Bab 3: Natural Enemy

(A/N: The writing may seem a little different for this chapter. This is because up until now I have been writing chapter by chapter, writing as much as I can in order to fill the word count. But from this chapter on I am going to write it scene by scene, then add up a few scenes of those scenes until the word count is met. Because of this, the word count will probably be all over the place from now on, but I will make sure that there is at least 1500 words per chapter.

I think this style will let me be a little more detailed in my writing, but I cant be sure. I definitely noticed a difference when editing, but I'm not skilled enough with writing yet to put that difference into words. Let me know what you guys think of it in the chapter comments.)

'My body is destroyed! I cant regenerate!' Enmu thought in horror as his small mass of eyes and arms fell to the ground and started to dissipate.

Looking over at the three people laying on the ground in front of him, he was beginning to feel fear. 'Did... Did I lose? Am I going to die?'

'No! Impossible! That's Impossible! Not after receiving so much blood from lord Muzan! I didn't even get to eat a single human! My plan to fuse with the train and eat all those humans. After all the time and effort I put into it, it was flawless! So how did it fail?' He thought hysterically.

'No! I know why I failed! It was his fault! It was all his fault!' He thought angrily as the image of a massive man appeared in his mind. The man was built with muscles larger then a childs head, and he glowed with a golden light that made Enmu feel a terrible burning sensation just thinking about it.

'I took hundreds of hostage's, and yet those demons slayer somehow managed to defend all of them! There was that yellow one that was so fast that I couldn't even see him moving! He didn't even undo my spell! Then there's that girl... isn't she a demon? Why was she trying to kill me as well? Is... is she working with those demon slayers? No! No, that's impossible. Surely Lord Muzan would have killed her by now if that was the case. Right?'

'They weren't even the main cause of the plan failing anyway. No. All of this started when that brat with the earrings broke my spell! After that everything started going wrong. All those other slayers started waking up one after another! And that damn Boar is at fault to! I got so close to killing the brat, no, making him kill himself! But that damned Boar stopped him! What's worse is the Boar by itself was already a pain to deal with.'

'But out of all of them, there was only one that was truly at fault. I thought that if there was going to be any hole in my plan, it would be that Hahira's fault, but the Hashira barely did anything! He was only as much of a threat to me as those other slayers were!'

'No, my true enemy is that one! If nothing else, I need to kill that giant human. The second he woke up he started using that strange yellow energy to destroy everything. All of my hard work! He even filled all of those other humans with it, just to make sure I couldn't eat them! And in the end he was the one that destroyed my neck bone! And he didn't even use one of those blades the slayers use! I need to kill him! If nothing else he needs to die!'

Enmu looked over at the massive man, who was now sitting up. He felt so much rage welling up inside of him, he had never wanted to kill anyone more than this man in his entire life. The hatred he felt was almost painful. But he also felt something else when he looked at the man...

Fear.

A deep, instinctual fear.

For some reason he now understood that, whoever this man was, he wasn't like other humans. Perhaps it was because he was now faced with his death, or maybe he had simply been ignoring his instinctual feelings up until now, but whatever it was, he now understood that the man in front of him wasn't just a human.

Humans were just prey to the demons, but this man obviously wasn't prey. If he was then these things wouldn't be happening. He was something much more then that. He was something much WORSE then that. Now all he felt when he looked at the man was the instinctive fear that a rabbit feels when faced with a wolf. A fear that was slowly overpowering his rage. He felt like that man was made to kill demons.

Sure, those demon slayers had killed demons before, but that was like a rabbit setting a trap for the wolf, it could happen, but it wasn't natural. However this man was different. What he did was natural. Even though he killed demons, it felt like it was something that was supposed to happen. Humans preyed on animals, demons preyed on humans, and this man preyed on demons.

Even though he understood these feelings, he didn't want to accept them. He refused to accept them!

'Damn it all! Is it over? Am I going to die?! AAAAAAAH, what a nightmare!' Enmu felt all sorts of emotions at that moment, with the most prominent ones being fear, rage, and disappointment.

