Kimetsu No Yaiba: Storm in Hell, Strongest Story of Marechi

Tomioka and Tsumori

Time Skip 5 Years Later

With back teeth clashing against each other, Harada tries to regulate her raging emotions. Because since the first day, he has been given various solo missions with extraordinary difficulties. There have been many lives that he failed to save, because the mission was very crowded and continuous from the beginning.

The mission carried by the black-haired teenager has only been a little loose since she was appointed Hashira 3 years ago, although the difficulties and time frame often increase. Not to mention to adjust his training schedule to his missions.

If the black-haired teen forgot the scene 5 years ago, there was a chance he would retire early as a demon hunter. But because throughout his mission Harada continued to see the same scene, the grass-green young man accidentally continued to cultivate his revenge on the demons, especially the three strongest demons in this world.

Now under the soft glowing moon, Harada was speeding up. He can't fail again today. The tall, sturdy young man did not want to fail today, so he unconsciously used his top speed.

If it wasn't for his nose smelling the smell of people he knew, Harada would have continued on his way down this pine forest. Because the presence of the devil he felt was very strong, and it made him remember the bloody night 5 years ago.

Harada bowed slightly, intending to stop the journey. From behind the darkness, two people appeared who were very familiar with him. A man with a Tengu mask, and also a young man of his age who had white hair. They are Hideki and Sakonji. Harada slightly chuckled as she looked at the white-haired young man, who let his white hair lengthen so it could be pigtailed.

"Oh come on, you know, I haven't used Full Breathing in a long time!" sakonji. Harada chuckles stiffly.

"I'm sorry, Sakon ji-chan. So why are you here?" ask Harada.

"To accompany you. I'm the one who asked that you and Hideki be sent here."

Harada and Hideki look curious. Sakonji then explained the situation, if the village in the northern Sagiri mountains is often the arrival of Jogen Kizuki, or one of the uppermoon. Both Harada and Hideki, both of them turned their backs in shock.

Hideki then asks why an uppermoon would bother to come there. Sakonji explained, if in the village there is a marechi clan that has a special ability, namely mind control. The more fragrant the scent of blood, the more the ability of the blood owner's mind control will be better. Harada sighed softly, as if feeling that tonight would turn into a long night. Because in fact, Harada knows what clans are targeted by demons.

"But what is the name of the clan? I just heard there is such a clan," Hideki said.

"Tsumoru. They are the same fate as us" Harada replied.

Sakonji nodded slowly. Hideki looks like he is not out of thought. They are now at their maximum speed. With his kiss, Harada and Sakonji ran in front to take the lead. While Hideki was not far from those two people, his actual rank was three levels above him. Although Urokodaki Sakonji has now retired, the former Hashira Air is still fresh and ready to fight at any time.

The three arrive at the village meant by Sakonji. They had stopped first to look for the demon smell that Sakonji meant, although this took a bit of effort. Because the whole village has been slaughtered. Even on the main road, many human corpses were scattered, as if they were dried leaves. Hideki and Sakonji are stuck. But Harada again darted to the eastern part of this village.

Harada grinned widely. His right hand was already holding onto his nichirin, while both of his feet were running without a care if his black boots had stepped on countless pools of blood. Both of his ears could hear Sakonji and Hideki chasing him behind.

Harada turned left. On his left Sakonji has unsheathed his nichirin. The two jumped over a stone fence from a residence, and made haste to enter a room. Where both of them still feel the existence of humans, as well as the aroma of fear that is obvious. An advantage is that the fusuma of the room has been destroyed, so that both can go directly in without further ado, as well as shifting or kicking the fusuma.

"Mizu no Kokyu, Ichi no words: Minamogiri!"

"Arashi no Kokyu, Ichi no words: Chimamire Kazaha!"

Harada and Sakonji cut off the two long-haired demon arms from behind simultaneously, and made the boy who had been strangled cough, then ran behind Harada and Sakonji. Three girls, who were likely protected by the boy, also ran out of the room.

Right in front of the damaged fusuma, Hideki is seen gesturing for the boys to take shelter behind him. Along with that, the desire to kill from that demon increased. Neither Harada, Sakonji nor Hideki frowned when they realized that.

The demon that had been turning their backs turned its body around, and revealed a very familiar face to Harada and Sakonji. The two hands that they had cut off had also instantly grown back, leaving a pale-free hand that was not covered in a kimono sleeve.

Those six demonic eyes were staring at the people before him with a stern look, as if they had found a horde of mischievous little thieves. Hideki, who sees it, decides to take the four nearby children to safety, and waits for Harada and Sakonji there. Because the white-haired young man realized that he would only be a burden to Harada and Sakonji.

"You guys, how dare.."

"Huh, fix that way of talking, old man!"

