Act 13: Coin's Edge of Darkness

Rise of the Demon King Tanjiro VS Demon Slayer Nezuko

**Originally posted in Fanfiction and Archive**

Published: 04-24-20 - Finished: 07-16-22

Kanon58: H-hi...sorry for the delay. Many things happend. I lost my job and uhh busy applying and sometimes commissions. So anyway, I was happy some people were still looking forward for the next chapter it means a lot. Am actually having author block, the idea for next chapters is there but I couldn't seem to find the right words to type it.

So I might actually still take long before a new chapie is out, especially no more free anime hahaha the japanese new law. Ooint is my excitement to watch Mugen train, instead of able to see it right away in 2021, we wont. We got to wait for dvd and honestly Im not capable to buuuuy. So kissanime helped a lot lol.

Moving on, we have limited anime to watch!

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"Kamado Nezuko No Uta Nezuko Theme Song Demon Slayers" I use it to inspire myself on writing this fanfic...hope you like it too!

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"Ara~ara~" the demon eyes of the former insect pillar lit's with sadistic interest and sarcasm. "You guys think you can win against me~?"

She was brave to face two pillars, such confidence on her poisonous body. Shinobu cups her own cheeks with one hand to feel her own finger nails to seek pleasure at the sight.

"Ufufu~ I get angry on people who believes in themselves..."

Her eyes narrowed on the sick water pillar whose barely standing. "Especially you Tomioka-san!" Giyuu in response glared. Shinobu scans the room with her eyes only, seeing Sanemi is just there standing and not even trying to escape.

Shinobu thought it won't waste time to converse a little...just like how she plays on her demon prey during her demon slayer life.

"You asked me earlier why I dislike you so much~?" She licks her pointy finger nail.

"Simple~!" And points to Tomioka Giyuu with terrible sweat in his face. "Because you make my head hurt, every time I see you...something inside my heart is disturbed~" placing a hand to where her heart suppose to be or what not. "Look~! It is beating so fast! Is this heart sickness?"

Giyuu doubt if there is even a heart beating, probably Shinobu is lying. Sanemi meanwhile hiss at the act of the insect pillar whose now a demon.

"How on earth did Tanjiro replicate them so identical to the original Shinobu...fuck this shit. Let's kill her Tomioka!" Looking at Giyuu in his right side, the water pillar's face was darkening.

"Tomioka?" A bit disturb, Sanemi saw it.

Tomioka Giyuu was hurt but he wasn't crying, only crystal pond eyes were exposed.

"...I see, so somehow you had memories of us." He says.

Shinobu tilts her head. "What~?"

Unable to understand her veins twitching for him. "Ara~? Whats up with those eyes?" Smiling wider yet obviously getting more angry at him. Shinobu tried to compose her stance but her voice isn't pleased at all.

"Will you stop staring at me like that~? It is somehow disgusting~"

Tomioka Giyuu marches forward, he removes his fake right arm and revealed the nichirin blade attach to it.

"Kochou Shinobu." Pointing towards her. "I will slay you."

Was the water pillar's laughable declaration of war. Kochou Shinobu laughs and mocks him further. "So bold! Aha~! I think I told you before that I have many kind's of poison to produce within me~" she licked her lips before a Cheshire grin.

"~The first poison is to paralyze you. The second poison to kill the opponent. The third poison, the one I gave you is...to make you see sweet dreams till you kill yourself! How are you suppose to kill me~?" Her hands reached for her own replicated nichirin blade.

"Didn't you learn from the last you tried to slice off my neck~? Hm~?" Unsheathing it. Sanemi growls of being impatient.

"Fuck this talk! Just disappear now you insect!" Charging an attack, Shinobu leaps away. "Woah! Do not be so violent Shinazugawa-san~! I do not want to accidentally scratch you with my poisonous nails~!" Only for Sanemi to chase her further.

"Fucking die!" Trying to reach for her neck, Shinobu reveals an evil smile. "Hehe,looks like I need to put you to place~"

Giyuu sense something is off. Shinobu's butterfly haori flaps wide, almost blocking Sanemi's view so he warned him for any surprise attack might come.

