"12 Demonic Moons?" Asked Tanjiro
"Indeed, The more they have his blood, the powerful they are...and They are one of those who are the most loyal to kibutsuji...there are 6 in separate in 12 total, 6 low ranking demons as Lowermoons and 6 others as Higher ranks known as Uppermoons, you'd be able to tell what rank they are after seeing the kanji written in their eyes" Says Tamayo, and Tanjiro seemed concern about them "the lowermoons you'll be able to collect them if your a pillar or a level of that rank. Since they are the only ones who can defeat lowermoons." Says Tamayo and Tanjiro listening to her as he says "i see, what of the Upper moons? what about them?"
Tamayo sighed and she says "it's more complicated for you to imagine, Upper moons are Pillar killing machines, Many pillars died by their hands and it's been 113 years since 1 was defeated. Since They have a large amount of kibutsuji's blood, and while it's at it, the pillars are nothing but toys in the uppermoon's point of view."
"I see, it sounds like they have no demon slayer mark, do they?" Asked Tanjiro
"Correct, no marks of a demon slayer. They all faded away since Yorrichi's exile." says Tamayo
"I see, since I'll manifest the demon slayer mark of a sun breathing technique, I'll be able to overcome it." says Tanjiro as Tamayo nodded as Tanjiro then asked "and what about the one called Tsugiikuni Michikatsu, Is he one of the upper moons?"
"Michikatsu?" asked Tamayo in confused
"Yorrichi's twin brother, one who betrayed the corps in the sengoku era by choice, the one who weilds...Moon breathing." says Tanjiro
Tamayo opening her eyes wide and saying " *gasps Upper moon 1, the highest of the moons."
"So he's still out there." says Tanjiro
"indeed, he won't be an easy one to deal with unless you get the mark." Answered Tamayo
"I understand." Says Tanjiro as he takes a deep breath. "and there is 2 more things that i must ask. One, are you are aware of a demon slayer mark's short span?"
"They die at the age of 25, I'm well aware of this." says Tamayo
"And for a sun breathing user, they'd die at the age of 35." says Tanjiro and Tamayo got surprised and asked "35? how is it?"
"it's been like this in my family for generations, we've been using the breathing technique as a dance tradition, manifesting the mark within all that. My father, my grandfather and so on over my ancestors died at 35 age after manifesting it. And here I'll manifest it eventually." Tanjiro answered and Tamayo then ended up asking "And Yoriichi, what about him?"
"Since he was born with the mark, he only died out of old age." Replied Tanjiro
"oh...so the life span, what about it?" Tamayo asked and Tanjiro replied "Since you have experience in medical treatment, you might as well help creating a cure of this Curse mark, to ensure me and those who manifests the mark don't die at these certain ages."
"I see, so once you manifest it, you deliver me your blood" says Tamayo
"Will do, and the second thing is that i would need your help analyzing something about my sister." Says Tanjiro
"Your sister?" asks Tamayo and Tanjiro replied "This is something which it will be hard for you to believe which you may wanna hear it."
Meanwhile there are 2 demons on the street tracking tanjiro down with tracks being visible "3 tracks, 1 is a human and 2 are mysterious demons, I wonder why?" says the demon with eyes on hands
"Once we find the one slayer, we will have Our lord's blood even more." says the girl with handball
Back with Tanjiro as he explained everything about nezuko and Tamayo "...I see, that must be something, your sister who manipulated her body and reverted herself back into a human, and gained herself a blood demon art despite being human, and it Burns demons."
"I tested it in the selection exam, it has no effect on anything besides a demon and their powers." says tanjiro as he takes out a bottle full of blood "i was planning on giving it to a doctor from the corps but it seems that you as an expert are worth checking this out..this is my sister's blood."
"Remarkable, it may be of use in creating cures of demon poisons. This would be a great advantage, your sister's blood would be in valuable use, Once your sister becomes a demon slayer, you send her to us so i could check up on her and see what else she has besides her powers." Says Tamayo
"Of course" says Tanjiro "I'll make sure of it."
Yushiro feels something and saying "Everyone brace yourselves!!" As multiple balls started flying around Yushiro covering Tamayo and Tanjiro grabbed his sword fast as a large hole in a wall breaks. They saw 2 demons who arrived.
"There you are!"
"The one with Hanafuda Earings."
Tanjiro noticed How they referred him as he jumped out from the hole and said "Looking for me?"
"ahhh, of course...Our lord will be pleased to see your head being brought by the 12 Demonic moons!" says the hand ball girl in proud smile
"You're not a moon!" says Tanjiro as he's not fazed
"Ehh? what are you talking about? We are the 12 demon moons." says the arrow hand demon who he seems angry
"Then why don't I see anything written in your eyes?" asked Tanjiro and the 2 demons are confused of what he's saying as Tamayo walks out of the hole says "Seems like Kibutsuji is finding ways to deceive you."
"What did you say? you as a demon and you say our lords name?" asked the handball girl as they both saw how she's completely unfazed and said "of course i did, I'm no longer in his control as a literal puppet."
"Tamayo!" says the arrow demon
"the traitor!" yelled the hand ball demon.
"you know me, the one who escaped Kibutsuji's curse while your still stuck at it... being nothing but a mere tool." says Tamayo as they both got angry as Tanjiro says "well, i got to say...i feel sorry for you, but all the people you devoured, i can't forgive you." as he pulled his burning sword out and it's catching on fire, "Bring it on, Brat!" the handball demon grows 4 more arms and throws 6 balls at them.
