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With the Sound Hashira, Uzui Tengen, leading the way, we eventually made it to a house with a wisteria crest. The people of the house provided us with some tea and snacks, though Inosuke was hogging the food.
"Once we infiltrate the Red Light District," Tengen started, resting his head on his hand, "We're going to look for my wife first. I'll be looking around for information on the demon as well."
I blinked curiously.
"Wife? Your wife is here?" I asked, tilting my head slightly.
"No, [NAME]-chan! Don't let him deceive you!" Zenitsu shouted, gripping my arm, "He's just using us to find a wife for him!"
"Hah?!"
"Weird people like you don't deserve anything!" He continued. I tugged on his haori, trying to get him to be quiet, but he just kept going. "Don't make us find a bride for you!"
"You damn fool!" Tengen yelled back, "My wife infiltrated the Red Light District in order to collect information on the demon! Our regular contact was cut off, so now I'm going too!"
"... You're making that up too, aren't you?"
"You shitty brat!" He threw multiple papers at us. "Here are the letters she sent me via crow!"
I looked through them, taking note of just how many there were.
"There sure are a lot... Has your wife been there a long time?" Tanjiro asked.
"I have three wives," Tengen replied casually, still fuming.
"Three! Three wives!" Zenitsu screeched, "You bastard! Why do you have three wives?!" Tengen, fed up with his whining, punched him in the gut, causing him to double over. "Ahh... [NAME]-channn, did you see thattt??? He punched meee!!!"
I sighed and patted his back while Tengen explained what we were going to do. His wives are female ninjas called kunoichi. At first, they went as customers, but they couldn't find anything, so they posed as prostitutes to find more information. 'Suma' is in the Tokito House, 'Makio' is in the Ogimoto House, and 'Hinatsuru' is in the Kyoyoku House. The four of us are going to go in to pose as prostitutes to find out what happened to them.
Eventually, we got dressed. Tengen did our makeup in a way that he deemed to be 'flamboyant', but I thought that it just looked like it was caked on... I don't know much about makeup since I've never worn much, but I'm sure that a bit of white face powder and lipstick will do. So, when Tengen went off to get out clothes, I quickly redid all of our makeup. Since I am a woman and Inosuke looks like one, I did ours very lightly. For Zenitsu and Tanjiro, I put on a bit more heavier layers, especially for Tanjiro to hide his scar. By the time Tengen came back, he wasn't happy to see his work 'destroyed', but he couldn't be bothered to redo it himself.
Tengen posed as a handsome man who was essentially selling us. I'm not sure how I like the idea of it, but I guess that's just the way of the world. Tanjiro was the first to be sold off at the Tokito House. I walked alongside the three absentmindedly, looking up at the night sky boredly.
"Hey, there's a bunch of people gathering around there!" Inosuke suddenly pointed out.
Curious, I looked at where he was pointing. A beautiful, kind-looking woman wearing multiple layers of an elaborate kimono walked among multiple people. Tengen claimed that it was an 'oiran parade' and that she was going to meet a customer. Apparently, she's Koinatsu, the oiran of the Tokito House. I looked at her beauty in awe, not even noticing the woman standing over me until she started speaking.
"Excuse me, sir," she said finally, catching me off guard, "I'd like to take these two girls in." She gestured to Inosuke and I. "I'm part of the Ogimoto House. My eyes don't deceive me."
"Oh, you're from the Ogimoto House?" Tengen repeated happily, "Well, thank you for your patronage! Be well, [NAME] and Inoko!"
The woman led us away to a house, where two women wiped the makeup off of our faces. Marveling at our beauty, they quickly ushered us down the hallway, talking about educating us and making us more popular than the oirans from the Tokito and Kyogoku Houses. I glanced at Inosuke, who seemed thoroughly annoyed. Probably because he wasn't able to speak, for his voice was too deep and would immediately give him away. I offered him a reassuring smile, though I'm not too sure about this myself...
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𖹭 Tanjiro is scared for [NAME]'s safety as a prostitute while Zenitsu is worried that someone might try to touch up on her
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