Tanjiro, Inosuke and Murata fighting the slayers who are unconscious but being controlled as Tanjiro slices down the threads from his burning blade, as the Mother demon felt pain "ghaaa, what is this pain?" The slayers woke up as Tanjiro says "Murata, get them out of here." "Yes!" Murata helps them out, "big talk from the guy who pissed his pants!" "What did you say you boar head?!" Asked Murata, as Tanjiro pulls Inosuke away "hehhh, what are you doing? Let me have him!" Tanjiro throws Inosuke to the ground, making him to run ahead as well. "No time for that. We have a demon to kill." Says Tanjiro and Inosuke says "But this idiot called me a boar head! Monjiro!" "It's Tanjiro!" Says Tanjiro as until more slayers comes ahead as a girl was being controlled "Please, don't come any further! Send in the higher ranks!" Tanjiro Dashes to them, the 3 slayers being controlled started fighting, Inosuke delfecting the attacks as for "Hinokami Kagura, Raging Sun Dance." Tanjiro dancing around and performing consecutive slashes at the threads, making them burn till the spider mother flinched in pain, the girl was set free as she says "What power." As The mother had enough, "I had enough, i better use my ultimate puppet." "You go and escape, with the others. He and I will handle the rest." Says Tanjiro as the female slayer says "yes, thank you very much." She goes off picking up 2 slayers with her, as she leaves. Until A headless demon shows up
Inosuke was stunned to see that, "Crap, that thing is headless' it starts attacking with it's sickles as Inosuke deflects it and backs off, "Inosuke, on me!" Tanjiro crouches down, with Inosuke hops onto the box, Inosuke slashes and slices the demon's arms off, "Jump!" Tanjiro propels Inosuke into the air, with Tanjiro using his burning sword and slices it's legs off, with Inosuke 'I kept following orders from him, and his sword being on fire, and it brings pain to the demons like they got hit by sunlight. No wonder he's known to be the Child of Fire God.' Inosuke dashed to the demon as he sliced the chest off, till it disentigrates. "Not bad Inosuke, i knew i can count on you." Inosuke was just standing there as he ends up throwing his swords down and picks up Tanjiro, "what the?" Inosuke throws Tanjiro up to the sky, as Tanjiro noticed it was him leading him to the demon mother. 'oh, that's what you mean.' Tanjiro made his way to the mother demon as he beheads it down. As it starts to disintegrate the mother says "the 12 kizuki is here." Tanjiro gasped as she says "be careful." As she disintegrated entirely. Tanjiro runs to Inosuke to see if he's okay.
Meanwhile with the The twins who arrived to their Destination, They made their way to the mountain as they come across a bunch of slayers, the one called Murata who he's helping other slayers escape as The twins arrived, "Hey, I'm Tomioka Giichi, this here is my sister Yumi. Tsugoku ranks here. What's going on?" "Tsugoku ranks? Tomioka? wait are you related to the water pillar?" Asked one of the slayers as Giichi replied and says "he's our father." Many slayers seemed shocked to see it as Yumi asked "What's going on?" "There were like powerful demons there, and we were being saved by 2 of Mizunoto rank slayers, one with Hanafuda Earrings using a burning sword, and the other with the boar mask." Says Murata as Yumi says "I see, my brother and I will get to it. Thanks." As both twins were off. Both twins were running off as Yumi says "Seems like Tanjiro is doing a good job there." "He'll survive this then." Says Giichi as both twins splits up. "Those slayers are at Kanoe, saved by Mizunoto. Doesn't it sound strange?" Asks Yumi as Giichi replied, "seems like they weren't trained well enough and got promoted without even earning it." "Let's split up just to make sure of it." Says Yumi and Giichi says "Agreed." Yumi going off in speed, as she's known to be faster then her brother, and went off to separate ways.
