章節 36: Chapter 34
After a few days Kyoshi and Rin made it to the mountain Habuki and Keiko lived. Currently, they were all in the living room sitting on the couch listening to Rin introduce herself.
"After getting turned by sensei, I've been traveling with him for a few days." She said.
"I see, I see. Then ho-"
"Before we get into your weird suspicions, I have something important to tell you. I just found out my friend from a few years back actually became a member of the DSC.
Along with that, all of the hashira are looking for me and they want me dead or alive. I also met that demon that's working for the DSC.
And-"
"Hold up. I think we should go to master Muzan first." Habuki said with a sigh.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Kyoshi said as they all stood up. Rin was kinda stiff and slightly nervous, but soon prepared herself.
Habuki asked Muzan if they could have a discussion with him along with Kyoshi and a person he turned into a demon.
Obviously, Muzan was intrigued about this and he decided to call a full meeting consisting of the 12 Kizuki along with himself.
Normally, Muzan was the only one able to make mental calls with his subordinates, but recently, he opened up a continuous link that would allow them to contact each other including himself.
Kinda like officers with walkie-talkies.
Habuki nodded his head after getting the okay from Muzan and he ended his link.
"He said he's gonna call a meeting with the 12 Kizuki as well." Habuki said to them.
"Ohh, right. I never told you. My uncle and aunt are in the top 3 ranks of the Lower Moons." Kyoshi said.
"…"
Rin was left speechless as she looked at Habuki and Keiko with a shocked expression.
"Don't look surprised. Your strength is right behind theirs so they'll have to work harder to stay at the top." Kyoshi said as he laughed maniacally.
After a while, he noticed the weird stares he received from everyone and they all decided to leave in an awkwardly quiet atmosphere. Rin also gained a new opinion of her sensei. It wasn't a very good one either.
…
Finally they arrived inside of the Infinite Castle and saw Muzan standing before everyone. There was a notable difference though, he didn't have this suffocating air around him and instead of seeming like an oppressor, he seemed like a real leader.
His eyes were glaring at them and instead he seemed to simply be thinking of something while he waited for them.
"You're late." He said to Kyoshi as he walked towards him.
He still valued punctuality.
"There was a lot of traffic on the way here. Wagons and merchants. You know them." Kyoshi said with a laugh.
"You teleported." Muzan said with a sigh. He was very much used to Kyoshi's antics and wasn't really troubling by them.
He glanced to the left and saw Rin standing next to him very stiffly. She wasn't wearing her normal DSC uniform and instead wore a black kimono that had cyan colored lilies patterned after on it.
It was something they got from taking stuff from that village Kyoshi cleared out.
"You must be Rin? My grandsons first human turned demon."
"Yes sir!!" She said with a salute.
"Muzan is fine. Anyways, let's get on with the meeting." He said while ruffling Kyoshi's hair.
'I might as well walk around looking like a hedgehog.' He thought as he walked next to Muzan.
Habuki and Keiko took their spots on the platform in front of Muzan's and next to the upper moons while Rin followed Kyoshi unsurely.
She noticed a woman with a biwa waving at Kyoshi and he waved back with a smile. The women noticed her and she slightly bowed her head towards her as she did as well.
"That's aunt Nakime. She's the best musician in the country." Kyoshi whispered as the meeting commenced.
"As you know, I called this meeting because it concerns all demons as a whole. This news was presented to Habuki from Kyoshi so I'll let him tell you all." Muzan said.
Kyoshi's body went stiff and as Muzan turned towards him, Kyoshi could see it in his eyes. He was being toyed with. He basically hear the condescending laughter from Muzan.
He calmed down and walked to the front of the platform as he prepared to speak.
"Alright, so basically for some reason the DSC sent out a request to all the hashira to look for me. Apparently they have an offer for me, but I guess it's not really an important one because they say I can be dead or alive." Kyoshi said.
"What was the offer?" Daki asked.
"From what the guy told me, it seems like they want me to join the DSC. To be honest, I can only think of one person that found out I was a demon.
Gramps, you remember when I went to the Koga village and found out they're a information network for the DSC?" Kyoshi asked.
Muzan nodded his head as Kyoshi took a breath.
"Well, it was late at night and I woke up extremely hungry. I smelt something nice from the forest and you know I ran towards it.
That's where I found the village chiefs daughter. You know I keep up a principal to not eat women and only kill them when I'm in a fight with a Demon Slayer, but I was hungry and I almost ate her."
