Demon Slayer: Alternative View

Chapter 7: Era'mthgins Seldne

Tomioka stopped walking and quirked her an eyebrow.

"Don't give me that," she called back at his new change in attitude.

'Man, adults this day and age,' she thought as Tomioka started giving her moody behaviors.

Looking at her surroundings, the insect pillar sighed in confusion.

"You're lost, huh?" questioned Tomioka tapping his foot lightly.

"Shut up," she mumbled. 'It's not my fault that this stupid mountain is full of similar looking trees.

"Kpft," Giyuu held back his laugh and internally giggled at Shinobu's new resent in life.

"The sun!" suddenly came a familiar voice.

Shinobu and Tomioka ran over to the source and that is when they saw it.

Kanroji and Iguro were... arguing?

'How unlike them. I wonder what happened,' gazed Shinobu as Kanroji raised her voice slightly. She beckoned for Tomioka to crouch low so they could spy in on the conversation.

Obani looked irritated as he retorted, "Demons can use the trees as coverage during the day!"

"But they would never is what I'm trying to get at," remarked the pink haired pillar, making explicit hand gestures to emphasize her point.

Shinobu was about to reveal herself, but Giyuu grabbed her shoulder and dragged her back down behind the bush. Placing his finger to his lips, he signaled for her to be quiet and listen.

The snake pillar was losing it fast.

"I found Kanao-chan's sword! And they were all brutally cut by the stomach, throat, and chest! You tell me," he continued.

'Wait, Kanao's sword? Don't tell me,' Kocho started to draw her own diagram of possibilities.

"We see Tomioka and Shinobu-san, we kill them," flatly stated Iguro.

"I don't even think it was those two! Will you listen to me?!"

"I did but there is plain evidence they killed the innocent!" Obani hollared back just as loud.

If this had nothing concerning the water and insect pillar, they might of just found the two quarrelling hashiras a blast to watch. But Shinobu lost all color when she heard Obani's words.

Tomioka on the other hand was doubting everything. Tanjiro would never kill anyone, so what came upon the assumption that he did anything; same with Shinobu's Tsuguko. There was just no possible way.

And then it whacked the two over the head.

Kanroji was the only person who could knock some sense into Iguro, but if her attempts are failing, that means the snake pillar is more than willing to kill Tomioka and Shinobu.

Hearing enough, Tomioka reached for Shinobu, but with their new size difference, dragging her away was harder than ever.

"Come on," he silently urged. Shinobu simply shook him off, wanting to hear more about what was happening.

"Listen," Tomioka started, "We need to find Tanjiro and Kanao, and hide. Iguro is out to kill us and he won't hesitate for a second. If we don't try to prove Kanao and Tanjiro are not murderers, who knows the consequences that will subsequently follow."

Shinobu only nodded as she backed away and turned to the shrub of trees. The sun was about to set in less than an hour and demons will be prowling once more.

'I'm not going to let him kill my little sister,' thought Shinobu as she helped Tomioka off the ground.

The two ran into the forest of trees again and disappeared from sight, in a coverage of shadows and branches.