"Nezuko... Nezuko!" Tanjiro crawled forward to his unconscious sister. Unable to get up due to him unleashing Hinokami, the only movement control he had over himself is his arms.

Rui's slashed head fell slowly while looking at Kamado siblings and the other BoBoiBoy.

EarthQuake made a sloppy attempt to balance himself up despite being healed of his wounds. It didn't exactly recover his fatigue and he found himself collapsing back again to the ground next to Tanjiro and Nezuko.

'I'll kill them! I'll kill them! I'll kill those siblings no matter what! Siblings!'

Blaze sharpened his sword and wiped out any blood that seeped to his blade and immediately reformed back to the fallen trio. Blaze cautiously took close watch of Rui's decaying, ashened body slowly stepping to their spot with his arms outstretched at them.

"What is it that you want to do, Rui?" The fake mother, Eiko, asked to Rui in his own mind. "What do you mean by family?"

Rui, with his body fully intact, answered truthfully. "I don't know. Because I have no memories of when I was human."

"Is that why you made us pretend to be your family?" She asked then as if on cue, illusions of the previous spider family members appeared behind her, all staring at Rui.

"I thought that if I could feel a family bond, my memories would come back. The bond of a real family..."

With all these happening, his eyes stared at the Kamado siblings in front of him. Tanjiro shielding Nezuko from any further harm even if it is Tanjiro the only injured person among them.

'That's right. I...'

"Nezuko..." Tanjiro muttered and kept holding on tight on Nezuko.

'I...'


Three kids at around the age of 7-10 were seen having a snowball fight. The looks of happiness spread all over their faces as they continue to throw each other the frozen projectiles of snow. One kid stood away from all the fun and looked at the spectacle in front of him.

This kid is Rui.

Rui had jet black unkempt hair like his spider demon form. He has dark purple eyes and were wide as he stared at the scene. He never knew what it feels like to have fun because he wasn't allowed outside all the time.

Rui wanted to be with the kids and experience what it is like to have fun. He tried to walk, but his frail body already gave weight and he fell on the soft snow face first. Rui coughed continuously underneath the snow until he finds the energy to roll around the snow and sets his eyes towards the sky.

He laid there for what seemed to be like an eternity for him. Later, a female voice rang in his ears and belonged to Rui's mother as she is running at him.

"Rui! Rui!" She yelled and gotten closer to him at the ground. "Rui! What are you doing?! You know you're not supposed to be outside!"

Time skipped and he is seen sitting up on his futon, contemplating on his life being weak.

'I was always very frail ever since I was born. I'd never even run. Just walking was a struggle. Until Master Muzan appeared.'

Rui sensed a presence near his side and turned to look at the first demon that had ever existed; Muzan Kibutsuji. His appearance was different compared to his present look. He is shown to be wearing a white suit and slick black hair.

"You pitiful thing. Let me save you." Muzan said and offered Rui a chance that will change his whole world upside down.

'My parents weren't happy about it. Because now that I'd acquired a strong body, I could never expose myself to sunlight, and I had to devour humans.'

Rui's father opened a sliding door to reveal a mutilated human carcass. "What have you done? What on earth have you done? Rui!"

Rui's mother was behind the father while burying her face on her face, sobbing for seeing what Rui had done. Rui just murdered a person, a human being.

Because he was a demon.

'Long ago, I heard a wonderful story. There was once a father who died trying to save his drowning child. I was deeply moved. Such astounding parental love. And such a bond, as well. This father who drowned in the river had fulfilled his role as a parent. And yet, for some reason, my own parents...'

Rui's father sniffles as he holds a knife intended to... kill his own child. A child that had changed into a demon for a reason the father doesn't quite know yet. He positioned the knife's blade to thrust it onto Rui.

'My own parents tried to... kill me.'

The mother sobbed behind the father. The decision of killing Rui weighed heavily on their shoulders but they knew the risk of letting him live longer would make him dangerous and kill other innocent people.

As parents, they need to take care of their child one last time.

'All my mother did was sob, never lifting a finger to protect me as I was about to be killed.'

Rui was sleeping soundly, completely drown out from today's events like it was nothing. But until recently, he had never felt this dull in his whole life. Even when he killed a person, he didn't look surprised. He just shrugged it off as something as a feast waiting to be devoured for him, since he was a demon.

