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Meanwhile, Tsuki saw Jodin flying by trying to delay the giant monster, which was heading towards the underground passage in the caves, they heard explosions.

When a wave of psychic energy was thrown towards them, that whatever it was using Tanjiro 's body which flew with its muscular body and three yellow-colored eyes towards them.

- I will destroy humanity, starting with you. - He said, kicking and punching.

At that time, whatever it was, came out from inside one of the abandoned temples, it was possessing Tanjiro 's body.

- I think I can find out, if whatever, it's inside the temple. – Tsuki said.

- We'll delay them. - Fuu said, giving character strokes, jumping, and kicking alongside her other children. – We will delay them.

- I'll see you there. - Tsuki said, jumping with a trip and heading towards the other side of a tunnel, when he ran inside what would be a protected temple and sealed with various papers and talismans.

Tsuki took off the protections, entering the abandoned temple, there was an altar, among them, a book, some sacred objects, in addition to a pillar, an altar..., a stake where there were several burned skeletons...

There, like a mummy attached to a pillar, I had preserved the body of a boy, it didn't seem to have passed any more than 10 years...

He touched it towards a stone which opened a jade serpent eye towards him, next to an ancient book, Tsuki had a convulsion then collapsed towards the ground.

That's when he realized he was transported between memories, then, realizing too late that they were sacred objects of power, hearing the rumblings outside, that hour, he saw a memory transporting him to another moment in time.

He found himself still seeing through the eyes of a thin, skeletal child...

There was a memory, a priest, besides the leader of a clan, Fuu 's enemy, Hondo, in which he saw that they spoke, he couldn't transform yet, it was in the new moon phase...

- You have to understand that at some point, I can't access my full powers. – Zariel said, speaking in their soul mirrors.

- I know, they chose the worst moment, everything becomes more difficult. – Tsuki said.

A thousand years ago.

So, there was a clan war between them, the decisions to sacrifice children in exchange for immortality, as well as sacrificing rejected children in exchange for...

For years, the two clans made the decision of annual sacrifices of rejected children, they were chosen, isolated and kept trapped in that deep place, as they prevented evil from arising, the serpent was calmed, it would prevent the volcano on top of the mountain from waking up.

To appease the wrath of a serpent monster, there was a forest being burned, lava falling from the heavens, he saw an immense volcano that today has been dormant for a long time, he saw several priests praying and sacrificing several children, throughout the ages, in which he saw several generations, between annual springs, when a child annually.

Once it was sacrificed in the name of a ceremony to appease the wrath of a volcano, now, sacrificing in the name of peace, an immense serpent monster, when they once again see a monster fighting in the skies of the city, against a lamprey monster, on a blood moon night...

Among the sacrifices was a skeletal boy, he was thin, trapped in one of the underground temples, predestined to be the next to die.

He'd be burned, sad, friendless, as if he didn't deserve to live, through the bars, he'd watch the other kids play, but he wouldn't get out of there until next summer when he'd be sacrificed...

In the other room, also prisoners were their parents, who were kept alive, only for the day of sacrifice, when they would be arrested, weakened.

Just once... the child thought..., I wanted to be happy..., I wanted to play... to have friends...

But he saw being fastened to a huge ceremonial pillar, imprisoned and burned under the mountain, when they saw a huge volcano in the sky, be stilled, when it rose to the heavens, amidst the prayers of all there, when the monks were meditating in the midst of by offering themselves in the form of prayer.

The stakes stuck to the ground as they were trapped, screaming, and groaning amidst the flames that burned towards the heavens.

It was when the serpent descended from heaven, swallowing two more children, while the two parents of the children, then they were hanged and devoured, then, around them, when they saw around them, fire rising to heaven, burning the child who was in the middle watching the huge lamprey flying over the skies, closing the volcano that calmed down...

Yet when year after day, month after month, year after year, they saw that they had always rebuilt under the burned altar a house that would always be burned, under the ashes, they attracted the rejects from other villages, from other cities.

They always had a couple with children, with a child, along with their parents who would be sacrificed with them, the years passed, they saw only the boy, as a spirit, always seeing him appearing for each child that was brought to that place.

The boy appeared at that time, he was always trying to prevent them from being sacrificed, but he was only seen for a brief moment by the children, so he was nothing more than a haunting.

He was thought of as a haunting that was being a ghost that put fear in other children, that it was only they who could see him...

Meanwhile, on the other hand, they saw through the ages, parents were sacrificed, they induced them with the power of serpents that appeared one after the other, always appearing as fear that induced suicide, bringing with them, fear, nothing but suicide...

There was a long successive and continuous cycle of families committing suicide inside the houses, which were built one on top of the other.

Over time, those houses were always considered haunted, both by each part, each room, when they would have been built, successively, continuously on top of the mountain, at its top, between caves, where there were always rumors, legends, even if they were just tales of tales that whoever entered there would die.

Over the ages, each age was built on each part of the mountain in their caves, each time it happened, so they saw, from stabbing, from hanging, to poisoning.

He saw them, hanging from a staircase, hanging from pilasters, hanging from rafters, hanging, falling towards the staircase, being thrown towards a cliff, being led to be the sacrifice.

Every now and then, when one of the children was seen by the first child that was sacrificed, he would not die.

So, it didn't follow the suicide series, it was left like when the other family arrived before Fuu, when, he saw the spirit of the first sacrificed boy, trying to save one of the sacrificed children.

Every one of them he tried to let go, begged, and cried, but being a spirit, no one could see him.

Then, between tears, he raged, lost among the memorials, of several children, youth, and adults, among them, crying, surrounded by shadows, deaths, desires, and more spirits.

They tried to break free, release and save other children, over and over, until at some point, these souls, trapped and cursed, were still there, restless, wrapped in a thirst for revenge, death desires.

Hondo 's clan family burying another house and then building another one on top of the previous one.

They screamed, groaned, enraged, that's when they gathered into a single soul, destructive, vengeful, spiteful, cursed.

He reviewed it every time he asked...

- Look at me..., look at me, I can save you...

But he never saved them, he tried in every way, without success, when he tried to untie them, but belatedly, looking at his ghostly hands, that he...

He couldn't, tears flowed from his eyes, each time he appeared, in which he was enveloped by waves of black energy, darkness dominated him, each time he felt hate, it was just him, those people who sacrificed them, wrapped in waking up from the dark forces, from the spirits of all who were sacrificed, from the demons who were drawn to him, even the spirits of the mountains..., being dominated by dark forces, restless spirits, forming a third eye, inducing suicide, those who couldn't help him, hate dominating him...

Before he wanted to save them, get them out of there... as time went on, he wanted to...

Killing all humans, freeing them from suffering..., killing them so that none are left...

He wanted to destroy all of humanity, all those who caused his suffering.

So, they went in search of a vessel that could hold all the rancour, all the souls...

So, we are now, here...

Tsuki with the stone in his hands, woke up, taking a breath, seeing his surroundings.

- For now, an exorcism to remove would not be enough. – Tsuki said. - They would have to seal him..., he was strong due to rancour...

- Too much rancour it would be impossible to take the soul out of Tanjiro, he was at that time...

Convicted...

He saw above him, a sticky liquid pouring down on top of him...

- What is it? – Tsuki questioned, then he was hit by an electric shock falling towards the ground...