Chapter-83: Unprecedented Danger..

Chapter-83: Unprecedented Danger..

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3rd POV | Swordsmith Village |

In a remote corner of the Swordsmith village, on a small elevated rock, a lone vase stood straight. The lone vase was made out of clear porcelain. It looked very high quality with various blue and golden patterns on the sides.

The vase looked out of place from the natural place of the forest. Then as suddenly as that vase arrived, it disappeared from the boulder that it was on. The luxurious vase reappeared in the middle of the path, just right above the steps.

The vase had an eerie aura in contrast to it's elegant and magnificent appearance. Like a hidden danger was in the vase.

"What is this? A vase?" A passing by masked swordsmith took a look at the porcelain vase and took it in his arms, inspecting it and trying to see what was inside.

Whoosh! All of a sudden, two muscular hands emerged from the dark hole of the vase and pulled the head of the swordsmith into the vase.

"Graaah! Gaaah! DDhaokanhhw!" Muffled screams erupted from the swordsmith as his body began compressing to fit inside the vase. His bones cracked at every moment and his insides turning into mush.

Blood overflowed the hole in the vase and quickly dripped down to the ground, creating a messy puddle beneath it. Soon, the screams of the swordsmith ceased immediately after his body was fully inside the vase.

Sounds of chewing came from inside of the vase as a voice spoke. "Yuum! Delicious!" A malevolent being spoke out. "What a find this village is! Hihihi! Time for a new masterpiece!"

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A few meters outside the town, there stood another lone vase, like the other one earlier, but the patterns were different and so were the palette.

A wooshing sound came inside of the vase, like water crashing into a wall, and then—

—A green arm burst out, then another, and another, all of them looking like infant's arms wiggling out of the hole. After the arms came a head and it's torso that looked like it had no lower body; similar to a djinn. The most disturbing part of the creature's body was the face.

It's face had an eye vertically placed on it's forehead and it's mouth was replaced by an eye also. The places where the eyes were supposed to be at were replaced by two mouths with green lips and fully grown teeth and tongues.

"Hihihihi! Our carnival is starting!" A laughing sound came from it's mouth as it raised it's head up. Then, a huge tide of water erupted from the vase that the demon was in.

Small fishes flopped around the water tide until that is, they grew and expanded to the size of normal adult humans. Their faces also looked like a human's but it is distorted to extreme degrees and also human limbs to walk on land.

These were the fish demons summoned by the other stronger demon on the vase. The stronger demon laughed gleefully as he saw the fish demons head for the town.

"Another masterpiece is being created by Gyokko's hands! Hihihi!" The stronger demon, who we now know as Gyokko, the Upper Rank demon 5 of the Twelve Kizuki. "Let us revel in this new artwork!"

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The giant fish demons rushed towards the town. They rushed out of the forest into the open area near the entrance to the village. The Demon slayers on guard duty saw them encroaching, and they immediately sounded the alarm bell.

Ding! Dong! As soon as the bell rung throughout the village, Demon Slayers began heading to the front of the village to begin defending the village. There were also two Hashira stationed here during Ren and Lucien's stay, Mitsuri and Gyomei, they were the ones assigned by Kagaya.

"There's still more coming from the forest!" One of the Slayers shouted out. Their blades unsheathed, they went for a head on collision with the fish demons.

They knew that they couldn't take a single fish demon alone, so they did the Go formation strategy that had become widespread since the assault of Mount Natagumo.

"Wooo!" One of the Slayers jumped into the fight head-on along with his other teammates.

One by one, the Five Slayer squads began harassing the fish demons, stabbing in coordination, attacking synchronously etc. But along with the fighting, casualties began to appear within the ranks of the Demon Slayers.

"Move the wounded back to the Main house!" Mitsuri instructed as she slashed and killed another fish demon. Her flexible pink blade danced throughout the streets, slicing through any demon like butter.

"Ambitha! Find peace in your next life!" Gyomei spoke softly to the fish demons, swinging down his hand axe.

Baam! The ground rattled and shook as his blow created a small pothole with a bunch of fish demons squished.

"Pitiful creatures, you have suffered so much!" Gyomei said again with tears streaming down his pearly white eyes.

Things were not getting better though, the fish demons are still flooding from the forest with no end in sight.

"Are you all surprised?~" In one of the roofs of the houses, a cocky voice resounded, as if mocking them.

Mitsuri looked up to the source of the voice and saw Gyokko, the upper rank 5 of the Twelve Kizuki. Her eyes widened when she saw the kanji branding in Gyokko's misplaced eyes.

"Upper rank 5?! How did he find the village?!" Mitsuri shouted to Gyomei. He shook his head in confusion too.

"Gyehehe! That's no matter! This village will become my new masterpiece!" Gyokko replied with his arrogant tone once again.

Mitsuri immediately activated her breathing technique, her heart beating faster and faster and heat flooding her body. With one step, she buried her feet into the ground and launched herself towards Gyokko.

Ching! Her sword swung like a whip towards the vase, her sword sliced and shattered the vase as Gyokko disappeared inside it.

"Hihihi! Over here!" Gyokko's mocking voice resounded again in a different place. Mitsuri saw his disgusting form again coming from a different vase.

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Word Count: 1022

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