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     "There... st... an hour and a ha... left! An hou... a half left unt... sunrise!", Kiyomi could hear faint screaming from a kasugai crow. When she opened her eyes, she realized she was on a pile of rubble along with Gyomei and the others.

    "Everyone! Are you guys alright?!", Kiyomi panicked as she got down the pile of rubble.

    "Ugh.. yeah, I'm okay..", Genya groaned as he touched his head.

    "I'm fine as well..", Muichiro replied as he also tried to get down.

    "I am also alright.", Gyomei replied.

    Sanemi didn't speak and looked very angry. Kiyomi looked at where he was looking and saw Muzan, in a fight with the hashiras and Tanjiro. Sanemi was about to join the fight, but Kiyomi stopped him.

     "Wait! Don't go yet! You must wait at the right time!", Kiyomi said, irritating Sanemi but he still followed what she said.

    Their eyes widened when they saw the low-ranked slayers running quickly towards the hashiras, ready to protect them with their own lives.

   "They're gonna die...", Kiyomi mumbled, her eyes shaking, "NO!!!", she yelled as everyone started to freeze.

   Kiyomi felt herself unconsciously moving towards the frozen people and cutting Muzan's tentacles that were about to kill all the slayers using her fans. After cutting them in place, she calmly moved back to the spot she used to be before everyone moved again.

   Everyone including Muzan was shocked to see his tentacles suddenly cut off.

   'What was that?!', Everyone thought as they looked at Muzan's tentacles. They snapped out of it and continued fighting, with the pillars ordering the slayers to back away, and which the slayers just listening to them because of how they sounded.

   On the other hand, Kiyomi was on her knees, holding her neck as her body shook and her eyes cried.

   "Kiyomi-san?! What's wrong?!", Muichiro went over to Kiyomi and looked at her state. Gyomei also looked at her and was surprised when he was suddenly able to use his see-through senses.

   "What's with her lungs??", Sanemi spoke with slight worry when he saw Kiyomi's hurting state and was able to see everyone's insides.

  "It's frozen?!", Genya said when he also suddenly saw Kiyomi's insides.

   "Why is it frozen??", Muichiro worriedly said before Kiyomi suddenly fainted.

   "Kiyomi-san?!", Muichiro called, but there was no response.

   "Just let her rest. I can see her lungs slowly unfreezing.", Sanemi said. Muichiro just agreed and let her head rest on his legs.

Meanwhile...

   Tanjiro's master, Urokodaki Sakonji, looked at Nezuko, who suddenly stood up and looked above. Winter also looked at her confusedly with her head tilted.

   "Nezuko?", Sakonji called, "...Nezuko, what's wrong?"

  Nezuko didn't say anything and suddenly ran to the shoji door and broke it, which surprised Sakonji and Winter.

   "Ah?! Kamado Nezuko! Where are you going?!", Uzui said as he, Kyojuro, and Shinjuro looked at Nezuko, who was suddenly running away.

   "Agghh! Oh no!! She broke the door!!", One of Uzui's wives named Suma panicked.

   "Winter, stop Nezuko!", Sakonji said to Winter. She followed him and ran to Nezuko and stopped her by biting her haori. Nezuko struggled, but Winter still held her back.

   Just as Sakonji was about to catch up, Winter suddenly stopped holding Nezuko back and her blue eyes started to glow. Winter growled before howling, then ran after Nezuko and instead of stopping her, she ran along with her.

   'What's wrong with them?!', Sakonji thought as he continued to chase after them.

   "Oyakata-sama!! The demon girl ran off! What should we do?", Shinjuro reported.

   Kiriya got deep in thoughts before making his decision, "Bring Nezuko-san right ba...", one of Kiriya's older sister suddenly came into the room and whispered something to him before getting out of the room.

   His eyes widened. 

  "Who will go after Nezuko-san!?", One of Kiriya's little sister said.

  "... No. No need to chase her.", Kiriya replied.

  "Eh?! But if Nezuko-san gets caught by a demon, we can't take her back!"

   "Exactly. But... But... Father told me to let her do what she wanted...", He said as he began to tear up.

    On the other hand, Sakonji kept chasing Nezuko and Winter, but they suddenly jumped off a cliff.

   'They jumped off from this height...?! Did the medicine to turn her into human not work...?', Sakonji thought, 'And Winter... How did she not get hurt...?'

Back to Muzan and the others...

   "Agh!!", Mitsuri screamed in pain when she got hit by Muzan on her chest.

   "Kanroji!!", Obanai called out.

   "Just protect yourselves! Please!!", Kanroji was about to get hit by one of Muzan's tentacles, but the tentacle suddenly got crushed by an iron ball.

   "Sorry for being late.", Gyomei showed up as he swung his spiked iron ball.

   'The hunter who defeated Kokushibo...', Muzan thought as he looked at Gyomei, not noticing Sanemi from behind as he sliced him in half. Of course, he regenerated quickly, but Sanemi threw bottles everywhere, which Muzan easily broke them all, soaking him.

   Sanemi took out a match, lit it up, and threw it to Muzan, lighting him on fire.

  "That's dirty!", Muzan scowled.

  "Well, it's perfect for the likes of you.", Sanemi spat, "I'll grind you into smithereens, punk-a$$ sh#th#ad."

  They continued to fight, as the young slayers hid and just secretly watched them. Muichiro couldn't join since Kiyomi was still unconscious, while Genya wasn't allowed to join because his brother told him so.

  To Be Continued...

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But see you at the next chapter!