Kimetsu No - Yaiba: Kage

Tsuzumi II House

One Oni with three drums attached to his body. One on his right shoulder, one on his left shoulder, and one in the middle of his stomach.

Inosuke steps on the girl with his two hands clutching a serrated katana. Tanjiro, who was nearby, saw the figure of Inosuke wearing a mask.

“The room is circling, interesting once .. interesting once!”

After that, Inosuke chuckled with amusement at the situation he was in. Tanjiro quickly ran towards him, clasped his right leg tightly and threw Inosuke to the left side with a powerful force.

“Do not step on the body of others at will!”

Inosuke resisted the effects of the impulse, staring at Tanjiro who was hugging the little boy stepped on by Inosuke.

“What are you doing?”

“Step on the body of a child, what do you think!?”

Inosuke responded to Tanjiro's question with a resounding laugh and mounted the horses with the two crossed swords on the right.

“Bby too! Just this time I was thrown by a human!”

Inosuke immediately lunged at Tanjiro then swung his two swords by crossing forward. Tanjiro dodged backwards with the little boy he was holding.

“Why did he attack me? Isn't he a Demon Hunter?”

Thought Tanjiro, Yuuji thought of stopping Inosuke from attacking others with a short mindset.

“This slash of my sword is painful, not a sword for a boy! Once slashed, feels like a thousand slashes!”

“Stop! There is a Devil know!”

“I don't care!”

Inosuke again moves forward intending to attack Tanjiro. However, Oni who was near them muttered and then attacked Inosuke and Tanjiro with something invisible in the form of his weapon after hitting the drum in his stomach.

Yuuji who saw it was confused by the power possessed by the Oni. He assumed that the Oni with the drum on his body was the controller of this building.

The surface of the floor in the form of tatami split, like the claw of a three-line wild beast.

Oni hit the drum again in his stomach, the attack was aimed at Inosuke who immediately dodged so that the sliding room door behind him was damaged.

The oni hits the drum on his right shoulder, the room spins towards the right and Yuuji and Tanjiro jump to compensate for the gravity. Hitting the drum on the left shoulder, the room turned back to its original state but only Inosuke could not keep up until he entered the other room due to a fall.

Yuuji immediately unsheathed his nichirin katana then ran towards Oni who stood up while looking at his hands. When he swung it, suddenly the room changed for some reason when the Oni did not hit the drum on his body at all.

“Tanjirou, we part.”

Yuuji immediately entered the room where the previous Oni was standing inside another room. However, the Oni had already moved to another room. When Yuuji was intending to return, the room he was in suddenly changed once.

Yuuji assumed that this changeable room was not the Oni who had a drum on his body. Because it looks right and left shoulder drum to change the rotation of the room, while the drum in the abdomen to attack.

Yuuji walked into the other room tightly grasping his nichirin katana. Zenitsu's screaming voice sounded quite faint, Yuuji immediately went to the source of the sound but he met Inosuke while pacing around the corner of the blind spot.

*Trangs

The two of them attacked each other because they did not know which friend was the enemy. After swinging each other's swords, the two of them lowered their swords then Inosuke ran back to leave Yuuji.

It was just that Inosuke ignored Yuuji's voice asking him. Chasing Inosuke may be the right thing, but his running ability is so fast that Yuuji who is not ready to run is left behind.

The hallway is so dark, Yuuji and Inosuke can recognize each other by the air, breath, and swing movements they have recognized. Therefore, even in a dark place Yuuji and Inosuke can recognize each other.

There was a sound like a bolt of lightning, although the faint rumbling power was not very strong and was only an instant. Even though there was no storm or rain, the sound of lightning was certainly not true at all.

Yuuji walked in the dark hallway in the opposite direction to Inosuke. He had to find the cause of why the room in this house could be changed to another room, because it would be troublesome against Oni who can control the building and the room especially if the attack is not visible.

“There is one Oni, if Inosuke and Tanjiro meet again maybe he will attack him. Should I go find them back? Tanjirou's wounds may have been very severe against Oni earlier.”

Yuuji thought as he walked down the hall looking for Oni as well as the three Demon Hunters that were in this building. And just now Yuuji realized, he had been walking in the same hallway since then and had not encountered the end of the hall at all.

“What the fuck is this place? Not clear at all.”

Yuuji paused for a moment then took a few breaths until the air spread all over his body. Then he did his breathing to strengthen his physique.

“Maximum concentration, shadow breathing.”

After taking a deep breath, Yuuji immediately went to another place by relying on his instincts to go to some room and smash the door as a sign. Several rooms entered quickly but the whereabouts of Oni and the other three Demon Hunters were still unaccounted for.

At the door of the room's canal there was one sliding door, Yuuji finally found the door where Tanjiro was running around the room quickly and it was actually the Breath Technique from another stream.

“Kyou! Your Devil Blood Art is indeed great!”

After saying so while floating in the air, Tanjiro swung his sword right around the neck of Oni named Kyougai until his head separated with his body.

Tanjiro landed, taking a breath to fill his exhausted body after using the Breath Technique that ran around the room. He flinched and bent on the floor while holding his chest.

Right then and there, Yuuji sees Tanjiro's greatness that can defeat Kyougai in an instant despite Tanji's fatigue let alone the pain of his body being injured from the previous fight.

“Hei brat, is my Devil Blood Art really that great?”

Kyougai can still speak with his head separated from his body and that leaves Yuuji speechless knowing Oni can survive even though his head is separated from his body.

“That's great, I can't forgive human murder.”

“So yes ... ”

Slowly Kyougai's head disappeared, his body began to erode. Yuuji approached Tanjiro who was throwing a small knife at Kyougai's body, crouched down to pick up the small knife and examine it.

“I'm sorry for being late to help you Tanjiro. What are you doing?”

“Ah Ibusaki, I—”

*meow

There was a sound of cats meowing, out of nowhere the cat suddenly appeared near the two of them.

“Cat!? So you are the courier to Miss Tamayo's place, yes?”

Yuuji can retrieve some information with just the sentence Tanjiro said. First Miss Tamayo, she most likely has a connection with Tanjiro's goal and the small knife contains Kyougai's blood and most likely Tanjiro is looking for a solution to his problem.

Tanjiro inserts a small knife containing Kyougai's blood into a small pouch on the cat's back. She closed it back and gently stroked her hair.

“Alright, with this done. Be careful on the road.”

The cat walked away from Tanjiro, as the meowing of the cat's form disappeared just as it had before where he had come suddenly.

“We go from here Tanjiro, some Oni in this building is likely already cleared.”

“Yes, there were two children with me. I have to find him.”

Before that, Yuuji suddenly hit him on the back and of course Tanjiro screamed in pain of the injuries caused when fighting Kyougai.

“Do not force yourself, next I take care of it.”

To Be Continue ....