Demon slayer: Breath Of The Eclipse

Chapter Twenty Seven: Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku

It was the dead of night. A train conductor was walking in the carriage of a moving train. The conductor was checking the cart ensuring that its empty, when suddenly the lights flickered. The man turned to investigate the disturbance, and he saw a marked demon.

The demon looked like a bald middle-aged man with a muscular build and very pale skin and lime green eyes with black sclera and blue markings all over his body. The man screamed in horror when he found the hideous creature hiding in the shadows, the man tried to flee but he was killed by the monster, the man's body was discovered later.

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A Demon Slayer entered a soba shop guided by his Kasugai Crow, whare he met the Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku.

'I apologize for interrupting your meal Hashira Sama' said the Demon Slayer as he bowed in apology and Kyojuro offered the Slayer a seat and asked the chef to give him a bowl as well and then the two began discussing an incident that happened last night, whare they discovered a woman attacked by a demon who is now recovering in the hospital.

'Has your business been affected by these incidents?' Kyojuro asked the chef, who told him that his business has declined due to the mysterious disappearances that have been happening in the area making people to afraid to go out after dark and with word of a Slasher going around even forcing him to let off his workers. The chef adds news of the Mugen Train being put out of service after forty of its passengers mysteriously disappeared. The Demon Slayer informed Kyojuro of whare the Mugen Train is located and they leave to investigate.

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In a empty train station,a young girl named Fuku was struggling to feel better after no one bought her bentos, her grandmother an elderly woman named Tomi, tried to cheer her up by claiming that she can sell them in the afternoon instead as demons only rome at night.

Meanwhile Kyojuro and the Demon Slayer were searching the train station but they didn't find anything unusual, instead they saw Fuku irritably rejecting her grandmother's advice about demons claiming that they don't exist, Kyojuro approached her and nonchalantly claimed that he is looking for a demon to the shock of the accompanying Demon Slayer!.

'There's no such thing as demons!' yelled Fuku in frustration as she hurled her bun at Kyojuro, smacking him in the face. The girl quickly bowed and apologized for her actions. Fuku explained that she is nervous about the news of the Slasher, wich is similarly effecting everyone. Kyojuro advised them to continue business and reassured them that he will deal with the Slasher. Fuku tried to sell him some bento boxs to which Kyojuro excitedly decided to buy them all!. Kyojuro gave some of the boxs to the Demon Slayer as he ordered him to return to HQ, believing they will make great gifts for the Corps.

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Kyojuro boards a train with a crate of bentos is brought apon by a conductor. Kyojuro claimed to be a bento vendor and is looking for the Mugen Train's shed, believing the train he is on will take him there, but the conductor said that the Mugen Train's maintenance facility is in fact quite a fair distance away pointing at the window. The Flame Hashira thanked the conductor and said that this is where he will disembark before leaping off the train and running towards the facility!.....He sees the train being repaired before sensing the faint scent of a demon lingering on it.

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The chief train engineer accosted Kyojuro for trespassing onto the facility to wich Kyojuro answered that he was scent to give food to the workers. As he passes the bentos around and the workers eat, Kyojuro asked why the Mugen Train is here. The people at the facility told him that the train is claimed to be a "man-eating train". However the worker informed him that the train is slated to be put back in service after the repairs are made, this worried Kyojuro, and suddenly someone was screaming for help! forcing Kyojuro into action as he investigates what has happened.