"Sanemi! Watch out!"

It was too late, Shinobu kicks his chin up.

"Ugh!" Loosing balance, Shinobu kicks him on his chest for impact.

BAM!

"Fufu!"

"Haah!"

Getting thrown at the wall, his mouth bleeds also the clinic room is more wrecked. Giyuu took the advantage to dash forward.

SLICE!

Only for Shinobu to slip off from getting a haircut by ducking.

"Who are you trying to slice off Tomioka-san~?"

It was then Shinobu saw the real arm of Giyuu had a mysterious cylinder object.

"Eh?"

On the small second she sees its features. 'A vile...with blue liquid...?' Remembering the report how Kanroji Mitsuri and Obanai Iguro died. Her eyes panics. 'Could it be...!' Loosing the smirk on her lips she clench her teeth to immediately use her sword to defend herself.

"The same trick you pillars did to my comrades won't work on me!" Elbowing Giyuu's face, "Ghh!" He bit his lips accidentally. "Am also a vicious medical person so~ have a taste of your own medicine!"

*SHATTERS!*

Shock, the medicine got sliced off easily. 'T-the antidote...It was wasted...! Dammit! What now?' The droplets spreads, and Shinobu was serious this time.

"Breath of the Sun's Insect! First form, Stagnate Sting! (Taiyou no Mushi ichi no kata, Teitai Sasu!)

This attack is similar to her breath of the insect move Dance of the Bee Sting: True Flutter. Where Shinobu dashes at her target at an incredible speed and uses the momentum of her speed to then strengthen her single thrust into her opponent and inject lethal poison into them. The only difference is she attempts to fool her opponent to use her sword but she was gonna use her claws to blind the enemy.

"Haahp!"

Giyuu focuses his vision like it was slowmotion in him.

'She is too fast but...slow at the same time!'

WHOOSH!

CLING!

Able to see the trick, Giyuu used his sword to defend the sharp finger nails of Shinobu but her blade is able to thorn a part of his clinic uniform, alarming Sanemi that maybe he got stabbed with poison.

"TOMIOKA!" Running to rescue Giyuu, the water pillar saw Shinobu's small smirk again. He knew that small frame that something is wrong.

"NO! STAY AWAY SANEMI!" The moment Sanemi enters the field of Giyuu and Shinobu's, Shinobu left Giyuu's sword along.

"Oh my~! You fell to my trap!" Shinobu twirled the otherway round and leaps above. Sanemi cursed that he didn't follow where she went and panics a bit. "Shit!"

Then the shadow of butterfly above overpowers him.

"Gotcha little Marechi~!"

BAM! BAM!

WHACK!

"Auughh...!" Kicking Sanemi on his chest for the second time to fall flat to the ground. Shinobu hovers above him. "Graaahh!" Giyuu dashes to slice off her legs. "Breath of Water! Eighth Form: Waterfall Basin! (Mizu no kokyuu! Hachi no kata: Takitsubo!)" The swordsman cuts the target vertically. But he was only able to cut off her one arm instead.

Blood splats to the wooden floor and it creaks. Staggerring away, Shinobu's smiling lips went flat. She was pissed.

"...Cutting a girl's arm how uncool." Especially her beautiful haori butterfly was cut off.

Giyuu heaves, "I won't let you touch Sanemi! Demon!" Even though he was at his limit because the fever is coming back.

Shinobu saw it and is confident for her win. Though she was triggered at the man she just met.

"Somehow hearing you say am a demon hurts my feelings~ you are troublesome Tomioka-san!"

However Giyuu curses. "Why does it has to be you?"

Shinobu agrees. "Indeed~ why does it has to be you~?"

Both of them said it. (( "My opponent!" ))

And jumps forward to fight again.

"Ughh..." Sanemi whose at the floor having bruises and feeling dizzy. He heard a voice that shouldn't be here by this time.

"S-Sanemi-san!" Jerking up it was Kamado Nezuko crawling to him. "You! Why are you here?! Didn't I say to evacuate people-" Nezuko raise her fist to insist stubbornness. "Already done! Inosuke doing the rest! I came back for a reason...!" Then she grabs something in her leg pockets.

