3rd POV

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"You've got to be kidding me..."

Is what Colith says when she finds herself being dumped AGAIN in a forest. "What is it with y'all and forests?!" she grumbles while massaging her behind. "AND it's FREAKING snowing!!" She quickly jumps from the snow-covered ground, landing on a tree branch while activating her fire banding powers to keep herself warm since she was just wearing pajamas.

"OH ! IT'S BEEN A WHILE HASN'T IT??"Colith groans the moment she hears the dipshit messenger from befor- "HEY! don't call me dipshit!! That's rude! You're hurting my feelings!"the OH-so familiar voice pouts childishly.

"What. The. Hell. Is. Happening?" she angrily thought. "I thought I was supposed to be in AOT! What is the meaning of this???" she crosses her arms, grumbling curses at the messenger.

"AW! I'm just the messenger tho, ain't my fault if they put you in demon slaye-"Colith chokes on her spit and coughs before quickly yelling.

"WHAT?! DEMON SLAYER??"

"Ya heard right, the Higher-ups found it interesting to put you in demon slayer because they wanted to." the voice sassed.

"WAIT?? BUT I HAVEN'T FINISHED WHAT I WAS DOING IN AOT! WHAT THE HELL??! WHAT ABOUT MY BEANS!?! -"

"JEEZ! WOULD YOU DROP THE VOLUME?? damn! It's okay! You're still in the AOT Realm, Chill!" the voice snaps halting Colith's panic. "You're like a clone of yourself, except that you still have all of your powers and yadda yadda yadda."it waves its hand."This version of you exists only for this realm, you will be able to do whatever you want like last time, so please stop whining." it scoffs. "they ain't paying me enough for this shit.. "

Colith blinks a few times "so... If I understand, I'm like some clone or some shit with the same op powers and all the shit but this time in Demon slayer?"

"that's pretty much that, yeah."

"Huh...okay? What the hell am I supposed to do now?" she still had some difficulties understanding her predicament but decided to leave it for later.

"Like before, you just need to entertain the higher-ups, since it's one of their favorite franchises and you're one of their favorite souls, they decided to place you in both franchises, so they can watch your two versions destroy the plot or something..."it lazily says.

"...Okay? " she says a bit unsure" I suppose I understand...huh.."

" GREAT! SAVES ME A LOT OF TIME! " it happily chirps. "And before you ask me, yes you will automatically understand Japanese, and speak it too, you can create your own breath if you want, and you will surely gain a harem." Colith just stood silent. What had she done to find herself in those kinds of situations?

"where... Am I in the timeline?" defeated, she asks the voice. Aware that she won't get back to her beans even if she tries it, might as well enjoy her time here even if she already misses them. Mikasa...Armin...Eren...AND LEVI MY MA-

The voice sighs "Don't worry, at the end of the main story, you'll have a choice to stay or go back to the AOT realm, so don't give me that depressed look." it sympathetically added which picks the dark-skinned girl's attention.

"Really?!" a relieved look grazed her features. Her lips tugged upwards into a smile.

"Yes, yes." the voice chuckles. "Now, about the time, you're the day after Muzan attacks the Kamado family. Since it's a crucial moment for the beginning of the story, you cannot mess with it, unfortunately ."

Colith tched. She wanted to give Muzan a scare. 'Guess that's gonna happen next time I see him.' she nods.

"Great, I wish you good luck on your journey Lith, it's fun to watch your adventures up there." the voice chuckles then skedaddles before the girl could insult their mom.

She scowls.

'Great, another stunt from the higher-ups and I still don't know who they are. AND WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY HAREM?!' She looks at her appearance. 'Huh being in piggies in this weather ain't a good idea even though I don't feel shit right now, it would be stupid if someone stumbled upon me wearing revelating clothes like those and ask if I was a hooker. I'd punch their throat'

She snaps her fingers and finds herself in a mustard-colored kimono top, a black hakama, a beautiful red haori which had beautiful golden flower patterns on It, and the Akatsuki straw hat.

What? Gotta look good while weebing.

A look toward her feet made her pause though. 'Hm...what do I put on... Ah yeah, boots!' and thus appeared Japanese winter straw boots and voilà!

"Alrighty then, gotta find the kamados... Or what's left of them... Hum ?" she notices a figure in the distance, hanafuda hearings jiggling, an empty basket, a black and green checkered Haori. Colith deadpans at the sky.

