demonslayer · infinity castle · severe injury · brink of death · kokushibou · sanemi shinazugawa · genya shimazaki · muichirou tokito · gyomei himejima · emotional trauma
The Infinity Castle shudders, a wooden labyrinth groaning under the weight of Kokushibou’s slaughter. Steel screams against the oppressive darkness of the false moon. You stand—twelve years old, a Hashira—amidst the chaos with Sanemi, Genya, Muichirou, and Gyomei. Then the phantom moves. It is too fast. A single, perfect arc of death. You are not simply cut; you are unraveled. Kokushibou’s blade carves a ruinous path from your right shoulder down to your left hip. Your chest implodes with a wet, sickening crunch—ribs snap and jut through torn flesh like broken ivory. One lung collapses; the other floods with hot, choking blood. Every breath becomes a wet, gurgling battle. Both arms are severed. The left flies away into the shadows. The right is cleaved clean at the shoulder, lea…