D.S.C

Chapter 5: POTENTIAL

Potential: Adjective- Having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
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9:00 A.M

Day one of the final selection

As soon as the Ubuyashiki children said "BEGIN" the competitors rushed down the stairs, past the wisteria trees and into the forest Tanjiro, not expecting such an abrupt start, got caught in the wave of competitors trying to get into the forest.

"DAMN! Why are they in such a rush we have 7 days!"

Much to his suffering Tanjiro was pushed and shoved despite his large stature.

"I'm 200 pounds how am I getting tossed around like this??"

"I guess I'll just have to go with it until I get away from the crowd" Tanjiro grumbled to himself

Although it made the experience a bit more bearable, it was still a struggle to move through hundreds of people trying to run down stairs trying not to fall over. With a little more than halfway left to go Tanjiro noticed a peculiar scent emanating from beyond the stairs, he pushed it aside until he got into the forest. After finally making it down the stairs he ran to the side until he made it past the wisteria trees, he kept running and running to make it away from the rest of the people, not really caring that the scent was getting stronger until he ran straight into a demon.

"Oh so that's what the scent was" Tanjiro says while drawing his sword

"GAK! WHAT THE HELL??" The demon said while getting up from being knocked over

"Well it looks like some prey has stepped into my hunting ground, lay down and I'll make your death painless" The demon says as he realizes what happened

"...Yeah no thanks" Tanjiro responds

"Have it your way" The demon says carelessly as he pounces towards Tanjiro

Sun Breathing First Form: Dance

Tanjiro swings his sword down powerfully in a blink of an eye, severing the demons head like butter.

"AHHH! IT BURNS IT BURNS" The demon cries out

"I feel bad now I knew Sun Breathing was supposed to be strong but not like this..." Tanjiro watches with sympathy in his eyes

Tanjiro decides to comfort the demon in its last moments to somewhat alleviate the pain.

"Everyone deserves mercy when they die even if their a demon" Tanjiro thinks to himself as he places a warm hand on the demons forehead

"B-Brother?" The demon chokes out with small tears forming at the edge of his eyes right before he completely fades away leaving a small device that was where the demon's neck was.

Tanjiro says a small prayer for the demon before inserting his finger into the device to register his victory.

With hundreds of participants in the final selection, the test controllers needed a way to accurately track how many kills each competitor got. So the solution devised was to create a fingerprint scanner inside the device that was implanted in the demons, all the person who killed the demons had to do was insert their finger and the kill would be tracked to them.

Tanjiro then moves on while dwelling on what just happened.

"He said brother right before he died and he had tears in his eyes... Maybe they retain some of their humanity after all" Tanjiro thought while moving through the forest