Rencarnation Room {Other Story line}

There was a reason El chose Tanjuro as his training partner rather than Tanjiro or Yuroichi.

If El chose Tanjiro as his opponent when practicing, Kagura's Hinokami technique would still be immature. El remembers that Tanjiro in the early series of the anime had difficulty doing Hinokami Kagura's movements.

If El chooses Yuroichi Tsugukuni, then it is certain to be a one-sided massacre. In which case, El will die in various forms.

That is why, El chose Tanjuro as his training opponent. In his personal opinion, El guessed that Tanjuro was about half as strong as Yuroichi when he was in his prime.

"The cold temperature of the snowy forest will make it difficult for me to move. Plus, this cold air will force my lungs to breathe properly and learn total exhalation." El said while shivering from the extreme cold.

With this, El was able to shorten the time to learn Hinokami Kagura and the total breathing technique. "Please guide me." El said that with a trembling voice.

As if in response to the words, Tanjuro raised his sword and positioned it in the center stance, ready to fight.

Tanjuro looked at El very calmly, not exuding any sense of determination, hatred, anger, fighting spirit and hostility at all. El felt as if he was standing in front of a plant.

Whoss!

Slash!

The sound of a sword slash rang out clearly. El's head floated in the air, seeing Tanjuro appear right in front of his body. El also watched as his neck spurted blood like a fountain in a garden.

Shortly after, his body staggered and fell at the same time his head fell, rolling on the snowy ground. In the next second, the life in El's eyes disappeared like dust in the wind.

The super-fast slash, even faster than El's eyes when blinking affected the brain's response reaction to be slower to process information on the state of his body that had died about 0.50 seconds earlier.

Instantly, with El's death the snowy forest returned to an all-white room. Tanjuro also disappeared in the process.

El appeared sitting on the floor of the all-white room, clutching his neck area. El's expression was shocked, surprised and couldn't believe what he had just experienced.

"I don't even think it's been a second, but I'm already dead? Tanjuro's speed when moving exceeded my eyesight's ability to respond?"

"Even though I've worn all the equipment and even distributed my 40 attribute points. How much difference does strength and technique make, compared to strength and skill?"

At that time, El had indeed set Tanjuro Kamado's attribute value in his original sickly and weak condition. But, with El's attribute values in addition to the equipment he was wearing and the insightful eye ability, El should not have died that quickly.

Although the setting is a snowy forest with cold air that is very ice cream will hinder his movements. But, at least the eye of insight can see Tanjuro who moves explosively.

Without realizing it, El forgot something very important when fighting Tanjuro. That's why, the insightful eye ability was unable to see Tanjuro's explosive movements suddenly beheading him.

One of the things El had forgotten was that Tanjuro had entered the rather mystical 'Selfless state', had the 'Demon Slayer Mark' which was able to access the 'Transparent World' and Tanjuro had never learned Total Breathing Concentration.

However, Tanjuro understood the concept of breathing properly when using Kagura's Hinokami move.

The Selfless state is an esoteric and mysterious state of existence in which one completely erases fighting spirit, desire to fight, bloodlust, anger, hatred, malice, drive and hostility. Once in this state, the user's behavior becomes extremely calm and focused, often compared to a plant.

Demon slayer mark can increase, physical strength and speed increase exponentially to the point where a Hashira or Hashira-level Demon Slayer is able to defeat the Upper Ranks of the Twelve Kizuki and grow in strength comparable to the highest among them.

Then the Transparent World. By accessing it, one can see another person's body as if their skin were transparent. This allows them to track the blood flow, breathing, muscle contractions, and joint movements of the person they are looking at, which can be used to predict their movements and avoid their attacks with ease.

In addition, those who can access the Transparent World can see the world in slow motion, which further increases their reaction and movement speed.

Combining the Selfless state with the Transparent World, one could deliver decisive and deadly blows by anticipating their opponent's vital points and movements through slow-motion perception and precognition, as well as skillfully avoiding detection of their own attacks.

That is, El is currently dealing with someone who has abilities similar to the eye of insight. However, that person possessed far greater prowess, both physically and in terms of mature techniques.

"I won't give up that easily! I can definitely learn the Hinokami Kagura Technique and Total Breathing Concentration." El said with eyes burning with excitement.

"System, I want to buy one mind-clearing cake." El said this with confidence.

Ding

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Mind-clearing cake

Description:

This cake can accelerate the thinking ability of the eater. It also has the function of strengthening memory, concentration and mental power. This cake has an effect duration of 24 hours.

Price: 1000 points

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The cake appeared out of thin air right in front of her. Shaped like a typical round-sized cookie, the cookie was brown in color and wrapped in plastic.

Immediately, El tore off the wrapper and devoured the cake to the end. By eating the mind-clearing cookies, El's movement response speed would become faster.

By eating this cake, the brain can think faster than before, so that the nerves that receive orders from the brain can run instantly.

Finally, the body of someone who eats this cake can quickly respond to the opponent's sedangan. There will even be a slow motion effect because the brain works faster.

"Hmm, that's good too! Chocolate flavor." This kind of item should be used in an emergency. But, El used it for training.

"Later, maybe I'll buy some for snacks?"

After feeling the effect of the mind-clearing cookies, El returned to organizing her fighting opponents and place settings as before. Without hesitation, El pressed, "Start!"

The all-white room in an instant turned into a snowy forest with the cold air tearing at his skin. Right in front of El 5 meters away, Tanjuro stood still with a sword in his hand.

El had already taken out the Nichirin Sword from the storage ring. El positioned his self in a front stance. With eyes full of calm and concentration, El watched Tanjuro in front of him.

Whosh!

Suddenly, Tanjuro seemed to disappear from where he stood. But, this time was different from before. Because El could see that Tanjuro's movements were a little slower than before.

With focus, El continued to watch Tanjuro's rhythm as he took his breath and exhaled with each step. By doing this, El was able to learn the essence of the Total Breathing Concentration Technique.

As soon as Tanjuro was 10 centimeters in front of El with the sword swung like an executioner taking a life, by decapitation. As quickly as possible, El took one step back.

Slash!

Tanjuro's first slash was dodged successfully. A smile graced El's proud face, for the small achievement he had just obtained. However, Tanjuro suddenly grabbed his sword with both hands.

Positioning the movement from his attack that El had evaded into an upper stance, Tanjuro let out a long breath. When Tanjuro did that, El could see the air coming out of his mouth heat up and burn instantly.

"Hinokami kagura." Tanjuro said in a soft, but emphasized voice.

Slash!

A downward curved vertical single slashing motion was created. At the same time, the space between the air right around the sword rubbed against each other creating a heat that burned the air, following the direction of Tanjuro's sword.

At the same point, El's head was again cut off to float in the air, watching as the neck on his headless body gushed blood in slow motion.

Some of the blood droplets were burned by the heat created by the sword rubbing against the air, creating beautiful sparks like New Year's fireworks.

"Enbun." Tanjuro said that in a low tone of voice. Once again, Tanjuro ended the training with a one-sided massacre.

A small note: Honestly, making a demon slayer battle chapter is very draining on the imagination. Appreciate me, please. (T_T)