48 Ch-46 : Nezuko-chan~~~

Now, a 14 year old boy of about 175 cm was wearing a black and white kimono, a belt was tightly wrapped around his waist where his sword was fitted.

{A/N : Sakata Gintoki(Gintama) style ;)}

His silver hair were fluttering with flowing wind while his blood-red eyes flashing in inexplicable light.

He was standing at the edge of the mountain, he looked down and saw around a 800m deep cliff, he also had some packed and food wrapped around.

This time Damien was prepared to go to the final selection!

On a sidenote, he had also smithed a iron gate which he had fitted in his cave.

If one would look closely, then they will find thousands of sword slashes on mountain which were from as small as 20 cm to as large as 50 m!

He was standing the edge of cliff waiting for the first ray of sunlight to pass through...his breathing extremely calm, his palms were calloused and body as lean as a leopard.

Soon, the sun came out and Damien jumped from the cliff,

*swish~* *whoosh~*

Damien had extremely calm look on his face as he kept free falling...when the distance became just about 50 m, the air surrounding him changed and he came to stop when he reached the ground, he easily landed on ground from 800 m free fall!

His 'sixth sense' now had reached around 50 m of area...there is still quite a room for further improvement.

After landing, he starts to move in the dense forest with thick trees, he keeps his pace medium like jogging, in between his journey he sometimes take rest to admire the surrounding hills.

After around 5 hours of constant jogging, he reached a remote road, his hair were disheveled but he was not a bit of tired.

He looks around to find rows of farms, he continues his walk along the road while looking at the agricultural lands.

The time was around 12 at noon when the sun is its peak, hence, he sometimes sit under the shade to drink water.

The path was muddy, but there was not a single human around.

Around walking for around another half an hour, he find human settlements, he becomes overjoyed as he increase his pace and suddenly a very very familiar boy come out of the village.

A young boy of about 15-16 years, with muscular and athletic body, his black hair were combed to expose his large forehead, he was wearing a green-black pattern Kimono, a sword was hung on his waist.

He was carrying a large basket on his back, and his face consist of a kind smile and pleasant looks, two hanafuda earrings hung on his ears.

The boy just reeked of positive energy.

Who can it be other than this world's protagonist?

Of course, the boy was Tanjiro Kamado who was carrying his little sister on his back.

Damien became pleasantly surprised because he had liked Tanjiro's character very much, moreover he is the PROTAGONIST of this world!

What more beneficial could be? He could befriend him and an additional layer of defense in form of plot armour would be in his arsenal.

Also, he was carrying one of the most adorable and cute girl on his back!

Damien vowed that he must make Tanjiro his brother-in-law.

Meanwhile, Tanjiro had just said his goodbye to his master Urodoki, he was very happy and confident about the final selection.

Tanjiro carried his sister as he spoke tenderly to her, "Nezuko, we are going to join Demon Slayer Corps, I will definitely find a cure for you!"

Tanjiro continued his walk under the warm sunlight when suddenly he smelled a different smell, this smell immediately made him tremble.

He does not know why he felt such a powerful feeling from the smell, he traced the smell and saw a boy of about his age wearing a black and white kimono with a black belt around his waist.

He was surprised to see the boy's handsome appearance with ruthless blood-red eyes and calm disposition.

He then found him coming towards him, even though he was cautious towards him but he felt that the person in front of him was not an unreasonable person, but he was intrinsically a good person.

Damien approached Tanjiro, he brought his hand forward and said amicably,

"Hello, I am Damien, Are you also going for Final Selection?"

Damien asked Tanjiro with a smile on his face.

Tanjiro looked into the eyes of Damien and hesitated for a few moments, but then he also brought his hand and shook hands with him before saying,

"Hello, I am Tanjiro Kamado, yeah I am going for Final Selection."

Damien clapped his hand as he became excited and said,

"That's great then, let's go together."

But then suddenly, the lid of the basket on Tanjiro's back opened and two cute large pink eyes peeked at him, her pink ribbon sprung out, her large watery eyes stared at Damien as she wore a curious expression on her face.

Damien became lost in those cute eyes, he felt butterflies in his stomach, he really wanted to hug and rub his face against her cute face.

Tanjiro became apprehensive when he found that Damien was constantly staring at the basket, he did not knew that his sister Nezuko had opened the lid despite his warnings.

