26 26: The Sun-Rise
"tanjiro and the demon nezuko, are to be taken in custody and brought back to headquarters"
"cawww"
"tanjiro and the demon nezuko, are to be taken in custody and brought back to headquarters"
"caww"
the black crows appeared and reported this message, causing the girl in the white boots to stop her attacks immediately.
"tanjiro with a checkered haori, and nezuko with a bamboo muzzle, back to headquarters now"
"caww" the crows continued.
the girl stopped her attack towards itsuki before turning around towards tanjiro and nezuko.
"are you two tanjiro and nezuko?" she asked expressionlessly almost like a robot, causing itsuki to label her weird, what was with everyone in this world and their robotic like actions?
only after seeing her expression did itsuki remember her, she was the same girl from the final selection who was playing around with butterfly's, the same nonchalant and always-smiling one.
"bring them back....cawwww.....bring them back.....cawwww.....bring them back" the crows circled as they reported the message.
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it was long before two assisting members wearing masks appeared, after confirming both tanjiro and nezuko's appearances they made up their mind.
"yup he has a scar, and a checkered haori, and that one is wearing a bamboo muzzle" they said in unison.
not too far away from there, two other assisting demon slayer members found inosuke who was laid up against a wall, as if he had seen a ghost and was scared soul-less.
"am i really not that strong?" inosuke said helplessly in a saddened tone as the members carried him away, he was too tired and mentally exhausted to even move anymore and decided to get himself carried.
zenitsu was also wrapped up like a mummy and placed around an area filled with other injured demon slayers.
he could only watch as the young girl in white boots ordered people around to assist on treatment on the injured demon slayers?
"wasn't she from the final selection?" zenitsu said as he laid next to a tree with his body all wrapped up.
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"bring them all to the butterfly mansion, ill finish clearing up the demons in the area" the little girl wearing a butterfly hairpin said with a smile before walking off.
seeing the sun rising in the distance, itsuki smiled before leaning next to a tree, it was already morning? that was faster than he had expected, it did take a while to get to the mountain after-all.
"you two finally calmed down?" itsuki said as he noticed two figure appearing from within the now lit up forest.
it was precisely shinobu and giyu, after fighting for a while, they had both stopped after the crow's relayed their message.
"ahh its you, itsuki" shinobu smiled the moment she noticed itsuki, giyu wasn't surprised that they knew each other, after-all she was the one who recommended itsuki to come here since he was closer.
"long time no see" itsuki waved back at her, she looked even more beautiful as the sunlight landed on her.
the previous eerie mountain returned back to its beautiful scenery as the sun-light pierced through the darkness, standing above a tall tree, itsuki noticed everything fully.
tanjiro was still tied up and carried away along with nezuko, after-all his body was still tired, he still nearly fainted even though the little girl hand not attacked him.
itsuki went along with the two hashira and the assisting group of people from the headquarters, this was only under the urge of shinobu who forced him to come along.
she had insisted, thinking that lord ubuyashiki would want to meet itsuki in person, afterall itsuki had killed a lower moon demon, and injured an upper moon demon and caused her to retreat, this was a wonderful feat itself.
under the rising sun-light, the group entered some carriages led by horses and moved towards the direction of the demon slayer headquarters.
