Brawl

The icy winds howled greatly, the cracks of the buildings creaked with snow as Utazo stood off the school of demons, more civilians were being guided by the government authorities, this time the demons paid no mind to them, there was also not many civilians in the district at this point and time, 'Why are they just stopping right now, it's been too long? What the hell is going on? This is the least populated district, just seeing us should make them drool, yet something is holding them back.''He couldn't let these thoughts stop him now, there is the mission right now and that is what matters.

Utazo inhales deeply, the echoes of his enemies beat fiercely into his body, waiting for the right moment to strike. It was all a structure to him, a plan of attack, these demons were somewhat predictable to him.

"AAAAHGHHH," one of the Demons had finally charged, screaming with exasperation.

Utazo's shoulder flinched, "Echo Breathing: First Form: Ringing Flinch," he exhales incompletely, quickly flushing his Odachi into the demon upper chest and neck in a downwards diagonal strike, slashing it into oblivion.

As a reaction to the intense speed of the slash The school of Demons that surrounded Utazo were stunned at the fearful amazement of the slash. The stun however, didn't last for too long and the school of Demons all charged Utazo. Utazo shifted his handle upwards diagonally, speedily changing the direction of his next strike to the closest demon. To his left a child demon with an uglified disfigurement of its teeth was about to pounce onto him, and another child demon with disfigured legs that enlarged the width of it's cruel appearance.

'Idiots,'

Utazo exhales a bit more air as he shifts his left leg forward and rapidly flushes his odachi into the nape child demon whose teeth were disfigured, splitting it's frail bones and body, leaving a trail of echoing ringing of demon blood as he shifts his left leg back, and releases the rest of breath, synergistically unto the wide child demon, slicing it's entire neck.

"DIDIDDIEEEEE," another child demon whipped it's talons toward the neck of Utazo a few feet away from him, he merely sliced it's arm clean and then pushed himself into the child demon, to throw off the approaching school of demons to his right.

He then rose his odachi and slashed three of the child demons in a single consecutive strike that cut the demons into bloody dust along with the cold blizzard that infected the entire village.

"Flame Breathing: First Form: Unknowing Fire!" Kagero who was lagging behind Utazo, had now caught up to his position after leaving the girls with the government authorities and civilians who passed by.

"I won't let you get past us!" Kagero targeted the child Demons who were about to skip past Utazo to feed on the weak.

Kagero's flame swiped into a line of fire that decapitated the heads of four demons on the right side of Utazo.

"KAGERO! WATCH THE ROOFTOPS!" yelled Utazo, who then returned to flushing his massive blade into the bellies of two demons in front of him.

Kagero turned to see through the snowy blizzard that the Demons were pushing from the right side for the market district, 'How will I get up top quick?' He consistently kept shifting his gaze between his feet and the roof, thinking on what he could do with what he knew. "I got it, Utazo keep the ground level covered!" Kagero exclaimed.

"What do you think I'm doing you idiot!" replied Utazo.

"To reach the buildings I will use Flame Breathing: Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun to enhance the level of height I can attain in a single jump, let's go let's go!" Kagero rushes through the freezing blizzard reaching right next to a building to quickly prepare himself.

"I hope this works!" he inhales.

"Flame Breathing: Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun!"

'BOOOOOOM'

Kagero bursts into the air with a fiery boom, the school of demons stop as he lands in front of them. The school of demons stopped with surprise, their nasty expressions of hunger devoured their thoughts of thinking and only formed uncomfortable sounds of foul grunts.

'It worked!'

Kagero now focused on the number of Demons '3….4..5,', he needed to finish them quickly to go help Utazo.

"AGGHH, FOR MHAMA FOR MAMAHG!" The demons tumble through the snow on the rooftop.

With his katana he zigs zags on the roof deciding on which demons he could strike quickly. The Demons slowly encircle him, but he steps back leaving a line split of snow, crawling with their sharp teeth and gnawed claws, constant grunting and desperation forces them to automatically lunge at Kagero. 'They are uncoordinated now!' raising his blade,

"Flame Breathing: Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation!" Kagero now could easily repel the attacks of his enemies in fiery spins that burn the effects of their attacks.

Now, he slices the Demons from where they stand, the dissipation of their bodies burn to crisp as he cuts them limb by limb, the demons are unable to resist the burning edges of his blade, until his flame dissipates their necks.

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Utazo, down on the ground level notices another number of demons approaching from the original direction of the source. The demons were becoming more ferocious, with constant swipes coming for his legs and body. Their body easily crumbles from the weight of his odachi. With each clink of the blade an echoing explosion occurs, the screaming of the demons disgusted Utazo.

'These demons, they are deprived, usually demons become much more powerful when they starve, yet these are just flimsy targets willing to break at any second.' his targets nearly strike but he obliterates them with a single strike that echoes their blood throughout the icy air.

"AGGHHHHHHHH!" Another demon child tries to infest its talons into Utazo's spine.

'Too close!' Utazo's heart raced at an instant beat.

Utazo cannot react quick enough to slice the demon, so with the instant reaction to the heat of his heart he punctures the demon's chest with his odachi 'This technique will only stop me for a slight moment depending on how many times my heart beats!'. Another demon came for his left forearm, so pulled on his blade while one of the demons were still punctured and angled his blade to where the demon attacking his forearm is split by the blade along with it's head. The blood of the demons have been splattered all over the blanket of snow. Yet another demon vaulted over the edge of the blade,

'Shit dammit, aghhh,' Utazo needed to flip his grip vertically, he successfully was able to lift the odachi along with the demon already impaled to it, catching the demon mid-flight and slamming it's skull into the snowy earth.

