(Ltn) De Nobis Fabula Narratur
(Eng) About Us is the Story Told
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"No, no! This... isn't... possible." A distorted, angry cry reverberates as the sun slowly rises in the distance. Muzan Kibutsuji, the First Demon, had the horrifying appearance of a gigantic unborn child that was having trouble staying upright as the sun's rays struck its unholy flesh.
"I will... win! I am... going to..." Muzan let out a final cry, his upper body still writhing in agony, and directed his hideous red eyes toward the person who had successfully removed both his heart and brain.
"Hi...ka...ru... I... will... come... ba..."
And just like that, the Demon King himself, Muzan Kibutsuji, the First Demon, died.
Tanjiro, Hikaru, the remnants of the Demon Slayer Corps, and a few other Kakushis who were present at the scene gazed at the last crumbling mess.
"Did we... just won?" Out loud, one of the Slayers enquired. He was followed by the slayers' own questions; they were crying with joy and shouting in victory, with a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
However, Hikaru wasn't happy at all. Gazing at the mound of ash where Muzan had perished, he felt as though his soul was empty.
They won, but at what cost?
The fact that he arrived late to the scene of Tamayo's death, when she was defending the cure from Muzan, made him hate himself. He also detested himself for not making it to Obanai and Mitsuri, who were both engaged in combat with Muzan. His anger was immense, and so he decided to take matters into his own hands. He killed Nakime and brought them back to reality with his continuous usage of his own Breathing Style, although doing so cost him his left eye.
Sanemi joins the battle alongside Gyomei, the strongest Hashira, and himself, the second strongest, and informs them of the circumstances while devising a scheme to discover Muzan's weakness. The altercation continued for an hour and a half until Tanjiro recently joined and told them what he had observed on Muzan's body.
Throughout his body were multiple hearts and brains.
The Slayers were somewhat demoralized by this, but Hikaru rallied them and helped them get ready for his next attack, which aims to remove some of Muzan's organs.
Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Kanao join in, giving their team more strength for the grueling two hours before the sun would rise.
The six combined unleashed their full arsenal of skills, aiming far enough to prevent Muzan from being able to duck and escape. Hikaru, seeing this as a golden opportunity, braced himself by taking a stance and unleashing his secondmost powerful Form, destroying two hearts and a brain that greatly angered Muzan.
Muzan was furious about this and unleashed his tendrils in a frantic and disorganized way, catching the majority of the Demon Slayers at the ropes and simply knocking them all down.
There were only two people left: Hikaru and Kanao.
Hikaru encouraged her not to give up, even though she was appalled by this and had already taken a step back.
After giving him a brief look, still terrified but unrelenting, Kanao nodded in comprehension as she moved to stand behind the Light Hashira. Her unwavering will to fight despite her wounds surprised Hikaru a little.
With his left eye gone, his left arm broken, and his right ear sliced, Hikaru mockingly smirked at the Demon King. After this, he told him, the demon is not going to win.
But he will...
Tanjiro intervenes as Hikaru launches his attack, catching Muzan off guard. Using the strength of the combined Sun and Light Breathing, Hikaru and Tanjiro, they both shine through Muzan's abyss of darkness.
They battled fiercely and to the death, Teacher and Student working in perfect tandem, aiming for Muzan's internal organs. After Hikaru gives Tanjiro instructions to synchronize with him and Tanjiro tells him where they are, thanks to his Transparent World, Muzan's organs have reduced to just his heart and brain, which severely weakens him.
Hikaru informed Tanjiro that they were winning and to keep attacking Muzan because the Demon had now been forced into a corner. Hikaru was unprepared for Muzan's cunning maneuver, though.
His neck and his surviving eye were both punctured by the concealed tendril hidden beneath the rubble, adding to that was the shit-eating grin of the Demon King himself.
However, he didn't care about the pain. For he grins back accepting his challenge.
Despite Tanjiro's concerns, Hikaru pushed himself to keep fighting and avoided passing out. A panicked Muzan was startled when he told him to keep fighting as the sun slowly rises. When Hikaru realizes he must choose between life and death, a white halo appears above his head, revealing his Forbidden Last Form and a Demon Slayer mark that spreads across his forehead, a cross-like tattoo runs across his forehead down to his chin, miniature latin words of the Seven Heavenly Virtues appears around his forehead that created a magnificent imitation of Christ's crown of thorns.
"Light Breathing - Twelfth Form: Deus lo Vult."
As Hikaru's strength, speed, and vitality doubled, Muzan became even more terrified of his form. He appeared to have armored wings growing out of his back, and his Nichirin Sword had fully transformed into a holy, pure white weapon.
Awed, Tanjiro follows Hikaru as they began their attack against Muzan once more. A desperate Muzan chose to target Tanjiro first as he dodges Hikaru's barrage of blows with fifteen minutes to go before dawn. Upon noticing Inosuke and Zenitsu joining Tanjiro, Hikaru was taken aback. He fought alongside three of his students, whom he and the late Flame Hashira, Rengoku, had observed from the start.
