Chapter 57

'Rui, what the hell??', Douma grabbed the boy's shoulders. 'Did you just bring lethal weaponry to this party?'

Douma was starting to get scared, one could expect anything from this boy. Enmu mustered him in concern as well.

Rui facepalmed. 'No you silly dumb idiot. Can't you see it's not real? It shoots spiders, not bullets. Fake ones, obviously. I could never abuse my friends like that!'

Douma and Enmu sighed in relief. They should have been expecting something like this, after all, this was so typical of Rui.

Now, Enmu eyed the gun curiously. 'Spiders? That is quite the genius idea! A lot of people fear spiders severely! May I try it out?'

Rui handed him the gun. 'Sure. But try it out up here, first. These guns can be a little hard to use for newbies.'

Enmu shot, and a large plastic spider came out of the gun.

'Oh my god', Douma said. 'These look way too real–'

Rui proceeded to pull out two more guns from his backpack and handed Douma one.

'This is going to be fun', the younger male promised and directed the gun towards the crowd.

Douma snickered. They'd be able to hear the fearful screeches of many girls (and boys too) tonight.

Then, it started to rain spiders from the sky, as the mass shooting began. At first, no one noticed it, and a lot of spiders just landed on the ground. But soon, the first person was hit, and it was one of Tengen's girlfriends; the blue haired one that always whined. It was Enmu who had hit her, directly on her exposed shoulder to be exact. The girl screamed hysterically when she saw what it was that had hit her. Panic immediately broke out.

Enmu and Douma high-fived in triumph.

Douma gave his best friend a hug. 'Great job baby.'

Enmu blushed slightly, and Rui looked at them with even more confusion than Daki before.

'I offer a challenge', Douma declared as a distraction. 'Let's make this into a competition: The one who hits Tengen wins and gets free food from the others for a week!'

Enmu and Rui nodded in excitement as they loaded their guns.

They started shooting again, and it was a lot of fun. Douma hit Muichiro, some dude with pigtails (Kamanue), Kyojuro (which he was the most proud of) and Rui's sister; Enmu hit Gyomei (who fainted), Nakime, Akaza, the angry guy with no eyebrows (Sanemi) and the volleyball girl; and Rui only hit Gyutaro, some girl with brown, tied up hair (Tamayo) and Tengen's dark blonde haired girlfriend, but he was incredibly proud of his three hits.

The funniest thing was that somehow, no one seemed to notice that the spiders were being shot at them. And no one even thought about looking up and just continued doing random shit. Douma, Enmu and Rui were laughing their asses off.

'Oi, Rui', Douma suddenly remembered something. 'Where's Nezuko? You gonna meet with her here?'

He had just recalled how Rui had told him that their plan had worked and Nezuko now was his girlfriend. That thought immediately made Douma feel guilty. He considered Zenitsu one of his best friends, and now he was casually chatting and having fun with the guy that had turned his life into hell. Luckily, this was only a one time thing.

'Uh…', Rui mumbled. 'She's… downstairs. With her brother, Tanjiro.'

For some reason, the topic seemed to make Rui uncomfortable. The nervousness in his voice was obvious. Douma decided not to bug him about it.

They continued to shoot spiders at everyone. Unfortunately, people slowly started to see a pattern in the attacks. The news had spread that the spiders were fake, so everyone only got jumpscared but no one was hysterical anymore when a spider hit them.

Then, Douma hit Tengen's third girlfriend: the purple haired one. The problem was just that Tengen had been next to her the whole time and had seen the spider fly. His eyes immediately filled with rage.

'Whoever the fuck keeps throwing spiders at my girlfriends and other guests, you better fucking stop.', he yelled. 'Or I'll come up there and beat your little ass!'

The three troublemakers quickly hid behind the railing, hoping that Tengen hadn't seen them.

'I'm out of ammo', Rui whispered.

So, that was the end of their little shooting game.

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