Lower Rank One - Enmu, the Dream Demon!

"Ah!" Enmu moaned in sadistic pleasure. "How truly fortunate am I? A Hashira and two traitorous demons in the same room… Wonderful!"

Enmu was one of the Twelve Kizuki, a demon holding the position of Lower Rank One.

He was a slender young man with average height with ringed blue eyes. His left eye showcased the Kanji for Lower One written on its pupil, and the right eye had a horizontal line, giving it a toad-like eye appearance.

He had straight, chin-length hair of a dark black color which faded into a red-pink color near the ends.

Today, he was wearing a black buttoned-up coat over a white shirt and pin-stripped gray pants.

The mouth at the back of his left hand licked its lips as Enmu ran it through his wet hair, eying the inn. The hailstorm seemed to not affect him, other than impairing his vision.

He had been tailing the blue-skinned demon and the Hashira for weeks now.

However, he never got a good chance to attack. Now that the opportunity had finally presented itself to him, there was no point in delaying it anymore.

As per orders, he had already contacted the upper ranks, but why would he let them enjoy all the glory? Why indeed, when the fruits were ripened enough to be plucked anytime?

Enmu sneered, but he hadn't lost his cool.

He knew to get all the targets, he must plan it meticulously. And didn't the inn serve as a brilliant stage for him?

Enmu could fuse himself into large, inanimate objects, assimilating and transforming the said objects into his main body.

Yes. This ability of his was still unknown to them, and he would use it now.

Enmu had decided to fuse himself with the inn, turning the entire structure into his main body.

But he would not touch the room where the targets were staying and their surrounding areas to not alert them.

Then there were the residents of the inn.

Humans, over 100 of them, were stuck in the inn. The mere thought made Enmu shudder.

"Mmm-hmm!" he licked his lips. "Simply exquisite! To look upon someone shattered to the absolute core by misfortunes, squirming in agony, is like sweet nectar to me."

Enmu was a very sadistic demon, who enjoyed the pain and suffering of humans, and his favorite method of torment was giving them a pleasant dream before turning it into a nightmare.

He took pleasure in the suffering of others, enjoying the agonized expressions they made as he tortured them.

However, Enmu was also intelligent and cautious in his approach to anything he executed, having a complete understanding of his power's strengths and weaknesses and making sure to both exploit and avoid them respectively to succeed.

Yet, his newly gained powers of sending his prey into dreams and manipulating those dreams had made him slightly arrogant, overconfident, and greedy.

It wasn't a surprise that he thought he could handle a Hashira and two other demons by himself.

Though, whether it was a rash decision was yet to be seen.

Enmu cautiously approached the inn, keeping himself in the shadows.

When he neared the inn, he looked at his left hand with the mouth on its back. The part above the wrist on this hand detached itself, scurrying away into pipes.

I will first send one of them to the dreams by controlling a human, Enmu thought, giggling to himself. Then I will ambush the rest of the two by instantly fusing myself into their rooms as well.

The only issue was that it would take some time.

But in this storm, time wasn't his major concern.

Enmu touched a corner of the inn, and minute by minute, melted into the inn.

By the end of an hour, the Lower Rank One demon had already assimilated the entire inn into himself, turning it into his body, except for the main room occupied by the Hashira and a few rooms surrounding it.

And his left hand took control of a human child, too.

A tender boy! Enmu thought, his mind unraveling the things he could do to the boy making him tremble. So many humans! Ahh! I will become so powerful after consuming them…

But first came the Hashira and two traitors, Enmu reminded himself.

He sent the boy and his left hand, having the ability, Whispers of Forced Unconscious Hypnosis, which could send anyone to deep sleep just by saying Go to sleep to the room.

The moment the door opened, and the Hashira looked down, Enmu knew he had struck immense luck.

Even if the Hashira recognized his hand, it was already too late.

No one could defend against his ability.

Not even a Hashira.

Enmu snorted in disdain, seeing the fallen, petite figure of the Demon Slayer.

Then a commotion arose from the room. Oh, it's so going according to my plans! Enmu thought, bringing his fused flesh closer to the room.

But then a mishap happened.

The blue-skinned traitor saw them, but just as his hand used the ability, the traitor smacked at his own ears, rupturing his eardrums.

Enmu didn't know this could counter his ability.

Intense flames of anger burned inside him, making him mad.

This sudden loss of bearing because of Enmu's newly found arrogance gave the blue-skinned demon ample time to counterattack. He used some kind of force to throw the boy and the hand, making them slam into the wall behind them.

Worried about his hand's safety, Enmu made it run, as he didn't want to let the traitor demon know about his assimilation.

But strangely, the white-haired demon didn't pursue his hand. So once the left hand had gone a few feet away from the room, it melted, fusing into the inn as well.

Inside the room, under the focused gaze of Enmu, he saw the traitor demon running about senselessly, trying to save the Hashira. How naive!

Enmu got the chance he had been waiting for a long time ago.

The moment this blue-skinned demon crouched to lift the Hashira, Enmu rushed to assimilate the rest of the rooms.

By the time the demon, carrying the Hashira and the wooden box, made a run for the window, obviously trying to leave the inn, Enmu had already fused himself into the room.

Now the entire inn was his body.

And with this, he could use another of his abilities — Eyes of Forced Unconscious Sleep.

Before the blue-skinned demon could even know what happened, Enmu used this ability to send him into a deep sleep, as only eye contact was necessary for this.

"Haha!" the floor inside the room squirmed, and sprouts of bloody flesh sprang up, becoming Enmu's figure. Yet, his feet remained melted inside the floor, giving an impression as if he was just a branch of an entire flesh tree.

Enmu slid towards the fallen figures and grabbed the Hashira before throwing her outside into the corridor.

A Hashira has too brute survival instincts, he thought, smiling. I will send a human puppet inside her Inner World to destroy the Spiritual Core unlike before. Let's see if her Sword Spirit will kill the boy or not. Haha!

Enmu had learned from his past experiences.

But this blue-skinned demon? He neither had Nichirin swords nor a Sword Spirit. Enmu wanted to personally torture this traitor and destroy his Spiritual Core, he decided.

A giant flesh protrusion lifted off the floor and covered both Kai and the wooden box.

Enmu melted back into the floor and brought the traitors to the roof.

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