Ch 57 : Becoming Hashira

Demon Slayer Corps, Main headquarters

Damien arrived at the designated place for ceremony, the ceremony was to be taken place at the large courtyard of the main headquarter building.

All the Hashiras were mandatory to be present unless any emergency.

Just as Damien arrived while pushing the wheelchair of Kotoha, followed by Nezuko-chan~, Shinobu, and Kanae, the flame Hashira-Rengoku, quickly took long strides and arrived before Damien.

He smiled widely and said, "Haha, Welcome to Hashiras, Damien."

Damien's eye twitched at his over friendly attitude, but nevertheless, he nodded his head with a smile and replied,

"Thanks, Rengoku-san"

"Do you know what title of Hashira is to be given to you?"

"What is your sword's colour?"

"Which level of Total Concentration Breathing have you achieved?"

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Damien's head buzzed at the unending questions thrown at him, to save the poor boy, his little fiance? Shinobu came and said loudly to Rengoku,

"Hey, can you keep your mouth shut now? Master Ubuyashiki might come at anytime now, and by the way, are you a fool?"

"Don't you know that master is the one who gives title? Didn't have you seen his colour of sword already? Why are you asking so idiotic questions? Such unbefitting of being the flame Hashira... "

"What level of-"

Rengoku's question stopped in middle as he felt that someone blowed air on his flame, his flame got extinguished.

'Shinobu-san really is fierce...sigh'

Suddenly a giant figure approached them, the giant figure stood in front of Damien who was a head shorter than figure.

Gyomei's crying face came in front of Damien whose hands were on handle of wheelchair of Kotoha.

The 'giant' man had his palms clasped together and prayer beads covering his hands.

His white pupils shifted down, he looked down on Damien, his pupil-less eyes scanning Damien.

Damien's red eyes also matched his eyes as they both stared at each other without saying any words.

Only then did Gyomei opened his mouth, "Children are not reliable, not trustable...they are weak."

With this he shook his head and turned around to walk away but Damien's reply made his bulky legs stop their advancement,

"Hmm, so, it means Muichiro Tokito is unreliable, untrustable and weak? I must say that I am quite disappointed by 'strongest and respected' Stone Hashira's level of reviewing a person's worth on the basis of his past experiences."

"None present here not have a tragic backstory, if all of them start imposing their own beliefs on how the society should be governed and who should be worth it or not, then I don't think there are any needs of any examination and such...just send your magnificence self and we would get the cream layer from crowd."

"But at the end of argument, only strength matters, after all whatever the strong says becomes the rule."

"But for that, first you must be confident in defeating the opposing party before going around and judging people on basis of your half-assessed reviewing parameters."

"Anyways, whether you like or not, I have become a Hashira, hence I hope we will get along."

With that, Damien turned his heels and pulled the wheelchair away from Gyomei, the Stone Hashira stood there with this prayer beads turning in his hands, his body quivering slightly...his face twisted slightly in unspeakable emotions.

One of the beads broke as it turned to dust.

'Its not the time yet...'

Damien and company were standing beneath a tree while talking with each other.

"The marriage ceremony will be a secret hehe~"

Nezuko-chan~ responded with rubbing her head on his arm while the injured milf shivered on wheelchair.

Kanae Kocho has long since become accustomed...well she actually doesn't actually needs much time.

She directly went to ara~ara~ mode as she said coquettishly, "Ara~ ara~ quite the mysterious fiance you are being dear~"

Shinobu was still not at her sister's level but it does not mean that men won't try to dig their hearts out only to see her smile at them.

Her whole persona was already of quite charming and now her acting uncaring while being shy is just too much of a overkill for males.

"You should better be prepared to handle all of us~"

Despite Kotoha being the most experienced among them, her tips of ears were fidgeting while being completely red as she continuously heard such 'lewd' talks.

Damien raised his one brow charmingly as he winked towards Nezuko-chan~ and said with a heavy moist voice,

"Tell them whether I need to prepare or them? Nod if you think I can fuck all three of them into oblivion or shake your head if you think that I can't handle them."

"I did not mean like that!"

Shinobu shouted as her uncaring persona crumbled, Kotoha's blood rushed to her head as a picture of Damien's lean body towering her lithe body and then pounding her to oblivion, she also imagined the picture of both Kocho sisters blowing him at same time...

'HOT!'

'Extremely sensual!'

Her mind was filled with indecent thoughts but her eyes were turned towards Nezuko-chan~...she was very eager to know the answer.