"Y'all motherfuckers did this on purpose didn't you?"

She heard faint laughter in her head before brushing it off. She wonders if she should take her 14-year-old form again since she was like, 25 right now but brushes it off. If Muzan still looks like a snacc at 1000, then she'll look like a snacc at 14, it's not weird to change shapes here because Nezuko, so she goes for it. Back to 14 agaaaaain, yippie... fuck, puberty- she quickly shove the thought away before approaching the figure who was scaling, probably to his house. Her face cringed. 'they choose the worst timing I swear-'

Before she could say 'oop' however, the boy's head quickly turns while sniffing in her direction, surprising them both.

'ah yes. His sense of smell, of course.' she mentally face-palms. The boy's eyes widen at the sight of the weird stranger who seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

'A foreigner?' the boy immediately thought. He had never seen anyone like her in his short life. Dark skin dotted with freckles while a long scar traveled from her forehead to the left cheek, overlapping the eye. Her eyes were of a stunning gold that seems to oddly gleam for reasons unknown to him. Her hair was once again new to him. They looked like cotton, did they feel the same at the touch? and her lips... The boy immediately flushes when he realizes that he was lingering a little too long on her lips.

'Wh-wh-what...' he quickly shook his head before his attention was caught by a gentle voice.

"Ano, excuse me young man, but where am i.." she chuckles awkwardly. "could you help me please?" Her voice was so nice, with a cute accent behind it that the young boy's heart almost missed a beat.

'What's going on? ' the boy wonders. It was the first time that something like this happened to him. ' is this her doing...?'

Stuttering, he hastily replies, cheeks slightly warm "wa-what happened??"

She looks down "Sorry... I, my situation Is pretty complicated..." she scratches her cheek "I'm not from here as you may have guessed and I have nowhere to go..." She heard the boy sniff slightly. Technically, she was stating the truth since forehead was known to smell lies and whatnot.

'Boi I better be sincere when talking to them, Zenitsu and Uzui can literally hear when someone lies, so I betta not. Don't wanna be fucked-'

'she's...telling the truth..' he smells as his eyes snap open to look at the beautif- he means stranger.

Feeling bad for her, and because he was a sweetheart, the burgundy-haired boy blurts the first thing that came to his mind. "Y-You could come with me! My family and I live close by-" he flushes " I hum... I mean if that is okay with you..." He suggests. Since he was looking down, he missed the look of grief that flashed through her eyes.

"is that so?.. Thank you so much hum...?" better act like she freaking didn't know bout this boi's whole life lmao-

Stammering, the burgundy-haired boy finally replied "M-my name is K-kamado Tanjiro, nice to meet you." He politely bows, Hanafuda hearings jiggling from the movement.

"Tobe Colith! Nice to meet you!" a grin forms on her features as she extends a hand to the confused boy. "Oh yeah, this is how we greet each other where I come from, sorry a habit I got." she corrects herself by quickly bowing.

Tanjiro watches her in awe, true that she was a foreigner, she wore Japanese clothes so well and her Japanese was pretty good (i wish bruh) . 'maybe she was born here...?' He starts leading the way to his house with Colith following behind. "So hum...Tobe-sa-"

"You can call me Colith, I don't mind." she lazily waves a hand to which he quickly flushes.

"Wh- what?! Are you sure it's appropriate...? We just met...", his face turns shades darker while the poor boy's heart starts thumping faster. 'why is my heart acting this way...?'

"Huh?" she blinks before realizing what he said. "OOOH, of course, I think I know where you're getting at, but don't worry, it doesn't bother me." She says, softly chuckling. "plus you seem like a nice kid, so yeah, go ahead!"

Tanjiro stares with a blush. " Uh... T-then y-you can call me T-tanjiro too! ", he nervously states, waiting for the girl's reaction, which he got!

"Sweet! Tanjiro!" She happily exclaims. Poor boy almost faints when he heard his name being said so cheerfully by her. 'huh-?!' Her grin widens at his flushed face.

'oh sweet tanjiro How adorable you are~'

The moment was quickly interrupted when Tanjiro begin sniffing something odd.

"It smells like blood...!" His eyes widen before he starts following the smell. It was coming...from his house! The girl watches as his figure disappears and not a moment later, a distraught cry echoes in the distance.

The woman-turned girl massages her temples.

'oh, Boi..' Before quickly following after him.