Demon Slayer: I Got Reincarnated As Yoriichi

Koji's legs tremble, barely holding him up as blood pools beneath him, his body battered and broken.

"Koji… Push this damn tree off me… I can still fight… I can still help you!" Tsunenari growls, his teeth clenched, tears streaking down his face in frustration.

"Aniki… I can't… I can't even move…"

Tsunenari's eyes widened in horror, his anger boiling over, but the helplessness cuts even deeper.

"I told you… I told you to run away! What are you going to do now?" Tsunenari yells.

Koji closes his bloodshot eyes. "Aniki… I'm sorry…" His voice is fragile, calm. "I'm sorry for everything… for that day… I was just a stupid kid… I didn't understand…"

Tsunenari yells again, "You moron! Do you want to tell the entire history at this time—"

Koji interrupts his words with his own, his voice calmer than before. "When they separated you from me, everyone spread false rumours that you killed dad. I know you can't, but I was just an infant… I was grown up thinking that you killed dad and everyone.

When you escaped the prison, everyone thought of you as a sorcerer or devil. When you started living alone in the mountains and attacked whoever crossed your way, you were considered a monster.

I wanted to see you, to meet you, to clear my doubts that you're not a monster. You're bound to a tragic fate. But I couldn't understand that time.

But one day, I met a demon whose body was silhouette and eyes crimson. He told me, brainwashed me, manipulated me into believing that you're guilty. Because of that demon, everything ruined and you got traumatized. I had no intention to harm you… You always helped me so much, but I couldn't understand until I found the truth.

Please… forgive me… Aniki…"

Tsunenari is frozen, his eyes widened. He murmurs, "No… it can't be…"

Suiryu's laughter pierces the air, cold and cruel. "Oh, how touching! But it's true. My Lord Three… he's known both of you for years. He's been pulling the strings all along. You were both his pawns. If you don't see it by now… you're as blind as ever.

And now, it's my time to finish both of you."

Suiryu lunges at Koji and slams him on the ground. In front of Tsunenari, he beats Koji tortuously, blood pooling down to his fallen form.

Tsunenari loses his mind, determined to save Koji. But his strength falters.

"DON'T YOU DARE HURT MY BROTHER!!! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!"

Tsunenari screams, his throat paining from screaming so loud.

For one last time, Koji shoots at Suiryu, but he catches the bullet with his teeth and crushes it.

With sadistic glee, Suiryu grabs Koji's shotgun, snapping it in half as though it were a twig. "You won't need this anymore," he sneers before jamming the broken front sight into Koji's remaining eye.

"AAAAAAGHHHHH!!" Koji's scream pierces Tsunenari's soul. His entire being shakes as he watches, powerless, the sound of metal tearing flesh carving deep into his heart.

Tsunenari finally throws the tree away, standing before him even though his bones are broken, he doesn't care.

But Tsunenari doesn't respond. His breath catches in his throat as his eyes fall on what remains of his brother.

Koji is no longer there.

What lies before him is unrecognizable. Koji's body is torn beyond repair, his face mangled, his limbs shattered and severed, his organs spilled across the ground in a grotesque display of violence.

He is dead.

Tsunenari's eyes widened impossibly, his heartbeat skipped.

Suiryu laughs madly, "Oh look at your pitiful face. Your brother is dead. How are you feeling now?"

Tears streamed down Tsunenari's face, but they no longer felt like a sign of sorrow-they burned like embers, igniting something far darker within him.

His eyes, red and bloodshot, radiated raw vengeance.

"YOU BASTARD!!! I'LL MURDER YOU!!!" His scream erupted with such force it seemed to shake the forest, reverberating like a roar of thunder.

Suiryu's mocking smirk faltered. For the first time, the look in his eyes was not one of superiority but of hesitation, of fear.

"This wrath… it resembles Hajime Ren's power…" Suiryu's entire body trembles at the thought of Ren.

"Even though I've never seen him… but his thoughts alone can give demons nightmare…"

Tsunenari's eyes turn sharp, lifeless as if traumatized. He no longer looks like a human, but a lifeless monster.

He lunges at Suiryu, his speed faster than before. Suiryu's punches at him, their attacks colliding fiercely.

Tsunenari's speed matches with his, and attacks him multiple times.

Suiryu throws Tsunenari away, but he manages to land safely. Tsunenari's body is trembling as his blood drips down on the ground.

His bones are already broken, but his wrath is out of his control. His eyes burn with lifeless fury.

Suddenly.

Chikafusa appears out of the forest in a hurry, his ponytail moving with the same rhythm. He has worn a patterned green haori. His dark red eyes widened in shock at Tsunenari's condition, he called out. "Yoshimitsu-San!!!"

Tsunenari ignores, he has completely lost his mind right now. His eyes lifeless, his blood spilling out of his body.

Suiryu glances at Chikafusa, he smirks. "Well, another Slayer has arrived. Are you a Hashira?"

Slowly, Suiryu's vision blurs, he becomes nauseous out of nowhere. "What's happening? Why am I feeling nausea all of the sudden?"

Tsunenari's blood is a very rare and special kind of blood called Marechi, which makes the demons feel drunk and nauseous.

Tsunenari lunges at him with thunderous speed.

"WIND BREATHING, FIRST FORM: DUST WHIRLWIND CUTTER"

Chikafusa lunges at him simultaneously.

"SUN BREATHING, SEVENTH FORM: BENEFICENT RADIANCE"

Suiryu sidestepped, but they were too fast for his drunk eyes, especially Chikafusa. They both slice each of his arms and chest.

"Tch… This boy is so fast… He can use sun breathing, but he isn't Ren. If he were him, he would've killed me already."

Tsunenari didn't stop. He leaps above and attacks once more.

"WIND BREATHING, NINTH FORM: IDATEN TYPHOON"

He backflips into the air, unleashes a powerful gust of slashes on Suiryu. Suiryu barely managed to dodge his attack, his mind still dizzy.

Tsunenari's eyes suddenly closed, he dropped his sword in the mid-air and fell towards the ground as he fainted due to the blood loss.

Chikafusa, panting heavily due to the sun breathing, leaps high and catches him into his arms and lands deliberately.

He puts Tsunenari on the ground. He turns behind and faces Suiryu.

"SUN BREATHING, SIXTH FORM: SOLAR HEAT HAZE"

">———BLOOD DEMON TECHNIQUE: BLUEFIRE FIST———<"

They both attacked each other at the same time. Suiryu's fist threw him away, while he sliced Suiryu's stomach.

Suiryu vomits blood, still excited to fight him. "It's fun to fight with slayers like you. Unfortunately, you're the weakest here. What's the point of using such a powerful technique which is beyond your control? At this rate, you'll become exhausted easily and die."

Chikafusa pants heavily. Tsunenari's condition is now even worse than Nameless's, as if he'll die in an hour.