The Nichirin Blade Comes Home
(Zenitsu's POV)
We suck at putting effort. Straight forward work bother us the most. Maybe it's because we were flustered by the fact that Tanjiro left us behind the dirt, but we couldn't handle Tanjiro's training. It's a little too much for us. We truly thought we were pathetic. By the way, did Tanjiro get a new tattoo on his forehead? What happened to his scar?
(Tanjiro's POV)
'Now you guys are here. Try and enter full focus breathing. Catch me within 1 hour. Now go!' while stretching my body. Glaring at them with my warm crimson eyes, I quickly enter full focus breath and begin to run around the room very fast. Trying their best, they maximize their speed to chase after me. Since my speed is superior to them, I am able to out run and dodge them easily.
1 hour had passed, they still can't catch me. A wave of tiredness spread throughout their body, they collapse onto the floor while panting heavily. Their leg muscles are starting to ache and their lungs feel like they are gonna burst.
All of a sudden, Shinobu appears behind me while leaning her body against my back. Redness and warm start to appear on my face when feeling her softness at my back.
With a cheerful voice, she says, 'Tanjiro-kun understood the skill of constant full focus breath. By continuing to do full focus breaths all day and all night. Your base stamina will rapidly increase. And well, I call it basic, but it's a rudimentary technique. So it's only reasonable that you can do it. But to understand it, you need a considerable amount of effort.' while getting off me slowly and walks toward Inosuke.
With a smile on her face, she places her hand on his shoulder and say, 'Well it's only reasonable you can do it. But of you can't, there's nothing we can do about it. Nothing at all. Nothing.' while patting his shoulder.
'Haaaahn!? Of course I can do something like this! Don't look down on me! I'll rip your breasts off, dammit!' He was super aroused.
In a blink of an eye, she appears in front of Zenitsu and grab his hands, 'Please do your best Zenitsu-kun. I'll be cheering for you the most.'
Zenitsu turns all bright red and yell, 'Okay! I do my best!' He was super aroused too. They managed to do the constant full focus breaths within 10 days.
'WE DID IT DAMMIT! I AM A MAN WHO GETS MORE CHEERS THAN ANYONE ELSE!' they cheered happily.
(Narrator's POV)
Shinobu was very good at teaching people. She was able to manipulate people to do their best in training and Tanjiro sucks at teaching people.
(Tanjiro's POV)
'Inosuke, Inosuke! They said our newly reforged nichirin blades are coming!' I exclaimed excitingly.
Inouske reply, 'You serious?! Let's go now!' We run outside the estate and open the back door of the estate's garden.
Going through the door, I wave my hand toward my swordsmith, 'Haganezuka-san! Hey! It's been a long time. How have you been?'
He stops talking to his swordsmith friend and look at me, 'Ah! Tanjiro, it's been a long time. I repair your chipped blade and...' while taking out a knife. He rushes toward me trying to stab me.
I dodge his stab and say fearfully, 'Haganezuka-san...'
Turning his head toward me, he yells, 'How dare you chip my blade so badly! Damn you, damn you!'
Feeling panic, I quickly try to explain, 'I'm sorry! I kinda swing my blade too hard on my opponents! One of them chipped my blade with strong threads!'
He pokes my face and yell, 'No! Like that has anything to do with it! It's your fault! Everything's your fault! That's why my blade is chipped badly! Do you know how many hours I spend repairing the chips on your blade! It's hell! I rather make a new sword than repairing chips on blades! I'll kill you!' He chased me around the place for an hour.
Shinobu just stands at the side while watching the scene, 'Is it Tanjiro-kun's new training regime?'
Aoi replies, 'No, it is not...' with a tired tone.
Inside the estate...
'Well Haganezuka-san is a very passionate person. He loves blades more than anyone else. Ah, my name is Kanamori. I was told to forge blades for Inosuke-dono. I would be very happy if they were useful for him in battle.' Haganezuka-san's friend said. Inosuke picks up the swords and they immediately change colour. Mesmerized by the blades' colour, he just stared at it for a while.
Kanamori says, 'Ahh, they're beautiful. They glow with a dull indigo-grey tinge. A somber colour. It's a great colour for a blade.' with a snoothing tone.
, 'That's great. Inosuke's blades had so many chips...' I replied while enduring Haganezuka beatings.
In a calm manner, he says to Inosuke, 'What does it feel like to grip it? This is the first time I actually made a blade for someone who dual wields... Eh? Inosuke-dono?' Inosuke just walks to the garden while carring his blades. He finds some sturdy stone and hit it on the blades making them chipped. Me, Haganezuka and Kanamori grasped in horror when he did that.
Veins starting to budge out from Kanamori and yells at him, 'I'll rip you to shred you damn brat! You shitty pig! Come right here or else I will kill you at the spot!' while taking out a katana.
I quickly hold him in place and keep apologizing, 'We're sorry! We're sorry! Please calm down Kanamori-san!'
At Zenitsu side...
'Then well, running around was really tiring. And when we were having underwater breath training, Inosuke was moving like an octopus so I burst into laugther. But see, I'm so happy that I can now do something I couldn't do before. Tanjiro is always cheering for me. You have a great brother there Nezuko-chan.' he said while leaning side way on my box. The box moved a bit and scratching sound is heard.
He just looks at the box and smile, 'Ah, oh yeah! I will take you to where the flower are blooming tonight~~' with a happy tone.
(Narrator's POV)
And that's how their day ended once again. Tanjiro is still apologizing to the swordsmiths and Inosuke try to stop Tanjiro from apologizing. But there's a lower moons meeting this night...
(Lower Moon Six's POV)
What the? where? Where am I? I was eating a human just now but how did I ended up here. What with this fortress? It is so complex... Suddenly, a biwa instrument was played. I quickly turn to the direction of the sound and see a woman with long dark hair, her bangs partially obscuring her face. She is wearing a grey kimono while holding on a biwa. My surroundings start to shift around forming a platform.
Is that the woman's Blood Demon Techniques? It's like a room warped around her. Eh? The lower moons of The Twelve Demon Moons are coming together. This is my first time... Lower Moon Five still isn't here. The woman play her biwa again but this time we were teleported in front of a young woman. Who is she? Her vibe she is giving out is the same as my lord.
'Lower your heads and squat. Prostrate yourselves.' she said in a very frightening tone. We quickly lower our heads immediately when we heard her voice. It'sMuzan-sama... It'sMuzan-sama'svoice. I counldn't tell his figure and presence is different from before. It's terrifyingly accurate camouflage.
The lower moon four apologizes, 'We are very... sorry. Your figure and presence are completely different...' in a fearful manner.
On the spur of the moment, the air around us become much heavier. All the cells in our body is telling us that we are gonna die.
Muzan-samaopens his mouth and say, 'Who said you could speak? Don't say anything out of your pathetic volition. You can only reply to whatever questions I ask you. Rui got killed. That was Lower Moon Five. I only have one thing I want to ask, why are the lower moon demons so damn weak? Just because they say that you're part of The Twelve Demon Moons doesn't mean that it's over. It's just the beginning. The beginning of eating more people, becoming stronger and being of much more use to me. For over a hundred years, the members of the upper moons from The Twelve Demon Moons have never changed. The ones who have laid the demon hunter pillars to rest are always the upper moon demons. But how about the lower moon demons? How many times have they been replaced?' Come onMuzan-sama... You can't tell us that...
'You can't just tell us that? Oh? Then tell me. What's wrong? tell me.' while veins starting to be visible on his face. He can read my thoughts? Oh crap... we're gonna die...
End