"Tanjirou..." Yuushirou turned his head awkwardly and said in a low voice,
"Your sister... is a beauty."
Hearing this, Tanjirou's scarred face showed a bright smile.
"Yes!"
Walking out of the door and seeing Nezuko running around, Tanjirou smiled gently and waved to her.
"Okay, Nezuko, it's time for us to go."
"Umu!" Nezuko obediently came to her brother's side and took his hand.
"Just now, Mr. Yuushirou praised you as a beauty."
"I knew it, our Nezuko is a recognized beauty in the town, how could she be ugly."
Touching his sister's soft hair, it was time for them to leave. They were each other's only relatives in this world. In order to save Nezuko, he had to collect the blood of the Twelve Kizuki to turn Nezuko back into a human!
With the wooden box on his back, it was still night, so let Nezuko stay outside.
Walking out of this house with an illusion, appearing in an empty alley, Tanjirou took a deep breath, his expression paused, a little unbelievable.
This aura... Brother Yang Quan!
Taking his sister's hand, he hurried towards the source of the aura.
Brother Yang Quan is still alive!
Getting closer and closer, Tanjirou gasped as he looked at the golden-haired figure facing away from him not far away. There was no mistake, that familiar golden hair was Yoizumi-ge. Tanjirou trembled and called out softly.
"Brother Yang Quan?"
... The man was clamoring for Yoizumi to pay him, facing the unreasonable man, Yoizumi had no way. The other party was just an ordinary human, and he might hurt him if he didn't know the severity, not to mention that Yoizumi's pockets were cleaner than his face, without a penny.
"I don't have money."
"No money!!!!" Hearing this, the man became even more angry, pointing his finger at Yoizumi's chest.
Facing such a person, Yoizumi didn't know what to do for a while.
Suddenly, Yoizumi frowned, there was a demon's aura approaching here!
"Are you listening? I'm telling you to pay for my udon!" At this moment, the man was still babbling.
Hearing someone calling his name behind him, Yoizumi turned around in confusion.
Tanjirou looked at the familiar golden hair and blue eyes, that indifferent and estranged face, it was really him!
"Brother Yang Quan!"
Suddenly, Nezuko let go of her hand and ran towards Yoizumi.
This girl is a demon!
How could she be with humans? Yoizumi prepared himself, there were still ordinary people behind him, she's coming!
When he was ready to attack, he met the girl's pink eyes, and realized that she had no intention of attacking. For some reason, Yoizumi relaxed and let the girl run up to him and hug him.
A hug?
This sudden hug made Yoizumi a little at a loss. His eyes looked at the girl helplessly. At such a close distance, he would definitely not be able to avoid her attack, but he didn't want to push her away.
"Brother Yang Quan!" Tanjirou also ran up, his crimson eyes filled with tears, and the joy of reunion was on his usually cheerful and optimistic face.
"I thought you were already dead..."
Looking at the dark red gradually changing hair color in front of him, a fiery scar on the left forehead, red and white flower-shaped earrings on both ears, a green and black checkered haori, and a black Demon Slayer Corps uniform.
Yoizumi noticed that this boy was from the Demon Slayer Corps. He had a nichirin blade with a black hilt on his right waist. Since he was a member of the Demon Slayer Corps and was with a demon, he seemed to know him.
He pushed the girl who was still hugging his waist hard, but found that he couldn't move her, so he had to let her be, tilted his head to look at the boy, and asked:
"Do you know me?"
Tanjirou obviously didn't expect him to ask this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized that the Brother Yang Quan in front of him had the aura of a demon. Had Brother Yang Quan also become a demon?!
He stretched out his hand to pull his sister away and blocked her behind him, his hand trembling as he held the nichirin blade, and the tears in his eyes could no longer be held back. This was too cruel. He had finally met him again, but why did Brother Yang Quan become a demon!
He couldn't bring himself to kill him with his own hands!
Noticing the other party's actions, Yoizumi knew that this was the correct way for the Demon Slayer Corps to deal with demons, but the person in front of him was so entangled that he couldn't even draw his sword.
"What do you mean!" The udon shop owner on the side finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Are you ignoring me?!"
"Pay me quickly, you bastard!"
The eyes of the three people fell on this unreasonable person. It was the first time since Tanjirou knew Yoizumi that he saw a speechless look on his face. He took out the money from his pocket and put it in the boss's hand.
"What? It's you?" The boss recognized that this was the guest who had been eating so deliciously at his place not long ago, and then said, "Do you want another bowl?"
"No need, I'm not hungry."
"Hmph!" The boss wanted to say something, but a customer went to his stall, so he had to give up.
Tanjirou turned his head to look at Yoizumi, who pointed to an open space in the distance, signaling to go there to talk.
Yoizumi took the lead and walked forward. Tanjirou looked at Brother Yang Quan, whom he hadn't seen for two years, and felt that he had become different from before. He seemed to have become the way he was when they first met, but there were still some differences that he couldn't explain.
Finally, no one was bothering them, Tanjirou took a step forward and took Yoizumi's hand and said,
"Brother Yang Quan, don't you remember us?"
"I'm Tanjirou, she is Nezuko!"
"We are family!"
Family?
Yoizumi stared at the two of them. He seemed to have heard this Tanjirou's voice somewhere. He tried hard to think, and then suddenly realized that it was the voice he heard when he first arrived at Komatsuse's house.
The gentle voice was exactly the same as the boy in front of him. He could feel the thick calluses in the palm of his hand, as well as the warmth that was transmitted.
"I don't remember, but I feel like we should know each other."
Nezuko on the side raised Yoizumi's other hand and put it on her head, touched it, the bamboo in her mouth was mumbled, and she only made a "Umu" sound. Tanjirou looked at this scene, his eyebrows and eyes gently explained.
"Nezuko used to like you touching her head very much, she was very dependent on you, Brother Yang Quan."
It's a pity that things are different now. His sister has become a demon, and Brother Yang Quan, who he thought was dead, has also become a demon.
However, Tanjirou has confirmed that Yoizumi has not eaten anyone. Demons who have eaten people will have a stench on their bodies. The more they eat, the stronger the smell. Brother Yang Quan doesn't have any smell on his body. His aura is the same as before, a pleasant and reassuring smell.
"Can you tell me what happened in the past?" Yoizumi patted Nezuko's head awkwardly, causing her to raise her hand to cover the place where she was patted, her pink eyes turned into bean eyes, and she looked at him with some dissatisfaction.
Is it wrong?
He stroked her soft hair, messing up the smooth hair that Tanjirou had styled for her. Nezuko reached out and tugged at Yoizumi's clothes. Yoizumi leaned down, and before he could ask what was wrong, he saw Nezuko's head tilted back, and then his forehead hurt.
Yoizumi was stunned and raised his hand to touch his forehead, and after a while he said,
"It hurts."
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