Kanae's cheeks also tinted red but she just moved her slender neck towards Nezuko-chan~ to know answer of a very important question.

And under the gazes of three mature milfs...Nezuko-chan's head nodded and all three felt their hairs rising on their tip...their stomach churned and their thick thighs rubbed together as if wanting something come and scratch the 'itch'.

Their faces turned towards the reason of all this biological and psychological changes in them.

Their emerald and purple eyes seemed to drown into those red-wine eyes...they seemed to be drunk in his gaze, his lips were turned on their edges forming a smirk on his shameless face.

'Arghhhh....why my heart has to beat for this guy!!'

All three girls had the same thought in their minds.

Suddenly they heard footsteps of two people, they stopped their flirting and turned towards the noise.

Their came the two robotic lolis, the lolis eyes met with Damien and their body seems to go under a reboot system...the two lolis felt their long eyelashes flutter when they stared at him...the two felt strange when their monotonous heart suddenly sped a bit first time in their lives.

They both looked at each other as if to understand each other, an emotion of sadness and deep loneliness flashed in their eyes...they both shook their heads lightly as if pitying the other one more.

They wanted to give themselves a false sense of superiority in terms of being less pitiful than other...even though both knew that they were one and the same, their whole existence is solely for the organization.

'Love? Hate? Anger? Jealousy? Happiness? all of these were just baits and temptations provided by this large gamble board of a world, people gamble with their emotions, with their loved ones...only to lose themselves in never-ending greed of wanting more.'

'We don't need these mundane things...either way, we are just some lump of flesh whose expiry date is already fixed...'

'The loss of our composure in itself is a pure blasphemy towards our beliefs...'

'We mustn't fell in love...'

'We mustn't fell...'

'We mustn't'...'

'We...'

Both the lolis repeated the same words and soon their face turned back to normal, the same face filled with indifference towards lives and this world, this intangible world seemed of no interest to these pitiful little girls, who are forced to become a cold-hearted and unfeeling robot due to their circumstances...sigh.

The time when they were supposed to imagine themselves in fantasy worlds, read romance novels, imagine their ideal boyfriends....they were tempered to become unfeeling, to follow the same monotonous routine and life, no change allowed.

In midst of these heavy thoughts, there stood a man behind the two lolis...his face covered in veil and he was giving soft vibes...but now he seemed to shout,

'Please announce my arrival, my little daughters.'

The man seems to want to cry.

The Great Kagaya Ubuyashiki wanted to bang his head and die right now.

Fortunately, he soon heard the robotic voice of his daughters.

"Please be silent everyone, Master is coming now."

Ubuyashiki came while limping a bit.

He stood at a pedestal and swept his gaze to all the people present, his eyes came to halt at Damien's group...after all that group was too much to be ignored.

After that, he began his speech as all the people kneeled in front of him.

Damien also kneeled and held Kotoha's body while kneeling down, he rubbed his fingers on her palm...Kotoha's nerves calmed down as all the indecent and unnecessary thoughts dispelled and only the pure and sacred emotion of love wafted all over her body...her eyes staring at the handsome man in front of her.

"So, most of you may already know why we all are gathered here, but let me tell you again."

"The newly appointed demon slayer, Damien recently killed Former Upper Moon Rank 2-Doma along with Lady Kanae, the former flower Hashira."

Even if all the people present already knew it but hearing from Master was another matter...some of them had stars in their eyes, some of them clenched their fists...some of them had their blood-boiled while two of them had their faces contorted a bit.

"The news is true, there is no fallacy."

"Hence, seeing such a large contribution from Mr. Damien, we have decided to grant him the title of Hashira..."

"...He would the first Hashira in our history who had climbed to this rank in shortest timespan."

"Now, according to rules, every other Hashira would bow towards him."

Every Hashiras turned around to Damien and made a ninety-degree bow towards him, though he quickly stopped Shinobu's bow.

When he stopped Shinobu's bow, two pink eyes bored into his back, he turned around to see the love Hashira pouting at him and a stamp of vinegar pasted on her face, Damien controlled his laugh and also stopped her.

"Now, I will give him the title and engrave the symbol on his hand."

Ubuyahsiki walked down the pedestal and went to Damien.

One of the two lolis brought a stamp and gave it to Ubuyashiki,

"Your left hand."

Damien gave his his left hand, Ubuyashiki turned it over and stamped on back of his hand.

A clear sign of infinity was engraved on back of his hand.

"May god bless, 'The Demon Hashira'."

Just as he said name of title...the people around had their eyes bulged.

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