"Here." It was another antidote.

"I went to Yushiro-kun's lab and ask him the new improved antidote! Please use it!"

Sanemi accepted the vile and is unsure how to be grateful.

"I-I see." Is what he manage to say. Then Nezuko added, "Also...Yushiro-kun said that antidote may able to cure Giyuu-san's poison. Until now he is exhausted isn't he? Please use it...I will help-" finally getting short tempered once more, Sanemi scolds Nezuko."You are not fully recovered! Get the hell out of here!" Nezuko shrinks but remained stubborn.

"But...!"

"Breath of the Sun's insect..."

"Breath of Water...!"

SLASH!

CLING!

CLANG!

Hearing the sounds of battle, Nezuko was sad.

"Giyuu-san...he is hurting..." she says, Sanemi followed where she was looking and he did see Giyuu was desperate to defeat the insect pillar's replica. "That stupid Tomioka! Protecting me when he himself is in a bad state! Dumb ass!" Punching the floor even with countable fingers.

Nezuko cups them for comfort and smiled like Tanjiro do when he wanted to show empathy."That means he cares deeply about you." Sanemi looks away and shook his head.

"...yeah."

Then he stood and grip tight to his sword.

Nezuko knows she should stay at the floor and let him fight.

Shinazugawa Sanemi breaths and remember he was the wind pillar.

He should go wild and create a path for himself!

"Am Shinazugawa Sanemi,Marechi or what am nobody's property and meal! Die all of you!"

Inhaling and breathing out he makes the move.

"Breath of wind...! Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind! (Kaze no kokyuu! Ni no kata: Sōsō - shina to kaze!)"

"Ara?!"

Sanemi sweeps onward and creates four claws-like slash towards the enemy. Shinobu did receive small slices but escapes from the actual fatal harm as Giyuu falls off balance, and Sanemi catches him from behind.

Feeling light headed, "...Sanemi?" Having a fever that continues to mess him inside, Sanemi grins at him.

"You fool, a pillar cannot be a pillar if he is alone. This is why I always hated you...always doing everything on your owm behind our backs, how distrustful."

Dumbfounded. "Huh?"

Sanemi smacks his back to straighten and Giyuu flinches as the other proposed.

"Let's do this together." His hand revealed the new antidote cylinder glass. "Another antidote?!" Giyuu exclaimed.

Sanemi assured him with a serious face.

"We have one chance left Tomioka!" Giyuu stared at the antidote and whispered to Sanemi. The demon Shinobu shakes her head, this is unbelievable to her. "Really? Talking about stabbing the antidote to me you think I cannot dogde the attempt-"

Out of nowhere Tomioka Giyuu uses the antidote to himself.

STAB!

Sanemi is startled so Shinobu's eyes widen and visibly shock too. 'Whats going on?! He...he stab himself with the antidote!?' Angry, she scolds him. "What are you doing Tomioka-san?!"

The water pillar screamed.

"Ugaaaahh!" And it scared Shinobu that they had gone crazy. She assumed the vile was for. "Isn't that a poison-" to be off guard that the wind pillar attacks her.

"Breath of wind! Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash (Hachi no kata: Sho rekkaza kiri)!" Sanemi leaps into the air and swings his blade which generates circular torrents of wind. Shinobu's haori had completely removed and some of her hairstrands were indeed cut off.

"Kuhh...!" Small cut on her neck bleeds, she gasps.

'This Marechi almost cut off my head...I better hurry and put him to behave!'

However their lord's image resurface to her vision...where their king will be lonely. To protect his smile and slumber...Shinobu is not ready to be defeated.

'I cannot die...Tanjiro-sama is waiting for me...!' Shinobu twirls rapidly back, that Sanemi is not able to reach her with the blade.

The fight continuous with rapid slashing. Shinobu never tempted to wound Sanemi with blood, only bunch of kicking.

Sanemi can tell that his blood is too precious for them not to waste a single drop, it gets to his head too...the confidence that he will not be killed.

"Giyuu-san!" Nezuko approaches Giyuu whose now kneeling at the ground panting.