Kyoshi said trying his best to not look towards Akaza. He could feel the disappointment basically radiating from his stare.
"But I didn't, and instead left that same night and ate someone else on the way home. Regardless, she's the only one that could have known I was a demon. She probably told that half demon that was with her, Masako."
"There seems to be a lot of demons working with the DSC. That guy that told you about this, was he a demon too?" Muzan asked.
"Yup. Apparently only the hadhira know about this order so I can conclude he's also a hashira."
"Ughhh." Muzan groaned as he massaged his temples.
"I was just as surprised as everyone else honestly. I think I know why so many are starting to work with the DSC. When I found out about Masako from the Koga village being a demon, she told me one of the hashira was working on something to turn demons back human." Kyoshi said.
"What?!"
"That must've been a lie."
"That can't actually be possible right?!"
"What'll happen to their strength and power though?"
"Honestly what dumbass woul-"
"Everyone quiet."
A very calm, but powerful voice spoke out in the crowd of confusion and surprise.
"Masako, the woman that told you this; can she be trusted? And if this serum does work, did she tell you what'll happen if it doesn't?" Kokushibo asked.
"She seemed really serious about the whole serum. I started pressing her and after I started talking about how naive she was, she got mad and she cut that dumb partnership idea.
From that, I can confidently say that whoever told her that, lied in a very convincing way or they're telling the truth about the serum.
And no, she didn't even have a doubt in her mind about it not working, so she never mentioned anything about it. She them cut the convo before I could ask."
"I see." Kokushibo said with a nod.
"Well then, I guess that means everyone should start getting ready for war. The DSC have gotten in our way of life for far too long anyways. With their decision to go after Kyoshi, I'll assume this is a direct attack against myself.
For the lower moons, I want you all in divided into three groups of two and fan out. If you come across a Demon Slayer then, you know what to do.
As for the upper moons, I want you guys to split up. Lock down your residing areas and fan out. If the DSC are coming for us we'll come for them. Understood?"
"Yes sir!!"
The 12 Kizuki answered Muzan and the lower moons already got into their pairs.
Pair 1: Habuki and Inmu
Pair 2: Keiko and Koyuki
Pair 3: Rokuro and Wakuraba
"Alright, then everyone is dismissed." Muzan said. With a simple stroke of her biwa, Nakime made everyone disappear.
Everyone besides, Kyoshi and Rin.
"You two, follow me." Muzan said as platforms started to move and connect forming a walk way for them.
At the end of that walkway was a door which slid ooen and closed behind them as they entered.
…
"So you turned her right?" Muzan asked as he sat at his desk with Kyoshi and Rin facing him.
"Yeah."
"Do you know what her Demon Blood Art is?" He asked.
"Not a single clue."
"I see. Try using your 'Kakugan' and look into her eyes. You share blood with her directly, so you should be able to look directly at her RC cells." Muzan said.
"I see." Kyoshi said. His eyes suddenly changed as the red veins spread over to his face and he looked towards Tin who look absolutely horrified.
"C'mon it's not that scary. Look into my eyes." He said.
She then went into a dazed state and after a while she started blinking and looked confused. Kyoshi himself was rather surprised as well.
"What is it?" Muzan asked.
"Go ahead and show him." Kyoshi said as he seemed to be holding back laughter.
"Well…I think we'll need a bigger soace than this." She said as she had a blush on her face. She seemed ashamed and embarrassed.
The walls of the rooms started spinning a door appeared behind them. Muzan stood up and they followed him into a massive room.
"This should be big enough right?" He asked as he stood back along with Kyoshi.
She nodded her head as she took a deep breath.
"The first part is more of a transformation." She said. While it couldn't be seen too much, her skin started to harden as her cells became extremely dense.
Scales started to cover her neck and face as her pupils went from a normal round shape to a slit shape. Her nails grew and at the tips they were cyan blue while the rest were black.
Her teeth turned into fangs and she gained a crazy murderous aura around her.
"So what can you do in this form?" Muzan asks.
"Well, from what it feels like, I get way faster than I could before, my regeneration is increased and I can switch from seeing heat signatures to seeing normally.
I can also inject an extremely venomous poison into humans and demons. It kills human cell, demon cells and RC cells at a fast rate." She explained.
"Aren't you forgetting a few?" Kyoshi said with a smirk.
