Chapter 9: Here Comes the 3rd

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Something.

"They're hiding something from me and I can feel it. It's annoying me. What is there to hide from me...", Inosuke clunches his fists. "Do you know, twintails?!", he asks the girl with two blue butterfly clips, each for her twintails in front of him. 

"I have absolutely no idea", Aoi answered with an absolute flat tone. She had no idea why Inosuke is talking to her. Their classes are different in the first place. She just wants to read her book in peace.

"I need to figure out what they're doing behind my back. What do you think I should do, twintails??"

Aoi sighs and closes her book. "Why are you talking to me in the first place? We're in different classes."

"Ha?", Inosuke tilts his head and frowns, "I don't get you. I'm just talking to you because I want to."

Aoi widens her eyes in surprise. She wasn't expecting him to respond like that. "...Huh, you sure you're not just here to annoy me..?"

"No, I'm here to annoy you."

"You—"

"But," Inosuke quickly cuts Aoi. He looks straight into her eyes, "I wasn't lying when I said I wanted to talk to you."

Hearing that, Aoi can't help but turn into a blushing mess. Inosuke grins both mischievously and happily when he saw her reaction.

Aoi closes her eyes and repeatedly breathes in and out to calm herself down. Her heart was beating so fast. "...Is that so? Anyway, I think you should just talk to them about it. You're not the sort of person to usually think this hard. Just do what you want to do."

"Ooh!!", Inosuke beams, "I knew I could count on you, Twintails

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"Ooh!!", Inosuke beams, "I knew I could count on you, Twintails. You always manage to solve my problems. You're right~ I should just talk to them head-on! Bye, Aoi!! I'll see you later." Inosuke stands up and immediately ran off. 

Hearing she managed to help him was pretty nice. Aoi waves bye-bye to Inosuke and finally notices all the stares that are on her. She changes her mind. "...No. Please don't come to me anymore." Aoi sighs as she grows more conscious of how noisy her classmates are.

Though on second thought, she doesn't mind it.

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It was already noon. Kamado waved goodbye at Agatsuma who is now getting ready to lock the gate back. Kamadk looked up and didn't forget to wave goodbye at Tanjiro and Zenitsu who were peeking outside the window.

As he walked back home, Kamado sighs.

In the end, because they weren't getting anywhere, they decided to take a break from talking about the other world. Agatsuma didn't hesitate at all from telling them what to do and what not to do. Tanjiro and Zenitsu were overwhelmed at first but slowly, they started to understand and began to ask a lot of questions back.

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