KNY | The Boat Of Humanity (Tanjirou x Muichiro)

Chapter 20 - Blood Bags

Muichiro's POV

I shoveled a spoonful of cooked eggs into my mouth, they were heavenly tasting after being starved all night. I had to hold myself back when I saw Tanjirou coming out of the separate hallway. He looked the slightest bit pissed, neither of us said anything to each other. Not that I was staring or anything, but Tanjirou's boner had gone down. It must've taken a while though since he was like almost 10 whole minutes behind me.

"Where were you Tontaro, you were gone forever" Inosuke asked as Tanjirou sat down.

"Oh it doesn't really matter, I'm here now," Tanjirou smiled sweetly.

"K, whatever then" Inosuke scoffed as he returned to his breakfast.

And all of a sudden I felt kind of bad, he got all the scraps and that still wasn't a lot and the food was probably cold by now.

'I'll have to make it up to him' I thought to myself with a small sigh.

The rest of the breakfast was more peaceful, and surprisingly enough Inosuke didn't start a fight with anyone throughout the entire meal. I was a bit impressed with his manners all of a sudden.

Last night the ship was moving but we had now stopped in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't totally sure why but I didn't feel like asking. Although, weren't we supposed to arrive to land yesterday?

I don't know, something felt off entirely. The captains weren't anywhere to be seen and the crew was just doing their own thing, only some of them were on the deck unlike other days and even then they were just wandering around aimlessly and some were just leaning against the railing. It was as if the gears of the boat had just stopped working.

I walked the halls of the ship, I didn't know what I was doing. I was pretty bored, so I decided to go down into the hull. Maybe there was something fun in Shinobu's secret cupboard.

I pranced down there, I personally wasn't a doctor but maybe I could have some fun screwing around.

The big cupboard was still unlocked so I was just poking around in there, there wasn't much in there, if anything it was almost empty. But it was deep so I leaned in a bit to be able to reach the very back, somehow, in a way that requires incredible skill, I tripped on a flat surface.

I fell into the cupboard and banged my head on the shelf, but my arm reached the back of the cupboard and I felt something be pushed back against my weight.

I pulled my arm out and rubbed at my temple slightly where I had hit my head, I stared to where my hand had pushed back whatever was at the back of the cupboard. There was some sort of little wall or something that had my hand mark on it where I had pressed on it.

I looked into the cupboard, it's as if I had pushed into styrofoam or something. I reached into the cupboard again and felt at the back, my face was squished between my shoulder and the wooden shelf and even then I could hardly touch it.

"I need someone with longer arms" I sighed to myself.

I closed the cupboard doors and went upstairs, the captains were still missing and everyone was doing whatever they wanted. I found Tanjirou in the kitchen talking with Mitsuri and helping her wash up the dishes.

"Tanjirou, I need your help" I said from the door frame as he finished putting some plates away.

"With what?" He asked as he moved to lean against the counter.

"There's something that I can't reach, and I need help" I explained.

"Like on a shelf?" He asked with a raised brow.