As Nezuko stared up at the demon, beads of sweat trickling down her tough expression, it spoke again.
"Tell me.. Fox Girl.. right now.. what Meiji Emperor sits upon the throne?" It asked.
Nezuko's expression turned to one of surprise and confusion for a moment as she responded, "The Imperial Family is Taisho!"
The demon's eyes widened, and it shivered before letting out a loud yell, "GAAAAGH! I've been here so long.. that dynasties have risen and fallen! Again and again! All while I've been trapped here! GAAAAGH! UNFORGIVABLE! UNFORGIVABLE! DAMN KEIZO! DAMN KEIZO! DAMN HIM! DAMN KEIZO!"
"You know Kei-," Nezuko began before being interrupted by the demon's loud yelling.
"OH, I KNOW HIM! KEIZO WAS THE ONE WHO CAPTURED ME! I WILL NEVER FORGET! IT'S BEEN 47 TORTUROUS YEARS! BACK THEN HE WAS STILL A DEMON SLAYER! IN THE EDO PERIOD.. THE KEIO ERA!"
"You're lying!" The boy behind Nezuko suddenly shouted, sweat dripping down his horrified face, "No demon here has been alive that long! LIES! They only put demons up here that have eaten two or three people, and they get killed during Selection! Plus, the demons eat each other, too!"
"But I have survived a very long time." The demon responded, its tone less angry and more boastful.. gleeful? "In this prison.. of wisteria blossoms.. I have eaten 50 of you brats!"
Fifty?! Nezuko thought before remembering a brief conversation she had with Keizo the night before Final Selection.
"Remember, a demon's strength comes from the number of people it has consumed." Keizo had said.
"If it eats many people, it gets stronger?" Nezuko had asked in response.
"That's right. They grow stronger, and some physically change, gaining unnatural powers." Keizo had replied, "If your nose gets stronger, you'll be able to tell how many people a demon has eaten.
Nezuko snapped out of her thoughts as the demon had said, "12.. 13.. and.. you are number 14."
Nezuko stared at it with a confused and disgusted expression, "What are you talking about?!"
The demon let out a giggle, "That's how many of Keizo's students I have eaten! I've decided to kill all his students!" Its tone became more gleeful as it continued, "Yes, indeed! Thirteen of Keizo's students but above all.. there's one I'll never forget. It was a girl-brat who was the strongest by far and also very agile. She had pink eyes and oddly reminded me of Keizo."
Nezuko's eyes widened. How could this demon have killed her? She trained me!
The demon continued, "I recognise you.. by those fox masks. I know the grain of those masks that Keizo carves. Did he call it a Warding Mask? I ate them all because of the masks they wore. They're all inside my stomach. It's like Keizo fed them to me!" The demon continued giggling, "the girl-brat wept and grew angry when I told her that. Soon, her movements grew shaky, and her blade broke. She reminded me of Keizo more than his other students, so I gave her the most brutal death by tearing off her limbs before finally putting her out of her misery and crushing her head!"
By this point, Nezuko was furious. She ran towards the demon, preparing to strike, but the demon stretched out several of its hands towards her.
Stay calm, Nezuko. Your breathing is uneven. Forget about me!
Nezuko was pushed back by the hands, and she hit a tree, blood covering the left side of her forehead as she passed out. Meanwhile, the boy she saved ran off.
Nezuko remained lying on the ground, unconscious, and the demon stretched its hands towards her again, about to tear her into pieces.
Wake up, big sister!
Her eyes snapped open, and she rolled out the way. She got up to her feet with a determined expression and slashed each of the demon's arms, but every time, it just grew more arms. All of a sudden, there was a strange smell from the ground, and Nezuko leapt up into the air just as many of the demon's hands shot up from the ground.
The demon then shot a fist at Nezuko, certain that she wouldn't be able to dodge in mid-air, but Nezuko slammed her foot onto it. The demon was out of hands and couldn't grow more in time. But its neck was hard and impervious, so much that even Koyuki couldn't cut it. When Nezuko failed to cut its neck, the demon planned on crushing her head like it did to the other one.
Total Concentration. Destruction Breathing!
Nezuko could sniff out the opening thread leading directly to its neck, ready to decapitate it and allow all those deceased would've-been demon slayers to finally rest in piece.
....
"Nezuko will win, I'm sure of it. That thing's neck may be hard, but the boulder that she cut was bigger and harder than anyone had ever cut before!" Koyuki said to herself as she sat on the cut boulder.
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First Form: Destructive Slash!
Word Count: 840
Quite short, lol
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