"...hahh...hahh..Nezuko?" Weakily he looks at her. Nezuko wipes off his sweat by her own palms. "Y-yes." Wondering if it worked. Giyuu's purple-ish complexion returned to his original color."...I'm feeling better now." He said and he breaths in and out. Worried about him, Nezuko cannot help but ask.

"Giyuu-san...?"

Tomioka Giyuu's eyes were calm now.

"I have to end it."

"Pardon?"

The water pillar looks at the blade in his right arm and saw his own irises with determination as he shared to Nezuko.

"I have to end the trail of sorrow that your brother have created...I must slay her." Even though it was a glimpse...Nezuko saw something else on Giyuu's eyes.

There was love and hate.

Kamado Nezuko ended up saying her assumptions.

"Could it be...Giyuu-san you have feelings for..."

Sanemi slices off Shinobu's other arm, but the arm that was slice off by Giyuu already regenerated. "Krrhh..!" Shinobu spits blood.

Sanemi maniacally taunts. "Haha! What's wrong?! Aren't you poisonously strong!? Looks like you are all talk!" Shinobu didn't want them to find out why she wasn't strong...it was because...

'Some small droplets made it's way to my skin when I sliced the vile. It's making me dizzy...But they haven't notice it yet. Also...that Tomioka-san stabbing himself with the vile...it made him look better?'

Trying to hide those vital points going on to her body, she spins her nichirin blade like a majorette.

"Ara~ara, looks like we can never be friends Marechi Shinazugawa-san~! Very well then,I will show you my trump card move!"

Sanemi watches how she slides her finger tips to her blade tip.

It bleed, then she utters the power she had been hiding.

(("Blood Demon Art~Insect's Cocoon."))

"What?!"

Suddenly a cocoon like was been spitted by Shinobu beneath her long nails. There were powder!

Sanemi shouts to Giyuu and Nezuko who will be caught up.

"Everyone run!"

Unable to escape the spell, Nezuko chokes in her throat and shrieked. "Kuaahh!" Giyuu fell to the ground and coughs some blood. "Mmhff!" As for Sanemi, he was able to cover his mouth and nose before the powder had spread in the whole wrecked room.

Before he can even react Shinobu is already in front of him and whispered in his ears.

~"you will be our Tanjiro-sama's precious meal~ you will come with us for the rest of your life~Marechi~"~

"Ack!"

His neck was chop off and everything went dark when his nose inhaled the glittering powder.

'Shit...I'm...'

"Sayonara~"

Everything is replaced with the sound of chains shackling him to the abyss.

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While that happens last night.

This is the present one, the rain had stop. The sword smith villagers were becoming a crowd, they are betting who will win.

Especially where the sun will rise soon.

Kanao toss the coin, 'This is it..! This is it...!' dashing forward to her enemy, the ex stone pillar.

'He may predict my movement...but he would never predict this coin...!'

Monsterous Gyomei prepares himself to defense mode. "I told you many times, fighting me is futile! I know your future attack-" But Kanao ignores his warnings and keep on charging and dodging his attacks. 'If heads...I duck...! If tails...I jump above!' There is one only goal...'to slice off his neck...!'

CLING!

The coin flips. Both Gyomei and Kanao stares at it, like a slow-motion movie...they were both anxious. Anticipating the coin in the air if heads or tail.

Gyomei tried to use his fortune telling abilities. To his dismay, 'What is this...!? I cannot see her past plans before tossing the coin...nor the future plans she will do whatever the coin will turn to...if heads of tails...!'

It is because Kanao inputs herself into 'former Kanao zone.' The Kanao who doesn't really think at all, she was a emotionless puppet...A killing machine.

'That is right...! There is nothing for me to plan and think...! I leave it all to the coin's decision! My next movement will be...!'

The coin's gravity went down, It will drop off soon.

'Catch it...!' is Kanao's thinking. Gyomei is able to see a future where Kanao will catch the coin, the future shows the result to him. Gyomei narrow his eyes... 'I see..it will be...'

Kanao thought she had it. She thought she caught the coin. However...she was wrong.

