Hi! Author here!

My finals are still not over, unfortunately.

Luckily, I got some spare time since it's a weekend, so here's a new chapter just for you guys! I'm taking the opportunity to write moments with the characters that have been kind of cast aside in the book lol

Also, thanks for all the good luck comments in the last chapter! You guys are so nice to me that honestly I feel kinda undeserving of it sometimes- But I'm always grateful tho!

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“Giyuu-san! Is there a flower that makes people sad?” Kiyo, who was dusting a table, suddenly asked him.

“… What?”

“I saw Y/N crying while looking at the flower dictionary the other day, I was just wondering!”

“….th-”

“Kiyo, there you are! Do you know whe-” Y/N interrupted them, but stopped talking after noticing Giyuu standing beside the kid.

“Giyuu! Good morning!” She flashed a smile at him, which he just responded by awkwardly giving a candy to her and leaving in quick steps. “Bye Giyuu!”

He panicked because she smiled at him and ended up doing whatever came up in his mind only to leave just after.

“What were you two talking about?”

“Nothing!”

He could hear their small conversation in the distance.

Giyuu himself wasn't so sure about what he felt for Y/N, it was the first time that someone would go out of their way to approach him and even have so many conversations. (though most of them are one-sided, he panics when he has to think of an answer and ends up not saying anything)

In that sense, Y/N is quite similar to Tanjiro, just….louder.

“Oh! It's you Tomioka-san! Walking alone as always, I see!” Shinobu was starting to feel annoyed with these constant encounters she's having with him, she really was looking forward for them to finally finish what they were assigned to do and to have him finally back to his hole or whatever.

“Ah! Y/N isn't with you? You decided to leave your shadow post?”

“…she is….”

“She is?”

“ … Too blinding.”

They just stood there in complete silence for some minutes, before Shinobu let out a sweet giggle, you could tell it was a faked one.

“Y/N is adorable, right? And she's kind, right?” She tilted her head, her smiling face not being enough to hide her real thoughts.

“Because she is nice to everyone, sometimes people that don't know their place think they can assume that her actions of kindness are with the intention of something more, than they go with their stinky black hair and stupid blue eyes to put their filthy hand all over her! Funny, right? Haha!”

“…” He gulped. Shinobu is scary.

“Oh! But I'm not talking about you Tomioka-san! Of course not! I'm talking about ANOTHER person with black hair and blue eyes!”

“…yeah… I know…”

“Good!” She patted his shoulder, leaving while acting like this whole conversation didn't happen.

After this, he ended up going to the library, but definitely not because he feared running into Shinobu again and went to the place where the people go the least.

But maybe that was destiny, who knows? After all, if Shinobi hasn't freaked him out that day, then he wouldn't go to the library, and then he wouldn't remember about what Kiyo told him, and then he wouldn't go read the flower dictionary.

Butterfly effect is really such a strange thing, right?

Normally, there would be no way of knowing what flower Y/N was looking at, but unfortunately for her, she left a trace.

Since she closed the book so suddenly in the day Kiyo caught her, it didn't have an opportunity to properly dry the tears that splashed in it, and the result of this was that the page Y/N was reading had a lot of very recognizable droplets stains.

“… Lenten roses…?” He whispered to himself, confused.

Maybe these flowers just had a personal reason for being sad for her? Or she was crying for another reason and just happened to be reading that page?

Whatever the reason was, he couldn't connect how these flowers would fit in it.

Even so, all of this wasn't pointless, after all, Giyuu just got a piece of the puzzle of what was going on.

When all the pieces are put together, what will happen? I wonder.

But back to Y/N, she had to ask Kiyo for help after losing ( once again ) her watering can.

She really was set in taking care of the flowers she planted with Kanao, after all, even if she won't be there to see them bloom, it's still something she wants to cherish while she's alive.

However, as she was walking happily with the watering can (which was filled with drawings that the three butterfly kids made together with her), she noticed someone… quite recognizable standing there, looking blankly at the distance.

“Oh… Hi! Uhm- Muichiro, right? What are you doing here?” She approached him, a polite smile in her face.

In response, he only stared blankly at her, before looking down at the floor and saying nonchalantly: “I don't know.”

“Oh- You forgot?”

“I guess?”

“Uhm… What's that in your finger?” She asked, attempting to keep the conversation moving.

There was a red ribbon tied up in his indicator finger, he stared with a cold expression, proceeding to say : “Someone said that I should tie it in my finger, so when I looked at it, I would know that I needed to remember something, but… I don't remember what is it.”

“Do you remember who said that to you?”

“Not really.”

“Okay! Then I know what I will do today! Muichiro, let's discover what you're supposed to remember!”

“…. I don't even know who you are, why would I accept your help?”

“Unless you want to stand there without knowing what to do for the rest of the day, I would accept the help.”

“…” Though he doesn't really express emotions, Y/N could almost swear she saw his eyebrows twitch in annoyance for a second.

“… My name is Y/N! You probably won't remember it by the time we are inside, but it's always good to do introductions!” She commented with a smile, taking his hand and guiding him over.

“So, Muichiro, do you remember what you generally do in your day?”

“...Why would you need to know that?”

“I don't know, maybe it's something related to it?”

“I think I… train? I don't know.”

“It's a start!”

First things first, they had to check with the people who worked at the house.

So, they first went to Aoi.

“Huh? Him? I don't think he got hurt recently, so I guess it's not for treatment.”

Shinobu.

“Oh, he already did his weekly check-up, so it's not for that!”

