Writing in his journal, Tanjiro is keeping records of him doing things that will be used and read for Nezuko if and when she wakes up from her deep slumber. Meanwhile BoBoiBoy is also writing in his notebook that can be used for the purpose of keeping tabs on his journey. He may be literally stuck forever in this world, but he'll learn to get used to the customs of this world as well as getting to know more of his new friend, Tanjiro.
'Dear journal, today, I'm going to start writing in this so that I can keep a record on what I do and what I'll do in the future. Crazy stuff had happened. Tanjiro's family were murdered, his sister was turned into a demon, we met some demons that tried to kill us, and we met this old man named Sakonji Urokodaki. I never seen his face or can't seem to figure out his personality but I can clearly tell that he is probably a nice guy underneath that. It's his own way of being nice to us, maybe. Oh man, writing in this is a little difficult with just a quill. It'd be easy if I had my camera with me.'
He paused his writing to look at Tanjiro staring at his sleeping sister.
'I wonder what kind of training we will be undertaking by Mr. Urokodaki? From what I heard, he's quite a good trainer. I'm sure we'll be put under good guidance. And to be honest, I'd rather record this in my Space Log instead. Using a quill and a paper isn't my style but hey, life is never that easy.'
He closed his journal notebook and put the quill beside it. Tanjiro is also done with his journal and went on to prepare himself for the training. He casted one more look on Nezuko, still sleeping.
'How long is she gonna sleep? Seems like yesterday she was that active and now... not anymore. I guess being a demon takes a lot out of you, huh?'
"Hey BoBoiBoy, we should get ready. We don't to make Mr. Urokodaki wait any longer." Tanjiro whispered as much to not wake up the still-sleeping Kamado sibling. BoBoiBoy tiptoed his way out of the room and grabbed his haori. He put on his boots as well and waited for Tanjiro. The latter takes one good look at Nezuko.
"Let's go." Urokodaki said as he put on his boots as well. Tanjiro closed the door.
'This is gonna be tough on both of us but I hope we can survive whatever Urokodaki throw at us. And maybe, this is a good opportunity to figure out what I can do in this training.'
A kanji word, Destroy, was displayed as Urokodaki narrated.
"The Demon Slayer Corps has around several hundred members. It's an organization unrecognized by the government. Yet, it existed since the ancient times and we continue to hunt demons today."
"But as for who's leading the Demon Slayer Corps, that remains a mystery. Demons. Staple food... humans. They kill humans and feed them. No one knows where and when they first appeared. Their physical prowess is remarkable. Wounds heal in a blink of an eye. Flesh is restored after being hacked off, and limbs can be newly regenerated."
"Some demons can shape-shift, others have otherworldly powers. They can only be killed by sunlight or decapitation with a special sword. The demon slayer battle the demons with their own mortal bodies. Since they're human, their wounds are slow to heal, and once lost, their limbs don't grow back!"
"Even so, they battle the demons, they protect humans." Urokodaki finished his narration.
Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy were descending from the mountain again but in daytime. They ran in synchronization as they hop and avoid all the traps placed by Urokodaki.
"I am a trainer. I literally train swordsmen. There are many trainers, and each of them trains their pupils with their own regimen in their location. To join the Demon Slayer Corps, you two must survive The Final Selection process held on Mt. Fujikasane. Whether or not you two are eligible for Final Selection is up to me." Urokodaki informed the boys who were listening attentively.
'Starting today, I'm going to keep a journal for Nezuko. I'm descending the mountain with BoBoiBoy again. We're going to train for our hardest so we won't die during the Final Selection.'
During his sprint, Tanjiro avoided a surprise log attack attached to a rope. Although he did indeed dodged it, it caused him to be disoriented and almost tripped on a wire on the ground if it wasn't for BoBoiBoy catching his arm.
"Be careful, Tanjiro." He told him and the both of them sprinted down the mountain while avoiding the traps altogether.
'After repeatedly descending the mountain, day by day, I'm starting to learn how to avoid most of the traps. It's because I'm much stronger now, and because I'm even more adept at detecting scents than before.'
