Inside the Underground Cave.
Amid one booming slash after another, the sashes belonging to Daki's double were shredded. Of course, the two fighters took special care to avoid the sections with people sealed inside. Working together, they freed one pretty girl or woman after another from the sashes, as though performing a magic trick.
Most remained unconscious after being released from the sashes, but Tengen's two wives were exceptions. They flipped once through the air and landed like true ninja, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Smoke, but not a scratch!
"What just..."
Despite instinctively landing on their feet, neither quite understood what had happened. Only when they raised their heads and saw Tengen a short distance away, finished with his work and sheathing his blades, did they realize he had rescued them.
"Sorry I'm late. But you don't seem badly hurt, so that's a relief," Tengen said, turning toward Makio and Suma.
"Lord Tengen!!!"
Makio and Suma completely ignored the "third wheel" present and threw themselves straight into Tengen's arms.
First line: I envy neither lovers nor immortals.
Second line: Only the Sound Hashira, every single day.
Inscription: Gritted teeth!!!
Had Zenitsu witnessed this scene, there was a ten percent chance he would have ground his teeth and complained bitterly, and a ninety percent chance he would have passed out on the spot from sheer outrage.
He had failed seven times in a row just trying to find a girlfriend and had been swindled out of everything, right down to his underwear. If his master from the Demon Slayer Corps hadn't bailed him out, who knew what he would be doing now.
Tengen came from a ninja family, where having three wives was nothing unusual. His three wives had no objections either. Although their marriages had been arranged, their