Chapter 30 - The Hashira

Their gaze was fixed into the young man standing that had a stoic face unfazed by their gaze. He did the same looking at each of them feeling overwhelmed by their presences. 

For Ryuu, they were nothing but fictional people but now everyone was real. He always considers that defining what is real would be the most ignorant thing. 

In every history people doubt the possibility of flight but eventually proven to be true. Though, the scenario was completely different is still a factor to consider. 

"Is this the informant you spoke of?"

He turned his gaze to a young adolescent of tall stature and athletic build. He seems to exude  an air of great optimism about him, having an enthusiastic smile plastered on his face nearly all the time.

He had long bright yellow hair with red streaks akin to flames along with two shoulder-length bangs and two chin-length bangs on the side of his head, black forked eyebrows, and golden eyes that faded to red with white pupils.

The young adolescent wore a pale brown version of the regular Demon Slayer uniform, which consisted of a brown gakuran jacket, a white belt around his waist and tattsuke-hakama pants. Over this, he wore a haori with a white-yellow gradient pattern and red flame-like ridges at the end. Finally, he wore red kyahan with yellow flames erupting from the bottom-up, with pale brown tabi socks and a pair of white zōri with red straps.

This man who Ryuu gave his utmost respect for the action that he was able to do that few would even last for a second. 

"Greetings! I'm Kyojuro Rengoku, it's an honor to meet you!"

He spoke loud and enthusiastic that the other felt annoyed but respected him enough to not voice it.

"You shouldn't speak too casually. We have yet to know if he is truly to be trusted or not."

The one who spoke was a fairly muscular man of short stature and a pale complexion. He has straight-edged black hair of varying lengths, the longest reaching down to his shoulders and the shortest stopping at his cheekbones, which he wears down with two shorter strands hanging between his eyes. His eyes are almond-shaped and tilt upwards on the far sides, and heterochromia with his right eye is yellow and his left eye is turquoise.

He wears a navy blue version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, along with a black and white pinstriped haori, the hem and cuffs of which are striped lengthways rather than vertically, which covers his hands. He also sports bandages in place of the leg-wraps around his calves giving the resemblance of Kyahan, as well as another set of bandages that cover his mouth, and white with blue-strapped zōri on his feet. He also had bandages wrapped around his lower mouth. 

"I have to agree, he seems to boldly claim that those pesky demons are strong enough to kill us all!?" 

Ryuu heard an annoying voice that made him recall those he had beaten up when he was younger. It was a tall and muscular man with spiky long white hair and large pale purple eyes. His face and body are covered with scars and wearing a crazed expression on his face.

He wears a green-tinted version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, unbuttoned to expose his chest and abs with a white long sleeved shirt over it with the kanji that he knew meant kill etched on the back, white buckles around his shins and tabi socks with a pair of white zōri with green straps. 

"Don't act too rashly or it will cause unforeseen problems." 

Ryuu ignored him and turned his gaze to a tall young man of muscular stature and pale complexion, who is almost always seen wearing a serious and emotionless expression. He has unruly black hair of uneven lengths that sticks up in tufts around his head, which he wears tied back in a low messy ponytail at the base of his neck. His bangs fall over his eyes in an uneven fringe. His eyes are sharp and moderately large, their irises a deep sapphire that fades to a lighter blue and their pupils a bluish-black, and are framed by thin eyebrows.

He wears a dark cyan-tinted version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform with buttoned white leg-wrapped kyahan and a pair of white zōri with dark blue straps and tabi socks underneath being the same cyan color as his uniform. Over this, Giyu wears a haori that's split down the middle into two different patterns: the right one a solid red, and the left one geometrically patterned with squares of green, orange, and yellow.

"....."

His gaze caught a glimpse of a short, muscular young man of light complexion with long, straight hair of a black color that fades to mint green as it approaches his waist. He wears his hair loose with two clumps protruding slightly from each side of his head, a set of marginally shorter hair left down to frame his face, and unruly bangs over his forehead. He also possesses large, empty-looking mint-green eyes.

He wears a dark, slightly turquoise-tinted version of the Demon Slayer uniform. His uniform has longer, looser sleeves that are more reminiscent of those of a kimono than of the standard cuffed uniform. Along with this, the lack of bands of cloth wrapped around his calves gives his uniform an overall loose and sizable appearance. Finally, he wears dark blue tabi socks and a pair of white zōri with dark blue straps.

"I think we can trust him since Koncho-san believes in him."

Said by a curvaceous young woman of average height and muscular build with a slightly pale complexion and round, pale green eyes with long eyelashes, a small beauty mark beneath each of them. She has long, light pink hair that fades into a lime green color at the halfway point, which she wears in three thick braids. She has five shorter, choppy clumps hanging over her face as voluminous bangs, the tips lime green as well. 

She wore a heavily modified pink tinted version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform along with a plain white haori. The chest area of her uniform is left unbuttoned and she wears a short pleated skirt in place of the usual tattsuke-hakama pants. Additionally, she wears a pair of navy blue thigh-high socks layered with the vertically striped lime-green socks and a pair of white zōri with pink straps.

"We should not fight and have faith in Koncho-san."

Said by a hulking figure among the Demon Slayers. He easily towers over his fellow Hashira. He is powerfully built and extremely muscular. He has spiky black hair and a prominent scar running horizontally across his forehead. Having been blind since childhood, he has white eyes with no visible irises or pupils. His eyes were tearing-up without reason.

The muscular man wore a black and white uniform typical of a Demon Slayer, with bandages over his shins resembling kyahan and white zōri with an olive green happi draped over his shoulders. The collared frame of the happi contains the kanji for the Japanese Nianfo/Shin Buddha chan from the top-down, along with the separate kanji all over cloth at the back. He also sports a large-beaded necklace around his neck and carries ojuzu when he is not engaged in battle.

"If he tries to fool us then I'll flamboyantly behead him myself and show flamboyant bloodsprays."

And finally he turned to a very tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular man with lightly-tanned skin and white hair. His hair is of an uneven length, the longest strands reaching his shoulders, and is styled with three more notable, shorter clumps arching up to fall as bangs between his eyes and on either side of his face. He has quite thin, maroon eyes that appear to slant inwards, each with one long eyelash flowing to the far side of his face.

He wears a sleeveless and dark turquoise version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, along with a wrap of burgundy cloth around his calves with his tattsuke-bakama pants tuck in, and white-strapped Zōri. He also wears two thick, golden rings around his upper arms and what appear to be a pair of fingerless blue gloves, secured around his middle finger with a band of white and his wrists with another set of thinner gold rings, this time with two on each side.

As well as this, he sports a white head-wrap that covers his hair, leaving only a thin ponytail visible to fall behind his head from between its layers, which is adorned with a large headband of pale gray that's decorated by six light pink gemstones, three large and arranged in a line, and three small and arranged in a triangle to the far left.

A chain of smaller, pale blue gemstones hangs from each side of this headdress, framing his face, and he also wears what looks to be red eye make-up around his left eye, consisting of alternating large and small dots that run inwards, towards his eye.

Ryuu recognizes them as Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku. Serpent Hashira, Obanai Iguro. Wind Hashira, Sanemi Shinazugawa. Water Hashira, Giyu Tomioka. Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito. Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji and finally Stone Hashira, Gyomei Himejima.