He looked to see BoBoiBoy, his movements swiftly avoiding the traps with quick precision. He avoided the log that came out from the side and he ducked down to avoid getting hit. He jumped over more wires below his feet while he's running and jumped on the pitfalls, even if they're hidden.
'BoBoiBoy is getting used to the traps as much as I do. His body is able to keep up with the surprise attacks that can happen anywhere. On top of that, his body is even more agile than what it used to be.'
'But even so... the traps are getting more and more difficult. He may really want to kill us.' Tanjiro thought as he narrowly avoided the knives aimed for his head and almost fell down on a pitfall full of knives.
The boys wrote on their journals as they narrated on what training regime they're undertaking. Tanjiro glanced at Nezuko, sleeping. BoBoiBoy closed his journal and went to bed afterwards.
'We made our descent today, sword in hand. But the sword really hampered my movement.' BoBoiBoy narrated.
'With the sword in hand, I almost got caught with some of the traps if it weren't for my sword. As for Tanjiro, he's unlucky as he got ensnared by a rope and was hanging upside down. It's quite hilarious to see as he continued flailing around. He knew he can cut down that rope with his sword, right?'
"991... 992...!" They yelled as they swing their swords vertically per count.
'We swing the swords today. Well it's not just today, we've been swinging the swords every single day. After descending the mountain, we swing our swords until our arms nearly fall off.'
"1000!" They yelled as they concluded the final count of their swings and stopped swinging the swords.
"500 more!" Urokodaki yelled from the side. They both reacted like their breath escaped from their lips as they know that they have more swings to go.
Tanjiro tries to fight the sleepiness in him as he tried to finish his journal.
'We survived our hellish training for what seemed to be like... a few hours ago. No breaks, no time-outs, just pure, hellish training that nearly costed our lives. Now I know why Mr. Urokodaki wants us to become better Demon Slayers. We have to push our limits if we want to survive The Final Selection that is due in who-knows-when.' BoBoiBoy wrote in his own journal.
"Swords break easily." Urokodaki said with an object in front of them.
'That's what he told us beforehand.' Tanjiro narrated.
'Though, it's strong vertically, it's weak horizontally. So... you need to apply the force straight along the blade. The blade's direction and the direction in which you will apply the force must be exactly the same.'
Urokodaki did a quick demonstration as to how the blade should be sliced according to the force and quickness in velocity. He sliced the object in front of him neatly and perfectly.
'And he added, "If you ever damage the blade, in other words, break it, I'll snap all of your bones, as well!" in a threatening tone of voice.' Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy nervously sweatdropped at the mention of snapping their bones if they break the blades.
Putting his notebook away, BoBoiBoy got up and went to Tanjiro and shook his shoulders gently as he can.
"That's enough, Tanjiro. You have to go to bed. You're health is more important than anything." BoBoiBoy shook him and that caused him to stir awake.
"Okay..." He said in a sleepy tone and wiped his eyes with his arm's sleeve. "Nezuko... I'll keep working hard, okay?"
Morning passed by and both boys were wielding their swords. Urokodaki is their opponent and he surprised them by making them spin. And by spin, he flipped them downwards in one fell swoop.
'Today, we did nothing but fall. Training to break our fall and get up from any position.' BoBoiBoy narrated.
'We wielded our swords charged Mr. Urokodaki, really trying to kill him. Tanjiro, however, charged in way too fast and all silly-like. In contrast, Mr. Urokodaki is bare-handed and unarmed, but he's ridiculously powerful!'
Tanjiro tried to attack Urokodaki but he just grabbed him and threw Tanjiro behind him.
'He just flings him away to just roll to the ground everytime. And now, it just comes down to me and Mr. Urokodaki. I charged at him, sword behind me as I try to slash him vertically. And as he predicted, he blocked my slash with his hands and held on to the blade before he threw me and my sword away like Tanjiro.'
After their training, they returned to Urokodaki's house after a long day from their training.
"Nezuko, we're home." Tanjiro greeted his sleeping sister. He sighed as went back and write in his journal.
"When will she ever wake up from this?" BoBoiBoy muttered as he did the same thing as Tanjiro.
