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Giyuu barely managed to dodge as the demon sent out another fearsome attack.He didn’t understand how this demon was so strong, it had no marking in its eyes and didn’t seem like the demon king. Instead it was small, vibrant, and swift with its movements.
“What the fuck is this thing doing?!?” Giyuu’s partner shouted, not too far away.
Giyuu and Sanemi were sent on this mission together just to do a simple patrol for a village that had suffered multiple demon attacks in the past month. This is where they ran into this little rascal, who led them to the forest by the village. Said forest was vast, but you also couldn’t see far due to the smoke. It had seemed that the demon had led them to the forest to gain an upper hand.
“My, my!” The demon started “What an interesting duo we have here! Such differing personalities, often clashing, but still managing to somehow band together to chop off some poor creatures head..”
If there was one thing that Giyuu and Sanemi could agree on in the moment, it would be how infuriating the demon was and sounded.
“Just shut your mouth and let us chop off your head!” Sanemi shouted at the demon before lunging for an attack, only to be dodged and slam into a tree. Giyuu readied himself to launch an attack too before he felt something strange.
This was a new feeling, even for Giyuu. It appeared Sanemi felt it too as his glare at the demon slightly faltered. Whatever spell they were under made them feel tired. Like all they were fighting for wasn’t worth it. Like they should close their eyes and let slumber overtake them. No matter how hard the slayer duo tried to fight their wavering resolve they still felt like they could drop their swords at any moment. And to make it worse, it felt like the limbs on their own bodies wouldn’t respond to them. Like they were shrinking into insignificant beings and the world was swallowing them whole.
“I have told you many times before that I’m not a demon!” The creature huffed “If only you listened to me we could’ve done this peacefully! Whatever, master will be pleased to know this was a mission well done.”
The creature glanced at the pair and when it was sure that its prey was secured snapped its fingers together. A colorful rune appeared under Giyuu and Sanemi along with a flimsy barrier, sure it wasn’t of best quality but the rune took a lot of power.
With the last of his strength Giyuu chucked his sword through the weak barrier onto a tree, scratching the creature’s cheek and wedging deep into the trunk.
“Hmm… I guess this will just slide, after all your friends need a clue to find you!”
And with a final wave of the creature’s hand the slayers were sent away, leaving only a gust of wind that quickly steadied into the night breeze. Soon after the creature was gone too. The only evidence left were the crowd who had witnessed it, the sword jammed into the tree, and a single piece of paper dangling off of the sword.
“Do you want your friends back? Please come visit the P@L$!UN estate..”
Nezuko was just chilling in her box as usual. She was peacefully sleeping after a long day of traveling. After gaining the ability to wander under the sun Nezuko had started walking with Tanjiro and his group when they went out for missions. Everyone was asleep except for Nezuko, she was just enjoying the moonlight as she used to when.. she was still human..
But, now wasn’t the time for sulking, even if the occasional tear dropping helped soothe memories she didn’t fully remember yet.
Then she noticed something. It was moving quickly through the trees and seemed tiny. It also seemed colorful, skin shining under the bright moon. The animal(?) made the trees shake every time they bounced between them.
The sight of something playing around at the top of a few dozen VERY tall trees did frighten Nezuko a bit but it also made her giggle, well as best as she could with her muzzle on. Whatever was jumping around seemed to go even faster until one of the trees miraculously snapped and fell to the ground with a thud. Just as soon as it had come it was gona again.
Nezuko was surprised that no one in the group had woken up, the only disturbance that seemed to occur to them was Zenitsu sleep mumbling, probably about women.
Then the creature was back. This time right in front of Nezuko and she was able to take in all of its features this time. Messy white hair with small horns peaking out of the fuzz, purple and pink stripes were visible. Along with that the creature had Snow White sling with random splotches of color on its skin, like someone had a couple of minutes splattering paint all over its skin. Though it looked particular instead of messy. A black sparkly robe was all that covered the creatures body and fit loosely over its skinny figure.
“Mmm?” Nezuko asked through her gag before a wave of sleepiness hit her.
Her tiredness felt even stronger than when she had fallen asleep for 2 years while her brother was training. Before Nezuko knew it she was collapsed on the ground but for some reason sleep refused tot take her, only pain engulfing her entire body.
Nezuko’s vission began to blur and the last thing she saw was a colorful glow beneath her and the creature she once found fascinating scribbling something down on a piece of paper and throwing it in her box.
Once again only a harsh breeze remained after the creature raised its hand. And once again disappeared shortly after, leaving only a paper left behind saying the following
“Do you want your friends back? Please come visit the P@L$!UN estate..”
Though there were some witnesses to these incomprehensible acts, and those were the crows