Ch-48 : A Traitor in demon slayer corps

Just as Damien jumped to other side, he saw a bloodied Tanjiro whose blood was flowing from his head, his muscles were cut open, some flesh was lying on ground.

In front of Tanjiro was a grotesque demon with tens of large arms wrapped around his body, his whole body was in dark green colour, large veins were popping out of his body...they were like countless insects walking on his body.

The smell of rotten flesh reeked from its body, the hand demon opened his mouth as he said with his saliva spreading out,

"HAHAHA~~ I will kill another Urodoki's bastard!"

But surprisingly, in contrast to anime where Tanjiro defeated the hand demon with rather ease, here his condition was much worse and also the size of hand demon was around double from anime.

Damien was shocked to see the differences, then he realised that the demon he just killed also did not appeared in anime...also its strength was not low.

Tanjiro was on ground, he was sitting while panting by taking the support from his sword.

The Hand Demon was using also using psychological warfare, he wanted Tanjiro to be both mentally and physically broken.

He said with a horrendous voice, "Kekeke...you demon slayers even do not know if everyone of you are loyal or not."

"Well, I would not have told you but it doesn't matter whether you listen or not...a dead man never speaks after all."

"We get secretly supplied of fresh humans from one of you hahahHAHA!"

Tanjiro's body shook as he was in despair, after all, the demon slayer corps was his only support, his last option for motivation of living and curing his sister seemed to be fading out.

His body started losing his control,

"Young women and children are the best delicacies HAHAhaha~ Also, seeing the despair on their faces satisfy my hunger-"

Damien was hiding his presence, he was totally dumbfounded after hearing the details...this never happened in anime!

That means there was a traitor in demon slayer corps!!

This piece of news was a thunderclap to his ears, he began to join pieces.

The people who slaughtered his village, his parents...the child they were searching...the boss they were talking about.

Damien's eyes turned red, his fury began raging, he stepped his foot and shoot himself towards the hand demon,

"Birth of Nebula!"

Damien's eyes turned into red lightning as his body warped and approached the hand demon at unimaginable speed.

But Hand Demon was also very powerful demon, he had been fed for 4 decades with fresh human blood, he was just a step before condensing his own blood demon arts.

The Hand Demon shocked sensing something approach his neck, he hardened his body quickly and brought 4 hands in front of him to stop the attack.

*puchi~!*

But all his hands turned into nothingness as Damien slashed his sword against his neck, but surprisingly his sword was able to only graze its neck.

Fuck!

Damien shouted in his mind as he quickly stepped on the demon's bald head, then he rotated his body through 180 degree, then he descended with his greatest speed in a straight arrow.

He pointed his sword directly above the demon's head, air currents trembled around him, leaves fell from trees, ground began to shake as Damien shouted,

"Solar Consolidation!"

His sword tip shone with dark black lightning, wind cut through his sword,

*crackle~!* *puchi~!*

The Hand Demon just tilted his neck to look above and under his despair, he saw the sword tip shining in black lightning as it pierced through his eye.

Damien's body streamlined as he cut the demon's body like a driller, all the blood splattered, all the hands thrown on ground.

His body in a sense, obliterated.

Damien was covered in blood, with his breathing heavy, the third form was really taxing on body when he just had fought a strong demon.

He saw a small river on a side and went there to clean himself, after cleaning himself, he went to the unconscious Tanjiro, he lifted him and placed on his back as he began running towards exit, the competition was about to end after all.

In middle of his running, Tanjiro suddenly woke up and saw that he was on someone's back, he said unconsciously,

"This isn't heaven?"

Damien's eyebrow ticked but soon he sneered as suddenly threw Tanjiro in air and placed him on a treetop, he then suddenly shouted,

"Wake up you bastard! You are alive...I am tired from carrying you!"

Damien continued in low voice,

"If it was your sister, then I would have crossed the whole fucking world while carrying her on my back...but too bad, you aren't."

Tanjiro's senses finally came to him as he shouted, "Oh! Wait Damien!"

He continued to follow him, both of them did not mentioned about the hand demon incident, Tanjiro was eternally grateful to Damien and said his thanks but he did not talked about the traitor issue.

They both knew they can't do anything about that yet...well atleast Tanjiro can't do anything but Damien had already vowed to find and slaughter that bastard traitor.

His parents' death was after all due to him, also even though Damien is not someone who would go looking for killers and then kill them in name of 'justice', he was not that heartless to let countless children being given as food for demons.

Also, it depends on him when he wants to save people, he never was a good or kind man and he would never be.

Same as he never was a bad or cruel man and 'might' never be.

Both of them soon reached the exit as the examination came to end.

Only 69 people were able to survive the seven cruel days.

Damien saw a irritated Genya whose face was even more contorted...just what happened to him?

He also saw a unconscious Zenitsu whose pants were drenched with you-know-what, some foam was coming from his mouth.

