𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍┊͙ ˘͈ᵕ˘͈ ᴷᴺʸ ˣ ᴿᴱᴬᴰᴱᴿ

𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐘𝐄

[content/trigger warning: slight gore description]

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3ʀᴅ ᴘᴏᴠ (◍•ᴗ•◍)

Tanjiro woke up with a start, bewildered by his fiery surroundings. He could've chalked this as a bad dream, but his blistering wounds said otherwise. The Entertainment District was truly set ablaze with a musky fiery hue.

"This is awful. How did it come to this?" The boy asked himself as he took in the view for the millionth time. "I just hope the people who lived here were able to escape."

As he thought about people, two significant people came to mind.  "Nezuko!" He yelped as he looked around for the box that housed his siblings. He sighed a short breath of relief as he saw his sister, Nezuko, sleeping soundly. However, that calm feeling was quickly replaced with dread.

Where is [Name]?

Just as he was about to jump up, a shrill voice crudely penetrated his eardrums. "Well, I'm impressed. I'm shocked you're still alive after that." said the voice of Gyutaro as he stood hunched over the hanafuda boy.

"You're one lucky guy, aren't you?" Gyutaro continued, "Well, not that you have anything going for you except being lucky, that is."

Tanjiro's eyes averted to the building behind the demon. Perched on the roof was the female demon, Daki, who he'd fought earlier. Everything seemed normal about her except for the fact that [Name] was sitting like a haunted doll in her lap, their head hung low as they slept.

Tanjiro was grateful that [Name] was asleep and seemingly unharmed yet he felt pure hatred through his bones as he saw how carelessly the female demon was holding his sibling. Why did she have them anyway? Weren't the two demons after the Hashira?

"It really is a shame, you know." Gyutaro teased as he leaned into Tanjiro's face. "Every one of your friends is dead or burning under the rubble right now. It only took a single thrust to that boar's heart. Meanwhile, that yellow-haired boy is trapped under the rubble so I think I'll leave him there til he dies. Squirming around like an insect, how disgraceful is that? And that Hashira, he was really all bark and no bite. It seems the poison got to him after all, and now he's dead like the others."

The demon raised a hand and began scratching his face, his nails digging into his flesh with each drag. "You're all disgraceful, utterly disgraceful. You all might be pathetic and shameless in your own ways, but you're by far the worst! The one sticking out of that box, that's a relative of yours,  isn't it? I can tell you two are related, is she your younger sister?'"

Tanjiro knew he couldn't just ignore the demon, so he nodded a brief yes. His eyes still locked on the female demon on the roof, his tired mind racing with ways to try and rescue his youngest sibling from the other demon's claws.