Both Tanjiro and Muichiro are on their way to their destination and Muichiro saying "since I've Learned moon breathing, it feels much better than mist. This breathing technique is heavily reliant on swords skill, blending in with both offense and defence. I quite like it, but i may need to make some improvements." "I may as well help you out, we can spar with wooden swords to see How well can you blend in such a breathing technique." Says Tanjiro and Muichiro sighs "well, I've seen you in action slightly so, we'll get there." As they both walking to a forest, they saw three girls brushing the ground with their brooms, until they saw the 2 boys. "Hello there, you must be demon slayers." Says the girl name Kiyo. "Yes, I am Kamado Tanjiro, this here is Tokito Muichiro. We were ordered to make our stay in the butterfly mansion while we aren't on missions." Says Tanjiro which the other girl named Sumi says "yes, this is the butterfly mansion!" "Come in, we'll take you both in." Says the girl name Naho. The three girls guided them inside in the dining room as they both sit on a table.
"Well, make yourself comfortable. We shall bring you something to eat." Says Naho and Tanjiro says "yes, thank you very much" as he bows to them. The girls smiled in surprise as they saw someone in him, as they left, Muichiro and Tanjiro waiting for their food "Say, Tanjiro, are you planning on being a pillar?" Asked Muichiro and Tanjiro answered "not sure I'll be able to, i might have alot to learn." "Well, here me out, if you manage to defeat one of the 12 demonic moons or kill 50 demons. You'd be promoted to be a pillar." Says Muichiro and Tanjiro tilted his head in confusion and Muichiro asked "how many kills do you have?" "I'm not sure, my 2nd mission was something." Says Tanjiro and Muichiro sighed as he showed him his palm of his right hand "I'll show you how to check it, Show me my kill count." His palm showed a red kanji written and it shows 37, Tanjiro got so confused and asked "what was that?" "It's simple, Show me my rank" says Muichiro as the Kanji shifts to rank Tsuchinoe. And Tanjiro "ehhh? Hold on. Show me my rank." As Tanjiro right palm has a Kanji written Tsuchinoe as well. And Tanjiro got surprised "show my kill count." As the kanji shifts to 41 "our kill counts are high but we already got promoted?" "There are ten ranks after all, it's a sign that you are a demon slayer. Did you not notice that when you survived the exam?" Asked Muichiro and Tanjiro says "i only felt an inch, assuming I got a mosquito bite." "Aside from that, we both killed a lot of demons in our mission, did you come across a load of demons?" Asked Muichiro, and Tanjiro in a hesitant look and said "I killed 12 demons at the selection exam, and then i fought an army of demons in my second mission, with Tomioka Giyu, Pillar of Water, Accompanying me at the end, since he was close to my location." And Muichiro facing towards the front and all he see is empty tables "well, i did kill a lot of demons in the selection exam, like 21, and then in my first 3 missions, i came across like 16 more in total. Seems like you and I are close and got promoted a bit fast. As far as I've remembered, our leader is making sure i become a Pillar since he very much believes in it so. And since you and i are close to finishing to 50 count, we'll be pillars at the same time." Says Muichiro as Tanjiro says "well, in the meantime we better focus on our missions more than our ranks." "Point taken." Says Muichiro.
"Ara ara, you 2 are here." Says a women named Kocho Kanae who has long hair, 2 butterfly clips on each side, a butterfly haori and a ring "you 2 must be Kamado and Tokito, did any of you received any injuries?" "No, not one single bit since a doctor in the westria crest confirmed it." Says Muichiro and Kanae smiling as usual and Tanjiro notices the shiny golden buttons. "Are you a pillar?" "My, my, how can you tell?" Asked Kanae and Tanjiro replied "your buttons." Says Tanjiro "i figured it out slowly, Since i was recruited by Tomioka Giyu." Kanae was surprised and said "ara ara, my husband got you to join, How thoughtful." "Ehh? Your his wife?" Asked Tanjiro and Kanae said "of course, My name is Tomioka Kocho Kanae, pillar of flowers." As she cheerfully smiled and "I see, we are ordered to stay here until we receive mission so..." Says Muichiro and Kanae said "yes, of course, make yourself comfortable as long as you're are here, as such you shall be assisting us in recovery training we have a few injured slayers here in need of recovery. Think you can help us?" "Yes!" Says both Muichiro and Tanjiro and he ended up asked "Is Tomioka-san here right now?" And Kanae replied "he's outside on a journey right now, but he'll be home." "Okay."