And lastly a bare-chested man who was constantly hitting his head on a nearby rock while wearing a boar mask-Inosuke Hashibara.

Damien's head began working quickly,

Inosuke Hashibara - Male

Mother? Kotoha Hashibara (alive or dead?)

Sister? N/A (Tch...what shitty sperms!)

Future wife? yes Aoi (done)

Damien only remembers that Inosuke's mother was killed by Doma but now after seeing the changes...he can't be too sure.

And suddenly his eyes lighted up...that means Kanae Kocho could be alive!

Holy Alabama!

Damien's mood became better, he looked around in happiness.

Tanjiro was again looking at him as he was some sort of beast.

And soon, two female twins came, the same who hoisted the starting of examination.

They both robotically looked ahead with their gazes linger on Damien for longer time.

They said emotionlessly,

"The Demon Slayer Corps congratulate all of you on passing the examination."

"Now we will call you all one by one, please come forward to select your nichirin ore for the sword."

"Afterwards we will set the Kasugai crows free to choose their own master."

All the dead eyes of winners soon turned into excitement, all of them were greatly excited for their own swords...Damien was no exception, he wants to see which colour his sword would take.

"Genya Shinazugawa."

The genya boy contorted his face as he snorted and came to table, he looked around and then picked the grayest and dullest piece of ore.

"Zenitsu Agatsuma"

The Zenitsu boy came while weirdly walking, he picked a yellow coloured ore.

"Tanjiro Kamado"

Tanjiro went and soon picked his ore.

And Finally,

"Damien"

Both the little ladies' eyes reflected something which was till now very dull.

Even though there was no change of expression on their face but still, their eyes turned into myriad of emotions.

Damien went to the group of ores, he scanned the ores but suddenly felt some pull towards a very small ore...the ore was dark in purple, it gave the look of majestic and ancient.

When all the other people also selected their ores, one of the two little ladies say,

"Please proceed to visit headquarters of Demon Slayer Corps after completion of first missions."

"May god bless, demon must be in distress."

After saying that, the ladies went away without turning back.

After some time, the crowd also got scattered, leaving only Tanjiro and Damien.

They also leave the place when suddenly,

"Caw~ Caw~ Demon sightings in near village!! Demon sightings in near village!! Caw~ Caw~"

"Kamado Tanjiro and Damien are requested to investigate the village Caw~ Caw~"

Tanjiro was spooked hearing the birds talk while Damien contemplated about their origins.

Damien's eyes shone in inexplicable hunger? as he said, "Tan-ji-ro...let's go to take Nezuko-chan~"

A vein popped on Tanjiro's forehead as he felt that Damien start giving different vibes whenever he mentions his sister, its like when a predator sees a little prey.

But Damien did not wait for his answer as he began swaying his hands while going to take Nezuko-chan~ with him.

Tanjiro was about to shout at him but he was left in dust...he quickly start to follow him.

(~At Master Urodoki's Home~)

Damien and Tanjiro were standing before the house of master Urodoki, the gate suddenly opened on its own spooking the two of them.

Then suddenly a sword point came in front of Damien, his pupils dilated as he quickly brought his sword hilt to defend...

*bang*

The sword tip and hilt of sword collided as Damien was pressed some steps backward, in front of him, was an old man wearing a pig's mask, he was wearing a blue kimono with a red headband, he immediately recognised him as Master Urodoki - A former Hashira!

{A/N : No offence, if there is any traditional value of the mask. }

Tanjiro was shocked to see his master attacking Damien, behind the gate were two round and big pink eyes innocently blinking, Nezuko-chan~ was peeking through the gate, she wanted to see her brother as soon as possible.

But, she was also very eager to see Damien again also, though she did not understand why she felt that...

Damien also unsheathed his sword as he pointed towards the old man, he huffed,

"Hey old man, this is not how you welcome your guests right?"

The old man smiled behind his mask as he replied,

"Nah, it is actually my 'special' welcome for the friend of my disciple."

Damien just replied with a, "Oh?"

And both of them shoot their bodies forward,

*clang* *clang*

Collision of metals reverberated in surrounding, Tanjiro was shocked to see such level of sword play, he was not even able to watch their movements, he could only see sparks lighting here and there.

(5 minutes later~)

Both of them stopped fighting as Damien wiped a layer of sweat from his forehead while the old man, sat on ground huffing and puffing for air,

"Who are you brat? Such level of sword mastery at such a young age is simply incomprehensible for me."

Damien just smiled and did not replied, the old man understood and did not press the matter any further.

After that, he invited both him and Tanjiro, Nezuko-chan~ was hiding behind Tanjiro and occasionally peeking towards Damien.

Damien also did not left any opportunity from avoiding eye contact.

Both Tanjiro and master Urodoki were sweating buckets seeing the situation.

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