But when his parents found out, he didn't know what to do. He hoped they find a way to atone for his sin of commiting a murder.

However, he didn't expect as something as this.

A shadow loomed above Rui.

Rui opened his eyes.

And a stabbing sound can be heard.

Blood ooze from the floor.

'They must've been imposters. The bond between us wasn't real.' He stared at the moon after he dealt with his real parents in a gruesome way ever. The blood didn't came from Rui. It came from them.

"Sorry..." His mother muttered weakly.

'She's saying something. So, she's still alive?' Rui thought.

"...for not giving you a strong, healthy body. I'm so sorry..." Tears fell from her eyes and Rui's mother finally admitted to Rui for not giving him what he had wanted. Afterwards, she already succumbed to her fatal wounds and passed away, knowing that she finally said what she wanted to say to Rui.

His eyes widen in realization. 'Those were my mother's last words before she died. She died...'

Before the father died, he told him. "It's all right, Rui! We're going to die with you!"

'I was so enraged that he'd tried to kill me that my father's words went over my head. But in that moment, I realized that he meant to die with me to atone for my sin of having to murdered another. It was a genuine bond.'

A piece of rope, which is suppose to symbolize Rui's bond to his parents, had snapped.

'And that night, I severed it with my two hands. Even so, Master Muzan gave me words of encouragement.'

"It was all your parents' fault for refusing to accept you. Take pride in your own strength." Muzan used Rui's unstable emotions to drive and manipulate Rui into doing things for him.

'I had no choice but to look at it that way. I couldn't bear the weight of what I'd done.' He held his own head and screamed.

'Even knowing that I only had myself to blame...'


Returning to the present, Rui's head fell and rolled to let him see Tanjiro and Nezuko. His own body tried to walk up to them like a zombie.

'Every single day... I missed my parents so much that I could barely stand it. Even after creating a fake family, the feeling of emptiness wouldn't go away. Since I was one with the most power, there was no one who could protect me... who could shield me. The more powerful I became, the less I remembered about being a human. And I was losing sight of what it was that I wanted to do. Seeking a bond that I could never claim for myself.'

Rui's body had finally reached the Kamado siblings then it fell down to do the ground due to it decaying into ash. His hand reached out to them, to have the bond he wanted from the siblings.

'Even though it was simply out of my reach no matter how I strained to get my hands on it.'

Quake raised his head up when he sensed something in Rui's body. Even if it is still decaying, Quake crawled his way towards it.

'This small body... is emanating a sound full of grief and sadness... too overwhelming for him to bare... what if...'

Quake stretched out his hand to place it on top of Rui's back. Tanjiro mirrored the same gesture and the two are sharing the same space to give Rui the comfort he didn't deserve.

'So warm. Hands as gentle as sunlight. Now I remember as clear as day. What I wanted was to apologize. I'm sorry... I was... I was to blame for it all. I hope you can forgive me. But since I've killed scores of people, I'm going to Hell, aren't I? Father... Mother... I can't go to the same place as you, can I?'

"That's not true."

Rui's eyes snapped open. Although, it revealed that he has more human like eyes than having his demonized ones. They're all filled with purity.

He felt a hand on his back. A hand so gentle he can almost relax on it.

"We'll be going together even if it's to Hell."

He couldn't believe it. Rui gasped then turned to look at his real father.

"Rui..." He smiled warmly to his son.

"Father..." He turned to his right. "Mother..."

The mother nodded at her son. "Rui... No matter where you go, we'll be with you."

It was too much. It was too much for Rui. It was too much for him to handle. His parents, his real parents, displayed a bond he had been looking for.

It was with his parents the whole time.

His eyes shook until tears were already leaking but he doesn't care. He's happy to hear that his parents will follow him forever in Hell. Then slowly, his human features had returned, making him revert back to him being human again.

"Aaaaaaauuuuuggggghhhhh!! It was... It was all my fault!" Rui ran to them and they all have family hug.

"I'm sorry...! I'm sorry...! I'm sorry...! I'm sorry...!"

And with that, Rui and his family peacefully vanished into flames.

"..."Quake silently observed the kimono that was once belonged to the tragic child. He couldn't help shedding tears for this kid.

'Rui... I hope you're finally be with your parents. Wherever you are, you're now free from Muzan's puppet strings.' He clenched his teeth and gripped his hand into a fist.

