Two hours earlier in the "real world"

After being driven from Yoichi's corporate office via a foreign car, the gang arrived at his mansion as the clouds in the sky began to grow darker and darker by the minute. Inosuke in particular had found the drive to be incredible, asking all sorts of questions as to how the car operated, much to the annoyance of the others. When everyone got out, James slipped him a 10 note and told him, "Thanks for puttin' up with my friend in the back. He ain't never ridden in a train before a few months ago, let alone a car."

The driver smiled and replied, "Thank you for your generosity, sir. His behavior makes more sense now that you say that." He then looked up to the sky and told James, "Looks like a nasty storm is about to hit us."

"Yeah," he agreed as he also looked up. "Ain't we past hurricane season in Japan?"

"Hurricane?"

"My apologies, I meant typhoons," James explained. "We call 'em hurricanes in America."

"Oh, right," the driver replied. "Yeah, we're past normal typhoon season, but out of season storms aren't unheard of. You better head inside soon unless you want to get soaked in rainwater."

"Good idea. Thank you for the ride!" James then ran inside to catch up with the rest of the group. As he did, he thought to himself, "We need to be careful. We can't let this guy know of our true intentions. I'll have to cast my spell stealthily to put him to sleep without him even knowin'."

Tanjiro waved over to James, telling him from the front steps, "Come on in! The house looks great, James-san!"

"I'll be there! I'm comin'!"

Present

In the "real world," the gang all woke up within a few seconds of each other due to the time dilation effect within the dream. As they all woke up, Rinji panicked and said to them, "Wait, no! You guys woke up too early! What the Hell happened?!"

"There was an incident in the dream," James told him as the whole group woke up in the same room, with Yoichi kept in a different room upstairs. "We had to cut it short."

They then heard glass break upstairs, followed by Zenitsu screaming, "A window just blew out! It's raining fucking sideways up here!"

Rinji then asked the gang, "Did you at least get the location of Stonewall Jackson?"

"Yeah," James replied to him as Tanjiro ran out of the room to help Zenitsu. "I also found out he was doing dealings with the Jackson Brothers themselves, so we'll get a good understandin' of what they're up to and where they're at."

Inosuke, who woke up a few seconds before James, was angry that he had been killed. "I can't believe those assholes killed me! I was just beginning to kick ass in that damn house!" He then put his boar's head back on and charged out of the room. "Well now I can go kick ass in the real world!"

James chased after him, warning him, "Inosuke, wait up! Calm the fuck down!"

They all then heard shouting from the stairs as someone walked down them to the first floor. "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Calm down!" Inosuke stopped in his tracks as soon as he saw who it was and who he had brought with him.

Tanjiro asked as he pulled a gun for protection, "Who are you?!" Nezuko and Inosuke also drew their guns to join him.

It was in fact Yoichi, who was walking down the stairs with Zenitsu held at gunpoint. "Now, now, don't panic. I won't shoot your friend. I just had to bring him here to meet with you. I see you also put my four butlers to sleep."

Tanjiro asked James, "You did?"

"I did," he affirmed with a nod. "They should be up now, though."

"They are," Yoichi explained. "They're going to take care of the windows while we have a chat about what you subjected me to. Please, put your guns down."

All of them reluctantly holstered their weapons, causing Yoichi to do the same. Zenitsu thanked him, telling him with a bow, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He then ran back over to the gang to join them.

"Now," Yoichi asked. "You guys came here to get information from me about my clients, and you stole quite a bit of it."

"Because your clients are putting Japan in danger," Tanjiro defiantly told him. "You're dealing with demons!"

"Demons? Those legendary creatures? You're telling me they're real?"

Nezuko, fed up with his denial, then bared her teeth at him, showing off her enlarged canines and pointing to them. "How about this? Or my nails being claws? Or my pale skin and pale eyes?"

"Or mine?" James replied as he also pointed out his own teeth. "Me and Nezuko are both demons ourselves, but we don't fight for the ones you sold supplies to."

"How curious," Yoichi noted. "Are you sure? You two could just have defects in the human condition, after all."

"Damn it," James angrily said, annoyed that he still was not getting the point. "Look, Saito-san, we needed that info because we're fightin' these people." He then attacked Yoichi, wrestling with him and deflecting his gun away from the group as he fired two shots into the air. As the two struggled against each other, James yelled at him, "Tell us what you know, asshole!"

