On the way to Sendai.
The two little girls enjoyed the most novel and luxurious journey of their lives.
First, they went shopping for new clothes in Tokyo's most expensive district.
That was Ginza.
And Matsuya Department Store in Ginza, at that!
For the two girls, who never left the slums all year round...
This place was practically a lavish palace paved with gold and silver.
It was a world in an entirely different dimension.
After buying the necessities for the children, Xia Xi also bought a pile of gifts for his boys in the Northern Region.
Only then did they board the Special Train the Demon Slayer Corps had arranged in advance.
A modern steam train was something Sayo and Yan Zi had never even heard of.
A giant monster made of steel.
It could hold so many people and kept belching steam.
Most importantly, once it got moving, it was faster and steadier than the cars around it.
Although there was still plenty of noise and vibration inside the carriage.
The two children, traveling far from home for the first time, were overjoyed.
They were either pulling Gyomei into conversation or tugging at Xia Xi to ask him all sorts of questions.
Even Xia Xi's thoroughly absentminded appearance did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm.
They watched the city outside the window slowly give way to plains, then hills, until everything was gradually covered in Silver Snow.
The children began putting on thicker clothes.
They breathed onto the window and drew all sorts of strange things on the foggy glass.
Sometimes, it was four people holding hands.
Sometimes, it was a group of ugly little children surrounding a great monk.
For both the two children and Gyomei, this seemed to be the happiest time of their lives.
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