'Muzan Kibutsuji... You tormented and manipulated innocent people in sick, twisted ways! You took Tanjiro's family away from him! I'll never forgive you for that! I swear Tanjiro will be the one to end your life in sheer peril!'

He snapped out of his train of thoughts when a foot trampled onto Rui's kimono. He glanced to see Giyu stepping on it.

"Don't waste any sympathy on a demon that devoured humans. It doesn't matter if it looks like a child. It's still a hideous monster that's lived for decades." Giyu stated.

"To avenge the people who were killed, to make sure there are no more victims, of course, I'll bring my blade down on any demon's neck without any mercy! But as for those for whom being a demon meant despair, those who regretted their own actions... I will never trample over them! Because demons were once human, too! Just like me, they were human, too! Please step off him!"

Quake gasped at Tanjiro's impromptu speech. In his fair share of experience, there are demons who chose to become demons because of reasons he can't quite understand. But only for those that are doing for the right cause but in wrong ways possible, Quake wouldn't doubt that a demon are trying to survive to be human that they once were.

"Mr. Tomioka, please step off of Rui." Quake decided to step in. "What you said is true, about demons that devours humans and shouldn't be given pity on them. However, not every demons are evil! They're just like us, looking for a way to live even if they are forced to devour humans because they had no other choice! Demons aren't hideous monsters! They're hopeless, tragic creatures!"

He remembered the Morphed Demon, Kyogai, Susamaru, Eiko and lastly, Rui. They are demons who faced a tragedy even if they hid it through their masked exteriors.

Tanjiro smiled at Quake. He's happy to know that he shares the same feeling and opinion about demons. He even wondered if Tanjiro's kind nature had influenced BoBoiBoy to be like him or it's just his own sense of justice.

Or maybe both?

After all, Tanjiro and Urokodaki are the only people who had known BoBoiBoy for so long in this world. After knowing of his past, Tanjiro will always support BoBoiBoy with every fiber of his being, even if he is from another world, era, dimension.

Because they are brothers-in-arms.

"Huh?" Giyu suspected because he met the other BoBoiBoy from the forest but he never expected to meet another BoBoiBoy.

"You're..." Giyu even took a look at Nezuko, instantly recognizing them as the two siblings he met two years ago.

Butterflies were floating around Giyu. He immediately sensed someone about to attack Nezuko.

"I heard someone!" Blaze took a stance and stood beside Giyu.

Shinobu zoomed in on them and took out her blade. Giyu had deflected her attack with his blade to prevent her from hacking off Nezuko's head.

"Oh my..." Shinobu front flipped and landed on the ground with grace.

"Lady Shinobu! Don't slice her head off please!"

They heard a voice all too familiar for Tanjiro, Quake and Blaze. Ice jumped in between and pleaded for Shinobu.

"BoBoiBoy, dear, you are suppose to be on my side. Don't tell me that you are siding on those people with a demon with them?" Shinobu stated.

"I know that, Lady Shinobu! But still, you can't kill the demon! There's a reason for this."

Quake and Blaze didn't notice at first but once they felt the cold expanding around them, that's when they realized...

"Ice?!" They exclaimed in shock.

Ice looked behind and smirked, before noticing them in their Secondary Tier forms, his jaw dropped for a second before he brought his attention to the Water Hashira, multiplying his shock expression further.

"Mr. Tomioka?!" Ice said. Giyu is beyond confused as to what's going on with... three BoBoiBoys.

"Do my eyes deceive me because I am seeing not one but three BoBoiBoy?" Shinobu asked albeit with a smile. "But besides the point, why would you get in my way, Tomioka?"

"Who is she?" Blaze asked to the Water Hashira beside him. Giyu didn't reply as he blankly stared at the Insect Hashira.

"After telling me ghat we could never be friends with demons... How should I put this? That's exactly why... no one likes you, you know."


A Kakushi injected the antidote on the victims's arm and reversed the poison's effects. The victim resisted his pain after it is gone and laid rest on the ground with a peaceful look on his face.

"Whoaa! Man, this antidote of Lady Kocho's is effective!" The male Kakushi said in an impressed tone.

"That's right. And she prepared it after one look at this situation. She's truly amazing." The female Kakushi expressed her amazement and looked at Zenitsu wrapped with multiple bandages revealing only his eyes and his nose to breathe easier.

