A Chase In Town

The child-like demon stood unflinching, blood spewed from the sliced talon. However, It quickly regenerated the talon with a replacement. It's eyes inspected Utazo who held his blade straight at it , and Faolan who held a defensive posture, analyzing it's next course of action.

"I'm very sorry!" The Child Demon apologizes with a ranked bow.

Faolan's eyes grew slightly disgusted, but Utazo would voice his disgust.

"Shut the hell up Demon, you're going to die now," Utazo readied his stance by extending his right leg forward.

Faolan shifts his head slightly towards Takeda while keeping The Child Demon in view, Faolan's eyes roared for justice for the lives this demon has destroyed.

"Takeda-san, go we will handle this demon!" Faolan's voice was gentle and cautious. Takeda removed her gaze from the Child Demon and rested her eyes within the bright eyes of Faolan.

"I will!" Takeda nods and she begins to rush out of the scene, leaving Faolan to take care of Demon.

'Please do not die,' she placed her hope within the young boy.

The Child Demon's eyes shifted to Takeda escaping, it smiled with an entirely new idea inspired by the actions of the villagers.

"Echo Breathing: Third Style: Roaring Sound!" Utazo suddenly slams his abnormally large blade into the earth, which rumbles the ground with a massively shocking sound.

The Child Demon rockets upwards before the shockwave could reach it. Smashing through the ceiling of Takeda's home it laughed in an overly joyous manner from the little amount of pain it felt on its head.

'The Demon is fast, but I can hit it from here, in one quick move,' Faolan sucked air slowly into his lungs, an essence of lightning enveloped around him.

"Breath Of Thunder: Fourth Style: Distant Thunder!" Faolan rapidly unsheathes, unleashing two rapid slashes to strike the Child Demon. Seeing as Faolan was zapping, the Child Demon rapidly hopped towards the building besides Takeda's home, the strikes only crack and sort of slashes the walled material .

'What?' Faolan's expression displayed a peering look at his own strength, he kicks himself down to ground level from the side of the building.

"Hahahahahaha, that was such a weak strike! I think I'm going to kill you first and then you pink hair guy!" The Child Demon claps it's talons together.

Utazo suddenly flashes towards the Child Demon with another massive swing, for it to only cut the belly slightly.

"Awwwww, but I don't think it's a fair fight if it's just me!" The Child Demon licks its own blood from its belly.

'HE'S PLANNING TO ESCAPE,' Utazo drives in for another powerful swing, slashing through the rib of the Child Demon who actually purposely flipped backwards to avoid the fatal strike.

The Child Demon began to run from the Demon Slayers, Utazo followed behind the Demon attempting to catch the Child Demon. Faolan sheathed his blade, and followed from ground level.

'If this Demon escapes, it could be anywhere, but why was my strike so weak…. was it because I focused the attack improperly with my arms and legs?' Faolan shook his head from the thoughts and focused on the Child Demon on the roof, his goal was to protect the villagers from it in case it decided to go down.

"UTAZO! Don't let the demon find glass or certain glass, it's like a gateway for it!" Faolan shouted.

Utazo listened, 'I won't let you escape, you monster!' He lowered his head to focus on his acceleration. The Child Demon continued to hop over the roofs of the building and caused havoc for Utazo to lose track of it. More villagers had begun to see The Child Demon on the roof, instilling a massive amount of fear, making them run for their lives. Faolan had to push through the people that ran into him, he constantly asked for forgiveness every time somebody bumped into him.

Faolan knew that he needed to catch up ahead of the Child Demon in order to stop it, 'Only I can catch up to it right now!' Faolan stopped and focused on his breathing, his eyes nonchalantly gazed on the Child Demon, his target

"Breath Of Thunder: First Style: Thunder Clap and Flash," Faolan flashes to the roofs of the buildings in an instant heading straight for the Child Demon.

"Too slow," The Child Demon points one of its Talons at Utazo and detaches multiple Talons for its deformed hand.

'He detached it's Talons!' Faolan knew what the Child Demon's plan was and he was going to follow it. Utazo also saw that the talons was detached, yet he was willing to take the chance and deflect the talons, however he couldn't see that the Child Demon had released a thicker Talon right behind the others, Faolan did.

'I gotta stop it!' Faolan re-evaluates his attack and curves the roof to angle himself directly ninety degrees to slash the thick Talon. Utazo deflects the other Talons with no haste with his enormous blade,Faolan now instantly with more power flings across the rooftops and slashes the thick Talon into two halves with a burst of electricity.

Utazo's eyes stop to see the thick talon fly off with a trail of blood following behind and dissipate into the streets. A hard crash was also heard and he saw that Faolan had smashed himself onto the rooftop of another residential building to his left.

"I'LL CATCH UP, PROTECT THE VILLAGE!" Faolan shouted, wearily raising himself with his dark blade.

Leaving Faolan to the roofs, Utazo thought to himself, 'He saved me….. I can't believe it,' Utazo's eyes focused on the Child Demon once again, but Faolan's words had suddenly caught a place in his mind.

Utazo lowered his abnormally large blade for maximum mobility, but he loses raw power in his attacks.

'I won't let this monster get away without a scare, after what Okami has done!' Utazo focuses his breathing in total concentration. Faolan's had shout struck him for some odd reason,

'PROTECT THE VILLAGE!'

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The Child Demon grew a bit annoyed that Demon Slayer was still on its tail despite being a human.

