By the time that Muichiro got the hang on how to disguise himself as a human again, was when they finally got out of the little hut Neol had as a house.

They went to the village, and every villager was bowing to Neol. That took him by surprise, it looks like everyone respects his new friend, or they're just too scared of him so they do everything he says.

Either option could be valid.

They went to a little udon stand, and just sit there because the food didn't smell too good, speaking for them to eat, even if Muichiro wanted to taste it because he was curious to how it would taste now that he is a demon.

They were peacefull till Muichiro sensed two really familiar presenses to him, they felt like fellow hashiras, he just couldn't pintpoint which ones. He is sure there are two of them.

"I'm sorry I forgot your name, but some slayers just got here, and they are bad news, we need to get out of here" -Muichiro said to his demon companion, he didn't wanted to get discovered by them, not in the new state he was in.

"Ohh, who are they? Perhaps some hashiras?" -Neol asked him, having a theory as to why he became nervous so sudently.

Muichiro nodded, and stood up, making enfasis in that he wanted to get out of there as soon as posible, he didn't wanted them to discover his current situation, at least not yet.

Neol followed soon after, and they made their way out of the village. Neol quickly telling a villager that he will have to go out for some days, but that he would come back.

They were almost outside of it, when Mitsuri spotted them and told Gyomei about it, Muichiro noticed this, so he started running trying to get as far from them as posible but not loosing his companion at the same time.

He was glad that Neol could run as fast as him, and follow him closely from behind, if that wasn't the case, he doesn't know what he might have done to lose his pursuers.

Neol sudently picked him up while still running, Muichiro got a little bit startled that he almost fell off Neol's arms.

"Why did you picked me up?" -asked Muichiro freaking out.

"My lord, if we really want to lose them, then I'll need to use this, they're slowly catching up to us" -he said, quickly bitting his thumb to get some of his blood out.

"Blood demon art: ilusory stars" -he mumbled, but Muichiro heared him perfectly, and soon after he said it, stars started forming out of thin air and attacked the hashiras, enough to let them get away from them, but not really hurting them.

In that moment Neol ran even faster than before, sucessfully loosing the hashiras chasing them, but he didn't stop though, he needed to get as far from them as posible, so to not give them an oportunity to catch up to them again.

He stopped running when the forest surrounding them became darker, with an ominous feeling to it. Only then did he lower Muichiro to the ground and let him walk by himself again.

They explored the forest in silence, they may be demons, but that does not mean that they can't get scared. With the air as creepy as it was, they needed to take some precautions in case something jumped out of nothing.

The deeper they went in the forest, the feeling of a presence in it became stronger, and they were sure it wasn't a normal one. It felt like an uppermoon.

Muichiro might be the new demon king, but he is sure that with how he is, that he will probably lose a battle against whoever that is in the forest. Considering that he doesn't know yet his demon abilities, and his breathing style alone wouldn't probably be enough.

As they were carefully trying to not bother whoever was the owner of the presence, they felt it stop and change it's direction to them, that mean that they did an awfull work at not bothering it. Or it just felt Muichiro and turned around to find him, after all every demon was looking for him.

It didn't take long before the owner of the presence was in front of them, it was a tall demon, with a katana by his side and he could be compared to a spider because he had six eyes and in them was the kanji for uppermoon 1.

When he spotted them, he couldn't help but ask...

"A kid is our new lord?" -he curiously said with a deep voice that could send shivers down anyones spine, his sole presence screamed authority.

This will definitively be an interesting event, because from this point of the story everything could get better or just go down right chaotic.