"That goes for him, too." She casted a look on Zenitsu.

"Oh, that guy?"

"Because he defeated that demon, it slowed the circulation of the poison just a bit." She said.

"Although, I'm wondering about something." The male Kakushi started.

"What is it?" She asked.

"That, over there." He pointed to some chunks of ice that were on the ground after they crushed it enough to free the trapped victims. "It's weird to see ice that formed out of nowhere."

"Oh yeah. Whoever made that ice to form must be strong." She wondered. "Do you perhaps think it could be one of us that did this?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe. I highly doubt it couldn't have been the demon that created this. It didn't look like the blonde guy didn't do this either. So I'm thinking it's another powerful Demon Slayer that did this."

"A Hashira maybe?" She suggested. "As far as I know, only a Hashira can do something as dangerous as to conjure ice out of thin air. Not to mention, I'm getting a little bit cold from just near it."

"I have a feeling that it could be a Hashira but something tells me it's not." He said then placed a tag on the bandaged victim. "Anyways, this should do it! Looking good! Chances are they'll pull through."

"Still, I'd like to wrap things up quickly and leave this place as soon as possible, wouldn't you?" She said.

"Yeah, me too. I mean, this place really, really stinks!" Both Kakushis went to help their fellow Kakushis as they finished their first batch.

Back to their predicament at hand, the three BoBoiBoys, Tanjiro, and Giyu are now against Shinobu for attempting to persuade Giyu to move out of the way.

"The BoBoiBoy in blue, I never thought you would be against me after I helped heal your friend. Is this the thanks I received after you finally found your friends? I feel so hurt and betrayed." Shinobu tried to deceive Ice. Little did she know is that he already have it figured it.

"I'm really sorry, Lady Shinobu. I should've told you this a while ago. But, I can't risk putting Tanjiro and Nezuko's lives in further danger because I know you'll only go after them than us." Ice said and firmly grasped his sword.

"Is that so?" Shinobu smiled. "I guess I'll have to use force to go my way. If you don't want that to happen, then I suggest to politely move out of the way as well as you, Tomioka."

Giyu stood his ground and said. "I'm not... I'm not disliked by people."

Everyone were shocked to what he said. The three BoBoiBoys and Tanjiro are confused as all hell right now.

"Aww. Well, I'm sorry. You haven't even realized that people don't like you, then? That was uncalled for. Please forgive me."

"EEEHHH?!" Tanjiro, Quake, Blaze, and Ice almost face planted on the ground after hearing Shinobu saying that Giyu is disliked by people. More shocks were sent to them and Giyu as well.

'I feel like we've been sandwiched in their relationship right now...' Quake thought with a sweatdrop.

"Little boy with red hair!" Shinobu called out Tanjiro.

"Yes!" Tanjiro replied.

"What you're protecting there is a demon. I don't want you to get hurt, so please move away." Shinobu stated.

"Y-You're mistaken! I mean, you're not mistaken, but... she's my kid sister! She's my kid sister, so... You see..." Tanjiro struggled on his words and jumbles to find the correct way to explain it all to her.

"He means that his sister is a demon and that she never devoured anyone! I know it sounds absurd but you have go believe us!" Quake defended for Tanjiro, to which he highly appreciated.

"Is that right? Poor thing. In that case, I shall use a gentle toxin to kill her, so she won't have to suffer, all right?" Shinobu said in a cold tone even smiling through it. She brought up her blade and readied her toxin designed to kill demons.

Ice positioned himself so that it looks like he's guarding behind Giyu and the others. Blaze made sure to have Giyu's back in case Shinobu finds her way around them. Quake sluggishly stood and kneed beside Tanjiro as a way to protect them from Shinobu since his sword is now broken beyond repair.

"Can you move?" He said to Tanjiro without looking back.

"Mr. Tomioka?" Quake said.

"Make yourself move even if you can't move. Take your sister and run." Giyu adviced him.

"Tomioka..." Tanjiro muttered. "Sorry for the trouble! Thank you very much!"

"Isn't that against the Corps rules?" Shinobu reminded him.

"BoBoi—the three of you, go. I'll take care of her from here." Giyu said.

"What? But... Mr. Tomioka!" Blaze tried to argue.

"My problem is between me and her alone. You all go after him while I take care of things from here."

Ice intervened. "But I don't know if we should—"

Giyu glared at him. "Don't make me repeat myself. Just go!"