"What a clever way to decide on killing my friend~ Ms. Flower Pillar~"

(Gasp!)

Out of nowhere, a familiar face...a familiar voice appeared in between Gyomei and Kanao's vision. Tentacles on his spine, a smiling face with markings of the devil.

The dawn has come, dramatically it reveals the demon king Kamado Tanjiro catches the coin, he was in-front of her.

'Tanjiro-kun...!' Loosing her balance to attempt on jumping away, it was too late!

"I'm afraid I won't let anyone kill further of my demon guards." Fast.

Kanao's stomach was punched. "Auck!" gawking, she heard him. "You will come with me~" the tentacles threw her Nichirin sword somewhere stabbing the ground.

It was to her comrade's side, Kanzaki Aoi.

"T-Tanjiro...?!" Everyone who knows him said his name randomly audible gasps from the audience.

'What!? It is indeed Tanjiro-san...!'

A wounded Aoi at the floor with sprained ankle, screams in horror.

"Kanao-sama...!"

Kanao's body hurls to her own stomach then she was been caught in someone's arms. It was no other than Tanjiro's masculine arms.

"W-what...?" Kanao manage to ask, only for Tanjiro to embrace her like he owns her body. "You are mine now, Demon Slayer-san~"

"Tanjiro...san! Do not hurt Kanao-sama...!"

Aoi begs in a yelp. Tanjiro only stared at her with no recognition that he is suppose to know her.

"Leave Kanao-sama...alone please...! Tanjiro-san...!" Aoi is crying, Tanjiro was a bit bothered why the twintailed girl is feeling 'friends' that she can just beg like this.

Tanjiro shows her a sweet smile. "It's fine Ice Pillar. I won't hurt anyone."

Aoi was dumbfounded by him saying such reassuring phrase yet...it was obviously not the gentle Tanjiro she know.

'Who is this person...?' Aoi gulps as she was starting to tremble. '...This is not the Tanjiro-san that had cheered me up. He isn't being him...' biting her frustrated lips and she frowns more helplessly.

"Tanjiro-san..." she sobs and blamed herself.

'If not for Inosuke...I wouldn't be even able to look at him like this...!'

Seeing how the same earrings were there like 2 years ago. The last time she saw him were short haired now Tanjiro had long pony tailed hair and the kuromontsuki he was wearing with torn up sleeves. Cat plum irises glowing and the similarity of red demon slayer markings on his face.

Specially the tentacles spread like tree veins was scary enough to say he was indeed demonic.

It was disheartening to fight back.

"Hehe."

Agatsuma Zenitsu had arrive the scene of reunion. He couldn't believe his eyes,tears swell on them as he gawk at the sight. Slowly walking towards the danger zone as everyone else screaming in fear, some made loud gasp at the rare sight. Some like Haganezuka, Kotetsu and Kozo trembled in pity upon seeing him finally...

"T-Tanjiro...is that you...?" Tanjiro heard his name was pronounced correctly, turning his head and spot the long blonde hair with muddy clothes.

"Zenitsu!" Aoi said his name for Tanjiro to know what to call him, he followed where she was looking.

"Hmm~?" His eyes seized in realization and gave him a friendly greeting.

"Oh,~hi there lightning pillar~nice to meet you."

It stung Zenitsu's heart that Tanjiro sounds so formal, the fact that he is different.

"T-Tanjiro...you really don't really remember us..." he was undeniably crying, though Tanjiro doesn't seem to be affected nor surprise. Instead he brush off simply, "Oh not at all~ I remember you. You are the lightning pillar who killed my demon guard just not long ago..." his voice darken but he was smiling.

Sending dangerous chill in Zenitsu's spine.

He heard the change of phase. 'This heartbeat...! Tanjiro is...angry!'

Then he noticed that Tanjiro is holding the unconscious Tsuyuri Kanao.

Something clicked to Zenitsu's. "W-wait! Where are you taking Kanao-chan?!" Was he thought, and it was right on the spot. Tanjiro admitted his plans to his former friends, "This flower pillar will be my guest...like a spare change." His other tentacle had the flipped coin earlier. His eyes scans everyone's face to try and get familiarize to them as he continue his speech. "Its a fair compensation for you have killed four already of my demon guard." Landing back his attention to the lightning pillar.