As three small girls from before, and a girl around Tanjiro's age, With a Blue Kimono, 2 blue butterfly clips on each side and blue eyes as they brought food. "Here's your food!" Says the three girls as Kanae says "Well, I'll get going. And if you want, there is a hot springs for men, so if you ever wish to relax. Make your way there as much as you are welcome." "Will do, thank you very much." Says Tanjiro as Muichiro nodded and Kanae leaves the Dining room, "You must be?" Asked Tanjiro "Name's Kanzaki Aoi, a current Doctor of the organisation so far, as much as these girls are assistance, Kiyo, Sumi and Naho." says Aoi as She places food for them as Tanjiro says "Nice to meet you, my name is Kamado Tanjiro, this here is Tokito Muichiro." As time has passed as they all took time in bonding. Until a Women with a Purple butterfly Haori and hairclip, and golden buttons and says "Kamado and Tokito is it? I hope you both get ready for tomorrow Since you both shall be assist-." Muichiro cuts her off and says "Rehabilitation Training. We know." "Good." Says Shinobu while smiling and feeling like a vein coming out. As Aoi says "oh and she's Kanae-san's sister, Kocho Shinobu, Pillar of insects." "Nice to meet you." Says Tanjiro as Muichiro continues eating.
Later on in the Training hall as Both Tanjiro and Muichiro saw Kanae training a Girl with a Pink Kimono and a pink butterfly hairclip for a side ponytail, by sparring with wooden swords. And Tomioka Giyu standing next with Kanzaki Aoi as Tanjiro walks and stands next to him and says "Tomioka-san, Your here!" Giyu faced to Tanjiro and says "good to see you Young Kamado, How's your sister doing?" "She's on her last task of her training." Says Tanjiro and Giyu replied "i see, so she still hasn't joined yet." And Tanjiro then asked "and there is one thing i wanna ask." And Giyu says "im listening." "Did you by any chance told the Head of the organisation about what you witnessed about my sister?" Asked Tanjiro and Giyu replied as he faces to Kanao and Kanae "I did, he said that it's a good thing that a poor soul was strong enough to fight such a curse away." "I see, what opinion would he have if Nezuko has a blood demon art Despite being human?" Asked Tanjiro Which lead Aoi and Muichiro raised their eyebrow and facing him "so she got a blood demon art as a human? What does it do?" "It burns demons and it has no affect on humans." Replied Tanjiro and Giyu faces to him and said "I see, so as long your sister's blood demon art is Harmless to humans, our master will have a positive opinion about it."
Muichiro and the rest in the room besides Giyu in confusion and asked "what do you mean by a human with a blood demon art?" "My sister forcefully got turned into a demon Temporarily for a minute and managed to turn herself back." Answered Tanjiro "WHATT?!" yelled by Kanae, Kanao, Shinobu, Aoi and Muichiro "when did that happen?" Asked Muichiro and Tanjiro replied "1 year ago, and Tomioka-san was there to witness her transformation." They all faced to Giyu and he nodded in confirmation. As moments have passed from Tanjiro and Giyu explaining everything of what happened and Kanae herself was more but surprised "Giyu-kun, i don't know what to say, that's something of a large advantage." "Let's just wait, until she joins the corps, until then, we keep this to ourselves as it's a secret between us and the master." Says Giyu and They all nodded.
"Say Tanjiro, Muichiro, let's test your reflexes, shall we?" Says Shinobu as both comes in and sits on the floor of the table Infront of eachother, Shinobu explained the cups, both started the round and both are very fast and their reactions are as sharp. Shinobu seemed surprised as well as Kanae, Giyu, Kanao and Aoi. Both ends up splashing at each other, As a tie. Kanao decided to challenge Tanjiro as both ended up keeping up to eachother as Tanjiro almost splashing the cup to her but suddenly 'this medicine smells gross, it'd be wrong to throw it.' thought Tanjiro immediately as he places the cup on Kanao's head. Everything went on utter silence, Muichiro crossing his arms and saying "thats quite the gentleman of you." Kanao was left in confusion of what just happened.
End of chapter
The calm before the Storm, a prequel series for GiyuKana origins. Make sure to check it out before confusion.