Kagami had gasped in horror and reached a hand out toward Tanjiro and Nezuko when the demonized young girl kicked the two of them out. They flew out of the room and onto the street below, still struggling and fighting each other. The young girl had awakened her demon form and was unleashing all hell, especially on the Upper Rank Six demon. Half of her body was nearly burnt to a crisp, a magnificent feat in Kagami's eyes, but she lost all sense of humanity when she tried to bite a woman, lusted for Kagami and Mr. Uzui's blood, and now kicked her and her brother outside.

She wanted to follow them and help Nezuko get better but decided against it. It is Tanjiro's little sister. He has to be the one to deal with her. As for her, she needs to stay behind and help Mr. Uzui evacuate the civilians still trapped inside.

Except, he didn't look at all fazed when Tanjiro and Nezuko were booted from the room. His face didn't show any worry and annoyance. It was just a blank canvas. He merely held his two Nichirin Cleavers together and rested the blunt edge over one shoulder. He looked about ready to leave. As if his job wasn't over but to go scout some more! As if the demon sitting next to them weren't even there!

"Where do you think you're going?! Get back here, you brute! You have the gall to behead me and walk away?! You're going to pay for this!" The decapitated demon screamed threatening Mr. Uzui.

Kagami made a face at the demon, wondering why the hell she was still sounding so confident, as Mr. Uzui sighed out in clear annoyance. "Would you just shut up already?" He growled with the shake of his head. "You've been nothing but unflashy, so drop dead."

"Don't give me that crap!" The demon sneered up at him. "I'm stronger than you! So what makes you think that I'm not an Upper Rank?"

With eyes half-flitted closed in boredom and annoyance, Kagami and Mr. Uzui's ran over the stump where her head used to be. Then at her head cradling in her hands. "Sorry, but you can't be an Upper Rank," He said without any sympathy.

"I will have you know that I am Upper Six!"

"Then why are you holding your severed head right now?" Mr. Uzui scoffed. "I mean, come on. What, did I cut your brains out too?"

The demon started to grow more flustered at the idea of Mr. Uzui not believing she is an Upper Rank demon. As if he was doing it just to spite her. Tears lined the bottom of her eyelids and her mouth began to grow wider. Her anger to get him to believe her was almost overwhelming. "Just because I'm like this doesn't mean I've lost yet! I'm an Upper Rank, damn it!" She screeched with her body quivering.

"I think it's pretty obvious that you lost," Mr. Uzui tsked.

"I'm just more powerful than you can comprehend! I might be Number Six right now, but I'm going to get even stronger!" She promised.

"Don't care. Didn't ask."

Kagami gasped at the way Mr. Uzui just deflected and threw back the demon's words at her. Even the demon seemed taken back. They bounced right off of him and with an uninterested look too. He meant it when he said she couldn't be the demon he was looking for. But there have been no demons other than her. In her own right, she was strong too. Heck, she almost took down Kagami and Tanjiro if they hadn't run out of air. Though, he was right. If they hadn't ran out of air, she'd be decapitated just as she was right then.

"YAAAAAHHHH!" The demon suddenly wailed out into the air.

Kagami and Mr. Uzui winced at the awful noise. It was screechy, high-pitch, and horrifying. Then, they realized she was crying! She was sobbing straight into the sky! Tears ran up her upside-down head and were falling to the ground in large droplets. She squeezed her eyes shut not bearing to look at the man who refused to believe her. She waved her arms erratically through the air with her hands balled into tight fists.

"I really am an Upper Six! I really am an Upper Six! I've even got the number to prove it too! You just can't accept how amazing I am!" She whined ferociously like child refused a toy.

The demon... is throwing a temper tantrum! With her head cut off too!

Kagami then readied her sword in both hands as a thought plagued her head. The demon has her head cut off but she's been screaming and crying for a while. Why is she still talking? How is she still talking? Her body hasn't even started to disintegrate yet. What the hell is going on here?

"Die! Die! All of you can just die!" She screamed accenting each word with a pound of her fist against the floorboard.

She was crying and moving so much her head rolled off her lap and a few feet away! She continued to pound both fists into the floorboard throwing the most horrible and mind-boggling temper tantrum Kagami's seen. Even Mr. Uzui removed his blades from his shoulder now watching the demon intently. That must mean something bad is going to happen.

Kagami quickly stationed herself in front of the two civilians left in the corner of the room and held her blade up.

