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      As the sun disappeared behind the horizon, the moon rose. With the moon came the dangers of the night. Demons arose from hiding. Humans slept peacefully in their beds, ignorant to the horrors of the night.

Far away from civilization, two demons conversed. Kokushibo was telling the young demon the basics of fighting as a demon. Muichiro listened carefully, albeit he was rather bored. You can only listen to someone telling you about the dangers of the sun and whatnot for so long before getting bored out of your mind.

"Do you finally understand the importance of... staying in the Infinity Castle... during the day?" Kokushibo inquired, looking down at the young demon. "Yeah, I get it. When do we get to the fighting part?" Muichiro looked up at his teacher, and tilted his head as he asked.

Kokushibo sighed, already fed up with Muichiro. "I already told you... we're going over fighting after we go over blood demon art..." Muichiro groaned out of annoyance. He really didn't care at all about whatever this old man was trying to tell him.

"Uggghhhhhhhhh but that's so booooooorrrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg!" Muichiro complained. "Why can't we do something exciting??" Kokushibo pinched the bridge of his nose, and tried his hardest to not cut off one of Muichiro's limbs.

"Child... if you value your limbs, shut up and do as I say." Muichiro huffed, but shut his mouth. "Finally... now, blood demon arts are-" Muichiro stopped listening at that point. He was in his own world. Kokushibo was going on and on, explaining blood demon arts.

"Muichiro... are you listening? This is very important..." Muichiro didn't hear that either. "Muichiro. Snap out of it. I'm trying to have a conversation with you." Muichiro finally came back to reality. "Hm? What did you say?" He tilted his head.

"I can't take this anymore..." Kokushibo muttered under his breath. "You know what? We're done for the night. Let's go eat some humans, and then we're going back to the Infinity Castle..." Muichiro nodded, and the two went to the nearest village to eat.

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The sun rose the next morning, waking the Mist Hashira. He was to start rehabilitation training... fun. It was normally easy, and he wasn't too injured this time, so it'd probably be fine.

He had breakfast, then started the training. The stretching wasn't as bad as usual, and he won the cup game with ease. For tag, Yuichiro went against Shinobu. She was much faster than him, so he actually had a bit of trouble with that one. Yuichiro managed to tag her, though it took a few rounds of tag for him to do so.

The whole day, Yuichiro couldn't get his twin out of his mind. He was so worried for him. The constant 'what ifs' plagued his mind, and interrupted his thoughts. It got a bit overwhelming, but he never let it show.

Shinobu had told Yuichiro that he'd only have to do a few more days- a week at most- of training before he'd allowed to go back to his estate. Until then, he was stuck at the Butterfly Mansion doing stupid exercises for training.

That night, Yuichiro looked up at the sky, remembering all the times him and his brother used to look at the sky together... 'Please, please be alright...'

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Word count: 553

Hiiiii so, very short chapter. I was planning on making it longer, but my motivation went 🙂🔫💥💀⚰️🪦💐

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