Chiyo happened to be passing through the town early in the morning on her way back from a solo hunt when she stopped into a post office to deliver a letter to someone. As she walked out of the post office, she overheard the conversations being held out on the street and looked around to see if there was anything to do as she adjusted her eyepatch. "Hmmm… I'm not really hungry, so…"

As she walked down the street, one conversation in particular caught her attention. "Our plan should go off without a hitch. The Rengoku Estate will be destroyed today."

Chiyo froze in place after hearing the sentence. Though she did not know much English, she knew they were referring to the Rengoku Estate. As she looked around to find the source of the words, she looked at two obvious foreigners and thought to herself, "Was it those two? They're the only foreigners I see around here who could speak English. It definitely didn't sound like two Japanese people speaking English. It was Americans." As she saw them walk away, she stood there, pondering about what to do, since she did not understand why they were so interested in the Rengoku Estate. "What exactly did they want with the Rengoku family, though?"

…

Reiko and Rinji had just returned from their own mission together when they passed through the same town the Rengoku Estate was located in. As they passed through the town, hoping to find the estate soon to make an official report on the mission, Rinji asked her sister, "So, what did you think of that?"

"Too easy," she remarked. "I want a real challenge."

"Be careful what you wish for," Rinji replied to her. "You might just get it, and not in the way you want, oneechan."

"Whatever," she replied. "I just want to be able to defeat something with some strength in it." She thought to herself, "I need a real challenge so I can hone my skills more. Even if I don't use a breathing technique, I can still use my powers."

Their pale white skin and the red markings on their faces caused several people to turn their heads and look at them, only to see that they were demon slayers and look away. Rinji thought to himself, "If it weren't for these uniforms, we probably would have been attacked by now. We stick out way too much, even during the daytime."

As they reached the Rengoku Estate, they both saw two men standing out front that were clearly foreign. "Hey, wait a minute," Reiko told her brother as she extended an arm out in front of him. "Who the fuck are those guys?"

"They're foreign for sure," Rinji replied to her. "But they're not the usual foreigners here. They're… They're dark-skinned."

"Oh yeah," Reiko replied to him. "Colby-san told me about them. They're black. They're usually called negroes."

"If so," Rinji asked. "What are those men doing in front of the house?"

"I got no clue," Reiko replied, somewhat annoyed. "Go up and ask them or something."

"I doubt they know Japanese, first off," Rinji shot back. "And second, I'd probably scare the shit out of them."

"Just go up and say hi to them already," Reiko then told him as she pushed him forwards towards the two men. "Come on."

"Ugh, fine," Rinji surrendered as he walked up to the two men. When he approached them, they both turned around in surprise and looked at him. Rinji, worried about being suddenly put on the spot by his sister, replied, "Hi, um… Hello…"

Neither of the two men understood Japanese. One of them replied to him, "Hello?" He then asked his partner, "Was he saying hello to us?"

"I don't know," he replied. "I don't speak this weird-ass language. I thought you did."

"You dumbass," the first man told him. "I told you I didn't!"

Rinji tried once again, saying in heavily accented English, "Hello? Greetings?"

The second man then said to him very slowly, "Do you understand me?"

James heard the confrontation and opened the front door of the Rengoku Estate, wondering what was going on. He asked in English, "Hey, what's goin' on out here?" When he saw Rinji and the two black men out front, he asked Rinji in Japanese, "Do ya need translation help?"

"Get 'em," said the first man as the two black men charged at James with knives. "Let's go!"

"Wait, what the fuck?!" James drew a gun and shot at both of the men, both of whom stumbled to the ground after being shot. However, when both men stumbled back up, he realized they were both demons. "Wait, demons?!"

Reiko immediately ran out with her tanto sword as Rinji spawned a long string from his right hand and stuck it to one of the men, pulling him in with the string and immediately cutting his head off with his own tanto. As the man was pulled in, he begged for his life, saying, "Please, please, it ain't my choice to-"

Rinji, not understanding him, was able to easily slash off his head. "Take that!"

The second man yelled in English, "I'm gonna fucking kill ya!" However, Reiko was able to intercept him before he was able to reach Rinji, stabbing him with her tanto before drawing her gun and shooting him three times when he tried to lunge back at her with a knife. "Fuck! Fuck, that hurts!"

As he faded away from the poison on Reiko's tanto and in her bullets, Reiko told the man in English, "I win."

He then told all of them very weakly as he coughed up blood, "I… I… I was not here by choice. Tom sent me."

James immediately recognized the name he mentioned and asked him in English, "Wait, what was that?!" He also pulled a knife of his own, desperately cutting his own arm and trying to make a shape on the ground around the man with his blood to cast a spell. "What did ya say?!"

"Tom sent me," he replied.

"Tom?! Thomas Green?!"

"Yeah."

"Hang on! I can try to-" However, before James was even able to cast a Progenitor Release Spell, the slave of Thomas Green suddenly exploded with a loud boom, covering everyone around him with his blood. "Holy shit…"

Reiko screamed in horror. "What the fuck?! What happened to him?!"

"No way…" James tried to wipe the blood off of his clothes to no avail as he holstered his gun and his knife. "Fuckers made him explode after he exposed himself. Tom Green's tryin' to emulate Muzan in that regard."