Kokushibou, with his mouth still covered in blood, unsheathed his nichirin and lunged at Harada quickly for a sword fight. From behind the Tengu mask he wore, Sakonji glared in surprise. 'Is this the strongest speed of Jogen Kizuki?' his mind was raging. But his mind refocused on looking for a gap in this fight in front of him.

Kokushibou takes Harada out of the room, where the two can fight more freely. More precisely to the cypress forest near the residential complex. Although still not using any breathing techniques, the two are now seen fighting each other nichirin with a speed that is beyond reason.

Although Harada managed to land a few slashes on Kokushibou's body, the black-haired demon's body instantly regenerated, leaving only a tattered kimono. In contrast to Harada who desperately avoid the attack of the former samurai.

Maybe about three hours the two of them clashed with swords without using breathing, and this made the black-haired young man careless. While on the other hand, Sakonji is seen observing and waiting for the gap between the two of them.

"Jigoku no Kokyu, shichi no says: Sabaku no Haka."

The five-meter radius from where Kokushibou stood was now overwhelmed by intense sandstorms. The six-eyed devil found that his skin was slashed by the sand that moved freely around him. Even his neck had started to bleed due to this technique. With a paper-thin grin, Kokushibou was now preparing to do something.

"Tsuki no Kokyu, go no words: Geppaku Saika."

Sakonji. With his kiss the former Hashira Air immediately searched for Harada, and dragged him back 10 meters. Harada's grassy green bead could see Kokushibou making many slashes, which instead resembled a tornado, to undo his seventh technique.

With a tattered kimono Kokushibou approached Harada. Sakonji was on standby in front of Harada, as the grass-green young man caught his breath. From behind his Tengunya mask, Sakonji realizes that Kokushibou is beginning to lust after Harada.

The man wearing the cloud-patterned light blue haori told Harada to normalize his breathing, and focus on covering the wounds all over his body. Intentionally the former Hashira Air also kicked Harada in the stomach to keep the tall, sturdy young man out of harm's way. Harada, who had bounced 6 meters away and had hit the branch of a spruce tree, could now only lie unconscious.

"You are Hashira Air, right?" Kokushibou looks to make sure. From behind his mask Sakonji just smiled obliquely.

"Then what's your business with the rank I've lost?" Sakonji bravely asked back, as if challenging an opponent who managed to urge Harada.

Instead of answering him, Kokushibou who had darkened his eyes intended to behead Harada. Sakonji swiftly dispels Kokushibou by kicking the black-haired demon, intending to take a swing.

"Mizu no Kokyu, Juu no Words: Seisei Ruten!"

Sakonji moves randomly towards Kokushibou. The devil who has the fire sign on his face is trying to dispel the attack of the former Hashira Air. Not quite up there, appeared a personification of the ice dragon from his left side, which free of charge made the demon hit several cypress trees. Sakonji who saw Hideki's reckless actions smiled faintly, and continued his attack on Kokushibou with that tenth move.

"Kori no Kokyu, Kyu no words: Ketsueki Gyoko!"

As Sakonji avoided the move, Hideki unexpectedly stabbed Kokushibou directly in the back, right on the lower back of the demon's right. Muzan's right hand looked surprised, especially when he realized there was a frozen part of his stomach. Hideki pushes his sword to the right, creating a larger wound while trying to pull his nichirin from the pale body of the first uppermoon.

When the young blue-sliced young man was about to launch his next attack, Kokushibou ran away from the fight as the sun began to rise to warm the day. Hideki is going after Kokushibou. But Sakonji prevented Harada's rash move, saying it was good to back off. Inevitably Hideki nodded slowly.

When the white-haired young man looked back, his heart was pounding. Because he just realized Harada was unconscious back there. With a gaze that immediately changed softly, Hideki approached Harada and checked his condition.

The chest and abdomen of his demon hunter uniform had a considerable tear. From there his light blue bead could see if the bleeding began to decrease with time, although he did not deny at all that the top of Harada's uniform had changed color to deep red.

"Where are the kids, Hideki?" ask Sakonji.

Hideki pointed east. Perhaps about 200 meters from where the three fighters were, from behind the bushes, appeared three girls and one boy. The four of them still looked confused and scared, having just witnessed a fight that they could barely keep up with with their own eyes.

Sakonji gave a hand signal for the four children to approach him. One of the chocolate-sliced girls walked over to Sakonji with mixed feelings. Calmly the man shifted the Tengu mask he wore to the left temple, displaying his calm face that began to show aging was smiling gently. The decision of the chocolate sliced child made three other children forced to approach Sakonji.

"Are you guys okay?" ask Sakonji. The black-haired boy nodded.

"We're fine, Ji-san. We're worried about you guys" the boy replied. Sakonji smiled again.

