Tanjiro's Dream

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Tanjiro's first night at Yoshiwara

After I was sold to the Tokito house and had my makeup washed off, I did some light work before I had to go to sleep.

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I opened my eyes to see that I was in a large, stone room with vases and candles that were lit. I looked at the white stone walls that were written in blood.

The writing: The sun won't fall.

The message was weird since the sun has to fall eventually and what was even weirder was that there was no source of the blood in the building. I went to the door that was opened to see a massive town that was far bigger than Asakusa. The stone structures around the city were covered in weirdly shaped rocks.

 The stone structures around the city were covered in weirdly shaped rocks

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As I was looking around the run down city, I heard the sounds of shouting that I knew was in Japanese.

Voice#1: "Ha ha ha, come here demon!" A voice laughed.

Voice#2: "You're the demon!" Another sang as I ran up the city's stairs to find two Demon Slayers fighting each other wildly.

Tanjiro: "Stop! You're both Demon Slayers!" I shouted as the two stabbed each other, their bodies falling while the giant gate behind them opened. I was shocked at what happened and wanted to find out what was going on.

I made my way through the gate, which led me to another set of stairs that was in between the tall, stone buildings. After walking up the two sets of stairs that were surrounded by the strange rocks, I found myself next to two sets of giant stairs that led to a giant building so I followed the stairs that had many bodies of Slayers on the stone foundations. I went inside the building as it's massive doors opened on their own that revealed even more stairs that were watched by it's strange statues that had bulbous heads with multiple openings like a net which led to a massive, empty room that had a giant hole on it's ceiling and floor, as if something big crashed through the roof. There was a piece of paper that was on the floor that I picked and read.

I didn't die from the sun but my Blood Demon Art had no effect on the Slayers! How?! They're supposed to go to sleep by my command! Save me, Muzan-sama from this cursed place and my jailor!

The writing was the same as the one on the wall with it's use of blood as ink. I was sure that the writer was a demon with it's mentioning of Kibutsuji and it's Blood Demon Art which sounds familiar to a demon I fought before. I questioned why the demon writer's BDA wasn't working if it works like it said till I theorized that the "Jailor," is also a demon that had brought the writer and the Demon Slayers here in a nightmare of sorts, which would explain why the demon writer didn't perish from being under the sun as it never fell to the writer's knowledge.

I left the building and went left through a cave that ended with a bridge. The bridge had more of the Slayers that were fighting each other. Using the knowledge from the demon writer, I ran to the three Slayers.

Tanjiro: "Stop! You're being tricked by a demon to fight each other! There's no need to fight with yourselves!" I shouted while grabbing the sleeve of one Slayer.

Slayer#1: "Blood! Must spill blood!" He laughed with the others which made me scared, so I grabbed my sword to defend myself while two of them stabbed The remaining Slayer charged at me before he was stabbed in the heart by one of the previous Slayers.

After the deaths of the Slayers and calming down, I started crossing the bridge that had gravestones around it along with the weird rocks that looked like statues in the massive building. I looked under the bridge to see a river of blood flowing as I took the rock trail past the end of the bridge. At the end of the trail was two things: one at short set of stairs that led to the side of the river that was blocked by a metal fence, the other was a building with an open door. I make my way inside the building's dark mouth while trying to feel my way around the room that housed barrels and shelves before feeling a stairway down that had a light at the end.

I explored the bottom floor that had two exits to the outside. The room had more barrels and bags with one mirror. I saw another page written in blood, meaning that the demonic writer passed by here so I picked it up along with a coin like object on top of the paper before going next to the exit on the left so I can read the paper and look at the coin.

Muzan-sama is never going to save me. The eye is always watching me as he laughs at me when I die, yet I come back to life like the Slayers I killed in this forsaken nightmare. He says that this cursed land is called Hunter's Nightmare. He has also given me a token, but for what? Pity? To give me a chance? Or is this a jest? My name is no longer Lower Moon One Enmu, it is now Noir and I renounce Kibutsuji Muzan and proclaim the Eye as my true king.

 He has also given me a token, but for what? Pity? To give me a chance? Or is this a jest? My name is no longer Lower Moon One Enmu, it is now Noir and I renounce Kibutsuji Muzan and proclaim the Eye as my true king

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(Hopefully this is easy to see plus I hope you enjoy the clues in this image.)
                                                                          I was surprised on who the writer was because I killed him in the Mugen Train. The image on the token was hard to comprehend since a part of me thought it was a weird octopus while another part thought it was just an eye. As I was trying to comprehend the token, I heard a couple of footsteps behind so I turned around as the footsteps started to sound like a charge. The charge continued till the token emitted a wave of light that lit up the room which revealed the footsteps to be from the Demon Slayers who were killed previously before they turned into ash. After the Demon Slayers disintegrated, the token still shined as a voice whispered to me.

Voice: "Follow me." The voice said before I started to slowly follow in case it was a trap. I followed the voice that led me to the mirror. I looked at the mirror and saw my reflection with a shadowly figure behind, so I turned around since the token lit up the room. As I was looking behind me, something pulled my hand and through the mirror as I screamed.

Tokito house, Yoshiwara, Tokyo, Japan

I woke up quickly while screaming as my heart was pounding heavily which attracted some attention so I tried to calm myself down as I felt around my body for any wounds which I didn't find any. After I fully calmed down, I looked to the side of my futon to see the coin-like object there but without it's shine.

End of the chapter

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