An Encounter


Aoi puts them to work, regardless of Zenitsu's protests of being on break. Tanjirou works with a serene certainty that there will be no missions because he'd asked for the break, hadn't he?

…Well, Shinobu-san didn't know that, but fine, he'll humor her.

It's after dinner he comes across Kanao in the kitchen, drawing her sleeves up by the sink and startling when Tanjirou enters with an armful of plates and bento boxes.

"Oh." Tanjirou stops, smiles. Come to think of it, he'd never really had a moment alone with Shinobu-san's tsuguko. "Hello, Kanao-san. You're on dish washing duty, too?"