Sun Touched Embers

Chapter 2: A Sweet Natured Swordsman

(Kyojuro's point of view)
After sheathing my sword and putting it back into the white belt of my Demon Slayer Corps uniform, I turned my attention to the teen girl I had saved the life of several minutes earlier. "Thank you so much for saving me.", she said as she walked towards the sword sheath she had tossed aside and bent over to pick it back up off the snowy ground. "It's no problem. I'm deeply glad I was able to get here.", I responded as she sheathed the sword in her hand. I followed her into the small house and the family's youngest child tackled her. "Sister!", he said in a cheerful tone. "Rokuta.", she responded with a soft smile on her face as she gently placed her hand on the boy's head. "Say, what is your name?", I asked and they both looked at me. "Taki Kamado.", she answered. "Are you by any chance this family's oldest child?", I asked. "Yes and no. Nezuko, Takeo and I were born on the same day.", Taki replied just as the other two oldest of the siblings came over. "Triplets, eh? The master will surely be as surprised to learn this as I am.", I thought. Right there and then, the young boy walked over to me and I picked him up off the wooden floor. "How many years apart for each of these six siblings?", I asked. "Taki, Nezuko and Takeo are eighteen, Hanako is thirteen, Shigeru is nine and Rokuta is five.", the siblings' mother responded. "I take it you both took your time with your kids after the oldest three were born on the same day?", I asked. "Yes. Due to Taki, Nezuko and Takeo being triplets, we waited another four years for Hanako and twice more three years afterwards, once for Shigeru and the other time for Rokuta.", they replied.