𝙸𝚝 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝙴𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 (𝔾𝕚𝕪𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕠) {𝓚𝓝Ⴘ}
𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 6: 𝓜𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓲𝓽
A/N: This is the mission where Giyu and Shinobu defeat Rui. Tanjiro and the Kamboko Squad is not present here.
Shinobu POV:
In the early morning, I took my daily dose of wisteria poison.
It tasted bitter and strange, but I was used to it by now. Injecting wisteria poison into my system meant even if a demon killed me I could have my revenge, and they would regret it.
Though it had no impact on my physical status, it was still unhealthy to take so much wisteria poison into your body, but I still did it, day after day.
Today I was in an unusually good mood, since the sun was out. Last night it had rained again. I remembered looking out the window at the pouring rains and being glad I didn't have to do my night patrols. Now the sun was out and shining, and that had a positive impact on my mood.
"Breakfast is ready!" Aoi's voice sang out from the kitchen and I quickly hid away the wisteria poisons, then headed to the kitchen to be met with bowls of steaming porridge and glasses of chilled juice.
Aoi only made elebarote breakfasts on weekends when missions were scarce, so I quickly wolfed down my bowl of porridge and threw on my haori, knowing I had a mission today.
It was a joint mission with Giyu. Speak of the devil. We were actually supposed to go yesterday, but since we had training Oyakata-sama put it off till today.
I quickly did my hair, securing it in place with my butterfly pin, and headed out the door, calling goodbye to Kanao, whom was still eating breakfast.
Making my way to the gates of the Butterfly Mansion, I unsheathed my sword, which I inspected as I walked.
It looked a little grubby. I hadn't polished it in weeks. There were a few bloodstains and some dirt wedged inside some crevices. I really needed to clean it.
Focused on my katana, I suddenly bumped into something and looked up immediantly.
Giyu POV:
I stumbled backwards, caught off guard by the small figure bumping into me. I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body as I looked down and saw Shinobu's katana stabbed into my arm.
"Ara ara~ Oops! Sumimasen, I'll wrap that up for you.." Shinobu took a first aid bag and wrapped my wound in white cloth.
"You shouldn't walk around with your katana unsheathed, you know," I said blankly.
"I know, I was just inspecting it," Shinobu rolled her eyes, despite being focused on bandaging my wound, "This might get infected, since my katana was a little dirty. Should you see an infection, come to the Butterfly Mansion right away, okay?"
"I'm here for the mission." I didn't bother replying to her rhetorical question.
"Right. Shall we get going? This is delayed already." Shinobu finished treating my wound and stood up.
I didn't waste any more words or time and immediantly jumped onto a roof and into the distance, wanting to get to the mountain as quick as possible. Who knew how many people had died already? I was tempted to check out the mountain myself last night, but Oyakata-sama mentioned a possible Lower Moon and I didn't want to run into any trouble.
Yesterday he had informed us of the possible Twelve Kizuki member lurking in the mountain. Lots of Slayers had already been sent, but no-one returned with a message or anything at all. They seemed to have disappeared into the mountain without a trace. There were so many Slayers gone that Oyakata-sama decided to send two pillars- me and Shinobu.
This was the first time in a while that there had been a possible Twelve Kizuki demon threat. I wanted to check it out as soon as possible.
"Ara ara~ Wait up, Tomioka-san!" I heard Shinobu's voice ring out from behind me, although that didn't last very long because she soon hopped ahead of me, being the fastest pillar.
Author POV:
Soon, the two Hashiras arrived at the eerie mountain. It's huge size and dark aura looked menacing to the two.
"Ara ara~ That sure is a creepy mountain, hm?" Shinobu smiled, "And looks dark too. I'll bet the sunlight doesn't even hit the ground underneath those trees, even in daylight."
"The perfect hiding place for a demon." Giyu muttered under his breath.
Just as the two Hashiras took a step towards the mountain, a Slayer in the Corps uniform flew from the mountain to their feet, blood-splattered and looking petrified.
"H-hashiras....," the Slayer looked up at the two gaping pillars, shaking, "P-please... help!"
Suddenly, he was yanked back into the air by some invisible force and he disappeared into the trees again.
"Yikes," Shinobu winced, "What was that about?"
"He's being controlled by something," Giyu said, "This is probably the demon's Demon Blood Arts."
"He looked so pale," Shinobu noted, "Like he's been flung around for days. I wonder if everyone is controlled like this?"
"We're about to find out."
A/N: There will be a plot twist in this mission~ Hope you've been enjoying the story so far! Don't forget to follow, vote or join my Discord server to support me <3
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