My Time As A Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba x Male Reader)

Back With Master (CH.21)

Y/N's Pov

After making sure that I had done everything I had to do on my mother's grave. From showing my respects, to telling her everything I had to. I prepared to leave, just making sure that everything was in place one last time, and then walked out of my house.

As I went towards the town, I also realized just how much had the plants changed since the first time I came. Not only had the flowers changed a lot since then, but the arrangement had changed by itself, and the simple trails that were once arranged as a path towards the house, were now a bunch of combined shapes of multiple sizes, and despite having no real consensus, they were all in a beautiful shape. Mother deserved nothing less for her resting place.

As I passed through the town, I considered going to talk with Mr. Takashi for a while, but nightfall was only about one or two hours away, so I had to get going already. I did pass by his house to say goodbye, and after hearing my reasoning to leave quickly, Mr. Takashi was comprehensible, and left me to go on way.

With a quick calculation, I assumed that I would get just right before night if I ran, so I immediately got to it. Despite having just come out of the final selection, I was feeling pretty well after a night at butterfly mansion, and a bit of time with Kocho, so with my pace, I would be able to arrive in time.

The trail was already starting to get familiar, since I had walked it quite sometimes already, but I didn't get tired of it. The looks were quite frankly amazing, more now that we were transitioning to autumn and the trees were becoming of that characteristic orange, yellow-ish tone. A beautiful view that Mother always enjoyed, and that I would like to show someone else at some point.

As I got into the town near Master's house, I was relieved to see that my predictions were right, and that it was around half an hour before night. I was just in route to get on time when someone took notice of my presence. "Hey, Y/N. Fancy seeing you again. How much has it been? Five days? Six?" Asked Mrs. Korei, a nice old lady who I met shortly after arriving here.

I chuckled lightly at her comment, and then said to her. "Eight days, to be precise. I've been quite busy." She chuckled back at my comment, and then continued talking.

"I can see that, though you look pretty well. A bit buffier than last time as well. You've been eating well." This made me laugh a bit more than before, and she did a bit as well, and then she continued talking. "By the way, I don't think you've ever taken the time to look at the girls of the town. You and your 'Master' are always to busy training. None of them caught your eye?" This got a bit nervous, and I also got to scratch the back of my neck with embarrassment.

It took me a bit of time to formulate my answer, and in the end, I simply said. "Not really. There's one that kind off got my eye, but I'm not entirely sure if that'll build up to anything. She doesn't really live close either, so it something that's growing slow on top of that." My expression probably also showed that I was quite concerned about this, and she seemed to notice this, because she next said to me.

"Hmm, alright, if you say so, but you should always keep your mind open. I'm pretty sure that my granddaughter has been eyeing you a bit." And then she delivered a wink towards me. This also got a chuckle out of me, but this one was a bit more awkward to be honest, however, I didn't want to be rude, so I just said.

"A-Anyway, I should get going already. It's been quite a while since I last saw Master." And as I waved slightly at her, I started walking away, but that's when she said.

"Oh, silly me, sorry for keeping you for so long." I was about to say that it wasn't that big of a deal, but she wasn't quite done yet. "Sorry for asking this, but would you mind helping me take this to my house? I bought a couple groceries, but they turned out to be way heavier than I expected." Looking at the stuff she was referring, it was quite a lot of stuff, but nothing I couldn't handle.