Immediately out of the students Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Jason drew their tools and Itsuru drew out his weapon, a staff that had a blue button near where his right hand gripped the staff and a purple button near his left hand, "Stay where you are, this isn't a test anymore." As Itsuru said this, a large group of people walked out of the mist followed by three individuals.
A blue-haired man with black clothes and five pairs of detached hands gripping his limbs, except for one pair that gripped his face and neck, the tallest of the trio was a lean yet muscular being with beige jeans, dark purple skin, a beak-like mouth, and an exposed brain, Tanjiro knew that they were dangerous enough to warrant attention but the third individual caught his attention, by scent alone Tanjiro knew immediately that it was the hooded figure from two weeks ago, the individual, his black hair long and in a messy ponytail, wore a traditional fox mask, a haori that was longer then a usual one, baggy pants, sandals and attached to the belt of his pants was a Katana, this individual was looking right back at Tanjiro.
Something in Tanjiro screamed that one was the most dangerous, He couldn't hear anything that the villains said, he also saw the mist form into a humanoid shape with cloths and a neck brace appearing on it, Zenitsu relayed information "They're here for All Might, and it sounds like their pretty confident." Everyone glanced at the blonde before looking at the group, Tanjiro concentrated and focused on his sense smell, he then caught the scent of the tallest one, it smelled like a strange combination of people 'Other than the masked one, that thing is the most dangerous' Tanjiro glanced at Rita before looking back "That purple thing isn't human." He said under his breath.
Suddenly, purple mist appeared in a ring before shaping into a dome, everyone shielded their eyes, and when Tanjiro uncovered his eyes, he saw everyone disappeared and he was in the same spot, except he was at the bottom of the staircase, Itsuru was fighting of the lesser villains with ease.
Zenitsu, Jason, and Kito found themselves amongst a swarm of villains in the landslide area, fighting them off one by one "Dammit, they just keep coming!" Jason growled Kito looked around, seeing Zenitsu was also having trouble 'looks like I'll have to use them' he pushed away a villain, and something black and fleshy popped from both sides of his rib cage, Kito grabbed the fleshy objects, and pulled, out came a pair of black, fleshy sickles with red edges, "What the hell, why is he fighting against us!" one of the villains exclaimed, Kito threw both sickles, the sickles flew through the crowd of villains, giving them all either shallow cuts or non-fatal cuts, even though the cuts wouldn't kill, all the villains still fell one by one with the sickles flying back to Kito.
Zenitsu and Jason were shocked at what happened and looked at Kito "They're not dead are they?" Jason questioned Kito simply shook his head "though my sickles are coated in a poison, I can control its composition and potency, they just paralyzed for about the rest of the day." Before the three could move, a peal of dry laughter rang out.
One after another the villains were quickly defeated in one blow from Tomioka's staff, even the ones that had long-ranged quirks, The blue-haired villain scratched his neck intensely "No No No! Who the hell is this, I gathered all these minions and they can't even take down a single enemy?!" He growled, and the masked villain looked at his accomplice "Calm down Shigaraki, Remember you still have Nomu, and if that goes south I will step in." The blue-haired villain, now identified as Shigaraki, looked back at his ally.
The masked villain took a step forward "Now if you excuse me, I have some personal business to take care of." He leaped ahead, past Tomioka and the group of villains, and towards Tanjiro who narrowly avoided the incoming blade while simultaneously drawing his weapon, the masked villain laughed as the dust settled.
"Just who are you, and why do you want to kill All Might!?" The masked villain stepped out of the dust cloud, patting down his clothes "Oh I'll tell you everything in due time, but as for who I am" The masked villain charged forward but something was weird about his movements, Tanjiro blocked strike after strike but to him, the strikes were difficult to block and felt eerily familiar "Just call me Kori." Tanjiro saw the blade closing in on his neck and at that point, time stopped moving 'Crap, he's caught me, I can't block and given his movements, he can catch me if I dodge!' At that moment he felt something touch his soul, something warm.
Time resumed and Tanjiro launched a move, quickly he bent down to avoid the blade, and at the same time flames wrapped around his weapon, he swung, and POP! The strike dislocated Kori's shoulder, Tanjiro spun around and swung again this time striking Kori's elbow, and SNAP! his arm broke causing him to drop his katana, Kori took a few steps back shocked not at the fact that his arm was broken in two different places but at what Tanjiro did 'Flame Breathing Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun'.
'There's no doubt about, it that was Flame Breathing, usually they would use Fake Rainbow in that situation. but how does this one know Flame Breathing, did he move without thinking? Or was it him taking control?' Kori popped his shoulder back into place as his arm unsnapped itself "I have to be grateful for my physiology, without it I would've been outta commission for a while, but it's over for him now.". What Tanjiro saw next shook him to his core.
From out of nowhere what looked to be four black and red flying sashes struck Kori in his arms and head, one went to retrieve his katana and give it back to him and then seemed to be merging with his body "Oh what a wonderful Blood Demon Art the previous Daki had, too bad she didn't use it properly, she and Gyutaro probably could've beaten you." Kori lifted his arm with his palm facing upward, blood started to drip from the sash and immediately Tanjiro felt his heart sink and his grip on his weapon loosen almost entirely when the blood's scent struck his nose.
From out of the sash a head fell onto the palm of Kori's hand, Tanjiro stood there with a pale face of abject agony and despair "Oh I'm sorry was this someone you liked, I just thought that he would get in the way after I killed you, you know since he was important to you." Kori examined the head like a trophy, Tanjiro unconsciously press a hidden button on the butt of his weapon handle, and the rod then began to flatten, curve, and sharpen, Turing into a katana, but that wasn't the only thing to change, the birthmark on his head also changed into a larger version of itself.
Kori sensed this change and in an instant dropped Rita's head and could barely jump back to dodge a swing from Tanjiro's blade, when he landed on the ground his mask split in half and fell to the ground, revealing the face of the person who just cut the mask with a smile full of malice and excitement, Kori was a dead wringer for Tanjiro "So, you finally decided to come out Tanjiro Kamado.".