"As if I would," Yoichi replied back as the two then fell onto the floor, with James pushing Yoichi's face in. As he did, Yoichi began to cease his resistance and laughed instead. "Now that's interesting."

James asked him, "What's so fuckin' funny?!"

"This floor," Yoichi replied to him as he ran his free hand across it. "I always liked it… It was a nice brown floor, but this… This is not the same shade of brown…"

Everyone else in the room was shocked. Tanjiro asked James, "What does that mean?"

"Motherfucker," James yelled in frustration. "We didn't get the floor right!"

Yoichi asked, "So that means we're still in a dream?"

"Yeah," James admitted.

"A dream within a dream… How fascinating… But whose dream are we in?"

James looked to Rinji and nodded, which allowed Rinji to declare, "You're in mine." Rinji then drew a poisoned knife and slit his own throat to kill himself and cause the dream to collapse.

As soon as his body hit the floor, the mansion began to shake and collapse around the whole group. James shouted, "We need to go!" However, before anyone had the chance to exit the dream via suicide, the second floor collapsed onto everyone. James yelled, "Hang on!"

Yoichi yelled just before he was crushed by the floor, "You have done well, Colby-san! You really have!"

In the real world, the whole group had in fact never even left the corporate headquarters of Yoichi's conglomerate. As a matter of fact, they had brought along another companion, this one being Shinjuro and Susamaru, who kept guard inside the meeting room where everyone else was asleep. Shinjuro asked Susamaru as the two paced around the room, "I wonder how things are going in there…"

"I hope it isn't too bad," Susamaru replied back. Everyone in the room was dressed in formal business attire.

As soon as she finished speaking, all of them woke up at the same time. Rinji woke up almost a second before everyone else and yelled, "He found out!"

As everyone got up and drew their guns, aiming them at Yoichi to make sure he did not do anything against anyone, he threw his hands up and told them, "Everyone, everyone, look, calm down!" When nobody lowered their guns, he told them, "Okay, I'll tell you guys about Jackson-san… If you make good on your offer to train my subconscious."

James realized that they could not pass up on this offer. He sighed and lowered his gun, telling the others, "Fuck it, this is as good as it'll get. Lower your guns."

"So," Yoichi then asked James. "How will you make this work?"

"I'll tell you when you let us all go," James replied to her.

"Sure." He then pointed to the door. "The rest of you can drop your guns and leave. I'll talk to James on my own."

Inosuke, frustrated he still did not get to fight anyone and was still stuck in a formal business uniform, yelled out, "So I couldn't even fight anyone in the real world?! What the Hell?!"

"Come on," Tanjiro warned him as they all left the room. "We got what we needed, Inosuke. Let's go before we raise any other suspicion."

Once everyone was gone, minus James, Susamaru, and Yoichi, the latter asked, "Why is she still here?"

"She's my fiancée," James replied as the two sat down across from each other at the meeting table. "And she's a few months along with our child. Even so, she can help me if you turn on me."

Yoichi noticed that she also carried a gun, two of them in fact, and nodded. "Is she a demon slayer too?"

"Yes," she replied to him. "I'm also a demon like my fiancé."

"I see," Yoichi replied. "Well, anyway, let's begin talking."

"Indeed. Let's discuss."

As Yoichi and James began discussing their deal and the location of Stonewall Jackson, the rest of the gang stood outside, wondering what was going on. Shinjuro told Tanjiro, "I still can't believe James got me to go along with this. Shared dreams? Dream infiltration? It all sounds so weird to me."

"It still sounds weird to me," Tanjiro replied to him. "But I'm slowly understanding it more and more."

Nezuko remarked, "I hope these negotiations work. We did too much work for this to fail."

Rinji told Zenitsu, "So, what did you think of that little experience, Zenitsu-kun?"

"I don't know if this dreaming stuff is for me," Zenitsu admitted. "It all sounds really intense."

"I heard James-san made a book about dream infiltration," Tanjiro told the others, genuinely interested in dream infiltration and shared dreaming. "But I've never actually read it. I'll have to when we get back."

"My question is where that typhoon came from," Nezuko wondered. "The first level was James-san's dream, right?"

"If I had to guess," Zenitsu inferred. "He probably went through a typhoon in America at some point. That's the only explanation I have for the freaky as Hell storm in that dream."