I Spy (CURRENTLY UNDERGOING A REWRITE)

Chapter 24: The Mine Raid Part 1

Date: October 4, 2024
Time: 1:28 PM
Location: Butterfly Mansion
Weather: Partly Cloudy

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As Kanae reaches finishes her work on her laptop, she closes her computer as she reaches for her phone, and opens it to a group chat, and smiled at the sight of an ongoing conversation.


Demon Slayer Corps Hashira GC

Sanemi: Tengen, where the f*ck did you put my Ohagi on Wednesday?!

Tengen: Jeeze, you still angry about that? I already told you, I don't know where it is...

Sanemi: Shut the f*ck up, I know it was you who took my lunch!

Tengen: For the last time, no I didn't...

Rengoku: HELLO, EVERYONE!

Mitsuri: Iguro-kun, can you please pass me the mochi?

Iguro: Sure, but why are you texting? We're literally like 5 feet apart?

Mitsuri: Sorry! I thought you were busy with something, it looked like you were deep in thought so I didn't want to disturb you.

Iguro: It's fine Mitsuri... I wouldn't mind talking with you at all.

Mitsuri: Really?! Thank you Iguro-kun!!

Tengen: Meanwhile, we have Iguro and Mitsuri being the lovebirds they are here as well.

Sanemi: Oi! We ain't done with our conversation!

Tengen: Oh boy...

Muichiro: Where am I??? 

Tengen: Ah yes, the man who flamboyantly punched me in the gut has entered the chat

Sanemi: HEY

Tengen: Why are still upholding about some dam Ohagi!? It was literally 2 days ago

Sanemi: Because that was my bloody lunch

Rengoku: UMAI!

Tengen: Rengoku, please help me out... also... why are you saying UMAI...?

Rengoku: UMAI! Can't, I'm eating right now! 

Tengen: Wat

Giyu: ...

Shinobu: Ara ara Tomioka-san, why are you not communicating?

Giyu: ...

Shinobu: Y'know, this is why you will always be a loner.

*Kanae has entered the chat*

Kanae: Ara ara Shinobu, I thought you were grading papers, what are you doing here chatting with the others?

Shinobu: Nee-san! I-um... I finished the papers a while ago, so I just decided to come here in order to tease Tomioka-san.

Giyu: Seriously?

Shinobu: Shut up loner!

Kanae: Shinobu please be kind to your fellow colleagues, even if he is a bit more introverted than us.

Kanae: You too, Sanemi-kun!

Sanemi: Ye-yes ma'am...

Tengen: Thank you Kocho, Sanemi has been DM'ing me ever since Thursday since he accused me of stealing his Ohagi.

Kanae: Sanmei-kunnn, I didn't know that you were this upheld about some Ohagi.

Sanemi: But it was made by you, I didn't want to let your food go to waste so I wanted to eat it for lunch.

Kanae: How considerate of you Sanemi-kun! But please don't be so angry about it, I can always make another batch of Ohagi, especially for you!

Sanemi: Thanks Kanae...

Kanae: Now that we got that over with, please apologize to Tegen-kun over here.

Sanemi: Sorry Tengen...

Tengen: I flamboyantly accept your apology, my dear friend!

Rengoku: UMAI!

Muichiro: Who are you people...

Mitsuri: KYAAA! Hello Kanae-chan!

Kanae: Hello Mitsuri-chan!

Iguro: Everybody's online...

Shinobu: Including the loner!

Giyu: I'm not alone... People like me...

Shinobu: People will only like you if you socialize more Tomioka-san!

Giyu: I don't need to socialize in order to get people to like me...

Shinobu: Really? Then why is it that you have no friends?

Giyu: I-

Rengoku: UMAI!

Tengen: Still eating bud?

Rengoku: Yep!

*Gyomei has entered the chat*

Gyomei: Good morning everyone.

Iguro: Oh yeah, I forgot about Goymei...

Mitsuri: Hello Gyomei!

Gyomei: Good morning Mitsuri and others.

Kanae: Hello Gyomei!

Gyomei: Hello Kanae.

Sanemi: Wait how are you ty- oh wait braille.

Goymei: Indeed it is Sanemi.

Rengoku: I have just finished eating, I am now fully online!

Kanae: Good! Now that everyone is online, I have a question to ask you all!

Sanemi: What is it?

Tengen: I will flamboyantly answer that question!

Giyu: ?

Shinobu: Ara ara Tomioka-san, it seems like you can't even reply properly too.

Giyu: ...

Mitsuri: What is it Kanae-chan

Gyomei: You may speak your question Kanae.

Rengoku: What is this question of yours?!

Kanae: Does everyone know what happened on the news today?

Rengoku: Ah yes Kocho, something about a mass murder!

Gyomei: I shall pray for those souls who lost their lives that day.

Mitsuri: KYAAA! Really! A murder?! Here!

