Release: March 9, 2021
Words: 2621
wattpad: Izuna Sakaki
"Hey, Nezuko, Did you enjoy the food?" Sakonji asked.
"Yes! I didn't eat that much for a long time" Nezuko replied.
"A growing girl like you need to eat more to be strong and grow bigger in size" Sakonji said.
"Master, don't be like that. She's a girl so she can't go bigger, Right Nezuko?" Makomo said interfering them.
"Yeah, your right" Nezuko said.
"But that goes for demons too" Sabito said.
"Remember this. The more the demon eat, the stronger they get" Sabito added.
"There are also demons who gain power and transform their bodies, and even use strange spell" Urokodaki Said.
"When you sense of smell become keener, you'll be able to tell how mamy human a demon devoured" Urokodaki explained as he gave Nezuko a mask.
"What is this?" Nezuko asked.
"It's a warding mask" Makomo replied.
"I've charged it with spell to protect you from harm" Urokodaki said.
"Warding mask..." Nezuko thought.
The Next Day
Nezuko POV
It's now daytime and today is the day i will attend ny final selection. I just hope that i can pass it, though it won't be easy.
My brother is Sleeping again. It's morning anyway, he didn't sleep at all last night. I can't still believe that demon can sleep too and even eat human food. Is he a hybrid? I thought.
I grab the warding mask that master gave me and get outside. They are waiting. I look at my brother for one last time and sit beside him. I grab his hand and i said my goodbye.
"Brother, i promise. I'll come back"
End of Nezuko's PoV
Sakonji Urokodaki gave Nezuko a fox mask and with the help of Makomo's sewing skills, she now wear a haori just like tanjiro.
"Are you ready?" Sabito asked
"Yes, I'm ready!" Nezuko exclaimed as she turn around and bid her goodbye.
"Don't worry about your brother, we'll take care of her" Sabito said.
"All right! Thank you very much" Nezuko said.
"I'll be going then, Mr Urokodaki" Nezuko said as everyone nodded and wish for her safety.
Nezuko POV
She exclaimed in astonishment as she approached the temple's gate. The wisteria flowers are stunning, hanging low on the trunk and glistening with a soothing purple hue. Even though it's out of season, they're looking great.
She wished her brother could see this breathtaking vision for himself one day, when she discovers the cure and restores him to human form. Perhaps Sakonji, sabito, makomo was invited to a picnic beneath it, along with the lovely crescent moon on the star-studded night sky. She let out another gasp as she ascended the stairwell.
There are a lot of people on the floor, from scary boys with bruises and wounds to pretty girls who seem meek at first but are definitely kicking.
The rivalry scared Nezuko, but she pushed through. She must be brave; she will not let her trainers' hard work go to waste.
End of Nezuko's Pov
"Everyone!" Two kids that looks identical to each other gathers everyone attention.
"We thank you for coming here tonight, to the demon slayer corps final selection."
"There are demons imprisoned here at Mount Fujikasane, captured alive by the demon slayer swordman, and unable to leave."
"This is because of wisteria which demons hate so much, bloom year-round from the bottom and halfway of the mountain"
"However, there is no wisteria from this point on, and so demons bound"
"You need to pass the selection in seven days"
"And now, Go" The twins finish as everyone began running inside.
Nezuko Pov
She slept in a tree for the rest of the day, knowing that the ghosts would not be seen in the sunshine. And in her sleep, she'd be able to tell when the sun set because her sensitive nose would detect the waking of nocturnal forest creatures.
The moonlight spilling into the forest verified the time of day as she slowly opened her eyes. It was quite a sight, but she didn't have time to appreciate it.
Survive for seven day, thats all i'm going to think about. So that i can see my brother again.
Once the sun comes up, demons can't do anything so I'll use that time for sleep. Just like i did before. I thought.
Nezuko head east, finding a place where sun is stronger when it come out.
She leapt down from the branch she was leaning on and braced herself, sensing the approach of two demons. Her palms started to sweat. Was she really up to the task?
"Outta my way! I'm hungry!" i blinked as i thought that those demon go crazy just for a human flesh and even fight with each other.
To be honest, she felt a little offended.
she had thought her good enough to eat. What, just because her flesh wasn't the same grade as wagyu beef, these demons ignored her? Were they pampered from eating only high-class demon slayers?
"Damn you! It's first come first serve" The demons shouted as they both charged to Nezuko.