Tanjiro and Inosuke on a river as they started fighting the father spider demon. "Get away from my family." As he's about to punch Inosuke until "Hinokami Kagura..." Tanjiro slices off the father's arm as the father screams in pain, "Fire Wheel." as it's holding on to it's arm which isn't regenerating, but Inosuke slashes to it but it gets stuck. "Crap! It's stuck." "Hinokami Kagura..." Tanjiro dashed and stabs the demon but misses it's heart, ".. Sunflower thrust." The father began screaming out real loud as it's start both got pushed away. He regenerates his arm as he starts chasing Inosuke on the river, as for Tanjiro on the left side of the river, he cuts down a tree as the tree falls on the demon as it's stuck. Inosuke saw how he managed to trap the demon "You keep your hands off from the King of the Mountains!..." Says Tanjiro as Inosuke feels a chill down his spine. Tanjiro jumps to the demon, on his way to decapitate the demon, "Clear blue..." but the demon picks up the branch as it hits Tanjiro and sends him flying away. "Kentarooooo!" "Don't die Inosuke, Don't Die!" Yelled Tanjiro as he flies off, as for Inosuke as he faces to the demon, he runs off as the demon chases him. "Crap, i must think..Gompachiro caught me off guard when we first met, i can do it too." As Inosuke runs off and outran the demon. The demon looks around as until "Pig Assault!" The demon was caught off guard, as Inosuke slashes at it but the demon blocks it with his arm. Inosuke hits his blade multiple times to make it pierce through the tofu type skin as he managed to slice the arm off. "One limb down." "Water Breathing, 2nd form..." As Tomioka Giichi shows up and slices the other arm of the demon, "..Water wheel." he lays eyes on Giichi who looks to him, "Water breathing, 4th form.. striking Tide." He slices the demons angles off, as it collapses down. until Inosuke shows up to the demon as he connects both blades on the demon father's neck "You forgot about me." Inosuke then moves his arms front and back, moving the blade. Using the blades as a saw, and managed to behead the demon. The demon starts to desinigrate as for Giichi who he seems surprised 'This kid is something, duel weilding and he used it as a saw. What a talented one.' "You there, Raven boy." Says Inosuke as Giichi seemed confused, "that was one heck of a slash there. You help me managed to defeat this 12 kizuki." "That's no kizuki. Or else, it would have torn you bits within a second." Replied Giichi and Inosuke was left off nerve hitting, "But the Child of Fire God told me about a kizuki here!" yelled Inosuke "who?" Giichi raised his eyebrow, until the sounds of Inosuke's swords cracking till the both chipped into 2. "HEEHH?! HOW?" "This is what happens if you try to clean them with water. It's best for you to stay here. Help will come soon." Says Giichi "Of course not, how about we fight and see who's the strongest." Inosuke replied but he was left off tied in a tree in a second. "Oh? What the." Inosuke started sweating while Giichi smiled and replied "well...I win. Also, You can't go off fighting while being severely injured." As he leaves and Inosuke starts yelling. "What the, get back here you Raven Boy, come and fight me!!!"
Tanjiro is facing Rui, "I'll repeat that again, This bond is a fake" as Rui is getting angry and says "You better take it back...Since a mere slayer like you cant deal with a 12 kizuki." He shows his left eye saying lower moon 5 "You want me to do that?" Tanjiro asked as he unsheathed his burning sword out. "Make me." Rui starts to get mad as he throws 3 threads together at Tanjiro but he dodges them, over and over. Until Tanjiro swings his blade and cuts down the threads as they burn. 'What the? This guy.' Rui goes on throwing many threads in speed, but Nezuko shows up and uses herself to sheild Tanjiro. "Nezuko!" Tanjiro pulled her away as Rui was shocked to see how she protected him. "I want her, I want her as my sister." Rui uses the webs as he pulls her to him. "Nezuko!" Rui strangles her, but she scratches his face as Rui says "I think I'll have to straighten you up." He pulls her up, Tying her up in webs all around above as Nezuko bleeds. "Nezuko!" But Rui "Shut up." throws 4 threads at Tanjiro, in which Tanjiro jumps all the way backwards. As for Nezuko, she ends up falling asleep "Let me help you!" Asked the demon sister but Rui threw her off, "you wanna help me? hunt down the rest." He says as she runs off. "You let my sister go or else!" Yelled Tanjiro as Rui says "or else what?" Tanjiro places