Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters.
All the Hashira gathered here, including the injured Water Hashira Giyu Tomioka (with Kanao help).
Under the leadership of the Demon Slayer Corps' master Kagaya Ubuyashiki, four demon slayers were officially promoted to Hashira.
Flame Hashira - Kyojuro Rengoku
Maple Hashira - Yuichiro Tokito
Mist Hashira - Muichiro Tokito
Serpent Hashira - Obanai Iguro
For the first time in hundreds of years, the number of Hashira in the Demon Slayer Corps exceeded nine.
From now on, nine Hashira's would no longer be the limit for the Demon Slayer Corps.
The future of the Demon Slayer Corps is limitless!
The newly promoted four Hashira's also boosted the morale of the Demon Slayer Corps members.
The increasingly powerful Demon Slayer Corps dealt a devastating blow to those evil demons lurking in the darkness.
However, at the same time, the evil demons were secretly accumulating strength for a counterattack.
*****
Clang!
A crisp sound of a biwa rang out.
The next second, a dark shadow suddenly appeared in front of a pair of dazzling rainbow-like pupils.
Upper Moon Two - Doma, wearing a hat, tilted his head and then suddenly put on a "surprised" expression, saying gently, "Oh my, isn't this Kokushibo-sama? How did you find me here? Did Kokushibo-sama miss me?"
Whoosh!
Six blood-red eyes emanating intense pressure emerged from the darkness.
Despite being stared at by six extremely cold gazes, Doma wasn't nervous at all.
Instead, he looked at the Upper Moon One before him with excitement.
After a moment of silence, Kokushibo's cold voice slowly rangout.
"A few enemies have escaped from Muzan-sama subordinates. Arrange your followers to search for them at all costs."
Doma tilted his head in another direction, grabbing his own calves with both hands.
"My followers? But wouldn't Nakime-san be more suitable for finding people? Besides, the Eternal Paradise cult was half disbanded after being disrupted last time..."
Completely ignoring Doma's words, Kokushibo disappeared from the spot after giving his instructions, leaving Doma alone staring blankly at the air in front of him.
"Eh, Kokushibo-sama is still so cold and heartless~" Doma shrugged and then clapped his hands.
Soon after, an old man wearing the Eternal Paradise cult's robe crawled into the dim room on his knees.
"Great Cult Leader, do you need young girls again? I'll go arrange it right away!"
Before the old man could leave, Doma called out to him, "I need to find a few people, hmm, some very interesting people."
"What?" The old cult member was a bit confused.
Had the Cult Leader changed his taste?
However, these weren't things for him to consider.
All he needed to do was satisfy all the needs of the Cult Leader in the room and incidentally, keep his own life.
Others might not know the Cult Leader's true identity, but he, who had been in the Eternal Paradise cult for forty years, knew everything clearly.
*****
Mount Sagiri.
"Look, Tanjiro, your sister Nezuko is so cute. If only my sister were still here, she was also very well-behaved and sensible." A gray-haired boy about Tanjiro's age looked enviously at the bamboo box on Tanjiro's back.
At this moment, a small head was resting on the edge of the bamboo box, curiously looking around, with a small bamboo tube in her mouth.
This adorable scene attracted many young boys and girls to gather around.
Everyone put down their wooden swords and gathered around, praising and teasing Nezuko.
Since Nezuko had turned into a demon, her body had suddenly shrunk to the size of a four year-old child, and her mentality had also regressed a lot.
However, the aggressiveness and bloodthirst of demons seemed to have disappeared from Nezuko.
Judging from her appearance alone, no one would think Nezuko was a demon.
The young boys and girls surrounding Tanjiro were a good example of this.
This was Mount Sagiri, also the dojo where the former Water Hashira Sakonji Urokodaki trained his disciples.
These young people, including Tanjiro, were all Sakonji Urokodaki's disciples.
Thanks to Giyu Tomioka's letter, Tanjiro successfully became Sakonji Urokodaki's disciple.
Although Master Urokodaki always wore a mysterious tengu mask that looked a bit scary to Tanjiro, he was truly very kind to him and Nezuko.
Nezuko's existence also truly shocked this former Water Hashira.
Could there really be such a demons in the world?
Over the years, because two of his disciples had become a Hashira in the Demon Slayer Corps, many swordsmen had come to learn the Water Breathing technique under his tutelage.
Sakonji Urokodaki, who had dedicated nearly his entire life to slaying demons, naturally wouldn't refuse to contribute further to the future of the Demon Slayer Corps.
After Sabito and Giyu, Sakonji Urokodaki had successively trained dozens of Water Breathing swordsmen who joined the Demon Slayer Corps.
However, even so, before meeting Tanjiro, Sakonji Urokodaki didn't have any special feelings.
He truly just treated cultivating swordsmen as his mission.
Until Tanjiro appeared with his sister Nezuko.
Nezuko's identity and the strong, optimistic spirit that Tanjiro carried deeply moved Urokodaki.
Although Tanjiro's talent for Water Breathing wasn't the most outstanding among Urokodaki's current disciples, Urokodaki vaguely felt that this kind-hearted boy would definitely surpass most people in the future.
This might be some kind of intuition.
"Wait a moment! Everyone, this isn't good. Nezuko doesn't eat these things. Also, everyone shouldn't neglect your own training, or Master Urokodaki will get angry!"
Seeing that an enthusiastic senpai was about to take out various snacks to feed Nezuko, Tanjiro quickly waved his hands to dissuade them.
This was also a miraculous thing.
Compared to the demons' habit of having to eat humans, although Nezuko had also turned into a demon, she showed no signs of wanting to eat people.
In these few months, Tanjiro had also slowly discovered his sister's special condition.
In other words, Nezuko only needed to sleep to replenish her energy.
So most of the time, Nezuko just curled up sleeping in the bamboo box on Tanjiro's back.
It was rare for Nezuko to be so active like tonight, which was why everyone who was training got so excited.
As if to confirm Tanjiro's words, a figure wearing a blue shirt with water patterns and a red tengu mask appeared in front of everyone.
Immediately, more than a dozen boys and girls hurried back to their positions, grabbing their wooden swords and training individually.
Urokodaki looked around but didn't say anything.
Then, he walked to Tanjiro's side.
"Master!" Tanjiro bowed very seriously to Urokodaki, then raised his head with a smile and said.
"Master, I've been doing as you said, swinging my sword five thousand times every day now. It's just that yesterday I accidentally broke my wooden sword."
As he spoke, Tanjiro took out a broken wooden sword and handed it to Urokodaki.
As Urokodaki took the wooden sword, he also touched the thick calluses on Tanjiro's hands.
A very hardworking child.
"Well done, Tanjiro. Starting tomorrow, you can learn various sword forms of Water Breathing along with everyone else." Urokodaki's said.
Tanjiro opened his mouth wide and said excitedly, "Really? That's great!"
Seeing her brother so happy, little Nezuko in the bamboo box on his back also stretched out her two small hands, raising them over her head and waving them back and forth.
This heartwarming scene made even Urokodaki pause for a moment.
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