Spider Lily | | Demon Slayer: Tomioka Giyuu | |

2 | Demon Slayer

"Let go of me!" Y/N shouts at the two women who are trying to take off her clothes. "Don't touch me!"

"Calm down, we just want to clean you up!" The first woman responds but Y/N shows no sign of giving in.

Y/N hold tightly onto a vase she manage to get a hold of in the room, pointing it at the two strangers.

"If you continue to protest, Kinekawa will have the men do it... please listen to us." The second woman interrupts. "Just... just clean yourself up. You have to listen to us, Kinekawa has no patience for this type of things. She encountered with many strong girls like you before..."

The soothing voice of the women strangely makes Y/N wants to believe them. They look so friendly and kind. They are not geishas, just maids working at the brothel. And seemingly have seen many girls like her before.

She sure looks like a mess. She doesn't need a mirror to know how messily she looks at the moment. Her blouse skirt and shirt are covered in dirt, and her hair is tangled together.

Y/N bits on her bottom lip tightly, tears threaten to fall out from the corner of her eyes but she held it back. She needs to figure out how to get out of here first, she needs to learn how to survive in this world while she finds out how to return to her time. What is the cause, how it happened, where and why. And before all of that, she needs to gather in as much information as she can at this brothel.

"I... I can do it myself... Please." Y/N mutters and the women nod. They take her to the bathe area and give her clean clothes while they guard outside.

The bathing area is for the maids, small wooden chairs spot along with the warmed spring water tub. Reluctantly, she takes off her dirty clothes and start splashing the warmed water onto her body and hair, making it as quick as possible before the others come in. The soap for her hair is merely a fragrance gel liquid substance, it does not help untangle her hair as much as the shampoo and conditioner she is used to back during her time. The water soaked her hair and eyes, mixed in together with the tears rolling out from her eyes that she does not noticed.

After she is finished, she is assigned to sleep in a room with other maids and is introduced to other people that work for the house. Y/N is dressed in a simple kimono that is for the maid. She is tasked with the chores like other maids such as cleaning the corridors, floors, and preparing the room for the geishos. After a tired and long day, she lets herself rest on the futon at the corner of the room.  She falls asleep more quickly than she thought. The pillow being soaked by her own tears.

The next day, a young girl called Yumewa is tasked in teaching Y/N the rules and chores of the house. What she needs to do and accomplish before the guests arrive in the evening. It is too her first time meeting geishas of this era. They are beautiful indeed. Each one of them held a beauty of a Japanese. It's no wonder why men cannot stop from visiting.

Rubbing a soaked cloth against the floor, her eyes focus here and there, remembering everything she possibly can from each person here. When she passes each corridor, she would take it in her mind as if she is drawing the blueprint. The guards, especially the guards, their shift and when they change their shifts. All of this is important to help her escape from here.

Y/N's long dark brown hair is pinned into a low bun, and the sleeves of her kimono is tie up by a band to help it from getting in her way. It's still surreal to her no matter how many times she thinks about it. But what happened had happened.

Taking in a deep breath, she tries to calm herself down as she folds the futon neatly together, preparing the rooms with other young maids for the evening. The guests will be arriving and the streets will be more busy.