Rebirth Of A Nemesis

- Chapter Two -

Taking care of a past enemy

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"I don't get it..." Lady Tamayo spoke softly, she was inspecting the newly transformed toddler while she was walking. "How did my poison go this wrong?"

Tanjiro glanced at her, he didn't know what to make of this situation either. He swore one day he would kill Muzan Kibutsuji but now that he's right here in arms reach, Tanjiro's starting to doubt what he's been training for. Everything was going so fast, he had no idea what even happened.

"Maybe it was the aging part? I added extra elements to the poison but the aging was supposed to make him older and weaker... not significantly younger."

"Ms Tamayo?"

Snapping her out of thoughts she looked at Tanjiro "Yes?"

"What happened, like why was Kibutsuji even there, what was that explosion, why was everyone called there?"

She stopped walking for a moment, she remembered the death of a great man and his family... she didn't know how to explain it to Tanjiro, Kagaya died for nothing since the whole point of the plan was to weaken Kibutsuji so they could kill him.

"Tanjiro I-"

She was about to speak when a familiar voice caught her attention. "You're here, welcome. We've been waiting."

"U-Ubayashki?"

The man that was supposed to be dead from the explosion was standing right in front of the other two. Still sick but he looked better than before, he could actually stand on his own and he lightly bowed to them.

"Take a seat, I'll explain everything..."

Lady Tamayo looked at Tanjiro who looked back at her in a confused manner. Tamayo was confused on how Ubayashki was alive, Tanjiro was confused on how Ubayashki was getting better from his seemingly incurable illness. Wanting their questions answered they took a seat a little farther away from the hashira, some of which were still confused on why Lady Tamayo, a demon was here, and what was she holding?

Kagaya stood on top of the small podium thing and smiled in greeting. "Good night everyone, I mean that in a good morning type of way..."

He cleared his throat at his joke. "This wasn't how the night was supposed to go, but of course things change sometimes."

He motioned Lady Tamayo to come up, although she felt a bit uncomfortable in the presence of all the strong demon slayers she stood up and made her way beside Kagaya. Though this just made everyone more confused, anyone could tell this was a demon so why was Kagaya being so... kind and welcoming to her. Some hashira were on guard, this was no uppermoon but a demon standing so close to Ubayashki is still scary.

"Is this a public execution?" Sanemi spoke in a rough voice.

Lady Tamayo tensed up and unconsciously held the "rags" in her arms closer to her chest in a protective manner. Sensing her in distress Kagaya held his hands up.

"No no, there will be no executions..."

"Then why are we here." The white haired hashira spoke again.