Led by Kotetsu, the two quickly arrived at the guesthouse.
The villagers at the guesthouse looked at Kotetsu and Doma behind him with some confusion.
Who is this?
Kotetsu introduced, " Uncle Yamashita, this is the Demon Slayer just arrived in our village tonight. He's here to forge a knife!"
"Hello!" Doma bowed and smiled towards the Yamashita.
Upon Yamashita, Yamashita quickly bowed in return.
"Hello, my lord!"
After returning the greeting, Yamashita looked at Kotetsu with some confusion.
"Why did you bring this?"
Kotetsu said angrily, "I don't know what's wrong with the village chief and the others, they actually let the Demon Slayer find the inn all by himself!"
Yamashita as Yamashita was about to press further, Kotetsu waved his hand and said:
"Let's not talk about that now, Doma hasn't eaten yet! There should still be food at the guesthouse, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yamashita, without bothering to ask any further questions, repeatedly said to Doma:
"Sir, please come in. I'll get you some food right away!"
Doma laughed as he looked down the Yamashita:
"Then I'll have to trouble you!"
"No trouble at all! No trouble at all!" Yamashita waved his hands repeatedly, then turned and went to the kitchen to get busy.
" Doma, this way! The restaurant is here!" Kotetsu called out to Doma.
Doma looked around the room, then nodded and followed him inside.
Led by Kotetsu, the two quickly arrived at the restaurant.
After Doma in, Kotetsu said to Doma:
" Doma, please wait here. Uncle Yamashita will bring the food over soon! I'll go call Big Sister Kanroji and the others now!"
Doma looked at Kotetsu and nodded with a smile.
"Okay, thank you for your help! I'm really looking forward to seeing their expressions when they see me!"
Kotetsu laughed along.
"Yes, I'm looking forward to it too!"
After saying that, Kotetsu quickly went out and closed the door.
Doma sat down cross-legged, grabbed his ankles with both hands, and swayed slightly, his colorful pupils scanning the room.
Soon, the closed door was pulled open again.
Just now, I saw Yamashita walk in carrying a tray with several bowls on it.
Yamashita dragged the tray to the table where Doma was sitting, and then placed the food on the tray one by one, introducing it as he did so:
" Doma! Tonight's dinner is fried chicken nuggets, potato salad, cold spinach salad, and miso soup. I hope you enjoy it!"
Doma looked at the dinner laid out in front of him and smiled as he thanked them.
"Thank you, I really like it!"
Yamashita smiled and said, "That's good! Is this enough for you? If not, I'll go and prepare more, and bring them up later!"
Without refusing, Doma smiled and said:
"Then I'll have to trouble you!"
"No trouble at all! No trouble at all!" Yamashita smiled and left.
Doma watched them leave down the Yamashita, and only after the door was closed again did Doma turn back slightly to look at the food in front of him.
"Is this how they entertain Demon Slayer in the Swordsmith Village? Hmm, how simple! Well, I'll try some anyway!"
Doma picked up his chopsticks and began to eat the food that shouldn't have been eaten by demons.
Time passed by, bit by bit.
Doma leisurely ate the dinner that humans had carefully prepared, while waiting expectantly.
After having dinner twice more at the Yamashita, Doma finally heard noises coming from the corridor outside the door.
" Kotetsu, can't you really tell me who it is?" a clear, cheerful, and charming voice, like the sound of a silver bell, asked.
"If I said no, then no. You'll have to see for yourselves!"
Immediately following that figure, another childish yet firm voice rang out, Doma knew that it belonged to Kotetsu.
"Hey! Kid, when did you learn this kind of thing? Did he teach you?" another loud and slightly gruff male voice said.
"Mind your own business! Don't think you can trick me into telling you anything. I'm not going to tell you!" Kotetsu replied resolutely.
"Tch, who is this? So boring!" Tengen Uzui said disdainfully, not taking this kind of pretentious behavior seriously.
"Hehehe... I find this quite interesting! Who could it be?" Mitsuri said with a charming laugh, her laughter filled with joy and anticipation.
Tengen Uzui said, "Hmph, it certainly won't be that Kato guy. Although he's been gone for quite a few days, if it were him, he would have just told us!"
"Hmm! It shouldn't be Teiichi!!"
Mitsuri nodded in agreement, then tilted her head and began to guess.
" Mr. Himejima is unlikely to do such a thing, Shinazugawa-kun, Mr. Giyu is even less likely to do it, so..."
"Stop guessing, it's so close, what's there to guess! We'll know as soon as the door opens up ahead!" Kotetsu interrupted Mitsuri's thoughts.
"Hehehe... that's true! But I'm still really looking forward to it! Who could it be?" Mitsuri giggled, her pace quickening unconsciously.
The sound of footsteps approached quickly, and with a loud bang, the door to the guesthouse restaurant opened again.
Kotetsu appeared at the door first, slightly out of breath, and said with a hint of apology on his face:
"Sorry! Sorry! They just finished eating and then went to the hot springs. It took me ages to find them and bring them here!"
Just as Doma was about to say he didn't mind, a figure dressed in a purple yukata and a deep red robe suddenly leaped from behind the wall to the doorway like a nimble purple swallow.
Mitsuri stood with one foot on the ground and the other dangling in the air, her whole body slightly tilted, her left hand hanging naturally at her sides, and her right hand outstretched and placed beside her head, laughing happily:
"La la la, Lady Mitsuri is here! Let me see..."
Mitsuri's words were cut short. Her expectant face froze instantly, replaced by disbelief. Her eyes widened as she stared intently at the person in the room.
Before even reaching the door, Tengen Uzui saw Mitsuri frozen in place and couldn't help but laugh:
"What's wrong with you? You stopped halfway through your sentence. Could it be that Kotetsu came up with this idea himself, and then Himejima or Shinazugawa showed up instead?"
In Uzui's opinion, Mitsuri's behavior probably meant she had seen someone in the team who was either very serious or very difficult to deal with.
Yes, the two people he just mentioned correspond to these two.
By the way, Kotetsu ran, so he arrived the fastest; Mitsuri half-ran, so she came in second; and he walked, so he was the slowest.
He clasped his hands together and tucked them into the cuffs of his sleeves, then slowly swayed to the doorway.
Then...
The scene inside the house also came into his view...
Once everyone had arrived, Doma slightly turned his head, then raised his hand and waved lightly in front of him, greeting them with a smile:
"Kongniqiwa!!!"