𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 (𝐎𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐦! 𝐱 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐨)

Chapter 20

"Goodbye then."

"W-wait! You're really pretty by the way!"

"You look really pretty sissy."

I stop in my steps.

"Thank you Yuta but you are the cutest munchkin ever!" I tickled Yuta making him giggle and try to push me away.

"Haha stop it that tickles! Cough Cough!" Yuta started to cough a lot. I stopped tickling him and checked on him.

"Yuta! Are you okay?"

"Kazuma?"

I went back into reality and turned to Muichiro who said my name, "what?"

"You suddenly stopped and looked straight forward, are you sick?" He asks.

"Sick?"

He nods his head at me.

"No."

I look forward and start to walk. I don't know where the doll is but I'll find my way.

"Kazuma you're going to wrong way. It's on the left." Muichiro told me. I turn left and continue walking.

-later-

Muichiro is fighting the mechanical doll while I watch from up a tree. His attacks have been smoother recently.

The doll has six arms and each arm has a sword in hand. I think the slayer this doll was based on was really strong and to match his strength there had to be six arms put in the doll.

I hear voices from below me of two people talking. I look down and see the boy and Tanjiro next to the tree I was on.

I don't listen into the conversation they're having and just look forward to Muichiro still fighting the doll.

Muichiro seems to not have gotten hurt from the doll yet. I'm impressed his speed has increased from the last time I saw him fight.

I hear flaps coming towards me and I look where the sound is coming from.

Kenji rests on my shoulder and he turns his head to look at me.

"Did you not like being home alone?" I asked him. He nods and looks down at Tanjiro and the boy.

I look down as well to see what's happening and I see Muichiro's crow attacking Tanjiro. I wonder what made her so angry. It is funny to see her attack him though.

She stops attacking him and sits on his shoulder with a sassy face. The three of them continue to talk till there was a crack heard in the distance.

Muichiro broke the armor of the doll.

The boy ran away with Tanjiro yelling, "Kotetsu!" Chasing after him.

I stand on the tree branch and started to jump though the trees to find where they went.

I arrive at a tree next to the tree the boy is. He hides his face away so no one can see him crying.

"I know I'm just a pathetic guy. Everything is gonna end at my generation and it's all my fault." He says. He tries to wipe the on going tears on his face with his hand.

I jump to the tree he's on and sit next to him on the branch he was on.

"You shouldn't say that about yourself. Your generation is not going to end because you think you did something wrong." I tell him. He jumps when he notices I'm next to him. He turns his head to me. I can only see his nose and mouth with the tears that were on his face.

"Nakamura-san!?" Tanjiro says below stunned I showed up out of nowhere.

I ignore him and held my sleeve with my hand raising it up and wiping off the tears from the boys face.

"You shouldn't blame yourself because the dolls armor broke as well. And either way you are a young swordsmith and even if you might not be able to fix it now you can fix it when you're older." I tell him.

"Kotetsu! We can work together to fix it if you want so we can pass it on to the next generation!" Tanjiro says below us.

"I just didn't want to see the doll break, but now I've made up my mind. His training session should last through the night. That's why I'll make sure to be mentally ready." The boy says.

By the way Muichiro broke the armor of the doll I think it will take way less than through the night.

"Alright then do you want to get down now?" I ask him. He nods. I pick him up and swiftly jump down.

When I get down I put him down on his feet.

"By the way how old are you?" I ask him. He looks no less than eight or nine.

"I'm ten years old." He's pretty small for a ten year old. Actually Yuta should be ten around this time as well.

His birthday is... tomorrow. Yuta's birthday is tomorrow...

"Kazuma." I cut out of my trance and look to my left side. Muichiro was next to me he was holding an arm with a sword in it.

"You're already done training!?" Kotetsu and Tanjiro exclaimed.

"Yeah it was good training. So who are... oh right... I broke my blade so I'll be taking this one." Muichiro raises up the arm with the sword that it was holding.

Kotetsu had a shocked face and started to run away.

Muichiro tossed his old sword at Tanjiro and hit his head with it, "dispose of this one for me." He says before starting to walk.

I crouch down and Muichiros old sword and take the hilt, "I'll take this with me."

"Tell Kotetsu I said bye." I tell Tanjiro and also started to walk to Muichiro.

"You know you should be nicer to other people Muichiro." I tell him.

"I was being mean?" He asked.

"Sigh... you're lucky that I'm still your friend."

He stops in his tracks and turns to me.

"You don't want to be my friend?" He asked.

"That isn't what I said."

-time skip-

"Can you tell me why we're here again?" I asked Muichiro.

"I need to know where my swordsmith is." He said back to me.

"But why here of all places?"

Taisho Era Secrets!:

-Kazuma was about to cry when she remember her brother's birthday but Muichiro interrupted her thoughts.

-Whenever Muichiro breaks his swords Kazuma would always take the hilt from the sword and put it in his new one because Muichiro would always forget to take his hilt with him.

-Tanjiro was shocked on how kind Kazuma was to Kotetsu.

Authors Note!:

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