'It's always us lower rank demons that the demon slayers kill. The upper rank demons... Their ranks haven't changed for over a hundred years! They've buried hundreds of demon slayers, and even put Hahira's in their graves! Their strength is otherworldly!' Not wanting to blame himself for his failure, he instead blamed his rank and all those above him.

'Even after receiving so much blood from lord Muzan, I was still no match for that man! Damn it! I want another shot! Just one more chance! AAAAAAAH!'

Filled with hatred and rage, Enmu looked at Jonathan one last time, silently cursing him, but to no avail.

'What a pathetic... night... mare.' Enmu' s last thoughts were filled with rage, regret, disappointment, fear, and sadness.

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Tanjiro hurriedly stood up, a little panicked as he looked at the completely destroyed train. He was worried that a lot of people had died when it crashed, and immediately started running toward it, hoping that he would be able to at least save the injured people.

However, before he could make it there, Rengoku was in front of him.

"Don't worry, everyone is safe. There are a lot of injuries, but nobody died." He seemed to guess what Tanjiro was trying to do and stopped him.

"Oh, that's good." Tanjiro let out a huge sigh of relief, visibly relaxing, then immediately fell over, panting while he starred at the sky.

He had been healed by Jonathan, so he only had a few scratches from the train crashing, but he was exhausted. He had to kill himself over and over in his mind, then he had to fight a demon from all directions, then he was stabbed, then he was healed by the giants magic. A lot had happened in the few hours that he had been on the train, so he decided to lay down to catch his breath.

Meanwhile Rengoku was starring at the giant, who had gotten back onto his feet, and was now over by the train using his magic to heal the injured people. Rengoku was surprised that all of the passengers were alive, let alone only lightly injured. Almost all of them should be dead, and yet they only had cuts and bruises, as if something was protecting them as they fell.

Rengoku figured this was the giants strange magic. He had seen him using this weird stance as that golden energy radiated off of him. The giant went to every car and did that, so Rengoku could only assume that whatever he did had protected the passengers as they fell.

Rengoku found the giant to be very interesting, especially that magic he was using. But what intrigued him the most was the Giants appearance.

He couldn't quite put it into words, but the Giant was different. Now, Rengoku had been thinking of the man as a giant up until now because of his size, but he wasn't even close to the height of Gyomei, and he was just a little bit shorter then Tengen. But despite this, he appeared taller then them. Taller then anyone he had ever seen before.

At first he thought that it was because of the huge size of the man's muscles, making him appear taller then he really is. But now that Rengoku is taking a closer look, he knows that it's something else.

The best was that he could think to put it is, its like comparing two different painting from two different artists. They both had their own style, so when they painted the same man, he looked different. One artist will make him look taller then he really is, but he is still the same height.

Rengoku tried to make sense of it, but the more he tried, the less sense it made. Just what was with this foreigner? He was extremely curious, and even a little suspicious that all of this might still be an illusion, or the giant could be a demon in disguise, trying to trick them, but he decided to wait for the sun to rise to find out.

His thought were interrupted by a figure running past him as high speed. He hurriedly turned around, ready to fight if another demon had shown up. And as he turned around, he was faced with yet another demon.

"Nezuko, what's wrong?" Tanjiro asked the demon girl as she cowered behind him, starring at the giant in the distance.

She didn't say anything and just continued to stare at Jonathan with a look of fear, confusion, and curiosity. She didn't know why, but she felt that she needed to run away from him, even though she knew he wasn't a demon, and didn't seem like a bad person.

"Is something wrong?" Rengoku asked Tanjiro as he looked curiously at the demon.

"I don't know! She normally doesn't act like this, not even when she meets other demons. The only time I have ever seen her act like this was when the su-" But he cut himself off as his eyes widened and looked back at the giant, remembering his magic.

"Wait, is that how-"

*BOOOOOOOOM*

His thoughts were once again interrupted, but this time by something else. He hurriedly looked behind him, only to find himself starring at a demon. (Not Nezuko)

To be continued