𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙔

Chapter 01

❝Pretty 01❞

He remembers walking silently in the middle of the rowdy crowds during that time.

People are living peacefully, children laughing on the street, vendors arguing of whoever takes customers and so on and so forth. Overall, there is no demon insight which makes him smile a little bit. No matter how noisy it is, as long as there are no people dying because of demons and no humans being slaughtered as a part of the food chain, it was peaceful for the former hashira.

'Genya, Mom, I wish you are here to see this'

But then his serene walk was stopped as a girl suddenly bumped into him, she was about to fall down but then Sanemi managed to grab her waist to avoid her from falling.

'Lavender'

"Oh my God, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry", she said in a hurry before running away from his grasp as he then saw a group of men and an old woman running after her.

"Chase her! Make sure to take her back to the brothel", Sanemi just continues to walk as if he never did anything before as the crowds beside him take their step back to let the tugs pass by and not get into trouble.

"Isn't that the Oiran of Nagazumo?".

"Yes,I heard she was getting sold to an rich old man from the other village",

"Isn't that good for her? To marry someone rich?"

"I don't know, maybe she wants someone younger and handsome"

"Pfft, as a prostitute? Who would've want to accept someone dirty as her?", Before the man can continue his head suddenly made an impact to the wall beside him making his friend cried out loud for what just happen.

Sanemi on the other hand just sighs before putting the remaining rocks away just using the technique that the late Mist Pillar, Muichiro did to knock down Tanjiro back on their Pillar Meeting.

"Ah, I'm hungry"...

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"You got to be kidding me"

He thought he can just eat and sleep peacefully for the night but then here he is,

Staring at his futon which is used by a random woman he don't even know.

"Hey, wake up", he said but the woman just grunted before rolling unto the sheet to cover herself, continuing her sleep.

An irkmark suddenly appears on the former hashira's forehead.

"I said wake up you damn woman!"

"I'm up! I'm up", she yelled in surprise just after being taken away from her slumber.

"Did you have fun? ", She slowly turn her head only to see an angry man beside her.

"Sleeping on other people's house and even using their things without permission, you know that I can sue you for trespassing right?"

He remembers that moment as clear as the sun.

Her (color) orbs stares at him with few tears that's about to fall as he can't help but stare at is as if he's hardly captivated. It's just simple mesmerizing, simply beautiful.

Of course,he eventually ignores that thoughts, it's Shinazugawa Sanemi we're talking about here.

"I'm very sorry, please don't sue me", here they are in the living room with her head currently on the floor as she bows to him.

With him staring at her as his arms are crossed, casually looking at her and about to loose his patience.

He just sigh.

"Fine, fine, just leave will you?", But she didn't move from her position.

"I can't"

"Huh?"

"It's already dark, I can't go out anymore"

"You still have feet, what do you mean can't go out anymore?"

"I-I'm afraid of the dark!",

"Do I look like I care about that? Just go out! And it's also inappropriate for a unmarried man and woman to be together, specially at night, just go out will you?"

"Then, please marry me!"

"Huh? Are you crazy or you just felt like you're still half asleep?", He yells but then she got up and wrap herself in his thighs,clearly crossing their boundary.

"Oi, let me go, you damn woman!", How he wish she's a man so he can simple kick her to get her off his feet.

"I'm wide awake! Please marry me, I can cook, I can clean, I can do dishes,I can do laundry, I can even sing and dance, I can even make songs, poems and take care of myself so Please marry me!"

"What the-".

"I'm an Oiran, if I go out now, that owner of our brothel will certainly catch me and sell me out the moment she sees me, so please, ahm..." She looks at him, probably sinking in thay she don't know his name yet.

He rolls his eyes.

"Sanemi, Shinazugawa Sanemi "

"Shinazugawa-sama, please let me stay here, you can simply marry me without dowry and you can take another wife soon and I won't care but please let me in your house for at least a month"

Sanemi just sigh for the umpteenth times.

"Oi, do you know what you're talking about right now?"

"Yes", he then hit her in the head lightly making her hold loose which gives Sanemi and opportunity to get off her clutch.

"You can't just ask a stranger to marry you! What would you do if I'm a rapist or a criminal? Hah?"

"But you're not", she then smiles a little bit while rubbing her head.

"How are you sure about that?"

"You didn't hurt me, nor slap me, you didn't do anything to cause me pain, instead you're concerned for a prostitute like me, you're simply kind Shinazugawa-sama, I know it"

"Hah?", Kind? Him? In what way? Who the hell is she to call him kind anyway?

"And also..."

"And also what?"

"You're... you're so beautiful Shinazugawa-sama, everything about you, specially your scars, they are very pretty", as much as he want to believe that she is lying, he can clearly see red hue all over her face which makes him question all the decision on her life.

Shinazugawa Sanemi, a former Wind Hashira, survived the war against demons, plans to live a peaceful life until he dies but here he is now

Facing a battle against a stranger who casually enters his house and now is proposing to him.

"That's why, please! Marry me!"

@cwynnie