"Total concentration! Water Breathing! Fourth form! Striking tide!" Nezuko make a hiss sound from her mouth as she see the scent of the thread and do the form look likes a harsh tide as she cut the demon heads cleanly making them dissentigrate.
"I did it! I defeated them" she thought.
"If i slash the demons with this sword, not even bones will be left uh" She thought
Flashback
"The demons weak point is at it's neck, but you can't kill it with a normal sword" Sakonji explained
"Then how can i take it down?" Nezuko asked.
"The sword that demon slayer use, it was made by some kind of steel that absorbed sunlight. You can kill the demon with it" Sakonji replied
Flashback end
"Rest in piece" She prayed before heading to her destination.
"What is that?"
"A demon"
"This smell... it's rotten"
She head where the smell was coming from and she immediately get frightened, trembling in fear as she hide at the side of the tree when she see the most disgusting demon in my life.
"Stop! I didn't come for this! No one told me about this!" A frightened kid shouted as he run away from the demon.
The demon then extended his arm and eat the participant that was already on his arm.
"What the hell is this morphed demon doing here! They didn't tell us about this" The frightened kid said as he tripped by a tree branch.
The demon then extended his arm grabbing the boys leg pulling him to devour him completely.
"Ahhhhh" the boy shouted
"Don't wimp out! Move! Nezuko Move! Im not powerless anymore! Save him! " Nezuko thought as she gather her strength and jump on the morphed demon.
"Water Breathing! Secomd form! Water wheel!" She said as she generated a wheel of water cutting the demons arm and freeing the boy.
The boy then run away scared. "Did he just leave me here?" Nezuko thought as she sight.
With Sabito
"Can Nezuko do it?" Makomo asked.
"You know too well that's impossible, right?" Sabito said.
"What are you two talking about?" Tanjiro asked emerging from tree shadow.
"It's your sister" makomo said
"What about her?" Tanjiro asked
"I'm scared to say that your sister will not come back. What ever training she do, it's not enough to defeat that demon" Sabito said.
"It's fine" Tanjiro said calmly
"What? Aren't you worried?" Makomo asked.
"I'm worried, but i trust her. I know her hard work will paid off" Tanjiro replied
"I see" Sabito said.
With Nezuko
"Another of my dear foxes has come" the demon said looking directly at Nezuko.
"Tell me, little fox..." the monster's yellow eyes rolled upward. "What Meiji emperor sits upon the throne now?"
"Huh?" Nezuko was caught off guard by their strange question. "The imperial family is Taisho!"
The creature's entire body shivered during a terrifying moment of silence. Her perceptive nose alerted her to the fact that the boy she had rescued had wet his pants and was fleeing as quickly as possible.
GAAGH! I've been here so long that dynasties have risen and fallen! Over and over again. I've been trapped here for ages! Unforgivable... damn Urokodaki! Damn him!"
She shifted, eyes concentrated. "You know-"
"I know him" Urokodaki was the one who captured me! I'll never forget that day. It's been 47 torturous years! Back then, when he was still a demon slayer-"
"-in the Edo period, the Keio era!"
"He live for that long?" Nezuko thought
"Is it really possible for a demon to live that long?" She said
"You can stop the denial, kid. The proof is right in front of you. I survived. In this damn prison of wisteria blossoms," one of the hands pointed at its belly, "I have eaten 50 of you to survive, after all~"
"50...so master have a lot of student that has been killed by this demon" Nezuko's body burned with a fury she had never felt before.
Delirious with rage, she cut the demon's arms vehemently and sloppily."Stay calm, Nezuko. Your breathing has become uneven! Forget about us; do what you must do!" The other children in the area said.
"I need to calm down!" Nezuko thought as she make another horizontal slash Cutting the demon arm.
"The training really paid off" She thought but suddenly an arm from behind hit her really hard sending her off to a tree making spit a lot of blood.
"Another urokodaki's brat is dying!" The morphed demon said "i wonder how he would feel if another of his kid doesn't come home" The demon laugh.
"I wonder what kind of look he would make, i want to see, i really want too" The morphed demon said as he extended his arm once again to finish Nezuko while she laying on the ground
"Nezuko...wake up" a voice of herbrother told her, as she open her eyes, she saw the demons hand and she dodge it.
"What..was that?" She thought.
"Great! Your still alive, i can still have some fun!" The demon said as he generated a lot of arm attacking nezuko continuously.
