"Welcome back." The twins who introduced the final selection greeted us. The sunrise complimented everyone's glow perfectly. "Congratulations. Being safe and sound is better than anything else," they continued to tell us. I glanced around. 5 survivors including me. There aren't as many people as I thought they'll be. Is this how much the new demon slayers' levels have fallen? Shinobu onee-sama and the other pillars will be so disappointed. I can't believe it. After catching the sight of Kanao, I felt a whole burden weight lift off my shoulders from relief after seeing the person whom I grew up with. I made my way next to Kanao who's staring intensely at the butterfly on her finger, smiling elegantly. I glanced around again, the boy who I helped and advised isn't there with us. The boy with bright yellow hair stated something about how even if we survive here, we'll die in the end. I smiled at how pessimistic he was. We joined to become demon slayers for a reason and death will always be at our front door. If he is afraid of dying, I wonder why he is in the selection. The tough-looking boy was nagging about the blade. The official demon slayer nichirin blade. The sword with the blade that changes colours. I then looked at Tanjiro-san, he clenched his fists and looked... Sad? Devastated? Felt helpless? Powerless? Weak? I can sense all these emotions coming from him.
The twins went on about how we have to pay for our uniforms and get our body measurements sorted and how there are 10 ranks within the Corps. "You are now at the lowest 10th level," they told us. Wait. The lowest level? My sister is in the top-ranked level and is a well-known pillar and I'm at the bottom? Talk about embarrassing. I can feel myself mentally facepalm but at least that's a start. The tough-looking boy once again interrupted and asked about the blade. The twins ignored him and carried on speaking. They instructed us to choose an ore that is displayed on the table and how the one we pick will be used to make our blades which would be completed within 15 days. They have also assigned us individual crows for messages. Suddenly, we can hear the crow cawing. One of them seems to be attacking the boy with yellow hair before it flew and stayed on my shoulder and I took a good look at it. I guess this is my personal messenger. When everyone received one, the yellow hair boy broke me out of my trance by saying his one isn't a crow but a sparrow. What made me want to laugh was the fact that the sparrow attacked him for offending her as he is underestimating her.
In the corner of my eye, violence and aggressive shouting caught my attention. The tough-looking boy roared "I don't care about some dumb crow!". He stormed up to the twins before punching and grabbing one of the twins' fistfuls of hair. He shouted at the girl's face about wanting the colour changing sword right now. He was about to yank out her hair but Tanjiro-san's hand held firmly on his arm which stopped him. He threatened to crush and break his arm if he didn't let the girl go. My eyebrow raised in amusement. The tough-looking guy dared him to break his arm, thinking that he wouldn't do it. However, to his dismay, Tanjiro-san crushed his arm and he immediately let go of the twin. Standing protectively in front of her, the twin looked at Tanjiro-san in shock. The other twin seems to be heartless.
"Are you done?" She interrupted. "If so, please go over there and choose the ore that you want to use for the blade of the sword." We all lined up in front of the table at looked at the ores. They all look the same so which one should I choose? None of us seemed to move, none of us seems to be able to spot the difference. A few seconds later, Tanjiro-san started sniffing and since he's the only one doing something, we all looked at him. He stepped forward and took an ore after a moment of observing. We all went after him, choosing a random ore we thought that's suitable for us. The twins then told us we can go back home and once again, they congratulated us and bid us goodbye.
"Well, I guess I'll see you next time Tanjiro-san," I told him as I walked next to him on the way out with Kanao.
"Oh, (Y/n)?" He smiled. "Of course, I'll see you around." I unconsciously returned a smile to him. I nodded and wished him good luck before we went our separate ways.
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Different (Tanjiro X Kocho's sister! Reader)
De Todo(Y/n) Kocho is Kanae's and Shinobu's biological younger sister who's roughly around the same age as Kanao, her adoptive sister. They both attend the same final selection to join the Demon Slayer's Corps and that's when it all started. Tanjiro and (Y...