More demons were incoming….the sounds of their screaming and grunts seemed endless.

"Dammit, recuperate!" Utazo finishes the demon who was punctured into his blade by cutting through it's neck.

"Utazo!" Kagero tore through the snow that was constantly deepening the ground. Utazo tilts his head towards Utazo who was holding his cap from being blown from the cold wind.

Reaching to his right side, Kagero stops.

"The Demons, they seem to be focused on just heading straight to us?! If they were hungry they should be sprawling all over the district, on the rooftop I noticed that the other aisles were just civilians running from the demons that were coming to us." Kagero let out a sigh of confusion.

"It's fine for now, we have to focus on the mission now, we have to prote- I mean we need to slay these demons in order to save their lives, if they aren't attacking the people and coming for us instead then let it be." Utazo's pants echoed small vibrations of steam from the snow.

The demon slayers ready themselves for the oncoming brawl of demons. "AGGHHHHH!" Kagero's flame slices the guts of a demon so Utazo echoes into the neck of the demon, dissipating it completely. Another demon crawled towards Utazo's left side, Kagero's flame melted into the nape of the demon, instantly dissipating the neck of the demon into fiery cinders. The demons could not overcome the ultimate team of pure defense and offense, Demon's were being dismembered at no easy cost, the skills both of the Demon Slayers demonstrated their status of rank, they were both capable.

Utazo and Kagero, continued trading off between demons that came wave after wave. "They just don't stop coming!" Kagero shouted.

Utazo just after slicing the neck of another demon glances ahead from where they came and states:

"We need to push forward!"

"Wait WHAT?" Kagero's hat was almost blown away by the wind.

"The Demons must be coming from the residential district, I have a feeling that they are being regenerated." Utazo echoes into another strike into a demon.

"You're saying that these demons are just being made one after the other?" Kagero's burning flame slashes into another demon that popped itself out from inside the snow sending it's head flying.

"No shit, you idiot." Utazo swings his odachi in a circular motion before a demon could garnish his attire.

Looking ahead into the storm, Kagero feels a powerful source deeper, he takes a breath in his thoughts, 'Okay,' Kagero held his blade fast as he shut eyes.

"Okay! Utazo let's go!" Kagero now speedily rushes forward.

"Alright!" Utazo rapidly moves along with his odachi dragging into the snow.

Going forward meant more danger for the demon slayers, but danger is what they trained for. The deeper they throw themselves into the storm the chances of being surrounded multiplies greatly. They both understood that. They needed to subconsciously work synergistically in order to survive.

As more demons appeared from within the storm, the two were constantly ensuring that not too many demons were too close to either one of them in case one was going to be surprising. Utazo's blade echoes into the napes of the demons who tried to rush him and Kagero, constantly securing a rubber-band-like perimeter that stretched whenever Kagero went aggressive. 'Why does this feel so natural? Is it the heat of the moment?" Utazo fell into a short distraction.

"EERRHHHHGGGG," a demon claws across his upper left chest, tearing his attire. "Piece of trash–!" Utazo made a disgruntled expression, holding his odachi with both palms. He held the demon by the neck as he slammed the blade into its flimsy neck.

"Utazo!" Kagero loses focus, which leads him to be tripped by a demon, but in his fall, he accidentally drops his sword, which slashes the demon's neck.

"I'm very thankful that just happened!" Kagero stands back on his two feet. The snow literally blinded the windows of every building.

The demons, with this slight mishap, now have successfully surrounded the two now. Utazo and Kagero, now aware of the situation, now hold each other's back. With multiple demons in the uneven amount of directions, they needed a plan of action now before they were overwhelmed by the storm.

"KAGERO!! DEFEND ME!" shouted Utazo.

Thinking of what he meant, Kagero understood instantly, 'I'm the only one who can counter all of their attacks,'

Kagero inhales; a fiery aura surrounded his and Utazo's perimeter,

"Flame Breathing: Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation!"

The demons launched an unorthodox level of attacks. They pounce, crawl, and run. Kagero had to defend with his flaming edge.

"AHGHHHHH!" Kagero burns in a circular motion, slicing any attack that he could possibly stop; he cuts the arms of demons, reaching for the blind spots of Utazo. Their limbs burn into cinders with blood splattering, Kagero's haori is torn by some of the strikes he was unable to stop, but Utazo was ready to strike.

Utazo inhales, and a vibrating momentum violently auras around his odachi and body.

"Echo Breathing: Third Form: Roaring Sound: Wavesplitter!"

"EGHHHHHH!" Utazo swings his vibrating odachi into the surrounding demons, completely shredding their necks and body parts, quickly dissipating the majority of the demons attacking them from all sides. The flames and echoes completely obliterate the snowy ice that constantly rains down for a whole second, and the deep snow is completely ruffled.

They both pant from where they stand.

"They've stopped?" Kagero asked.

The cold winds returned to cover them with small sparks of ice on their attire, and there was an evident silence now; the demons had stopped attacking for now. This brief moment allowed them to recover from their sporadic breathing. The road was empty, with just the blanket of blood and snow.

"The source must be under definite attack now… meaning—," Utazo states.

"Our friends are still alive!" Kagero fisted excitedly.

'Friends? We're just acquaintances who've only known each other for about three to four weeks.' Utazo shook his odachi so that the blood of the demons would not intoxicate his blade and draw impurity. Kagero would eventually do the same.

"Do you think, Faolan, Yukina, and the leaders are there too?" Kagero asks.

"Let's hope so," answered Utazo.

'BBBOOOOOOOOM'

The sound of an explosion came from the Residential District.