Immediately afterward, Kie began preparing some food to fill Tanjuro's stomach, leaving Tanjiro and Nezuko to entertain Kanzaki Kumo and his two companions while keeping an eye on Tanjuro's condition with them.
After all, this was the first time this treatment plan had been put into practice, so they still needed to observe him a little longer.
However, while everyone's attention was drawn to Tanjuro's condition, no one noticed that when Nezuko raised her head after bowing to Kanzaki Kumo in thanks, there was something different from usual in the way she looked at him.
Only Tanjiro twitched his nose slightly and glanced around in confusion.
Just then, he had caught a very faint but distinctive scent.
When he had smelled it before, it seemed to have come from Kanzaki Kumo and the girls around him while they were spending time together.
His parents occasionally gave off that scent too.
Though there was no one else who could verify it, Tanjiro guessed that the emotion this scent represented should be called "liking."
And it was the kind of liking between a man and a woman.
But which two people here had that sort of relationship?
Tanjiro was puzzled.
The only women present now were Tamayo and his younger sister, Nezuko.
Aside from himself, the men were his father lying in bed, Mr. Butterfly Zemu, who was treating his father, and Mr. Kanzaki, who had brought everyone together.
None of these people seemed to have a relationship that went beyond friendship.
More importantly, although the scent was very faint and disappeared quickly, Tanjiro was certain it had come from just one person.
That made it even stranger...
The simplehearted Tanjiro truly struggled to understand something as complicated as feelings. In the end, he could only put his questions aside and focus