The Butterfly and the Shadow (Shinobu x OC)

Chapter 1

Gyomei: Do not underestimate Saito-san. After all, he is the strongest among us, the Hashira.

Gyomei: Oyakata-sama even said that he is probably the current strongest demon slayer of the current Era.

Sanemi: The current strongest?

Gyomei: Unlike Muichiro who became a Hashira at the age of 14 and the current youngest among us........

Gyomei: Saito-san became a demon slayer at the age of 10.

This shocked the rest of the pillars, and even the anti-social, Giyu, couldn't help but be surprised.

Sanemi: W-What!?

Uzui: I know I heard this from some of the Demon Slayers but hearing it from the man himself.........

Gyomei: Saito-san was found on a basket that was flowing on the river. He was then raised in an orphanage, and his origins are mysterious as when they found him, they found a letter that states his full name.

Mitsuri, the Love Pillar inquired the Stone Pillar.

Mitsuri: Did that letter stated anything about his parents' whereabouts or where they came from?

Gyomei: According to Saito-san himself, the letter only indicated that when they find the infant in the basket, name his Saito Inei.

Gyomei: That was it. No mention of his origins, the reason why he was abandoned and put in a basket.

Gyomei: That's it........

Gyomei: The additional information that he had is, when he was found, the letter has some drops of blood on it.

Uzui: Drops of blood..........could it be?

Gyomei: His parents are probably killed by a demon. That was the only conclusion that I can even draw from.

Gyomei: I think his parents sacrificed their own lives, just to save him.

Mitsuri: Awww.........it's so sad.

Gyomei: I couldn't help but be sad as well.

Gyomei: From his parents, even the slaughter of his foster family.....and during his childhood, he already ended the lives of anyone who threatened the Emperor, even a demon.

Uzui: So when he killed the demon that wanted to kill the Emperor, His Majesty recommended him to be a Demon Slayer.

Gyomei: Yes.

Gyomei: He even passed the Final Selection with ease. Saying that he completed the Final Selection when he killed all the demons on the mountaintop, alone, and without rest for seven nights straight.

This even shocked the other pillars. Obanai, the Snake Pillar just uttered.

Obanai: You mean, he just killed all of the demons that the demon slayers had caught for seven nights!? Even without rest!?

Gyomei: Yes.

Obanai: T-That's impossible! How could he-