Ice and Blaze fell silent, not knowing what to do about it.

"Let's do what he says from now and go after Tanjiro. Mr. Tomioka, thank you very much! I promise I'll explain everything to you."

Giyu slightly nodded, getting the memo already. Blaze and Ice reluctantly left Giyu and ran off with Quake to help Tanjiro.

Speaking of Quake, heaving breathes were accompanied as well as from Blaze and Ice. They had no idea what came over them as they grew every second they took a step forward.

"What's going... on?" Ice finds himself gasping for air.

"Why do... I feel so... tired...?" Blaze said in the same state as Ice.

Quake stopped for a moment and thought for minute to know what's happening to them. "I think... we've been split for too long and... that explains why our bodies are straining..."

"I guess that makes sense... We split many times... For one month..." Ice said.

"We need to merge back, now." Blaze and Ice nodded. Their bodies lit up in yellow and turned into lights. The lights traveled back to Quake until he is now BoBoiBoy once again.

"Aauugghh...!!" BoBoiBoy's body strained way too much from being split for far too long. It had been like a full night since they've started to do the Elemental Split.

"I went... overboard with... having to split for too long." He grasped on his chest and coughed for a few minutes.

"But that's not important right now! I need to... find Tanjiro and Nezuko!" BoBoiBoy said to himself then took off in a sprint. He ran slower than he once thought.

'I can't see straight! My body feels really heavy! My whole body is writhing in pain, it hurts!' BoBoiBoy used his Breathing Technique to bare the pain to its minimum. He tried his absolute best to keep the pain from circulating in his body for longer.

'If they found out that Tanjiro and I are travelling with a demon, does it mean that we have to quit the Demon Slayer Corps?' BoBoiBoy thought on a worst case scenario if that were to happen. They'll have targets behind their backs every now and then if that time were to come.

'Keep it together, BoBoiBoy! Your main priority first is to find Tanjiro and Nezuko! Make sure they're not hurt in any way, shape or form!'

His hearing senses failed as someone is following and chasing after him.


Giyu and Shinobu battled as they clashed their swords on each other after the rest of the boys ran away from their sights. Giyu held her back, giving them more time to escape from Shinobu.

"I see you're dead serious, Tomioka. Who would've thought a Hashira would ever defend a demon?" Shinobu's smile slightly faltered as her tone contained a very serious one. Giyu didn't reply at her question and just stared at her.

"Whether you're dead serious or not, I'm not going to join you in stalling for time. So, good day to you." Shinobu sheathes her sword then jumped in blinding speed above Giyu. His eyes widen when he sees Shinobu jumping on the branches in pursuit of Tanjiro. Giyu followed after her.

Shinobu acrobatically jumps from tree to tree and spotted Giyu on the ground chasing after her. "Is that your attempt at catching up with me?"

Giyu continued to chase her, not bothering to answer her question. Shinobu smiles and jumps really high to avoid Giyu.

"I don't mind you trying to stop me, but don't forget about those other ones!"

Giyu knew perfectly well on what she refers to. He worry that Tanjiro will end up getting captured by not only one but two of Shinobu's fellow Demon Slayers.

With one big leap, he closed in on Shinobu.

'C'mon Tanjiro! Where in the world are you?!' BoBoiBoy slowed down his running and his exhaustion finally caught up to him.

'Dammit... Not now! Not when I need to find them first!'

His ears perked up when he heard the bushes rustle. Panic quickly washes him as he realized that his sword is totally broken.

'I thought merging back would mean that my sword would be replaced with either Blaze's or Ice's?! Don't tell me that only the original retained it?'

The rustling became until it revealed the person he knew.

"BoBoiBoy...?" A female voice sounded.

It took him a while register who it was and he breathed out sigh.

"It was you, Eiko. What are you doing here?" He asked while he went closer to her.

"Is it over? Is Rui..." She asked with little hints of fear from mentioning the boy that continuously tortured her non-stop.

"You have nothing to worry about anymore." He pats her on the head. "Rui is now dealt with. And he found peace with his real family again." He muttered the last part.

Essentially, she knew what he's saying and buried her head on his chest and let out a sob. "I-I-It's finally o-over... Y-You freed m-me." She hugged him tightly.