"Worry not, I have no intention to kill her or eat her...am merely plucking out a pillar force from my enemy's side in a nice way~" And proceeded to carry Kanao to a princess cradle. "There we go~" Kanao is visibly asleep.

Zenitsu run towards them. "No! Tanjiro! Don't do this to Kanao-chan! This isn't you!" Before he can even reach where Tanjiro stoods, Tanjiro teleported in front of him and cup his cheeks.

Kanao is currently being held by his tentacle spine that have revealed themselves to compensate Tanjiro's hands onto Zenitsu's.

"Hmm~are you telling me what to do? Prey, do tell me~"

Zenitsu gulps, his head screamed in fear yet amazed too.

Such speed and power the new demon king...his friend isnt normal. 'I didn't even blink! T-T-Tan-ji-jiro already near me!?' Anxious heartbeat, Tanjiro stared at his eyes and questioned him.

"What now~?" Tanjiro's fingers caressing his ears, the sharp nails were there to threat him on staying still. Tanjiro purrs a little and sexy smile to tease him.

"You do know I can rip off your ears so easily right~?"

He was threatening him indeed.

The lightning pillar is troubled by his normal voice yet hinted sadism.

'Sadistic...he is sadistic is he..?'

Zenitsu is actually blushing as it felt ticklish, yet his heart and body were shaking a lot. He was afraid of him no doubt, even though he shouldnt...he was not feeling safe to Tanjiro's hands capturing his face like this.

Especially how Tanjiro did not seem to like him at all. Tanjiro notice his fear, and gently he whispered to his ears.

He stiffens. "Tan...jiro-"

Because Zenitsu had sharp ears, the whispers were like a max volume to his. It pierce him deeply when he heard Tanjiro with the same voice insults him.

"Zenitsu-san...you are frankly an eyesore. Maybe you want to be abduct in her place...but I don't like noisy people like you~" Zenitsu ended up sobbing. "No...!" Tears spilling up. "Tanji..ro...how can you say this to me...? W-we were friends...I swear!"

He thought friendship talk would work, but Tanjiro chuckles at him.

"...friends?"

SMACK!

Zenitsu felt the pain in his left cheek reddening.

"Eh...? Tan..jiro..?"

Yes, Kamado Tanjiro slapped him and said with a flat smile.

"To compensate for killing my Muichiro~" the next emotion Tanjiro displayed was disgusted at him. "I dont have friends who kills my friends."

That face reminds Zenitsu of the first day he met him. When Tanjiro was disgusted at him for forcing a girl to marry him. It hits him hard than the smacking in his cheeks without a warning. "Good day~" He said to him then Tanjiro lets him go, he fell with his knees feeling so rejected by the redhead.

"Let us head home, Gyomei~"

"Yes Tanjiro-sama." and leaps high in the sun's brightness with Kanao...The tentacles also went back inside Tanjiro's backbone, the stone demon also followed their king's exit they disappeared like a ninja.

Zenitsu is lost, but then again gaining himself from despair. "Wait up! Tanjiro don't go...!" He chases.

"Stop!" However all in vain.

The sword smith village is at least freed from Tanjiro's captivity.

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In the depths of the abyss, a devil whispered in Tanjiro's ears as he walk silently with the unconscious Kanao in his arms. The hallway of his palace was dark.

(("Tanjiro-kun?"))

The voice belongs to him.

"Muzan..."

He says his name with no joy, just plainly saying it. Kibutsuji Muzan's ghost is angry at him. Imaginary fingers clawing to Tanjiro's cheeks from behind, he ignored it.

(("What is the meaning of this? Why didn't you kill that pillar?!" )) Muzan is glaring at the flower pillar whose actually very weak and defenseless at the moment. Tanjiro frowns and sounded whiny.

"Um, do we really have to kill them just because they killed mine?"

Muzan called him with command. (("Tanjiro..."))

Tanjiro snaps.

