The peaceful night shattered.
Now, it was war.
The compound shook under chaos — not even a battlefield anymore, but a massacre soaked in ash, flame, and screams.
The crawlers were the worst.
Small. Vile. Many-legged creatures that hissed and crawled along ceilings, pouncing on civilians like parasites.
Women, children, wounded slayers — torn apart.Bitten. Eaten alive.
Kakushi (screaming):"Protect the civilians!"
The lower-ranked slayers formed a desperate circle, blades shaking in their hands.
Rank 7 Slayers:"Hold the line! DON'T LET THEM THROUGH!"
But for every crawler they killed, three more poured in.
The Demon Slayers Fight Back
Hashiras and Upper Ranks slaughtered through the chaos.
Sanemi, roaring with bloodlust, spun in the storm.
Sanemi:"DON'T HOLD BACK! KILL THEM ALL!"
He cleaved a crawling demon in two, guts spraying onto his face, and he only grinned.
Obanai, silent and surgical, his blade slithering like a serpent, cut down a line of hellspawn trying to reach the civilians.
Mitsuri, her eyes fierce:
Mitsuri:"No one touches them!!"
She danced through the onslaught, pink blade wrapping around demons and snapping spines.
Doma, amused, leapt onto a pillar and cackled:
Doma:"Why do they keep coming?! This is absurd~!"
He rained blood-ice down in blades — slicing dozens of demons as he hummed to himself.
Akaza, fists soaked red, laughed beside him.
Akaza:"You enjoy this too much."
Doma:"I'm just celebrating hell's little family reunion~!"
Kokushibo was a whirlwind.His six blades hummed with death — nothing that touched him lived.
Kokushibo (low growl):"I will not allow this filth to exist in my presence."
Muzan, elegant yet vicious, stood amid a pile of twitching corpses.
Muzan (coldly):"This is the King of Hell's message?"
He extended an arm — tendrils erupted from his palm, impaling five demons at once.
Muzan:"Pathetic."
The Slayer—
He said nothing.
He just moved.
His Combat Shotgun blew apart a Hell Knight at point blank.
The Shield Saw spun into another, embedding itself in its chest before retracting back to his arm.
He leapt off a wall, slammed into a crawler demon, crushed its skull beneath his boot.
One Kakushi, blood on his face, looked up at him in awe.
Kakushi (whispers):"…The Doom Slayer…"
Tanjiro's Chamber
Deep within the compound — another explosion tore through a wooden wall.
Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke stood guard, panting and bloodied.
Inosuke:"WHERE ARE THESE FREAKS COMING FROM?!"
Zenitsu:"I-I-I wanna go back to the BED! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!"
Tanjiro's blade was chipped. His face, bleeding.But he stood protectively in front of Nezuko, who had just saved a child.
Another crawler leapt—Tanjiro turned—
Too late.
It slammed into him, biting into his shoulder.
Tanjiro (screaming):"AGH—!"
Blood splattered onto Nezuko's face.
Her eyes turned red.
Her claws lengthened. Her veins darkened. Her blood burned.
She screamed.
Nezuko:"RAAAAHHHHH!!!"
She leapt forward, shredding the demon in midair.
One piece.Then two.Then ten.
She tore it apart limb by limb, punching through its chest and hurling the organs across the room.
Zenitsu (trembling):"...She's… terrifying…"
Inosuke:"SHE'S AWESOME!!"
Tanjiro gritted his teeth, holding his bleeding shoulder, watching his sister rip and tear.
Tanjiro (weakly smiling):"…You've gotten stronger, Nezuko."
She stood there, panting, body still smoldering with rage.
Behind them, more demons closed in.
And she turned with fury in her eyes.
Outside, the Slayer turned.
A crawler tried to ambush a fleeing Kakushi.
He caught it midair — snapped its spine in one hand — and kept walking.
His head pulsed.
And in his vision — for a brief moment — that rune again.
"They are rage… cruel and brutal…"
"But you… you will be worse."
"Rip and tear… until it is done."
His armor glowed faintly.
He pumped his shotgun.