BoBoiBoy wouldn't help it and just warmly smiled at the former demoness. He couldn't believe that after one night, he would befriend a demon that is almost too innocent to be proved.

He wished that every demons were like her.

His face then got serious. "Eiko, listen to me." He grabbed her by both shoulders.

"W-What is it?" She sniffed before giving her full attention to the boy in yellow.

"I need you to run as far away from here as possible. It's not safe here anymore." BoBoiBoy recommended.

"W-What? But where will I go from here...?" She sounded terrified from the thought of leaving the forest that she was once imprisoned due to Rui's presence.

BoBoiBoy thought of suggesting to bring her in to Tamayo since she accepts demons with a change of heart. He remembered what place they were going to go thanks to him eavesdropping on them. It felt wrong but at least now he knows where he can find them and bring her to them.

'But what would Yushiro think of bringing an unknown demon with them? Can he easily accept her for a reason?'

He looked down to her. Her face showed innocence. It reminded him of Pipi Zola by that face alone. Memories of him, Yaya, and Pipi Zola hanging out together brings a tug on his heartstrings as to how much he misses them both. He leaked small tears in his eyes.

"BoBoiBoy?" She squeaked when she felt a tight hug circled around her. She found out that BoBoiBoy is silently crying.

"I'm sorry. It's just that... I'm a big mess right now. Too much had happened this night... and I just wanted it to be over..." He then let go and wiped away his tears.

"Listen to me now, I want you to go to this location." He provided her a way to get in contact with Tamayo and Yushiro. "Tell them that BoBoiBoy sent you and that way, they'll immediately trust you and you'll be safer with them."

Eiko took the words and printed them in her head. "I will. Thank you so much, BoBoiBoy."

She started to cry. "You have no idea how much this means to me. I've been waiting for so long to be free. But now, now I'll be safe. Thanks to you..."

BoBoiBoy grinned. "I'm glad to hear it but you gotta go now. I promise I'll come and find you soon."

She wiped her tears but they still kept falling down her eyes. "I-I will..."

They share one last hug.

"Be careful on your way. Don't let the sunlight hit you. Avoid the Demon Slayers. Seek shelter and try not to devour any humans. Your original form makes you look more human so don't change into your other form unless you have to. Understand?"

She nodded.

"Understood."

And with that, she ran off before she looked back and waved him good-bye. He copied the gesture and returned it to her. She disappeared from his line of sight.

"I hope you're on your way to them safe and sound." BoBoiBoy then frowned. "I still need to find Tanjiro and Nezuko. Off to the forest I go!"

BoBoiBoy began to jog in search for them when his hearing senses picked up an all too familiar sound. He can't pinpoint what it means but it's something that hits him close to home.

'What's this? Why am I hearing this now...?' His breath left him.

'It can't be... No... There's no way... Don't tell me it's...'

"RUN, NEZUKO!" Tanjiro's voice snapped out of his concentration on what he heard and focused on him instead. "RUN! MAKE A RUN FOR IT! DON'T GET CAUGHT NO MATTER WHAT! HURRY—"

BoBoiBoy flinched when the sound of a blunt blow knocked the wind out of Tanjiro and smashed his jawbone, making a cracking sound.

'They're nearby! But that begs the question of who is the one that knocked Tanjiro out?' BoBoiBoy eventually found Tanjiro, sprawled on the ground with his eyes whited out.

"He's unconscious..." He checked him then redirected his attention at the girl with a white cape.

'I recognized her. She's that girl from Final Selection. So she's a Demon Slayer too?'

The girl, Kanao Tsuyuri, is now in hot pursuit of Nezuko on a mission to decapitate her head off. BoBoiBoy gave chase to the girl and trying to reach Nezuko.

Her blade was so close in reaching Nezuko's neck."

"NOOO!" He reached out as he knew he couldn't get there. Fortunately, Nezuko shrunk down like a toddler, successfully avoiding the slash.

'She shrunk and turned into a child.' Kanao thought in revelation to Nezuko's ability.

Nezuko used her tiny legs to run and hop on some big roots and branches that were too big for her size and ran away from Kanao.

Kanao ran after her and swings her blade at Nezuko many times. 'All she's doing is running away. Not a single attack. But why?'

Nezuko ran with her arms spread out. BoBoiBoy closed in on them as sneakily as possible by jumping on the branches to gain some view on them.

'No need to ponder. My only job is to slay this demon as I was told.' Kanao thought.