'I'm never going to get used to this, but it has to be done or else, I'll never catch up to Tanjiro's level. He's progressing a bit better than the last days we trained. In contrary to this, this is really harder than Tok Kasa's training!'
He stretched his arms and yawned. He looked to see Tanjiro drowsily writing in his journal.
'Hopefully, tomorrow isn't as painful as it is expected. I wanna take a break.'
'Today, I learned breathing techniques and some forms.'
"Total Concentration Breathing?" Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy simultaneously asked.
"That's right. I'm going to teach you all ten of the Water Breathing forms. Remember to take a long breath so the oxygen flows into every cell in your body. This will enhance your body's natural healing power, and both stabilize and energize your spirit." Urokodaki gives out instructions on how to do a Water Breathing.
"Relax your upper body while bracing your lower half." Urokodaki ordered them and they did what they were told. "All right, breathe!"
When he said "breathe", they literally didn't do what he expected and instead inhaled all the air they can breathe in.
"Wrong!" He struck them both in the abdomen.
"Oww..." BoBoiBoy winced in pain as he wrapped his arms around his stomach.
"Next Forms!"
"Right, like this?" They did the wrong stance.
"Wrong!"
"Like this?"
"Wrong!"
"This?"
"Wrong!"
"This?"
"Wrong!"
'And just like, he strucked us again and again in our stomachs until we can't get up. This is what we get for not bracing our stomachs and clobbered to a pulp.'
'Next, he told us to become one with the water.'
BoBoiBoy gaze at the waterfall. His memory of him training in that waterfall never left him and he knows what he's referring to. It's all about meditating while the water is flowing on top of his head.
"Get in there!" Urokodaki told Tanjiro. For not being quick enough, he kicked Tanjiro off of the edge and Tanjiro did some funny poses to try to get back to the surface.
"Nezuko!" He fell to the water as he shouted out her name.
"Do I need to do the same to you?" He looked at BoBoiBoy, still standing beside him.
"No worries, sir! I've been in this before!" He exclaimed as he jumped off the edge and splashed into the water. With him and Tanjiro in the water, they sat at the peak of the waterfall and tried to concentrate.
BoBoiBoy did well in his meditation in the waterfall. He had gone through this process before to improve his remaining elements, Blaze and Ice. He can do it again for the sake of getting stronger, with or without his original powers.
His concentration was interrupted by Tanjiro, yelling out Nezuko's name again.
"Nezuko! I am water!"
He sweatdropped. 'Oh boy, this is gonna be a long day.'
'And now, it's been six months since Nezuko was last awake. Mr. Urokodaki summoned the doctor right away and had him examine her, but he found nothing wrong. But it's not normal for her to stay asleep like this.'
With a sad look, BoBoiBoy approached the sleeping Kamado sibling carefully and sat down beside her.
"Poor Nezuko. It's been six months now..."
Tanjiro leaned forward to get a good closer look at Nezuko's sleeping face.He places his hand on top of her head as to reassure her. 'I was scared. I worry that one morning, I'll wake up to find her dead. Not a day goes by that I don't worry.'
"..." Tanjiro silently gazed at her. His eyes didn't leave her for one second. The thought of his sister never waking up again scares him.
"Hey." Tanjiro glaced up. "It's gonna be alright. Someday, she'll wake up feeling better and happier to see you. You need to look on the bright side more than thinking of what's going to happen to her. I know it sounds easy when I say it but you need to try to look at a positive view more. Trust me."
For the past six months, Tanjiro didn't even smile the whole time because of Nezuko's condition. But since BoBoiBoy is here to cheer him up in these hard times, he finds a reason to smile again.
"Thank you. I don't even know what to do without you here." Tanjiro finally showed his smile after six months.
Next day later, they're descending down the mountain again.
'Our descents are getting more dangerous.' Tanjiro thought as he and BoBoiBoy are running down the mountain. They slid down a steep path and carefully maneuvered around the thin ledge. Tanjiro would've slipped down and fall if it weren't for BoBoiBoy helping him up back.
'Time and time again, I think we might die.'
