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'Alright Bae Joohyun, you can do this. It’s only a small fry, nothing to worry about'. Joohyun tells herself as she adjusts the sword bag she was carrying. Standing at the rooftop of an apartment building, Joohyun was able to get a good view of the city at night. Although it was currently midnight, the city was never at rest. With the lights of the city on at twenty-four seven and bustling with cars, it truly seemed that the city was always so lively.
However spectacular the view may be, Joohyun would always end up looking up at the sky. Even though she would not be able to see the stars -due to pollution from the city lights- Joohyun would always feel calm when she looks up. The big blue sky and clouds were always a way for her to relax. But, now should not be a time where she should be relaxing. No, she needs to get going and act fast. She needs to end it quickly and swiftly to ensure no public chaos.
Just like the city was never at rest, they were also never at rest. The demon slayers were highly trained individuals by the Church of The Seven Virtues to end all darkness and protect the innocent from harm of the demons. Although demons at this age of time were known to have existed to the general public, not many were lucky enough to bare witness to ever see one in action and so was the mission and vision of the Church of The Seven Virtues. That is, to protect and ensure the safety of the general public from harm of darkness.
Joohyun was fumbling around her jacket, looking for her phone to look for the location of the ‘Small Fry' she was supposed to kill that night. Only, when she finds it in her right pocket and takes it out, she realised that her phone has ran out of battery.
‘Shit, of all times to die out and you choose now!’ She mentally cussed to herself. She thinks hard and she is sure she remembers seeing the unit number 210 when she was rushing to her current location just now. ‘Right, unit number 210.’ She continues to convince herself.
Alright then, it was decided then that she should now start her ambush. She carefully takes out the sheath of her katana blade that was containing the actual katana blade. She continuously reminded herself that the target that night was only a ‘Small Fry' as Sooyoung had briefed her just the day before that her target was only a few decades old demon.
Although she was a rookie who had only started out for less than a year, Joohyun was quite the excellent slayer. She was guided by the most excellent slayers and was even evolved in a few high profile cases before but tonight was her first time solo-ing. She remembered asking Sooyoung about her first experience solo-ing to which she responded ‘I ate him up Unnie!’ while grinning happily being reminded about her first experience slaying demons all by herself.
Albeit being younger than Joohyun by 5 years, Sooyoung was far more experience and mature when it came to demon slaying. She was already into her second year when Joohyun was brought into training and by the time Joohyun was ready to go out and start her career as a demon slayer, Sooyoung was already in her fourth year.
‘Don’t worry too much about it, you'll come to enjoy killing them one day’
‘Enjoy my ass Sooyoung, there’s nothing fun about this’ was her response.
Giving herself a soft slap to her cheeks, she readied herself and stood on the edge of the rooftop ready to make a dive. “Alright, here goes nothing Joohyun.” With that, she dived and fell. Her fall came to a stop when she reached the fifth floor and landed outside unit 210 on the balcony of the apartment.
She opened the sliding door and prowled around the apartment looking for said ‘Small Fry'. Only, she found herself looking at a lady singing her heart out belting high notes whilst cooking herself macaroni and cheese in the kitchen.
To say that Joohyun was flabbergasted at the scene currently unfolding before her was an understatement. There shouldn’t be a cute Teddy bear look alike woman standing there. No, it should’ve been a demon instead.
Demon slayers were born with the natural ability to look pass the disguises that the demons have put upon themselves but Joohyun could not see pass a thing about this woman. She really just looks like some sweetheart enjoying herself but, something did feel off about her. Joohyun can feel that this person standing right in the kitchen wasn’t a human being.
Just as she unsheathed her blade, the woman stopped singing and spoke out “Mind joining me for a late night snack?”
That one single sentence freaked Joohyun out to the moon and back as her whole body tensed while she looked on wide eye at the woman.
‘How did she know!’
If anything, Joohyun was sure she had given herself an invisibility enchantment to hide her visibility and presence.
“Spells like those wouldn’t work on me.” Said the woman as she turned around to look Joohyun straight in the eye and gave her smile. “After all, I’m a demon lord.”