Demon Slayer: From the Upper Ranks of Muzan

The two of them were so busy that they had to face each other.

"Strange! What's going on?"

Douma looked at Shinya in front of him, feeling extremely confused.

"I can't feel anything. He's standing right in front of me, but..."

In Douma's horrified eyes, Shinya rushed towards him.

"Thunder Breathing·Seventh Form·White Dragon!"

The lightning around Shinya kept entwining, turning into the form of a dragon, and swung out with Shinya's blade.

The silver-white dragon destroyed everything that passed by and swept towards Douma.

Douma quickly used blood demon art to resist, but the ice created by Douma seemed extremely fragile in the face of such a large-scale lightning.

Looking at the white dragon getting closer and closer, Douma no longer had the idea of ​​resisting.

"Ah~! That's good!" Douma looked at Shinya's resolute face: "To die in your hands is also a redemption! Mr. Shinya."

As the dragon disappeared, the scene fell into silence.

The range of the thunder dragon directly destroyed an entire forest, and even alarmed the villagers in the village below the mountain.

The originally dense vegetation on the mountain has completely disappeared, leaving only a bare mountaintop.

Shinya looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was a little complicated.

To be honest, he and Douma have gotten along really well for more than a hundred years.

If Douma was not a ghost, he would still be happy to be a real friend with Douma.

"Uh...ah..."

The smoke dissipated, and Douma's figure appeared.

At this time, Douma was no longer as comfortable as before. His upper clothes had disappeared, and his entire upper body was charred.

The burning sensation ravaged Douma's whole body, inhibiting his recovery from injuries.

"Hmm? Douma!" Shinye watched Douma fall and hurried forward.

"Congratulations, Master Shinye, you won." Douma smiled with relief: "From today on, you are the Upper Rank Two. And I should become the nourishment for the new Upper Rank Two to become stronger."

Shinye looked at Douma with mixed feelings.

After a while, he stretched out his left hand and said: "What are you talking about, Douma? Aren't we friends? As a friend, I won't eat you."

Douma opened his eyes suddenly: "Eh?"

Looking at Shinye who stretched out his hand to him, Douma's heart began to waver.

In his mind, he couldn't help but recall the scenes of getting along with Shinye in the past hundred years.

Since he was born, his parents have treated him as a tool, and his believers have treated him as a god.

In such an environment, Douma closed his heart and became a machine that seemed to have no emotions.

He knew very well that the reason why Muzan valued him was that he wanted to use his Eternal Paradise to achieve his goals.

But it doesn't matter, he longs for companionship and getting along with others.

He imitates the words and deeds of good friends in human society and interacts with the upper strings.

However, the upper strings don't seem to like him, and the lower strings are all afraid of him.

Until Shinya appeared, he was the first existence to communicate with him as a friend, whether it was a ghost or a human.

It was Shinya who taught him how to communicate with others normally.

Therefore, Douma's feelings for Shinya are not only likes, but also gratitude.

Seeing Shinya reaching out to him, Douma let out a long breath, showing a smile from the heart, and stretched out his hand to shake with Shinya: "I really didn't expect that in a hundred years I actually dropped from the upper string two to the upper string three. I don't know what Lord Akaza will think. I didn't do anything and was suddenly demoted. He must be very angry."

Shinya smiled and pulled Douma up and said, "Don't worry, Akaza won't be demoted."

Douma was stunned: "Huh?"

Puff~!

The next second, Douma felt a pain in his chest.

He looked down and saw that the red blade in Shinye's hand had pierced his heart.

"Why... why... Mr. Shinye, we... we are not... not friends..." Douma couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, and his voice began to tremble.

And Shinye's smile was restrained, and the look he gave Douma was no longer friendly, but indifferent.

Douma, who originally had no desire to survive, did not die under Shinye's sword.

Shinye's later words made him want to live.

But the change in less than a minute made Douma, who had just had the instinct to survive, collapse.

"Mister Shinye, what am I... what am I..." Douma looked at Shinye and asked.

Shinya's mouth curled up slightly, and he slowly said: "We are friends!"

Doma: "Eh?"

Shinya continued: "Because we are friends, we should help each other and achieve each other. Then we will be reborn and move forward."

Listening to Shinya's words, Douma shed tears for the first time.

Shinya hugged Douma: "Thank you, Douma!"

. . . . . . .

Different space, infinite city.

Akaza was a little surprised that he suddenly appeared here, and he looked around.

The gathering of the upper strings means that something big has happened.

Ding~!

As the sound of the pipa sounded, Akaza appeared on a platform.

Kokushibo, Shinya and the brother and sister of Gyuutarou have arrived.

Akaza looked at the people in front of him and said in surprise: "What on earth is going on?"

Kokushibo said: "Just now, Shinya launched a bloody battle with Douma and defeated Douma. Now, he is the new Upper String Two. The former Upper String Two Douma is dead."

"What?"

Akaza was shocked and stood there in a daze.

He thought about all the sad things he had encountered in his life, and then he barely suppressed the corners of his mouth.

"Shinya, you are indeed my confidant." Akaza's eyes looking at Shinya also became friendly and gentle.

The ghost that you admire most killed the ghost that you hate the most. Is there anything happier than this in the world?

Looking at the words "Upper String" and "Two" in Shinya's eyes, Akaza felt that the mountain pressing on him was removed.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Akaza found something wrong: "Where's Tamagotsu?"

Although he hated this pervert, how come Tamagotsu was still missing during the bloody battle between Shinya and Douma?

"Tamagotsu is here!"

At this time, Ryu suddenly appeared in the Infinite Castle, holding Tamagotsu's head in his hand.

As for the pot, it had long disappeared.

"What..." Akaza was shocked again. He didn't expect that there would be two bloody battles today, and the challenger won.

However, Ryu didn't swallow Tamagotsu.

"He looks too disgusting. I can't eat him." Ryu seemed to see the doubts of the upper strings and spoke.

Tamagotsu said aggrievedly: "You are so mean!"

"And his pot is not symmetrical." Ryu added another knife.

Tamagotsu: "Puff~!"

"Douma-sama was..." Jifutaro and Daki still couldn't accept what happened.

Their savior was killed by Shinya.

You know, Douma has said more than once that Shinya is his best friend.

What is this? Breakup? Or backstab?

"Damn it!" Jifutaro took out his sickle and rushed directly to Shinya: "Why? Shinya-sama!"

"Huh?" Shinya looked at Jifutaro who was rushing towards him, and naturally knew why he was angry.

Before Jifutaro could get close to Shinya, his legs were cut off by Ryu's sword and he fell to the ground.

"Brother!" Seeing that her brother was injured, Dakimaki immediately attacked Ryu.

However, a large number of ribbons were fragile in front of Ryu's sword and were all cut off.

Dakimaki was kicked away by Ryu and nailed to a pillar with a sword.

Then he rushed to Jifutaro and stepped on Jifutaro's head.

Jifutaro had just grown two legs and was ready to stand up and attack Ryu, but he was immediately suppressed.

"As the Upper Six, how can you attack the Upper Two? It seems that it is because Lord Muzan is too lenient with you that this kind of rebellion happened." Ryuuna's voice, which could not be heard, rang out in the Infinite Castle.

Kokushibo, who was originally planning to teach Jifu Taro a lesson, sat back in his seat when he saw someone helping him maintain order.

Gamatsu, who was left with only one head, saw that the atmosphere was a little wrong and had already run to the corner to hide.

Akaza frowned. He didn't expect that the new Upper String would make things so tense.

"That's it!"

PS: Why do I feel a little sympathetic to Douma while writing?