the box to the ground and says "or the Child of Fire God will make you burn while you disintegrate." Rui then throws a multitude of threads to him "then Go ahead and try." They all turn red and surrounds him, as they all close into him, until some strange marks of a fire pattern appears on top of his scar and a small one appears underneath. "Hinokami Kagura, Raging Sun Dance." Tanjiro Dashes to him as he sliced off every deadly thread, 'Did he seriously? Rui thought until his fingertips began trembling as he 'Wait, Why am i trembling? Muzan-sama?' Rui backs away while Tanjiro closes into him, while slashing him continuesly, as for Nezuko who wakes up and every blood of hers explodes into pink flames. Burning the threads off to ashes in which Rui was Caught off caught 'She burned off the threads, this can-' Rui thought so but he got interrupted with Tanjiro coming out of the pink explosion, and immediately slashes through his neck. Tanjiro sees how his head falls off and starts to disintegrate, 'This cannot be happening.' Tanjiro then saw Nezuko falling down as he caught her and both fell. Giichi came in as he made his way to the siblings, "You okay?" Asked Giichi as Tanjiro says "yeah, I'm okay." He grabs the box while Giichi saw a glimpse of the Rui's head and saw his eyes "Did you just, Defeat a 12 kizuki?" He asked in shock as Tanjiro says "yeah, i did." "Are you hurt?" He asked and Tanjiro replied, "a little." Giichi takes out some bandages, "come, I'll help you with the cuts you got."
Meanwhile with the Demon sister who's running, as she saw Murata with a sword, The sister uses her sashes to try and tie him up in a cocoon but to surprise, the sashes got sliced to bits. Leaving her and Murata to be caught off guard. "what the?" She asked until Tomioka Yumi shows up to her from her left, The Demon uses her blood demon art and throws white sashes to her but Yumi slices them off casually, cuts her hand off and she then lands to the ground after she slashes the sashes off. "What the, freezing cold?" She holds on to her freezing hand, until she regenerates it. "That's quite surprising to see you startled. Surprised to feel the cold?" Asked Yumi as she says in a cold smirky look. The demon sister flinched as she says "You get out of my way you raven brat!" "Oh, that's sad, i thought we could be friends." Yumi says it in a Sassy Tone, as for The demon sister, yelled "Why you!" throwing countless amount of sashes at her, "Ice breathing, 5th form..." Yumi dashes around the sashes flying everywhere where, trying to get her, Yumi ends up slicing them all off, as she dashed to The demon sister who was caught off guard as if she was disoriented from a fog, Yumi then immediately slices the demons sister's head off with a blink of an eye while a trail of icy fog flowing out of her blade since she started performing the stance, "...Blinding Blizzard." The head of the demon sister falls off and rolls at the ground while she was shocked to see this, she couldn't even see where Yumi was, and she was disintegrating. Yumi looking at her in a cold smile, "How ironic." She says it as the demon disintegrated. "And here i thought I could befriend her." She sheathed her sword in "You okay?" She asked Murata bowed as he replied "oh yes, Thank you Tomioka-chan." "Leave the mountain, my brother and i will handle the rest." "Yes!" Murata runs off, as for Yumi, who she runs off to where she and the others would be.
Meanwhile with Tanjiro and Giichi as he patched Tanjiro up with small bandages "there." Says Giichi as until Giyu comes in, "Seems like I was late, did something happened?" Tanjiro with his box having Nezuko in. As for Giichi looking to his father, says "Oto-san, Tanjiro just defeated a lower rank." Giyu was left by surprise as he asked "Really?" "Yes!" Says Giichi and Giyu faced to Tanjiro and asked "what rank was it?" "5." Tanjiro answered and Giyu was shocked. "You joined the corps and you managed to defeat it within a week. This is... Normally, defeating a 12 kizuki or 50 demons makes you a pillar." "What?! But I just joined! I don't think I'm ready for that!" Tanjiro says as Giyu says "well, Oyakata-sama may as well see to it." "Caw! Caw! Mission Complete! Caw!" Says the Crow as Giyu says "lets go." "Oto-san, your here." Says Yumi as she goes off hugging her father, "and the mission is finished. You and your brother head home and rest. You had enough missions for the weak." "Yes!" She dashed off, as for Giichi says "well, I'll catch you later." And he leaves too, following Yumi to head home.
