A Cook, A Doctor, A Ghost and A Ronin.

Type Zero

Tanjiro is stunned for a split seconds, observing the mechanical doll that is looking almost exactly identical to the man within his dreams before. He can't believe what he's seeing. Was it just a coincidence? I know that. I recognized the face.

"Its arms...why does it have six?" Tanjiro switched to the little boy and asked why the mechanical doll has six arms. It was very unusual.

"Its arms...according to my father, that doll was modeled on an actual swordsman back in the day." The boy explained everything that he knew about the doll. 

"My father said that if it didn't have six arms, it couldn't recreate that swordsman's movements." Tanjiro is impressed, very impressed by that. Because the movement of the swordsman is too fast, they need to make it with six arms to truly replicate how fast it actually is.

"Who was that swordsman? Where was he from and what did he do?" Tanjiro tried to get more information about the mysterious swordsman. Tanjiro knew that it wasn't a coincidence. I feel like I know him somewhere, but I'm not sure.

"Sorry, but I don't know much about it. It was during Sengoku period if I weren't mistaken." The boy apologize as he do not have any information regarding the man that Tanjiro wanted to know about. The only thing he could tell Tanjiro is that the doll was made back in Sengoku Period.

"Th-the Sengoku Period?! You mean...over 300 years ago?! The doll hasn't been broken once in all this time?!" Tanjiro is shocked over the fact that the mechanical doll is still standing despite it has been over 300 years. 

"It is an amazing technology that we can't match even today. If it breaks, we can't repair it." The boy stated. The engineering that is put on this doll is what you could say as insanity. Until now, no one could fix it.

"My father died suddenly and I'm the only child he'd gotten. I have to do a good job, but I have no talent when it comes to swords or mechanical things." The boy is trembling. The pressure is getting up to him.

"I see..." Tanjiro understood. The pressure of bringing the family name on your back is a heavy burden. And this child had to carry it at such a young age.

"That's why we're different from those who had talents. They could achieve something that's regarded as impossible and make it possible." The boy sighed while referencing Muichiro for his talents.

*Gawk!*

"Of course! That boy descend from users of Sun Breathing!" A crow with huge eyelashes interrupted their talk and brag about how powerful Muichiro is.

"He's a genius! He's on a whole different than you lot! Tee-he-he-he-he!" The crow was Muichiro's Kasugai Crow. It kept on bragging about Muichiro with arrogance.

"Are you Tokito's crow? By Sun Breathing, you mean the original style of breathing? Is he really that incredible? He doesn't use Sun Breathing, right?" Tanjiro provide a good point. Muichiro use Mist Breathing not Sun Breathing. 

"Shut up!! I'll peck out your eyes!" Didn't know what to respond with, the crow attacked Tanjiro. 

*Fwoo!*

*Bok!*

As the crow is busy pecking on Tanjiro's hair, another crow appeared out of nowhere. It dashed straight towards Muichiro's crow and attack it with the beal. Muichiro's crow was knocked out instantly. 

"Haha! Well done, Koshinuke!" Turns out it was Koshinuke all along. Zoro appeared from the woods. Clapping his hands for his crow. Muichiro's crow was knocked out cold.

"Eek! Th-thank you!!" The crow is fidgeting. Earlier, Zoro told him to attack the mean crow. Koshinuke refused, saying that he couldn't do it since he's too scared. But his mind was changed when Zoro said he's craving for some karaage.

"That's one less problems I guess. How're you guys doing?" Zoro asked if they were okay or not. Tanjiro and the boy nodded simultaneously. The boy bowed in front of Zoro as a sign of thanks and gratitude.

"Thank you for helping me!" The boy is grateful that a lot of people came to his help this day. He never expected this many people that stand up to him.

"Don't mention it. I'm going down for a grub. Achoo! And probably some meds too." Zoro wiped his nose. He's been sneezing since the fight.

"Wait, where's Muichiro?" Zoro didn't answer at all. Tanjiro looked to left and right. There's no sighting of the Mist Hashira at all. Did he go the opposite way?

"He had already gone. Don't worry about him." Zoro didn't said anything about him defeating Muichiro. Although he could see a very high potential on the airhead. The sparring between the two is excellent. He's thinking of he should ask Muichiro to train with him on daily basis. Nah, he'll forgot about it soon.

What's more interesting for him is the mechanical doll. He is quite interested with this mechanical doll. Having six arms in total paired with swords. Is this a sparring robot or something? Zoro thought.

"What the hell is this?" Zoro pointed at the mechanical doll. Wanting to know what the hell is this shit.

"This is a mechanical doll for the purpose of sparring that my ancestors built. Yoriichi Type Zero!" The boy yet again presented his precious family creation to Zoro.

"Sounds fun, can I try it?" Zoro wanted to try this mechanical doll.

"I'm sorry, but the doll might be break if it is used yet again." Tanjiro replied to the question. Zoro could just watch it then.

"I could gave you guys an exception." Zoro's frowned turned upside down. The boy was willing to give it since both of them did stand up to him. It's his way of paying the debt.

"Anyway, why do you really want to know about him?" The boy seems to be curious at why Tanjiro wanted to know more about the man.

"I remember something in my dream. I saw the person inside my dream." Tanjiro continues to ramble about things randomly until he he realized what he was doing.

"S-sorry, I'm strange am I?" Tanjiro apologizes for rambling about things that are not logic at all. He's a bit embarrassed about it. He was about to tell the boy to forget about it but the boy replied.

"No! No! Maybe it's an inherited memory! People in our village talk about things like that! Families pass on more than their outward appearance." The boy suggested to Tanjiro that it was probability burned to ashes.

"The first time they make a sword, they might remember seeing the scene. Living creatures can also inherit memories or remember somethings they haven't been experiences." The boy explained.

"The dream  you had must have been ancestors marine! That's a fantasy!" The boy managed to cheer Tanjiro had after all of those that had happened.

"Thank you. That's kind of you. I'm Tanjiro, what's your name?" Tanjiro introduces himself since he forgot to do so before.

"My name is Kotetsu!" The boy replied.