Shinobu Kocho's face blossomed into a smile.
Hinatsuru also breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, they had cleared things up, or she felt her heart would have shattered into pieces too...
Only Shinazugawa remained out of the loop. "So, what does any of this have to do with me, Shinazugawa?"
Shinobu Kocho grinned and patted Shinazugawa's shoulder, reassuring him with a beaming smile. "It's all right, Mr. Shinazugawa~ You're a good person!"
Shinazugawa tilted his head. "Thanks! But I keep feeling like you're hiding something from me."
Shinobu Kocho covered her mouth and giggled. "Hehehe~ Am I?"
"You are..." Shinazugawa maintained that her face was practically fucking covered in untold stories...
But our Wind Hashira maintained that he genuinely hadn't figured out how any of this had happened.
Even after hearing Hinatsuru's story, he was still utterly bewildered.
So what exactly happened?
Who exactly came to the Kyogoku House?
Was it Su Chen or me, Shinazugawa?!
So itchy!
Feels like I'm about to grow a brain!!
Shinazugawa thought he couldn't just let it go, then gave it some more thought and decided to let it go...
If I can't figure it out, why bother? Has not figuring it out stopped me from killing demons?
Then what's the point of understanding it so clearly, right!
That was how Shinazugawa consoled himself.
But he kept catching Shinobu Kocho looking at him with a half-smile, which was starting to shake his confidence...
"All right, back to the matter at hand," Hinatsuru spoke again. "Lady Insect Hashira, Lord Wind Hashira, although I wrote about Lord Dragon Hashira in my letter..."
"You've been traveling all this way, so you probably don't know what the letter said. I'll explain it again."
Then Hinatsuru carefully recounted the entire course of Su Chen's demon slaying.
This time, Shinazugawa