Their teacher and Miss Shinobu had had a fight.
Tanjiro conveyed the news to Genya with a series of winks and meaningful looks.
Were they pretending?
No, it was for real.
Their teacher wanted to know how to cheer a girl up.
What should we do?
The two fellow disciples were stumped.
Should I go ask Inosuke and Zenitsu?
Then I'll write to Mr. Sabito and Miss Kanroji.
They quickly divided up the work. Tanjiro, who had plenty of pen pals, would write the letters, while Genya would run errands, "visiting" their married acquaintances by foot and by mail.
"Inosuke, how do you soothe a girl when she's angry?"
Genya knocked on the Hashibira family's door. After they won the war, the boys had settled into the house on Mount Sagiri. As some of them married, they moved out of the main house one after another and set up homes of their own, though they still lived very close by.
When Genya arrived, Aoi Kanzaki was out. Inosuke answered the door, shirtless and drenched in sweat as usual, as though he had been working out.
After hearing why Genya had come, Inosuke shook his head. "How would I know! Aoi never gets angry."
Inosuke no longer wore the Wild Boar's Head Mask. It was enshrined on the altar beside his mother's memorial tablet.
Aoi Kanzaki had arranged all of this. She was a hardworking, meticulous girl who wiped down the memorial tablet every morning, then groomed the fur on the Wild Boar's Head Mask.
"Is that so..." Genya nodded blankly and sniffed. "What's that smell? Something's burning."
Inosuke turned his head and sniffed, then answered with perfect composure. "Oh, sounds like our pot. Aoi put some water on to boil before she went out and told me to watch the