[Seiji's POV]
How do you kill the unkillable?
That was a question that plagued my mind throughout the battle because I truly had no way to kill the Upper Moon 2. I didn't have a red nichirin sword, I hadn't learned the forms of Sun Breathing and I didn't have wisteria poison.
I could win the fight, I could win the battle, but I could not kill the enemy. I didn't have the weapons to do so.
So in every sense of the word, the Upper Moon 2 was unkillable for me.
How do you kill the unkillable?
In the end, the answer was childishly simple.
You don't.
But here's the twist. I could not kill him, but I could cause his death.
It's funny to you, isn't it? But my adrenaline-pumped brain and my bloodthirsty mind thought it was absolutely genius at the time.
So my eyes started searching for weakness. It did not find weakness in his demonic body that could regenerate infinitely. But they found a major flaw in his mind. His mind could not process emotions properly, it lacked empathy.
That's where the idea came from. To attack the mind of the enemy instead of simply cutting his body again and again.
I created 'Living's Malice', a unique version of Dead Calm - Selflessness State - to attack the psyche of my enemy. The result was just as I predicted.
I pushed Doma's mind into a state of absolute fear. The most ancient emotion that has been in living beings since the beginning of life.
To put it simply, I made Doma commit suicide.
Like I said, I couldn't kill the unkillable but I could cause their death.
To put it in an even more simpler term, I am just built different.
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"It's over," I muttered out on the battlefield that had gone completely silent.
Doma was dead, and the fight was over.
The moment those thoughts finally settled in my mind, my body gave in to the injuries. The great delusion of stregth I had been working with completely shattered, leaving only pain and agony.
I felt the Demon Slayer Mark on my face fade away and the heat in my body also turned lukewarm and then cold.
I had never felt so drained and weak before. The sudden change from the absolute peak of power to the vulnerability of a baby caused my knees to falter and then bend.
I fell to the ground.
Forget about the wounds inflicted on me, the damage I inflicted upon myself from going beyond my limit had completely broken my body. It was phenomenal that I was alive, a miracle that I was still conscious.
I gasped like a fish trying to breathe on land. I tried to follow the pattern of Sun Breathing as accurately as I could because I believed that was the only thing keeping me conscious.
Then I started crawling towards the place where I put Kanae. I struggled along every inch of the long journey but after a while, I reached her.
I put arms around her and gathering every street I accumulated with during my journey, I pulled her on my lap and held her close.
I was in immense pain which made death attractive. But the feeble pounding of a heartbeat and weak breathing I felt from Kanae made every second of the pain worth it.
I did it. I saved her.
My vision was red and blurry from all the blood. I did not even have enough stregth to use my eyes on her to check her injuries so I simply held her tighter.
But I knew I saved her.
I was able to protect my treasure this time.
After staying like that for a few minutes or so, the sun started rising on the horizon, casting a warm golden shine on the world. Under the protective brightness of the sun, I knew I was safe.
So I pulled my head back and rested my body on the tree. I saw many Kasugai crows in the sky, I couldn't hear them so I didn't know, but they seemed to have been there for a while now.
I closed my eyes, knowing that help was on its way.
That was the final comfort and security I needed.
I passed out into a death-like sleep, never to awaken again. The only way to wake me up would be a true love kiss.
Kidding.
A nice pair of boobs pressed against my body would also do.
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Author : Officially the shortest chapter I've written. Imagine I make my return with only this lol.
Next chapter coming soon.
You can throw stones at me for disappearing longer than promised. Don't worry I don't mind.