"He cut my head off! He cut my head off!" She howled in frustration pounding both fists into the ground and staying hunched over, as if crying straight into the ground. "Help me... BROTHEEERRRRRR!"

Brother?!

With shaking hands that wouldn't stop trembling, suppressing a gasp, Kagami watched something beginning to emerge out of the demon's neck stump and out of her body. Within a time that took too long, she barely realized it was another body-another demon! The demon was holding another inside her belt! No, not her belt! It's coming actually out of her skin! It was removing itself like a parasite and becoming one of its own again! Is this the brother the demon called for? Was he inside of her this entire time?!

Kagami had been rooted in her spot overwhelmed with terror. Mr. Uzui moved faster than she could blink towards the demon. His blades raised high, he was poised to decapitate the new demon still emerging itself. His blades were merely an inch from its neck-!

An explosion sounded through the building shaking it at its foundation. She shielded her eyes, holding up a hand to keep the debris from smacking into her face, and coughed out her lungs. When she opened her eyes, she found the room coated in a cloud of dark fog mixed of smoke, dirt, and dust. She wondered if Mr. Uzui killed the demon before it was too late. When it cleared, Kagami's eyes widened tremendously seeing the two demons no longer in the other room where they were but suddenly right next to her in the other corner!

Kagami swallowed a lump in her throat and immediately turned herself keeping the tip of her blade aimed directly at the two demons. Her eyes flitted frantically between them and Mr. Uzui left standing stranded by himself in the room beyond the original one. He looked just as shocked as she was! How did the demon block the attack?! Mr. Uzui was so fast, how could it do that when at least half of its body was still trapped inside the sister demon?!

"Come on now. There's no use crying about it, you know. Can't you even manage to reattach your own head by yourself? Well, you haven't always been the sharpest tool in the shed, have you?" The new brother, the brother demon, coo'd softly, his voice grating, weak, and coarse, placing the sister's severed head on her neck stump and petting her hair.

The sister demon is still alive even after Mr. Uzui beheaded her and the brother demon managed to reattach it with just a small rub of his thumb. How is that even possible? Nezuko's Blood Demon Art prevented her burns from healing and it should've prevented the neck from being reattached. Then again, she, and everyone else, have never seen anything like that before. The expression on Mr. Uzui's face said it all. How the hell is she not dead yet?

Rubbing a thumb over the burn mark on her face, the red blistering skin, her eyeball, and everything else burned magically healing in a second, he murmured calmly, "Aww, is that a burn mark on your face? You need to learn how to take better care of your face, you know? After all, you were born with such a pretty face compared to mine."

Without saying anything, or hesitating a second, Mr. Uzui readied his blades again and surged forward!

The brother demon turned around with the same exact bored expression Mr. Uzui had given the sister demon, but a tone of rage was mixed with it!

Kagami couldn't see what happened-it was all too fast!

One moment Mr. Uzui was charging for the demon and the next he was standing beside her with a bloody gash embedded in his head. His headband decorated with his gemstones had been sliced in half, barely holding together around his head. His white hair where it had been cut dangled on the sides and in front of his face. Large droplets of blood spilled from his wound and stained the left side of his face.

The brother demon, on the other hand, looked untouched.

He stood on the other side of the room now wielding what looked like fleshy-blood red sickles in each hand. "Huh. Not bad. I was going in for the kill, you know?" He mumbled under his breath. "But you were able to stop me, weren't you? Good for you, really."

The Hashira and the demon faced each other, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

The brother demon was tall, fairly muscular, but had pale-grayish skin dotted with black ink all over his body. Strangely, all of his muscles were in his upper torso, arms, and legs, but his waist was incredibly skinny, his pelvis jutting out at an unnatural angle. The sclera of his eyes are orange and his irises of green and red. His unruly black hair cut sharply off to a brighter green around the crown of his head and was worn messily styled with uneven bangs and several ahoges. He only wore baggy blue pants and several pieces of red cloth around his arms and neck. Suffice it to say, he was very ugly. A clear contrast to Mr. Uzui.

"You're a lucky guy, aren't you?" The brother demon growled staring daggers. His eyes were scrutinizing every detail of Mr. Uzui, narrowing at every little aspect he started to point out. "That face of yours... Nice. I like your skin too. Not a blemish, birthmark, or scar to be seen anywhere, huh? And you've got some meat on your bones. I can't gain weight no matter what, see? And you're tall as well! You look like you're well over six feet, aren't you? I guess you must get tons of attention from the ladies, don't you?"

