The Love Pillar and Serpent Pillar Come Calling

When Giyu Tomioka heard Yoru Machi's words, he was clearly taken aback. He had never expected Yoru Machi to have considered so much.

"You think that boy has what it takes to help Urokodaki-sensei let go?"

Over the past two years, Giyu Tomioka had often visited the retired Sakontsuki Urokodaki.

That was simply the kind of person Giyu Tomioka was. Though he appeared poor at socializing and always wore a cold expression, as the Water Pillar, he was gentler than anyone else.

"He should be able to. I think that boy has an incredible power within him.

Wasn't someone just moved by the bond between those siblings?"

Giyu Tomioka was left speechless by Yoru Machi's words.

Because he could not refute them. Tanjiro and his sister's actions had truly struck a deep chord within him.

Even if Yoru Machi had not interfered, Giyu Tomioka felt that he probably would not have been able to bring himself to harm those siblings in the end.

"Urokodaki owed me a favor because of his former disciple, and now I used that favor to send him another disciple and help him untie the knot in his heart.

All I can say is that fate works in mysterious ways. It seems everything was destined long ago."

Yoru Machi was not worried about whether Tanjiro could resolve Sakontsuki Urokodaki's inner turmoil, because he had never doubted the power of a protagonist's halo.

After completing their mission, Yoru Machi and Giyu Tomioka parted ways halfway through the journey.

Finding mission reports too troublesome, Yoru Machi dumped the entire task of reporting back onto the honest Giyu, while he planned to return to the village where he lived.

That was right. Unlike the other Pillars, even after joining the Demon Slayer Corps, Yoru Machi had continued living in