'I'm going to kill mor—,'The Child Demon was struck in the thigh by the abnormally large blade of Utazo, it practically sliced its entire thigh off.

"NOOO," The Child Demon screamed.

Utazo had thrown his blade to stop the Child Demon from its movement, he suspected that the Child Demon wouldn't have expected that kind of attack with such a massive blade. He was able to land this Hail Mary, with his keen senses of movement. Utazo reaches where The Child Demon had been stopped, expecting a defensive slash from the Demon, he vaulted, gripping the hilt of the blade as the Child Demon misses a clawed attack on Utazo. Utazo completely slices the thigh of the Child Demon, blood spewed from its severed thigh.

"AGGHHHHGH," The Child Demon has begun to cry into tears.

Utazo places his blade onto the neck of The Child Demon, "This will be end."

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHEEEEEEEER!" The Child Demon shrieked insanely, causing Utazo to instinctively back away from the Child Demon as it twitched inhumanly.

Utazo felt an horrific chill over his spine,

*Dum Dum Dum*

He heard more footsteps incoming, those similar to The Child Demon. More screams surrounded him, as more Child Demons began to break out of the homes and appear on the streets of the residents.

"What the hell?" Utazo now sees that there are even more culprits like the Child Demon he had been chasing. They surrounded the injured Child Demon, avoiding Utazo to defend the Child Demon completely.

"We're going to eat you apart for hurting BROTHER!"

"DIE DIE DIE DIE!"

"I WANNA KILL YOU AND MORE PEOPLE HERE, AND I'M HUNGRY, I'M REALLY HUNGRY!"

The Demon Children constantly taunted Utazo and threatened to murder him, this made him completely feel completely disgusted.

"You feel bad that I hurt your brother? What sick family you have; imagine the other families you've ruined. You're just another objective for me to finish," Utazo spit cold words towards the Demon Children.

"Why don't I hurt more of you, bastards?" Utazo raised his abnormally large blade, and his voice brought a slight chill to the Demon Children.

"My children, come to me," A horrifically Motherly voice spoke. The roof that the Demon Children stood on appeared to envelop them downwards slowly.

"NO YOU DON'T!" Utazo races to the Demon Children before they are completely enveloped by the ground.

SWSSHHHHHH

It was too late, Utazo's blade slashes the gust of freezing air and partly cracks the roofing the residential roofing. Looking down, Utazo saw that The Demon Children had escaped into a small mirror that they had hidden when they were all jumbled together. He continued staring below, into the mirror where the Demon Children had disappeared to, his mind plagued with anger, he wanted to smash the mirror out of anger. Yet he held his anger and released a sigh as he fixed his eyeglasses. He shut his eyes and wiped the blood of the Demon from his abnormally large blade.

'I failed the mission for now,' Utazo scratched his head disappointingly to reality.

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"Oiii, ouiiiiii!" an annoyingly familiar voice called Utazo.

Utazo swiped the mirror from the roof, causing it to land down the ground level of the residents. Kagero was below, still calling for him, and more residents came out from their homes.

"Hey, we have to go find the other guy," Utazo announced.

"You mean Faolan?" Kagero asked.

"Yea… he may be injured," Utazo replied.

"What about Yukina-san?" Kagero added.

"She's probably still following her lead, but it might not matter now, we have enough information for the higher ranks," Utazo understood that this mission may now need the highly experienced slayers.

'It's not that we're not experienced, but their skill and power are beyond ours.' Utazo thought.

Utazo looks up into the freezing air, taking in the failure of the current situation. He believes that his emotions had caused him such failure to the mission. However, his thoughts brought him back to Faolan,

'Okami had the chance to kill that one Child Demon, but he didn't…. He decided that my life was more important than the kill, heh,' Utazo coughed out a tiny laugh,

'However, look how many lives could be potentially lost now since we couldn't finish off that one Child Demon, but would it matter? Killing one of the Child Demons wouldn't have stopped them all, now that I think about it, or that mother. I suppose with what Okami did, we learned a lot more than we would've if we had just killed one demon. We can really complete the mission now, but…. but something still feels off.

"Heeeeeeey!" Kagero called Utazo once again, breaking Utazo from his thought train.

"Can't you see that I'm thinking!" Utazo shouted.

"Can't you see that I want to know what happened, or where is Faolan?" Kagero shrugged sarcastically.

Utazo's wipes his face, "Yea, okay."

"Isn't it pretty crazy that I was in the right place at that time five head?" Kagero stunted with his hat to annoy Utazo as he reached rooftop level.

Crossing his arms, Utazo found himself more disappointed in Kagero as a warrior, "I don't know how am I a 'five head' when you're the one smart enough to come up with such an idiot term to annoy." Utazo had no idea of what to make up of Kagero; he is such a strange character to him. He was his complete opposite in terms of personality and mission wise he was on the same page but written differently at the same time, which didn't make sense to Utazo at all.

"Yup yup, now tell me what's happened," Kagero said.

"Listen once, 'cause I'm not gonna repeat myself for your dumb ass," replied Utazo.

Officers of the residents were nowhere to be seen, the people saw a spark of light that night, even amongst the fear of the cold. A newfound hope would develop within the heart of the residents; seeing these warriors at work will spread across the residents for their bravery in wiping out the evil that lurked. Yet there was still something that didn't make sense in Sattokotta, a colder breeze swept through and through, and a prominent snowfall was coming. The Demon Slayers in Sattokotta will face extreme expectations in the coming weeks.

The threat of the Demons is still afoot.