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DS : Chapter 154
🕑 Added 2025-03-01 14:33:12 +0000 UTC[Seiji's POV]
After the whole ordeal was done, I had the whole night to myself.
I could take the chance to get a good night's sleep and rest my body after the long journey. The Kocho sisters would absolutely love that idea.
Orrrrr....I could go out at night, and search for some demons to kill because goddamn it has been long since I killed one. It had been quite some time since I was in Tokyo, I was sure there would be a demon around here preying on missing people.
So I did just that. I left the manor and gave Lady Tamayo and Yushiro time to get ready for the journey back to the Butterfly Mansion. Meanwhile, I went out of the city and did a lap around the outskirts of Tokyo.
To my horror, I could not find easy prey even after an hour of searching. My purple eyes covered many miles radius with a glace but even then, demons seemed mythical. I could not find anything.
I did not give up though.
"Did you find any?" I asked the sparrow flying above me. She finally returned after almost an hour of disappearing on the horizon.
"...." Raven looked unimpressed as hell but she nodded.
"Great, lead the way girl!!" I exclaimed and she flew west. I measured my breath and followed right behind her tail.
It took half an hour of constant running before my own eyes caught the sight of a demon on the horizon. The demon was staying in an abandoned temple located on the side of the old road.
A long time ago, the path used to be one of the ways to travel to Tokyo and the temple was for travellers to rest and worship God while they were on a journey. But the road was mountainous so it was abandoned a long time ago in favour of wider roads that could carry cars and carts.
It took another ten minutes before I reached the temple.
"Thank you Raven, you are the best," I said, scratching the side of her head when she landed on my shoulder.
Her eyes were dead and glaring but she did raise her beak a little high in the air. Her lungs were inflated with pride too. She was the best fucking Kasugai crow of the best fucking Hashira and she knew it.
She flew off my shoulder to perch on a tree near the entrance gate of the temple while I walked up the steps.
It was dead in the night, an hour or less before midnight. Most animals had slept by then except the nocturnals. I saw a few owls and a bunch of crows hanging out on the top of the gates and roof of worn-down structures. Clearly, they were here for the leftovers.
Too bad there won't be leftovers after I sliced the demon's head off with a nichirin blade.
The owls hummed a creepy melody but that fell on deaf ears. I walked inside the temple, maybe a little too enthusiastic when I was supposed to be wary and afraid. The contrast shocked the demon to the point of not attacking immediately.
I frowned, pretending to not notice her for a few more seconds before impatience took over.
"You can jump at me now, I promise to be surprised," I said while looking up at the ceiling.
On the ceiling where woods interconnected to form the roof, a snake woman was hanging upside down. Her hair was pale like snow, her skin was a slight shade of red - pink - and from her waist down she was a snake with deep red scales.
She hissed at me, her tongue flickering like a dagger in her mouth while razor-sharp teeth the size of her fingers bared at me. My eyes could see the small tubes on those fangs, dripping with acid poison that would more than likely turn my insides into soup if I was bitten.
She quickly unwrapped herself from the wood in the ceiling and fell on me. I wasted no time taking a step back and she slammed on my previous position.
"No way!! That caught me off guard," I tried my best to imitate a surprised exclamation but maybe it was not that good, she fumed and slithered towards me.
'She is a high-ranking demon,' I observed immediately while dogging her attacks. She swiped her hands towards me at a stupidly fast speed - enough to imitate a real snake bite. Her fingers were blades instead of flesh, ready to tear muscle and bones.
But an odd thing I noticed was that although her speed and strength were that of a high-ranking demon, she moved like an absolute amateur. To become a powerful demon, demons needed decent combat experience and accomplishment, less Muzan wouldn't give them more blood.
Or if you become a high-ranked demon by consuming humans, that would require you to consume lots of humans over the years. That was a sure way to attract Demon Slayers so if you could do that for years, it meant you were strong.
But the snake demon in front of me had the skill of a low-rank demon but the power of a high-ranked demon.
Curious.
Strange.
"Tell me, how did you get so strong? You clearly didn't earn it," I asked and finally pulled out my sword and clashed against her claws at lightning speed.
A rain of sparks lit up the old abandoned temple, shining light on the old manuscripts and statues. She did not reply to my question obviously but I had a feeling that it was not because she didn't want to.
"You are barely conscious," I said after a few more seconds of observation. Her red eyes continued glaring at me hatefully and with the intention of devouring me.
That totally sucked the joy out of dragging this fight. If she was not conscious, that meant she wouldn't feel despair.
So with a quick draw of my sword, I turned the snake demon into hundreds of fine pieces while she was lunging at me. The bloody gore spilt on the floor of the temple like a monster chewed on her and spat her out.
Her blood and spatter of flesh showered me but that quickly burned out into ash shortly after it was killed.
"I'm assuming whatever you did to get that strong, cost you your consciousness. You couldn't take that kind of power," I continued after her death.
It was truly a curious observation. Don't tell me Muzan has been going around strengthening his demons after our fight as a way of preparing for the war.
That would be hilarious.
"Hmmm?" my eyes flashed and I saw the eyeball disappear later than the rest. I was not certain but that was not a part of the demon.
I shurrged, deciding to wait for what happened next instead of investigating further. I went out of the temple and enjoyed the silver rays of the moon.
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[3rd POV]
(Infinity Castle)
"I found him,"
Nakime said after Kokushibo appeared before her. She had manipulated the dimension so that Kokushibo's room connected with hers and became one.
"Thank you Nakime, for doing me this favor," Kokuhsibo said sincerely with a small bow.
Nakime had the faintest blush on her cheeks. She did not have to do it, she did not have to try and search for Seiji Shigan, it was not even her master's order.
But after Kokushibo asked her so earnestly, she found herself giving everything to find the purple Hashira. She put more effort into it than all the time she did a mission for Muzan combined.
The work paid off as she found Seiji Shigan for him.
"No need to thank me Lord Kokushibo. This is just a part of my assignment. The Upper Moon has the power to ask for my assistance in completing Lord Muzan's task," she said but still, Kokushibo's eyes had the same gratitude.
"Can you continue keeping an eye on him? And please open a door for me when the opportunity arises," he said.
"I'm dying to meet him,"
It was not a good idea to expand such resources, her blood demon art is not infinite. The other Upper Moons needed her help too in their own works. But she justified her action by saying he was the Number 1 and all.
"I shall do as you ask,"
The opportunity came the next night.
She opened the door leading to Seiji Shigan for the first Upper Moon.
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Comments
Martin Lervoll
Bruh, a cliffhanger like this 😤 Well I will anticipate the next chapter 👍
