𝐇𝐄𝐑 , ᵈᵉᵐᵒⁿ ˢˡᵃʸᵉʳ

27 ━━ i'm waiting, i'm waiting, i'm waiting..

She swallowed, her lips parting as she exhaled. She blinked slowly, her brows creasing almost. Her lips were dry, and the bags under her eyes had seemed to look worse then before.

Her hair was disheveled from the wind.

For someone who is working on herself doesn't look too good.

A beat of silence passed.

She didn't know it she had started to hallucinate from the lack of sleep she had or if she was going crazy, but the moon now looked as if it was pitying her.

"Mmmm..?" She hummed out lowly, her tone laced with confusion.

She slowly blinked once, than twice.

Yeah.. no, the moon was pitying her.

For what? She had no clue. Nor could she care right now.

She huffed softly, turning her head to the side with a pout on her lips. Her expression was now showing annoyance.

Her eyes then drifted over towards the demon who was now approaching her with a disgusting grin on its face. It's sad how it thinks it won just cause she hadn't gotten back up on her feet yet.

She only blinked at the demon.

Luckily, she hadn't lost her grip on her sword and it was still on her grasp.

"How pathetic.." the demon uttered out before coming to a stop in front of the (h/c)-haired female. Slowly, he crouched to the ground, raised his hand and grabbed
a strand of Y/N's hair. His head titled slowly, eyes on the strand of hair in between his fingers as he twirled it.

Then, after a few seconds, he let go of the strand of hair and out his focus back on Y/N who was staring up at him with a bored but uninterested look on her face.

"For someone who isn't a Hashira, you are quite fast." He complimented with a glint in his eyes.

Y/N said nothing,

and that made the demon chuckle lowly.

"Not talking, huh?" He blinked, slowly-almost on purpose-dragging his hand down her hair to her jawline.

She tensed up at the action.

He then grabbed her jawline, not with force, not with roughness, but so softly it almost made Y/N gag.

He titled her jaw up, practically lifting her head up and pulling her face closer to his do they could be at actual eye level.

"I do wonder though, what did happen to all that strength and speed you had a few minutes ago?" He genuinely questioned her. His eyes then drifted down to her skin, his thumb grazing her cheek slowly back and forth. "Or are you just that weak?" He asked after a beat of silence passed between them. His eyes drifted back up to her own, locking eyes with her.

At his last words, Y/N scoffed.

"You dare call me weak?"

"Well," the demon paused, blinking, then he continued. "Well, yes. Yes, I do."

Y/N's eye twitched at his words.