Demon slayer: Breath Of The Eclipse

Chapter Seventeen: You Must Master a Single Thing

With a true member of The Twelve Kizuke present on Mount NATAGUMO, Nezuko realized that he or she must possess a higher concentration of Muzan's blood, reaffirming her and her brother's goal to extract it for the medicine for those who have suffered and been turned into demons, the girl ran back to Tanjiro and Inosuke as fast as her legs can carry her, Tanjiro was happy to see his sister again, he asked Nezuko if she had defeated Mother.

'The Mother Spider Demon had surrounded so i gave her a peaceful and painless death ' said Nezuko answering her brother's question, Nezuko then asked if Tanjiro and Inosuke were all right seeing the numerous cuts that Inosuke sustained. Inosuke ignored Nezuko's 'Sensitivity and Kindness ' and proudly declared that he can beat Tanjiro and Nezuko at anything, despite this Tanjiro blamed himself for Inosuke's injuries, Nezuko then remembered Mother's final moments, the look of suffering and terror and when she willingly surrendered. Nezuko attempted to use her blood demon art to heal Inosuke's wounds, that annoyed Inosuke and irritated him, he then pondered on the strange nature of the mountain, as it has both a Twelve Kizuke member and a demon family within, despite the fact that demons don't group together.

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Elsewhere with Zenitsu

Zenitsu felt a strange prick on the hand as he continued his way through the forest, the boy was angry at being lost for so long and wondered about Tanjiro, Nezuko and Inosuke's whereabouts, he then found a two way fork at the road, Zenitsu became even more frustrated!......he was also annoyed by the terrible smell. And even worse the place was infested with spiders!. Zenitsu then sensed someone behind him, he yelled at them to stay still...but then he looked down and he saw the scariest and most terrifying thing he had ever seen.....a giant spider....with a human head!!!!!. Terrified Zenitsu ran away screaming...he must be in a dream....a horrible nightmare, unwilling to believe what he had just seen. Zenitsu begged to wake up on Nezuko's lap and plow fields just to escape his 'Nightmare ' . As Zenitsu stopped, he found himself in a enormous clearing in the forest, he saw captured humans transforming into spiders, he also saw a floating house suspended in the air by the threads. The stench of this area was also much worse and much stronger.....if Tanjiro was here he would have been killed by the vile and awful the smell that was how bad it was!!!!!. Zenitsu then heard a rustling from the house and he saw an enormous Spider Demon emerging from below.

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Zenitsu ran away at the sight of the monster.

'You're already losing' taunted the demon. Zenitsu tried to ignore the demon's words but the demon continued talking about Zenitsu's dire situation, Zenitsu asked the demon what he was talking about. The spider asked the slayer to look at his hand and he saw that it had became contused and blistered. The spider revealed that Zenitsu had been poisoned by a bite earlier and that he will soon transform into one of the giant spiders that he saw earlier, telling Zenitsu that he will soon be his slave inside of thirty minutes and remarking that Zenitsu feel, pain, dizziness, nausea, loose consciousness and then become a spider, the monster laughed as he taunted the Demon Slayer over his impending fate. Now even more frightened, Zenitsu ran away as he was being chased by numerous transformed spiders. The demon reminded him that running is futile, Zenitsu yelled that he already knows!, Zenitsu climbed up a tree to avoid the spiders. The Spider Demon told the boy not to worry, as his intelligence will be reduced too. Zenitsu refused to listen to the wretched monster, as he lamented that he had no friends or a girlfriend or anyone that likes him, hearing this, the spider offered an extra dose of poison to accelerate the transformation, Zenitsu became frightened at his fate and huged the tree that he had climbed on, reminding him of when he had climbed up a tree to escape his sensi, former Thunder Hashira...Jigoro Kuwjima. Jigoro admonished Zenitsu for constantly trying to run away and commanded the boy to climb down to resume their training, but Zenitsu adamantly refused to come down, the fearful boy believed that his death was certain if he continued with the training, Jigoro assured the boy that he won't die not on the basic level that they will be training at, and he told his student to come down again, but Zenitsu refused again, calling his sensi 'Gramps',Jigoro commands to be addressed as 'Master' Zenitsu then replied that it was because he loves his sensi and that he's like a grandfather to him much to Jigoro's suprise.