I was in 2 months of practicing and resting when there was a knock on the door.
I opened the door and jigoro sama entered the living room, and noticed me opening the door.
"Good morning young slayer, I'm here to hand over your katana, I'm Kawaki, and I'll be your swordsmith, so in case your sword gets damaged, please inform me and I'll be more than happy to help"
"Thank you so much Kawaki san"
The hilt of the blade was black and white like the regular ones, the cover was as requested,from a very sleek metal as I requested, so that people who are strong enough can lift it and people don't accidentally hurt themselves when the katana is left alone , and the interior had some cushioning to prevent damage.
I pulled out the blade and as soon as I took it out, it changed its colour to a dark bluish colour with a white thunder mark passing through the length of the blade.
The smith was very happy on seeing this and left after bowing to jigoro sama, as if he knew him. The smith had a very whitish mask on, which was calm but eerie.
"MOVE TO MOUNT OYAKUTA RAIJIN SAMAAA!"
Cawed my crow from outside.
I looked at jigoro sama, hugged him, and said a final goodbye before leaving. I took Akira, packed my bags, and waved back at jigoro sama as he looked at us smiling and tears falling down.
I was remembering all my moments as I walked out of our region and my crow, Kagune gave me directions. While walking, I don't know why I had only one thing in my head, her. Kaidi. It's like, she was the home and comfort I felt after what happened to my family..
We both talked in ways of poems via letters that we sent by our crows. As I was thinking this. Evening struck and I reached the city. The city was beautiful, with a scenery of the snowy mountain behind it.
As I entered the city, it was bustling with people who looked at me, and thought of me as a samurai, people came and started offering me things , but I quickly pushed through them as Akira followed me and I found an inn where pets were allowed and stayed there for the night.
As I took rest for the evening while removing my haori and katana, I read her poems which were like a touch of warm spring to this trembling winter.
I waited and rested before I would go out and patrol the region to see why help was needed.
The ranks of slayers were of Mizunoto, Mizunoe, Kanoto, Kanoe, Tsuchinoto, Tsuchinoe, Hinoto, Hinoe, Kinoto, Kinoe.
I was currently a Tsuchinoto and I had to defeat one of the twelve moons or several weaker demons as a demon slayer to climb the ranks. My Tsuchinoto rank is because I had defeated several demons while I was in my training period.
It was midnight and I had gotten Akira wake up after his post nap meal, I got up from mine , and put up my haori, katana and gloves as I got out of the window and to the roof.
We jumped roofs and checked out the night sleeping city, which didn't have much noise or much, but as I turned back to head to my room with Akira, I sensed something weird and followed it.
In the centre of the market near the rear end of a broom shop, I put my hand in, and pulled out a rat, which disappeared to ashes.
I looked back to see a demon lunging at me and I backhanded it on the face throwing it away.
It ran away and I ran behind it , following it.
It ran to a lane and stopped as more about 8 demons came out.
The demon I followed , turned and said " these brats get killed, why do they send them- 'Blood demon art: Illusioned Rodents'"
And a lot of rats, of a dark brown colour started appearing out of nowhere and rushed towards me. The demons behind him had different physical abilities , three of them had different protrusions and rushed at me, from the remaining 6, 3 were very weak, and the last 3 had some demon art and backed the rat guy up.
"This is gonna be fun- Thunder Breathing: Thunder Swarm"
I instantly burned all those Rodents, decapitated the 3 demons rushing at me and the three standing at the back who were weak.
One of the strong ones conjured junked chains which held my legs and the other had blades tipped with some liquid threw them at me. I bent back completely and dodged the blades as I cut through the chains and jumped back .
I was midair when I saw the other 2 demons appear behind me and one of them very bulked with glowing golden arms.
I bundled, turned towards them and threw a strong kick towards them away. Both of them had holes in their chest and I saw chains and knives rushing towards me.
I used the first form and easily cut through them and reached the chain and blade demon and cut their heads off.
As the last two, the rat and bulk one came at me tearing the ground with their sheer speed, I used heat lighting in a horizontal way to cut their heads off clean.
" Bruh, this was it? I thought this would be satisfactory"
The next morning came and I was very unsatisfied as the fight wasnt worth my night.
Though it was a bit thrilling, it was not much.
"RAIJIN SAMA MOVE TO MOUNT FUJINORO, YOU HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO RANK HINOE"
That quick? Damn.