Hinokami Kagura: Beneficial Radiance
Tanjro Dashes towards the handball demon, swirling while slashing the balls thrown by her as he charged to her, the girl spawn more balls out of her hands and nearly throwing more while the arrow demon using his blood demon art to hover the balls straight to him, but Tanjiro manage to swing his burning blade around and targetting the balls and slicing them in two till they vanished to dust The girl was utterly startled to see him this strong, she jumps off backwards while continuously throwing balls at her, but he manages to dash to her in speed and...
Hinokami Kagura: Setting sun transformation
Tanjiro backflips and immediately slices her head off, the girl couldn't see it coming as her body fell off. "What? No wayy-" but her head blown off to dust while her body is disintegrating fast as its bleeding off. The arrow demon got scared as he says "Too fast! Now way i can Lose." he closes his eyeballs in his hands as invisible arrows are flying around. 'im picking a scent of demonic interference around the air, it's definitely invisible to the eye, but not my nose.' from the demon's eyes he can see arrows as they are all flying to him until
Hinokami Kagura, Burning bones summer sun
Tanjiro slashed every wear as he destroys the invisible arrows, leaving the demon startled but Tanjiro quickly dashed to him,
Dance
Tanjiro slashed and beheads him as he the demons screaming "what is this Pain?! nooo!-" but his head vanished into dust as his body faded to ash fast.
"So kibutsuji is after me, is he?" says Tanjiro
"indeed, which means he will end up increasing his numbers." Says Tamayo who she just took a blood sample from the girl's fading body. "And you were right, they aren't demon moons, too weak to be one."
"Caww! Caww! Emergency! Emergency! the city is Under attack by an army of Demons! Kamado Tanjiro, Head to the city Immediately While the Pillar of Water arrives, Caw!!!" says Tanjiro's crow which is flying upwards
"So Kibutsuji is already at it!" says Yushiro as Tanjiro runs immediately and says "Well i have to go and do something before more people will die! Stay here since the sun is almost coming out."
"hold it, take this" yelled Yushiro as he thrown a telismen paper towards his forehead "You'll need this to track demons faster!" Tanjiro stops as he recieved the Talisman and says "thanks yushiro-san"
"Lady Tamayo what if that monster sees him?" asked Yushiro
"Kibutsuji's plan to increase his kind has already began and since his encounter with tanjiro, he would start running away while creating a distraction." says Tamayo
Tanjiro running while his sword is on his hilt, as he starts jumping high to, roof by roof and house by house, as he witnessed civilians on a street running from 5 demons, Tanjiro rushed to it as fast as he could. Civilians running and screaming while a women is carrying a child with her until. Tanjiro rushed to the demons and slashed and decapitated them one by one before they could reach them, till they faded to dust.
The civilians saw as Tanjiro's burning sword gets turned off as Tanjiro faces to them asking "are you alright?!"
"Yes! Thank you kind man!" says one of the citizens
"What's happening? are they're more of them in the city?" asked Tanjiro
"Yess, so many! they all came out of a building and started biting and attacking us!" says the other civilians As tanjiro says "Understood!" He runs off as fast as he could 'I have to keep up as fast as i can! people are dying and Kibutsuji is creating chaos!'
Tanjiro arrived at the city as he saw how many demons are charging to people, dead bodies and blood spilled around, Citizens are running while Police are trying to lure them away, one Shoots a shotgun at their head but they regenerated. The all got shocked and scared until Tanjiro dashes from the left and sliced off their arms within a second, the demons got started backing away from the pain and burn as Tanjiro shows up Infront of the police with his burning blade and says "You might wanna focus on getting the citizens out, I'll take care of this."
"is that a sword? on fire?" asked a random police as Tanjiro dashed to the demons as he decapitated the demons and fully gets them fading to dust, as Tanjiro with a talisman on his fore heard he could see demons through the walls of the buildings. He dashed as fast as he could while demons around the street filled with blood and a few bodies.
Hinokami Kagura, Halo sun head dragon dance
Tanjiro dashed and decapitated every demon he finds within moments. Tanjiro saw as many demons are on a large building at most. He makes his way there as they all charge to him
Hinokami Kagura Burning bones summer sun
he slashed everywhere as he decapitated and burned the demons away from his burning sword, More demons on charges him from behind 'Dang it! What do i do?'
Water breathing, 3rd form: Flowing Dance
Tanjiro saw as Tomioka Giyu enters in as he sliced many demons behind Tanjiro as Giyu says "Keep your guard up, There's more coming." Tanjiro then saw demons on the building as they all landed on the ground and charged to him as Tanjiro goes for his move
Hinokami Kagura Raging Sun, Flame dance
He dashed towards them and performs 2 consecutive slashes and then immediately dances from a vertical to horizontal slash Slaying every demon in his path.
Tanjiro seeing through the talismen he saw demons on a populated area, "Theres more, over there!" He runs as Giyu follows Tanjiro and keeps up with him.
Tanjiro saw how many are charging towards many people as Giyu within speed and shows up infront of the citizens with the demons charging towards him and Giyu immediately performed
Water Breathing, 11th form. Dead Calm
Giyu stands still as multiple slashes happened as many gets slayed and faded away to ash.
While a few demons are left and Tanjiro shows up and immediately decapitated them by dashing with his burning blade 'This kid from before, He's quite strong...and his sword is on fire?' thought Giyu
Tanjiro looks around using his talismen as he says "They're aren't any more demons, these are the last of it."
"Are you sure?" asked Giyu
"Im sure of it." answered Tanjiro as he removed his talisman as they both saw how civilians are crying in despair and they thanked them. the Kakushis arrived to them all as Tanjiro noticed the sun is coming up and then faces to giyu and says "well i got to go check on something, so I'll be right back."
"It's fine, you probably have more missions to attend to so don't focus on me, until you are ordered to rest." says Giyu
"Yes, Thank you so much! Tomioka-san!" says tanjiro as he bows and runs off to where Lady Tamayo would be.
To be Continued