"Leave me be!" He shouts to no one," I know what am doing okay?!"

The voice of the devil slowly disappears into the darkness of his realm fragments.

(("...You will regret this."))

Is what he warned the boy.

Actually, Tanjiro and Kanao are no longer a boy and girl to be exact. It is just Tanjiro remained in the appearance of a 15 yrs old boy and Kanao is a grown up maiden.

Making sure he didn't drop Kanao at all. He fix his posture to carry her properly and scowls.

"Gee, what's up with Muzan! So serious!" Continuing to walk inside his territory. "...Can't he understand I brought him a flower since he likes those..." he was pouting that Muzan did not appreciate his efforts at all.

"A flower..."

Tanjiro murmurs as he stared at the virgin flower in his arms.

"Yet a pillar..."

Somehow he was smiling.

"I wonder why I like to pluck her out into mine?"

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Kamado Tanjiro takes Tsuyuri Kanao to his custody.

"Nezuko! Kamado Nezuko hang in there! Don't die idiot!" Was Yushiro's frustrated calling, Tomioka Giyuu joined the calling out Nezuko challenge.

"Nezuko!"

Nezuko's continuing to choke and her body twitching from the poison that had invade her immune system.

"Uaaghhrrhh..." it reminds you of Nezuko's demon state that she was drooling and making some small roaring sounds in her mouth.

It hurts Giyuu and he felt so guilty. "I'm sorry...I used all the antidote to mine."

Yushiro was pissed and tried to stop him to be apologetic about it. "It's fine! That vile was meant for you to begin with!" Giyuu looks knowingly at him.

"Don't you have another vile of antidote? Nezuko is poisoned isn't she?" Yushiro sighs and fierce his eyebrows. "I do have one but...It was for Tanjiro's."

Yushiro did not want to use it actually, even though he can make another one. Giyuu had to point it out loud. "You mean, you only have one antidote left?" Yushiro was smack by that fact and he is angry at himself, trying to control his anger by his fist closed and secured he breaths out the pressure he was feeling all this time.

"For now yes...am still about to make a new one before the Blue Spider Lily samples drought...but.." Giyuu grabs his collar and shakes him. "Why are you hesitating?!"

Unable to make an eye contact, Yushiro closed his eyes to relax and admitted what could be the reason behind him getting hesitant.

"...I lack an ingredient for the new antidote...We need to take a blood directly from Tanjiro's. And the previous demon blood we got from demon guards is for the latest last antidote that I will now use to Nezuko..." Giyuu hissed and released Yushiro's collar.

"Use it!" He commands him.

Yushiro rubs his hair in irritation and shake off the shackles of fear. 'Tamayo-sama please lend me strength!' Holding the medicine up for Tanjiro to be Nezuko's. "Fine!" And forced for the dying Nezuko at the ground the blue liquid to her open mouth with bubbles.

"Nezuko!"

They called her name hoping she will hear them.

Nezuko continued to drown.

Gulp,gulp...

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Inside the realm of her mental state, she was thrashing in the dim light of her own world.

'It hurts...! It hurts! Am burning inside!' Scratching herself, desperate for air...she reaches out to no one.

'Am gonna die...?' Her hand stretches and cried out like a little girl she used to be when she was hurt. 'Oniichan! Oniichan...!'

The purple butterflies turned gold for some reason.

Her screamed reached a flash of different scenery.

Nezuko suddenly standing still instead of glued at the floor pathetically...she was in a field of garden.

"This place...?" Seeing the sky is nile, and beneath her feet were shed in crimson flowers. "A red spider lilies...am dead?" Blinking a bit, a whirlwind passed before her.

"Kyah!"

Shielding her eyes, she saw the color changed rapidly. "They turned blue?" Unsure if she was in the after life or plainly dreaming as she was experience death.

A gentle voice called her.

(("Nezuko..."))

It was...

"Mom!"

Kamado Kie is standing far away from her,she was in a warm place where a green field and sakura trees exist. Her beloved mother tried to encourage her..

"Don't give up, your brother needs you. Don't let a mere poison end you like this."

