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Chapter 83: Night of Terror at the Kamado House
Late at night.
The Kamado house.
In the darkness, the youngest child of the Kamado family, Kamado Rokuta, was suddenly awakened from his sleep by the urge to pee.
He sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes. Once his vision cleared, he looked over at his two brothers sleeping soundly on the bed, Kamado Takeo and Kamado Shigeru.
Without overthinking, he decisively reached out and shoved his older brother, Kamado Takeo, saying, "Takeo, wake up."
"Mmm?" Kamado Takeo, woken by Rokuta, looked at his younger brother with a groggy look in his eyes. "Is it morning already?"
"I need to pee," Kamado Rokuta said anxiously, his voice tight.
"Let's go, let's go. I'll go with you."
Hearing this, Kamado Takeo was instantly snapped fully awake.
Although it was a hassle, his brother was still young. It was perfectly normal to be afraid of getting up to go to the bathroom alone at night.
And since their eldest brother, Tanjiro, wasn't around, as the second son of the family, it was his duty to take on this responsibility.
He couldn't let Rokuta pee the bed.
Otherwise, their sisters would definitely laugh at him the next day.
With this thought, Kamado Takeo led Kamado Rokuta into the darkness toward the bathroom.
No lamps were lit.
The Kamado family was by no means wealthy; on the contrary, they were an impoverished household that made a living by chopping wood and selling charcoal.
Their daily life truly embodied working from sunrise and resting at sunset.
So Kamado Takeo could only rely on the faint moonlight to navigate the dark with his brother to the bathroom in the dead of night.
Knock, knock, knock.
"Rokuta, are you done yet?" Kamado Takeo tapped lightly on the bathroom door, calling out to Kamado Rokuta inside with a hint of impatience.
"A-Almost." Kamado Rokuta's voice trembled. "Takeo, stop rushing me, I can't pee..."
Outside the door, Kamado Takeo looked utterly exasperated.
However, while the two conversed, neither noticed two specks of crimson light flashing in the nearby darkness.
Suddenly, a hand reached out from the shadows and clamped tightly over Kamado Takeo's mouth.
Who?
Kamado Takeo's eyes widened. Muffled, struggling sounds escaped his throat as his hands instinctively tried to pry away the hand covering his mouth.
But the assailant's strength was far too great.
So great that he was completely powerless against it.
Finally, seeing his struggles were futile, a flash of clarity passed through Kamado Takeo's eyes.
His hands began frantically pounding against the bathroom door in front of him.
At least... at least I have to protect my brother...
Bang, bang, bang!
Kamado Rokuta was startled by the sudden, violent knocking. He thought his brother Takeo was getting too impatient.
Terrified that his brother would leave him behind and go back to the room alone, he hastily called out, "Takeo, stop rushing me! I'm really almost done!"
After a long silence with no response from outside.
Kamado Rokuta asked weakly, "Takeo... are you still there?"
"Takeo, don't scare me. I'm afraid."
Still, no response from the door.
Kamado Rokuta gently pulled the door open and stepped out.
He saw a dark figure crouching on the ground a short distance away. Under the moonlight, a mouthful of white teeth gleamed with a crimson hue.
And in front of the dark figure lay a small, blood-soaked body.
It was the brother he had just been calling for, Takeo.
Fear poured uncontrollably into Kamado Rokuta's eyes.
But in that fleeting moment, his love for his family overpowered the terror in his heart.
"You monster, what are you doing to my brother?!"
Kamado Rokuta charged at the dark figure, bringing his tiny fists down upon it.
Unfortunately, such an attack was as feeble as raindrops, entirely devoid of any lethal force.
With a casual flick of its arm, the dark figure sent Kamado Rokuta flying backward.
Then, it turned around. Looking at Kamado Rokuta—who was collapsed on the ground, vomiting fresh blood—it bared a mouth of teeth stained red and said in a hoarse voice, "I was planning to eat this kid before eating you."
"Since you're so impatient, I won't hold back."
Saying so, the dark figure wiped the blood from the corner of its mouth and slowly walked toward the fallen Kamado Rokuta.
Right at that moment, inside the house, their mother, Kamado Kie, abruptly woke up as if she had sensed something.
"Mom? Did you hear a sound too?"
Kamado Nezuko, who woke up at the same time, looked at her mother and asked.
"Yes." Kamado Kie nodded.
Although she didn't want to admit it, her heart was aching dully, as if something unbearable was happening.
"Nezuko, look after Hanako. Mom's going out to check, I'll be right back."
Kamado Kie first comforted the startled Kamado Nezuko, then quickly got up and hurried outside.
And when she saw the front door left ajar, the unease in her heart deepened even further.
Please let them be alright!
Kamado Kie quickened her pace while silently praying for her children.
Soon, stepping outside, Kamado Kie witnessed a scene that made her heart bleed.
Two of her children lay in pools of blood, while an unrecognizable monster crouched on the ground, gorging on their flesh in massive bites.
The cruel reality bombarded her soul like a falling artillery shell.
"You bastard! What have you done to my children?!"
Kamado Kie grabbed a wooden stick nearby and charged at the dark figure butchering her children, letting out a furious roar.
Snap!
The wooden stick struck the dark figure's back and snapped in half on impact.
Kamado Kie stared blankly at the broken stick in her hand, frozen in place.
"A woman?"
The dark figure turned its head, looking at the stunned Kamado Kie, and muttered hoarsely, "I'll keep you alive for now. Don't rush, I'll bestow demon blood upon you later."
Seeing the dark figure ignore her and attempt to continue its vicious assault on her children, fury erupted from Kamado Kie's heart.
She immediately gripped the broken, splintered half of the stick and thrust it toward the dark figure.
"Every single one of you... you really don't know the meaning of death."
The dark figure spun around, seizing Kamado Kie by the throat, and said impatiently, "Why are you all so eager to die?"
"L-Let my children go."
The intense suffocation made Kamado Kie's face flush and her head pound, yet even at this moment, she was only thinking of her children.
Her eyes carried a hint of pleading toward the dark figure.
"What an interesting look."
But the dark figure showed absolutely no pity. With a flick of its arm, it sent Kamado Kie flying.
"With this, no one will interrupt my meal."
The dark figure nodded in satisfaction, preparing to crouch back down and resume its feast.
Just then, a silver chain shot out from the darkness, binding the creature entirely.
At the other end of the chain, a figure slowly walked out of the shadows.
Looking at the bloody scene around him.
He uttered a sentence that left everyone utterly baffled: "Am I still a step too late?"
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