Demon slayer: Breath Of The Eclipse

Chapter Thirty Two:Akaza

After Tanjiro had slayed Enmu, the demon's flesh was falling off the cars, but the Lower Moon's death wail had caused the Mugen Train to derail at a dangerous speed!, and then a sudden impact had caused Tanjiro, Inosuke and the unconscious train engineer to be flung into the air, with Tanjiro desperately trying to save the engineer!.

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The train then flew off its tracks and skidded down to the ground. Tanjiro had grabbed the unconscious train engineer and leaped out of the train with Inosuke right behind him and had safely landed on Enmu's soft flesh. Inosuke was angry at Tanjiro for saving the train engineer but Tanjiro said that the man had already suffered enough and atoned for his sin. Once Tanjiro laid the engineer to rest, Tanjiro and Inosuke began helping the passengers along with Nezuko, Zenitsu and Kyojuro, Tanjiro was so relieved, he believed that everyone was now safe.

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As the Demon Slayers and Hashira
were helping the passengers, a small piece of Enmu's flesh crawled out of the Mugen Train's wreckage, as the demon was slowly disintegrating he cursed himself for being unable to eat even one of the two hundred passengers, he cursed the Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku who he blamed for thwarting his plan to devour them while fused with the train, he cursed the Demon Slayer Zenitsu Agatsuma who fought him while still asleep and he cursed himself for losing to the Demon Slayers Tanjiro and Nezuko Tsugikuni...............how could he lose to those mongrels!,it was that half-human brat Tanjiro who ruined his plan in the first place as well as the Demon Slayer Inosuke Hashibira with is excellent intuition.

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As his flesh began to fade Enmu bemoaned that it was only weak demons that got killed off. He thought of a  robed a demon samurai, a jin like demon emerging from a pot, a demon wielding a fan, a horned demon with a grotesque bump on his head, a female demon with ribbon like hair,and a demon with striped tattoos, Enmu lamented that the Upper Ranks of their kind have not changed for hundreds of years, even strong and powerful Hashira with high kill counts had fallen by their hands, these demons possessed otherworldly power. In his final moments, Enmu cursed Tanjiro and Nezuko for betraying their own kind and lamented that he had still failed and was unable to compete with the Upper Ranks, even after receiving so much of Muzan's blood, Enmu cursed his defeat as unfair and begged for a chance to undo the nightmare that was his death. As the Lower Moon One finally falls.

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As Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu and Inosuke were helping the passengers, the young Demon Slayers were met by Kyojuro.

"You four are the most outstanding team of Demon Slayers i have ever seen!, thanks to you, all of the passengers have survived, tonight you have all taken the first step to becoming Hashiras, and while you still have a long way to go, you are now stronger than you were the day before". Praised Kyojuro, the Hashira was so proud of the young swordsmen. But then out of nowhere a blast had erupted from behind them, the Demon Slayers looked behind and saw a figure emerge from the dust cloud. As the dust settled,they saw a man who appeared to be a martial artist wearing a cropped haori with pink hair and tattoos all over his body. Tanjiro read the kanji in his eyes and he became horrified, the Uppermoon Three was staring at him!.

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"You must be Tanjiro, My Name is Akaza" said the demon now known as Akaza as he politely bowed and Tanjiro bowed back to be polite, Tanjiro wondered how the Uppermoon Three demon knew him name?.