"Didn't I just get carried away for a moment? Besides..."
Kanzaki Kumo tried to argue his way out of it, but a single look from Shinobu Kocho cut him off.
"I specifically asked Mr. Himejima. The way you acted back then didn't look like a momentary impulse at all."
Although her gaze looked ready to bore holes through Kanzaki Kumo, Shinobu Kocho kept her touch as gentle as possible while bandaging him to spare him any unnecessary pain.
Seeing the anger and heartache mingled in Shinobu Kocho's eyes, along with the unmistakable exhaustion that surfaced once her emotions eased a little, Kanzaki Kumo wisely shut his mouth.
Not long after Shinobu Kocho finished bandaging him and applying ice, Kanao and Mitsuri came together so that Shinobu Kocho could get some rest.
Another day or two passed, and Kanae and Makomo each found time to visit him as well.
The sight of several beautiful young girls, each distinctive in her own way, coming one after another to show their concern for Kanzaki Kumo left the Tokito brothers watching in a daze.
"Is this situation with your senior fellow disciple... normal?"
During a break in training, Yuichiro poked Zenitsu beside him.
Ever since Zenitsu joined their training, Yuichiro felt as though he had found a kindred spirit-Zenitsu was the only one who would join him in complaining that this training was so intense it practically didn't treat them as human.
Training alongside those two Grind Kings all this time had often left Yuichiro wondering whether his thinking was abnormal or whether something was wrong with his younger brother's and Tanjiro's heads.
Now that Zenitsu was here, he finally had his answer. He wasn't the problem; those two Grind Kings simply took grinding too far.
Even now, during what was clearly a break,