Chapter 8- Road To Asakusa

The box made carrying Tanjiro so much easier, I talked to him now and then to keep myself sane. The land sprawled out in all directions and all my stupid crow had told me was to go north-east to Asakusa. It sounds like a well-built place. I have never seen any of the big cities that we hear stories of, but I must not take my eyes off the mission. 

<We are about to meet one of my favorite characters early because, it's verse, and what I say goes>

I was walking ahead when I saw a head sticking up from the bush. Not just any head it was an animal head, was that a boar head? Is this that guy from the final selection, Momosuke Sashibara?!

I approached the bush and cleared my throat "Hello- Momosu-" I was pounced on, by the boar-headed guy, he was quite strong. "Hmmmm, you look strong enough to be one of my underlings!"

What the fuck was this guy on about? I shoved him off me, and held up my hand, "Aren't you that guy from the final selection, Momosuke Sashibara!" 

"Ehhhhhhhhhhhh, Oioioioioioioioioioioioi, My name is Inosuke, Inosuke Hashibara and you must be that kamaboko, right? Kamaboko Rentanpachiro!?"

"It's Kamado, Kamado Renjiro!" I said.

"I see, Makado Jenriro!" 

I sighed looking at Inosuke's incompetence and facepalmed, at least I should know what he's up to right? 

"Hey Inosuke, where are you headed? 

"Some shithole called Akasuka!" 

"Do you mean Asakusa Inosuke!" I said, facepalming once again.

"Yeah, why? Are you going there too?!" for some reason everything he said had to be shouted at the top of his lungs. 

"Yes, let's go together!" 

"No, I'm going to win!" He screamed as he ran in the wrong direction. 

"Inosuke, it's the other way!" 

He turned around and started running again, "Thank you Sakado Denjidoro, my underling number one!" 

"Baka, who's your underling!?" I screamed running after the stupid guy. 

Eventually, Inosuke and I fell into step as night fell, and exhausted we sat on the ground, thankfully the box holding Tanjiro had extra compartments <unlike the anime> and held my clothes and camping tools, I set it up and I gave Inosuke a thin mattress like mine and we slept. 

The morning came, and Inosuke and I woke up, I changed into the special haori, that Urokodaki-san had given me and attached my scythes to either side of my waist before collapsing camp, packing it away, and running again. 

We ran for miles now, the sun hadn't risen yet, and as we ran, the stench of something sinister halted my run, "Inosuke! Wait! I smell something!" 

"What is it Tenpachiro!?"

I held my finger up to my lips and concentrated on my breathing and let my senses run wild, I could hear the fall of footsteps, feet without sandals, the violent scent. Demon! I turned, "Breath of the water, sixth form, WHIRLPOOl." The familiar sensation of my body and legs twisting the opposite ways before releasing a wide slashing arc of water, I felt as if my scythes had scratched something, so I had hit a demon after all.

The demon in front of me was around my height but it was sinking and re-emerging. This was bad, a demon on the way to Asakusa! 

From behind me, I heard Inosuke's shout, "Breath Of The Beast, Third Fang, DEVOUR!" Two Horizontal slashes found their way towards the demon cutting its arms, but it regenerated. I had to use my red scythe, it could stop the demons from growing back. I attached both my scythes for the first time and wielded the dual staff scythe, I looked like death itself. 

I charged, "Breath of the water, Eighth form, Waterfall Basin!" I brought the blade down on the demon, I now had extra range since I had attached the weapons, but it was too fast, the demon appeared behind me, and I improvised, "Breath of the water, Second form, Lateral Water Wheel!" I spun around, creating a spinning wheel of water horizontally around me, cutting into the demon's torso, and severing his body from his legs. 

Inosuke was fighting valiantly too, "Breath Of The Beast, Sixth Fang, Palisade Bite!" He cut the demon's torso in half, but it re-attached itself, I knew the problem, its fucking head was still attached. But wait. "Hey Demon, Do you know anything that could turn someone back to a human!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, there is no way, I smell it you know, oh he might even be stronger than me you know, the one in your box!" 

He said his part and he was now of no use, the little bitch!

<I will change it from the breath of- to just water breathing or beast etc> 

Time to test out something of my creation! 

"Water Breathing, Final Form, Swirling Chaos!" The twelfth form of this breathing. 

I compressed my body to the smallest it got, my scythes now back in either hand of mine, pointing backward, the pressure built up for a second before I released, the ensuing chaos was beautiful, thousands of slashes, the demo was taken apart like a jigsaw puzzle, and to top it off his head was cut clean off his head, the amount of slashes is wild, that's what led it to it's chaotic name. I poked one of the slices I had made and the whole demon began to slide apart, into a pile of little pieces of flesh, sliced over thousands of times, I watched with Inosuke as the pieces turned into ash in the welcome power of the sun. 

"Kamaboko Tenpachiro, you are no longer an underling, you are my vice-captain!" 

I facepalmed.