Kanao.

“I- We never really talked to each other, I-I'm sorry that I couldn't be of help…”

Naho, Kiyo and Sumi.

“I don't know!”

“Maybe it's because he got hurt?”

“But he looks fine to me?”

Even Daki, since she's been spending a lot of time with Shinobu in her office recently, maybe she might know something…?

“It's my first time seeing him, sorry, Y/N.”

“Hmmmmhh!” Nezuko patted Y/N's in an attempt to comfort her.

After that total defeat, they were in the garden, Y/N was drawing in the dirt with a branch, a gloomy aura floating around her. “No one has any idea about what it could be-”

“… Why are you so upset? It's not like its something that would affect you.” Muichiros asks, a small frown in his face.

“Well, I said that I would help, didn't I? So, it's normal for me to be sad.”

“I don't even know who you are-”

“It's Y/N!”

“I didn't ask for your name.”

“It's always good to do proper introductions!”

“That's nonsense.”

“So cold!” She commented with a playful smile, she didn't really looked offended even though he was talking so harshly to her, only going back to draw in the dirt while humming a random song.

“… What are you doing?” He crouched beside her, looking at the drawing in the dirt.

“Drawing you as a sign of our friendship!”

“That's an ugly drawing. And we aren't friends.”

“Ouch.”

“Who even are you anyway-”

“It's fine, I can do this a hundred times over! I'm Y/N! A bright girl who's secretly a magical girl at night, who fight crimes and kills bad guys!”

“…. I have the impression that you did some kind of joke, but I don't have the capability to understand it.”

“Just remember that I'm Y/N!”

He didn't respond to her, only staring at her face without any expression.

“…? Is there something at my face?”

“You talk a lot, don't you? You're kind of annoying.”

“T-that's mean!”

“… But I suppose that I should still say 'thank you' anyway, though I don't really remember what I should be thanking you for.”

“Pfft, it's too soon to be acting all grateful! We still didn't find what you were trying to remember!”

“Is there even a point in keep doing that? I don't think we will find it even if we keep looking.”

“So pessimistic! Here, take this branch and draw something!”

“Why?”

“Drawing is good for cleaning minds! So go on!”

Surprisingly, he obediently took the branch and started drawing, mostly because he was already tired of dealing with her and was just going along with whatever she was pulling at this point.

It could have been a heart-warming moment, but a crow suddenly came and started to aggressively peck Y/N's head. “YOU MAKE HIM STAIN HIS HANDS WITH THIS DIRTY BRANCH, YOU BARBARIC WOMAN?!”

Y/N managed to grab the animal, saying with a exasperated expression : “Jeez, let the poor boy have some fun in his life, you annoying thing!”

“WHO ARE YOU CALLING ANNOYING?!”

Ignoring its screams, Y/N just turned back to see what he was drawing. “Oh! Is that you?”

She asked, looking at the surprisingly well done drawing in the dirt while petting the crow in her arms, who, even though it didn't want to, ended up melting in her grasp.

“It's not me.” He answered, coldly.

“But it looks like you, though?”

“But it's not me.”

He looked at the drawing in silence for some seconds, before abruptly getting up and throwing the branch away. “What are we doing again?”

Y/N gulped, she didn't even notice she was holding down her breath. 'For a second, I thought that he was about to remember something-'.

While she was lost in thoughts, the crow managed to escape her grasp. “I WILL REMEMBER THIS HUMILIATION! YOU STUPID HUMAN!”

“I'm always open for petting!” Y/N saying, making weird motions with her hands, the crow cowering in fear in response and hiding behind Muichiro.

“Who are you again?”

“It's Y/N, my dear friend! Now let's go find what you forgot about!” She said brightly, taking his hand and guiding him back inside the back.

“Y/NNN!! WHO'S THAT? DID YOU FIND A GIRLFRIEND IN THIS ONE HOUR OF TIME YOU WERE OUTSIDE?!” Zenitsu screamed while clutching to her clothes, panicking at the sight of the two holding hands (though Muichiro didn't have much of a choice)

“That's Muichiro, and he's not a girl!” Y/N happily introduced him, entirely ignoring Zenitsu's sheer panic.

“THAT'S EVEN WORSEEEEE”

“Can I kill him?” Muichiro said, annoyed.

“Please refrain from spilling blood inside the house.” Shinobu appeared behind them, Y/N letting out a small shriek from fright and Muichiro showing no reaction at all.

“Muichiro, I think I remembered what you were here for! I called you because I wanted to test a new kind of treatment for your amnesia! How could I forget? Silly me!” She said, letting out a small giggle. “Please come with me for a sec.”

As she started to set off, he only looked at Y/N for some seconds, seems like he's waiting for her to say something.

“Well, I guess here is where we say goodbye!” She said with a bright smile, helping him untie the ribbon from his finger.

“… I guess?”

“You probably won't remember me next time we met, but please be my friend again, okay?”

“… We aren't even friends in the first place, Y/N.” He said, before letting go of the girl's hand and walking away to follow Shinobu.

“Aaww man, and here I thought we made progress-” Y/N said gloomily, before suddenly realizing : 'WAIT- DID HE JUST SAY MY NAME??'

He was already too far for her to question it.

“Y/N, can you help us with this??” One of the kids said. “I'm coming!”

She silently looked at her palm as she walked over to them. “Oh- he forgot his ribbon-”

'Well, I can always give it back to him next we met.' The girl thought nonchalantly, before putting the ribbon in her pocket.

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