Gimme those precious stones!
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"Dammit, just how do we get out of here."
A four eyed demon yelled out to the slug demon beside him as he glared at the wall of the maze, which they had been circling twenty three times.
They had tried to jump above but for some reason they couldn't see anything ahead.
It's as if someone had casted a great illusion on this place.
When they tried to brute force it by going through the walls, numerous black
vines would sprout from the ground and try to capture them.
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?"
The slug demon Ayashi said so, in an enraged tone, ready to start fighting at a moment's notice.
The upper moon demon's plan to ambush the anomaly was thrown out the window the moment they got trapped in this hellish maze.
It felt as if darkness was creeping up from every direction. It was getting harder to tell friend from foe.
Their abnormal paranoia was quickly noticed by them, but it didn't solve the problem, rather it felt as if the phenomena was starting to occur more aggressively.
Creepy laughter suddenly erupting from below their feet.
Tall figures abruptly emerging from the mist wielding weapons larger than their own bodies.
Noise of scissors snapping right behind their ears.
Woman in a white gown running at them with their hair covering the face.
All this could've been manageable if not for the abominable background music playing which resembled shrikes followed by drums.
The maze of horrors grated at their nerves every second.
Some of them had already passed out from fear and the maze didn't hesitate to bury them hundreds of feet underground.
"!!!"
The angry atmosphere shifted as soon as the sound of a sword being unsheathed echoed.
The darkness passed away and what was revealed under the moonlight was the figure of a samurai dressed in red, wielding a red blade.
A heavy pressure descended upon them as they were about move out.
Goosebumps rang out when the figure took a step forward. All the demons recalled the additional bits of information, douma gave them.
'There's also a demon hunter accompanying the pregnant girl, watch out for him.'
"We have no business with yo-"
The slug demon Ayashi could speak no longer as he witnessed his own headless body from above.
"How dar-"
𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒅.
"I'll ki-"
𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒅.
"Wait a goddamn min-"
Similar noises echoed as the heads of the demons dropped one by one.
Yoriichi, a man who had had a sense of selflessness during combat was now killing demons with tremendous anger.
"You think I'll hear you out after you try to kill my family?"
Sheathing his sword back he ran towards his friend yuuji as fast as he could.
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The fight between yuuji had douma had long come to an end but that didn't allow yuuji to take a breather.
The demons who actually managed to break out of the maze had started joining the fight while the other ones broke the contraption encasing Douma.
The fight slowly increased in intensity as yuuji felt the pressure increasing.
He would've welcomed this new scenario if not for the fact that none of the demons were now stronger than him.
With nothing to catalyze his growth, nor a way to kill the demons, it was becoming tedious for him to constantly blow them to bits. The only one who still put up a challenge was Douma using his ice to imitate the extensions on yuuji's back.
The various attack patterns and demon arts usage was captured by yuuji as he continued his assault.
"It's been a fun fight, but this is where it ends." said yuuji, with a condescending gaze as he leaped back.
The demons had no time to respond as intense heat could be felt from above their heads.
Looking up, they saw a sword covered in fire coming down. The heat trail emanating from the demon slayer's red blade was so glamorous that the demons even forgot about the danger it possessed.
An ear piercing noise rang out, followed by intense heat spreading to all directions.
The only one who survived this aftermath was douma who had encased himself in ice before yuuji attacked.
Realizing that it was futile to fight any longer, he decisively fled the scene.
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"Muzan-sama."
Douma greeted the mass of flesh wriggling in the ceiling of the new infinity castle.
Seeing that no response came out he was about to apologize for his failure but as he opened his mouth he felt himself choking from the lack of air.
His throat deformed to form a small face.
'Muzan sama?'
"Tell them to get inside." Saying that in a weak quivering voice, he pointed behind douma.
Turning around douma saw hundreds of mid and small level demons appearing out of thin air
Deciding not to question anything, he ordered the demons to get inside the mass of flesh now forming an entrance.
The demons were reluctant to do so, but with no way out of this castle and an upper moon demon willing to burn them in the sun, they obeyed.
"Are you curious?"
"...."
"I cannot beat yuuji with my current strength. He's too strong. So I had to find out a way to get stronger. The clones he has, can merge with him to increase his strength. It's very small but it definitely happens."
"So you..."
"Yes. I'm going to merge with all the demons who carry my cells. Of course I'll need someone to keep the demon slayers busy, that's where you come in. The upper moon one demon, kokushibo is ready to merge with you."
"!!!"
"Who knows, you might finally be able to feel the emotions you lack after merging." Muzan said in a tempting tone as douma's eyes hollowed out.
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