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ᴋᴏᴛᴏʜᴀ ᴀʙʀᴜᴘᴛʟʏ wakes up and quickly looked for the voice. She looks up and saw urokodaki in the other side of the forest. Silently thanking that she had super strong hearing.

She gets up and helped douma up, she looks at tanjiro and smiled "tanjiro~san let's go" she said softly as tanjiro nodded following the older woman as the sun almost started to shine.

Douma saw it and carried nezuko and ran to his and nezuko's basket and gets in the shrine.

Kotoha looked dumbfounded and he slowly thanked douma for saving nezuko and himself. The duo approach urokodaki who was walking towards the head of the demon.

"A demon won't die from a regular axe-" he cuts off as he look back at the two, his breathing hitched as he saw kotoha staring at the head with a blank gaze and a frown on her face, her arms crossed over her chest and a shadow looming over her face. He continues "what will you do if it doesn't die? ".

Tanjiro sweats as he started to think about how to kill the demon. He looks to kotoha for help but saw that she took a step back before turning around slowly making her way in the shrine. She stopped in front of the front door which was open and looked at tanjiro and says softly as her smell turns into something that of an aggressive as he saw that the sparks in her eyes have died and replaced with straight dark lines " tanjiro... I already know the answer to that Question... You solve it. " after she said it, she entered the shrine.

He looks at the man before him and saw that he was still.. Too still.. "Daishobadaska? " he questioned as he smells uneasiness from the man before him.

Urokodaki couldn't think straight as he thinked of a certain old hashira that was just like kotoha.

Her Raven hair was messy but was tied in a short high ponytail, her White yukata covered in blue spider lillies, her red eyes that screamed pain,agony, guilt, sorrow and so much more, her haori colored ocean the only thing that was bright on her as the patterns were wavy like the ocean.

He finally snapped and saw the head of the demon already disintegrating. He looks back and saw the boy looking shock. He looks at what he was looking at and saw kotoha bridal style all of the corpses in to a burrow.

He approaches the woman and saw that she already have the basket on her back. He helped the woman with burying the corpses one by one.

After they have done it, they said a small prayer. Kotoha felt the wind on her short hair and saw that her hair tips turning into an ocean blue again.

She shrugged it off and helped urokodaki up. They went towards tanjiro, kotoha beside him and urokodaki in front of them. He suddenly pointed at the two of them "you two were sent to me to train until you become strong-" kotoha cuts him off "or die" urokodaki agreed with her.

"Tanjiro.. You were sent by one of my students, while I took kotoha as my student, Kamado.. You will be a student of mine alongside with kotoha" he said as they started walking down.

"Let us go" he started running and tanjiro flinched at how fast the old man was. He looked for kotoha and saw her just staring at urokodaki.

She was holding nezuko's basket with nezuko inside it while douma's basket was on her back. She looked at him and smiled a soft little smile "tanjiro~kun... We should run after urokodaki~san" she hand him nezuko's basket before running after urokodaki.

Tanjiro quickly put on the basket and started running after the two elders.

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They have arrived and tanjiro was tired. He looks towards kotoha breathing a little bit harder but no sweat was seen.

He bends downwards and puts his hands on his knees, kotoha went to his side and patted his back, she looks towards urokodaki and asks "Urokodaki~san.. Was that the training... For running training.. That was quite easy... " she looks to the side and glares at the floor.

"𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠. "