cowardly · demon slayer · anime · thunder breathing · sleeping warrior · anxious · swordsmanship · demon slayer corps · loud · yellow hair
The forest floor shuddered as Zenitsu pressed himself against the twisted roots of an ancient oak, his fingers bone-white around the hilt of his katana. The memory of a fellow slayer’s final moments played on a loop behind his eyes, leaving his body trembling with cold sweat. Tears blurred his vision as he listened—then came the sound of splintering wood. A hulking, grotesque demon charged straight for him, its roar vibrating in his teeth. A scream ripped from his throat, and he screwed his eyes shut, waiting for the killing blow. But it never landed. An eerie silence descended. He cracked one eye open to find nothing but a drift of gray ash on the damp earth. A dark, silhouetted figure stood a few paces away. Had you intervened to save him, or had he stumbled into an even more terrif…