"…I-I can also do this." She said. Suddenly her body exploded into about 1000 white snakes with sky blue eyes.
Muzan's eyes widened as he smirked.
"How fascinating." He muttered as he looked at the snakes. He watched them regroup around the clothes that were laying on the floor and they formed her body again.
"She can also shed skin." Kyoshi added.
"Oh, so she's basically a demon snake?" Muzan asked.
"She reminds me about the mythy of Yamato no Orochi. The great serpent. Both either are or connected to serpents and both enjoy human flesh. Seems fitting." Kyoshi stated.
"Orochi Rin. Great serpent Rin. It's actually kinda…" Muzan paused and cleared his throat before looking towards Rin who had her head down in embarrassment.
"Oh yeah, get this; she was being trained under the serpent hashira and learned serpent breathing. How much more fitting can one get." Kyoshi said as he laughed.
Muzan turned around and started walking off with a shaky smile on his face as well.
"Sensei, I'll go ahead and put you into eternal rest right now." She said with a smile.
"Mm, I see. I'll be grateful if you didn't though." Kyoshi said with crossed arms as he nodded his head.
…
After their antics were over they went back into the office with Muzan and everyone had calmed down.
"Well, I'll leave your training to Kyoshi. You have a lot of potential as a demon, so train diligently." Muzan said as he received a serious nod from Rin.
"Still though, it's weird that we can't access your Demon Blood Arts." Muzan added.
"Meh, with or without them as long as I train I'll be fine. I've got Moon Breathing, plus a mix of Uncle Habuki and Akaza sensei's martial arts. I just need to eat more, but if a sudden amount of people up and vanish from a village then all hashira will know it's a strong demon.
Then they'll send out their guys and to be honest, it'll be a hassle. I also don't want to disappoint either of my teachers by going against my word." Kyoshi said with a sigh.
"Most Demon Blood Arts are found out immediately once you become strong enough to have one." Muzan said.
"I guess I'm an acceptation." Kyoshi replied.
"I also didn't know mine, so maybe his blood is just weird." Rin said.
"It's not a maybe, he's just weird." Muzan said as he spun in his chair staring at the ceiling. He seemed to be in thought as he did so.
"Mm, I see. It'll be nice if you didn't say that in front of me. Anyway, I'll manage without one." Kyoshi said as he got ready to stand up.
"Actually…" Muzan said. He glanced at Kyoshi as he leaned forward on his desk and sighed.
"I do have one theory." Muzan said.
Kyoshi sat back down and looked at Muzan to continue. Seeing this, he gave a sly smile.
Of course Kyoshi wanted a Demon Blood Art.
It's literally a unique ability that only he'll have that allows him to do hella cool stuff. Why wouldn't he want it.
"You remember years ago, when you kept asking me about RC cells when I first examined your blood?" Muzan asked.
Memories resurfaced as Kyoshi thought about it. It seems so long ago. He felt nostalgic.
"Yup, I was still 10 at the time."
"Mm, remember how I told you there are some conditions where people have more RC cells than their body can manage and they end up either as some disgusting monster or successfully turn into something a bit different than a demon?"
"Yeah."
"I think that's what's happened to you. Your body naturally had active cells that worked properly in your body without training or anything on top of that, you were still human.
Originally, you were something like a human with the capabilities of a demon. You could walk in the sun, eat normal food, and more, but the growth was slow." Muzan said in a rather serious tone.
"I see. So are you saying all of that was most likely taken away when you gave me blood?" Kyoshi asked.
"That's the most likely answer for your case."
"Why didn't you tell me about a theory like this earlier?"
"Well, mainly because it was so unlikely and so rare that I didn't even consider it." Muzan answered.
"I see. Well…screw it." Kyoshi said as he hunched his shoulders.
"Nothing we can do about it now. Gotta live life and move on with what I got. A 1000 year old sage for a grandpa and a family of demons who's. With or without all of that I'm extremely satisfied with what I have.
Plus, I got a snake disciple. Who actually living like me right now?" Kyoshi said as he ruffled Rin's hair.
Muzan chuckled as stood up and walked away from his desk. On his way out of the door, he pat Kyoshi head before bonking him.
"Go train your disciple, dimwitted grandson."
He then left from the room while Kyoshi was extremely embarrassed from the nonsense that left his mouth.
"Ugh, how could I say such things." He said with a heavy sigh while shaking his head.
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Damn, I only needed a lil more to make 3k words.
Fuck.
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