Chapter 50

The shocking part if this chapter was decided by a poll in discord. And because I didn't feel like writing his character anymore.

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Currently at this moment, Tanjiro, Nezuko, Kyoshi and Ren were walking right towards Muzan's lab door.

Tanjiro was already unnerved by being in the domain of Muzan and the demon, Nakime constantly looking at him even if her eyes were covered.

"Alright, prepare yourselves." Kyoshi said as he swung the door open. Walking into the room, anyone could feel that the atmosphere was heavy with Muzan alone.

The moment Tanjiro stepped into the room, Muzan's eyes were pinned to his earrings and he didn't even glance at Tanjiro. He had a slight sneer on his face and averted his gaze as if he had enough.

"These the people." Kyoshi said as he and Ren walked to the side of the desk and left Tanjiro and Nezuko standing in front.

"I see." Muzan said.

"Anyhow, let's get straight to the point. Your earrings, who gave them to you?" Muzan asked in a neutral tone.

"They were my dads." Tanjiro answered as his stare became distant before his eyes widened. Kyoshi could hear his heartbeat increasing and he saw Tanjiro's eyes trembling as they stared down towards Muzan.

Tanjiro clenched his hands into a fist and grit his teeth as he slammed his fist on the desk.

"You…why'd you do it?! Why'd you kill them?!" Tanjiro shouted. Surprisingly enough, he didn't try to jump over the table to attack Muzan which was smart of him considering Kyoshi was ready to slit his belly.

"Yes, I killed them. Two or so years ago right?"

Tanjiro grit his teeth with clenched fist as the memories of his family and how peaceful life was before he came home to everyone dead. In a fit of uncontrollable anger, Tanjiro threw caution to the wind and jumped at Muzan.

Scoffing as he saw this coming, Kyoshi shot out one of his tails and it speared itself through Tanjiro's stomach.

He coughed up blood as his bloodshot eyes widened in surprise.

"What'd you think would happen? I told you to be sensible or else bad things would happen." Kyoshi said as he flicked his tail and sent Tanjiro's body flying through a door.

He heard growling coming from Nezuko and glanced towards her. He saw her looking at him in a rage similar to Tanjiro's with veins bulging from her face.

She too jumped at Kyoshi like Tanjiro did Muzan and quickly Rin stabbered her hand through Nezuko's head. She then ripped it off and yanked out her heart and ate it.

"Well this whole meeting went up in flames huh?" Kyoshi said with a sigh.

"Indeed." Rin said as Nezuko's body started evaporating.

"Ah, sorry about the blood there…and there…and there too. I should clean this up as well huh?" Kyoshi asked as he turned his head and saw Muzan nodding with a matter-of-fact look on his face.

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"Now that that's over, let's talk about the meeting I've set up." Kyoshi said as he took a seat at Muzan's desk.

"Right, the thing you decided to do on your own." Muzan replied.

"…Yeah. You've seen the details right? One week, me and Rin only, I present your goal and we come up with some type of terms and conditions. How was it?"

"It's risky. On one hand they could be trapping you and on the other they could be telling the truth. You already know about my plan to make a sanctuary for demons rather than total dominance, but realistically even I don't see how that would work." Muzan said.

"With demons need to eat humans to live and all? Yeah, but I'm sure we can find something. Obviously it's something with our biology, if we can find out what it is exactly then we can change it so we don't need to eat humans." Kyoshi said.

"I guess, but that'll probably take a while since it could be a number of things. As you've seen, it's imprinted in our cells to devour humans. How we'll change that? I don't know."

"Right. Well this is all assuming that we come to an agreement of course. I guess I just need some type of proof that I can be like your spokesperson or whatever."

"Hold on you're rushing this. So what's everything you understand that'll be discussed?" Muzan asked.

"A possible treaty between humans and demons and the serum for demons to become human." Kyoshi answered.

"They'll probably question you about me and why I'd suddenly want this after my past actions. They'll also ask if all demons in the country would comply and what actions will be taken if they don't. Things like that."

"Ohh…"

"Even if it's a peaceful discussion they'll still try to extort as much information as possible from you. Keep your answers short and simple. Be direct and get to the point. You want this to go buy quickly with at least two of your goals accomplished."

"Wait, so you're letting me do it?! Like actually go and negotiate something as big as this?!" Kyoshi asked excitedly as he hopped out his seat.

Muzan simply nodded his head with a hum as he watched Kyoshi get excited.

"Alright, I'll go get ready." Kyoshi said as he left the office with Rin who was simply speechless and confused about everything.

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"I get what you were going for, but this is completely out of line." Giyu said.

He, Shinobu, and Tengen were all grouped together at the butterfly mansion discussing Shinobu's decision to have a meeting of extreme importance, but not tell the leader.

"I have to side with Giyu on this one. What if they come with an army?"

"He had the same worries as you do about us when we made the deal, so I don't expect him to break any part of the agreement. Along with that, we'll be discussing something of interest to him as well." Shinobu explained.

"What is it?" Tengan asked.

"My serum to turn demons into humans. It seems Masako mentioned it and it still piqued his interest."

"Why would you want to explain that to then?! What'll you do if they have something to counter it or kill you after knowing what it does?!" Tengan asked rashly.

Shinobu chuckled at his foolishness before speaking.

"I won't explain it to him. I'll merely confirm if it works or not. Plus that isn't its only effect."

"There's more?" Giyu asked. Usually he wouldn't care about this type of talk, but the idea of the serum was also something he wondered about ever since meeting Tanjiro and Nezuko.

He actually wondered about what they would be doing at this moment since he hadn't seen Tanjiro come by the HQ yet.

"Yes, there's more, but it's a secret." Shinobu said which made Giyu a bit suspicious but he dropped the matter nonetheless.

"I wonder what this Kyoshi looks like. Hopefully he's as flamboyant as he sounds!!" Tengen said as he reverted back to his usual self.

Shinobu sighed and slightly shook her head looking at Tengen. Truth be told, she was a bit worried about how Kagaya would react to the decision she made.

He never got mad at them even when they made small mistakes, but she's singlehanded deciding something that could change and would erase the whole purpose of the DSC.

All that without saying a word to him.

Suddenly she felt a big hand on her shoulder.

"Well then there's no going back. We've got a week to get ready for this glorious meeting!!" Tengen said with a huge smile.

"He's right. I'll be leaving. See you all in a week." Giyu said as he left the other two Hashira who said their goodbyes to each other and parted ways.

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Chapter is both short and dry like most buildups to a big problem.

Why did nobody warn me getting into a relationship was so stressful🤦🏾‍♂️