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Hashira Training!! Start

Miyuki's POV

Apparently, Tanjiro arrives at Giyu's residence, cheerfully calling out from the front, as if he's about to announce the end of the world. 

Giyu, the embodiment of stoicism, hears him but sits silently inside, hoping Tanjiro will magically vanish. 

Spoiler alert: he doesn't. 

Tanjiro bursts through the door, starts babbling about the wonders of Hashira Training, but dismissing Tanjiro's request to join his training.

"I am not the Water Hashira," Tomioka declares dramatically. But Tanjiro is as persistent as a fly at a summer picnic. 

Undeterred, he offers Tomioka onigiri, convinced that food solves all emotional problems. When morning comes, Tomioka finds Tanjiro happily snoozing in his home, the empty onigiri wrapper nearby. 

Tomioka ignores him and goes about his day, while Tanjiro, now his loyal shadow, follows him everywhere—like, literally everywhere, even to the bathroom. 

It's like having an annoying little brother who thinks your life is an amusement park.

Eventually, Tomioka's patience, thinner than rice paper, snaps. 

He spills the tea about his past, admitting he didn't pass Final Selection because Sabito, his superhero friend, saved him and died defeating almost every demon. 

"So, yeah, I'm not the Water Hashira. Plot twist: I passed because of my friend, who's now a demon-slaying legend. Thanks, life," Tomioka explains with a resigned sigh. 

He tells Tanjiro he's wasting his time with him and should go train with another Hashira, adding that Sabito would have been much cooler at this whole demon-slaying gig than him.

Tanjiro, touched by the tragic backstory, looks like he's going to cry, as if someone just told him his favorite anime was canceled.

Driven by the desire to help, Tanjiro insists that Sabito wouldn't want Tomioka to waste the life he saved. "If I were Sabito, I'd totally haunt you for that attitude!" he exclaims, crossing his arms in defiance.

Tomioka has a flashback of Sabito slapping him for his self-pity, causing him to touch his cheek in bewilderment. It's like Tanjiro suddenly unlocked a deep memory, and Tomioka starts questioning his life choices.

Attempting to lighten the mood, Tanjiro suggests a soba-eating contest, because why not? Tomioka is confused but eventually agrees, realizing this might be Tanjiro's odd way of therapy. 

At the soba shop, Tomioka hesitantly asks about Shinobu's training. Tanjiro, caught off guard and noodles dangling from his mouth, laughs and says he has no clue,

Despite Tomioka's protests, the soba seems to work its magic, and he starts considering joining the Hashira Training, that is IF Tanjiro wins against him.

And so that's what happened with Tomioka and.

Aside from that, today me and Tanjiro are going to start our hashira training and the first person we visited was, him!

"Faster, faster! If you don't move quicker, I'll turn you into a human sandwitch!"  In the mountains, as the trainees stagger along a grueling trail, Tengen's booming voice echoes. 

He pounces on a hapless trainee, pinning him down with his shinai which is a bamboo stick. "Move those arms and legs, or I'll start using my shinai as a pogo stick!"

The sun is barely up, and the trainees are lined up for a fresh round of torture. Tengen, with all the enthusiasm of a drill sergeant who's just discovered coffee, observes their sit-ups.