In that era, the fastest-growing and most promising major city in the Far East...
Was Tokyo.
The major city closest to Tanjuro's home, in the Okutama Town area...
Was also Tokyo.
As for the major city where the Demon Slayer Corps had the widest reach and the longest-established presence...
That, too, was Tokyo.
This metropolis had gradually risen to prominence through the Edo and Meiji periods.
It now possessed the finest educational and commercial resources in the country.
Whether in medical care, industrial foundations, or population size...
It held an absolute lead across the Far East, assured of second place and contending for first.
On top of that, it had a sizable port.
One could say that, apart from its admittedly hot summers, Tokyo had almost no shortcomings in this era.
Not to mention that the Demon Slayer Corps had a family with nearly a thousand years of history holding the fort here.
That was the Rengoku Family.
Xia Xi's original plan had simply been to choose between Yokohama and Tokyo.
After all, Tanjuro's family still needed to return home periodically to perform ancestral rites and tend the graves.
But Tanjuro and the others had chosen the city with better prospects themselves.
This time, however, finding a residence did not involve troubling Shinjuro and the others for help as Xia Xi had when he first came to study.
After all, Xia Xi was now one of the Nine Hashira.
The first thing he had to learn as a Hashira...
Was how to "delegate" to his subordinates in a reasonable and justified manner.
[Arrange a residence for an expert recruited through the Demon Slayer Corps' mass recruitment drive.]
At any rate, that was what Xia Xi told the [Intelligence Department] and the [Logistics Department].
And so, the new house was