Demon slayer: Breath Of The Eclipse

Chapters sixteen:Letting Someone Else Go First

After scanning the landscape of the forest with the seventh form of Beast Breathing, Inosuke was able to locate a demon in the distance. He told Tanjiro and Nezuko what he had found and the Tsugikuni siblings praised and commended Inosuke for his skills but they continued to get attacked by the controlled Demon Slayers, while elsewhere Zenitsu had entered the forest in search of Nezuko, exhausted from running hard into the woods.

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Inosuke was preparing to kill all the controlled Demon Slayers but Tanjiro denied Inosuke's plan and attempted to find another way to stop them, when suddenly one of the controlled Demon Slayers slashed at Tanjiro, Murata blocked the attack and yelled at the three to leave him and carry on. Despite his lesser skill and cowardice earlier, Murata declared that he is still a Demon Slayer and that he will find a way to fend them off.

'Thank you ' Tanjiro said as he bowed to Murata......Tanjiro was deeply appreciative, and now that they were armed with the knowledge of the threads and avoiding the spiders.....Tanjiro grabbed Inosuke and ran off with his sister to leave Murata, though Inosuke was annoyed at not being able to punch Murata first for insulting him first. As the three traveled further into the mountain Inosuke got scolded by Tanjiro for his rude behavior, Inosuke tried to justify himself by claiming that Murata had insulted him first and he butchered Tanjiro's name again mistakenly calling him 'Monjiro' much to Tanjiro's chagrin. Tanjiro asked if they were heading in the right direction, Inosuke claimed that his senses are never wrong, Inosuke then ran into several spider webs much to his annoyance. The three then ran into more controlled Demon Slayers, including a girl who had killed her entire troop, the poor girl desperately beged them to not get any closer and to summon a higher ranked member.

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The Mother Spider Demon continued to control the Demon Slayers, she found sick joy in anyone getting closer to her as her nearest threads and dolls were the strongest.

'Mother' a voice called behind her startling the demoness, she looked behind and it was the short pale white demon boy from earlier. The boy whose name was Rui asked if she is able to kill them, terrified mother did not answer, Rui claimed that Mother was taking her time and asked she hasten her efforts or he would tell 'Father' frightened at what might happen, Mother claimed that she can win and that she will protect him, begging Rui to not tell Father. Rui only told her to hurry up before leaving. Now with the threat of punishment hanging above her head, Mother forced her dolls to fight harder, unwilling to suffer the consequences. The controlled girl yelled for Tanjiro to run but she suddenly swinged her blade at incredible speed, the girl stated that she is being controlled and that she was never this strong normally, the threads on the girl's body suddenly contort her arms back, braking them at the joints. The poor girl screamed in pain as she continued to attack Tanjiro, who denounced the demon's actions as cruel. Mother then decided to use the rest of her dolls and several more Demon Slayers appeared to face Tanjiro, Nezuko and Inosuke. One of them begged for death, as his arms and legs were broken and his broken ribs were piercing his organs, leaving him in agony. Tanjiro gazed at the scene in horror as Inosuke ruched in offering to kill the ensnared Demon Slayer and end his suffering but Tanjiro still wanting to help signaled for Inosuke to not kill him. Annoyed Inosuke called Tanjiro out for repeatedly denying his attacks, stating that the slayer is blatantly wanting to die. Inosuke was forced back as the controlled Demon Slayer cornered him with Tanjiro and Nezuko, and knowing that the threads will only be reattached again when cut, Tanjiro had to quickly think of a new plan, so he lured the controlled girl by running away forcing her to chace him, he then spun back around and grabbed her in his arms, Tanjiro then used his Total Concentration Breathing to enhance his strength to fling the girl into the high branches, entangling the threads and preventing Mother from controlling her. Seeing this Nezuko and Inosuke became excited and began copying Tanjiro's moves, they lured the other Demon Slayers into running after them and threw them into the branches, this infuriated Mother, she was unable to control the tangled threads, so she deemed the controlled Demon Slayers useless and decided to use a different doll.