Chapter 12: Mt.Sagiri

It was easy getting to Mt.Sagiri, I simply asked for directions and ran in that direction at superhuman speeds.

I'm currently on the lower ends of high class at the moment, it only took a few minutes of running, which is insane in it self.

Soon I followed the direction of some people who were kind enough to give me some directions.

And I found my way to Mt.Sagiri. I was close so I decided to walk, I mean I'm in the past why not enjoy it a bit.

Now my nose is good due to being part dragon, well not as good as Tanjiro he's able to smell emotions.

I could smell something disgusting along with another scent of iron, which assaulted my nose. Which caused my eyes to immediately widened.

"Don't tell me that demon is already here?" I immediately went in the direction and saw the same temple.

'It must be the temple demon.' I immediately rushed in blowing the doors open the demo looked back only for me to grab his throat and fling him outside.

The sun was going down but the sunlight should be enough to kill him.

And I was right as faintest amount sunlight reached him, he began screaming and thrashing around as he began to disintegrate.

He tried jumping towards but I managed to land well placed punch to his face, sending him down to the ground forming a crater as he cried in the last moments.

I nearly forgot that this isn't too long before the beginning of the series. Of course some demons from canon are gonna still be around.

Anyway I kept searching around the area until I found the oldman's home. It was almost sundown it took a while.

I knocked on his door. "Hello is this the home Urokudaki-san?" I asked.

"After a couple of seconds a man with a tengu mask opened the door.

"Yes I am Urokudaki. What do you need?"

"I heard that if I went to you I could enter the demon slayer corp." he looked at me for a few seconds honestly it was a bit awkward.

"Follow." he says as he exits his house and began running up the mountain to which I followed him.

As we went up the air was seriously getting thinner and thinner.

"Come down this mountain on your own. If your able to do this I'll put you through the training to be become a demon slayer." like that he disappeared in an instant, I could keep up though as he disappeared in the distance.

'Hey system can you seal off my dragon god abilities?' I asked my system.

[I can but that's normally for emergencies, when the faith of your existence is on the line, not life existence. Or you sure about this?]

'Yes.' I like that I felt weird, I lost access to my dragonic aura/divinity. I'm still physically a dragon but I lost access to all those abilities.

Anyway I soon made my down the mountains only to be stopped by the traps.

They were annoying at best though, but I managed to make my way down. My clothes were mess with a dirt and mud splattered across it along with a couple twigs.

I knocked on his door to which he opened it.

"You made it in such a little time? Congratulations. I will begin your training in the morning find some rest." he gestures to inside of his house.

I walk and rested till morning.

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Training with old man went as expected, I was growing fast. So much so the old man was turning up the danger of his traps.

It seems my speed of training

I lost count how many times I almost died. Or I would've if I weren't a stronger than a normal person.

I may be stronger but he is more skilled. As he almost took me off my feet when I wasn't paying attention.

He was so impressed but increased my training.

Fuck!

Note to self never underestimate anyone even if they are weaker than you.

Anyway due to his training I'm a parkour master and my body's flexibility has went up to insane levels too.

Hell I even mastered the 'Total Concentration Breathing' pretty easily in the first day, to which he began getting me accustomed to the sword.

God bless the Pocky! I even picked sword fighting easily.

He then went on to teach me the 10 forms of Water Breathing. Picked that up in the third week.

"This is!" the old man looked at me shocked. As I just performed all ten forms perfectly.

"Follow me." he says as he began bringing me somewhere.

Until he took me in front of a large boulder. The same one Tanjiro had to slice through.

"This is your final test, slice through this boulder and you'll be able to take part in the final selection."

He then walked away.

'This boy is a complete monster. It took him only two months to completed my training. I have no doubt he'll slice through that boulder like mochi.' Thought the old man as he returned to his little house.

Issei looked at the boulder infront of him.

He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath.

He's been thinking about it for a while now. As much as he likes the breath of water it doesn't suit him.

Not even the Hinokami Kagura or Sun Breathing as he's already figured out all its forms.

Sure he may master them but never truly make them shine in their own way.

He entered a stance gripping the sword with both hands.

He then began concentrating breathing in an out.

He raised his blade and went for a downward strike.

"Water Dragon Breathing First Form: Water Dragon's Descent!" A majestic eastern dragon made of water formed.

As it formed marks of water appeared on Issei's forehead covering the left side of his face as he sliced through the boulder cleanly.

He altered both the Water Breathing and Sun Breathing slightly. He didn't want to alter them too much and create dragon breathing but he altered enough to where he'll be able to far with it.

This breath style and the sun breathing variant are still a work in process. He'll need more to time work on them.