Iguro: Mitsuri calm down, you are panicking too much...

Mitsuri: S-sorry Iguro-kun!

Tengen: Ah yes that flamboyant murder that happened last night!

Sanemi: ...

Iguro: ...

Giyu: ...

Tengen: What?!

Sanemi: Anyways...Yeah, I heard about it.

Iguro: Same here.

Muichiro: Where am I again? And what are those clouds shaped like?

Sanemi: Let's move on from him, I'm sure he heard about it and stored it somewhere in that brain of his.

Giyu: Yeah, I saw the news...

Shinobu: Ara ara Tomioka-san, are you really that boring that you watch the news all day?

Giyu: I watch other things...

Shinobu: Like what?

Giyu: ...

Kanae: Ok, anyways everybody. I just want to talk about a few things about what happened in the news that could play into our next move on finding out who that man or person is.

Mitsuri: REALLY?!

Iguro: Now I am interested.

Sanemi: Ditto.

Giyu: ...

Shinobu: I believe that is loner for "I am paying attention." 

Tengen: What a flamboyant discovery you have made Kocho!

Gyomei: Please tell us Kocho.

Muichiro: Who are you?

Rengoku: That is certainly good news!

Kanae: You guys know how government agents came to the scene?

Sanemi: ARE YOU SAYING THAT GUY IS LINKED WITH THE GOVERNMENT?!

Kanae: Sanemi-kun, please calm down.

Sanemi: Y-yes...

Iguro: He's with the government?!

Mitsuri: Oh my, we may be in trouble.

Tengen: This is not as flamboyant as I thought it would be...

Rengoku: This may be a problem Kocho.

Giyu: I believe so too.

Shinbou: Ara, looks like you're talking again!

Kanae: Shinobu, I think it's the time to stop, it's getting serious after all.

Shinobu: Yes nee-san.

Gyomei: This man may be the cause of our downfall if we don't stop him.

Kanae: That's what I thought.

Sanemi: This threat may be more serious than we thought after all.

Iguro: Yeah same.

Shinobu: I believe we should tell Master about this tomorrow.

Rengoku: I will do it since I will be the first to meet him.

Kanae: Since we have that covered, let's discuss what we are dealing with right now.

Sanemi: As demon slayers, we are currently dealing with two problems.

Iguro: Demons and the government...

Tengen: And since we have a potential government agent on our a*ses, we might need to deal with this more cautiously.

Mitsuri: It's so tense here...

Kanae: It seems that you are right Mitsuri-chan!

Iguro: Wait, I thought you said this was se-

Kanae: That doesn't mean we can't have a little fun.

Sanemi: Pft.

Tengen: So anyways, just a random thought, I just wanted to know who this man is...

Tengen: What if it could be someone we know or something?

Sanemi: I highly doubt that either way, nothing could stop us from our current goal of killing all demons.

Kanae: Sanemi-kun does have a point.

Rengoku: I agree!

Shinobu: I also wanted to know why he has been targeting our ore supplies.

Mitsuri: Maybe he found something interesting in our ore...

Iguro: I mean, our ore is unique due to its properties.

Sanemi: Maybe that's why he is targeting it.

Muichiro: What are you guys talking about?

Tengen: Nothing bud...

Kanae: Why don't we give that man a new name? We can't just keep calling him "that man"! Sounds boring!

Shinobu: Wait what?

Tengen: I shall give this man a flamboyant nickname!

Sanemi: Wait we are here now?

Iguro: Count me out.

Giyu: Same.

Rengoku: I like that sound of that!

Mitsuri: KYAAA! I hope it will be a cool nickname!

Tengen: I have decided to nickname him...

Tengen: Masked Outlaw!

Sanemi: It's ehh...

Iguro: Agreed.

Mitsuri: I think it's cool!

Iguro: S-same here.

Rengoku: Very cool nickname, Tengen!

Kanae: It's amazing!

Giyu: It's good I guess.

Shinobu: So you finally decided to chime in loner?

Giyu: Yes...

Shinobu: You're so hopeless Tomioka-san.

Giyu: ...

Kanae: Anyways, with that settled, I believe our conversation is over about what happened on the news and we have finally come up with a new nickname for the man.

Kanae: And while I am here, why don't we talk about something we did in our lives? Y'know, brighten up the day!

Iguro: Oh yeah Tengen where is my 100 yen?

Tengen: ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME


As Kanae texted with her fellow teachers and Hashiras, she can be heard letting out a few giggles from her room as she heard the front door close, meaning that her two youngest sisters have left the house along with their patients.

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Date: October 5, 2024
Time: 5:45 AM
Location: Principal's Office
Weather: Mostly Cloudy

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As Ubuyashiki sat in his office while filling out paperwork and taking calls from both external numbers and numbers from the other teachers.

