[Seiji's POV]
(1 month passed)
My journey continued after I separated from Giyu. It was weird at first - not having a companion in my missions - but Raven made sure I was never lonely.
What I did while I was on missions was training Water Breathing like crazy. I wanted to master it to perfection like Giyu does since it was a style that best suited my fighting style.
I mostly used Water Breathing while I slew demons as well and with each passing day, I was getting better and better.
During this ti, I also ran into Rengoku again much to my absolute joy. He was as high-spirited as the last ti I'd seen him and he was incredibly to see too.
He congratulated on my quick ascension to the rank of Hashira and expressed his admiration. My eyes saw not a hint of envy or jealousy on his face even though he clearly wanted to climb the rank as well, which made like him more.
Rengoku himself was making progress in climbing the ranks as he had beco 'Kanoe' rank. My eyes could see that he was getting stronger than the last ti we t as well.
We grabbed food and drink and spent the whole day chatting. We shared stories of our travels and he was especially curious about how I climbed the rank so quickly and how his father was during Hashira etings.
He also has had many adventures that have made him grow in both strength and character. I was glad he had a relatively safe ti but I also warned him about the strength of the Lower Moons and although I knew he wouldn't take the advice, I told him to prioritize his safety if he encountered one.
He simply laughed and did not promise anything.
We stuck together for as long as we could and we trained a lot together. I helped him refine his sword skills and he shared his unwavering motivation with . I was glad to have t my friend again.
In the end, we parted ways and planned to keep in touch using our Kusagai crows to send letters.
Other than eting Rengoku, nothing significant happened during the month.
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(2 month later)
A Hashira eting was called and every pillar gathered in the headquarters. No one was late or absent.
I had never attended a Hashira eting before so I was quite excited at the prospect. The eting basically consists of briefings and statistical reports.
Each Hashira shared their experience in their missions and every significant encounter they have had. So of them were,
1. Shinjuro encountered a lower moon but it managed to escape before he could slay it.
2. Kanae reported about a demon that had a rather troubleso blood demon art, spreading diseases. She brought up the importance of dicine and vaccines in the Demon Salyer Corp and asked Ubuyashiki to give her resources to improve the dical teams of the Flower Mansion.
3. Gyoi brought up an issue of the increasing groups of demons. With the ergence of four Hashiras - Kanae, Giyu, Sanemi and - the demons were being hunted more than ever and they resorted to living more in groups compared to the past years. He said this could be dangerous for the lower rank demon slayers so he proposed the idea of more group missions instead of individual missions for thier safety.
Other than these three, the rest of the Hashiras did not have important things to share.
Then we went over the statistics. There were a total of 21 deaths in the Demon Slayer Corps which was a massive loss for just three months. There had been an increase in the death rates and the cause could be directly traced back to what Gyoi had said.
There was also a report on all of the demons slayed by the Hashiras and the amount of missions completed. Suffice it to say, I was the one with the most missions completed while Sanemi was the one with the most kill count.
The mont that was revealed, I imdiately felt a spark of rivalry with Sanemi. We both had the advantage, he had his special blood which can attract demons and I had my eyes which allowed to easily complete missions by locating demons.
Then Ubuyashiki gave us a briefing on the activities of the demon. He showed us a map with all of the demon sightings and we traced thier movent. It was there that each of the Hashira was assigned territories which we needed to keep an eye on. Plus, any lower-rank demon slayers who need assistance in that area will call upon us for help.
I was assigned the eastern regions as they had the most villages.
Many other minor things were also discussed in the eting and the whole thing took nearly a day.
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[1 month later]
I returned to the Flower Mansion for this month's break. Shinobu was in the mansion much to my delight and funnily enough, she was still not a demon slayer yet as she missed the latest final selection.
"How've you been Shibi?" I asked as her face lit up upon seeing .
"I've been well." she said with a barely restraint voice. She imdiately grabbed my hand after that and pulled inside.
"Why did you not visit again sooner? Co on, I have many things to show you!!" she said excitedly.
Apparently, she had been making great progress in her research of Demon poison. She said it was all due to my advice that she even thought of developing it.
Then there was also her sword, which she had modified by chipping off almost the entire body of the edges, leaving only the sharp tip.
She imdiately asked for a spar which I entertained. She asked my opinion on her newly created fighting style which heavily relied on stabbing and she shared her vision with . She would have a personalised sword that would allow her to apply poison to her blade.
She had lots of ideas. Just coating the sword with poison would not work as that would be almost useless and would chase away the demons with the sll of wisteria. So she had to be creative in its design.
A sword whose tip acted as a syringe, a sword with storage for poison at the tip, and a sword that had a small pipe running along the body were so of the ideas she had.
I also proposed so ideas like using a rapier, hoping to give her so inspiration.
So for the next two days, we spent ti together on such matters. We would also go out at night, just the two of us, under the moon.
It would've been romantic if not for our reason for going out. To haunt and experint on demons.
To test her poison, we haunted demons together and used them as lab rats.
I spent all four days of my break doing such things before I had to leave again.
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[2 months later]
I spent this ti mastering my breathing styles. I felt like I had perfected Water Breathing so I began trying to learn the eleventh form of Water Breathing.
For a whole two months, there was absolutely no progress in learning the eleventh form but I did not give up. I never expected learning such an overpowered skill to be easy anyway.
I could perfectly replicate the laminar flow and the breathing patterns but what I struggled with was achieving the selfless state. It was almost impossible to bear no hatred, animosity or hostility when fighting against demons.
It was clear that I would need to face so traumas and fix myself ntally to learn the form but I believe I could find a loophole with the help of my eyes. There had to be so tricks other than having to stop myself from hating the demons.
Because honestly, I don't think I will ever not hate them.
I visited Rengoku and Giyu during this ti to have bro monts but other than that, it was filled with missions, training my breathing styles and trying to learn the eleventh form of Water Breathing.
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In no ti, a total of 6 months have passed.
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