"Don't worry about us. The black-haired brother will also improve, calm down."

Sakonji points to Harada, whose wounds are being cleansed by Hideki. Sakonji then asked the four children nearby about what they were going to do now. The four children were stunned. But Sakonji could see the desire of the four of them to get stronger, at least there was a strong motivation on them to no longer be a burden.

Harada coughed, and the children's attention was diverted to Harada. The four of them are now standing in front of Harada and Hideki. The white-haired young man there was shocked and was not completely thought out. But Harada, with an unstable breath, forced her body to sit leaning against the branch of the evergreen tree, then smiled as if greeting the four children, in whose eyes there were only two children.

""Ups, it looks like I scared you both off. Will you forgive me?" ask Harada. Hideki sighed.

"Harada, there are four children" Hideki said. Harada chuckled with a raucous voice.

"Will you introduce yourself?" ask Harada. Hideki resigned, not out of thought if his best friend can still react like this.

"Giyuu, Tomioka Giyuu."

"Come, Tsumori Ui."

"Runa, Tomioka Runa."

"Yue, Tsumori Yue."

Sakonji again wears his Tengunya mask to hide the shock on his face. Hideki is seen frowning, feeling shocked and sad about the name of the orange-haired girl nearby. The estimation of the two of them is, the girl named Ui is the target of the demons, similar to Harada.

Sakonji looked to the left. From there the kakushi hordes began to arrive, intending to tidy up the disheveled spruce forest. One of the kakushi approached the seven of them, and a bit of a cringe of horror at the sight of Harada's wounds. Sakonji requests that Harada be immediately taken to the Butterfly Residence. Harada requests that the Tsumori sisters come with her to the kisatsutai headquarters. The two of them, who felt they had no choice, just nodded slowly.

"Harada, you son," Hideki lamented. Sakonji instantly pinched the white-haired young man's cheeks.

"He has his own reasons, Hideki. You also go with Harada, let me take care of these two children" said Sakonji.

The man whose hair was starting to whiten was pointing at Giyuu and Runa. Hideki sighed and nodded slowly. As it passed, the young man sliced the light blue and then flashed so that Sakonji would not force the two children too much with homework. From behind the Tengu mask, Sakonji smiled faintly. Though he will allow these two children to develop according to their own wishes.

The Time Skip

At the same time as Harada fights Kokushibou, it is during this time that her twin sisters, Hikaru and Hikari, set out for a survival test on Mount Fujikasane. Harada also only took 3 days of recovery before returning to carry out his mission which is always in a row like a train.

At least in this sunny day, Harada has just finished with her mission to recharge the demons at Fujikasane. The black-haired young man decided to return home because Kagaya gave him 4 days off. If the tall, sturdy young man counted it carefully, he was sure that his two younger siblings had already returned home by now. Because when counted, this was the ninth day since he fought Kokushibou.

At least this was suitable for recuperating, because of the few demons that Harada managed to capture, there was one demon that had a stone head and managed to get his head injured quite badly. Or at least, that's what Kagami told him.

With gontai steps Harada walked among the crowd of citizens. With nichirin hidden behind the hakama, the black-haired young man had already thought about taking a warm bath and sleeping even for a little while. Because from his observation, it is not until noon.

So his head won't hurt more if he sleeps at these hours. Despite her pale face, Harada still tried to be friendly to the people who greeted her. He entered a wooden gate in the middle of the stone wall, which was his home as Hashira.

Harada has moved into a slightly larger house since her appointment as Hashira, despite being the only Hashira to live in the center of the crowd. But at least, he now had the land to practice, although it would be a non-breathing exercise.

Harada stepped onto the porch and immediately lay there, not caring about the black boots she was wearing. Both of his ears heard the nearby fusuma open. Harada smiled as her grass-colored bead was stared straight at by Hikari's grass-green bead.

"Geez nii-chan, at least take off your shoes first dong!" hikari Tuas. Harada chuckles stiffly.

"Later on, nii-chan's head still hurts," Harada replied. Hikari decided to sit next to Harada's head.

"Nii-chan, how difficult is Hashira's mission?"

"Facing the eyes of six, patrol a village, and recharge the demons at Fujikasane."

Hikari who had just taken a bath, was taken aback by her brother's words. The orange-haired girl understood the intent of the six eyes that Harada spoke of, because she also knew Hashira was the strongest person in the kisatsutai. But catching the demon and confining her in Fujikasane, it must have made her brother feel very frustrated.

Harada immediately sat down, then opened her black boots before going inside. Hikari looked a little surprised, then decided to go inside. Because in these 13 days, both himself and Hikaru should be able to take advantage of his time to interact with this beloved brother of theirs after 5 years of separation, and before both are preoccupied by missions as demon hunters.