Yahaba became increasingly annoyed as Nezuko continued to kick, causing dust to fly up simultaneously with Nezuko's kicks.
"Don't kick up so much dust, it's so dirty!" With his irritation already peaked, Yahaba raised both hands to reveal the eyes in his palms.
Suddenly the eyelids flickered, an arrow appearing before him. Powerfully, Nezuko was flung far enough to hit the ground very hard.
On the other hand, Tanjiro was currently fighting Susamaru who smiled and threw temari towards Tanjiro. The temari shot out like bullets out of a gun casing.
"Mizu no kokyū." With a sound like flowing water, Tanjiro moved forward and began to attack.
"Jū no kata: Seisei Ruten." Tanjiro attacked Temari while performing a continuous flowing attack that made the power and speed steadily increase over time using the momentum of the slash.
Japanese water dragons formed as if biting every temari that kept coming from all directions. As Tanjiro performed the move, he seemed to be dancing with the gently flowing water.
Suddenly, Tanjiro saw Nezuko from where he was standing hit the ground hard. This made Tanjiro lose focus in the fight against Susamaru.
"Nezuko!" Tanjiro shouted anxiously.
Susamaru took advantage of this. With one of the strongest throws, Susamaru threw the temari with the intention of ending Tanjiro's life. The thrown temari shot out with the speed of
"Gen'nichi Kō." With a movement that distorted space, El's figure disappeared as if drowned by time and space.
El moved very quickly and suddenly appeared before Tanjiro. El's right hand reached out and caught the fast-moving temari. But, El easily caught it like a ball throwing game.
If the attack managed to hit Tanjiro's head, then Susamaru's intention to make Tanjiro's head like a crushed tomato happened. Unfortunately, El stopped that right before it happened.
As soon as El caught the temari that Susamaru suddenly threw, Tanjiro was shocked to be caught off guard and almost died with deep regret. Because Tanjiro has not been able to return Nezuko to human.
Meanwhile, Susamaru was no less surprised than Tanjiro. Susamaru's expression seemed to be bathed in cold sweat. The events that happened before rang in his mind.
The incident where El returned his temari by kicking the temari until half of her body was destroyed. El's figure standing still right in front of the young earring-wearing demon hunter Hanafuda looked like a monster in has point of view.
The Temari that appeared in his hand fell down. Slowly, Susamaru took a step back. "Damn, this guy is much more dangerous!" Susamaru muttered in a trembling voice.
'So that's it, huh? Now I'm starting to understand.' El muttered, then he threw the temari in his hand carelessly.
Now El understood the meaning of giving a side mission with the punishment of Tanjiro Kamado's death. This meant that there was something wrong with the development of Tanjiro's or his enemy's combat power later.
But it was not too important at this point. Because what was far more important to take care of was getting rid of Susamaru and Yahaba first, while working on the side mission.
"Uhh, is your hand okay?" asked Tanjiro worriedly.
Tanjiro remembered that when he caught Temari, there was a deafening sound due to the loud impact.
"I'm fine." El replied to Tanjiro's words with a cold and serious voice.
"Tanjiro, right?" El stopped talking for a moment to confirm the name. Then, El continued. "Tanjiro, your little sister is already a demon and it's not something you need to worry about because he'll be fine."
Tanjiro bowed his head regretting his carelessness. If the man in front of him had not acted immediately, then he would have died with regret.
"Thank you and forgive me." said Tanjiro.
"No problem." Then El walked behind Tanjiro. "You fight that demon. Listen to what I say, don't ask questions until it's over."
Tanjiro gasped. "W-well!"
While saying that, Nezuko approached Tanjiro and El. Nezuko had already entered full fighting mode, ready to fight the demons whenever her brother Tanjiro gave the order.
El saw Nezuko walk up to them. El's right hand reached out and patted Nezuko's shoulder gently. "Ah, what a nice coincidence."
"Nezuko you listen to me too. Help your big brother fight, you fight demons with six hands and use your claws do you understand?" As much as possible, El said things that Nezuko could easily understand.
El remembered, in the original anime, Nezuko would pass the ball to each other with Susamaru. It was indeed a fun and very tap scene, but right now that was not the most important issue.
More important right now was defeating Susamaru without killing him too soon. That way, El and Tanjiro still had time to draw his blood.
As El had expected, Nezuko nodded her head. Then Nezuko's gaze fell on Susamaru with sharp pupils like a cat's eyes. A cute and ferocious growling sound came from her bamboo-covered mouth.
"What's wrong Susamaru? Are you afraid of that human?" With a tone of voice full of mockery, Yahaba had already climbed down from the tree and walked up to the frightened Susamaru.
"Shut up! I was thinking of a much more pleasant way of destroying them." replied Susamaru with a reasonable excuse.
"Heh, understandable." Then, Yahaba raised both hands with his eyes in his palms.
"Uhh, how can I fight them? They're much stronger than me." Tanjiro whispered slightly with El.
"Rest assured, you are strong. Listen to my directions, Tanjiro you go forward and fight the demon with eyes in the palm of hand." El pointed at the demon in question.
"Use Hinokami Kagura's first move, mix it with Mizu no kokyū's third move." El explained in a simple and easy to understand manner.
There was a reason why El told Tanjiro to use Mizu no kokyū mixed with Hinokami Kagura.
The first reason was because Tanjiro's body was still not strong enough to use the purest form of Hinokami Kagura.
The second reason is just a guess, since the two demons are Muzan's direct orders, it is possible that they are always personally supervised when fighting Tanjiro.
If Muzan realizes Hinokami Kagura is Hi no Kokyu, then it is certain that Kokusibo will be sent to bring Tanjiro's head.
This is indeed an opportunity for El who wants to quickly get the Demon Slayer mark and complete all the main missions. However, there was a high possibility that the plan would fail against her will.
(Tsk, why are you so smart, El? {author})
Hearing the word Hinokami Kagura come out of El's mouth, it instantly made Tanjiro very surprised. How could a stranger know about his family's hereditary dance.
"Anu, how do you know about Hinokami Kagura?" Tanjiro said curiously. And more importantly, what Mizu no kokyū had to do with Hinokami Kagura.
"It will be explained later. Tanjiro, breathe properly, become Hinokami!" El with words, encouraging even though using a cold and flat tone of voice.
"Okay." Feeling he had no other choice, Tanjiro followed El's directions. Tanjiro recalled Kagura's Hinokami opening move.
Tanjiro inhaled as much as possible. The air blowing at the corner of his mouth, which was originally like running water, turned into a burning fire.
"Hinokami Kagura." By lowering his body position slightly, Tanjiro then shot out like an arrow.
As he ran, Tanjiro began to visualize Hinokami Kagura's opening move with Mizu no kokyū's third move. For some reason, Tanjiro felt that the two moves could be connected.
"Enbu Ryūryū Mai!" Tanjiro said so, preparing to swing his sword. Suddenly, his sword seemed to be burned by the hot flames of the sun.
Yahaba smiled, feeling that what Tanjiro was about to do was foolish. The eye in one of his hands flickered, instantly an arrow appeared in front of his and struck Tanjiro