𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝑰 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 [𝕘𝕚𝕪𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕠] (KNY)

𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝟦𝟥: 𝒦𝒶𝓇𝓂𝒶

Two years later

Author POV:

A lot can change in two years. 

During this time, Ayumu (do you remember him?) eventually got reported and arrested. He did prison time and was sent to rehab. It's not uncommon for people like him, people who are broken inside but allowed their pain to seep through and corrupt their actions. 

However, once he got out, he met a girl he truly loved. A girl named Cara, with auburn hair in long pigtails, and the most brilliant smile he'd ever seen. Cara never judged him, never insulted him. She was the kindest, most pure soul to ever cross the earth, and somehow by chance the worst boy fell in the love with the best girl. 

Ayumu loved Cara with every fibre of his being. She made him feel whole, feel like him again, or whoever he was before his parents divorced and his late mother started beating him. Whoever he was before he was thrown off the cliff of sanity. 

There was nothing he wasn't willing to give her. He worked so very hard to become a man worthy of a girl like her; he never drank alcohol again, he worked three different jobs and he helped the homeless. But no matter what he did, it couldn't erase the things he'd done. Assaulting. Rap1ng. 

It wasn't erasable. Things like that simply weren't. 

The girls he'd hurt, they were somebody's daughter. He couldn't ever make up for the horrible, horrible things he'd done. He knew he didn't deserve Cara, but he couldn't control his heart, and his heart yearned for her. 

Just when he thought he was going to burst from the inside of admiration and love and obsession and all the lovely, lovely feelings that eat you up from the inside, he asked her out. 

Yes, that's right. Ayumu said the words, "Will you be my girlfriend?" And he did it all right. He bought her a gold necklace. He'd taken her to the nicest restaurant he could afford. He gave her a bouquet of beautiful red roses, her favourite flower. 

But nothing he could have done would've changed her answer.

Her glittering green eyes turned sad, her body frozen. She'd said, "I'm sorry, Ayumu-kun. I think you're truly an amazing person who is going to do amazing things. But I don't think I can be a part of your future as your girlfriend." 

He'd done it all right. And she had too. She'd taken his hands, apologising genuinely, and told him she wanted to be friends forever. But nothing, nothing could bandage his broken heart. 

A month later, he killed himself. Taken the necessary drugs, and he hadn't looked back. 

Broken people will do broken things. Some people would call it karma. 

A/N: I'm really sorry I haven't updated in AGES.

Sorry this chapter hasn't got any giyushino in it. It's a short snippet of Ayumu's perspective to make the plot less abrupt, I guess. I wanted you to understand every character in this story. 

As an author I have a question. I know this book is labelled as giyushino, and initially I truly planned for the end to be giyushino, but do you want it to be? I understand if you can't accept it because of what's happened. 

I'm sorry the plot of this book isn't entirely justified and right. It's not supposed to be a fairytale type of book if you get what I mean. I'm trying to portray the true darkness of the world in a realistic way. SA is very real, and happens to many people worldwide. 

When I first started planning to write this book, I had a very specific vision for it. I wanted to use the characters of my favourite anime to raise awareness about realistic problems in the world. But now a lot of time has passed, and I haven't watched KNY in agess. 

I'm really sorry if in these last few chapters Giyu and Shinobu aren't portrayed correctly. I can't exactly remember what they were like specifically in the anime/manga since it's been almost a year since I've watched Demon Slayer. 

Thank you so much for staying to finish this book. I truly appreciate it. If you would stay with me just for these last few chapters, I would be honoured to finish it for you. 

- kessie!