She said it so calmly, that Nezuko had to blink again to see her siblings suddenly was there with her mother.

(("That is right neechan! Fight!"))

Seeing them in a dream must be a blessing, yet Nezuko cannot held her tears to spill.

"T-Takeo?! Shigeru! Rokuta! H-Hanako?!" She tried to approach them only to be blocked by the sudden appearance of Kamado Tanjuro.

(("Fight for the future Nezuko..."))

The wind blows once more, causing the blue petals to exploded like confetti's.

"...uh..huh..?"

Kamado Nezuko in her demon slayer stood still in the place where the flow of water and snow had mixed themselves.

Such strange scenery reminds you the fact of her memories in the bloody snow and the future she had harbor.

"Father..."

Tanjuro smiles and his hanafuda earrings sways inspiration to wake her up.

(("From the edge of darkness..."))

The fire of light embraces her.

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"Kamado Nezuko!"

Her eyes opens wide at the shouting Yushiro and Giyuu.

"...eh?" She was not able to move her body yet, but only the part of her neck does.

"Y-you are awake!"

A relief smile escaped Yushiro and Giyuu.

Nezuko ignored the saliva on her jaws that is still visible, her tongue felt a strange sensation of a liquid that seem to have invaded her throat.

"Yushiro-kun...Giyuu-san-" the water pillar was not able to control himself,with his arms and prosthetic arm he embraces her. "Thank God!" He cries out of character, Nezuko felt bad. "E-Eh! G-Giyuu-san!?" Blushing from the man's embrace, it was getting tighter. Giyuu is crying.

"...I don't know how to revert Tanjiro back to human if you are not there to welcome him back...! I'm really glad...!" He was broken, and Nezuko cant help but smile like an older sister would be doing to a crybaby boy.

"...Giyuu-san," hugging back to pat the man's back and head. "There, there."

Yushiro whose smiling earlier suddenly scowls at her and said. "You are a demon!" He points at her.

Nezuko wipes the drool on her jaw by her clothes as he and Giyuu were still hugging each-other. "Yushiro-kun?"

Yushiro was trembling, and his demon eyes were a bit glittery. "I thought the antidote failed on you! Because you no longer have the antibodies from Tamayo-sama...! You weren't breathing for an hour!" He was so upset that Nezuko is startled at what he said that it has been too much time passed that she was almost really dead!

"Eehh?! For real?!"

Giyuu sniffs and pulls away from hugging. Nezuko sits properly with her knees to bow to them, such inconvenience and worrying occurred. "I-I'm sorry everyone...!"

Noticing that the sky was blue and that the morning is up.

The whole room was wide open from nature.

Birds chirping as if last night's venom never happend.

Nezuko noticed the peace was not real, one person is missing.

"Wait, where is Sanemi-san?"

Giyuu and Yushiro looks at each other with silence before they looks back at the wondering Nezuko.

"..."

Nezuko had a very bad feeling already.

"Giyuu-san...?"

Yushiro answered for him and her though.

"The Marechi was successfully abduct by the Demon Guard of King Tanjiro."

Nezuko was taken back.

"You are lying right...?"

The news made its way to Ubuyashiki Kiriya.

Kiriya pats the head of the reporting crow, he already know the butterfly mansion was a wrecked since it was near them.

However, something else surprises him.

Such an annoying move the enemy made.

"Shinazugawa Sanemi and Tsuyuri Kanao were abducted by The Demon King Tanjiro? Not good...this is war."

To be Continued

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Kanon58: Well~well! Hope you enjoyed Shinobu's battle. Pff did you support the enemy becuz she's our beloved insect pillar? HOHOHO your long awaited sanemi and kanao moments with tanjiro is on the next chapter sooooo you better REVIEW...BTW, please subscribe to my own manga 'Paradox Mansion' :D

About Senjuro, he won't be around for a while cuz I had something stored for him lol just sayin if you wonder why he suddenly disappeared xD

Next: Hope and despair, captive Sanemi and imprisoned Kanao...They refuse to plead to the demon king Tanjiro who thinks he had saved them from agony, instead he inflicted them more wounds and trauma that they cannot count.