She was about to deliver her slash on Nezuko when she tripped on a big branch. Two hands stopped her swing and that caused to draw out blood from those hands.

"I'm sorry but, I can't let you kill her!" BoBoiBoy gathered enough strength to throw her away, gaining distance between BoBoiBoy, Nezuko and Kanao. His hands were bleeding but it only mattered little to him.

'Who is this boy?' Kanao looked long and hard at BoBoiBoy. 'Wait... he's the boy from Final Selection. So he's a Demon Slayer too, huh?'

"Don't come any closer!" BoBoiBoy tried to be as intimidating as possible. A simple glare doesn't add into the intimidation factor.

"..." Kanao didn't speak. She can only observe BoBoiBoy from a distance.

'That's odd... how come she's not attacking me?'

He failed to realize that it was a trap as another boot was sent to the back of his head. He was sent flying to a tree and hit his head on impact.

Before he passed out completely, he could make out another Demon Slayer wearing a blurry-coloured haori with patterns he didn't recognize due to his vision fading.

And as he knew it, he was knocked out completely.


"Tomioka? Are you listening, Tomioka?" Shinobu started while being locked in a grip by Giyu in order to prevent her escape.

"Since the purpose of my attack was to slay a demon, and therefore justified, I don't believe it could be construed as a violation. But what you're doing is against the Corps rules. You're preventing me from slaying a demon. Just what are your intentions here?"

Giyu rolled his eyes to the top of his head. He had enough with this woman for only one night.

"Don't you have anything to say?" She said a bit louder and her vein popped up on her forehead, evidently pissed but still retained her sweet smile.

"This is your final warning. Give me a reason at least."

Giyu paused for a while until he gives his answer. "If I'm remembering this right, it was two years ago."

"Please don't start some long, rambling story from that far back in time. Are you just being spiteful? Are you perhaps still angry that I pointed out how people don't like you?"

Shinobu's camouflaged threat had momentarily stunned Giyu as he looked at her comically with plain white eyes.

While he's distracted, Shinobu's left heel had pull out a hidden blade. Giyu gasped slightly at the assassination attempt but—

"Message! Message! Cawww!" A crow flies through the air, making Shinobu stop her attempts to hurt Giyu.

"I have a message from headquarters! Tanjiro, BoBoiBoy, and Nezuko are to be taken into custody and brought back to headquarters!"

Giyu and Shinobu were surprised for another order to be delivered.

"Tanjiro, BoBoiBoy and the demon, Nezuko, are to be taken into custody and brought back to headquarters!"

"Tanjiro, dressed in a checkered haori, with a scar on his forehead! Nezuko, a demon girl with a bamboo muzzle! BoBoiBoy, dressed in a yellow haori with black linings in a zig-zag pattern on the bottom, with a scar that ran across his right eye! Bring them back! Bring them back!" Another crow shouted.

Kanao moved her head near Nezuko. "Are you Nezuko?"

The hooded Demon Slayer gasped when the crow mentioned BoBoiBoy's name. Their eyes immediately went over to the unconscious elementalist.

"BoBoiBoy..." They said in a somber tone.

The Hashiras sheathe their swords, no longer threatening themselves further as they have a new objective bestowed on them by the crows. Speaking of the crows, they repeated what they had said on a loop, that way, anyone that didn't hear it the first time will definitely know.

"He's the boy with the scar on his right eye. Yellow haori with black linings. Bring him in." A female Kakushi carried him onto her back.

"He's a bit heavy." She complained.

"I'll get the kid with the scar on his forehead. It looks like his jawbone is broken, isn't it?" The male Kakushi said after picking him up and slung him on his shoulder. He even picked up the box and strapped it on his back.

"I feel bad about tying him up, but orders are orders."

Two Kakushis had accidentally stumbled upon Inosuke tied up in some rope.

"Wh-Who the hell is this?"

"I don't know."

"A demon? Couldn't be, right?"

"Is it a human?"

One is holding a stick and poked Inosuke's mask.

"He's wearing our uniform trousers."

He poked the stick upwards to raise Inosuke's mask.

"Oh hey, this is a mask! He's a human!"

"All right, let's bring him in."

They proceeded to untie him.

"This guy's really banged up!"

"Why's he strung up like this?"