All of a sudden, he started to scratch his skin bloody!

"I envy you! Oh, how I envy you!" He started to snarl revealing rows of sharp, rotten teeth. Then, a wide malicious smile spread over his lips. "Would you mind just dropping dead and in the most agonizing way at that?! Like getting skinned alive or maybe even getting that belly of yours slit open. And one more thing, you oversized meat-sack."

"Brother, wait!" The sister demon quickly spoke up with most of her tears now dried. Even then, she started to cry out again with new fresh tears cascading down her cheeks, "He's not the only one who was harassing me. Kill the ones who burned me too. Kill them! I've been toiling away over here, and yet... even though I've given it my all, they won't die! I feel like I tried everything, but they kept getting back up and picking on me. They ganged up and bullied me, and I can't take it anymore!"

Mr. Uzui never once regarded the sister demon not taking his eyes off the brother demon.

The brother demon kept scratching away at his skin listening to the crying pleas of his sister. "I think I understand what's happening now, and what you did to her was unforgivable. My sweet little sister was doing her best with what little brains she had to work with, and you bullied her," He snarled holding up his flesh sickles. The scratches he made in his skin immediately healed. "I'll have to massacre everyone who laid a finger on her. You could say I'm a firm believer in vengeance, so I'll exact the same pain you inflicted upon her. When you die, those words will ring through your skull! I'll show no mercy, because my name is Gyutaro!"

There, in his eyes! She almost didn't see it on his tiny pupils but when he widened them in anger, she saw it.

UPPER RANK SIX

Another one?!

Kagami didn't have time to process what the hell was happening! Gyutaro, the brother demon, flung his sickles right at her!


Still cradling Nezuko in his arms, Tanjiro watched in horror at the explosion of the rooftop of the building Kagami, Mr. Uzui, and the demon were in. Flying and rotating in the air, the crimson red color illuminated by the moonlight, were two weapons. They continued twirling and moving like boomerangs back inside but that's not what they were. They were sickles but... where did they come from? The Belt Demon never used a sickle. It has to be a new demon!

Tanjiro took a whiff and flinched. I smell Kagami and Mr. Uzui's blood. I've got to back them up!

"AHAHA! WHERE ARE YOU, WORM BELT?! Lord Inosuke has arrived! You can run, but you can't hide!"

At the familiar maniacal laugh and loud screaming, Tanjiro turned his head with a wide smile. Running down the street as fast as they could, he recognized two people coming into view from the darkness and nearly sagged in relief. With both arms raised high, jagged-edged swords wielding in each hand, Inosuke screamed announcing his arrival with Zenitsu right at his side!

"Inosuke! Zenitsu!" Tanjiro exclaimed with a smile.

As Inosuke posed, stars sparkling around his body, Tanjiro's eyes landed on Zenitsu, who was still strangely dressed as a courtesan, and gasped in disbelief, "Zenitsu, are you asleep?!"

"RAAAAAH!" Inosuke screamed out loud standing in front of Zenitsu and demanding Tanjiro's attention.

Tanjiro didn't have time for that. With one arm holding Nezuko, he pointed towards the building, quickly speaking, "You two, go and help Kagami and Mr. Uzui! Hurry!"

"Sit back, relax, and leave it to me! I'm ready to go berserk!" Inosuke snorted and posed with his swords, more stars sparkling around his body. "Yours truly, Lord Inosuke, will handle it! And flashily!"

Tanjiro firmly nodded his head and stood on his feet. "Thanks! I'll put Nezuko back into her box. It should only take a second!" He said already running away looking back to the shiny Inosuke and still fast asleep Zenitsu.

"I will allow it!"

"Thank you!"


Kagami wanted to curse at herself for flinching.

The sickles flung at her caused her to freeze up and flinch for the incoming attack. Never had she done that before! She always held her blade up and readied herself for battle! Gyutaro was on a completely different level than of his sister. He could move behind her and she would have no idea where he went until it was too late. Even with her sword gripped firmly in her hands, she couldn't help but not do anything! Civilians cowarded behind her and it was her job to protect them!

When her eyes reopened after another explosion rocked the building, Mr. Uzui stood protectively in front of her with his cleavers raised, a new hole embedded in the ceiling. He deflected the attack for her, and saved not just her but the civilians too.

