"Sabito, will Nezuko be able to win against it?" Makomo looked up at Sabito who was sitting on top of the split open rock, "I don't know. She... no matter how large of an effort she makes, it will still not be enough. You know that as well, right?".
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Nezuko stood in front of the boy ready to attack the hand demon, "Hey little fox, what year of the Meiji era is it?" "!?... It's the Taisho era right now!" The demon looked enraged and glared at Nezuko and the boy. "AHHHH! THE ERA NAME! EVEN THE ERA NAME CHANGED TOO!" Nezuko and the boy just stared at the demon in shock, "NOT ENOUGH! NOT ENOUGH AT ALL! HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN LOCKED UP HERE IN THIS PLACE? AHHHH! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM. NEVER!" "DAMN UROKODAKI!" "Why do you hate Urokodaki sensei so much..." the demon directed his attention back to Nezuko, "YOU KNOW WHY! I WAS CAPTURED BY UROKODAKI! I WON'T FORGET THAT MOMENT 47 YEARS AGO! HE WAS STILL HUNTING DEMONS BACK THEN. IT WAS DURING THE EDO PERIOD... DURING THE KEIO ERA!" The demon rambled on, 'Demon hunting... Edo period'
"You're lying!" The boy finally spoke up, "There aren't supposed to be any demons here that have lived that long! Because-" Nezuko turned to face the boy. "The demons here should only have eaten two or three people only, and demons are killed during the selection, also demons kill each other which makes this impossible!..." "But I still remain alive, in this prison of wisteria. I've eaten a total of fifty small kids." The demon bragged, 'Fifty of them!'.
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"Remember this well." Urokodaki started an explanation, "Basically, the number of humans a demon eats determines how powerful a demon is." "The more humans it eats the more powerful the demon becomes?" Nezuko questioned, "That's correct. Demons increase their strength by eating humans... and some physically change, gaining unnatural powers." Urokodaki finished his explanation to Nezuko who was eating.
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"Twelve... thirteen, and then you're the fourteenth." the demon counted on one hand and used another to point at Nezuko, "!? What are you talking about?" The demon raised some of his hands to where his mouth is supposed to be, so it looked like he was giggling, "I'm counting the number of Urokodakis apprentices I've eaten. I've decided to kill all of his apprentices!". "Speaking of which, the ones that left me with the most impression, was this pair of kids. And of those two, the kid with that rare hair colour was the strongest, he had a head covered with peach hair and a scar on one of the corners of his mouth. The other was a little girl wearing flower patterned clothing, even though she was small and not very powerful, she was quick and light with her movements" Nezuko recognised the description as Sabito and Makomo, 'They were killed by this demon? But I met those two...'.
"That fox mask is a mark, I remember the style Urokodaki uses when carving the masks, the tengu mask he wears is carved the same way. It's called a 'mask of disaster prevention' or something like that... It was because they were wearing it, they were eaten. They're all in my stomach, its as if Urokodaki killed them himself". The demon raised his hands to where his mouth should be again, "Fufufufufu! When I said these words, that little girl was so angry, she had tears shining at the corners of her eyes. Fufufufu! After that her movements became rigid. Fufufufufu!" The demon continued to laugh.
Nezuko glared at the demon and charged forward, the boy ran away in the other direction. The demon stretched out a bunch of hands ready to attack but Nezuko was able to slice them all. Due to Nezuko being so angered she was not paying much attention to her surroundings so the demon was able to punch her in her side. The forced knocked Nezuko into a tree and she fell and hit her head on the ground momentarily knocking herself out, the boy looked back at the scene, 'That girl is finished. I need to get away now while I still have the chance...!' The fox mask Nezuko was wearing shattered into pieces.
The demon reached out again to attack Nezuko, fortunately she was able to regain conscious and sliced of the hands which where about to attack her, 'Even when I slice off one of its hands, it grows back after a while... Hm?!' Nezuko had a gut feeling to jump so she did, just in time as well because some of the demons hands tried to reach for her from underneath. 'So- so high! She noticed the hands beneath the earth, I couldn't finish her off! But now she's in the air, there is nowhere for her to run' the demon tried to punch Nezuko again, but somehow Nezuko was able to flip herself over the demons hand. 'She evaded it, I dont have any more hands to use, and I can't grow them back immediately. She is closing in on me. However, my defense around my head is tough. She won't be able to slice me. Even that guy wasn't able to' Nezuko was ready to slice at the demons neck. 'After the chance to slice my neck, I'll grab her head just like I did to that kid before her'.
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"So Nezuko is going to lose after all? Its head is really tough..." Makomo stared into space a sympathetic look gracing her features, "Might lose, might win. But there is only one truth right here in front of us, and that is..." Sabito looked down at Makomo, "Nezuko is the only person that was able to slice open the toughest and hardest rock thus far!".
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"Water breathing first form: water surface slice!" Nezuko sliced at the demons neck.
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