47. It's Him...

Four figures kept running through the woods. Their speed was shocking for any normal person, through the woods they jumped around like a monkey.

"Hey, Sabito. Did you really see it?"

"Why the hell are you doubting me? If I said I saw it then I saw it."

"Fine. We better find it soon, a cloud rabbit is rare. I can't wait see what it tastes like."

Leo's eyes sparkled as he looked through the woods. Earlier on Sabito said he saw a cloud rabbit, it looked like normal rabbit however it's fur clean and pure like clouds. The one thing special about this rabbit was that it tasted spectacular.

"There!"

Giyu suddenly jumped into a bush and reached his hand into a large hole. Some rustling sound came from the hole, Giyu stretched his hand even further and pulled out a white ball of fur.

All four pairs of eyes gleamed when they saw this ball of fur, drool started to flow down their mouth. A cloud rabbit was way too rare, maybe one in a thousand and it's only local to this area.

"Alright let's go."

Sacking the rabbit they started to return.

"It's been a eight months since we went dark, when do you think they will call us back?"

Makomo asked doubtfully. To her question Leo answered with a smile.

"Right now the Demon Corps have already built up sufficient resistance against the Moons. So we can return whenever we want."

"That's good. Since we are gonna be busy and separated once they call us back let's enjoy a few more days."

"That's sounds like a good plan."

"I am all for it."

Just as the group was Merrily walking back to the house Leo stopped dead in his tracks. Sabito and the other two looked back to see what was happening.

Leo was staring deep into the dark forest, his pupils were shrunken and his heart was thumping furiously inside him.

It's him!

"Leo, What's wrong?"

Makomo was surprised to see Leo act so weirdly, just as she asked what was happening a terrible force erupted from Leo and he flashed into the dark jungle like a wild beast.

"Hey, Leo! What's wrong?"

"Shit! He is going too fast!"

The other three started running after him but all they saw was his fading figure.

"Let's go. Something must have happened."

Giyu threw away the sack freeing the rabbit. All three of them blasted off into the distance trying to catch up with Leo.

Meanwhile, Leo who just took off had a crazy expression on his face. His blue eye seemed as if it was an abyss trying to swallow everything in it's path.

It's him! No one has such a vile soul, it's him, Kibutsuji Muzan!'

Trees flashed past his eyes like a blur, soon they cleared up. A small temple stood before him, oil lamps hung on the walls beside it. The faint light from the lamps showed an eerie scene that would make anyone's blood run cold.

A man wearing a black suit was sitting cross legged as he chewed on a limb. He showed no emotion as he ate, each bite he took tore of a large piece of meat, blood dripped down from it and soaked his inner shirt.

Of course it's every person's choice to whether to eat meat or not but what he was eating was different, he was eating human flesh!

A young man's body laid beside him, his face was gone, only mangled flesh remained. The dark night illuminated by the warm light of lamps showcased a gruesome sight.

The man seemed to have noticed his visitor, however he simply looked a Leo and continued to eat. When he saw those cold indifferent eyes Leo didn't feel fear, instead his heart started to thump madly inside his chest.

He didn't know when his sword was drawn out, the black blade engraved with a dragon and tiger gleamed with coldness.

"Muzan... KIBUTSUJI! MUZAAAN!!!"

His voice started off slow but it turned violent in an instant. Like an artillery shell he shot towards Muzan.

With a calm look on his face Muzan smacked at Leo. A long whip grew out of his body, it was filled with mouths bearing innumerable razor sharp teeths. Leo showed no signs of stopping, his body twisted and turned as he dodged every attack that came at him.

What?

Muzan was stunned. Before he could react his hand was cut off, a split second was all it took. His hand flew into the air, the vaccum on his shoulder caused made him lose his balance.

And that was a fatal mistake.

A black blade tore through his attacks and sliced into his body. Knowing his opponent was far stronger than he anticipated Muzan stopped looking down on him and retaliated.

His suit was shredded to pieces as long tubes emerged from his back. Like the one before, these ones also had mouth filled with teeth on it's flesh. His hand had already regenerated and he was now looking at Leo differently.

"When did you pop up within slayers?"

Muzan asked. He was truly startled, for someone as young as this boy to injure him was shocking. The last time something like this happened, his opponent was already half way into his life.

Leo didn't answer. His eyes were trained on Muzan, in his perception he saw several hearts and brains constantly moving within him. However what confused him was something else, there were several black lines on his entire body, it looked as if... as if Muzan's body was sewed up.

Are those... sword wounds? Yoriichi... those are scars of left behind by him. Incredible, his cuts burned Muzan's body on a cellular level.

Leo suddenly dodged. Muzan attacked, those mouths on the flesh tubes seemed to be creating vaccum as they breathe, this vaccum was acting like a mini bomb.

But no matter how Muzan attacked Leo was dodging them all, his body danced within an inch between each attack. Each time Muzan thought he got Leo he managed to escape. He also noticed his tubes getting cut off, at first it wasn't obvious but as the fight went on the rate at which it was being cut off was getting higher.

Who is this kid?