A log with spikes on the front came down but Tanjiro sliced it with a clean cut. BoBoiBoy reflected the throwing knives as he is more in control of his own senses. Him and Tanjiro are deflecting most of the throwing knives with ease until there are none left to deploy. The sun rose as they finished their training.
"I have nothing more to teach you."
Both were catching their breath after their training.
'A year after we arrived at Mt. Sagiri, he told us all of a sudden...'
"The rest is up to you two! Whether or not both of you can improve to the next level." Urokodaki told them.
BoBoiBoy is the first to speak. "But why? Why did you decide to stop training us? I don't understand."
Urokodaki paused.
"Come with me!"
Walking deeper into the forest, Urokodaki led them to a huge boulder wrapped in some kind of rope. They gasped at the sight.
"If you two can slice this boulder, I will allow you both to enter Final Selection."
BoBoiBoy blinked. "No way... this boulder... can be sliced...?"
"I'm with him. Our swords would snap. If we try to slice this thing."
Urokodaki begins to walk away from them to leave them on what to do with the boulder.
"Mr. Urokodaki, please wait!" Tanjiro tried calling out to him. "Mr. Urokodaki!"
'After that, Mr. Urokodaki never taught us anything ever again.'
Still looking at the direction of where Urokodaki went through, Tanjiro looked down at the ground.
"Let's do this." BoBoiBoy unsheathed his sword. "We've come this far. We're not gonna be bested by some boulder!"
BoBoiBoy stood in front of the boulder, determination covering his whole face. "Stand back, Tanjiro. I'm gonna test to see how durable this boulder is."
He took many deep breaths and stared at the boulder for a while now.
"HAAAAAAAA!" He inputted so much power into that one swing and struck the boulder, but it didn't leave a scratch or graze anywhere. As a result, the power of the swing vibrated on the sword and onto BoBoiBoy as well.
"Well... I tried." BoBoiBoy sighed as he couldn't slice this boulder. Tanjiro stepped forward as it's his turn to do it. He did the same thing and had goosebumps running all over him. Thankfully the boulder didn't cracked his sword.
"Maybe we should try it together? More power and energy in that, right?" BoBoiBoy suggested.
"All right. Let's give it try." Tanjiro agreed.
They both stood back and let out a battle cry.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
After failing to cut the boulder in half, Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy decided to train separately as to give each other some privacy and more open space. BoBoiBoy is seen slicing some bamboo sticks.
'Every day, I practiced over and over what I'd learned from Mr. Urokodaki. We've come to an agreement that Tanjiro and I are gonna train on our own.'
He practiced his own training regime which are push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and holding his breath while underwater.
'During my own training, I continued to hone my own breathing thanks to Mr. Urokodaki mentioning it.'
He goes in a meditating stance while drawing vast amounts of air into him.
'I finally figured out what I did last year during my encounter with Mr. Tomioka and the demons. Whenever I do this breathing technique, my body feels really lighter. I breathed in air in me and released them as a burst of energy.'
It shows BoBoiBoy doing the breathing technique and sliced the bamboo sticks all around him for more than a second. He fell to one knee after using it for only one try.
'The only problem is, I find myself breathing really heavily like I have asthma.'
'I was able to nimble around more quickly when I activated my heightened sense, which allows me to see, hear, and feel through everything.'
With his senses enhanced, he did multiple athletic tricks to further improve his agility and jumped branch to branch from the trees he's currently using to navigate.
'The thing is, I can only activate it once a day except my hearing didn't affect it for some odd reason. So I can only use this trait for my own benefit if I ever need to.'
They gathered around to the boulder once again. Tanjiro is the first to try and slice the boulder multiple times but to no avail. BoBoiBoy got his turn last and had no progress in cutting the boulder.
'Even with the two of us separately training to make ourselves stronger, even after another six months had passed, we still couldn't slice the boulder.'
His hands were shaking from the stress he's taking from not cutting down this really hard boulder. Speaking of BoBoiBoy's hands, they suffered too much, rough to the surface and appeared to be peeling with the amount of training he's doing. Tanjiro had this too.
'I felt frustrated. Not enough!' He balled his hands into fists. 'I wasn't training hard enough!'