He is proud of them, surely...
Muzan found himself pushed into a corner once more by the beast, thunder, sun, and light itself, while Hikaru's well-placed kick propelled Muzan skyward. He ordered Tanjiro to launch his own attack as his last, causing damage to his throat and ruptured voicebox in the process, fully making him mute.
When the sun rose, it did its job and obliterated what was left of Muzan's organs.
Muzan screeches from the top of his lungs in horror as the first ray of the sun scorched his arm. Muzan then points out that if he shrinks himself he'll burn away instantly thus in order for him to have a chance to survive he must protect himself with a body/mass of flesh.
Doing so, his body expands in all directions turning himself into a giant demonic infant. Coming to everyone's shock, the giant infant absorbs Tanjiro into its body and crawls around the building in order to get to the shade. Kiriya shouts and begs the Demon Slayer Corps to stop the Demon King from entering the shade.
With Hikaru's final form came to the end, he can only watch and rely on his right ear to deliver sign language to some Kakushis, telling them to block Muzan's path by using anything such as closets, cars, bookshelves, tables and other large objects.
Despite all their combined attacks on the Demon King, it does not stop the giant infant from burrowing into the ground. Tanjiro continues to grip his Nichirin Sword as hard as he can making its bright red color linger. From this, the infant regurgitates a lot of blood from its mouth, stopping it from digging any deeper into the ground. Being unable to escape the sun in anyway, the demonic infant wails and bawls as it continues to disintegrate. Thus the Demon Lord Muzan Kibutsuji himself is finally dead and defeated forever.
This led them to the present...
As Hikaru turns around, his face turns into a scowl and sensed a new demon staring at him. From his smell, his aura, and his movements, Hikaru raised his blade and faces his new adversary.
Tanjiro had became a demon...
Upon becoming a Demon, Tanjiro recovers from the poison that caused the growth on his face and regenerates his lost arm and eye. And with this new threat, even if he hesitates, Hikaru struggled to breath and attack Tanjiro.
The morphed Tanjiro sees him and goes to attack Inosuke Hashibira, who saved Giyu, only to be embraced by a panicking and saddened Nezuko. Nezuko tearfully begs her brother to stop so they can return back home, and Tanjiro manages to temporarily calm himself down after he unconsciously bites Nezuko's shoulder.
The screams of Nezuko was heard by Hikaru. Left with no other choice, he decided to face his student and tried to knock him out or to kill him.
However, as Hikaru lands several punches to Tanjiro in a plea, Tanjiro further evolves his demon form and grows bone appendages similar to Muzan's.
Nezuko continues to beg to Tanjiro to not lose himself to Muzan but he continues to mindlessly attack the Demon Slayer Corps, swinging one of his bone appendages towards Zenitsu.
This went for minutes until Kanao arrived.
Guiding her with her left eye, she approaches Tanjiro to inject him with the medicine, and paid the price by getting struck by one of Tanjiro's bone appendages in the process. Hikaru was stabbed by several bone appendages on his chest and legs, severing his movement and made his breathing worse. With Kanao's medicine and his friends pinning him down, Muzan fades from Tanjiro's subconscious, finally defeated for good.
However, time is running out for the Light Hashira...
Tanjiro later woke up in a panicked opening of his eyes, while being surrounded by a tearful Nezuko and the rest of the Demon Slayer Corps, gleefully welcoming him back. But then he remembered his teacher, Hikaru, is seen resting behind the walls of a broken shrine. His horrid expression sent the others alarmed as well as they rushed over to Hikaru. Kakushis and other Demon Slayers tried to heal the Light Hashira. Hikaru shakes his head with a comfortable smile, quietly telling them not to. Instead, he pointed his finger at Tanjiro and his student gets what he's trying to say.
Tanjiro had Hikaru's small bible, bloodied and some of the pages are missing, he gently gave it to his teacher who accepted it with happiness and content. In his final minutes, he glances at them and nodded his head, mouthing some phrases as he felt the light from his eyes fading.
Hikaru Shin, died, with a smile on his face.
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But, no...
Hikaru feels strange.
Undoubtedly, he senses his body drifting through the chasm. The sound of a single, quiet drop of water reverberates throughout the serene, dark limbo.
Until he heard a voice and sees something.
But that is weird for simply because he was already blind from Muzan's attack, crippled, stabbed, mute, and dead.
The deep voice resonates through the lightless void as they spoke,
"Hikaru, our child... We are with you, always."
Then, the white light pulled him and was pushed out from the void, waking himself up in the process.
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Sand...
He had mixed opinions whenever his feet touches it.
And as he–wait, sand?
He fluttered his eyes open, slowly blinks them in realization, he has his two working eyes, and tries to assess his surroundings. He darts his eyes around him, seeing the shoreline, the sand, and the alien fauna behind him that separates the sand and the sea.
And finally, he opens his mouth, not believing that he has his voice back, although parched and rough, causing him to cough a bit.
"Where... am I...?"