"Mr. Tomioka? What brings you here... are you sick or injured somewhere?" Shinobu Kocho raised a hand to lightly cover her mouth as she asked in surprise.
Giyu Tomioka's sudden appearance had truly startled Shinobu Kocho, because she had never imagined he might come to see her.
Had Giyu Tomioka... finally caught on?
Well... he had, but not entirely.
Giyu Tomioka had been among the first to leave the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters. Unlike the other members of the Demon Slayer Corps, he felt somewhat lost, unsure what he should do with his future.
Carrying that uncertainty with him, he left the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters for Mount Sagiri, where his master, Sakonji Urokodaki, lived.
Urokodaki was naturally delighted to see Giyu return. After all, he was an old man living in seclusion deep in the mountains. Even if he claimed he wasn't lonely, he didn't believe it himself.
Because of the Hand Demon on Mount Fujikasane, where the final selection took place, most of the students he had trained after that demon began dominating the mountain had died at its hands. Few of the students who had left the mountain before then were still alive either, which was precisely why Giyu's return made him so happy.
Incidentally, Urokodaki had taken off the Tengu Mask he had always worn, revealing an exceedingly gentle face. That face was the very reason he had kept wearing a mask.
His features were too gentle and kindly to intimidate demons when he killed them or command authority when he taught, so Urokodaki had worn the fierce-looking Tengu Mask to conceal his face.
But now that Muzan had been destroyed, he had no reason to keep wearing the Tengu Mask. Besides, wearing a mask wasn't comfortable, so there was no question of needing to get