"Mr. Uzui," She shakily sighed out staring up at him through wavering eyes.

Gyutaro's weapons flew right back into his hands like boomerangs and his snarl at the Hashira deepened. "I'm so envious, I could die. You really are a good-looking guy, aren't you? Damn!" He huffed scratching at his neck. "Protecting those humans, showing off like that? I envy you. In their eyes, you're some kind of brave hero, aren't you? I bet their affection and gratitude towards you is immeasurable, you know?"

Mr. Uzui, who hadn't spoken a word since Gyutaro's arrival, kept his bored, stone cold eyes on the demon, scowling as a matter-of-factly, "Well, yeah. I'm a flashy, glamorous lady's man, so that's a no-brainer. Not to brag, but I have three wives to boot."

Gyutaro froze at the information. Much like Zenitsu, he grew angry at the prospect of Mr. Uzui having three wives!

"Am I going deaf, or did you just say that you have three wives?! You've gotta be kidding me!" He growled scratching the skin off his face! "AAAAHHH! THAT'S UNFORGIVABLE!"

Blood dripped off the ends of sickles like rivers of crimson red. The flesh sickles took hold of the beautiful bright red color and shined under the yellow light of the building. The blood never dripped to the ground in puddles, instead they swirled around through the air waiting obediently for a command!

"Blood Demon Art. Flying Blood Sickles!" Gyutaro screamed with a maniacal smile swirling his flesh sickles through the air and cutting off the blood with the sharp blades!

The splashes of red blood flew straight at them! They curved, arched, and honed tight and sharp much like a sword's edge. Holy hell, he threw so many! There's no way they'll be able to dodge and deflect all of them!

Kagami watched Mr. Uzui reach into the pocket of his uniform and toss three black beads away from him.

She shrieked at the sudden fiery explosion rocking through the building. A small yelp spilled from her lips when she found herself momentarily floating before landing roughly on her feet. Looking up, she saw holes in all of the floors where they must've fallen. Mr. Uzui used the explosion and dropped them on the first floor away from the demons! Swirling above their heads in the air back on the top floor where they were, were the splashes of blood they narrowly avoided. They traced an invisible sphere they couldn't see waiting for another command!

"Run! Quickly!" He demanded of the civilians.

"Right!" The man stuttered before taking the courtesan with him.

Mr. Uzui turned to her, speaking, "You should get away as well!"

Kagami, remembering the fear she felt and how she froze up in front of him, hardened and tightly gripped her sword. "No, I'm not leaving! I want to help-AH!"

The flying blood sickles dove straight down for them!

In a harsh kick, Mr. Uzui threw Kagami out of the building and out of his way. She yelped as her body rolled on the ground but quickly lifted her head. The flying blood sickles relentlessly attacked Mr. Uzui. It was a spectacle to watch, indeed. To see his muscles flex, his cleavers whip through the air effortlessly, and watch him nail every hit, but she was horrified to notice that with every slash he made the sickles just reformed themselves and counter-attacked! Gyutaro can control each of the slashes and they'll keep moving until they hit their target! The only way to stop the attacks is to kill the demon siblings, but how? The sister was able to regenerate. Is the brother the main unit? Will they both die if he is decapitated?

Mr. Uzui slid back toward the hole in the wall and whipped out five more of the black beads, holding them in between his fingers. He threw them and jumped high with his cleavers raised! Twisting his body through the air, he swung his blades flinging the explosive beads through the building towards the demons and activating them!

The building lit up like the sun and another explosion racked through the air vibrating and shaking the wind.

Kagami dug her head into the ground, avoiding the steaming hot smoke pouring out of the remains, and wondered how it hasn't collapsed on itself yet. When she lifted her head, looking past Mr. Uzui and into the dark building, something fell hard in the very center.

A cheeky smile spread on Mr. Uzui's lips and he gazed excitedly inside. "Wow, this might be harder than I thought. How flashy," He chuckled.

In the very center was a large ball made out of pink obi. The belt and sashes slowly unfurled itself revealing two figures inside. It was the demons and they looked completely unaffected by Mr. Uzui's attack. Sitting on top of his shoulders, hunched over him like a feral cat and a glare on her face, the sister and Gyutaro smirked mischievously at them all, as if thinking they were going to be easy to defeat was a tragic mistake.

"The thing about us is... we fight together, and two is better than one, you know?"