuri a towel which she took and went to the women's changing room in the gym.

"That man!" Iguro thought as he sent a death glare toward Rengoku on which Rengoku started sweating a bit, "I sense a menacing presence..." Rengoku thought as he slowly walked away from Iguro and Sanemi and toward Tengen who was at a large stand while setting up a DJ booth.

"Hey, Rengoku!" Tengen said as he connected some wires to an extension cord that ran from the stand to a nearby outlet. "Hello Tengen, may I ask what is it that you are doing?" Rengoku questioned, "Ah, I am just setting up the DJ booth for the dance, it's not as good as the flamboyant one that I ordered, but it will have to do." Tengen said, "That one that you broke!" Iguro said from the middle of the court, "I know ok! Stop emphasizing the dam point!" Tengen replied back as Rengoku laughed a bit.

"We should be done with all the activities for the dance by tomorrow, but the weird thing is how we didn't get it done sooner than expected." Rengoku says.

"It's because we all had to leave early due to us being teachers and having responsibilities to grade our student's papers..." Tengen huffed,

"As the only art teacher in this school, I have way too many assignments to grade."

"You're lucky to be the third year's history teacher as compared to being the art teacher, you have fewer assignments to grade, and plus you can get to see flamboyant works as compared to most of my students, who just don't try at all or can barely draw a stick figure."

"Also the addition of having three wives, you have a lot of responsibility to take care of if you have my job."

"But, with me being the flamboyant god that I am, I take care of these matters with relative ease!" Tengen exclaimed with a proud huff as he pointed to himself. 

"That's nice, Tengen!" Rengoku stated.

"Oh yeah, Rengoku, you see this?" Tengen whispered to Rengoku as he took a balloon from under the table and showed it to Rengoku. "Yeah." Rengoku said, "Well I took this from Shinobu's stand over there without her knowing." Tengen said as he held the balloon, "I don't think she would like that Tengen." Rengoku said as he looked mildly concerned for his friend, "Eh, she won't mind." Tengen said, "Anyways, in this balloon, I filled it with hydrogen and oxygen, Shinobu said before to not light a mixture like that on fire, but I was kind of curious to see what would happen so I decided to do it anyway." Tengen said.

Rengoku then looked at his friend with a lot of concern since he knows what is going to happen next and decided to back away a bit, "Where are you going?" Tengen asked, "Nothing my friend! Just keep doing what you are doing!" Rengoku replied. Tengen shrugged and got a lighter from his pocket and held the lighter under the balloon.

Rengoku covered his ears before the balloon popped and let out a massive bang that was heard throughout the entire school.

*BANG*

The entire gymnasium was caught by surprise and shock and eyes were now directed toward Tengen who was in complete shock and covered in balloon parts. "Classic Tengen..." Rengoku thought as he went to Tengen and shook him awake, "Tengen wake up!" Rengoku said as he shook his friend awake, "Ok ok, I'm awake!" Tengen said as he rubbed my ears, "My f*ckin' ears hurt now..." Tengen said as he rubbed them.

"Fire 101, don't mix fire with oxygen," Rengoku said as Tengen rubbed his ears out of pain as they were still ringing like crazy. "Ara ara, so that's where my balloon went Tengen?" Shinobu said as she quickly appears behind Tengen with a menacing aura Tengen looked at Rengoku with an "I'm f*cked aren't I?" Expression as Shinobu knocked the lights out of Tengen with a kick to the neck.

"That's what you get for stealing my things Uzui-san," Shinbou said as she giggled and walked away.

Rengoku sighed at his friend and decided to pick him up and place him on one of the bleachers to rest as he took over Tengen's job.

"What happened! I heard an explosion!" Mitsuri said as she rushed out of the women's changing room in a new set of clothes, "Nothing Mitsuri, just Tengen being an idiot as usual..." Iguro said as Mitsuri calmed down, "Oh..." She said as she began to continue her previously assigned job.

The entire gymnasium went back to work after the sudden explosion caught them off guard.

It was a productive day for the teachers of Kimetsu High, and the hashiras of the Demon Slayer Corps

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Welcome back to another entry of "High School Gossip" brought to you by Shinobu!

Shinobu: Ara ara welcome back!

Shinobu: So we are here to talk about the dunk tank that Mitsuri-chan was supposed to fill!

Shinobu: The idea was presented by Rengoku and Tengen, and we decided to agree to it to add more fun to the dance and its activities!

Shinobu: On the day of the dance, during a specific time. All teachers will have to draw straws to see who will be dunked by the students!

Shinobu: The dunk tank will last for 30 minutes during which the students all gather in a line and try to dunk the chosen teacher in 3 attempts.

Shinobu: Who do you think will it be? I think it will be Tomioka-san since he always looks like he needs to be dunked in water in order to fully wake up, he looks so tired every day.

Giyu: What was that Kocho?

Shinobu: To-Tomiko-san!? I thought I was doing this alone!

Giyu: No you were doing it with me, I just came late.

Shinobu: Is that so? Then don't come late again! You almost gave me a heart-attack idiot!

Shinobu slaps Giyu but due to her lack of physical strength, Giyu doesn't react.

Giyu then turns to the screen.

Giyu: Anyways, read the next chapter "Just a Simple Drug Bust" where we join our mysterious man or "Masked Outlaw" Tengen calls him in busting a drug cartel meeting.

Shinbou: Don't just ignore me, idiot!

Shinobu throws several punches at Giyu but Giyu looks completely unphased and maintains eye contact with the screen.

Giyu: Bye.

Shinobu: Giyu Tomioka! Don't just say bye like that!