He's now pushing himself to his limits by running down and up the mountain multiple times during the day, doing his routine of basic exercises like push-ups for hours, and trying to improve his breathing and heightened senses.
'I gotta do more! More! For the sake of myself! For the sake of Tanjiro and Nezuko! For the sake of this world!'
Afternoon entered, the sunset warms the skin of BoBoiBoy. After many attempts of trying to cut the boulder, he still failed.
'After all the training... after I endured all the sufferings, I still couldn't manage cut down this damn boulder!'
He gripped his head as he's about to go crazy. But as he opened his eyes, his eyes flashed yellow for a quick second until it went back to its original color brown.
'I'll almost give in! I'm breaking down!!'
Not taking it anymore, he smacked his forehead against the boulder for his failures.
"Keep working, BoBoiBoy! You can do it!!" He tried encouraging himself and smacked his head against the boulder again.
"Shut up!" A mysterious voice prevented him from smacking his head any further. He got startled and glanced up to see a boy with a orange hair and a fox mask.
"A man shouldn't whine. It's unseemly." He said as he sat on top of the boulder.
'When did he show up? There's no sound when he's there. A fox mask?'
"No matter how much you suffer, bear it in silence... like that other boy." He stood up from the boulder. "If you're a man. If you call yourself a man."
He leapt from the rock and used his bokken to strike BoBoiBoy's sword, to which he blocked it. The mysterious boy tried to kick his head but BoBoiBoy ducked his head it in no time and gained some distance between him and the boy in a mask by jumping away.
"You had reflexes, I'll give you that. But you are still weak and immature. That's not what you call a man."
"What are you doing?" BoBoiBoy asked to the boy.
"I'd like to know what you think you're doing." He replied.
"What do you mean? I'm training." He plainly said, not knowing what he meant by that.
"How long do you plan to keep your butt on the ground without even taking a stance?"
He gets it now and puts on his stance. He never has his own stance with a sword before, the only times he made a stance was when he changed into BoBoiBoy Lightning and dual wielded his lightning swords. So therefore, he created his own stance by putting his sword closer to the side of his face with the blade facing front, hands both on the handle, and his left leg stretched to the front and his right leg almost crouched.
He is now waiting for the boy to do something.
"Come on. Come at me." He gestured his hand as an act to taunt him.
"I'd like to but you have a wooden sword and I have a real sword." He is concerned by the fact that he is holding a real sword while the other boy is holding a bokken.
A few seconds later, he begins to laugh to mock his statement earlier, making BoBoiBoy confused and nervous about this.
"Well, well! Thank you for worrying about me. So, you think you're actually going to injure me!" Without any warning, he charged over to BoBoiBoy and clashed his bokken into his real sword. He brought his bokken closer after he countered BoBoiBoy's slash and said this.
"Well, you have absolutely nothing to worry about! I'm more powerful than you because I've sliced that boulder!"
'Wait, him? He sliced that boulder? He thought as sweat begins to break on his face. The masked boy jumped upwards and flip to a nearby tree, which is behind BoBoiBoy and leapt from it to surprise attack hihim from behind.
'Don't panic! Remember your training! Use your heightened sense to see where he went!'
And just like that, he concentrated his breathing and the world around him became clearer. His hearing senses detected a hurling object coming and he quickly turned around to parried the bokken using his sword. After he successfully blocked the attack, the masked boy rapidly moved around in a zig-zag pattern to try and disorient BoBoiBoy's sight.
'It's okay! I can see him going from one tree from another and by the sounds of it, he can be going over—'
As he predicted, the masked boy zoomed to his side and BoBoiBoy instinctly blocked the incoming attack with his sword.
"Nice block!" He praised him. "But can you block this one next?" He kept moving but this time adding more speed into his movements and zigzagged again around the forest.
'Not good! I can't find him at this rate of speed! How is he so fast!?'
And before he know it, he was struck down by the masked boy and was sent to the ground, hard.
"You have learned nothing but blocking my attacks. You barely mastered a single thing! Particularly, the breathing technique Mr. Urokodaki taught you... Total Concentration Breathing." He said this to him.
'He knows Mr. Urokodaki? And the breathing technique, too?'