"It seems that a lot of people would like to join this school..." Ubuyashiki thought as he smiled, "I'm glad that many people want to join our institution."  He thought as he continued to file paperwork.

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A few minutes pass by of pure silence and serenity. Ubuyashiki was so focused on his work that he didn't even notice the knock on the door.


As the knocking got louder, he was finally snapped out of his trance as he looked towards the door a bit startled, but still keeping his soft smile plastered on his face.

"Come in" he softly spoke as a man with yellow hair and red tips came in.

"Ah, Rengoku-san, please sit down." Ubuyashiki said as he pointed to the seat in front of his desk.

"Thank you for the offer Master, but it's really one thing I just want to talk about," Rengoku said as he closed the door behind him. "Then please speak what you want to say." Ubuyashiki asked, "I and the other Hashira talked about this yesterday about what happened on the news a few nights ago." Rengoku said as he scratched his head, "The murder right? I also saw it too, I suspected that it was that man who was behind that." Ubuyashiki calmly spoke. "We also suspected that to Master, but we just want to tell you that we have another inquiry about him." Rengoku said, "Please say this inquiry of yours, my child." Ubuyashiki replied, "Since we already knew government agents came on the scene, we suspected that he might be working with or apart of the government. That's all Master..." Rengoku said as Ubuyashiki went silent for a second.

"Very well Rengoku-san, you may leave, I will address this issue myself, thank you for informing me." Ubuyashiki said as Rengoku nodded and left the office.

Ubuyashiki then got on his phone and started to dial a number as the phone began to ring.

The call was answered with a "Hello?" From the other side, "Yes, hello, please tell the crows to follow the convoy that will be picking up the ore shipment on Friday." Ubuyashiki said into his phone, "Aye, sir, how many do you want?" The voice said back, "A 'modest' number." Ubuyashiki calmly said with a smile on his face.

"Very well sir, as you please." The voice said as Ubuyashiki's phone beeped as the voice ended the call, Ubuyashiki smiled, "This may be a bit more serious than I thought..." He thought as his smile dropped a bit before rising up again.

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Date: October 11, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Tanjiro's House
Weather: Clear

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"... and that was when Inosuke flew through the roof..." Tanjiro said as his best friend laughed hysterically.

"Ah... dam bro, didn't expect them to be this chaotic.." Minato said as he tried to calm down, "Yeah, they're a real bunch of gremlins." Tanjiro replied as he chuckled a bit, recalling that memory. "They kinda sound similar to us and the others though. With the stupid shit that we've done." 

Tanjiro smiled, "Yep, I can't wait to come back to HQ."

"And about that. The others are coming back too!" 

Tanjiro pumped his fist in a mini-celebration, "Yes!" 

"How'd you find out?"

"They said so, I manage the other's mission and yours too, and they each personally said that they will be here when you come back." 

"Noice." 

"Anyways, referring back to the conversation with you and your school friend group, I noticed that you talked a bit more about Kanao this time..." Minato said with a smug face.

"NO, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE NO. DO NOT BRING THIS UP AGAIN." Tanjiro shouted with an embarrassed tone, a blush hidden on his face.

"Oh come on man, you know I'm not letting this go."

"NO."

"Are you sure?" Minato questioned. Tanjiro was about to reply before he took a brief second to think,

"Yeah, I'm sure..."

"Are you REALLY sure?!" Minato said as he looked at Tanjiro through the holographic projection. 

"YES, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS. I'LL GET TO YOU LATER."

Minato just sat back and chuckled, "Oh Tanjiro, you and love, you guys are like mortal enemies!"

"You already know the god dam reason. Blah blah spoiled as a child blah blah found no girl interesting because my mom was there and so on." 

"Dude, let's not focus on that for now. We have much more important things to do."  

"Maybe, but you should really try it with this girl." Minato said with a sigh as he smiled, "Who knows, maybe you guys would be better as a couple then just friends.." He added.

"Wawahwaha what the hell is that supposed to me?!" Tanjiro stuttered out of pure confusion. Even with his "massive brain," he still couldn't comprehend what his friend meant. 

"You guys really seem to get along, dude! You already know she has a massive crush on you, so just ask her out!"

"NO. DON'T RUSH THINGS."

"I STILL HAVE TO CONFIRM IT WITH MYSELF WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY LOVE OR NOT. I KNOW, IT'S STUPID, BUT I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IN WORDS."

"I'D RATHER NOT FEEL GUILTY KNOWING I'M ONLY GOING OUT FOR THE SAKE OF HER."

"J-just let me figure it out." Tanjiro sighed as he stroked his forehead with a slightly noticeable blush. 

"Dam bro, you're breaking down."

"I hate you so much."

"Pft."

"Anyways, let's not focus on this issue for the matter, I'll tell you more when I get back."

"We still have a job to do."

"Yeah yeah, whatever."