The Kakushi slung Inosuke on his shoulder. All the while, Inosuke was barely conscious and didn't have the energy to move after being tied up into a tree.

'There was nothing I could do... On my own, I couldn't even bring down even a single demon! You know what? Maybe I'm not that strong...' Inosuke thought, depressed.

Chuntaro/Ukogi bounced on top of Zenitsu after he regained consciousness. The first thing he felt are the bandages restraining his every movement. Of course, he is a mummified victim of the Older Brother Spider Demon that almost turned him into a spider.

"They wrapped us up like mummies." Zenitsu said in a muffled voice.

'Who are these people? They seem to be cleaning up this place really efficiently. And that girl there...'

He looked to see Kanao giving out orders to her fellow Kakushis.

'Isn't she the girl from Final Selection? She has the same kind of hair ornament as the lady who wrapped us up.'

"Shouldn't we bring them to the Butterfly Mansion, as well?" One male Kakushi asked.

"Yes, bring all of the wounded to our place. I'll be hunting down the demons in the area so you can work without any worries."

She gestured to her fellow teammate with their face shadowed.

"Will you be accompanying me on the hunt for demons?" Kanao asked.

The teammate nodded. "Yes. We need to clear this forest from the demons. You can count on me, Kanao." They smiled at her and Kanao returned it.

'Who is that person?' Zenitsu didn't get a clear look of the hooded person's face as they turned away from his vision. 'Is that the girl's partner? I can't tell if it's a boy or a girl from their tone of voice. But I guess that doesn't matter.'

'Come to think of it, I've heard about them. The clean-up crew, the Kakushis. The unit that cleans up after the Demon Slayer Corps battles demons. They say that most of its members are people who have no swordsmanship skills.'

As he finished with his thoughts, the sun has started to make it's appearance and bring new hope to the people below. It's early rays are shining down on the forest, making it look too beautiful for the eyes of travelers. To Zenitsu, it's the start of another day.

"Chu!" Chuntaro/Ukogi chirped.

"It's daybreak." Zenitsu had mumbled underneath the bandages.

The Hashiras are on their way back to the headquarters. They don't need to look for the required people as the Kakushis had it all taken care of. Shinobu stopped to look at the rising sun in the horizon.

Kanao and her fellow teammate watched as the sun starts to make way into the forest.

The Kakushis that are carrying both Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy are walking their way to headquarters. The orders are still fresh in their minds. They still haven't a clue of what's going on with bringing these boys and the demon in, but something tells them that it's more complicated than what they seem.

The sun partially enveloped the mountain with its orange rays. And finally, the terrors of Mt. Natagumo had officially came to an end.

Eiko hid inside of an abandoned temple not too far from the mountain and looked at the sun. The way when her fingers felt the warmth of the sun from BoBoiBoy Fire, she wanted to feel it again because of how much the warmth can make her feel so alive.

But she brushed her thought of setting her hand on the sun. Only the warmth of love can make her feel alive, and she embraced it with BoBoiBoy giving her what she wanted.

Now she needs to get to the place where hopefully the people he mentioned would take care of her.

She smiled at the new day given to her. Things aren't looking to grim and awful for her. Instead, she's filled with hope.

Hope for another chance at life.

And she had BoBoiBoy to thank for.

"Thank you... BoBoiBoy." She muttered before falling into a deep slumber to pass the day.


A garden, the aesthetically organized rocks, the wisteria flowers, and ordinary flowers with butterflies flying around them. Nothing says peaceful except these in particular.

BoBoiBoy, tied up in a rope while laying on his side, slept.

"Wake up."

He didn't wake up.

"Hey, I said wake up!"

He didn't wake up.

"Wake... Hey! Hey you! Both of you!"

They didn't wake up.

"Come on, you! Come on!"

They didn't wake up.

"ARE YOU TWO GONNA SLEEP ALL DAY?! WAKE THE HELL UP, WILL YA?!"

That's what gotten them to wake up. They snapped their eyes open, opened to reveal multiple people standing before them.

"You're both in the presence of the Hashiras!"


The moment we've all been waiting for! The Hashiras are now here!

Well maybe not quite, but in the next chapter, they will be xD.

As for the secret character, they're going to be introducing themselves in the next chapter. If you somehow both caught on with who it is, then congrats, you just spoiled yourself XD.

Hope y'all enjoyed and thanks for reading!

~ s a y o n a r a