"What you did wasn't Total Concentration Breathing. But the totally different type of breathing you did, you didn't heed to its abilities. All you did was identifying its advantages. Your body doesn't have the strength to do what it needs to do. And for what you did there, when you blocked my attack, your Heightened Senses need more work."
BoBoiBoy stares wide eyed at the masked boy.
'How does he know about my ability to enhance my senses? Was he watching me from the shadows?'
"What the hell were you doing for a whole year and a half? The other boy also doesn't have a clue what he's doing too!" He said as he attacked him again with his bokken.
"Slam it into your flesh!" The masked boy repeatedly swings his bokken at the yellow haori boy. They kept exchanging blows when the masked boy skidded BoBoiBoy across a few yards. "More! More! So that you'll never forget the secrets Mr. Urokodaki taught you! Pound it into the marrow of your bones!"
"Listen!" He blocked an attack. "I'm trying my best!"
He continued to Parry most of his attacks. "Me and Tanjiro! We're giving our training everything we got!"
A flashback of him and Tanjiro appeared as they stood in front of the boulder that they were trying to slice since day 1.
"But still, we're not making any headway! We can't go on any further!" The flashback ends.
"Go further! If you're a man, if you call yourself a man! There's no other way to go but forward!"
They kept clashing blades against each other. "Bring it on! Show me what you are capable of!"
With one battle cry, BoBoiBoy's eyes flickered yellow until it is coloured completely bright yellow. His sword started to emit sparks around it. The masked boy, however, was surprise to see this change but still went for the attack. Their blades made contact but BoBoiBoy's sword totally cut his bokken in half.
BoBoiBoy glanced up to meet the masked boy and glared intensely. His yellow eyes never escaped his mask. To the other boy, despite his face hiding behind the mask, he looked he is seeing a monster.
Shortly after, BoBoiBoy collapsed in front of the masked boy. Too shocked to even move, he glanced down to meet him. The way he cut his bokken in half, it's almost as if he wanted to make sure he gets the message by not messing with him anymore.
A little girl in a kimono and with a fox mask beside her head entered the scene and looked at her friend. She was almost surprise to see him unmoving from his current spot.
"Hide this boy behind the boulder." He asked to her. "Meanwhile, I'll be waiting for the other one..." He vanished just like that, leaving the girl, with a smile on her face, all alone with BoBoiBoy.
BoBoiBoy stirred awake after he passed out from exhaustion.
"Are you all right?" The little girl said. "You're friend behind the boulder. He seems to be waking up as well."
He didn't know what she meant until he heard some groans behind the boulder. BoBoiBoy got up slowly to see Tanjiro waking up.
The little girl saw Tanjiro and went over to his side and knelt to meet his height.
"Did you see that just now?" Tanjiro asked almost a bit too loud. It took him a while to notice BoBoiBoy beside her.
He opened his mouth to say something, but he stops him. "The same thing with you."
He closed his mouth, now understanding what he meant.
"Anyways, what a strike that was! Not a single bit of wasted motion! It was really beautiful! I want to become like that! You think I can become like him?"
The girl just sat there and smiled at his fascination towards the masked boy's prowess.
"I'm sure you can since I'll be looking after you." She said in a cute voice. "As for you, you faced him last time and you did really well. With enough training, you can surpass his level."
She smiled. Her smile radiates so much kindness and innocence.
'She's so cute.' They both thought.
"Who are you?"
'This girl's name is Makomo.' BoBoiBoy begins to narrate. 'She told me that the boy me and Tanjiro faced was Sabito.'
'Makomo also pointed out our defects. She corrected Tanjiro's unnecessary movements and bad habits and she corrected my levelheadedness in battle and overconfidence in my senses.'
The boys watched her as she put on a flower crown on her head while sitting on top of a rock.
'But when we asked her why she was doing those, and where she came from, she didn't tell us anything.'
"Both he and I love Mr. Urokodaki very much."
'That was Makomo's pet phrase. She and Sabito weren't siblings. She said that Mr. Urokodaki raised them after they'd been orphaned.'
Makomo stood in front of the boulder. "There are other children besides us. They're always watching you both, Tanjiro, BoBoiBoy."
