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"[NAME], help me!" Tanjiro shouted, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I went over to him and the man, who was struggling against him.
"Do you have any rope to restrain him?" He asked as I held the man's head down.
I pursed my lips and shook my head. I made a mental note to start carrying some rope.
"Hey, what are you two doing?!" A shout came from the crowd.
Three men wearing black uniforms and hats came over to us, looking more irritated than angry. They pushed past the crowd and tried to get us to let go of the man, but our grips were too strong.
Suddenly, I caught the whiff of something fragrant. It was like a very strong perfume made from flowers. Around us, flower patterns appeared, acting as blockages to push the men away from us.
"Pardon me," a gentle feminine voice said.
We looked to the side, and standing there was a beautiful woman with black hair and purple eyes. She wore a deep purple kimono with a flower pattern. Next to her was a boy with teal hair that had black tips and narrowed, almost cat-like lavender eyes. My guard heightened. They aren't humans... They're demons.
"Even though that man has become a demon, you still refer to him as a person, and you are trying to save him," the woman said, healing a scar on her arm, "Please, allow me to help you."
"But... You're a-" I started, but she cut me off.
"That's right; I'm a demon. But, even though I'm a demon, I'm also a doctor. I also want to eradicate Kibutsuji."
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We went back to the udon shop, where our udon was waiting on our seats, though it was now cold. Nezuko was still there, too, fully awake. She blinked and tilted her head when she noticed me. We only met briefly while I was with Urokodaki-sama since she fell into her sleep a little while after I arrived. I think she's still fond of me, though.
The udon stand owner started to chew us out, but all it took was for us to eat udon for him to calm down. When we finished eating, we started walking to find our way to where those two demons were staying. However, we didn't have to, because the boy demon was standing a little ways away from us.
"Ah! Are you waiting for us?" Tanjiro asked, "I could've just found you guys from using my sense of smell."
"You wouldn't be able to find us because of the cloaking spell I put on our hiding place. And besides that..." He sneered, pointing at Nezuko, "Isn't that woman a demon? She's not much to look at..."
Tanjiro stared at him in silence for a few seconds. Slowly, he looked between him and Nezuko, seeming to just make the connection.
"Nezuko?! Ugly?! Look closely at her features! Nezuko was the beauty of our village!" He shouted, tugging him with her as the boy walked away.
He kept rambling, trying to get the aloof boy to see otherwise, which made me smile. They have such a nice bond... It made me slightly jealous since I've never been so close to somebody.
We eventually made it to a house, though Tanjiro hadn't stopped talking. We went inside and slipped our shoes off. In there, I saw the female demon tending to the woman who was attacked.
"Is that woman alright?" I asked worriedly, glancing between the two.
"She's fine now," she said, putting a hand on her forehead, "Her husband... He's a different case. He's being held in the basement right now."
"Doesn't it make you uncomfortable handling the wounds of a human?" Tanjiro asked, seeming genuinely curious, but the boy demon took it as an insult and hit him in the chest.
"Is that what you think? That we have to gargle back the saliva that's brought from the smell of flesh and blood?" He spat, which made me nervous since that was what I sorta thought...
"Stop. Why must you resort to violence?" The woman said, "I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Tamayo, and this boy is Yushiro. Please try to get along with him. And to answer your question, it does not feel particularly uncomfortable. I have an easier time with humans compared to normal demons. I am able to manipulate my body to my own whim, which made it possible for me to remove Kibutsuji's curse as well."
" 'Manipulate your body'? What does that mean?" I asked, watching as she slipped off her white coat.
"It means that I can survive even without eating human flesh. All I need is to drink a small amount of human blood."
She led us to another, larger room, where we sat so we could talk. Basically, she would buy money from people who got blood transfusions. Yushiro, who needed even less blood than her, was turned into a demon by her instead of Kibutsuji. She said it took her over two hundred years and that he was the only one she was able to transform.
Nezuko, who was dragging herself around the room like a small child, popped up by my side and looked at me with large eyes. I smiled, endeared by her antics, and dangled a hand over her head for her to play with while Tanjiro asked the questions. He asked if there was a way to turn demons back into humans. Tamayo said there was a way. She didn't know what it was, but she also said that there was always some sort of medicine to treat any ailment. She wanted both to study Nezuko's blood and for us to gather blood from demons closely related to Kibutsuji in order to develop that medicine.
I blinked and looked up suddenly. ... Something feels... off.
"[NAME], what's wrong?" Tanjiro asked, looking at me worriedly.
"Get down!" Yushiro shouted before I could answer, using his body to shield Tamayo.
I held Nezuko while Tanjiro covered both of us. As if on cue, the walls of the house were smashed into.
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꒰ఎ TAISHO-ERA SECRETS ໒꒱
𖹭 Yushiro didn't say anything about [NAME] because even he couldn't deny her beauty
𖹭 Ermmm I'm lowkey getting impatient for this book to progress 🙃
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