"Those fuckin' idiots," Tom then shouted from afar as he and Vernon came running from down the road, with Tom drawing a sword and Vernon drawing a gun. "I can't believe they exposed us!"

James shouted at them as he drew his sword, "Stop right there!"

Susamaru ran back inside to grab her sword as Reiko charged at Vernon with her tanto, yelling, "Get the Hell out of here!"

"Wait, Reiko, no!"

Just as she swung her sword at Vernon, he shot her twice, causing her to fall to her knees in pain. "Damn it!" She then dropped her tanto and drew her own gun, firing once at Vernon. He was shot in the chest, and though he was forced back a few feet, he remained standing. The two continued to exchange gunfire until they had fired all six of their rounds, upon which Reiko stood up again with her tanto, ignoring the pain from the small doses of poison within each bullet, and charged at Vernon as he drew a knife.

Meanwhile, James and Tom began to clash against each other with their swords, with Tom yelling out, "Here's somethin' special for ya!" He let go of his sword with one of his hands and had all of his fingers reshape into sharp points before stabbing James in the shoulder. "How's that, ya fuckin' Yankee?!"

Susamaru then ran out and attacked Tom, calling out, "Breath of Flames, First Form: Unknowing Fire!" She swung both of her swords towards Tom's throat, but he managed to deflect one sword and cause the other to instead strike him in the lower abdomen by blocking with his own sword. "Damn it!"

As Tom rapidly healed from his wounds, he told her in English, "Ya won't be able to ambush me like that."

James saw an opportunity and declared as he swung at Tom, "Breath of Flames, Third Form: Blazin' Universe!" Swinging his blade downwards, he cut off his right arm, causing Tom to drop his sword on the ground.

He quickly picked up his sword with his other arm as his right arm began to grow back, telling James, "Try that shit again, Yankee!"

Back with Reiko and Vernon, Reiko was able to deflect Vernon's knife attack as she charged at him and managed to cut one of his arms off with her tanto. She then used her free hand to shoot a web at his neck, wrapping around it and pulling on it, telling him, "Now you die!"

"Let go!" Vernon tried to fight the web, but he was unable to tear it with his hands due to how strong the web was and due to the pain he was in. "Fuckin' Christ!"

Once she pulled hard enough, she was able to actually tear his head off completely, killing Vernon. As his head fell to the ground and his body fell soon after, Reiko took a deep breath and said to him, "And there goes one of them."

As James and Susamaru fought Tom, the latter replied to his threat by yelling back, "You won't last much longer, fucker!" She then charged at him while declaring, "Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun!" With an upwards slash, she managed to cut open Tom's chest and effectively bisect him with her two swords. "Go for it!"

Tom yelled as he fell to the ground, "You can't kill me!"

"I abso-fuckin'-lutely can!" James then attacked Tom, cutting his head off as he declared, "First Form: Unknowin' Fire!"

With this attack, Tom and Vernon were now dead, and their plan to assassinate James and Susamaru had failed. In the process, they had unknowingly killed two unwilling participants, and everyone felt somewhat guilty for it. Rinji said to everyone, "I can't believe they forced those first two demons to do their bidding for them."

"That's what slavery's like," James told him as he sheathed his sword. "That's why I was always an abolitionist."

"Abolitionist?"

"It means I wanted it outlawed," James explained to him. "Thankfully, it was in America, but it took a whole war to do it."

Susamaru asked Reiko, "Hey, are you alright?"

She then puked on the ground, still feeling sick from the poison injected into her. "Ugh… I feel like shit."

"Hey, honey! Reiko-san doesn't feel good!"

Rinji and James then ran to her, wondering what was wrong as she puked again. "Nee-san," Rinji called to her. "Are you okay?!"

"I feel sick," Reiko told him. "God, the poison that bastard shot into me must ha-" She then puked for a third time. "Motherfucker!"

"Hang on," James then said to Reiko as he helped her stay standing. "Come inside."

Shinjuro and Senjuro ran outside, wondering what was going on. Shinjuro asked James, "James, what happened out here?!"

"Long story," James told him as he rushed Reiko inside. "Reiko's pretty sick. We killed two people sent here to assassinate us, and she got caught in the crossfire."

Reiko almost puked again, but held it in, causing Shinjuro to say to himself, "Holy shit…" As soon as Reiko was helped into a room with a bucket, she opened her mouth and let out the vomit she had held back. "Man, she looks really sick."

Senjuro told his father, "I'll get medicine for her. I don't know if it'll help, but we gotta try."

Susamaru said to James, "She needs to rest before anything else."

"I know," he replied back to her. "She's really sick."

Rinji thought to himself as his sister was laid down on a bed, "This is bad, really bad! She really could die if this gets worse! What was in that poison anyway? This doesn't look like normal wisteria to me."

At that moment, Chiyo ran into the house, having seen that the door was left open and fearing the worst as she drew her sword. "Hey! Hey, who's in here?! What's going on?!"

Shinjuro, confused about who she was, asked her, "Hey, can you put the damn sword down?! We're fine!"

Chiyo then sheathed her sword, relieved that there was no attack at that time. "My apologies. I just heard of a potential threat agai-"

"It's not potential anymore," Shinjuro told her. "We got attacked, but we're fine. One of those two Spider ones got a bit sick, though."

"Spider ones? You mean Reiko and Rinji?"

"Yeah," Shinjuro told her. "That Reiko girl's pretty sick."