Nezuko keep at her defending stance cutting every arm who attack her.
"No matter how many arm i cut, they group back in a second" She thought as she run away making a plan to kill the demon in one move.
"You can't defeat me by cutting of my arm! Didn't Urokodaki teach you what's demons weakness" The demon said.
"Even so, those two can't even slash my head. If they didn't run away then i already killed them" The demon said.
"I can't just let this one go, i need to kill it here or else many children will die again" Nezuko thought.
She dash toward the demon cutting every arm that comes in her way as she sense something is wrong "above" she thought as she jump.
"She sense it, but she can't dodge it midair" the demon thought as he send another arm midair, but Nezuko use her flexibility to dodge it, she move in the air.
She then get up on one to the demon arm trying to reach the demons head. "She's in my range now"
"Total concentration! Water Breathing!" She thought as she cut every arm and now she is in front of the neck.
"First form! Water surface slash!" She shouted and decapitated the green demon neck in one, clean cut.
The stench of rotting flesh had faded, replaced by the scent of deep sadness. Nezuko's heart ached for the disintegrating demon in front of her. She softly squeezed his palm, leaning her head against it and crying for him.
"Please, when he is reborn...don't let him become a demon again." She could smell that he was also crying before he turned to dust forever.
"Ni-chan...i won" Nezuko thought panting heavily.
Timeskip
Just four applicants returned to the clearing at the end of the seventh day. The twins started their dull speech of congratulations without responding to the surprisingly low number.
Her head was still ringing from being thrown against a tree, so she couldn't concentrate on what the kids were doing. She really wanted to get home and not listen to these little girl(s) blabbing on about unimportant stuff. Her energy is depleting just by standing there.
"You must first pay the cost for the uniform. Then you must get your body measured and have your rank engraved," the white twin said. The black one continued, "there are ten ranks in totals"
"Kinoe. Kinoto," and now they're back in talking alternatively, " Hinoe. Hinoto. Tsuchinoe. Tsuchinoto. Kanoe. Kanoto. Mizunoe. And Mizunoto."
"What about the blade?" the scared teen asked the same question, clearly impatient.
The sound of wings flapping engulfed her senses. Startled, Tanjiro was brought out of her thoughts. "Kasugai crows are generally used for communication, but not always," the black-haired girl(?) smiled at Nezuko as she pet her crow in awe. She'd never seen a bird up close before...
The demon slayer with scars grab the girl
"I don't care about crows! I want my katana and I want it-"
Nezuko head to the boy and grab his arm "let go of the child or I'll break your arm"
"Did you think that another girl could defeat me" The boy roared.
Nezuko then flinched a bit she can't actually break his arm. She's not strong enough. Quickly inventing a plan, she concentrated all her strength to her legs and delivered a crescent kick directly to his balls making the boy argh and pain. The yellow haired boy at the back lined was laughing really hard.
"Damn you" The boy said.
"Now are you done talking?" The twins said as both participant get back to their line.
Then come over here and choose the ore for making your katana. You choose for yourself the ore for the sword that will kill demons and protect you."
With no idea what happening. Nezuko use her keen nose to determine what types of ore was the best and there she finally choose the ore.
After taking just a few steps, her head started spinning and her legs buckled. Did she use too much strength just now?
A loud voice pierced her ear, but the ground was rapidly approaching in front of her. Fortunately, a pair of arms caught her just as she was about to smash her skull open on the pavement, but she was already too far gone. Her thick eyelids fluttered shut against her will.
Timeskip
She awoke to a gentle prodding in her side. Nezuko turned over to see who it was.
"Are you ok?" Sakonji asked looking at the the sleeping figure of Nezuko and makomo.
"Wha-what happened?" She asked as she didn't know what really happened after she pass out.
"You passed out, a man named Agatsuma Zenitsu brings you here" Sabito replied in place of sakonji.
"Agatsuma Zenitsu," Nezuko repeated. "I don't know him."
"I see, so he is just some pervert who take advantage of a sleeping girl, for what? Make her fall in love to him, Marry her, have a baby and die together. I won't allow that" Tanjiro said.
Everyone in the room look at him and laugh really hard "brother, your so over protective" Nezuko said.
"Even so i need to make sure that he is worthy to be your husband, maybe i need to test him. A death battle is best way right" Tanjiro said.
"He is taking it seriously" makomo said to sabito
"Yeah"
To be continued..