Just as the Demon Slayer Corps began putting its full effort into dealing with the destruction and aftermath of the two battlefields...
Tanjuro returned home, exhausted and hungry.
He was still working out how to tell his wife, Kie, everything about his joining the Demon Slayer Corps.
When he quietly pushed open the door before dawn...
He had thought his wife would already have gone to bed.
But to his surprise, the lights inside were still burning.
It was Kie.
His wife had been waiting for him at home all along.
She had already formed some suspicions about the recent irregularities in her husband's work and the occasional new injuries on his body.
After seeing her husband bring her home, then leave again with a grave expression...
How could Kie possibly have slept?
Faced with his wife's silent gaze...
Tanjuro hesitated for a long time before slowly explaining everything about the Demon Slayer Corps, starting from the beginning.
About the existence of man-eating demons and the thousand-year-old Demon King, Muzan Kibutsuji.
About the responsibility entrusted to generations of the Kamado Family, and the Sun Breathing passed down by their ancestors.
Naturally, he also admitted that he had now become one of the Demon Slayer Corps' swordsmen.
He even mentioned what had happened not long before...
At last night's biwa performance, the celebrated performer, Lady Hizakura, had actually been a man-eating demon wearing human skin.
After telling her everything...
Tanjuro had prepared himself for Kie to reproach him, or even demand that he leave the Demon Slayer Corps.
However...
His wife neither screamed nor broke down.
Kie merely gave him a look that said, "Just as I thought," then let out a long breath.
It was as though a heavy burden had been lifted from her.
She remembered how her husband