The IF-Route Secret Identities Save the Twelve Kizuki

Fujiwara Chidori was a conscientious civil servant in Hell. One day, he was hit with devastating news: a layoff notice from his superior

"What do you mean, 'I'm at risk of losing my job because a younger member of my clan has been up to no good'?"

To ease Lord Hozuki's burden and protect his thousand-year job security, Fujiwara Chidori used character cards from this world's what-if scenarios to save fallen demons and stop them in different timelines.

[A shogun who killed his younger brother to claim the realm]

[A materialist whose beloved wife and child were persecuted by the church]

[A husband and wife who inherited a martial arts school and made it thrive]

[A magistrate who saw the error of his ways in his youth and became an impartial judge]

[A promising artist, revered by the villagers for helping them escape poverty]

One day, the Demon King, hiding in the Infinity Castle, was horrified to discover that all his subordinates had disappeared

Even the people around him remembered them as if they'd never existed...

He was afraid, terrified, and tried to keep hiding.

Until

A man dressed in hunting robes stood beneath the blazing sun, looking at him with pity. One sleeve covered half his face, and his brow was slightly furrowed. A child beside him clung tightly to him, gazing at the Demon King with bold curiosity.

Somehow, Kibutsuji Muzan knew that the man was also himself.

It was as if a thousand years ago, when he had stood in the courtyard and watched those incompetent quacks, the man had looked at him and said the surname he least wanted to remember. Time seemed to return to Heian-kyo, and he was once again faced with his mother's guilt, his father's contempt, and his wife's veiled insults

"As a member of the Fujiwara clan, a family of wisteria nobility, you were poisoned by the very symbol of your family? You couldn't even find a single flower? And you were injured this badly by a branch of your own descendants?"

"Not smart enough, not patient enough, not strong enough, not even cruel enough, "

"How can our family have someone so useless?"

Content warnings:

1. The protagonist is imperfect, not a saint.

2. The main Demon Slayer plot is followed, but the timeline doesn't unfold linearly.

3. Many original elements.

Theme: Don't get stuck in a rut