"Huff…puff…can I…rest a bit?"

"Five minutes."

Oh, thank god!" I exclaim as I sat on the ground, Sanemi training is gradually getting easier for me, and with "easier", I mean that I don't feel like I'm dying when I finish it anymore.

"Here."

"What's that?"

"Food."

"…. Why are you giving me food?"

"Just eat it already!"

And then, for the first time, Sanemi showed me kindness. Though the "kindness" was forcibly giving me food.

"Oooh! It's mochi! I have never eaten it before!"

"Eh? Then why did you call me mochi before?"

"That's…well…"

How can I explain that I couldn't say anything beside mochi until a while ago?

"Oh wow! This is really good! Can you bring more tomorrow?"

"DO YOU THINK I AM YOUR DAD?! I'M NOT BUYING YOU FOOD EVERY DAY!"

"AREN'T YOU A HASHIRA?! I BET YOU RECEIVE A BUNCH OF MONEY! YOU SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR STUDENT!"

"YOU'RE ONLY A TEMPORARY STUDENT!"

♡

"Here."

Even though he said all that yesterday, he still brought more.

"Are you a tsundere?"

"SHUT UP!"

♡

After continually losing to Kanao every day, Inosuke and Zenitsu eventually stopped showing up to the training room.

"Just you guys again?! I can't believe those two!"

"I'm sorry! Maybe they will come tomorrow…maybe…"

"No! There's no need to bother with them any longer! Actually, it would be better if you stopped coming too!"

"Eh?"

"Y/N, do you want to start first?"

"what's with this difference in treatment?" Tanjiro mumbles 

We kept loosing for ten days. However, I did manage to win Aoi now that my body got a little stronger, the problem is Kanao.

I could start the total concentration breathing constant sooner, but I want to avoid arousing suspicion, so I will just wait for the girls to tell Tanjiro about it.

"Tanjiro, Y/N, here's a towel!"

"Oh, thank you! How kind!"

"Thanks!"

"Um…Tanjiro, do you do total concentration breathing twenty-four hours a day?"

"…huh?"

"Morning, noon, and night? Do you do total concentration breathing when you sleep?"

"… No… I don't. Even while sleeping? Is that even possible?"

"Yes! Being able to do that makes a world of difference! "

"It's pretty hard doing total concentration breathing even just a little, so all day would be…"

"Some people are able to do it! All the hashira, and Kanao! You should try!"

"Great idea! We're going to try it! Thank you!"

"Let's give your best together, Tanjiro! I'll try not to bleed to death while doing it!" I jokingly say.

"Eeeh?! Please don't bleed to death! I was really worried about you last time!"

"No worries! I don't break easily!"

"… That makes me remember, in the Natagumo Mountain-"

Oh no, he's going to ask about what happened in the mountain! What would I even tell him? That a voice in my head healed me?!

"Mochi."

"… Eh? No- I mean, when Rui-"

"Mochi."

"You were-"

"Mochi."

"Okay, fine, I won't pry if you don't want to tell me."

Y/N is too dumb to think of a better excuse, so she just resorted to repeating “mochi” until he gave up in questioning. 

Which worked for some reason?

♡

We were trying to use total concentration breathing continually, however, after about… I don't know, 10 seconds? Tanjiro falls to the floor.

☆

"There's no way I can do it! I feel like I'm going to die every time I try!"

"Really? I'm totally fineee-" Her nose started to bleed again as she fell to the ground.

"Y/N! DON'T DIEE!"

"Tanjiro and Y/N are working hard every day!"

"Let's bring them some rice balls!"

"And gourds!"

The three girl excitedly say as they watch Tanjiro doing chest compressions to the partially dead Y/N on the floor.

♡

"Blow into the gourds?" Tanjiro comments with his mouth full of rice.

"Yes! When Shinobu was training Kanao, she often made her blow into gourds."

"That's interesting! Does it make a sound?"

"No, you're supposed to burst the gourd."

"Huh? Me? Burst this?"

"Uh-huh! And these are special gourds, they are even harder than normal ones!"

Tanjiro just stood there with a very funny shocked expression.

"And as training went on, the gourds got bigger, the gourd that Kanao is currently working on is…this one." She says, pointing to a massive gourd in the floor.

'It will probably take a while for us to reach her." I comment.

"Yes…but, I'll do my best!"

"If you're going to, then I'll try my best too!"

"I'm counting on you Y/N!"

"Yeah!… But you should probably call Aoi now." Y/N says as her nose once again started to bleed. She then promptly falls in her back, passing out in the wood patio they were sitting.

"Y/N!!"

♡

"…dad, am I going to die?"

"… I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I'm just sad that I couldn't be of more help."

...huh? It was a dream? No....it was a nightmare.

That melancholic feeling is too familiar, I hate it.

The voice…it never talked to me again, but I started to have nightmares now.

I look around the room, everyone was still asleep.

Maybe I should just sneak outside for fresh air.

It was what I thought as I went outside the most silently I could.

Since it was a full moon today, the sky looked beautiful. It makes me kinda sad that in my original world, you can't see so many stars at night.

Since I still couldn't feel any sleepiness, I sat on the edge of the wood patio, still looking at the moon.

"Y/N?"

"Oh…it's you."

I forgot that Zenitsu has a good sense of hearing, even if I try to leave silently it will still wake him up.

☆

She patted the place at her side.

"Sit here."

He just fidgety sat beside her, feeling a little more embarrassed than what he expected.

However, his embarrassment turned into pure shyness as the girl simply put her head in his lap and laid in her back to look at him.

"Y-Y-Y-Y/N?!"

"I can't sleep.Tell me something nice."

"I d-don't think I have anything nice to say-"

"Then what about your family? Or your home?"

He looked at her expectant eyes, unable to refuse the girl, he ended sighing and started to talk: "… I wasn't raised by my parents…the one who raised me was my gramps, he also was the one who trained me to become a demon slayer."

Y/N hummed with her eyes closed, signalling to him to keep going.

"One day, I was too scared of the training, so I climbed in a tree and didn't wanna come down. Then a lightning struck on the tree, and now my hair looks like that."

"Pfft- that sounds just like you."

"Gramps is a really nice person…he wasn't mad at me even though I could only use one of the breathing forms, he also used to make tea every day for us."

"He sounds like a great person…"

"Yeah, he is..."

"You too Zenitsu." She says, slowly opening her eyes.

"Eh?"

"I also think you're a wonderful person…it's…a shame that you… can't see...the same…as me…" She drowsily said as her eyes started to close.

No one ever thought of him as “wonderful” or anything remotely close to that, not even himself. Honestly speaking, if it wasn't for her sincere sounds, he would think that she was messing with him.

He also thinks she's wonderful. There are millions of compliments he wanted to say to her right now, about how she looks like an angel with the moonlight reflecting her features, or in how cute she sounds when she's sleepy, but what he ended up blurting out was :

"… Will you marry me?"

"Pfft- what are you talking about in this situation?"

"I'm being serious this time!"

"Then...maybe later." Was all she said as she slept right there.