The warm spring sunshine gently awakened the earth's vitality.
Only, that vitality seemed a little too abundant.
Kanzaki Kumo looked at the path he had cleared just days ago, already nearly overgrown with weeds again, and felt rather helpless.
"Oh my, it's not as though you've never walked along an overgrown path on a mission. Why look so miserable?"
Makomo glanced at the oddly familiar path ahead, then turned to study the rare look of "utter frustration" on Kanzaki Kumo's face.
Just a few days earlier, Kanzaki Kumo had suddenly come to her, saying he had prepared a surprise for her, then brought her all the way to this little path that looked as though it had been abandoned for quite some time.
"I just feel like these weeds grow too fast." Although Kanzaki Kumo had indeed left a few tiny shoots untouched when he cleared the path, wasn't this a bit too fast?
Having never really spent any time in the countryside in either of his lives, Kanzaki Kumo was a little stunned by the weeds.
Fortunately, the surprise he had prepared lay a little farther in, and he had thoroughly cleared the weeds around it, literally cutting them out roots and all.
"It's spring, after all. Of course everything's coming back to life. Our esteemed Rumble Hashira doesn't seem to have a clear understanding of how resilient weeds are, does he? Besides, spending some free time close to nature like this is actually quite nice."
With her hands behind her back, Makomo stepped onto the weed-covered path, a smile on her lips and a light skip in her steps, her half ponytail swaying from side to side as she moved.
At that moment, she was no longer the Demon Slayer Corps' Water Hashira, but a lively young girl