'Makomo is somewhat a strange girl.' Tanjiro tilted his head.
'She speaks in such an abstract, dreamy way.'
"You see, Tanjiro, BoBoiBoy, Total Concentration Breathing accelerates your blood circulation and your heart rate. That causes your body temperature to spike, making you strong as a demon while staying human, The important thing is to expand your lung capacity. When you bring lots of air into your blood, and when your blood gets excited, your bones and muscles scurry to heat up and grow stronger." Makomo explained in good detail.
'Although, when she explained it like that, it doesn't add up to me. I don't know about Tanjiro but he seems to be confused as I do.'
"BoBoiBoy." She eyed him.
"Yeah?"
She thinks for a second before opening her mouth. "If you mix Water Breathing with your own breathing, something miraculous will happen."
His interest piqued by the sounds of it. And she seems to know about his breathing technique.
"What's my breathing technique called?" BoBoiBoy asked the number one thing that has been on his mind since he started training for this. Tanjiro looks at him with wonder. He never knew he had his own breathing technique. BoBoiBoy just never told him that.
"That would ruin the fun now, wouldn't it?" She smiled and avoided the question for now. "My advice to you; keep training your breathing technique until you can stand on your own two feet."
"Hey Makomo, about the breathing technique, how can I do that?" Tanjiro asked her. Makomo simply just smiled and replied.
"Train to death. At the end of the day, there's nothing else you can do."
They trained like crazy, BoBoiBoy and Tanjiro. They never stop training no matter if it is day or night. They dropped down to the ground after they worked up so much to improve themselves.
'Until our arms and legs were ready to fall off... Until our lungs and heart were ready to burst, we swung our swords. But still...'
A scene showed Sabito handling them with ease.
'We just couldn't beat Sabito.'
'Not until six months later.'
Time had advanced really fast as Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy are facing off one of their most difficult obstacles in their whole lives, Sabito and the boulder.
With the time skipping by, Tanjiro outgrew his dark-red hair that reached down his neck. BoBoiBoy also outgrew his hair, reaching down to his shoulders and has shown to grow more than a few inches taller than Tanjiro. This advancement of two years made his voice a little more deeper, a sign that puberty has kicked in.
'When we challenged him that day, Sabito was wielding a real sword. Because BoBoiBoy destroyed his bokken, he knew that it was time to get serious and fight for real.'
"After six months, finally." Sabito unsheathed his sword. "You two have the looks of a man."
All of them were in their stances.
"Today's the day we win!" Both said at the same time.
They all had an intense stare off to see which one of them moves first. Makomo watched them from the sidelines.
'Head-on battles are simple. Whoever's stronger and faster wins.'
Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy took deep breaths, focusing on channeling their breathing, and got ready.
They disappeared, vanished like the speed of light. But in reality, they all held their swords straight up and ready to slice who's who. Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy were the first people to brought down their swords in inhumane speed before Sabito brings down his own.
'On this day, in this moment, for the first time, our blades reached Sabito first.'
As a result, his fox mask was sliced in half vertically. They both gasped at his real face, Sabito's face. Instead of him frowning, he was smiling.
'The moment we won, Sabito smiled. He looked sad and happy. A relieved kind of smile.'
"Tanjiro... BoBoiBoy..." Makomo called them out. "Both of you did great. Don't forget what you two just did. Win, okay, Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy?"
She started to vanish in the foggy mist. "Beat that guy, too."
As they both looked at Makomo disappearing and back to Sabito, he was gone, gone from their field of vision.
'The next thing we knew, Sabito was gone. And our swords, which we were sure had slashed Sabito's mask...'
In their fight with Sabito, they thought that when they get passed him, they can finally work on to slicing the boulder again. But in actuality, their blades not only met Sabito's, but the impossible, hardest obstacle, was done.
'...had sliced the boulder.'
Holy— Did I get lost in thought? Because I think I wrote much than I can think! If this continues, I'm gonna get a headache. (•̩̩̩̩_•̩̩̩̩)
This took me a while but I'm happy it's done.
Thank you guys for enjoying and reading this chapter, and I'll see you guys later 3
Much love from me! ω
