The eyes of Tamura Akiko are blessed.
Some lovingly reference ginko leaves, chrysanthemums; others bitterly reference topaz.
She thinks of lemon macrons and the glow of a lamp, as childish as she is.
Her fiance references the rising sun, amber, a...
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"Upper moon six?"
Iguro clicks his tongue from beneath his mask over and over again, irritated that he has to answer Akiko's plethora of questions.
"Yes. Other kakushi are on their way, but we've been deployed second," he leaps through trees and Akiko can start to see Tokyo now.
Pillar transportation is truly the way to go.
"Wait, so who was deployed first-?"
A sudden explosion from Tokyo's red light district causes shockwaves, throwing the two off the trees and down to the ground. Birds cry in a panic and swarm away, and the dirt floor beneath the two shake so hard that Akiko is afraid the trees would unroot and fall onto them.
Akiko's vision blurs, her body aches, but she forces herself to stand with wobbly legs. Iguro yanks her back up and onto his shoulder, snatches her bag, and they're off again.
But her heart almost stops and her eyes desperately narrow into the city when Iguro answers her previous question.
"Uzui Tengen, Agatsuma Zenitsu, Hashibira Inosuke, and those Kamado siblings."
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Throughout all the rubble, Akiko can't find her fiance. She's made aware of the crowds of citizens that were evacuated out of the city, and she can only assume that it was thanks to Uzui.
They walk around in confusion and shock, few crying over the loss of their money and going so far as to curl onto the ground. Maikos and oirans have smeared makeup and some are hardly dressed; Akiko assumes they were woken from their sleep and thrown out.
Akiko takes it upon herself to start giving orders, watching Iguro jump away to look for the demon. Kakushi are right on her tail too, so she makes sure that they set up a med tent and look after the injured citizens, quickly leaving right after to look for the demon slayers that she's been assigned to save.
"Goto is in charge of triage," Akiko nods her head to her favorite kakushi, and he points to himself with wide eyes.
It hurts to scramble over broken buildings and glass, and Akiko has to watch out for herself in fear that the demon is still alive or that she'll slip and fall into broken shrapnel. Her bag is being dragged by her side, bumping into her legs and forcing her to catch herself from tripping.
Akiko continues to scan the mess, almost cursing at herself for being unable to catch sight of a six foot tall behemoth.
It's when she hears crying that she feels relief.
Someone is alive.
She stumbles through the wreckage, climbing up a fallen building as the crying and shouting grows louder. Once she's atop the building, she finds Uzui with his three wives.