Giyu looked at Tanjiro as he says "So you managed to defeat a kizuki, I'm impressed at most." Tanjiro stands up with his box and Nezuko inside. Tanjiro makes his way to the other slayers whom they all thanked him, as for Inosuke who got untied "Thank you very much." "You saved us." Says the slayers who were relieved as Tanjiro smiled and says "I'm happy to help." "Mwahahaha, you should praise me." Says Inosuke as Giyu saw Shinobu with Kanao helping the injured, he approached to the slayers as He asked them "Now that's settled, I hope you slayers can provide detailed reports of this incident."
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Giyu returned to his estate and saw how the twins are tired as they fell asleep. Giyu smiled as he walks up to them and says "wake up you 2." They woke up as Giichi asked "To-san, how the mission went?" "It went well, the results were in good hands." Says Giyu as Yumi waking up slowly as he says "Come, let's go and eat something, you both probably haven't eaten much." The twins seemed happy but tired as they all walked up to their father. "Yes!"
As the family are in a restaurant, with the twins eating Soba like their is no tomorrow, as for Giyu eating Daikon and Salmon. "How are you both feeling now?" "All good Oto-san." Says Yumi, as for Giichi almost finishing Soba, as he says "never knew I'd be this hungry. Oyagee! Bring me sardines and Tempura mixed!" "On it!" Says the cashier, in which the other customers witnessing it seems surprised. Giyu says "Eat as much as you wish, you both have Tsugoku training to attend which is starting by tomorrow. And it's nothing but hardcore, enjoy yourselves while you're at it. You'll need alot of energy." Yumi finished her soba as She says "of course, I'm all but ready for Hardcore training, Oyagee! Sardines and Tempura mixed." "On it!" Says the cashier who he just arrived and delivered the order to Giichi, as Giichi started eating. "I like your children's appetite." Says the cashier and Giyu replied "Good to know." With the Cashier leaving, off to make more.
Later on in the headquarters at night, in which the meeting is being held by. "Since the population of demons is increasing vastly, as for the mount Natagumo, as many slayers were saved. Any idea?" Says Kagaya as, Sanemi was about to say something but Giyu replied "according to some reports i managed to gather earlier soon after the mission was completed. Kamado Tanjiro and the one called Hashibira Inosuke did most of the work in defeating the demons as rank Mizunoto, and they managed to rescue as many slayers who are to be rank kanoe as you once stated. I'm afraid they weren't well trained enough to analyse a situation or anything. Some are quite disobedient, some are quite incompetent. However, I heard from one of the slayers by witness, that Kamado Tanjiro has defeated lower moon 5." The pillars were left by surprise, Sanemi flinched in anger who refuses to believe such nonsense, Gyomei prays as he says "what a strong soul, he was able to save so many and defeat a kizuki" "that's quite the Flamboyant news." Says Tengen, "I can already see potential in him since his speech about his sister spiked the sound of an adult." "If it weren't for Kamado, our numbers would have decreased." Says Shinobu and Kyojuro says "Of course, he defeated a lower moon soon after joining the corps." "And in other words, It's very much a requirement of being a Pillar. However, Kamado states that he isn't ready for that title, since he just joined. When i first met him 2 years ago, he already mastered the Total Concentration Breathing constant. He might need experience as he's suggesting it so" Says Giyu and Rengoku says "Of course, I can sense a Charisma in that boy." "Indeed, Tanjiro will eventually reach at this rank, until then. We shall see what happens next." Says Kagaya.
Later on, in which the meeting ended with everyone leaving, Giyu on his way to leave, until "Tomioka-san." Giyu stopped as he looked to Shinobu, "did you seriously manage to talk to the other slayers? I thought you didn't like talking to others" she said it in a teasing way "It's my duty. Nothing much." Says Giyu as he leaves while Shinobu, smiling while vein marks appears. says "So Cold, This is why nobody likes you." Giyu continues to walk as he's getting annoyed by her. "Kocho's right, No one likes you!" Yelled Sanemi as he smirked, as Gyomei says "Shinazugawa, that's disrespectful." Sanemi flinches and Muichiro says "Who are we talking about again?" Everyone slowly leaves. Giyu feeling annoyed by Shinobu pestering him, his life getting worse.
End of chapter.