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Muzan’s counted the days--it’s been a year and a half since he last fought Yoriichi. A year and a half hiding, a year and a half recuperating, a year and a half afraid. A year and a half wasted due to his folly--and the strength of an opponent he never considered.
His fury demands his action.
His fury wants him to reach out and hurt everyone, anyone close.
But, most of all, he wants to hurt Yoriichi.
He wants to see those hanafuda earrings crack in his grip, crushed to nothingness. Just like Yoriichi.
But what can hurt him now? Michikatsu, now Kokushibo, is now a demon. There’s nothing left for him. No humans, other than the demon slayers. There’s no one Muzan can kill in kind. So Muzan determines he’ll have to go after Yoriichi himself. And--the one thing the other hates, he assumes, more than anything is demons.
It would be a power play for Muzan to make him one of his.
The vindictive side of him plans it out.
It’s easy enough for him to turn villages into wastelands, to turn half into demons and watch them feast on humans. It’s easy for him to create a pattern. To show that it’s him. Just as he was before he recuperated, not hiding. But this time, he’s using it to draw Yoriichi in.
He makes sure to turn the villagers before the demon slayers alive.
He hides, laying in wait, for Yoriichi himself, and when he locates him, most of the attacks are focused on him. This man’s skill is inhuman, but there’s only so much one person can do when faced with an entire village’s worth of demons, clamoring to eat him at the same time.
It’s simple. Muzan waits for his opening and takes it.
The other’s sword flies through the air, he’s disarmed-- and then he’s tied up. The demons are killed as they come in, wave after wave, leaving nothing but the smell of blood and the screams of the dying in their wake.
In the infinity castle, he cruelly drops Yoriichi to the ground, his plum-red eyes glowing.
“You know, I’ve been planning this for about three months now. I never imagined it would be so easy to bring you here. All it took was a little knowledge about you to make it happen.” Muzan crouches in front of him, his eyes cold.
“I kept wondering to myself what could I possibly do to return the favor?”
The form he holds his face in--it’s previous state, unblemished, smooth, beautiful--changes. The scar that appears isn’t too bad looking--just tinged pink, as new skin usually would be.
“It struck me that I already had your brother. You have no other attachments that I’ve been able to locate, so I had to do something to you specifically.”
“You realize that it took Michikatsu three days to turn? It was very painful for him.” The statement is said cruelly. “He goes by Kokushibo now. It makes me wonder.. Just what will your name be?”
“And--he remembers his life as a human, as I do. I’m rather hoping you do as well.”
His hand caresses over Yoriichi’s cheek, his thumb cutting over the other man’s forehead. He laps the blood off his finger and then slices across his palm, letting his blood drip over Yoriichi’s forehead, down into the wound.
“I'm going to enjoy watching you become a demon.”
“You’re going to be one of us. You’re going to be mine.”