Nezuko herself knew that she should not have opened the lid, but she did not know why she was compelled to open it, she did not sense any danger from the man in front of her...she only felt a sense of protection in his blood-red eyes.

Nezuko was unable to understand this weird feeling, after all, this could be her first crush.

Damien felt that Tanjiro was becoming tense so he just shifted his eyes to him and said,

"Is she your relative?"

Damien did not talked about her being demon or anything.

Tanjiro widened his eyes, he took a step back and held on his sword's hilt, his eyes turned sharp as he asked gravely,

"How do you know?"

Damien raised his hands and said,

"Calm down Tanjiro-san, the little lady there lifted the lift, hence I asked about it. Don't worry, I don't have any ill intentions."

Tanjiro's grip of his sword loosened as he relaxed, but then he calmly looked at Damien and said,

"She is my sister Nezuko Kamado and she is...."

Before letting him continue, Damien smiled and said,

"She is very cute, very pretty."

Damien praised her while nodding his head.

Inside the basket, Nezuko was ready to be looked upon as a monster by another person who would become afraid of her, though she was used to it now, but she felt more upset when she thought that the person in front of her might look her as a monster and start fearing her.

But, hearing Damien's response, her once calm heart pounded furiously, never she had thought that someone would call her cute...after being transformed into demon.

A huge sense of relief washed over her, though she was unable to smile due to the green bamboo fitted in her mouth...but her eyes became crescent with her facial muscles relaxed, anyone could tell that she was extremely happy at this moment.

Tanjiro's heart also shook, he was ready to tell this boy about his siter being demon but his response totally shocked him, he knew that the boy in front of him know about his sister being a demon.

Damien seemed to know what Tanjiro was feeling, so, he came forward and placed his hand on his shoulder as he said,

"Don't worry Tanjiro, I know that your sister is demonized but until now I have no grudge against demons, even if I had a grudge then I would not condemn an innocent person like her."

"I am not a good person and neither I aspire to be, I just live with my own set of rules, whether they are good or bad that depends on perspective of people."

Tanjiro felt his horizons broaden, it has been a long time since he had any sort of person to rely on, after his family being slaughtered by demons and his sister demonized...he had tried to suppress his fury of revenge and hatred.

Rather, he decided to protect his sister and cure her at any cost.

Now when he looked at Damien, he felt a strong sense of resonance with him...both of them had a similar past despite a massive difference.

On one side, Damien's parents were killed by humans which made him unable to hate demons, on other side, Tanjiro's family was slaughtered by demons but his sister got demonized.

Fate really played big with both of these boys.

Tanjiro's eyes turned warm as he also put his hand on Damien's shoulder and asked,

"Then why are you planning to join Demon Slayer Corps?"

Damien's eyes turned cold but then he shook his head and said with a sad glint in his eyes,

"Umm...maybe to pacify my grievance against killers of my parents? After all, I could not kill humans without any reason."

This single sentence blew Tanjiro's mind as he thought, 'So, his parents were killed by humans?! And by his sentence 'I could not kill humans without reason' that shows Demon Slayers could kill anyone as long as that is a demon.'

Tanjiro started to admire Damien, after all, he felt that he could learn many things from him.

This started the friendship between Damien and Tanjiro.

And from there, the two newly-made friends had started the journey towards their first stop - The Final Selection.

They walked on the road while talking with each other, in between, Damien's eyes kept shifting to the big basket, he wanted to gain few glances of the cute creature - Nezuko-chan~~~

Tanjiro's overprotective big brother senses started tingling, at the next moment, Damien was seen to be stroking his back in weird posture when he asked Tanjiro to let him carry Nezuko, but Tanjiro outrightly declined him.

But Damien followed him as he kept saying,

"Give me Nezuko-chan~~~ Let me carry Nezuko-chan~~~ Won't you let me carry Nezuko-chan~~~"

Tanjiro totally become Ninja Hattori as he increased his step and started running from Damien, his face back was covered in sweat.

Meanwhile, Nezuko-chan, was blinking her cute eyes in wonder, she was curious about what was going on.

Damien glided in air while shouting,

"Nezuko-chaaan~~~~~"

(At some other area)

A boy with yellow hair, a yellow black kimono, whose teeth were tittering in fear suddenly felt that something really bad happened to him.

He felt that his love of life has just stolen away from him...including his position.

~Amen Zenitsu~

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